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Evening star., 1921-03-24

dispatches marking the progress
of the deHatiOn and rcndjustment
process in business throughout the
country. giving the conclusions OF
special correspondents who have been
Instructed to present conditions and
Indications is they really exist, are
printed daily I'm The starr
BY A. ID. WELTON.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
CHICAGO, March 24.-That some
retail prices have receded as far as
practicable in advance of reductions
in wage scales and other items of
cost is the explanation given of the
retailers inability to meet the demand
for still lower prices. There is ir-
regularity in the price decline as be-
tween the primary and retail or cost
of living markets. The wage factor
seems dominant and wages always
lag. Prices go up and wages cannot
keep pace. Prices decline and labor
naturally resists wage reduction to
correspond.
However, wages in the packing in
dustry are about to come down. The
big packing plants have been losing
heavily for some time. The man
ayers say nothing about their losses.
They know the public wouldn't be-
Evening star., 1921-03-24

ment stores of New York. In some
cases they have been large. one in
stance reported being cut from
t1b, 900 to 200 year. The man af-
fected declined to accept 1t and his
work now Is being done by three
former suberdinates. each having tax
en- over a part of the work In addi-
tion to his own. In kind. II not"in
measure, this sort of thing has hap
pened in practically every big store
Of the city.
Forces. too. are being REDUCED,
some departments having barely haif
the personnel of year ago. Other
departments have bon consolidatd and
extensive cuts have been made In the
number of floor men. How greatly this
item of overhead has grown or late
years may be gauged from a state =
ment by Percy g. Straus. head OF X.
H. Macy & Co. that since 1914 wages
of store employees have advanced l15
per cent. In most instances these
wage advances have kept close pace
with the volume of sales. and an ap-
parent effort is being made to hold
recessions to the same basis.
February Wage Figures.
State Industrial commissions fig
ures for February show that average
earnings OF factory employees fell to
s26.77. a decrease of "a cents since
January. but of s2.16. or per cent,
since last October. These figures do
not, however. embrace any of the
really radical readjustments that are
now being proposed:
May /, the traditional opening OF
the labor year, may be expected to
see what may be called the close of
the first stage Of liquidation Of labor.
Recognition Of this is coming in many
quarters.
Benjamin Schlesinger. president Of
the International Ladies Garment
Workers. for example. has just said
that it may become necessary for
labor to halt in its demands. to take.
as it were. inventory. and under the
pressure of temporary economic con-
Evening star., 1921-03-24
PREDICT OIL PROSPERITY.
Speakers Optimistic at Annual
Meeting in Kansas City,

KANSAS CITY. Mo-, March N.-m-
creased prosperity of the oil business
was predicted by speakers before the
annual meeting of the National Petro-
leum Congress.
Lester Colby. editor Of a Chicago Pc
troleum publication, declared many re-
tailers and jobbers had been holding OF
buying gasoline, hoping for further re-
ductions in the price Of crude oil These
dealers. he said. now fear a possible
gasoline shortage next summer and
were flooding the refineries with orders.
Jack Nourse Of Kansas City spoke along
similar lines.
Clifford Thorne Of Chicago. general
counsel for the American Independent
Petroleum Association. urged that ef-
forts be made to obtain lower freight
rates for petroleum products.
Evening star., 1921-03-24

quarter. show a reduction of 10 per
cent. In the entire list of foods
bought all declined except sugar.
Following the cut in freight rates
on canned fruit to the Atlantic sea-
board by water. announced last week.
an equally important cut in freights
was made by water carriers Wednes-
day. BY reclassification reductions
are made in glass. mating. raw silk,
wool and mohair on eastbound ship
ments. In some instances the reduc-
tions are heavy.
Because of depression in farming
centers and lack of money. demand
in agricultural districts continues
slow, credit men say
statement issued by the Cali
fornia alfalfa growers shows a
steady decline in the values of farm
produce. but this bulletin takes the
view that signs of Improvement soon
will appear.
Evening star., 1921-03-24
Grape Buyers 0vertures
Bright Ray in California
By LYNN c. SIMPSON.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
SAN FRANCISCO. March 24-The
first tentative ,overtures to growers
by buyers of grapes this week in
dicate high prices for the coming
season. but somewhat lower than
those of last year. Offers We're made
in the Fresno district of from $50
to $50 ton. This would mean nearly
500 ton for wine grapes. 1t is too
early to make a guess as to the
crop prospect. but as whole the
season has been favorable.
Figures prepared by state purchas-
ing agent w. c. McMillin, based on
purchases made for state institutions
show that the decline in California
for staple foodstuffs is continuing
Purchases for the second quarter OF
the year, as compared with the first
Evening star., 1921-03-24
NO CLOSING ON SATURDAY.

NEW YORK. March 24.-Although
the petition of stock exchange bro
kers that the Easter holiday include
Saturday a. well as Friday was sign
ed by more than 500 members OF the
exchange. Including 4: wire houses.
the governing committee voted today
for closing only Friday. Business
will be as usual on Saturday. The
banks will be open for business as
usnal Friday.
Evening star., 1921-03-24
IRREGULARITY IN PRICE DROP
BETWEEN PRIMARY AND RETAIL
Recessiions in Chicago Area as Far as Prac-
ticable in Advance of Cuts in Wage
Scales-Condition Elsewhere.

lieva it. but the losses are none the
less real and the situation serious.
Stable Prices Unknown Factor.
A Chicago bank has received four
Questionnaires from organizatio lions
seeking light on business. Fifty per
cent of the questions call for
prophecies. A favorite question Is
when the price level will be stabil-
lied. Stable prices are an unknown
condition. What the merchant wants
is foreseeable prices. He wants to
know If the price he can get from the
consumer in the future warrants his
paying what is asked now. 1t is
difficult problem. Hence the increas-
ing demand for information about
sales abroad. Manufacturers are
seeking new outlets for their goods.
Interest in foreign trade grows keen
where domestic trade is unsatisfac-
tory.
Evening star., 1921-03-24
ICE DIVIDENDS.

NEW YORK. March 24.-The di-
rectors Of the American Ice Company
have declared dividends of per cent
on the common stock and n per cent
on the, pfeferred,;sboth payable April
preceding, quarter the company paid
an extra dividend Of 4 per cent on
the common in addition to the regu-
lar quarterly disbursement OF 1 per
cent. .{zrs
Evening star., 1921-03-24
All; Xf;H;,R WS4! Wraps & Coats

Modish Tan, Jade and Copen Sport
Coats, with large buttons; and beautiful
Silk-embr Dolman Capes. in
popular shades; for women and misses.
Special Friday at. Observation-Disclosures.
Evening star., 1921-03-24

The American Shipbuilding Com
pany has declared the regular quar-
terly dividends of tx per cent cash
on the preferred and common stock
and an extra dividend of 2k per cent
cash on the common. all payable
May 2.
Evening star., 1921-03-24
NUTRO--- What is it?

A combination Of eVaporated SKINNED
milk and added vegetable fat. Looks like
tastes like and is used exactly as straight
evaporated milk is used.
Evening star., 1921-03-24

The Monongahela Valley Traction
Company will meet in Fairmont, W.
Va, April 16, to vote on a proposition
to increase the authorized capital
stock of the company from $4,000. 900
to $2O,OOO,00O.
Evening star., 1921-03-24
Washington Stock EXCHANGE

Washington Ga. sA sM.1;, 900 a. los.
Washington Railway pfd.-23 At IS. o at IS,
O at 6S.
District National Bank-2 At les.
AFTER CALL.
Aergenthaler-1 at Ito.
Bid and Asked Prices
Evening star., 1921-03-24
ditfons, steer its course into more
expedfent channels
Reluctance Striking Feature.

Reluctance Striking Feature.
Other leaders are saying more
bluntly the same thing. an iIlustra-
ton Of the present week being found
in the marine workers acceptance of
the scale proposed by the employers
Last week all the talk was of n
strike that would tie up this pert as
1t had not been tied in years.
Veteran observers of business con-
ditions In the metropolis cannot re-
call q period when the pangs of read-
justment were more audibly suffered
than they are being now. One might
think that such q period had never
before been gone through here to
Judge from the reluctance with which
each new step Is being taken. or from
the eagerness with which the cX-
perfence of others is being listened to-
Everybody seems to be waiting for a
Noses
Evening star., 1921-03-24

Wage Cuts in New York.
Reach Department Stores
BY JAMES ALLERTON.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, March 24.-Wage re-
ductions have reached the depart
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-03-25
BOOTS IN HIS YOUTH.

What old boy today does recall that first pair of cope
oed boots Those shiny caps first the many obstacle
the path childhood and they conquered Uppers and sole
nights and wrinkle with age but those cheerful
the last step Then the boots with polished
red tops.
No real boy would rofane those bright embellishments by
his them The trousers inside the boots
the boy taller by six inches strobe off to school with head high
martial tread
In winter came the cowde These well Amounted with
melted mutton alow mpervous to any kind of uh but
left overnight would often freeze solid Many old fellow will
recall how he struggled the morning to get into those gd
erngs and go through the of thawng them out by the warmth
of his cold feet under the school benches.
Every kitchen had its booack behind the woodbox These jacks
served the dual purpose of pulling off boots and hurting after alien
cats
Now the subject of footwear mention must be made of
those Sunday cakn bolts The breed of calves from which they
made must be extinct No such black soft leather evidence
nowadays Their tops deicay thin that they could
stand alone but settled about nerd of their length glossy
routons about the ankes They indeed Beauties the shining
mark of gentleman-New York Sun
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-03-25
TOBACCO MARKETS.

Practically loose leaf markets of North Carolina ana virginia
will have completed this seasons sales by April ls or some few
prior date with both states showing record breaker
sales so far as tonnage concerned Owing the depressed
cgn situation shutting off, practically the demand for American
,obaccos that usually freely purchased and shipped abroad TO-
geher with the lower grades predomnatg In the l91o CROP "
on many of the markets below that of the previous
wears CROP in many reaching the halfway mark
The market during 19992O selling season han
died little of 900 pounds while during the i9zol sell
ing season approximately 600OO0O0 pounds.
While there has considerable agitation at all points as 10
cutting 1921 crop and reducing the acreage great deal OIL
il has newspaper talk data in the OF propaganda given
out b organizers this have fallen flat and the cool
ed influential growers general thing will use their own Juug
ent in planning acreage this and while many VIII
reduce their paintings general good the quality OF the to-
bacco they expect raise would from reports we gather
that this coming will be between 6o to 20 per cent
Of the paintings Of 1920 crop.
This also applied to Kentucky Indiana West Virginia and the
hurley district of Ohio where the markets will continue to sell or
several weeks to come and where prices shown considerable
advances on medium fine grades during the past few weeks There
seems to be feeling among the who have come to
reconcile prices compared with last season. account Oh
declining prices all other articles.
The Western Tobacco Journal believes having talked large
number growers that the producers fully understand conditions
that brought about the present low prices of tobacco as have
been explained in our columns times before in fact specific
ay written benefit readers to the opening OF the
leaf markets. have predicted prices would be considerably
lower than last of the foreign situation and
stocks held by manufacturers and feel that the growers
will not try advantage the situation but will to limit
the acreage this oveproc the last
at when manufacturers oversocked with low grade to-
baccos and unfortunately time when there falling market
all commodeshus the law of supply and demand again mark
ing time which prices stepWesem Tobacco Journal
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-03-25
FARM LAND
HAS DECREAsRD
ALL OVER NATION
Decrease Of Seven Per Cent. In Pillow.
Lands In America Is Re.
ported by Agricultural
Department.

Washington, d. G. - The. average
price Of plawland per acre In the
United States decreased about seven
per cent during the past year, accord
Ing to a report Just issued by the Unit
cd States Department Of Agriculture.
The average value Of plowland per
acre on March Of this year was
1878, las compared to $90.01 In 1920,
and Tab, in 1919. The statisticIans OF
the department attribute the decline
to the reduction in the prices Of crops.
The report shows that the heaviest
drop in the price Of land Is in the
Southern states where cotton is the
principal crop. In some sections of
these states there has been decline
Of thirty per cent. in the price Of
pillow land during the year. The aver
age price Of plowland in Georgia this
year is 500 per acre, while last year
t was $46-a drop Of about twenty-five
per cent. The average South Caro-
Ina last year was $s1, while this year
1t is $50-a drop Of twenty per cent
Probably the greatest drop in any
one state was in Kentucky, and is at
tributed to the decline in the price Of
tobacco. In 1920, the average price Of
ployland in this state was $40 per acre
while this year It is s53. This is a de-
cline of approximately twenty-four
per cent.
Iowa is the state having the high |
est prices Of plowland per acre. The
report shows that 1t is valued at 5000
this year, as compared with 1919 last
year-a decline of about nine per cent. |
Illinois ranks second in the value Of |
plowland, according to-the report, the
price per acre being $751; In Alabama
and Mississippi the average price of
plowland per acre is $26.
The western states show the least
decline In prices Of land, and in the
case of California, Oregon, and Colo
RADIO there is slight increase over
last year. Plowland in California was
valued at $3.50 per acre last year,
while this year the average is $135.
The report shows that there was a
rapid increase the price Of land
from 1917 to 1920, when the highest
price was reached. The decline during
the past year is not as great as the in
crease from 1919 to 1920. Land prices
are still higher than any year preced-
ing 1920.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-03-25
SAYS JAPAN WILL CHANGE
RELIGION IN TWO DECADES

Louisville, - Within twenty or thir-
ty years Japan, with its 100000 people
will be a Christian nation, in the opin-
ion of the Rev. Paul Kanamori, Japan
ese evangelist, who spoke at the Meth
odist Temple. He is called the BILLY
Sunday" of Japan.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-03-25

OF the $S,OO0,OOO,OOO of money in
the country approximately $5,500,00O,-
900 is in circulation.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-10-05
REINSTATEMENT BE TAKEN. CARE
 OF AT THE A. L,
Press Box Arranged Full Length of Stage at Ameri-
 can Legion Convention.

KANSAS CITY. Mo-. Oct. 5.-Ac comm Jddte.5 for 3pondcnts, representing tho biggest newspapers, magazi~es and news distributing agencies in the country. will be pro, vided during the convention of the American Legion here October 13- to November 2 The plan devised by the convention executive committee calls for press-box the entire length of the stage, with passage leading under the speakers stand to press room where typewriters will be pro vided, together with multigraph ma chimes and operators at specially in stalled telegraph keys.
 Newspaper men. provided with cards that vouch for their credentials may go freely back and forth from the press box to the pf room Photographic reports of tAe conven tion proceedings will he transcribed in takes" which will be turned over to the American Leg ioa News Serv- ice desk, where the eops :, i'll be edit ed down to what might interest the newspaper writer. The edited copy will be sent, a page at a time. to the multigraph machine beneath the
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-10-05
ASSOCIATION TO HEAR
 REPORT ON NEW BILL
 AT MEETING TOMORROW

The principal feature of tOmOrrow's s regular bi-week!y meeting of the Ju- neau Commercial Association, accord. ing to an announcement made today by President Allen Shattuck, will be a report on the Alaska bill intro- duced in Congress by Senator Harry s. New. This report will be made by Chairman H. l.. Faulkner, of the Legislative Committee of the associa- tion.
 The bill, it is stated, If passed will vitally affect the Territory and Chair man Faulkner's report will be accom- panied by full discussion on the nature of the changes proposed in the measure ''The importance of this measure under discussion," said MT. Shattuck today. "is sufficient reason for attracting a large attend ance at tomorrow's meeting"
 It is hoped that Governor Scott C. Bone, who is due to arrive here to- day on the steamer Alameda, will be able to be present during the dis. cussion of the measure and take part in it.
 The measure, according to stite- ment made by Governor Bone shortly after its introduction, was prepared by Senator New at the request of Secretary Fall and following confer ences between the Secretary, Cover. nor Bone and Senator New and R ep- 1%nk Lr latter as chairman of the Senate and House committees on Territories. re- spectively. 1t is said to represent the views of the administration on reorganization of government bu- reaus in the Territory
 The meeting tomorrow wilt be held a; the Gem Ice Cream Parlors. It will begin at 12 noon and continue urtil 1:30 p. m.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-10-05
May Strike Oil in
 German New Guinea

SYDNEY, N. s. w., Oct. 5.-The search for oil which has been going on with meager results for years in the large island of Papau, has been extended to the portion known as German New Guinea, where 1t is said there are<Quch better indica- ,ions. This territory is now under Australian mandate.
 Experts of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, which has an agreement with the commonwealth by which each will share in the benefits of any discovery. are prospecting thor oughly. Several private parties also are in the field
 Oil prospecting is being retarded, however, because the Australian gov ernment has not decided on a land policy for mandated territories.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-10-05
DEVELOPMENT WORK
 AT ALASKA-JUNEAU

Development work is' going on and will continue on quite a large scale on the cast ore body of the Alaska Juneau mine. according to announce ment made by officials of the mine today. Work on means for handling the waste rock Is also to continue and this work will be mada a fea- ture. s7"s
 The mine equipment and dlachin- cry Is all in first class shape and the mine is capable Of handing al most an unlimited amcdn: Of rock. ,rt mill machinery. Q. .l"ularly in tue coarse crushing depar'mert. has uct stood up under the s.rain put uron it by the heavy tonnage that has been put upon it. This i:' tie reason for the discontinuance Of a shift at the mine so that a some what smaller tonnage may be put through and more time allowed for repair wrIk at the mill
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-10-05
ACTUAL IMPROVEMENT IS NOTED
 IN LUMBER INDUSTRY OF COAST

SAN FRANCISCO Oct. 5.-Some actual improvement in the demand for lumber is reported from states of the Twelfth Federal Reserve Dis trict, John Pepffn declared in a re- port made public here.
 Stiffening of prices in the upper grades of Douglas fir, stationary or declining prices for California redl, wood and white and sugar pine, and decidcly more hopeful feeling as to future business prospects also fea- turc the lumber industry at this time, the report said.
 August production of 356, 233,- 900 feet of lumber, according to re- ports from the four lumber associa- tions in the district, was 26,SgO, 900 feet greater than the July cut, an increase of S.1 per cent" the report said Tn the corresponding four weeks of August, 1920, the cut was reported to be 46S,491,OOO feet.
 About 75 per cent of the lumber mill capacity in the Pacific north west and 60 per cent in the Inland Empire is reported as being in op- eration, while logging operations are reported as 40 per cent of normal.
 Shipments and orders keep pace with the increased cut and were greater than in July Orders are reported to require much sales eff fort, but increased from 263,416,000 feet in July to 331,316,OO0 feet fin August or 25.7 per cent. Shipments made dufing the month totaled 336,- 941, ,O0Oy feet compared with 2S6,- 727, 900 feet in July, an increase of 17.5 per cent. Shipments of lumber by water to the Atlantic seaboard i have increased 5.S68 per cent during the first six months of 1921 com pared with the same period in 1920. Notwithstanding the tremendous in crease in water movement. the total volume of business of the Pacific Northwest mills in Atlantic coast markets is stated to be less than | 1t was year ago, indicating a heavy decline in rail shipments. The report of the Pacific Lumber Inspec- ton Bureau reveals gains in water borne shipments to all destinations at nine cargo markets and losses in like number with net loss of 13 per cent. Shipments to European markets show a decline of approxi- mately 52 per cent, to the West Coast of South America of Al per cent, to Australia of 58 per cent, and to China of 12 per cent. Ship ments to Japan, which is rebuild ing six of her largest cities, showed an increase of 31 per cent. All com parisOns are of the first six months of 1921 with the first six months of 1920.
 Little change appears in the log market. Stocks are being reduced gradually and the t1dency is to log as little as possible and to use up all available material. It is reported that mills owning stumpage are vir- tually the only ones cutting, com mcrcial loggers preferring not to trade except on camp run" basis 1 Gall logs from given operation, :, while mills desire to purchase on stumpagc, or graded' basis, asserting that the lumber market will not | warrant buying in any other man. ner at this time.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-10-05
Rome Most Expensive City
 Of Italy to Live in Now


 ROME. Oct. .5,-Rome is .still the most expensive large city iu Italy Acc3rtiias to the latest figures pub lished on the cost of living. the Eter. nal City is 19 per cent dearer than it was in 1920. This however, Is a diminution of the cost of living dur ing the past months. when. during March. the cost of living scared as much as 30 per cent higher than last year.
 The other expensive cities arc Milan. Florence and Turin, which are today about IS per cent over the 1920 figures. Venice and Triest are but per cent over the figures of last year.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-10-05
B. M. Behrends Co.,, Inc.

stage. where it will be stenciled and lnultigraphe1, and the copies sent back to the press box, to be dis tributed to the news correspondents.
 Under til. plan an adequate run ming story of the proceedings will roach the ress box on an average of 20 minutes behind actual happenings on the convention floor, according to Chester T. Start, chairman of pub licity
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-10-05
Ngero. Bandit Executes i. <,
 Bold Stunt; Makes Escape

FORT WORTH. Tex. Oct. 5.-Com. polling eight members of house party at a Lake Worth resort near here to tie each other. then menac- ing the men and women for more than an hour. a negro bandit es- capped with $t.200 in jewelry and money.