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New-York tribune., 1921-07-31
Stump in Traffic

The slump in traffic came and cars
slowly drifted back home, but gre at
numbers OF them were found to be be-
yond the point where repairs were eco
nomical. They weren't scrapped be-
cause that would have meant making "A
charge to expense accounts under the
heading of freight car renewals. They
We're ratified down on to some out of
the way side track and there they
stand to-day
Whether or not there is a great
revival in business activity there will
be the usual movement of coal and
grain this fall. 1t is the opinion of
railroad men in a position to know
that this coal and grain movement can
not be satisfactorily taken care of
with the equipment in the shape that
it now is. Some few roads have
been forehanded in ordering locomo-
tives. Fewer have provided them
selves with new car equipment al
though some have been in a position
to carry out repairs and can face an
increase of business with a reasonably
ample car supply.
Unless there are factors which have
not been taken into consideration in
this analysis of the situation the equip
ment companies will begin almost i'm
mediately after the Harding plan is
carried out to receive orders either
for new equipment or for repairs to
existing equipment which the railroad
companies cannot economically make
in their own shops. This will begin to
affect the activity and earnings of all
esasses of supply concerns. Not only
will such companies as the American
Car & Foundry, American Locomotive,
Baldwin Locomotive, Haskell G. Bar
ker, Pressed Steel Car, Pullman Car,
etc, begin to feel the effects Of re-
newed railroad buying but it viii spread
almost over night u secondary COM
panjes, such as New YORK Air Brake
and estinghouse Air Brake, Railway
Steel Springs, Flannery Bolts, Grip
nuts and the numerous speciality com
panies. This return will affect, on a
New-York tribune., 1921-07-31
ORDER PRICE CoMPARISON STAPLE ctcA
,o~ uffce,

The ultimate consumer who buys
his household and personal supplies
from certain mail order house in
Chicago is now being offered auto
mobile tires, underwear, coffee and
rice at prices below those quoted in
the fall of 1913. Twenty-Five other
commodities quoted in the following
table, which appeared in the latest
report on business conditions issued
New-York tribune., 1921-07-31
Defation in Trade Gains
Improvement in Buying l.
Reported by Many Wa.
honing Valley Interests
PITTSBJRGH. Js1,, .eo


A REDUCTION in the rate -
"a common labor, to 80 conts
~ an hour from 81 cents will
become effective Monday in tho
works OF the Jones & Laugbl;,
Steel Company, the largest in tbo
Independent group. It is also an
nounced that adjustments viii BE-
made in the pay Of ali other waoa
and tonnage employees, effective the
same date.
The new rate VIII be approximately
the same as has already been estab.
lished by the other independents ;o
this district This leaves only tho
mills Of the corporation paying HIGH
er rate. Basing their foundation unon
the last quarterly report of earnings Of
the Steel Corporation, steel men BE-.
lieye that before Ions an announce
ment viii come to the effect O. another
cat in wages by the corporation.
Leading steel men Of the district as.
sert that business conditions are
steadily coming to life ard that before
fall they predict q resumption Of many
mills. They do not anticipate that
business will get back to normal be.
fore the first quarter OF next year.
Severn p. Kerr, president of the Shar-
on Steel Hoop Company, is quite op-
timistic over the outlook and says the
worst is over and bettermeat is GER
thin within a short tirne
New-York tribune., 1921-07-31

by The Chicago Federal Reserve Bank.
are now from ST per cent to 1877 per
cent above the 1913 price Levels OF
the commodities listed, blankets are
higher IN price now, compared to the
fall Of 1913, than any other.
The accompanying table gives com
parsons of catalogue prices of staple
articles at one of the large mail order
houses in Chicago with the 1918
price. Two catalogues year are
New-York tribune., 1921-07-31
Effect OF Buying

The most immediate effect of re-
newed buying on the part of railroads
VIII be return to industrial activity
IN the railroad equipment business and
In the lumber business. Surprising as
1T may seem to the majority of people,
the total of railroad purchases Of lllm-
Der is greater than railroad purchases
OF steel and, in fact, is greater than
any other railroad expenditure except
TABOR and fuel The railroad car situ-
alton gets public attention only when
there is car shortage, but it is an
important factor in the present situa-
tion notwithstanding the fact that no
car shortage has as yet developed.
During the period of government
operation one of the economies which
the Railroad Administration effected
was the common use OF all freight
cars regardless of ownership. This had
an indirect effect that Director General
McAdoo. not being railroad man him
self, did not foresee. Ordinarily.
when railroad car is off its home
lines and becomes in need of renairs
the company on whose lines it happens
to be repairs it and if the repairs are
due to what is known as owners de
fects bill for the cost of the repairs
is rendered the line that owns the car.
If the repair is necessitated by the
wear and tear of service the line on
which the car happens to be when the
repairs are needed does the work and
has to pay for it out of its own pocket
The result is that when a car is Of
fered by one road to another at an in
terchange point the road which is
asked to accept the car makes a careful
inspection to assure itself that the car
is in reasonably good repair.
The Railroad Administration hit on a
way of speeding up ear movement that
had been tried and proved a failure
under private operation. 1t promul-
gated the rule that when a car was
offered TO line that line must accent
the car, run it, repair it, or transfer
its contents. Run, repair or transfer
had been tried before, but the govern
ment thought that it was in a differ
ent position. 1t was argued that since
the government was standing the def
1t for all the roads any road would
S'e willing TO bear the expenses of
|~r repairs regardless of whether the
cars were its own or somebody's else.
New-York tribune., 1921-07-31
Activity in the Last Few
Weeks Is Greater Than
Many Would Be Willing
to Admit, Ii Is Believed
Seek to Prevent
Market Collapse
Concessions to Carriers
on Large Orders; See
Benefits to the Industry

"HERE has already been some
resumption of railroad buy.
ing. A man who has been
out of work for a month and gets
job on Tuesday does not have to
wait until Saturday night before he
can get some things at the store;
that is the case with the railroads.
The Harding plan for refunding the
railroads debts to the government
and paying the railroads in cash
what the government owes them is
reasonably sure of going through.
The June statement of railroad
earnings and expenses indicates
clearly that railroad managers have
succeeded in getting control of op-
Grating expenses. The result is that
railroad purchasing agents, after
their long period of inactivity, got
back to their desks and are begin
ming to do business.
There have been more quiet purchases
of materials in the last two weeks
than either the railroad companies or
the supply companies would care to
own up to. 1t is said, and apparently
on good authority, that railroad pur-
chasing agents have been offered ma
terials at price that actually ap-
proaches pre-war levels and that this
below the ordinary quoted price 1t
is far below the wholesale price that
would ordinarily correspond to present
retail prices.
Wholesalers and retailers are work
ing together in attempting to prevent
anything approaching panic break in
retail p-ces. Concessions which could
not be made to the average buyer
without being extended to all along the
line can be made to railroad purchas-
ing agents, whose number is compara-
is in the milliAps monthly.
A total of between S5OO,OOO,00O and
S600,000,00O, when compared with the
total operating expenses of the rail-
roads for year, is small indeed and,
as a matter of fact, when the Harding
plan first came up for discussion there
were many railroad men. as we'll as
equipment and supply men and steel
men, who thought that the sum was so
small as to be of comparatively little
significance. Further study of the
situation, however, has led to the be-
lief that $600,000,000 released in cash
will mean - untoward circumstances
barred-the release of vastly greater
sums which are now inactive. The
railroad situation appears to be analo-
gous to that of the small village
that was hard-up because non
resident owed one of the villagers S25.
which debt had been passed along from
villager to villager> and from meat
market man to grocer, until everybody
was in debt to everybody else When
Ine original $25 was paid back about
$400 of debts were liquidated thereby.
New-York tribune., 1921-07-31
Another Step !
Taken to Cut
Cost OF Steel

Reduction Of Day Labor IL
30 Gents an Hour Made
by Independent; Cornoro.
ton on the Higher Level
New-York tribune., 1921-07-31

issued-one in The spring and one in
the fall-and the two quotations refer
to these catalogues. Where only one
quotation is shown it was listed in
only one catalogue. The prices are
for articles of exactly the same kind
and quality and Gre reduced to index
number or percentages of the prices
on 1913 base, indicating the cost in
the periods named of dollar amounts
of the article in the fall of 1913.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-06-24
MOVE CAREEJ1uILY.

Those who heard the addresses Of Governor Lowden
while he was in Grand Forks will continue for q long
time to recall some. of the pertinent things which he
said. and the forceful manner in which he presented. his
thought. In support of his plea for the use of wise
judgment in the handling of public affairs he used an
from his own large business experience. AS
a member of the executive committee of a large manu-
featuring corporation he said he had been called on FREE
Quentiy to pass judgment. on the recommendations Of the
heads of department for expansion. The department
head, absorbed in the work OF his department, enthusiasts
tic over it, and ambitious for Its Enlargement, would ask
for an appropriation to finance a policy Of expansion IN
the particular direction in Which he was interested. He
would present figures tending to show that by making
desired the business of the concern would be SO increased
as to pay for the entire outlay within "a very sort time,
leaving the concern with its additional equipment clear.
and with a substantial increase -of business to the good.
Such recommendations said Nj. Lowden. were fire.
quently made. They were supported by careful estimates
made by skilled men. And, said Mr.. Lowden, very often
the figures were correct, and the results predicted could
have been attained within the estimated time. But" he
added. Il know that if We had accepted all these sug-
gestions, many Of them excellent in themselves and UNI
dertaken to put them into practive, we: should have been
bankrupt long before we had a chance to give any of
them a fair trial." 1900 "<
Neither in government nor in business is there any
such thing as safe expansion by sudden leaps. The expert
enced business man knows that he cannot do everything
at once. And his expansion in any given direction must
be logically related to his business as a whole. He can
not afford to let his business become lop sided. He must
torego certain additions and expansions until he can
make his entire business conform. to them. And the
business principles which apply to the private enterprise
apply with equal force to the activities of government.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-06-24
AN ESKIMO OPERA SUNG
a.. diving Age.),,

49, 80 .E - . W.
Although only meager. reports have
30 far reached the United States, It
seems fairly clear that Hakon Boerre-
sens opera "Kadara," presented q
short time ago at the Royal theater.
Copenhagen, is IN unusual work of
real significance and in some respects
unique. The scene is laid in Green
land. Eskimo costumes are used, and
the lights OF the aurora borealfs play
owe the stage during the production.
Arctic explorers who have seer the
opera praise the fidelity of these, eff
fects., a
The new opera has trae musical.
merits as well as novelties in scenery,
staging and setting. The music is said
70 be vigorous, virile and typically
scandinavian. the critic of the Dagens
Very properly 'Kaddara' is called
Sketches From the Folk Life in
Greenland In the four pictures UNI
rolled before the spectators, joy and
merrymaking, sbaseness and sentiment
tai outponrinEz.. follow each other in
rapid succession. The music accom-
panying the arrival Of the kayaks at
dance is fresh and enticing. The
same may be said OF the Hunting
dance and it is not until the latter
part of the third act that real dismal
ness sets in. After that comes the cul-
minating effect in the Witch dance.
where the orchestra does magnificent
work and reaches almost incompar-
able heights OF perfection.
The costuming has much to do
There is even the little detail Of red
ribbons tied around the top of the
hair of unmarried women. blue ribJ
bons for the married, and black for
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-06-24
DIVIDING THINGS UP.

The communistic theory is that everything should
be divided up and that all things should be possessed
in common. Humanity Is to be completely sociahzed.
Everything is to belong to the community. and each in
dividual, being a member OF the community, is to have
an equal share in the enjoyment of: whatever there is to
be enjoyed. There are to be no rich and no poor. Each
individual is to be allowed what is necessary for his
maintenance, and no more. Wealth and proverty having
become obsolete terms through the abolition of the things
for which those terms stand. there will be an end to
the struggles of ambition, and to the effort of the indi-
vidual to acquire prestige by ostentatious displays of
wealth. That, in general. is the idea that runs through
all the doctrines, Of Socialism. communism. anarchism,
and the other isms whose object Is the creation of a new
heaven through the development Of a new earth.
To obtain some conception of what a redistribution
Of property would mean. let US take an example. The
Rockefeller fortune is popularly estimated at something
like a billion dollars. That is probably an exaggeration,
but the figure will do as we'll as any other. Suppose
the Rockefeller billion were divided among the hundred
million inhabitants of the United States. That would
give each person ten dollars. Assuming that the billion
were in cash. and that the division were 'made on that
basis, what would the citizen do with his ten dollars?
Used for the purchase Of food. clothing, or Injuries. 1t
would last a few minutes or a few days. Then it would
be gone. At the most 1t would provide the humble citi-
zen but q few days Of comfort or leisure. and then the
population would revert to its former condition. with
the difference that q billion dollars worth Of goods or
of labor would have been wiped out Of existence.
But the Rockefeller fortune rs not in money. It Is
In other forms Of property, lands. and oil wells, and pipe
liness. andsfactorfes and railroads. and q multitude Of
other things obviously those things could not be d.
vided. Let the title to them. then, be taken from Mr..
Rockefeller and passed on to the people. The individual
would own aaten dollar interest in q long string Of bua-
ne enterprises. and. assuming the impossible thing
,4Aa4 these enterprises would continue to be profitable,
khs p1lins might expect.to sfscefve q few cents
year N the shape Of returnsson his investment.
Eet the process be continued until the communicate
% scctelistics idsab were resched. and all the property
In tie country passed into common ownership. The
benefifs to the Individual would be- fnpercepttble. It ID
true inst the Ioafer ana the shirk would profit. But
eyerysSddy ~ wsuld ssdnsr. And ~ kinds Ct industrial
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-06-24
8Y10YD1S,

The Troop family. living in stratton
owners ofAsseveral millions OF. dollars
through the settlement Of Investment
made BY their late father. Maria Troop
the mother, has no inclination to travel
Lola promptly leave for New York to
Newspaper reporters I tchicaso where
the Troops stopped made capital Of the
money and "~greenness' Of the travellers
and flashed the news to New York pa.
,pers. In New York Leander goes to see
&Renshawe, famous financier, whom hi.
father had dealt with. years before. and
Mrs. Rensf W calls on the girls.
Warrender, a. young widow, with. nc
money, accompanies Mrs: Renshawt
when she visits the girls, and takes IN
Interest in them, Renshawe wants Mari.
an to marry Lord Usk. -. d.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-06-24
Continued in tomorrow,
Evenings Herald.
A ROAD TO PROSPERITY.
stars and Stripesl

ST. L.tH
Congressman Eankhead, arguing
for a reclamation and soldier land
settlement bill, suggests that. the price
OF one " battleship, If devoted 10
'reclaiming waste land, would provide
The Western States, Reclamation as
ssociation complies data. from -one rich
irrigated land valley in 1.-The west.
which shows that some 10000. farms
in that valley in 1920 spent more than
$10,000.000 for goods manufactured
in eastern states. -
Mr.. -Rankhead's 100000 more farm
err producers would. we deduct. mean
SLOT. 1000, 900 a year in new markets
for American manufacturers.
This Is better market than Mr..
Hoover hopes might be developed in
Europe by. long term loans, abroad.
And either the Smith McNaEy bill or
the Bankhead bill would mean several
times 100, 900 new reclaimed farms In
the. first ten years. -.
Under these bills every acre of new
land would first be offered to veterans.
And while the reclamation is In prog
ress every job on every reclamation
project would be first open to a for
mer service man. Possibly, 500, 900
veterans r unemployed at this writ
ing. or are partly or poorly employed.
Perhaps in this brief editorial We
have suggested too many great prob
lens all at once Perhaps the opening
Of new lands to former soldier settle
ment will not cure all Of our economic
ills at. once; but are we not safe in
believing that it would be a big
practical step in the right direction?
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-06-24
CHAPTER VII.
The Renshawes.

Mrs. Renshawe did not often "sit
up" for her husband. They we're mot
an afectionate couple. She herself
had not softened with the years, blu,
he had grown iron-like; and she had
watched the process in him with
primal alarm and ultimate indiffer-
ence: She. had seen him rise from
an ordinary broker to the head of a
clearinghouse. Never a liberal man,
possession had mantled him. as SO oft
en- happens, with a relative nxser-
illness. He counted his dollars, she
often told him, az carefully as he had
once counted. his dimes. His best
friend could only say OF him that he
performed his charities in secret. He
was willing to spend largely on con-
s%picuous things. His houses were OF
the handsomest, like his equipages
and horse flesh. and his wife had
some striking Jewels. But she was
always complaining about the slen,
derness of her private purse. and at.
firming that she was the worst t.sen,
out" woman of any In toYn who held
a.place equaling her own.
Occasionally she would fling him q
jibe on the subject Of his step-sister,
Was there yer a lovelier woman
than, Marion? and what a pittance
was given her to dress on!
But still oftener she wrangled with
him concerning their son and only
child. Gregory. Because his tastes
did not run toward railway stock.
ana iedgers, he, too, must be; treated
with injustice. Had he not gone t.
Oxford and made his mark there, al
the paternal wish. Was he not good.
looking in marked degree? To cal
him conceited and snobbish wal
merely to mfsapply tern.,. He held
himself with becoming self-esteem
He was a very'intellectuaI young maj
and he would n day be a great
painter. Several, famous French ar.
fists had told him SO. And yet he
wasn't allowed even to gof;stot Paris
He had to work in a shabby littl,
studio here-he, the Bon of a MAJ
who could give him twenty thousand
a year and scarcely be aware Of 1t
EAnd all because he couldn't-no,
wouldn't, but couldn't-ue himself
down to the dreary .drudgery .ot s
|Wall-street county-houHe. II he had
vices. the miserable monthly sums
doled out to him would be excusable
But4his life washallg purity, fasttdioul
refinement. artistic impulse.
Thus they had wrAnsled again and
again. She was waiting for her. hus-
band. now, but with 40 desire OF ain
togbegin old disputes. Just before he
had gone To- the big dinner. he had
hurriedly told her that he had been
called on, a. his office. by Leander
Troop. But he was late, and1inad
glanced at his watch and hurried
Away. adding, with q little disguised
|-Sl-x--L.E s. s6YVSAIFs = ...E -A-..x 4 Hf-.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-06-24
BUGS.

An Illionis man thinks that he may have discovered
a way to rid the country of potato bugs. "A brief news
story says that a Waukegan man came across an insect
which was killing potato bugs, and that he has succeeded
in propagatng some of these benefcient mites and has
sent some of them to the Department. of Agriculture for
examination. 1t may be that he has struck something
which will remove a familiar pest, and which will SUBJ
tract at least one element from the cost of raising po-
tatoes.. st = .
The potato bug seems to have originated in the high
lands of Colorado. where it subsisted in relatively small
numbers on wild plants resembling the potato. In some
unknown manner it found its way east into the farming
districts, and there it found in the cultivated potato a
food exactly to its taste. Fifty years ago it was, Just
and for a time it was areal menace to the potato
grower. 44
The nrst method Of attack was by hand. Equipped
with a shallow old tin pan and a wooden. paddle the
supplied. would patrol the potato lot, knocking OF the
yellowish slugs and then destroying. them. It was slow
work and had to be repeated often and It made potato
raising costly business. The suggestion OF poison was
received with suspicion. How could one poison the plants
without poisoning the tubers? Then. cattle might eat
Of the poisoned foliage and die. and poultry might be
killed BY eating the poisoned bugs.
Gradually these objections practically disappeared,
and for years the uae Of paris green A. q bug e~xtermina7
tor vas almost universal. More recently arsenate Of
It is preferred ~ many. Either poison is effective, Nand
usually two applications will do. the business unless either
s washed off by premature rain. sas.ss
The North Dakota hofnesteaders were spared the bug
annoyance for severa Year,, and several crops weresraised
without the appearance. OF 4 bug Then the psst ap-
well for the scientists who are iRxsstiIatins the auke-
gan mans bug to satisfy themselves thati At a. innocuous,
Otherwise the cure may prove worse than the disease.
After people had imported the mongooss into Jamaica;
and the rabbit into Australia, ahdaths dandsiion into
North Dakota, they Wished they ahadnst sEESsFss
s4& Hs#@9A&
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-06-24
EVENING EDITION.
brother she 3zympathized rather
warmly With his aEgrievsd and indis-
= q G IlI.
Marian 1akes Gharre

1ttsa.E.T TTfSlP'-. Vg a. sHsNG2FN N-fr
i've ordered a box at the opera
said Leander, suddenly appearing be-
fore his sisters n afternoon three or
four days later 49,
What kind. OF q box did you say?"
asked Lola, ~wide-eyed::ss & "a !
"Of course : you know" reproved
Ernestine; and. after moment, Lola
did understand, blushing at her OWE
slowhess.
at amt the regulation time for
opera,.--.Leander pursued, but this ~
an extra night. i had to give a lot
Of money for the box, but that don't
matter. It's tomorrow night
"Oh, I'm crazy to hear it," said
'Ernestine, fervently. What's tho
opera. Iee?" 1t ~,
II don't know. One Of those Ms-f
nsaroly Eyetalian Names. <.
Continued in tomorrow
Evenings Herald.