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New-York tribune., 1919-06-15
Standard Oil
Other Oil Stock s

Sales. Open. High. Low Last.
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2500 ANAL Royalty ia "a ,1Le "a
1000 Barnett &C "a u Il "a
5000 'Bost-Wyo Oil. 81 60 63 e5
o200 Canaan o E. "a 24 81 "a
100 rCit S, BIT. sh. 3834 3834 33a4 1884
1000 C'weaIth Pet. 59k4 59zs 58la SO
1879 scosden & Co. 1923 10sa 1OF 10.s
500 EEK Basin Pet, 1oI4 1oI& 10 10
1000 tEsmer Oil Cor II II 16 16
1900 Federal Oil 3H 3A 3ls 3Ns
5SS9 5SS9 .Gen6ofk n6of q OIL a6612 as 2ss'S
:S@S 3SSS III IHad30n 3 $ Oh f. ~ 77ss 7 7ss -
500 Los Choles. wi az AZ "a 4I4
lGgo lGg 'Mcr OIL Corp. 27H. 2s 2zM 27}+
-oU9 Metro Pet -. ga 3 3la
~ +Me%-Pan Oil. 1874 1914 131a 13ls
2ggo g99 MD! sMidwest Ref. 176 ~, 175, 175.
90 60 :MsS'oa :ata%1fs Of 0. * ss * a aa%
1000 stNorthwest Oil e3 e3 60 63
$500 $500 oa'a fo@ar Tens'f G. s. ia )" 81 "a
800 "Orient 6. 8 5
1000 sosage N o s.. 19a 1sa w ia
1000 spennoek OH. t43& 1873 14A 1o1s
s9@o 900 .maaser-no lap) Il Z + "a
800 Ranger OIL, IN
500 .hickard Tex. 1sIs 1914 tsa 10
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New-York tribune., 1919-06-15

INTO SIGHT STATEMENT OF NEW
ORLEANS COTTON EXCHANGE
(From August to June 1S)
New-York tribune., 1919-06-15

COttonseed Oil-There was a fair de-
;rec OF interest in cottonseed oil Sales
we're 400 barrels. Prices for future con-
raCtS We're:
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AMERICANS PAYING
HEAVILY IN FRANCE
Meal Without Wine for
Three Newspaper Men in
Paris Costs $40


Paris, February 25.-Americans are
cheerfully paying the exorbitant prices
charged them for necessities in France,
while the natives pay and groan, declared
ar Associated Press correspondent who
has been making an investigation of
French high cost of living. Three Amer
lean newspaper men recently paid 81 for
a taXicab ride that the taXimeter showed
should cost about 20 cents. A meal with
out wine for the three hungry scribes
cost $50
The following figures show the differ
ence between the prices now prevailing
in France and those of the ante-war
days.
Butter s. pound against 80 cents be-
fore war; eggs 81 dozen VS.. 90 cents,
and vegetables ranging from IA to 80 cents
a pound could be obtained for 4. and c
cents previous to the war. Cheese has
advanced from No cents to 30 cents: coffee
from 40 cents to $50. Meat has advanced
800 per cent, chickens. which were go
cents, are now 81 and very slim birds
at that.
The cheapest business suit cannot be
obtained under $50 to which must be
added $40 as luxury tax. Silk stockings
sell for SO pair and one must be care
full to use the subway as much as pos
sible In order not to walk through them
on first day. especially when the $14 pair
o. shoes which one is wearing absorb
de mpness like a 81 sponge. Washing
comes high with soap at 80 cents cake,
and bath is luxury.
Monsieur Jusserand, the French ambas-
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of. and develop products hitherto un-
known? The technical school will set
you on your way. And all you learn
will be of evident value to you-there
will be no lost motion in your educa-
;ion. 1t is efficient, exact, and you
will achieve efficiency and eXactness;
these two are prerequisites of prosper
ity.
Certainly, the case for technical edu-
cation is strong; classicists have adj
mitted as much by the tragic compr6-
misses they have made with 1t. They
have entered competition with forms of
activity whose justification is finan-
cial success, and have completely lost
sight of the fact that the greatest
value of a humanitarian education lies
in the fact that, from a commercial
standpoint, II is absolutely useless. Sci
ence and art cannot be placed in COM
petition; they complement each other,
and the man who understands one but
not the other is incapable of seeing
life clearly and seeing it whole. The
extremes of both types ARE out of
place in civilization; one maintains that
that he can live without bathrooms,
and the other that he can live without
pictures, and both are wrong. Within
institutions, at least, the dliSoussions
between the classical and this scientific
departments are generally acrimonious
and frequently personal, degenerating
sometimes into fight for places on the
schedule. Since the scientists have
had more obvious evidence to support
their arrogance than have the classic
lists, compromise and not cooperation
has been the usual result of the argu-
ment
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sador in Washington, has recently re-
turned after long absence. The collars
for which he used to pay 10 francs the
dozen now are 90 francs so in the same
great shop at which he has been trad
ing 20 years and his 10 franc hat has
mounted to 40.
Frying a s. steak for two in 81 sauce
pan is privilege enjoyed only by the
rich and glass of beer at % cents plus
cent tip to the waiter. tastes very bit
ter TO thirsty wayfarer.
The laboring class at one time was
eating much rice. But lately that COM
modify reached figures out of proportion
to the salaries of the working man.
A few days ago Food Minister Boret
caused the arrest Of spectators who were
Offering rice for sale at 40 cents per
pound. 1t turned out that the rice has
been obtained from the food ministry at
the legal price of 16 cents a pound. But
it had had a circuitous journey before
reaching the consumer passing through
six alleged brokers who in turn levied
a percentage on the rice. They were
each fined geo francs and costs.
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Cats Are True Snubs

From THE Point of View in Scribner S.
A cat is master of that most subtle
of the arts, reserve. Neither shyness
nor bashfulness is his; humility dwellG
not in him. and modesty touches him
with but ineffective fingers. For mo-
desty denotes two factors: slender con-
fidence in self and an inner restraint
from thrusting. oneself forward. Neither
belongs to the cat In our own race
only the Scotchmen have glorified re-
serve and made national trait of re-
ticence; for canniness implies the wis
dom of withholding expression. The
Scotchman has claimed and won honor
for his limitation in expression. Not
so the cat. Calumny has fallen upon
him and he Is made to wear adjectives
'stealthy'' and Selfish and "treacher-
ous." We are apt. in our large-mindeo
way, to call reserve t"eachery when we
do not understand it. And we never,
in our large-minded way, will understand
the cat. Though caution and wariness
Jingle on his whiskers, his half-closed
eyes are focused on some distant, unseen
world, and enmesh his reserve with a
sense of mystery. Inscrutability wells
the expression of his eyes, something Sc
cret and occult vibrates IN the atmos-
phere, and unseen forces which are at
once close and remote BATTLE our per-
picked and cumbrous understanding.
The reserve winch Is MOST lIiltdtiue
is that which we cannot understand. 1t
is our subjective attitude which makes
us interpret such reserve as obstnacy.
stupidity, or perverseness, and when
calls forth in us a spirit of allied eXas-
peration and determination to shatter.
For the human ego is a curious and
demanding creature, which is, strangely
enough, at the mercy of that when
most quickly retreats before it. The in
comprehensive touches the pride; so II
is through the medium of vanity that
the ego. is conquered by the cold de-
meanor of aloofness. Cats either pfque
the curiosity of the imaginative or baf-
fIe and therefore madden the swift.
logical thinker There is subtle com
notation to be found in the compare
tive number of men and women who like
cats. Even in the kindest of men, the
insolent and independent department OF
a cats tail arouses some spirit of vex-
alton. If the Cat That Walked BY His
Lone had not waved his wild tail, the
Iliad of Catdom might have been dlt
ferent story.
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Garment workers in New York city
are gradually being granted their de-
nand for a 44-hour week., and zslwage
increase of Is per cent.
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KEEP CLOSE WATCH
ON GERMAN ARMY
Americans Estimate That
Huns Have Between 300,-
900 and 100000 Men
Under Arms
BY Associated Press

Coblenz. February 27-The intelligence
section of the American army continues
! to keep strict watch of the movements
of the German army and will continue
| to do so until the American army OF
home after the signing of the peace
| treaty.
Recent reports to the Americans hold
| ing the Coblenz bridgehead are TO tho
effect that the few units of the old
German standing army which were per
| forming any active service early in
February appeared to have been re-
organized on a uniform plan. The ma
jority of these troops. information in
the hands of the Americans indicates,
are simply drawing pay and passing the
time the best way possible in their
home depots, patiently awaiting dis
charge or having made up their minds
to remain in service in preference to
seeking employment in civil life.
These units are divided between those
who are perfectly willing to perform
active service and those who are not.
The willing ones, usually including
most of the officers and noncommis-
stoned officers, have taken a new name
for their organization, but continue
to use the depots and other facilities
also have been remaining in the depots
of the old unit.
1t was in this manner that the Rein
hardt regiment which fought the Spar
tacists in Berlin and which eurly
| in February had companies assigned to
Weimar when the national assembly
was convened and also other detaeh-
ments sent to the eastern front, was
! formed from the Fourth foot guard
regiment in Berlin and has retained
| possession of that depot
| The new German SchuetZen division
| consists of volunteers of the Thirty
| first division, the volunteer regimen
| being stationed in Berlin, while tn,
remainder of the Thirty-first has beer
| in depots in the Hartz region.
German press dispatches from the re
| gion of Polish-G clashes re
| Gently mentioned the volunteer Bat
| talon Koop," which was reorganizet
| from the One Hundred and Forty-nintl
| regiment of Schneidemuehl. Another re
| Gently mentioned unit was the "Yorch
sche Jaeger corps which reports in
dictate was the volunteer contingent o
the First Jaeger battalion, the corp
using the battalion depot at Ortelsburg
Each of the units appear to includ
| many volunteers, from outside thsi
ranks, and all of them were activel.
| conducting recruiting.
| According to recent estimates o
American army officers the standing
German army the first week in Feb
| ruary numbered between 100000 an,
| 400, 900 officers and men. These esti
mates do not include several hundred
thousand soldiers who have volunteered
| for the defenses in the east against TIL
bolsheviki or Poles.
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The Nnw College ROy

From "The Point of View of Youth,
by Gerald Chittenden. in Scribners
The technicians and the fnanciers
have blundered into a better UNDER
standing of youth. Romance Is per-
haps the most powerful influence IN
vo1,ng mans life. and a hard and prac-
tical thing besides; the technician APP
meals to it. Great effort and great re-
ward-the overcoming of difficulties
and the achieving of applause-are
the very bones and blood of romance;
they demand hardship, sacrifice. labor,
ard service, and give to their devotees a
daily reward of personal satisfaction
Of which the financial reward that fol-
lows is but the symbol and the seal.
would you build bridge where men
who went before you have failed?
Would you cause the wheels to turn
faster or tame a jungle, or utilize
forces which have never been dreamed
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-03-16
LIBERTY CLIMBS
$4,000 FEET ANDES
Goes Where No Motor We
hicle Even Went Before in
South America

Every motorist in the country is IA
miliar with some difficult climb or 9TH
I er which they consider a hard test for
lany automobile. However, p. V. st. Clair,
\ well known Los Angeles automobile
Imam, recently returned to that city with
an account of a motoring trip in Bolivia
(which took him over a pass in the Andes
49, 600 feet above sea level, and he de-
clares that in comparison, most of the
grades in this country would be consid-
cred merely patch of rising ground
mo motor vehicle had ever negotiated
this particular trip before" said st. Clair
lin describing his unusual motor journey.
l"I was in that section of Bolivia to de-
ltermine the possibilities of replacing
lIlamas as ore carriers from the tin mines
with modern motor trucks, and this par
fticular journey was made over the rougn
ltrail to the rich tin mines near the Andes
summit where hitherto the only travel
had been either by horsemen or the trains
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-03-16
BETTER SERVICE,
SAYS MORRISON
Manager Crawford's Quick
Tire Service Gives Talk
to Employees

Truman Morrison manager of Craw-
ford's quick tire service. gave an inter-
esting talk among the employees of this
big company Thursday night. Mr.. Nor
rison stated that his intentions of gath
ering the employees was to keep the or
ganization closer together, in which he
expected to cooperate with the automo-
bile public on quick tire service The
superiority of Firestone tires was also
demonstrated by Mr.. Morrison. Small
pieces of the tire were displayed, of
which the rubber as we'll as the fabric
was commented upon. Mr.. Sid j. Bowie,
president of the Crawford auto shop,
also made a talk on service; Frank
Stevens and Henry Chisolm also spoke
on how the organization has improved
from the shop to the business office.
A splendid menu was served in one
of the private dining rooms at the Tut
wiler and musical programme was
rendered by Mr.. and Mrs. J. c. Whit.
lock, Miss Sue McWhorter, Miss Mary
A parody was sung to the chorus of ut
Takes Yong, Tall Bronskin GAL"
which was sung as follows:
1T takes a great big Firestone cord
To show 'em how to cut that skidding
down;
1t takes a little call to old 1872"
To get a service car comm to you
Those Little Red Wagons, you can bet
they're fine
If you call for service. they roll on
time.
1t takes a Great Big Nonskid Cord
To show 'em how to cut that skidding
down.
Those present at the banquet were:
Mr.. Sid j. Bowie, Mr.. Frank Stevens,
Mr. Henry l.. .Chisolm, Mr.. Truman A.
Morrison, Mr.. w. C. kirkland. Mr.. p. D.
Mingledorffs Mr.. J. c. Whitlock. Mrs.
&c. Whitlock, Miss Sue McWhorter, Miss
Mary McWhorter, Miss Annie Troncalli,
Mr. w. r. Mcclure. Mr.. t. II. Robert
son, Mr. l.. M Arnold, Mr.. Shelly Nc
Farland, Mr.. C. B. Smith, Mr.. Neal C.
Smith.
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Bad Times for Hotel Men

From Leslie .. =, -,
An impression prevails that the big
hotels of the country are enormously
nrofitable, but Mr.. Johmn Nee. Bow
man, president of the company when
operates the largest hotels in New YORK
CITY and whose statements are au-
fhoritative and reliable, says that the
profits of our big hotels last year
were very low and that nigh taxes
struck a heavy blow at this legitima tie
Industry. He fears that prohibition
will strike another blow. He deplores
the action of Postmaster General Burle-
son in cutting down hotel charges for
local telephone service, which is now
being done at positive loss. He says
that TO meet war conditions and the
varying conservation requests of the
food administration, the whole method
CT operating hotels of the better class
had to be revolutionized, and that they
suffered in consequence. 1t will inter-
Industry is the fourth largest in the
United States.
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lions declared that the national quad
was weak. shot through with politics.
and that it would prove an insecure
structure under the searching tests Of
actual service. No institution ever
achieved more glorious vindication aft
er criticism than did the national
guard in this war. The celebrated
Rainbow division has immortalized it,
self threefold. of the total of dis
tinguished service crosses and medals
awarded by General Pershing and the
President. very large proportion have
gone to officers and men of the national
guard
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National Guards vindication

Bassett Blackley, in Leslie's.
President Wilson was never more bit
terly assailed than when he accepted
the new army bill of 1915 retaining
the national guard as our second line
of defense. Congressional critics and
national defense propaganda organiza-
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Shipbuilding in Japan

Rassett Blackley, In Leslles
The shipbuilding industry has enjoyed
great prosperity in Japan since the
outbreak of the war. Greatly stser gu
ened by this development it is now an
active bidder for the great mass of for
eien business inevitable during the re-
construction period The Yokohama
Chamber of Commerce Journal shows
that IS steamers aggregating 10000
tons were launched in the first half of
1918; an increase of SO vessels over the
corresponding period of the previous
year. The estimated total for the year
1915 is over 100000 tons. The limita-
ton upon Japanese shipbuilding was
placed by the supply of materials. The
United states furnished some steel in
exchange for vessels to be constructed.
Now. however, the Japanese are steadi-
ly developing new sources of supply
in China, and the imperial government
looks forward to a much greater out
put of shipbuilding in the present year.
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Caught ANOTHER
| i TERRIBLE COLD?
||Relieve it quickly with DR..
Bells Pine-Tar-Honey
pert say you're going to let it ,

Don't say you're going to let it wear
iiseH OUT. Us fIben 90 --oc9e
The balsamic ingredients of DR..
HBeIPs Pine-Tar-Honey help. to sooth
|Ithe tickle. the healing ingredients help
|lnature to scatter the phlegm -conges-
|Ition, and a happy, comfortable relief
|Isoon follows.
n Coughs due to grippe, bronchitis,
nd asthma also are relieved. And at a
livery trifling cost for DIR. Bells Pine
Arar- Honey Is very economical. Try it,
|R0c sec and $1.20.
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Wages in all lines of industry in Por-
tugal have reached figures unheard of
in that country, where labor always has
been poorly paid. 1t was necessary for
all classes of employers to increase the
pay schedules either voluntarily or as
the result of demands, to enable en-
ployes to meet the extremely high cost Of
living.
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Of Ilamas bringing the rich tin ore dow
from the mines.
19.0G0-FOOT ELEVATION

lIOAY
From Orura, Bolivia, where this jour
Rey began, it was 16S miles over the
Andes to Uncia, where the tin mines are
located. The road If you can call it such,
, crossed a summit of 1900 feet and
dropped again to the mines at Uncia at
an elevation of 5000 feet.
81 have made three round trips be-
tween Los Angeles and New York, so
have a pretty good idea of what rough
roads and grades mean in this country
but have never seen anything in North
America that remotely approached the
conditions of that trip. Hour after hour
the Liberty Six that I drove plugged
along in low gear, over rocks and sand
and heart breaking grades. AS We APP
preached the higher SUBMITS, the water
in the radiator boiled constantly. but
you could take off the radiator cap and
put your finger in the boiling water
without the slightest discomfort, so low
is the temperature at which water boils
at those attitudes
CAR SHOWS ITS POWER
ITO get an accurate idea of what the
trucks would have to do, l had an en-
gineer with level and barometer with me.
Consequently there is no guesswork about
the statement that the Liberty negotiated
one grade of q per cent at an attitude
of 1900 feet. In view of the altitude,
it was the most remarkable eXhipitlon
OF power that l ever seen in any car.
However, it was not merely the power
OF the Liberty that impressed me. the
way the car withstood the fearful pun
ishment of the rough trails and the con-
slant application of the utmost power was
astonishing After four days on the ROAD
between Orura and Uncia and back, L
wrote in my diary, The Liberty car Is
a wonder and 1 certainly meant IL, TOO.
"If anyone is inclined to complain over
the cost of their new automobile license
here they should try Bolivia for while.
Besides a stiff license fee for the car the
drivers license there costs $50, and that
is only good for daylight driving. III
you want to drive at night you must nave
stil, another license and pay good price
for
The sun., 1919-04-08
PRICE FIXING BOARD
RUNS AGAINST SNAG
Uniform Navy Steel Bids Sug-
gest Possible Violation Of
Antitrust Law.
PALMER DELAYS ACTION
Attorney : Generals Opinion
May Await New Move by
Industrial Body.

,WAsHINGroN, Arpil Legality OF
the procedure OF the Department Of
Commences Industrial Board In seeking
to determine standard prices for staple
commodities stili IL under careful con-
alteration by Government agencies. II
was learned to-day. Pending further
working out Of the plan. Attorney
General Palmer will not pass on the
legality question. and no request for an
opinion is, now pending before him, He
ance Of the Industrial Boards activities
and will refrain from doing 80 at least
temporarily.
This definition OF the attitude OF the
Department Of Justice to-day threw
another element OF uncertainty into the
Industrial Boards plans. which were
threatened with disruption by the Rail-
road ADMINISTRATOR refusal to accept
the boards prices for steel. Clarincation
Of the relations between the board and
the Railroad Administration awaited the
conference which Director General Hines
and George n. Peek. chairman Of the
board. are expected to hold within a
day or two.
Some legal advisers Of Attorney.
General Palmer believe clearly that the
standardizing Of prices. as evidenced
last week by the uniform bids on steel
for the navy, constitutes a violation OF
trust laws, or at least the practice might
soon develop into violations. This at
titude. however, Is based to certair
extent on hypot aetical consideration,
which the Depart ment OF Justice woult
not recognize In any formal action
Neither 10 this attitude 10 be considered
as necessarily indicating the final view
that the Attorney General will take. y
was explained.
The legality of the Industrial Boards
course, however. Is not as Immediate q
problem before that body as the praoti
cal question Of whether the Railroad
Administration, now the Government's
largest agency, purchasing quantities o.
steel. coal and other materials, viii
| agree to the prices already set for steel
or 70 other prices to be determined Il
the future. II a practical settlement o
ths dispute can be found 1t is con
sidered probable that the, Department
Of Justice then will be asked formal.
for an opinion on the legality.
Estimates of steel products to b
needed by railroads within the next fev
months are being prepared by the Rail
road Administration. In connection wit
| the present negotiations