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Bisbee daily review., 1920-11-26

session thousands of dollars in Ameri- can currency, thought to have been se- cured in exchange for bogus foreign bank notes in America.
 This Moscow counterfeiting scheme is an exceedingly ingenious, double acting one,' said one police official who has been following it. "The kremelin theory is that this queer stuff, when changed, provides. good money for boishevik uses, and, at the same time, by flooding the world with bad money, sends prices up, creates unrest and makes things riper for the big revolution Lenine is looking for. "
Bisbee daily review., 1920-11-26
American Foreign Agents Blocking
 Attempts of BoIslleviEi to Flood
 US. With Counterfeit French Money

ANTWERP. Nov. 25-Attempts of Bolshevik agents to get through to America with counterfeit money, made in Moscow. which il is believed they planned Co us in financing radi- cal red movements in the United States, have been discovered and. per haps, thwarted by American govern ment agents in Central Europe.
 Tn connection with what officials believe to be a very carefully organ ized scheme to encourage strikes, un- rest and promote bolshevism in the United States, directed from Moscow. evidence has been secured of a plan to send to the United States bogus pa per currency of several European ma tions, to be changed there into valid bank notes or securities.
 Four men. coming direct from Mos
Bisbee daily review., 1920-11-26

COW, who sought to go to America, were known tO have had in their pos session counterfeit French bank notes representing more than $100.000.
 The Moscow scheme, according to these officials, is quite simple: the changing in one country of false coun- terfeit money of another. on the theory that bankers are not particu- larly familiar with the appearance Of foerign currecncy.
 A considerable amount of this bogus money is believed to have been passed successfully in America, as recently. a number Of Polish boshevik agita- tors. returning to Poland from Ameri- ca for the purpose, it is believed, Of promoting hoishevism behind the lines .of the Polish army which was fight ing the reds. have fad in their pos
Bisbee daily review., 1920-11-26
DIDN'T LIKE HIS NAME

SISTERVILLE. w. Va, Nov 24- To be called Lemon Ice was qutt em- barrassing tu Lemon ice so he asked the circuit court here for permission to change his name. It was grantbd and he chose Lee Ice.
Bisbee daily review., 1920-11-26

Calumet Doughnut
 Recipe
 4 cups of pastry flour, 3 level tea spoons C alumet e t Baking Powder, F teaspoon of salt 1 cup of sugar. 2 eggs, beaten together, 2 tablespoons of melt ed butter, l cup of milk. Then mix in the regular way.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-26
Holidays This Week

Monday-ln Ceylon, China, South
Australia Tasmania, Victoria, Western
Australia
Wednesday-In Costa Rica.
Islands.
Friday-In Costa Rica, Switzerland
(at Geneva).
:, saturday-A holiday in every part of
Europe except Bulgaria, Don Republic
England and Ireland Greece, Jugo.
Slavia, Rumania, North Russia. South
Russia Soviet Russia, Serbia, Ukrainia
and Turkey (wherc it is observed bv
foreign banks and merchants): in all
OF the European colonies in Africa and
IN liberia; in every country and co'ony
IN North, Central and South America =;
IN all parts Of Asia except Hejaz. Mcso.
plotamia, Il, Palestine and other parts OF
Cwhere it is observed by the foreign
community, and in Australasia and
Oceania.
In the United States; in everv state
and territory in the District Of Column
bla and all colonial possessions.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-26
Financial Conditions in NORWAY

In a recent. communication from Con-
SUI General Osborne, of Christiania.
Norway, the Bank of Norway was re-
ported as having S52,162,1S0 in gold
holdings at home and abroad at the
Beginning of November On the cor
responding date OF last year the re
ports showed the gold resources to be
$6l .5lI .556, as against $2255S 632 on
July 81, 1914. Discounts and loans are
shown to have increased from S92 653.-
z96 to s125 .S9o's56 during the last year.
that of July 81, 1914 The report fur
ther shows that the circulation Of notes
at the beginning of November was
Sl28 224,6oo, or approximately 10 per
cent greater than that Of the CORE
spending period of last year, and near
ly four times that Of July 81, 1914. De-
posts al notice are reported on the
above dates as being S27,919 612, as
compared with S17,448 1894 for the cor
responding period of the previous year
and $3,859,200 on July 81, 1911.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-26
Finds English Business Leaders
Much More Optimistic Of Recovery

English business decidedly
date future trade than their BRETHREN
Of William Ager American for Harods,
known London South
organization who has just returned from England
Nluch the conditions prevail in England
Mr. Ager, "but found British
decline England has not been
Aso believe there less Of surplus cheap shoddy
England than there
used up during
Retail business English cities holding
remarkably WE'LL Of
sale buying after the Of year.
British business credit
direction
OF American business the
will big advantage making Germany appears
certain that British loan to Germany will through"
New-York tribune., 1920-12-26

IL LulS were ali Lncre were 20 II
the public might we'll leave the con-
testants a free field in which to set
tie their troubles, but the outcome has
much more serious consequences for
the public at large than that of remov-
ing from the realm of controversy q
disputed matter of procedure. 1t in
wolves the question of the personal
relationship of executives and en-
ployees, the extent and source of dis
cipline, and ultimately the efficiency
and the safety of the service.
Railway executives faced the prob
lem in its serious aspect for the first
time with the passage of the Adam son
eight-hour law in 1916. Whatever
opinion one may hold as to the need
and value of this act, there can be
no dispute over the fact that it trans
political one; it transformed the set
tlement of this type of labor dispute
from Cancellation and arbitration
boards to the halls of Congress; 1t
made the railway labor movement ma
tlonal in scope. 1t was legislation oy
hold-up.. And it started the Wash
ington habit"
Policy OF Labor Division
The organization and policy Of the
labor division Of the United States
Railroad Administration during the
period Of Federal control extended and
crystallized this practice. This d.
vision was presided over by the chief
Of the Brotherhood OF Railroad Fire
men and Enginemen, who proceeded to
make union hay while the Railroad Al
ministration sun was shining Biparti-
san boards Of adjustment were created
to handle grievances involving working
conditions and questions of discipline,
and these had national jurisdiction
Disputes we're carried by the employees
New-York tribune., 1920-12-26
When the Curb Market Goes Under Roof
Brokers Expect to Leave Abuses Outside

authenticity Of curb quotations, and
from other we'll known attempts to
interfere with the working of the
forces of supply and demand at the
market place.
E. R. Mccormick, chairman Of the
Curb Market Association, was asked
whether he thought putting roof over
the Curb woul INN le the we'll
known evils. He replied strongly in
the affirmative. MIR. Mccormick has
long been conscious Of the limitations
of the Curb under existing clicum-
stances, and has been an ardent advo-
cate Of reform for many years. He is
frank in commenting on conditions as
they now exist, but he attributes the
blame to the lack Of control over non
members and over unlisted securities.
What Mccormick Seeks
There is an obvious strain Of Celtic
blood in Mr.. Mccormick, who was born
in Philadelphia forty-two years ago.
Almost six feet in height, solidly built
this genial man, who has been in the
financial district ever since leaving
prep" school, has rec. vision Of max
ing the new Curb dependable market
place, and if his professed aims are
translated into action it seems safe tc
predict cleaner days for the indoors
Curb
eve are going indoors to get away
from the outsiders, many of whom con-
duct hook shops" said Mr.. Mccormick
'In our new environment we shall be
in control of every broker and shall
have approved every stock dealt in.
Besides, the market will be con.
Quoted along better lines, in many
technical particulars. There will be 8
ticker service, by which the public will
, be able to follow the stream of tran
sactions on the Curb continuously
through the trading day.
Second, we shall confine our bust.
ness to legitimate houses, whom we
have admitted to membership In the
Curb Association.
"Moreover. the Curb market has
reached such proportions that 1t has
outgrown the limitations Of Broad
materially reduced the value of real
estate near by and has retarded build
ing development"
Regarding the criticism that the
quotations now made on the Curb we're
not always authentic, Mr.. McCormick
said that this was due to the fact that
some OF the quotations were made BIZ
irresponsible bidders. with whom asso.
clation members might refuse to deal
Regarding the malpractices Of special
lists. Mr.. Mccormick explained that at
present they are jobbers who buy and
sell stocks as principals to make &
profit, instead of as an agent to make
commission. When the Curb goes
under roof. the specialists will cease
to be jobbers and will become brokers
New-York tribune., 1920-12-26
Steel Works for Yangfse Port

1t is learned that the military gov
ernor of Hu-pe Province has filed with
the Ministry of Agriculture and Com
merce plans for the erection of large
b'ast furnace A. Huangshihkang port
on the Yangtse River. few miles delow
hankow and Hanvang, states The Trans
raciilc. These furnaces are intended tc
handle ores Of the Hsiang pishan iron
mines IN the vicinity, which are said
TO De OF excellent quality and capable
OF being worked into the highest grade
Of steel o
New-York tribune., 1920-12-26
Mr.. Mccormick said, asserting this
change would correct abuses.
Ground Alpaadv Prnken

MIR. Mccormick said, asserting this
change would correct abuses.
Ground Already Broken
Mr.. Mccormick called attention to
the fact that the building would cost
architects are Starrett & Van Week,
and the construction engineers the
Thompson Starrett Company. Ground
has already been broken for the foun-
dation.
To The impartial observer It seems
that the success of the new Curb will
depend on che swiftness with which
the association members demonstrate
that they were responsible for none of
the evils that have existed on the out
side Curb. Further housecleaningwith
in the association may be neces-
sary unless the public estimate of
some of the firms which are members
is demonstrably erroneous.
The question of financing margin
transactions is crucial. With the ex
few others the ordinary banks will
not accept Curb stocks usually as col
lateral for loans. Instead, the Curb
houses in some instances are compelled
to borrow from wealthy individuals
and firms who specialize in such loans
because of the hioh rates of interest
thus derived. Except where Curb
stocks are readily acceptable as COL
lateral for loans, it seems difficult
to say the least-for Curb houses to
carry. accounts on margin, unless the
margin is exceptionally large The
tendency is to widen the margin and
some of the more trustworthy houses
are disinclined to accept Curb accounts
on margin. When the Curb goes indoors
its reputation may be so enhanced
that the banks will think more highly
oil Curb stocks IS q basis for loans.
any of the Curb Association men con-
tdently feel that the development Is
inevitable. Twenty per cent of the
members Of the association are identi-
fed with Stock Exchange firms, accord
ing to MIR. Mccormick
Next spring, when the Curb gets
housed and the process Of separating tn g
sheep from the goats is completed. the
city will have g new indoor exchange,
which in method and technique will
closely resemble the big board, though
it will continue to deal only in stocks
which are not listed on the Stock Ex-
change. After this separation of the
good from the bad has been completed
the Curb indoors will be less pictur-
esque than the present Curb, but
cleaner and more disciplined
The wild spontaneity of the present
market will be supplanted by an imi-
tatlon Of the conventions of other ex-
changes. New York will lose q land
mark. but unless signs fail the gain,
derived will far more than offset the
losses which accrue to those who con-
! duct slghtseers through the city.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-26
Philippine Cold Output

With an increasing number OF com
panies engaging in gold mining and the
better methods being employed, the
prodn,ction of gold in the Philippines is
steadily increasing, says The China and
Far East Finance and Commerce. Mas
bate, Mountain Province and CANA
rines are the principal gold producing
districts. In the first two go is re-
covered by cyanidation, aided by ANAL
gamation, while in the last dredging is
most common. The Philippine output
of gold in 1918 WAS valued at 81 .2S7 -Hah
New-York tribune., 1920-12-26
Japanese Copper to China

The Japan Copper Merchants Guild
has recently received an order from the
Chinese Military Arsenal nj Wuchanc
Tor the supply of approximately 600
TONS or copper. The copper is to be
used Tor coming purposes and the
manufacture of ordnance, and negotia-
tions are based on terms Of cnsh nav
ment upon delivery.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-26

have to be safe, and, third, by the ad
vices Of in New York as to the tend
ency of the market.
This is the most simple example Of
arbltrage business. OF course, it is
not so easy as it looks-far from it.
Competition keeps down the possible
margin of profit and it is, therefore. q
self-evident fact that the social ed ar
bitrageurs must be extremely alert STU
dents OF stock market movements AS
well as close students of economies in
general
New-York tribune., 1920-12-26
Efficiency Of Rail Service
mUOIUed in Labor DisDuto
Questions Appear To Be Merely Technical Matter.
of Jurisdiction, bu, Personal Relationship Of
Executives and Employees Really Is at Stake
By frank Haigh Dixon

Professor Of Economics, University
HERE much confusion in the public significance
the struggle actively proceeding railway nans
nts and their the methods labor con
The involved be
technical matters of jurisdiction striving secure the mos
strategic position from which o direct it's campaign
New-York tribune., 1920-12-26
Inability to Discipline Non Members
and Lack of Control Over Unlisted Sc
curities Left Asso citation Powerless
to Check Evils, Say Officials
By MerYyle Stanley Rukeyscr

GOOD fairy may the New Curb
~ Market by
The supremely optimistic
Of will
The mirror., 1920-08-12

Sailor. After reading these, turn to
Poe's clever "Thousand-and- Second
Tale of Scheherezade" which closely
follows the adventures of Sinbad, but
bases every wonder on scientific fact
stated in a note. This modern tale
of wonders is much more marvellous
than the imaginary wonder stories of
the ancients, though its wonders are
in reality strict truths. Mr.. H. G.
Wells, the modern novelist, has fol-
lowed out the same line successfully
in his pendo-scientifc stories. By
comparative study of this kind one
will find fresh interest in an old book.
The Arabian Nights are not pro-
perly novels, but rather collections of
short stories. The oldest readable
novel is Don Ouixote. 1t is an ex-
cellent book, and is still as funny as
any modern book. Don Quixote is
a gentlemen of kind heart and GER
tain inmate refinement in spite of the
crack in his brain and his tilling at
windmills. The book was written as
a satire on chivalry; but its humanity
has made it live long since the death
of knight-erranty.
Bunyan's Pilgrims Progress was
written in the seventeenth century, by
a tinker, in prison; and it is distinct
ly religious book. But even the nom
religious will admit that it is a good
human story. Intended originally as
an allegory, we read it now for its
own story interest.
Along with the Arabian Nights
young people should, without excep-
ton, read Robinson Crusoe. Nearly
every one has read it; but there are
parts of it that will bear reading again
and again and many times. The in
PRODUCTION may be skipped; but be-
ginning with Crusoe's shipwreck on
the island we are deeply fascinated
by all he does to care for himself and
find some amusement. He is an in
tensely practical man, and never gets
sentimental, because he is always at
work, good thing for some of us
moderns who are inclined to bemoan
our lot. For about hundred pages
this account of the life on the island
continues, but when Crusoe is rescued
the interest grows less, and we may
very well omit the last half of the
book.
The last of the novels of this per-
iod is Goldsmith's Vicar of Wake
field. The perfect simplicity of this
story is its eternal recommendation.
The Vicar is a simple-minded man,
and somebody is always doing him"
or his simple son or his vain wife and
daughters. We cannot help liking
the old man for his unquenchable
cheerfulness under all misfortunes,
and the women, though old-fashioned,
are not yet out of date in their femi-
nine weakness. Some may not like
so very simple story, but if one has
a sense of sly humor, the Vicar will
be found good reading.
There is nothing subtle about the
old-time novels. They are excellent,
amusing stories, and that is all. Origi-
The mirror., 1920-08-12
HOW AND WHAT TO READ
Chapter iii: Odd and Romantic Novels
By Mr.. II. p.

nally no more than tavern yarns, they
have lived because they give us real
men and women, and tell the truth
about human nature. They are not
very refined, and there is nothing
aristocratic about them.
ROMANTIC Novels
After the publication of the Vicar
of Wakefield in 1866, for nearly fifty
years no great novel appeared. True,
Frances Burney's Evalina appeared,
but is dry reading today. 1t is also
true that some of Jane Austin's best
novels were written, but they were
not published. The long silence was
broken by the anonymous publication
of Waverly in 1914. Waverly was
written by Scott; though it is not one
of his best. The hero is rather a
disagreeable fellow, and the scenes
are neither great nor memorable. But
the book is note worthy because it is
the first of one of the most successful
series of novels ever produced. The
best of the Waverly novels is usually
considered to be Ivanhoe, though
many like Kenilworth, Old Mortal
ity, or Quentin Durward better.
Scott's novels are filled with splen-
did descriptions, his characters are no
bic gentlemen and ladies, and he tells
of historic events worth chronicling.
They are sometimes too long; but it
is easy to skip the less interesting pas
sages. Scott can never be said to be
tiresome. To many, the best of
Scott's novels are his Scottish stories.
Such as Old Mortality, The Bride of
Lammermoor, The Monastery, Bed
gauntlet, and The Antiquary. Scott's
novels are romantic and interesting.
They are on the whole excellent his
tory,-indeed their history is as good
as that of Shakespeare. Scott was
noble, generous, lovable man, and his
books are as pure and great as he is.
There is no fine, character-drawing,
no sentimental studies of women, no
philosophy, no moralizing. There is
nothing to be ashamed of, nothing to
be wary of in Scott, and there is moth
ing that suggests vulgarity. No one
can help loving, admiring, and re-
specting the man or enjoying his
novels.
But the romantic novel was carried
to its greatest heights of interest and
excitement by Alexander Dumas and
Victor Hugo, especially Dumas.
These two young Frenchmen had
heard of Scott's fame, and had read
his novels, and they made up their
minds that this was the popular line
to follow. So each brought out a ro-
mantle play in Paris, which was sue
cessful. Next to Scott, Dumas is the
great historic novelist. His books are
not such good history as Scott's, but
they are much more interesting. One
of these, the most characteristic is The
Three Musketeers and its two sequels,
Twenty Years After, and The
Vicomte de Brageloma. The three
novels cover the period in France
from 1925 to 1865, and every page is
The mirror., 1920-08-12
Vol. XXXIV: No. 2

alive with duels, escapes, intrigues,
and all sorts of French adventure.
Dumas's success with The Three
Musketeers has led to many modern
books of the same sort, the best of
which are probably Stanley Wey-
mans House of the Wolf, Under the
Red Robe, and Gentleman of France,
and Anthony Hopes Prisoner of
Zenda. But Dumas wrote one
modern, semi-historical novel which
has not been initiated so successfully,
and if anything it is more famous
than The Three Musketeers. 1t is
The Count of Monte Cristo.
Victor Hugo is undoubtedly far
greater figure in French literature
than Dumas. In France he is hon
ored as one of the greatest, if not the
greatest, of French poets. Victor
Hugo is a large figure in the French
history of the nineteenth century, and
his one great novel is colossal monu-
ment to his fame that all may under
stand and read with intense interest.
His first great novel, Notre Dame de
Paris, was published long before Du-
mas ever thought of writing. 1t is
many-sided story of fate, centered
about the famous old cathedral of
Notre Dame, the "book" of the mid
die ages. Many years passed before
Victor Hugo was again to appear as
a novelist. He wrote plays and
poems, and took part in politics. As
a result of the revolution which
brought Napoleon III to the throne,
Victor Hugo was forced into exile,
and lived a number of years in the
British island of Guernsey. Here he
wrote his one great, monumental
novel, Les Miserables, which is as
fascinating and romantic as it is great
as work of literary art and por-
trayal of social conditions and study
of universal human nature.
The principal character is Jean
Vatican, a criminal who again and
again builds up his little social posi-
ton, only to see it crumble in an hour
when his prison record is revealed.
He wanders through Paris, and into
the provinces of France, and stops on
the battlefield of Waterloo. Every
where he finds tragedy, human JOY
and suffering, and incidents that hold
the attention breathless. Nothing
seems forced or strange or unusual,
yet everything is as dramatic as the
most fanciful imaginations of Scott or
Dumas. And like Dickens, he gave
us a long role of noticeable characters.
Hugo wrote only three other no
vels, Toilers of the Sea, which has
some fine descriptions of life at the
bottom of the ocean, Ninety-three,
his last, and the Man Who Laughs,
an inferior work.
Bulwer Lytton was prolific no
velist, but only one of his stories re-
mains to us as indisputably great.
That is the Last Days of Pompeii,
which we read for its history quite
as much as for its fascinating story.
The last of the great historical
novelists was Charles Reade, whose
Cloister and the Hearth is considered
by many one of the greatest novels of
this kind ever written. But the fame
of this is shared by his Dickensque
stories, Never Too Late to Mend,
Hard Cash, and Put fPags s. ooi -