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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-05-10
FaIlaey Of Forging Finger Prints

TO tho Editor Of tho ECe,Nn0 Public LEDGER:
slr-The public should understand moro
clearly the vniue OF the fnger-print system
Of Identification. Some are under tho I'M
preston that finger prints should be used
only In police work for criminals: also there
are some who will tell you that finger prints
can be forged and are Of no value. Should
YOU ask a person to place his ffngor prints
on a card he at once will tell you that he is
no criminal. All OF these ideas should be
forgotten and tho truth learned. Are there
any chances of having two alike7''
No. The chances are in "a. 600. 600 of
two fnI' "a being found alike. but we take
the ten fingers. 30 It would be ten plus
$4,000. 900. As q matter OF fact, no two
finger prints taken from different persons
have ever been found that were exactly
alike.
Over thousand years ago tho Chinese
used their thumb prints on documents as q
sign manual. and It could be used to creator
advantage today, such as Identification ca rds
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-05-10
Job for Armv

To the Editor Of the Evenino Public Ledger:
sir-Now that the many postofrice and
mall train robberes have driven the gov.
ernment to the necessity OF arming postal
service men, why not turn the Postofficc
Department over TO be run by the armyR 7
think the interests Of both economy and
safety would 10 best served by such a step.
which would also give Postmaster General
VIII Hayes n military title. W. l. c.
Philadelphia, April 30, 1921
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-05-10
Asks Readers for information

Sir-Wil your readers give me informa-
ton through your Peoples Forum where
there is q good camping place about fifteen
or twenty miles from the city and as de-
serted as possible7 What really want IL
place where four or five fellows can go this
summer and camp and bo by themselves
the moro lonely the better.
CHARLES T. DAVIDSON.
Philadelphia, April 20, 1921.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-05-10
Problem in Verse

To the Editor Of tho EVeninD Public Lcdocr.
Sir-Can a reader OF the Peoples Forum
solve this problem?
II from n rule OF three feet long
Tho shadow f1ve Is made.
What Is the steeple's height in yards
II throws ninety feet in shade
c. c. CLEMENT.
Philadelphia April 80 1921
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will be very thankful to any one who can
give them. The first two lines are:
I'VE are weaving our llfes thread day by
day;
Its colors are sometimes somber. sometimes
gay" l.. e. sHOTwELL
Moorestown, N. j., May 2, 1921.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-05-10
Poems and Songs Desired
Wants nLlfe,s WeaYinav

TO the Editor Of the EveHinO Public Ledger:
Sir--Can you or any Of your readers To-
cate the poem called "Life's Weaving? I
am exceedingly anxious for the words and
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-09-02
"Then You'll
Remember Me-

"When other lips and other hearts"
you know the rest and are probably
now humming that well-known aria
from 1.-THE Bohemian Girl" You have
heard this song and those other favor
ties so often on the photograph that
you must long to hear them sung by
artists in real voice.
Your opportunity is coming! The
C%hautauqua program, to be given here
soon, includes a complete rendition Of
Balfe's perennial favorite. An ex-
perienced cast, organized BY the Mil.
ton Aborn Studios, of New York City,
and personally coached by Mr.. Aborn,
will present the opera with full cast,
chorus and orchestra.
Music lovers of this town are for.
tunate in this exceptional opportunity
to renew their acquaintance with their
favorite songs.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-09-02
SCHOOL VOTE
At ROOSEVELT
Election Sept. Is to Author
ize Purchase of 2 Lots for
New Building Sites
rBy Evening New, correspondent.l

rBy Evening News Correspondent
ROOSEVELT, Sept. Notices
have been posted by the Board of
Education for an election to be held
on September Is, at Public School
No. 2 for the purpose of authoriz-
ing the board to purchase two lots
on which to erect school houses n
to borrow the necessary money with
which to erect and purchase the
equipment for the buildings.
The first lot is situated at the cor
nor of Central and Pershing avenues
and the second is situated on Hay
wood avenue between Lincoln and
Roosevelt The first plot is
to cost $4,000 and the second $1S,-
300.
The school to be erected on Cen
trail and Pershing avenues will be of
aon-fire proof construction and is to
be known as the Cleveland school.
The building is to cost not more
than $114,3 800. The school to be
Ituated in Haywood avenue will
,lso be of fi%reproof construction
and is to be known as the Nathan
Hale school. This building is to cost
not more than $%114.700.
For sometime past the Board of
Education has been aware of the
need of additional schools in the
borough, and the original plan was
to erect three schools having them
ready for the scholars by the open
Ing of the fall term. When the
matter was put to the voters for
their consent, the schools were de-
teated by a large majority.
In submitting the plans Tor
schools to the voters. the Board OF
Education had decided not to build
Me East Railway school at this time
Ind has greatly decreased the size
VI the other two buildings. The
original plans called for building
With auditoriums and many modern
improvements. Although the i'm
provements have been maintained
In the present plans, the audito-
riums have been eliminated.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-06
Paper Money Expanded

For several years down to recent
months the media Of eXchange-gold
paper money promising gold and de-
posit credits based on gold reserves
had been enormously expanded, even
in face Of a restricted output of the
goods the exchanges OF which were to
be mediated. Prices rose. The usual
aCceleratlons were manifest more
trading, more turnover within a given
volume of products, together with its
diverse; more turnover within & given
volume Of currency units, And thus,
merely by the reverse argument, we
have the explanation of the recent fail
in prices And thus also we come
into the ability to tell something about
how long this fall will continue and
what will come after it. We know
that the fall was not due to any
marked increase in the output Of goods
nor TO any actual contraction in the
volume of media, or even neces sarily
to any prospective contraction; it was
enough that there ceased to be the
prospect of any continued expansion.
In fact, the supply of media has on
the whole increased slightly. Nor is
it credible that the turnover of money
fell off as the original difficulty,
primarily by its own initiative. Nor
is it credible that there was any in
crease in the turnover Of goods rela-
tive to the turnover of money; and so.
according to the usual quantity theory
talk, valid explanation for the fall
ing prices of the goods For il is
clear that even if more rapid turn
over of goods did not have to carry
with it a more rapid turnover OF
money, the fact actually was that the
turnover Of goods was falling off. But
perhaps we need not seek further for
the explanation for the fall in prices,
having sufficiently examined this ques-
ton.
1t should now be clear that the prob
lem of stabilizing price conditions, and
Herewith also stabilizing profits, and
so industry, and so employment. is the
New-York tribune., 1921-02-06
Lack Uniform
Business Trend
AT Retail Shown
Reports 10 Federal Reserve
Banks Reveal December
Decreases i'm Some Sec
liOns, Increases i'm Others
Gains Made i'm Six Months
Larger Distribution of Mer-
chandise Indicated, Ac-
cording 10 the Figures

The absence of a uniform trend in
consumer buying throughout the coun-
try is nowhere better illustrated than
the reports on the volume of retail
trade during December and the last six
months of last year reported to vari-
Gus Federal Reserve Banks. Study of
the reports issued by five Of these
banks reveals that the total volume of
sales in December. 1920, compared to
december, 1919, showed a decrease of
4.3 per cent IN the San Francisco dis
trlct and of 20 per cent in the Dallas
district, but an increase os 3 per cent
IN the Atlanta district 1916 per cent. in
the Chicago district and 4.98 per cent in
the Kansas City district All these
districts show fairly large percentage
OF increase in December net sales over
those of November, as reasonably ex-
pected because of the Christmas trade
In the last six months of last year,
compared to the same period in 1919,
retail sa les total in these five districts
increased from Is per cent in the At
i&hta district to 30,2 per cent in the
Chicago district; San Francisco re-
porting 3 per cent, Dallas 8.8 per cent
and Kansas City 9.4 per cent,
Almost without exception, the va
rious Federal Reserve banks state that
the increase in sales, taken with the
lower prices that prevailed during the
last six months of 1920, indicate a
larger distribution of merchandise than
IN 1919 and that this prevails even in
those cities where the net sales in De-
cember declined below the money value
OF those IN December, 1919.
But sales alone do rot indicate the
sole trend of merchandising. Stocks
or On hand also are important factors
mere also wide variation is shown in
the reports, Stocks on hand in the
atlanta To- district at the end of Decem-
Der, I92o, were reported to be but Is
per cent larger than at the close of
1917 Chicago, on the other hand, re-
ported stocks 500 per cent heavier:
San Francisco, 3 per cent heavier;
Dallas, S.8 per cent heavier, and Kansas
CITY, 9.42 per cent heavier. The fact
that only in isolated instances within
the various reserve districts do stores
report decrease in the value of stocks
compared to the previous year would
seem 10 indicate that the argument Of
bare shelves as an impetus to new buy
ing is without much foundation.
This is explained by some local re-
tallers, whose attention has been called
to the figures by specific instances of
unbalanced stock. Taken as a whole,
stocks are fairly heavy, especially on
staple goods. Seasonable merchandise,
however, has been we'll cleared out by
the numerous reduction sales, but the
size of other stocks, which impose a
financial burden on Che retailer, pre-
vent his operating as freely as he
might If this burden did not exist.
This is the opinion of several leading
retailers in this city and has been
borne out by statements from retailers
in virtually all sections of the country.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-06
Futile Programs

Work and save is NONSENSE 1t any
time as an attempt to control the ef-
1ects Of imitation. Likewise now spend
freely IS no better as remedial pro-
gram, when every inducement exists 20
refrain from buying What the credit
control lacks the wisdom to provide
against 1t Is folly to expect that a com
petitive public Will have the wisdom to
remedy. Consumers markets, so far -
they become speculative, mirror in ta;s
respect the great exchanges. Hortato1v
remarks never yet stopped a panic.
Neither investor nor consumer buys to
get the advantage OF falling prices.
When prices are recognized to be going
down those who can wait will. Prayer
will not avail.
The problem is to maintain output
and consumption in constant relations
of healthy equipoise. Only so will nor
NAL and healthy saving take place. If
goods are not to be bought thew will
and-save program must take account Of
this. And II they are produced under
conditions OF price boom, they will in
injurious degree be bought away from
the healthy process of normal market
ing. When the period of reaction ar
rives the consumption that was earlier
thwarted refuses to be cajoled, and
long period OF industrial retardatlon Is
necessary for the marketing Of the
goods carried over in expectation Of
rise and now emerging from their spec
ulatlve boards.
But d renewal of buying has to come
finally. The retailers succeed slowly
in clearing their shelves, or find that
their stocks are becoming raggedly in
complete. Slowly their to-mouth
ordering arrives a. larger volumes. or
changes into another character. Bust
ness is coming to the wholesalers. The
wholesalers are ready TO take goods
from the manufacturers and, expectan-
Of reviving demand, move to reecnsti-
tute their stocks. The laborers are
called back TO their jobs and can forth
with buy something. The public CON
cludes that the time for waiting is
over A prompt acceleration Of de-
mand sets in. Money resumes its
turnover as soon as goods resume
theirs. Supply and demand equate on
the basis OF more products and more
buyers. Industry begins % hum again,
having now to make up for the period
Cf retardation. Another boom is IN
prospect. And, unless the credit con-
troll steps in, a speculative orgy is
about to begin again.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-06
Heavy ''Job Lott Offers

A food of merchandise of widespread
varieties continues to flow into the
Sob lot'' sales now being conducted in
the Bush Terminal Sales Building.
New goods and additional quantities
being added daily indicate that the
surplus production of many manufact-
urers has not yet been fully liquidated
AT the close Of the week, the first week
OF the sale, samples of about 5000
different items of merchandise had
been entered by more than 100 manu-
facturers.
Among the merchandise offered at
bargain" prices are 21,S90 dozen of
mems neckties, ranging in price from
SITS to S16.50 a dozen. Former
prices ranged from $3.50 to $40 a
dozen, according to the schedules filed
with the Bush Terminal Company.
An incomplete tabulation of the for
elgn and domestic leather glove offer
ing reveals 21,333 dozen, with some
Ranufacturers promising immediate
delivery on almost unlimited quanti-
ties.
In the jewslry line one manufacturer
has entered 1900 imitation pearl neck.
laces. A total Of 10000 watches of va
rious grades is offered, including 5000
ofass watches at a price of s1.10 each
In the clothing section of the sale
one manufacturer alone is offering
$4,000 worth of leather coats for me
ana women at prices said to be about
half OF former levels.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-06
attitude Changes

But commonly they do not; the
changes in price or the prospects of
change attach to some outside cause.
say that an advance in prices is in
prospect, perhaps by the fact that a
past trend downward seems likely to
go no further. The attitude of hold
ers CT media changes-this change.
commonly, becoming manifest in two
aspects; % the periods of inactivity
between trades are shorter, the rate
of turnover, that is to say, greater,
and % the willingness of holders to
bid up works out, through the compe-
titions of bidders, into the payment of
more money for the purchased goods
rising prices. The more rapid turn
over of goods still remains the mere
diverse - merely another aspect - of
The more rapid turnover of money
But the cause of the higher prices was
not IN the more rapid turnover Of
either goods or money, but solely in
the changing dispositions of demand
and supply, Neither of the larger
turnoveIs is the cause of the change
ir prices. Both are effects of common
causes. But when prices are rising it
may be true-I am not sure-that the
effects on the turnover of goods arrive
through the intermediary of the
effects on the turnover Of money.
And now we come to the practical
applications. Prosperous trade is a
period of rising prices, and thus of
rising turnovers of goods and of
money, and Of rising money gains. The
ultimate causes of the changing prices,
and herewith the turnovers, are not in
the velcciti4s themselves the turn
overs, but in the influences that, deter
mining the actual or the prospective
rise in prices, are changing the press
ure for getting goods for money as
against the stress for getting money
for goods, and so are modifying, and
modifying equally, both of the veloci-
ties.
Bad trade is a time when. because
of the actual or the prospective lower
ing of prices, there is low turnover
both of money and of goods. Pro-
longed, the situation means also indus
trial stagnation
New-York tribune., 1921-02-06
Federal Reserve Board Should Stabilize
Prices BY Credit Control Says Economist

appears to have been noticeabIy sub
normal. He had turned over his capi-
tal nearly thirty times, | think he said
lie recounted the following case: A
New York jobber bought 5000 boxes
OF slippers from a New Jersey maker
at $3.50 per dozen pairs. The slippers
were sold by the New York jobber to
my Boston friend; by him to second
Boston jobber; by him in turn to st
Louis house by the st. Louis people to
another Boston jobber; by this Boston
1obber to second st. Louis jobber;
and finally by him, at s750, to a Chi
cago catalogue house that retaied the
goods. Obviously here was a great
turnover of goods. And as obviously
also there had to be a espondingly
great turnover Of media or possibly 81
great creation of commercial paper to
be discounted into media to the further
expansion of the credit currency of
the country, The velocity of currency
was greatly accelerated But, there is
nothing to indicate either that the
velocity in the turnover of goods
tended to push the prices down or that
this Was Offset in effect by the in
creased velocity Of media tending to
push the prices up. The prices were
going up because the supply Of media
was expanding as over against q scant
supply of shoes; and these rising
prices prompted the rapidity Of turn
over both of shoes and Of currency.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-06
Silk Show Opens
Here Tomorrow:
Processes Shown

An exposition, the first of its kind
ever held in this country, showing the
various stages and phases of the silk
industry, viii be thrown open to-mor-
row in the Grand Central Palace. The
international Silk Show is designed to
interest the public as we'll as those en-
gagged IN manufacturing and dealing in
all kinds Of silk
1t is fair to say that the chief object
Of the prom oters of the exhibition is to
stimulate the interest of the general
public in silk, to show the public some
of the thousands of processes connected
with the manufacture of silk and to in
culcate, as far as possible, the desire
to buy and consume silk and silken
garments.
The story of the great slump in the
silk market last year is fairly well
known to the public. Part of this
slump, it is agreed among silk men,
was due to the great amount of low
grade silk that found its way TO the
sold in the retail stores during the
boom of 1919 and early in 1920. A re-
action against this low grade silk, it's
poor wearing qualities and it's genera.
failure to give satisfaction set in and
worked all the way back to the manu-
facturers Of silk goods and to the pro-
ducers of raw silk in China, Japan,
Italy and less important silk raising
centers
AS early as last summer some plan
of trying TO put silk back in the good
graces of the public was discussed
The idea of holding a show. at which
Il direct contact between the public
and silks could be established in a
comprehensive way, originated with
the Silk Travellers Association, one of
the strongest organizations Of travel
ing men in the country. The idea was
sold" to the Silk Association Of
America, composed of most of the
leading manufacturers, aand these or
CARNATIONS combined IN the promotion
Of the show.
To give the show an international
aspect delegations from China and
processes of handling raw silk and
also making silk fabrics were invited
to attend. A mission from Great
Britain also was asked to represent
that country. These delegations will
present an interesting adjunct to the
show.
America has contributed silk ma
chinery and the finished fabrics. The
machinery alone in the show is valued
at more than $1000,0o0.
The general public probably will be
most interested in the pageant which
will be presented twice daily. This
pageant is designed to tell the story OF
silk from the raw material 10 the fin,
ished product. Succeeding scenes in
the pageant are entitled: THE Birth OF
Silk" The Spirit of Silk" The Evolu-
tion of Silk" Fashions of the Moment >
! "Mademoiselle Vanity" and Brides Of
All Nations."
New-York tribune., 1921-02-06
17,O69,458 Pairs of
Shoes Exported in 1920

Foreign shipments of boots and
shoes for December amounted to
1,380,974 pairs, valued at $5.OO7,329,
and for the year 1920, 17,069458 pairs
valued at $67683, ,117, compared with
1882, ,709 pairs, valued at $75,371 ,900
exported in the preceding year, accord :
ing to the Bureau of Foreign and Do
mestic Commerce.
The total exports of leather during
December were valued at $4,49S,719,
which, although showing moderate
increase over November were still be-
low those for September and October.
according to the Bureau Of Foreign and
Domestic Commerce. While exports of
manufactured finished leather for
1920 reached a value only half as great
as during the preceding year, foreign
shipments of leather betting for 1920
exceeded those for the previous year Of
$4,241 ,260 by more than 100000.
Exports of leather betting during the
month increased nearly 20 per cent.
and those of glove leather by about 27
per cent. Shipments of patent leather
increased only slightly, but those OF
sole leather were more than double
ber. The total of side upper leather
exported remained nearly the same,
but foreign shipments Of. glazed kid
were nearly rs per cent greater than
those for November December ex-
ports of calf and kip leather, on the
other hand, fell off about Is per cent,
compared with the preceding month.
The total exports of leather during
1920 were valued at $l14,287 ,932, com
pared with the abnormally high figure
of $218, 784,060 for the preceding year.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-06
Limits OF Forecast

On the whole, then, I incline to con-
cur IN the forecast of most of the econ
omlsts and Of the business experts:
ID that the slump in the security
markets has mostly or entirely run it's
course; 90 that for a considerable
range Of commodities the fall IN prices
Is still incomplete. but is probably ap-
proximately complete for those com
modities whose fall has already been
especially marked; 80 that with those
commodities whose fall has already
been great some degree Of speculative
sctivlty for rise may at any moment
set ln-as, for example. with cotton
silk and leather. With wool the ac-
cumulated supplies are so great, and
with wheat the foreign market is so
far shattered that the outlook is less
promising; A. that interest rates are
likely shortly to work much lower as
compared with the general level of
1920; t5) that in response TO falling
interest rates the prices of securities
will adavnce; (e) that a general re
covery in prices and industrial activity
Will set IN somewhere along in the
spring. In some directions the recov-
cry appears already to be in progress;
90 that in such case a further recov-
cry IN security prices-possibv, how
ever. only temporary-wi take place,
But the decree and the duration Of
all these movements of recovery are TO
my mind another matter. On this issue
do not so much diverge from the fore
casts of others-some of them are
doubtless correct-as from the reason
ing on which they are based-as TO the
lines of analyses on which any reasoned
judgment must proceed. In the main.
,the business and industrial develop
ments of 1921 &nd Of the succeeding
years will, as I hold, be determined
chiefly by policies Of credit control.
Disturbing factors like the fortunes OF
the crops cannot, OF course, be fore
told; but there IS slight probability o.
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