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The Washington herald., 1919-12-14
Loew,s CoIumbla-Hobart Boswortn
I'm "Dehind the Door,
CrandalI's Kniekerboeker-"s
Hearts,"

Eugene O'Brien, in association
with Robert Edeson and Lucille
Lee Stewart, foremost in a cast of
supporting stars, will occupy the
screen at Crandall's Knickerbocker
Theater today and tomorrow in the
screen version of Eugene Walters
successful play, Sealed Hearts"
On Tuesday and Wednesday will
The Washington herald., 1919-12-14

Just as soon as he completes his
latest comedy, The Garage" Fatty
Arbuckle. accompanied by his genial
manager. Lou Anger. plans a flying
visit to New York.
The Washington herald., 1919-12-14

James J. corbett has completed his
latest picture THE Prince OF Ave
nue. A." a story OF New York politics
and gangdom. He is about to begin
work on Pals"
The Washington herald., 1919-12-14

be shown the funniest comedy in
which Mabel Normand ever has
been seen. "Jinx." ~
For Thursday and Friday. Olive
Thomas is announced as the star Of
the bill In her latest release, The
Glorious Lady" and "rhe Hayseed." !"
starring Roscoe C'Fatty') Arbuckie.
On Saturday only Jack Pickford
will be seen in 'In Wrong" with
Martin Johnson's The New Hebri-
des," as the subsidiary.
Moore's Garden - "Everywoman.-
Starting today, Moore's Garden pre-
Sents the third Of great series of
superproductions. "Ever ywoman. I"
The role OF "Everywoman" is played
by Violet Heming. Monte Blue has
the part Of Love; Wanda Hawley is
Beauty: and Theodore Roberts Is
Wealth. George H. Melford directed
the picture, and the story concerns
the quest OF Everywoman for Love.
which she finds only after disas-
trous encounters with Wealth. Pas
sion and Flattery.
Moore's strand-Zane Grey's aDes-
ert Gold.7
Desert Gold" BENJAMIN B. Hamp-
toms picture Of the Zane Grey novel,
Is announced for presentation at
Moore's Strand Theater, starting to-
day.
Desert Gold' has lost nothing in
its translation from narrative Eng
lish to the silent language OF the
screen. Z. X. Lincoln heads the
list, supported by such celebrities as
Eileen Percy, Margery Wilson, Ed
ward Coxon, Walter Long. w. Law
son Butt. Arthur Morrison and
others Of similar note.
Arthur ]. MAXWELL, conductor Of
the Strands augmented orchestra,
has provided a musical setting which
lends much to its thrilling situations
and love scenes.
Masonic Temple-Maria Conde.
The second concert OF Miss Laura
Harlan's Thursday evening series will
be given in the auditorium OF the
Masonic Temple next Thursday at
$50 p. m, when the program will be
given by Maria Conde, soprano of the
Metropolitan Opera Company, and
Max Rosen. already known In Wash
ington as a talented violinist Of great
promise.
CrandnlPs-'Please Get Married. =
Viola Dana will be the star Of the
bill at Crandalls Theater today and
tomorrow in Please Get Married. -
On Tuesday and Wednesday one OF
the finest pictures OF the year will be
shown at Crandalrs when Norma Tall
madge will succeed to the stellar posi-
tion on the bill as star of The Isle
Of Conquest"
Beginning Thursday, and continuing
the chief feature OF the bill through
out the remainder Of the week, will
be shown for the'first time in WASH
ington Charles Miller's superproduc-
ton Of Love. Honor and ?" in which
the stellar role Is faultlessly played
| by Stuart Holmes.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-10-20
Did Not Get Money
From Wall Street
The war.

All these things combined to open UP
the oil business and to let the public
into il anywhere from the subcellar TO
the thirty-ffth floor. OF course, the
Standard is still in the business. The
various companies unscrambled out of
the old combine are at work, and doing
handsomely. But they have not the
same control over the industry that
they once had. In other words, the
United States proved too big for the
Standard Oil Company TO control. This
means not so much the courts as the
country itself The country Just
thought it would spoil the Standards
alleged graft and monopoly. So it
turned in and spouted oil through ev-
cry we'll The courts helped some with
their decisions to break the Standard
grip, but it was the great United States
themselves, the good Amrican CONT
nent that did the work. Now many en-
ergetic men have enough money to go
ahead and be independent of the
Standard in the oil game.
The independents did not have the
money that the Standard had So they
were obliged TO 60 to Wall street for
it. They had TO educate the bankers
of that famous thOroughfare in oil.
They did so. Out of that education,
which began about five years ago, has
grown the present tremendoues boom
in oil stocks. Harry F. Sinclair. who
was largely identified with the Federal
League baseball venture. and ]. 5.
Cosden were the oil pioneers in Wall
street. Many others have followed
them. The great independent COM
panies. the Texas and the Gulf Rein
ing Company. were already in bust
ness. but they did not have 10 go to
Wall street for money.
More amazing still is the demand
for petroleum products for fuel pur-
poses. The interior combustion en-
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-10-20

gines which move motor cars, boats,
airplanes, which pump water and
which have taken the place of steam
engines in doing 1000 things, created
an immense demand for gasoline. The
demand in this line is so apparent that
it is no wonder investors. seeing IL,
should rush to buy oil stocks. The
The gasoline or internal combustion
engine has revolutionized locomotion
on land and water, and now threatens
to revolutionize it again by sending it
through the air Remember, gasoline
was once thrown aside as a useless
factor in petroleum.
These uses, of course, are for the
lighter and more refined essence of
petroleum. Yet the greatest possibili-
ties of all lie in heavy and fuel oil for
steamships, railroad locomotives, etc.
1t is not impossible that stationary en-
gines may depend upon fuel oil at no
late date. Figure firemen at $3.50 a
month and that oil will save firemen.
and you can see where fuel oil may
come in for stationary engines.
The oil burning ship is said to be
the ship of the hour. The navies Of
the world are anxiously looking to-
wards a supply of oil. One of the
things that British and American ma
vies most carefully guarded during
the war was access to the Tampico oil
fields. Had that access been cut off,
the British Navy would have been very
seriously handicapped.
Earl Curzon said that the allies float
ed to victory on a sea OF oil. The Unit
ed States has set aside millions of
acres of oil-producing land for navy
use alone
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-10-20
Public Ready
to Take Chance.

The event showed .4c
wanted rather to take "a lode ,uanc-
with a small sum than To buy stock
in the old and substantial oil com
panies. The investors seem to want
to buy into new companies that were
trying to produce rather than to refine.
to transport and to sell oil. This bent
was helped along by the discovery OF
the great North Texas oil field. one Of
the greatest and most sensational ever
brought in This new district made II
easy for a lot OF new companies 10
organize for production. Some OF the
new companies have valuable proper
ties. others have nothing but good
chances. But the investors as well as
the gamblers seem 10 feel that the new
oil company has more possibilities OF
profit than the old one The old-estab-
lished oil company. with producing
wells, refineries and a selling organi-
cation, may pay from IL 10 50 per cent
on the 500 invested. but the new field
may return $4,000 TO $4,000 on the
800. Then. again, IL may not make
any return at all. But the American
investor, or Spectator. seems to be
willing 10 take a long chance with his
800. The Wall street people used 10
hold off the old producing companies.
on the ground of risk They preferred
the companies that produced, refined
and sold as the Standard did. More
chance Of profit they said in such com
panies However. the new investors
are all for the long gamble on the pro-
ducing companies. Profits from REIN
ing and selling are close compared
with those from producing; that Is.
if you do produce.
Oil turns out. sells quicker than gold
or silver or lumber or copper or coal.
One good well may make a whole
county rich, Wealth comes so sudden
~ that all sense OF proportion is lost
There is no doubt about it. many men
have made immense and rapid for
tunes in the oil fields. 'No-accOunt"
whites and half-breed Indians. tramps
cracker" farmers. have been made
rich By oil found on their lands One
company which had been mining coal
in the Burkburnett region struck oil.
It's stock went up from sos TO $500
a share The town bum In Ranger be-
came . many-umes millionaire
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-10-20
Bankers and Brokers
Compile Statistics.

Oil has become a magic word in the
realms of finance. Brokers and fan
ciers who did not know anything about
oil three years ago are busy reading
up on il now. getting information pill
ing up the always attractive statistics
the Germans impaired that passion
10 us-and in every way preparing TO
furnish their customers with informa-
ton regarding the wonderful possibili-
ties Of the new financial giant-Oil
Banks and bankers did not know
what the word petroleum meant two
years ago. are now more interested in
it than they are in the very best nrst
mortgages on downtown real estate al
homo. Very rich and very cOnserva-
tive bankers. men who have done what
they are pleased 10 call a Legitimate
banking business for fifty years. ar.
regretting that they did not get into
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-10-20
Oil Burning Ships
TO Have Day.

But the use OF fuel oil by merchant
ships is far more important than the
use of oil by navies. There are thou
sands of merchant ships where there
is one warship. The vast advantage
oil has over coal is that it requires in
fnitely less space in a ship. makes in
finitely less labor and is infinitely
easier to load. Oil gives more room
for cargo or passengers. relieves the
hard-worked stoker of all labor, and
can be taken on board through a pipe
line, instead Of being shOyeled on as
coal has been Then oil is clean, while
coal is filthy. One OF the great causes
OF the boost IN the present boom in oil
stocks is said to be a letter written by
Chairman E. y Hurley of the United
States Shipping Board, in which he
estimated the enormous amount of oil
the new merchant marine, Of all coun-
tries. might need. Mr. Hurley said
that if American shipping plans alone
are carried out, the United States
merchant marine would need one-third
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-10-20

That does not mean they all feel
sure that they are going to get rich.
Not at all. BY far the greater number
of them know that they are taking q
long chance. merely making bet that
they will win a pot of money. They
know there is a great chance that they
may lose, but they are willing to take
the chance.
The great selling point If the oil
stock salesman Is this: Mr..
have you 500 to $500 on which you
are willing to take chance of making
from 81 1000 to 100000 in a year?"
The chances are that you have IN
any event you are interested enough
TO say:
Maybe / have"
Then" proceeds the oil stock sales
man, take chance with me. 1 am
not guaranteeing you anything But
we have a good oil prospect The ad-
joining ten acres have four gushers on
it, Here we are between a lot of
proved wells. We have a lease on the
land. We may lose. Our wells may
not come in. But we have chance.
Are you willing to lay 800 to $500. or
as much more as you wish, on that
chance? You may lose every cent of
it. l am frank with you. But you may
become rich. Are you on?"
That is frank. and. very often, an
honest appeal. The salesman may
back up his talk with statistics, for
which the American people have sud
denly taken such fancy. The sales
man and his company may be qui
honest. There is a chance that they
may be dishonest 1t is up to you
VIII you take a chance to make a mil
lion with the 800 to $500 that may be
drawing . per cent a year in the bank Z?
The chances are that you will take
the chance
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-10-20

lots of their own. So there was little
study Of oil by banks and brokers in
the United States. Those in the oil
business did not need money. Those
out of the business were glad enough
to stay out, for they feared to risk
competition with the DOGGY of the
Standard.
This condition was changed by five
things:
Discovery of oil in many fields.
Plentiful supply of money in the
United States.
The dissolution of the Standard Oil
Company.
The greatly increased consumption
of oils and oil products. especially by
the gasoline engine and the oil-burn-
ing engine.
The war
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-10-20

a business that makes men rich quick
ly, are getting into oil now. They
think of the paltry 100000 or so they
have been laboring to make all these
years, and then of the billions that the
Standard Oil Company has run up in
the same time. And they go into oil
Rockefeller no longer has it all to
himself
1t is estimated that since January l.,
1919, 5000 new oil companies. with \
capitalization of $1,5O0,OO00O0, have
been organized. 1t is not possible to
get a true estimate, but this much Is
known: That the organization of a
S1O0,000000 company does not cause a
ripple of excitement where ii would
have created furore three years ago.
The great tide of new investment in
oil. estimated at $1,5OO,OOO,OO0, since
January !, 1919, may be appreciated
when it is stated that the total capital
izat;on of all the Standard Oil com
panies is only $55O,0OO.OOO.
Thus we find that thrice as much
money has been invested in oil since
January /. 1919, than the great Stand
ard Oil Company has invested in al
most fifty years.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-10-20
All Feared
Standard Oil Co.

In seven months, Americans have
financed the equal of three Standard
Oil companies, and it was only ten or
twelve years ago when some people
thought that Standard Oil was too rich
and too strong to submit to govern
ment by the United States.
The great growth in oil stock specu-
lation is an interesting study in invest
ing Psychology Five years ago the
investors and the brokers through
whom they have been in the habit of
investing knew little and cared less
about oil The world knew that the
Standard Oil companies had been very
successful. and that stockholders
therein had received handsome div
idend up to the dissolution in 1911.
But most financial sharks thought that
this success was due TO the great abil-
ity of the Standard Oil crowd. John
d. Rockefeller. Henry H Rogers and
John D Archbold. and the monopoly
which they are known 10 have on the
oil business in the United States.
Anon. The investors and their tu-
tors, the brokers, felt that Standard
Oil had the business "sewed up" that
you could not sell barrel of oil with
out the consent OF the Standard. and
that that consent could only be bought
at a price which left you no profit: in
a word that money put into oil was
sure. in the end. to be gobbled up by
the trust"
The Standard Oil folk never had 10
go TO Wall street for money They had
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-10-20
SGrto ha M

of the present annual production Of
the oil supply of the world, and If the
worlds program is attained. there will
not be half enough oil at present
rates of production to meet the de
mand This without considering other
uses for the product. To be sure. the
shipping Of the United States and Of
the world is far from being on an oil
basis. Mr.. Hurley was careful to point
this out. His figures, however, give a
perspective on the subject
Individuals are not the only seekers
after oil. Nations are going into the
business. Great Britain is searching
every part of her dominions for oil,
even the British Isles, where petro-
leum never has been found, are be-
ing wild Gated" by American oil drill
ers. Germanys plan of conquest had
a large eye on the oil fields of Russia
and Rumania, and France is eagerly
seeking it in Asia Minor and China.
When great nations go seeking oil. in
dividual investors are sure TO follow.
Nations Going
Into Oil Business.
It is said that there is plenty Of oil
in the world for years TO come, but
the production of 1919 is not up to
consumption, even though the great
Northeast Texas fields have been add
ed to the output Production always
ran some $4,000 900 to 60,000,000 bar
rels ahead of consumption until 1916.
when they ran 25.OOO.OOO short. They
ran 100000 barrels short in 1917,
and 26.O00,000 barrels short in 1918.
Now. in spite of the incoming Of the
Texas fields and imports from Mexico
of around $4,000 600 barrels year. the
United States is barely keeping up
with consumption. It was expected
that that demand would relax with the
end of the war. but not so. Europen
countries were so far behind in petrO-
lpum mat Iues nave htpA up tAC NC
mand to wartime figures. At the pres
ent. daily production is running very
slightly ahead of daily demand.
The tremendous work done by petro-
leum products during the war in FUR
nishing power to motor cars. trucks.
airplanes, etc, was luridly press
ACCENTED during the war. People got
good idea of the importance Of petro-
leum products in war and in peace
Then for four years. investment and
speculation had been held up by the
war The people had money, the spec
ulative instinct was strong in the ven
turously inclined, and the investing in
stinct strong In the conservative. The
end OF the war saw the petroleum in
dustry in a most favorable position for
resumption. 1t was not IN need OF any
period OF rest, reconstruction. OF liqui-
dation The business was staple.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-10-20
Poor TO Rich Go
Wild on OIL.

The result has been that oil stocks
have become the favorites of investors
of all sorts. of regular dyed-in-the-
wool Spectators. gamblers most of us
would call them. of conservative. ex-
perienced investors. and. in the end. of
people who have from Sl00 to $500 to
invest in something that may make
them rich This is the most important
class of all There are few Americans
who do not hold in their hearts the
idea that some day they viii get rich
on nothing. run a shoestriug into
tannery or a 81 note into a million
dollars. II may De foolish. but ii has
been done time and time again. and no
matter what wise men may say. Col
Mulberry Sellers struck the slogan for
the American nation when he said.
There's millions in it, The great
American working class. from the girls
in the factories 10 the judges on the
bench, have gone wild on oil
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-10-20

- is most improbable that at any
time in the history OF the world
has so much money been invest
IN any speculation as is at present
being invested in oil. petroleum. by the
American people. Since the finish of
the war the people have their minds
of the struggle in Europe. and back
TO their proper business of making. or
of trying 10 make. money. there has
been an importing OF money into oil
stocks that has been simply amazing
The people got the habit of investing
during the war. Then. for all the
bowls about the high cost Of living
which are true enOugh-mOst Of us
have had some money 10 invest. We
had money. Everything was high We
did not care so much about buying
clothes or going on railroad trips, for
clothes and railroad transportation
cost a lot of money, were at prices so
disproportionate that we hated TO
stand for them.
Farm lands were high. and, besides.
city people can not handle farm lands.
Farm lands are hard TO handle. be-
cause help is hard to get Gold was not
new. We had no Klondike or Cripple
Greek. and even if We did have the
Klondike, il would be too far away. 1t
would not be an attractive place.
Whereas oil was right at our doors.
The great states of Oklahoma and
Texas. parts of Kentucky and of Loui-
siana and Illinois. were wild with the
oil boom. We could get on a train in
the evening and be in the oil regions
BIZ morning. Better still, oil stock
statesmen could leave the gushers in
the evening and see us in the morning,
the smell of the oil ON their clothes.
certificates of stock in their hands
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-07-21
Hungary Faces an
Important Crisis
In Three Manners
Bella Kun.
Bella Kun.

BERLIN, Saturday, July 10
] he Budapest r.rcspOnicnt>oi the
lageblatt ha, been enabled 70
,mnggle on, o. tie hungarian cap
i,al an excerpt o., a recent speech
Of Bella Kun. ,hc ,oyic, leader, be
lore the legislative council Of the
soviet
In the speech Rc'a kun made the
sensational assertion that hungary
was facing a triple ori,i, IN pow
er. economics and morale The
cri,, m power, he said, was eyl-
dcnccd hy the counter revolution,
that in economic, ~ the unbelley-
able price, Of food and that IN
morale IN corruption which had
reached such uHi-camci OF limits.
All the officials no Hungary &C
cording 10 He,a kun, we're sus-
ccpible OF bribery They were
making out passes ior persons TO
ilce from Hungary charging for
them from 5000 70 3OOOOO crowns
and also were buying iilirlNy IN
the provinces Every one, he as
serted, was swind'ng and willing
TO take any criminal steps 10 live
well.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-07-21

the court 90 eliminate all testimony
thar bears upon Mr.. ford'S action in
1917 and 1913. contcnding It is not
material The statements made IN the
editorial ON which the suit IS based
dealt with Iards alleged attitude to-
ward military service N 1910
Judge Tucker said he would take
the preparedness question under al
visemcni and rule later.
Attorney 'or the Tribune also
asked that al records dealing with
fofd'S profit, ou war contracts,
which VA, brough, ont during the two
days Ed,el Ford was on the stand, oe
struck out Testimony concerning the
Ford profit sharing plan also was at
tackled by the defense and MS clmina
ton asked.
fOrd's attorneys retdlia,cd By ask
INK that the testimony Of Kirkland
| Alexander Detroit advertising mar
who testified tina, Ford SAID that "li
Germany had rot invaded Belgium
France " England nigh, have, b,
expunged from the record,
Judge Tucker admonshed ATONE,
today that are trying the case the tria
must be expedited stating tina, 'eyefl
, Jurors had told him they must gc
away by August Arguments ano
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-07-21
AUDITORIUM At
STATE FAIR IS
new SUGGESTION
City Owns Grounds Already,
Says. Writer Of Letter,

Suggestion that the city build the
proposed Victory auditorium az the
State Fair grounds If the people OF
Oklahoma Ci'y ~, iavorahly on the
$4,000 bond issue for It's construc-
nm j, made m letter received by
the Time, today from IF. ! S" who
points out among other things that
by so doing the city will have a free
site and will thus he able TO put an
additional $4,000 into the building
The letter reads
EDITOR Times.
"D,ar Slr If remember correctly
Oklahoma Ciy voted a bond Issue to
buy The State Fair grounds several
}rafH Agu The city owns the grounds
outright except that the fair uses II
one month in every year Now the
thoIrht stokes me that II We vote
$3.50 our To hulld a. Victory auditorium
here, tho logical place to put II would
hr uu u. oporty the city already owns.
"pi course the objection viii arise
th.A the rthte fair grounds Is too far
| from n, city Pat all the grand opera
! pud larger entertainments We have had
/ sirN. I have been here have been At
| the state fair grounds--nnd with the
[ exception of tho mud, which can h''
/ ~mtdied easily. these entertainments
| hnyr been success from all stand
| points.
There il double track street car
| linc running TO the grounds good pave
mruts uu Eulf dozen streets afford
eaHy automobile transportation
| building the auditorium Ht tho faii
! grounds VIII mean another magnificent
I building added 10 thos" already there
II may also be used by the state faii
during fair wcek--aud such Us" viii
not interfere with lis use by the city
because the grand opera season never
begins untll after the fair is closed II
addition. since the city owns thu fan
grounds, II will not be necessary to dsper
i,5O GOO 10 buy II site. and this hddi