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New-York tribune., 1919-02-18
Britain Under
Handicap in Race
For World Trade
High Cost of Operating Rail
roads, Writer Says, Is One
of Many Problems That
industry Is Tangled With
By George w. Glass
Ne.c York Tribune
Enronenn Rnrenu


tccpynsht 1919. New York Tribune Inc)
LONDON, Feb. II. Strengthening
the tangled threads of industry with
view to reestablishing the country
somewhere near it's old position in
overseas markets. is proving no easy
task for the government Among the
problems confronting it is the cost of
running the railroads, which, since
placed under official control and
before the introduction recently of
the cight-hour day, had increased
fifty millions sterling year, equal
Ing the total profit of pre-war days,
which yielded an average of only a
per cent on the capital Invested.
Another forty millions sterling
should be added for higher costs of
materials and fuel. and only greatly
enhanced fares and freight rates, both
lnmical to trade, can produce a bal
ance on the right side.
The additional fares in 1917 only
paid the increased coal bill, and vet
the railroad employees are seeking still
larger wages. which, together with the
Nage demands of miners. and the agi-
tation for the naturalization of
mines, are putting Great Britain out
Of the running in the worlds indus
trial race.
Probably a middle course will be
found after one or two unpleasant ex-
periences, but until the outlook is
clearer, and the trade is running in
more natural channels, the argument in
iavor of exceptional measures, which
m many respects are opposed to Brit
lsh traditions. are undeniably strong.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-18
Furs
Manufacturers, Cauging
Demand by Fur Sale Ex-
perience, Prepare for
Spring Trade

Furrlers are now busy repairing
their sample lines for spring trade
The fur sales held recently in New
York and st. Louis Indicated that musk
rat. or Hudson seal, mink, stone marten
and squirrel will be popular, and manu-
featuring furriers are designing their
lines accordingly.
A number of the manufacturers be
lieve that short fur coats running from
70 inches to 36 inches in length will
be fashionable this year. A popular
style, as indicated by advance orders al
ready received, is combination cape
and coat pattern. This falls over the
shoulders somewhat like the raglan
mems coat style, with widespreadine
shoulders and roomy sleeves.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-18
Buyers Favor
SnallPurchases
And Quick Sale.
Conservatism the Preva;I;.
Note at Meeting Here s,,.
Larger Percentage Of n.
Gross Profits Is Necess,r

The policy of buying in small o,..
'i1'es now and depending upon 4, o.i.+ 1a
turnover for profits was annr.., sS,'S
about fifty buyers from tba "
firms for whom Kirby, Block & Nv, M
er, resident buyers, act in th;. w., s,a'
L ne resident buying firm has lust oo~ w.
pleted a series of meetings with a.
retail buyers at which present m,,s.' ~
conditions were discussed. Th. hn,.s
attending the meetings are ,s;s !.
represent total annual retsi, h..,
ness of approximately s4s, 100000. III.
Block discussed the ad@as,tscs, 80 "'
operative buying, which the Arm h.,
been carrying on for its clisnt.
Conservative buying was adya..,..
by the speakers and by those prss.. ss,S
at the meetings. Albert Pfe;;., ;;''a, q,
ffelfer Bros, Little Rock. Art ~ y
was unable 30 attend the m.s.,. s0O
sent letter IN which he adyjssS =
retailers to postpone buying msrs,.s .a'
disc for fall until as late .ss.nsn' s.s
possible, with few exceptions. p.,,
enable advance orders can be- nI..a. I.s'
on linen handkerchiefs, gloves s,ss'a sra .
lew other similar articles, he vress s =
A larger percentage of eross 80 wa
Tor the merchants will be nsc,s..ss .sr.
IN the future, according "a W,'s Wsn.s
J, Miller, of the Miller Comn.rv. .i,.s' Ias
st. Charles, La. He argued ~. a., D.S ~
retailer is finding himself cons,.,ts' .s "a.
with falling prices in merchanSi.ss ,sass "ss
increasing expenses in selling rs;a Ssa
IN connection with the income "a. VIII VII
make 1t necessary for retailers IA :,
allze a greater percentage Of NINA, !,
each piec of merchandise. ss,d aid ". ~
Miller. '''a ny
New-York tribune., 1919-02-18

high prices for cotton for several
years, still have savings in the banks
and are relatively rich in Liberty bonds
and thrift stamps. They will have
money to spend this spring. The onlv
obstacle is the tendency of farmers to
hold on to their present crop of cotton
because prices have been falling
steadily since the signing of the armis-
tlce. Many OF the farmers are having
difficulty in disposing of their low
grade cotton, and others are deter
mined to hold their sood cotton until
next season, hoping to get a higher
price than by planting the next crop
short. This state of affairs is the chief
factor of uncertainty from the re-
tailers' point of view
Automobile Helps Trade
Every farmer in Georgia, it seems.
has his own automobile now. and. from
a radius of ten to fifty miles, they
come into the cities regularly. The
auto, as substitute for the buggy. en-
ables the farmer to come to town much
oftener, and therefore he is now buv
ing more than heretofore
The planter is complainiDp no
cause OF genuine shortage of help.
While the crop was growing he was
wiling to pay 50 a day for workers.
instead Of $40 to s12 a month, as be-
fore the war. Moreover, the current
rate for cotton picking is SO hundred
pounds, instead of SO cents. These
changes, in connection with the high
cost of fertilizers, have brought the
cost of raising cotton to between 20
and 25 cents pound. the Georgia
farmers tell me. They find the negro
workers in many instances inefficient
and are anxious to encourage white
men from the North to migrate to the
Southern farms"
Mr. Joel said that, in canvassing the
wholesale markets, he had found price
declines fairly universal, and expressed
his opinion that more drops were 70 ho
expected. His present rule. he said
was to buy from hand to month
chiefly and, in buying ahead, to ret
guaranteed prices.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-18
Buyers 1nspectW ool Samples
Government Auction To Be Re.
sumed To-day at Boston
Business N-,rs Rvren

business NefC8 Bureau
BOSTON. Feb. lit is felt by some
members Of the woollen trade here
that there will not be a keen demand
for pulled and secured wools at the
governments wool auction, which be-
gins tomorrow. A fair number of
prospective buyers to-day were looking
over the samples Of wool which will be
placed on sale this week.
There has been comparatively little
business in wool tops Dealing in
these, it was said at one firms Office
to-oay, has been retarded by the fact
that the American Wooden Comnanv
and the Arlington Mills have not bur,
chased much wool at the government
sales. The American and Arlington
companies are regarded as barometers
in the business here. Unless thev
operate other mills hesitate to beein
dealing -
New-York tribune., 1919-02-18
Rubber
Dealers in Mechanical
Rubber Goods and
Plumbing Supplies
Report Better
Trade

While the strike of the building in
dustries is expected to delay business
generally the manufacturers of rub
ber mechanical goods and plumbing
specialties report considerable i'm
provement recently in the demand for
such products.
One large manufacturer reports an
order for $125,000 worth of hose and
other rubber mechanical goods placed by
the United States government. With the
building situation once cleared up the
mechanical rubber and plumbing sup
ply dealers look for boom in business
New-York tribune., 1919-02-18
Large Supply of Siberian
Furs Kept Off Market

Fur dealers en- Siberia are trying to
secure business from the American and
British markets, but, according to
Popular Mechanics are hampered by
the chaos prevailing in Russia. A
large business was built up before the
war, but this is now completely dis
organized Reports from dealers in
Northern Asia indicate large amount
of fur trapping by natives. The closing
down of the Trans Siberian Railway for
trade purposes has shut off Siberia
from this supply Of pelts. which is
New-York tribune., 1919-02-18
knits Goods for Men Quiet
Agents Expect Export Trade to
Arouse Domestic BUYERS

Manufacturers Of mems knit under
wear report that while business js
quiet, their policy Of waiting for trade
to come to them has produced a bet
ter sentiment regarding prices. With
the mills refusing to pile up stocks,
agents assert that prospective buyers
are indicating more concern about fut-
ure supplies. Mill men insist that
goods will not be Forthcoming in guam
Titles when trading is resumed.
More of the mills are banking on
export trade to work change for
the better in the present situation. 1t
is conceded that foreign trade NAV
not rise to the heights expected by
the most optimistic, but it is CON
tended that if overseas business de-
'velops even in n fair way domestic
buyers will become more interested
and probably more animated.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-18
Cotton Yarn Sales Larger

Cotton yarns are in better demand,
though the volume of business that
has come forth is not such that the
mill agents feel disposed to brag about
1t. The business that has developed
emanated mostly from manufacturers
OF garters, suspenders, coverings for
electrical wire and carpet mills. The
price situation is unsatisfactory, but
some of the larger factors in the
yarn trade are of the opinion that
prices are on a rock bottom basis.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-18
Swiss Shoe Factories Rusv

More than twenty shoe factories are
established in Switzerland and indca-
tions all are busy at the present time
consular advices yeporting large
demand for leather in that market
chiefly for uppers. The annual imports
of leather by the Swiss manufacturers
arc valued at about $4,000. 900. half OF
which come from the United States.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-18
Trade Notes

G.: P. Toomey. we'll known in the
woollen goods trade. is the new selling
agent for the Continental Mills, Inc,
philadelphia, manufacturers of woollen
knitted fabrics for mems and women's
wearing apparel. He has opened offices
at 225 Fourth Avenue. The initial
showing and the announcement of the
prices of fabrics made by the Cont
mental Mills will take place next Mon
day.
F. VI. Peters, J. H. Hoban and Charles
Stewart were elected directors of the
National Aniline and Chemical Com
p,any at the annual meeting held yester-
day. They succeed on the board J. F.
Schoe ellkopf, J. F. Schoellkopf, jr., and
c: p. Schoellkopf, resigned. The other
directors were reelected.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-18
@Q5ribune~ ~
C9dXSerViCe
Make the Paying of Your In
come Tax the One Big Thing
You Have to Do To-day

TRE Federal revcnue la,o. under
L. rh'ch 1918 income is taxed, is in
some respects highly technical docu-
meht' anc 1t aoiU be further complicated
ny ny r"t'ngS ana interpretations cf the
1; reqsu1g Department. The laymon may
NaG ac hGfd to ansiUer such 04esfious
as hoio n'atch tor must be paid Lo,n to
pdy me tor. hoto to fill an the forms on
r',ac@ ref7"ns must be MADE. 10 1rhot
cTtent, n any, IN income is erenpt fyou
hs teuy, etc. The corporation 2,,oV fuJ
~ eQaoug dlficult to so1uc Drob1ems
connected lcith the income, icor and
excess profits i'nposts.
me tribune has therefore Dyorjded
YRS ar Ser0ice Department, which qciU
',.., '"N0 20 0NS1oer any question re-
"s1"y 10 Md'rlduol, corporation, part
"eTsh1p, 7ncome tcres on. nbout oro.
PROFITS and ercess profits tnaes that n',D',
oc s@on1tted TO it. Through the conrfesD
York, Wv 0'"'p0'Sg o Ne'0
Morris T. Frey,
loN Co@s@ltant Of that Institution and
" 'oo"t"9 o"thorhY on the subject. 1ciN
T"s"of az az questions. }ou man. there
Jg,r' r',., 'e" yoW for troubles to The
,.I t11@Ne a''th the assurance that then
@"m. tece'Ve e1pert consideration. Those
queSt'ons .e; 'ohich are of general interest
"n1 DC onswered in this column AU
o'"sr qnostions 'oiN be answersd bn
mou, -9H communicotions zoill be re-,
9oyaed as h1ghly confidential
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repig At go" aoW please observe these
requests: 'feSe
state state your questions as concisely as
possihle, but be sure that no essential
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BUSINESS News Bureau, 154 Nassau
Street, New York City.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-18
Textiles
Cloths for Mems
OuercOats and Suits
offered at Big
Reduction

Flannels and thibets, wool mixture
suitings, venetians, kcrseys, meltons
and staple overcoatings were offered
to the tailors and manufacturers Of
mems clothing yesterday for the first
time this season by the American
Woolen Company at prices approx
mately one-third less than the same
class of cloths sold for last year. The
company did not make these fabrics
last year, as the mill equipped for
their manufacture was engaged in the
production of cloth for the govern
ment. For this reason an accurate
price comparison is impossible. Man
ufacturers of clothing who bought
similar goods from other sources last
year said that as near as could be
gauged the prices named yesterday
were about two-thirds Of what they
were required to pay year ago
Following is the price range on the
goods offered:
Flannels and thibets 1.6o Gs2.621z
Wool mixture sutings. 200 "a 23O
Venetians .......... 2.3O "a 2.671a
KerSeyS .............. 1877 II [0 3121a
Meltons .............. 1882 "a 2.521a
Staple overcoatings.. 1T y a 3.35
Buyers and other mills who were
awaiting the opening in most cases
we're frankly surprised at the prices.
certain number predicted that the
company could not hold to these prices
long and that two or three weeks
would see an upward revision on these
goods. Officials of the company would
give no linking as to what might be
expected In this respect. The atti-
tude was one Of making fat offer
with no strings attached The COM
pany's prices on mackinaws, put on
gale couple Of weeks ago, we're far
below the expectations of the trade
and have not been advanced. On the
whole buyers of the fabrics offered
yesterday considered them as good
values at the prices asked.
To-day the American Woolen Com
pany will offer line Of all worsted
overcoatings in both piece dyed and
mixture fabrics
Representatives of other mills were
reticent about stating whether or not
their own organizations would offer
similar fabrics at the prices established
by the American Wooden Company 1t
is generally agreed that the latter or
Ranization is setting fast pace for the
rest of the trade.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-18
Basic Commodities
METALS

(Note.-In those where no transactions ,
prices given)
New-York tribune., 1919-02-18

Question: | received, last year. a
total of $3.50 under an accident insur-
ance policy. Should this amount be
returned for taxation?
Answer: u'nGer the bill which is
now awaiting signature Of the Presi-
dent, amounts received from accident
and health insurance and under work
mems compensation acts plus the
amount of any damages received by
suit or agreement on account of in
juries or sickness, are exempt from
income tax.
The Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 191?-19??, 1919-05-21
annual WOOL
SALE TODAY
THIRD SALE OF WOOL BY THE
CHURCH HILL AND WHEAT.
LAND ORANGES
MAY REACH $4,000 POUNDS
All Wool VIII Be Graded As Receiv-
ed and Sold To Highest
Bidder.

The third annual wool sale will be
held under auspices of Church Hill
and Wheatland Oranges today at
Cooper's loose floor, at the corner of
18th and Water Streets.
1t is expected that the amount of
wool sold on that day may reach 25,-
900 pounds, and this will be sold to
the highest bidder.
All who desire to do so may sell
their wool in this sale by paying a
selling fee of SO cents per hundred
to be used to meet selling expenses.
Those entering wool for sale are
required to use standardized wool
sacks and to deliver to the selling
floor before IL o'clock today, as the
sale will convene promptly at 1870
p. m.
A competent receiver will receive
and handle the wool.
These sales are proving more pop
ular every year among the wool
growers. Last year 10000 pounds
was sold while this year that amount
may be almost trebled
The Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 191?-19??, 1919-05-21
GRACEY GIRL
WEDS IN WEST
Miss Bennie Meacham Married To
Oscar J. Hubert, In Kansas
City.

Miss Bennie Meacham, oldest
daughter of the late J. Parrish
Meacham, was married in Kansas
City, Mo-, Sunday to Mr.. Oscar Hu-
bert, of Minden Mines, Mo-, a few
miles from Kansas City. The bride
went to Minden Mines a month ago
to visit her aunt, Mrs. F. U. Usher.
She live with her aunt a year ago
and graduated from the High School
at Minden Mines last June. Mr.. HUI
bert, prosperous miner, has closed
out his extensive business interests
there and win accompany the young
people on tour of Yellowstone
park and California and may locate
in California the father and son
engaging in business together.
The family were here last summer
touring the country in their automo--
bile and visited Mrs. Lucy Meacham,
the brides mother, at Gracey. The
young people are each 10 years of
age and the bride is one of Gracey's
brightest and most popular girls.
The Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 191?-19??, 1919-05-21
QUOTA RAISED
in z MINUTES
HoPKINsVILLE CHURCH CAP
TUREs FIRST HoNoRs IN
METHODIST CENTENARY
PEMBROKE is CLOSE SECOND
Great Movement to Raise s5,OOO,-
600 For Missions In Next
Five Years.
is CLOSE SECOND

The big drive of the Centenary
campaign of the Southern Methodist
Church for 100000 began Sun
day at noon.
"The Battle Hymn of the Centen-
ary' is the title of a new song which
was sung in every Methodist church
in America at the Sunday services.
The quota of the Hopkinsville
church was raised in two minutes be-
ing subscribed by the committee.
The drive throughout the country
has met with wonderful success.
The Hopkinsville church enjoys the
honor of being the first church in the
Louisville Conference to make its re-
port of its quota subscribed. Manv
other churches in this region, how
ever, were pushing the local church
hard. With $16,400 to raise the To-
cal church at IL o'clock reported
S17,800 subscribed.
Pembroke at 1910 reported 81
$40 against quota of $4,000; Elk
ton and Bells, at 1890 Sunday, re-
ported $10,165 against quota of
$8,4O0; Longview at 1 80 Sunday, re-
ported $3,250 against a quota of ST.
307; Gracey, at 1915 Sunday, re-
ported $1,095 against its quota of
$1,000; Shiloh, which is on the Hop
kinsville-Gracey road, reported at
245 Sunday $1,34O against a quota
of $1,1S0; Cadiz reported $685.
Sunday against quota of $4,000;
Mt. Zion, which is on a circuit, re-
ported S1,421. Princeton, with a
quota of $5,4OO, reported subscrip-
tions Sunday of S6,400.
Several other churches reported
substantial subscriptions although
their quota was not reached. Among
these were: Bethesda, S9875O.
against quota of $1,000; Dawson,
S635 gainst quota Of $1,000; La
fayette, $1,000 against a quota of
$4,000; Smithland, $2,617 against a
quota of $4,000.
This is only the beginning, how
ever, and the work will be pushed all
this week and the quota for the dis
trict will be subscribed and oversub-
scribed if possible. The people have
been told of the work for which the
money is to be used and are ready
and willing when approached by the
solicitors.
The Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 191?-19??, 1919-05-21
BETHEL 66
YEARS OLD
Commencement Exercises of Insti-
tuition Will Be Held Early
Next Week.

Bethel Woman's College will close
It's 66th session next week. This is
the second year under the presidency
of Miss Clara Belle Thompson, who
is not an applicant for reelection.
The Board of Trustees has secured
the services of Miss Mallie E. Lind
say, now at Hardin College, Mexico,
Mo-, who will be the lady principal.
Miss Lindsay has been connected with
the school in the past. She is one
of the most capable and successful
teachers in the south, having been
lady principal of Shorter and other
big colleges.
The Board has not yet elected a
president of the faculty, but will
shortly close a trade with a man for
that position who will at once take
steps to put the school on the basis
of a standard Junior College.
At a meeting held Monday night
the Board unanimously voted to pur-
chase laboratory and domestic science
and to build an addition
to the present college building.
A campaign will be started to raise
funds for the building and the pro-
perty itself, which unemcumbered,
will be bounded if necessary to put
the school on a proper basis.
The closing exercises of the pres
tnt session VII be held Monlay and
diplomas will be issued to the gradu-
ates on Tuesday.
The annual sermon viii be preach
ed by DR.. L. w. DooIan Sunday night
at the First Baptist Church.
The Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 191?-19??, 1919-05-21
FELL A
LITTLE SHORT
PLUcKY AUSTRALIAN FAILS TO
REACH ENGLAND; REPORTS
OF SAFETY DIscREDITED
FIND A PLANE IN THE OCEAN.
soPwith Machine Is Found Forty
Miles OFF Irish Coast And May
Be His
FIND A PLANE IN THE OCEAN

London, May 20.-London spent
the day in tense excitement and sus-
pense waiting the result of Harry
Hawker's bold attempt to fly across
the Atlantic Sunday night and after
a day an anxious inquiries and un-
verified rumors, ad speculation the
fate of the pilot and his navigator,
Mackenzie Grieve, is still unkonwn.
A Sopwith machine, supposed to
be Hawker's according to an admir-
atty wireless report, descended to
the surface of the ocean forty miles
west of the mouth of the Shannon.
Later Admiralty reports said that
this information was not considered
reliable.
Early, unverified reports were that
the Sopwith machine encountered a
gale which reduced its speed to forty
miles an hour and finally compelled
it to descend owing to the exhaustion
of gasoline.
Crowds of people waited the day
long at the Brooksland airdrome
where Hawker learned to fly, believ-
ing that the aviator would make his
landing there, although experts had
expressed the opinion that Hawker
would unlikely be able to fly there.
Fate Is Unknown.
The fate of Hawker and Grieve
cannot be definitely stated and to-
night it is impossible to even assert
that the machine found at sea is
Hawker's.
The weather off the Irish coast
was boisterous with rain and
haze.
The admiralty has sent out all
ships to search for the av-
iators.
Aviator Hawker is reported to be
safe, according to Central News
dispatch from Tralee, Ireland.
The dispatch adds that Hawker
dropped into the sea thirty miles
from Velencia off the west Coast of
County Kerry and South of Dingle
Bay.
The Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 191?-19??, 1919-05-21
NC 3 TURNS Up
BY OWN POWER
NC-4 PLANNED TO START FROM
AZORES YESTERDAY ON
FINAL DASH
Nc-3 RODE sIXTY-MILE GALE
NC-1, Third Ship of Fleet, Is Re-
ported In An Almost Sink
ing Condition.
Ic-s RODE sIxTY-MILE GALE

Washington, May. 2O.-Rear Ad-
mlral Jackson last night cabled that
the American naval seaplane NC-4 in
command of Lieut.. Commander A. C..
Read would leave Horta, Fayal, at
Z o'clock Greenwich meantime e a.
m. Washington time) if weather con-
ditions permit. A stop will be made
at Ponta Delgada the message said.
The early hour set for the start of
the flight to Ponta Delgada was in
terpeted to mean that Read would
attempt to make the entire trip of
more than 925 nautical miles to Lis
bon, Portugal, the rear end of the
transatlantic fight. The stop at
Ponta Delgada was thought to be
planned for the purpose of obtaining
supplies.
NC-3 Weathered Gale.
After weathering a 60-mile gale
and heavy seas, the missing seaplane
NC-3 flagship of the American naval
transatlantic flight squadron, enter
ed Ponta Delgada harbor Monday
under her own power nearly 60 hours
from the time she was forced down
by fog when almost in sight of the
Azores on the record d-breaking fight
from Newfoundland for Lisbon and
Plymouth, England
Searching battleships and destroy
ers were securing the seas and naval
officials had all but Abandoned hope
for the safety of the flying ship and
her crew of five when warships at Del
gada saw the plane taxing across the
water headed for the fight objec-
tive in the Azores.
Rear Admiral Jackson Immediately
dispatched the tiding to the navy de-
partment, relieving the anxiety of Of
ficials and ending the long vigil Mrs.
Towers has kept since first learning
that her husbands plane had been
lost in fog 800 miles from Azores.