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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-23
Union Oil Acquires Property

The Union Oil Company (of Della
ware) has materially strengthened its
position in the mid-continent field by
acquiring control of the Central Pc
troleum Company, which is considered
one of the leading producing properties
in Oklahoma and which has a net pro-
duction Of more than 1000 barrels a
day. The newly acquired company has
twenty-seven wells drilling, in excess
OF $4,000 acres under lease, of which
$4,000 are in Oklahoma and 1920 in
Kansas. 1t it predicted that the COM
pletion of wells now drilling by Cen
trail Petroleum will largely increase
the present production. The company
is a holding corporation, owning 100
per cent of the preferred stock of the
Wolverine Oil Company, more than
1924 per cent of the common stock and
JOG per cent of the preferred stock of
the Sycamore Oil and Gas Company,
more than SO per cent of the Wigwam
Oil Company, and 100 per cent of the
capital stock of the Roth Argue Marie
Brothers Oil Company and of the St.
Lawrence Oil Company
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-23
Royal Dutch Earpinys

Profits of the Royal Dutch Petro-
leum Company for 1919, ACCORDING o. ~ ~
advlces from London yesterday. We're
doo 'o99, 1888 florins, approximately $40.
o59,9o3, which permits dividends Of Ak
per cent on ordinary shares. of which
10 per cent was paid as ad interim div;-
dend. The balance carried forward
AMOUNTS to 927,664 forins, approximate
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-23
Dividends

Extra

American Brass Company An extra
dividend of j Il per cent a share has been
declared in addition to the regular quar-
teriy dividend of V per cent, both paya-
July 81.
Lyman Mills Company-An extra divi-
addition to the regular semi-anruai div
dend or So both payable August to
stockhoidess of record July 81
dividends of $50 share on the common
and $50 share on the preferred have
been declared. both payable July 81 TO
stockholders of record July %
Otto Eisenlohr g. Bros. Inc.-An sxtr.
dividend of rs cents share has been. da.
clared. payable August Is TO stockholders
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-23
Steel and Tube Earnings
- -
Surplus for Six Months Equiva-
lent fO S4.35 81 Share

Surplus available for depreciation
? and common stock dividends of the
Steel and Tube Company of America
for the six months ended June 80 was
S4,713,377, equivalent to S4.85 a share
on the 97o,9o6 shares, according to
the consolidated income account issued
yesterday.
This showed gross operating profits
for the six months of $6,732,0O6 and
total income of S6,963,739. Net earn
fngs for June were $1,088.51S and
for the six months $5,325,S77. Pre-
ferred stock dividends for the half
year were estimated at $612,500.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-23
Politics Again

Wall Street frankly admitted yester-
day that it liked the tenor of Senator
Hardlng's speech of acceptance. But
the stock market was not in mood
to make vigorous response. Bullish
traders said stocks would gradually
feel the effects of the constructive
program outlined by the Republican
standard bearer. Financial historians
got out their records and showed thar
in 1916, the last Presidential year. the
market started moving ahead in mid
July and never stopped until the end of
November. And the same thing hap
pened in 1912 and in 1908. In fact.
If the market acts according to prece.
dent, the traders say, it will have to
start moving soon.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-23
Judge Gary's Interview

The opinion expressed by Judge
Gary, on the eve of his departure for
a three-months' vacation abroad, that
the business outlook is now better than
it has been in the last six years will,
no doubt, surprise those Wall Street
pessimists who have been predicting
panicky days ahead. 1t is the view of
the head of the Steel Corporation that
the worst OF our dangers are behind
US and with proper consideration for
the workers and the public, business
should continue to prosper. Judge
Gary has so often been right in his
predictions regarding the future that
it may be we'll to give heed to his
latest utterances on economic condi-
tions, which are more fully outlined
In another section of The Tribune.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-23
Japan Hopes to Float
Large Rail Loan Here

TOXIC, July 21.-Baron Takahashl
Minister of Finance. announced in tns
House of Peers to-day that loan q
100000 yen for the South Man
churian Railroad probably would .
foated in the United States in the near
future.
Foreign Minister Uchida, during the
same session, declared the American
shipping law doubtless would Mater
ally affect Japanese shipping Interests
but that Japan was prepared TO tass
the wlsest steps to meet the sitparoA
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-23
Paris Market Unsteady

PARIS, July o. Prices were uh'
steady on the Bourse to-day. Thres
per. cent rentes, So francs 10 centlmes'
exchange on London. 4s francs 90 csr n
times; 5 per cent loan, So francs %
centimes. The dollar was quoted al =
francs 701a centimes.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-23
Republic Iron and Steel

The utter lack of public interest in
the stock market was forcibly empha-
sized yesterday by the action of Re-
public Iron and Steel, which advanced
only fraction Of point following
publication of the excellent earnings
statement for the June quarter. A
surplus at an annual rate of approx
mately $25 a share on the common
stock in the old bull market days would
undoubtedly have caused a sensational
rise in the stock, but even the shorts
yesterday failed to become greatly
frightened by that showing. The high
price of the day was only a quarter of
point above the closing sale.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-23
Texas Company's Gusher

Although Texas Company shares ex-
hiblted little response yesterday to the
announcement of the bringing i'm of a
10000 barrel we'll in the so-called West
Columbia pool, it is said that officials
are highly pleased with the gusher.
While the settled production of the
new we'll will probably be considerably
under the initial flow, it is said that
its Importance does not attach so much
to its size as to the fact that the oil
produced is high grade lubricating
OIL The West Columbia pool is in the
newest of the Texas oil fields.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-23

LONDON, July 22.-Bar silver, 5sAa'
per ounce; bar gold, 107s ed; money
. 4 per cent. Discount rates. Snor
bills, per cent; three month c'lls
Ses per cent. Gold premium at LisOss
lao.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-23
The Dollar i'm Foreign EXCHANGE

Practically all Of the LEADING foreicn
exchanges displayed weakness vester-
day. Sterling fell below $3.50. and the
rest OF the market was under pressure.
Quoted in dollars to the pound0
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-23
Money and Credit

There was no change in the call
money situation yesterday, The rate
held throughout the stock market sass
sion at 9 per cent. Offerings were
s 81: to take care Of the demand.
offerings slight SUI "4'"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-23

Bank Clearances - Bank clearance.
at New York yesterday We're. ~
changes, $6s5,s35,045; balances. $50
444,829. Y0''
Silver - London, 55Ad; New York
domestic, 99hc; foreign. osAc: Mexi'
can dollars, zoe.
ouo-Ireasury-United States funds:
Reserve credit balances, ss1, 707, 1892.
Canadian Exchange-New York funds
IN Montreal, $13S.12 minimum per
$I,ooo; Montreal funds in New York,
Sl2l.36 discount per $1,000.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-23
Consult us before making Your
foreign exchange commitment,

Instantaneous communication bsttoeen AZ,
o6lces IS made possible thru their swercor.
recttoat by private ,oires. Wv
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-03-23

ness. Another is the curious manner in which
some children, and even infants, appear to
attract different people, winning them for
their parents in spite of their obvious ineligi-
bility. For instance it is not at all unusual to
have couple visit an agency with a we'll
defined idea of just what they want in the
way OF child. There is a widespread demand
for curls, and to this may be added several
other specifications such as straight nose
Well-set ears and long eyelashes. But almost
without exception they end sby adopting
some little waif who does not fit the pic
ture at all, but who has won them over by
a few tIm1d advances. The matrons who
have been engaged in this work for some
time say that they never attempt to force
certain children upon certain applicants, but
leave it to the law of natural selection, which
operates in adoption as well as other roman
tic matters.
Zone time was notified by very wealthy
New York woman that she wanted to adopt
little boy. who had golden hair, blue eyes,
and straight, sturdy back" said woman
official of the City Charities office, the other
morning, her eyes twinkling as she related
her various experiences. ''He was to be any
where from five to ten years old. [ knew
of one such little boy whose cherubic coun-
tenance answered the even more detailed de-
scription which came later, SO 1 had him
dressed in a new suit and sent up to the
great lady's house
81 was Immediately called on the telephone
and shoWered with praise for my wise cho1ce,
so that went about for the next ter nays
feeling exceedingly pleased with myself TOR
having started one little boy on the road to
wealth. Alas, week later, the boy was re-
turned as unsatisfactory. Again l was sum-
moned to the phone, anu This time tear
full voice asked me how I expected 1t to keep
an uncouth little scoundrel who turned the
hose on dear Fido, slid dowG the banisters,
and threw his pretty new Fauntleroy collars
out the window.
after that, | gave up sending G. O. D.
orders. The same boy, however, was later
placed with a couple who were blessed with
greater humor, and who permitted the chil9's
normal personality to assert itself. The.
chose him not because Of his golden hair and
seraphic smile, but because they liked him
fact which the boy seemed to sense and
appreciate.
''Of course, the matter of coloring is pref
ty important to the prospective parents you
know. If they want young baby, it is US
ually because they want to keep secret the
fact that it is not their own, and so they
want its col0ring to be of the type that pre-
walls in their respective families. 1t would
never do for couple without blond hair
or blue eye between them to go back home
escortng blond young offspring, if they
wanted to convince their friends and relatives
that it was their own.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-03-23
READY-MADE FAMILIE Spy Frederic j. Haskin

NEW YORK, March 18-The adoption Of
children has become such popular pastime
IN New York this season that the demand,
especially for infants, is threatened to ex-
coed the supply. People must have acquired
the adoption habit during the war, the city
authorities think for never before has there
been such an amazing run on the orphan
market Not only are Would-be foster par
ents springing up in all parts of the state,
but requests for orphans are being received
from points as remote as Alaska and Texas.
In fact, New York appears recently to have
become a regular clearing house for orphans
and foundlings, the majority Of whom are
sent to residents of other sections of the
country.
If you set out to adopt an orphan these
days with the pleasant idea that you are
comforting a favor upon society in general
and upon the orphan in particular, you are
quickly disillusioned in the beginning OF
your search. The competition is so keen. Call
at any of the children's agencies in New
York, and YOU will find several individuals
there ahead of you, eager to adopt, and pa
tiently enduring the inspection and inter-
viewing of the agency's officials. At the head
quarters OF the City Charities department
in the Municipal building it is the same.
They have on an average dozen applicants
for Adaptable children every day, ranging
from Fifth avenue heiresses to colored dress
makers, so that, while your offer to relieve
them of an infant charge will be appreciated,
il you are the rlgnL SORT OIL person, IL Will
by no means create sensation.
Furthermore, if your demand is for baby
girl, it is quite likely to be refused for the
reason that the stock is exhausted. 81 am
sorry, but we haven't any just at present.
the matron will inform you sympathet1cally,
''but how about nice little baby boy? You
hadn't considered adopting boy? Why,
thought most people preferred them. we
have one listed nova cunning little fello"
only two months old-really quite beauty
in his way, abandoned by his mother. Woulo
YOU care to see him." And so inspiring is
the sudden enthusiasm Of the matron tor
baby boys, and especially for this BABY ooy'
that you are convinced he is quite the prize
of the collection, and after that there Is
little chance of your refusing him.
But, after you have departed, the matron
will very likely turn to her assistant and
say, isn't it strange they all want girls? L
thought I would never be able to persuade
that couple to take little Charlie; their
minds were so made up about adopting
girl. They wanted one with the regulation
blue eyes and infantile suggestion OF curls,
while Charles eyes I'm sure will be brown
and he has such a quaint little turned-up
nose"
This preference for girls is rather sur
prising in view of the worlds general par
TALLY toward boys, and is one of the many
inexplicable features of the adoption bust
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-03-23
THE ATLANTA TRI-wEEKLY JOURNAL,

not a Hoover-made boom and not politician
made boom. 1t was born fully and freely
of the earnest, sober-minded people of this
state and of many other states The people
bore it, the people fathered it and fostered
it, and it is the people who demand now that
this obstinate attitude of the subcommittee
shall cease and the voters shall be given what
was never in the rightful power of the sub
committee to deny them.
Two extremes and two only in candidates
are permitted the people of this sovereign
state by their own servants One of them,
it is freely admitted could not carry his own
state were he nominated The other is not
even making pretense Of being candidate
in his own state. But because the subcom-
mittee so wills it, Georgians must vote Tor
one or the other or must not vote at all.
There is only one answer free men can make
to such tyranny-and thousands of them are
crying it and will continue TO cry it daily
from every city and hamlet in the state.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-03-23
THE EDEN FARM SHOWS WHAT
MAKES SINGLE TAKERS
By DR.. Frank Crane

Some fifty Years ago or so the Eden Farm
on Manhattan Island was worth around
SIS, 600.
On the 9Th of March, 1920, it was sold for
around five millions.
The Single Takers are the gentlemen and
ladies who arise and ask the lmpertinehC
question which very much irritates the folks
who hate any disturbance, "Where did that
increase in price come from? The heirs got
it? Who gave it to them? Who earned lt?'
and similar Bolshevik remarks.
This writing is not Single TAX propa-
ganda 1t is merely effort to show the
reader what the point is which Single Tax
ers make Having seen the point you can
do as you please-either join the party, or
denounce it's apostles crack-bra1ned theo~
rists. Only it is not sensible either to join
or denounce until you know what it's all
about.
And it's about this: When piece Of prop
erty is worth $4,000 at a certain date, and
fifty years later it is worth 100000, who
earned the increase?
Not the owner, manifestly. All he had
to do was to sit on his doorstep and smoke
his pipe. If his property lay in the heart of
a big city he did not have to hoe it, plant it,
| fence it, build on it, keep the weeds out
of it. He might have gone to Europe and
left it alone 1t would go right on mount
| ing in value hundred thousand dollars a
| year or so just the same.
| Hence he gets something for nothing.
! You may say it was his shrewdness in in
| vesting that earned the increase. But he
| didn't even need that. It pure luck.
| 1t was no higher order of shrewdness than
that of the gambler who plays the red and
not the black.
And where any one gets something for
nothing there is a tort The law recognizes
that (partially) in that it prohibits lotteries
and holds that no promise to pay is enforce
able unless there is consideration.
The Single Taxer points out the party
| who earned that enormous increase. 1t is
the Public. The Eden Farm became a bo-
nanza simply because thousands of people
| settled around it and prospered.
| The earning was communal and by right
therefore belongs to the community.
The Single Taxer further buttonholes you
and insists that this one dramatic instance
is but illustrative of what is going on al
over civilization; that while every man should
get what he earns, he is not entitled to gel
what the community earns for him; an(
that this increase in values, the natural in
crement of communal progress, is so vas
that, if the state were to take it, it would
not only take what is rightfully it's own, bu
it would not then need to lay tax on any
mans property
copyright, 1920, by Frank Crane.)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-03-23
HYGIENE FOR EPILEPTICS
By H. Addington Bruce
Dy VOlR wv
THAT repileptic attacks may in many
be laStingly checked by a treatment

THAT ,epileptic attacks may in many cases
be lastingly checked by treatment that
L. is hygenic rather than medicinal is the
claim of an Ohio physician, DR.. c. W. Kink
of Dayton. 1t is based on the theory that
epilepsy is often product of Self-poiSoning
from toxic and uneliminated waste products OF
food.
To promote elimination, therefore, DR.. King
advises epilepticS to live, whenever possible,
in country districts where they can obtain a
| maximum of fresh air and freedom from the
nervous, digeStion-impairing stresses incidental
to city life. He urges them to take plenty
of sleep, to exercise daily, and eat lightly
Moreover he would not only have them
avoid overeating any food, but he would also
have them eat certain foods seldom if at all.
This is the essential point in the treatment
he recommends.
In especial he would have epilepticS great
ly reduce their ration of proteid foods, both
animal and vegetable. During the treatment
itself no meats or eggs are to be eaten, and
| little of such vegetables as peas and beans,
! rich in prCteinS.
Alcoholic drinks tea, and coffee are forbid
den. Cooked desserts also are tabooed, as
| tending to overeating In their stead the use
| of fresh fruits is recommended.
These have the extra advantage of promoting
| elimination And because defic' mt elimination
| is in Dr. Kings opinion, basic factor in cauS-
| ing epileptic attacks, he preScrbeS certain ia
n1iliar catharticS and laxativeS.
| While treatment is under way he would give
calomel once week once every ten days.
Rhubarb also is advised, in combination with
sodium bicarbonate.
When anaemia is present the taking of iron
is indicated. DR.. King however, does not ad-
wise drugging with bromides, the traditional
antiepileptic remedy. Only when insomnia
complicates the case would be give bromides.
Such, in outline, is this Ohio physicians
method of treatment for the dread disease
of epilepsy. He reports that he has found it
| efficaciouS even when the favoring conditions
of country life cannot be secured.
Writing in the Ohio State Medical Journal
he records that of some forty cases of cpl
lepSy treated by him in the past fifteen years
a complete cure was effected in fifteen cases.
Ten were so improved that seizures became
rare and light Six improved in somewhat
less degree while five showed no Improvement
whatever
The time required to work cure varied
from three months to year. Much, of course,
depended on the patients willingness to CO.
operate in the hygienic measures laid down
for him.
Manifestly this hygienic treatment is not a
panacea for epilepsy. But it certainly seems
to hold for many cpileptic" promising means
of relief.
Copyright, 1920, by The Associated News
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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-03-23

The Excelsir, Mexico City newspaper,
says in it's issue of Sunday that orders have
been sent to Mexican consuls in the United
States 'to refuse to wise passports of all
Americans belonging to the Association for
the Protection of American Rights in Mexico. y
The association, the newspaper declares,
"devotes it's activities to a formidable cam
paign against the Mexican government, which
has list of all members of the association. p"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-03-23
Our Greatest Future Problem.
GOD is our future problem;
- America is growing too fast

industrially."
This is the observation of as keen and far
visioned a student of things economic the
world ever knew-Herbert Hoover. He
speaks not merely a cold onlooker, but
warm from the experience of having striven
with the tremendous food perils of this ma
ton and it's allies in the wars all-critical
years, and also from the sympathy of one
who senses the human suffering that will
come if harvests continue falling behind the
peoples needs.
BY growing too fast industrially," he
means, of course, that Americas agricultural
production is not keeping stride with the
ever multiplying demands Of what may be
called her urban industries; that the hands
behind the plow and reaper are not increas-
ing fast enough to provide sustenance for
those at myriad machines and in swarming
hives of commerce. Industrial activities can
grow none too fast if only the farm interests
which underly them develop in proportion.
But if the discrepancy continues to widen as
it has in the last decade or two, we we'll may
be anxious.
Dllatlng upon recent statistics which showed
decrease Of II per cent in the farm hands
and of per cent in the farm-owning popu-
laton of New York State, the Federal De-
partment Of Agriculture reckons that some
thlrty-ftVe thousand men and boys forsook
farming for other fields and adds that in
varying degree the same condition obtains
NAAA ONoAAOuI
losses connect the fact that numerous cities
nave increased in population more than
th1rty-three and third per cent during the
last ten years, and it is all too plain that
food is our future problem
But it is not problem which mere SER
monlzlng can solve. If American farmers are
to meet the great responsibility which is upon
| tnem (and assuredly no element of our peo-
pie was ever more responsive to the nation s
common interests and needs) they must have
more labor better marketing facilities, q
| ialrer snare OF profits and more comforts
ana advantages for their families It is bv
WISE WISE EFFORTS upon these lines that the prob
lem Will be put on the way to solution
woman went to an eminent divine and
complained of the bad conduct of her husband
who, she said, was an utterly worthless fellow
The minister listened patiently to her tals
of woe, and when she had finished asked her:
"Have you ever tried heaping coa.c of fire upol
his head:"
NO" replied the woman, "but Eve tried no
(water!" - -.-- -
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-03-23
The Deteat of the Treaty.
EVER was a gr

EVER was a great cause more need.
~ lessly lost or a great issue more
= - Overwhelmingly entangled than in