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The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1921-08-23

4 player may be brilliant. but he's
never in the championship class II
he cracks under The strain-even in
golf match.
Aud now Y. q. Spinning In mean
enough TO say that before the Rotary
bali team can expect consideration
from the Lions. they viii have to
50 out. beat somebody and gain a
reputation.
The controversy Is going 10 drag
along until the public will be
forced 10 suffer through another
RotaryLions struggle.
II isn't the disarmament question
that Is worrying the kids now. It's
the "back to school, movement that
Is staring 'em in the face.
And some OF EN- are figuring that
Supt Montgomery is cheating 'em
out Of holiday by waiting until af-
ter Labor Day to open the term.
It is probable that evon the most
optimistic will agree Wa the sport
ing editor that disastrous road
trip is right, when referring to the
recent tour Of the Chicks.
Imagine the surprise of the tramp
steamer skipper when, after a four
year cruise, he returned to New
York and found that he couldn't get
his customary mug of grogg.
Cheer up skipper there are lots of
other perfectly good people who
share the inconvenience with you
despite the fact that the element Of
surprise is a thing of the past.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1921-08-23

Postmaster General Hays says he will be Of the
press press OF those great intangible which cannot
be coerced and is an intangible with teeth.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1921-08-23
atural

Wonder what makes the boss so
hard.boled lately
well, they say his missus keeps
him in hot water all the time
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1921-08-23

William Burns has been made director Of service
for the department Of justice More inspiration for the
Sherlocks and Gubbs
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1921-08-23
THE BERCDOLL REPORT.

The committee investigating the Bergdol has
submitted majority report which charges conspiracy
part Samuel Aise counsel for the accr and Coones
Hunt and Cresson connection with the of Bergdo from
Governors Island Begdo will be remembered obtained per-
mission regain large Of money in gold which he claimed
probably hoax At all there evidence that it has
been recovered
Bergdo failing respond to the draft evadd arrest for
months but finally taken custody tried and
the federal penentiary 1t while confined
Governors Island he conceived the gold story and in
prevailed the officers permit him, company with two
sergeants go after the buried treasure There has been
bad stencil arising from the Bergdo for long time One
brother the Fort Leavenworh prison following his
vcton under Stacker charge while Grover Cleveland taking
life easy Germany where he may spread his sympathes
moested That he presumed to be in Germany though
dispatches hint that he may have fled Switzerland
little however, where he long he in the United
States, where he belongs.
Bergdols father amassed fortune making beer Phia-
depa and at his death left rather large which the
widow and children shared He native Of Germany though
brother violently pro failed to respond to the
draft after America entered the Their spirit has been
defiance red flag the face of every American boy who
III the and girl who entred the Of Uncle Sam,
way another Justice rieks the history of
revealed and too much time has been wasted in fixing
responsibility OF the elder brother taking life easy Europe
If the three mentioned above be guilty of conspiracy
Grover Cleveland Bergdo be brought back the United
States and forced sentence as
little grain OF compensation to the boys who did shrink when
the call to echoed throughout the
The Victor Elg Post Of the American Legion has gone
record demanding the return of Bergdol that should
issue from every American Legion post in the United States
TT. snhth Times Record.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1921-08-23

The first city of Oklahoma doesn't be oudone by
the second she staging her little murder mystery
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1921-08-23

Never Again in War" the conspicuous banner
red in the big parade Berlin the anniversary OF the begin
ming Of the world August |.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1921-08-23

Secretary Hughes going have his opportunity the
general impression is that he will make the Of it.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1921-08-23

A player may be brilliant. but he's
never in the championship class IL
he cracks under The strain-even In
golf match.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1921-08-23

Butler
New-York tribune., 1921-02-27
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Break i'm Cuban Parleys
Refusal of Merchants TO Provide
Balance Sheets the Reason

Reluctance of the Cienfuegos, CoDa'
textile jobbers to furnish American
creditors with confidential bsiaacs
sheets to back up their collective, re
quest for an extension of time on D,!i4
already due and falling due IN the
near future, led to break OF the con-
terence between the Cuban merchants
and p committee representing the AS
sociation OF Cotton Textile Merchants
OF New York, which have been Ih
progress for couple of weeks; ne
Cubans, according to the committees
report issued yesterday, prefer to oesi
with their creditors individually IN
stead OF through committee.
The trouble in Cuba arose about
month ago, when eleven Cienfuegos
merchants signed circular sent 70
commission agents in this market ASK
ing for the cancellation of existing
contracts, a rebate on goods alresoy
shipped and extensions Of payments
Subsequently FIVE Of the Cuban met,
chants came to the local market anu
entered into negotiations with 3 eera-
mittee representing the commission
houses and the members of the Con-
verters' Association. One point ef
progress registered was the repudi2-
tion by the Cubans of the clause in the
letter asking for cancellations.
The report of the committee issued
yesterday says in conclusions: That de-
spite the present difficulty it Is re-
called that in the past, in no sector
of the world, have American textile ey-
porters found greater commercial in7
tegrity and probisy than in Cuba.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-27

To what extent must the Commission
take cognizance Of the Labor Board s
communication 1t would appear that
the new legislation has materially
hampered the Commissions freedom of
action In determining the extent to
which increases in wages shall be the
occasion for increases in rates. For
the Commission is under obligation, il
railway management is honest, eff
cient and economical, to prescribe
rates that will yield definite percent
age of return upon the value of the
railway property. We have here then
what might easily become a vicious
clrcle-an increase in wages by the
Labor Board, followed by an almost
automatic increase in rates by the
commission, assuming of course that
the increased rates would bring in 8
corresponding increase in revenue and
thus meet the increased wage bill.
With the Labor Board rests the re-
sponsibility of breaking this circle
of determining whether wages are in
themselves reasonable from the stand
point of employer and employee. There
have been many bases proposed in past
labor controversies for the deterrnina-
tion of the reasonableness of prevail
ing wage rates-all of them drawn out
of the conditions of the moment, se-
iected with scrupulous care for the
purpose of demonstrating q pre-con-
ceiyed result, and readily abandoned
when no longer effective for the pur-
pose in mind.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-27
Trying Ous Ne,o Plar,

The Erie is trying out new plan
and 1T comes more nearly TO getting
down to actual brass tacks than any
thing the writer has seen before. The
traffic department every 30 often calls
on the operating department for the
history of the movement of "cut" of
so or 100 cars selected at random from
one days movement. The operating
department from its own records gives
the amount of time consumed by each
car in reaching it's destination. The
figures are charted and the record of
cars that are badly delayed for any
reason stick out like q sore thumb, An
investigation is made of the movement
of all cars that took more than the
normal time to reach their destina-
tlons. The normal time for other than
perishable freight between New York
and Chicago on the Erie is from five
to six days. The writer saw a chart
selected from q desk at random and il
rwas surprising what large proportion
Of the cars shown made the trim in
from five to eight days. As I recall it
there was one car that went through
IN four days and another one that took
eighteen. The four-day car moved un-
necessarily fast and investigation
showed that the eighteen-day car had
broken down and had spent an unrea-
sonable time awaiting repairs.
Summing up my impressions, / should
say that the Erie Is frst-class mod
ern double-track railroad, not quite
caught up in its maintenance Of way
and structures from deterioration un-
der government operation and in need
OK mere locem0tiys repair 6scilitish
New-York tribune., 1921-02-27
Believe Crisis
Is Reached in
Steel Industr,
Condition Most Chaotic Ever
Faced; None Capable q
Predicting What Turn Nav
Be Taken in Short TIM
Price Upswing Foreseen
Manufacturers Believe r..
turn 60 Normal VIII Re-.
suit in Restoration of One
Level
Special psspatea to The rr,s... j.

=
PITTSBURGH, Feb. 2e.-Tbe o,s !,
this week finds the steel industry in ~.
most chaotic condition ever faess !.
its history. with no man old enouyh ).
the business or wise enough to prea;..
what turn may be taken within n.
next few hours.
The situation in brief is that thu :,
dependent manufacturers have now slr
CT them reduced selling price. ,.s
wages too, and are operating "a io,-,
as to be nearly idle, while the un;..{
States Steel Corporation has neith.r
reduced selling prices nor cut wsy.s
but has suffered such q serious eg,.
tailment Of business during the ,s,t
ten days that most of its plane IVA
to-day operating on five-day basis and
some on four-day. while one or tva
Of its smaller works are closed dow,
completely.
The solution of the entire probIsrb
appears to-day to rest with the beaa1
of the Steel Corporation in New York'
not in Pittsburgh.
The regular meeting Of the director,
of the American Iron and Steel Insti-
tute occurred in New York YESTERDAY.
and some hope was expressed hera
that it might result in 8 mutual WORK
ing out of the situation, as all the
heads of the larger Independents vers
III session with the heads of the cor
poration and its subsidiaries.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-27
Watchmakes Urge
Changes i'm Tariff

y, 10 enable American watch manufae.
turers to better compete with foreign
Watchmakers, changes in the present
tarln on watches were recommended
tefore the Ways and Means Committee
at Washington by the representative of
ieadlng watchmakers Of this country.
Recommendation was made that the
paragraph relating to watch move
ments, watch cases and parts of
Watches be taken out of Schedule C
and placed in Schedule N of the tariff
olli, since at present they are classified
with iron and steel products.
1t was urged that the classification
OF watch movements be changed and
that they be classified according to tine
number OF jewels and adjustments, as
by that method their value can be ac-
cqrate!y determined: recommended
mat the duties upon watch movements
De made specific only, and that the
specltlc duties provided shall equaiize
tne difference in the cost of production
IN watch movements in the United
states and in European countries.
Inc representative asked that the
manufacturer of women's small watches
be encouraged by doubling the duty or
the various grades when the watch is
Tess than one and one-tenth inches
IN diameter on the dial side. That the
marking Of watch movements as pro-
Vlded for in the present law be re-
tanned with but one change, namely,
that the. nun ber of jewels and adjust
ments shall be marked in both words
and Arabic numerals, also was recon-
mended.
Figures procured by the representa-
tive showed that the importation #
foreign watches and parts of watches
mas increased from s98s,0o4 in 1895 to
$8,274,853 in 1918, and that importa-
tions under the present act Increased
from $1,951,579 in 1918 TO $8,274,s58 IL
New-York tribune., 1921-02-27
Retail Shoe Trade Stabilized
More Footwear Being Sold Now Than Year Ago:
Prices to Hold Through the Summer,
Is Trade View
Is Trade View

ing more of the style element than is
present in mems footwear and necessi-
tating more labor operations, are con-
sequently higher.
Four of the retailers handling mems
high grade shoes decided that prices
ranging from $40 to $15 will not be out
of line with the consumers precon-
ceived idea Of the proper price to pay
for his spring footwear. One retailer
will handle shoes running up as high
as $40 pair, but expects the bulk of
his business to settle around the SIS
mark. The prices that women are ex-
pected to pay for top grade shoes were
set down as follows by four different
$18 and Sid to $50. This does not mean
that shoes above $50 will not be han
died. AS high as $35 and possibly more
Will be charged by one exclusive Fifth
Avenue shop for bench made ready
made shoes of exclusive patterns, but
small volume is anticipated.
In the medium grade shoes the prices
for both mems and women's footwear
are expected to center around So to S12
pair. The five retailers who set down
their prices all agreed on this range
without having seen the others figures.
Diversity of opinion exists upon the
price ranges that people will pay for
low grade shoes. Three retailers ex-
pect wide market at prices ranging
from $3.50 to Sc. Four place the low
grade range for styled lines at from
S6 to So.
To the question, "Are advertised
price cuts losing their effect as sales
stlmu lants?" the reply of the twelve
retailers was unanimously in the af-
firmative. Several of them amplified
their statements by actual experiences
IN cut price sales conducted in the last
month. 1t was agreed that the public
no longer responds enthusiastically to
advertisements offering shoes @for-
merly SIS, now $12." One type Of sale,
that OF large surplus of manufac-
turer's stock to be sold at exceptionally
low prices, still finds favor with the
public, according to three retailers who
recently conducted such sales. AS
rule stores handling shoes exclusively
have avoided such sales, but depart
ment stores have run them successfully
in recent weeks.
Another question that produced q
startling unanimity Of opinion was
that Of the length of time ahead re-
tallers should anticipate their wants.
Each of the twelve retailers gave il
as his opinion that sixty days was
Tar enough in the future for the mer-
chant to place his orders with manu-
tacturers. Three said they were thirty
Gays ahead, and one forty days ahead,
New-York tribune., 1921-02-27
Radical Change Made

A radical change in the organization
was made when the company resume d
operation in March. The road vas
divided into four districts and each
placed under general manager Thus
one general manager was replaced nv
four, and corresponding change was
made throughout the operating depart
ment. Closer supervision, with greater
local responsibility and authority, were
the principal objects aimed at appar-
emily. 1t is too soon to Judge Of the
success Of the experiment, but most
Of the officers whom talked with
thought the plan was working out we'll.
1t has already been mentioned that
the large movement of empty cars is
one of the reasons why the operation
Of the Erie has proved 30 unprofitable
in the last three years.
The elimination OF this empty car
New-York tribune., 1921-02-27
Escapes Dual Role

movement is a problem primarily for
the traffic department to solve. The
heavy empty car movement is west
bound and consists Of box cars, open
top (coaD cars and refrigerator cars
1t is almost impossible to load the
refrigerator cars west bound. The
owners of the cars--the fast freight
lines and fruit growers-prevent it
The Erie is making special efforts to
develop an import freight business
which can be shipped west in box cars
1t is succeeding fairly we'll and has es-
tablished a European agency.
More interesting, and what may we'll
prove more important, are the efforts
to provide suitable loading for west
bound empty coal cars. Heretofore sand
and stone were about the only COM
modities that were considered suitable
loads for empty coal cars. The Erie,
h, ever, is making extensive expert
ments with other classes Of traffic, and
the writer, while not st liberty to give
list of individual commodities, can
attest that these efforts are proving
successful
New-York tribune., 1921-02-27
Speculation Went Far

(11) Speculation in commodities. for
eign exchange, securities and real estate
went dangerously far. There has been
radical reversal here, with the ex-
ception Of foreign exchange specula-
tion.
(12) Our export balance with Europe,
financed by the government down to the
atddle of 1919, went on on open aa-
count after the middle of 1919 creating
an unfunded debt of Europe to private
creditors in the United States, which
we estimated at $4,000. 100000 on Sep
tember 10, 1920, and which hv now sub
stantially exceeds $4,00o,000,000. This
caused tremendous drain on Ameri-
can banks, which expanded their loans
and investments over 25 per cent from
April IL, 1919. to April 0, 1920 This
expansion occurred despite decline in
government borrowing from the banks.
IL was due partly to direct loans by
American banks to European import
ers, on the guaranty of European banks,
but more to the fact that American
business men and exchange spectators,
who were tying up their working capt.
tai in advances to Europe, were obliged
TO have recourse to American banks to
replenish their working capital. 1t was
also in part due to the rising prices and
speculation which the general situation
created.
The even greater expansion of Brit
ism banks (4l per cent from June,
1919, to June, 1920 was due to similar
causes, as Britain supplied goods and
services on credit to the Continent of
Europe and took over from New York
the greater part of the floating obliga-
tions of the Continent to New York,
assuming in turn direct obligations to
New York.
(1S) The great reduction in the out
put of manufactures in Europe has
broken the worlds equilibrium among
manufacturing, food production and
the production of raw materials. Raw
materials and foods are produced in
relative excess, with the consequent
diminution in the purchasing power .of
the producers of foods and raw ma-
terials on so great scale that they
are unable to keep even the inadequate
manufacturing capacity of the world
fully employed. The world outside Eu-
rope could discount this. and by re-
adjustment of it's activities, increasing
its output Of manufactures and dimin-
tshing its output of raw materials and
food could get along without Europe. |
But this would be a slow and q dam
gsrous process. The outside world
nssds Europe and must aid her In rs-
New-York tribune., 1921-02-27
Business Revival Not Dependent
On Solution of Europe's Problem
Great Potential auto
Market in Holland

Tho potential automobile market
in the Netherlands is without doubt
one Of the richest in the world for
it's size, especially for American
motor cars and trucks. with an es-
pecially strong demand for motor
cycles, according Co Commercial At
tach6 G. s. Johnston, Tho Hague.
Competition for the moment Is
not keen because European manu-
Sacturers are crippled by slow pro-
duction and high labor and raw
material costs. Moreover, the slump
in the automotive industry has dis
couraged European manufacturers.
The chief handicaps against Ameri-
can manufacturers are:
The high value of the American
dollar.
The increasing cost Of motor fuel.
Impending increases in luxury
taxes and import duties.
Fear Of financial slump in Hol-
land, which now has moro money
than 1t ever had before (including
the period of its greatest wealth in
the Middle Ages) is not likely to be
realized.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-27
Seeking More Profit

The Erie traffic department is trying
to discourage the movement Of un-
profitable traffic. This Is q real limo
vation. Theoretically, the traffic de-
partment Is supposed not to solicit
traffic that is more expensive to handle
than the freight rate received justifes,
but in actual practice the traffic de-
partment on American railroads is "out
! after the tonnage" and puts it up to
the operating department to move the
business.
1t is not unusual for railroad presi-
dents, more especially if they are
themselves operating men, to give gen
eral orders vaguely distinguishing be-
tween the solicitation of profitable and
Improbable traffic, but for the traffic
department to do this of it's own in
itiative and specify definite classes of
traffic is unusual. The Erie is doing
this.
It is definitely encouraging shippers,
for instance, to ship short-haul stuff in
congested territories by motor truck.
The freight rate on carload Of rags
shipped through from New York to
Chicago more than pays the expense Of
the movement, but the rate on ship
| menS of rags to q nearby Jersey town
does not.
Erie freight solicitors are suggesting
to shippers that they use motor trucks
for this business. It has been found
that on business up to thirty miles on
many classes Of traffic moving out of
congested territories like New York,
Pittsburgh and Chicago che motor
truck is more economical instrument
of transportation than the steam rail
road.
1t is, Of course, necessary to move
regular schedule, but it has been
shippers of all classes Of freight are
better served and better satisfied with
dependable regularity Of service than
with schedules for freight movement
that are so fast that they are not
lived up to. The Erie has heightened
out its freight schedules somewhat. On
the other hand, it Is living UP to the
schedules remarkably we'll.
Probably no one but a man who has
actually worked as yardmaster knows
how difficult it is to keep track of all
cars and keep all moving regularly
through big yard. F. D. Underwood
says he recalls vividly the tremendous
difficulties Of the task when he was
| first made yardmaster Of one Of the
| large Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
yards. The actual work Of supervision
of car movement belongs to the oper-
ating department, and the common
method of procedure on the part of
the traffic department. is to concern
itself only when some shipper raises q
howl about some particular shipment
that has been weeks on the road.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-27
National Silk Week
Now Being Stressed
Retailers See kto ''Cash In'' ON
International Show Held
Here Recently

An attempt to "cash in" on the re-
cent International Silk Show, held in
New York, will be made this week when
National Silk Week will be pushed oy
more than 10000 retailers throughout
the country. A joint committee of the
Silk Association Of America and the
Silk Travellers Association, the two Or
CARNATIONS which developed the silk
show, has circularized every city in
the country of more than 5000 inhab-
itants to stir up interest in the selling
event, which is expected to bring the
consumer to growing interest in silk
fabrics.
Some business among local selling
agents already has been traced to prep
arations for Silk Week by retailers, and
more is expected following the selling
event, which, it is hoped, will clear our
some Of the stock on the shelves of
the retailers and send them into the
market for additional merchandise.
The committee will award prizes for
the best window display, which will be
judged from photographs sent to head
quarters in New York
The announced platform of the Ma
tional Silk Week Committee, headed by
Frederick |. Cox, of Belding Brothers,
Is "Show Silk, Advertise Silk, Talk
Silk, Sell Silk" Retailers have prom
ised to devote liberal advertising space
in daily newspapers to putting their
message before the public and have
been displayed dealer helps, including
direct by mail advertising matter, spe-
ciaa posters and window display cards.