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New-York tribune., 1921-03-08
Acquires r. ]. Reynolds Interest

Rumors that the United Retail
Stores Corporation was about to ac-
quire substantial interest in another
tobacco company were borne out yes
terday in the announcement that this
interest consists of a substantial block
Of r. J. Reynolds Class common
stock, which was purchased from the
K. J. Reynolds estate. 1t was said the
United Retail Stores interests found
it possible to obtain this stock on IA
vorable terms because of the inher ri
tance tax, executors of the estate de-
Gliding that they could sell the stock
to United Retail Stores more advan-
tageously than if it had been retained
and the inheritance tax paid.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-08
American Sugar in 1920

The Street is gossiping a lot about
the 1920 annual report of the Ameri
can Sugar Refining Company, which
$ expected to be made public within
few days. Hornblower E. Weeks
said yesterday that the report NAV
show an operating loss Of $4,000. 900
and an absorption into operating ex-
penses of more than s2,000,00O ad-
ditional out of reserves, or gross
loss Of around $f3.O00,000. The com
pany, IS was said, would show bor-
New-York tribune., 1921-03-08
Long-Haul Traffic Declines

Car loading figures for the week
ended February 10 show a total of
69o,506, contrasted with 772,102 the
corresponding week a year ago and
700,913 in 1919. An interesting feat
IRE of the latest report was the dis
closure that long-haul or interchange
able traffic had also shown a substan-
tial falling off,
New-York tribune., 1921-03-08
American Telephone and Telegraph

The favorable annual statement OF
the American Telephone and Telegraph
Company, published Sunday, covering
.e2o operations. disclosing earnings
equal to slightly less than S12 a share
on the stock, stimulated buying Of the
issue yesterday. The result was an
advance to new high price for the
year at 102. This compares with a
low this year Of 95$4 and low last
year of 921s The current price OF
the stock is the highest since Tele-
phone and Telegraph started its decline
in 1919. The feeling in the Street is
the worst of the readI JUS tment SO far
as it is concerned, the peak of high
operating costs having been passed
in 1920.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-08
To Retire Canadian Issues

Official advices received here from
Ottawa yesterday announced the in
tentiop of the Canadian government
to pay OFF at maturity the $25, 900 ,0O0
Of per cent bonds falling due on
April /. 1t has been decided, it was
stated, to retire the issue without q
refunding operation in this market
and the funds will be provided out OF
New York balances of the Dominion
and the shipment OF gold from Ottawa
The amount of gold to be shipped will
probably not exceed $10,000,o00 No
action has been taken yet with regard
to the $l5,0o0,000 Dominion govern
ment maturity on August I.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-08
Utilities Languishing Again


In keeping with the general run o.
which short time ago showed evil
dences of regaining popularity with the
investment public, are languishing
again. Prices are still we'll above the
lows of last autumn. but below the
highs established on the squirt shortly
after the turn OF the current year.
"The trouble is,' said a public utility
expert yesterday, that the invest
ment public is disposed to class all
public utilities, good, bad and indiFer-
ent, in the same category. Electric
lighting and power companie. are do
ing well in the way of operations. but
the unfavorable traction situation in
many parts Of the country is a serious
drag on the whole public utility Sc
curity markets.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-08
Paris Market Reacts

PARIS, March THE Bourse opened
strong to-day, but prices reacted in the
late dealings and the closing was ir.
regular and nervous.
Three per cent rentes. SO francs s.
centimes. Exchange on London. 80
francs centimes. Five per cent loan.
80 francs 95 centimes. The dollar was
quoted at 13 francs 80 centimes.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-08
A New Burlington Plan

Bankers interested in the problem of
refunding the Great Northern North
ern Pacific joint per cent Burlington
collateral bond maturity Of s215, 5,O00,-
900, due next July, said yesterday 3
new plan had been formulated to take
the place of that which was turned
down last week by the Interstate Com
merce Commission. Details Of the
new program, it is understood will be
laid before members Of the I. c. c. al
informal conferences to be held at
Washington before the end Of the
current week
New-York tribune., 1921-03-08
London Money Market

LONDON, March 7.-Ba silver,
81 lad per ounce; bar gold, 1o5s Sd:
money. 81 per cent; discount rates.
short bills, 7 per cent; three months
bills, 6 s-l6@6Ss per cent; gold pre-
MUM at Lisbon, 14O.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-08
Bank Clearings

Bank Clearings- clesrings at
New York yesterday werc Exchanges,
S416,574,9o5; balances. S71,o19,7o2.
Silver--London. 311ad; New York,
Domestic bar, 991ac; foreign, 54%sc
Mexican dollars, 4 5-Sc.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-08
Bid and Asked

Following are the closing bid and
asked quotations of stocks listed on the
Stock Exchange in which there were no
transactions Yesterdav:
New-York tribune., 1921-03-08

All kinds of Domestic Help, not the rest
less l1ind--reacbed through the Trjhunes :
Domestic Felp wanted Column. Phone
Beskman Seoo,--Advt,
New-York tribune., 1921-03-08
Talk 5
To investor
.fdiRS
V.~-1

EvERY MORNING YOU turn to tbs
stock and bond quotations ii
your morning newspaper. Yul
do this to see how your invest!
nscnts are quoted.
IL TIE PRICES have risen you arIl
pleased; if they have declined
you arc disturbed. If there had
been no change. Won are perhaps |
satisfied.
lou FEEL that by watching tht|
quotations you are watching
your investments. But many an
investor has gone broke" b,|
merely watching his invest
ments in this fashion.
L OF CANNOT STOP runawa,|
horse by merely watching tbt|
horse: you cannot dodge al
automobile by watching it rur|
over you: you cannot stop fri
by watching it burn.
AND YET THOUSANDS OF rvvESTos|
do just this sort of thing in conf
nection with their investments.
They will sleep we'll on seeing 4
satisfactory quotation" ever
though their investment is s|
that very moment being undss.
mined.
A QUOTATION may mean Little c|
nothing. You certainly noed II
know moro about your invest
ments. Write. and let us tell yoHl
how much more. 1t viii pay you
Moody's Investors Servl1|
JOHN MOODY, President
3S Nassau Street New York. N
BOSTON PHILADELPHIA cHNsI
New-York tribune., 1921-03-08

Bid. Asked.
Maxwell Afot-. ) 5A
do lst pr. SIS SIS
do I'd pr. .
May DE 81 pr a7ia
Mex Pet pr. so e5
MSP&SSM pr 81 go
do lsd lines, 5ess 80
Mont Power. "A 5t%
10 pr e. % SO
Mont Ward. o.. II l3
Mullins BY pr 80 -
Nash 4 Chat. % l0s
Nat Acme g. u %
Nat Biscuit. .lWls lot
Nat CT Il S. 80 2lE
do pr =. 70 IS
y L q 9 pr 93 o5
Nat Lead rr.lolta l05
MIR VI lst pr 3 II
y Y G 4 $ l. 4, 40
do lat Pr. 80 SS
do "a pr. - 81
y Y Dock rr A. 30
Norfolk so -. l0a+ lli@
Norf & w pr 66 20
Nova Scotia ST S54 s6
Ionic Body 81 So 9ia
Ohio Fuel 3. 40 so
Ont Silver .. AZ !
Orphcum Cir. e64 o7A
Otis Elev pr. 90
Otls Steel pr. ~ so
Owens Bot VI 40 so
DO pr ..... - lvO
Pacific Coast. 20 so
Pacific Mail. Is Is
Penny J C pr. 81 So
Peoria & f.. l0H IL
Pere Mar pr. 20 A.
do prior pr. 52i4 So
Phil Jones E. 30i< 37la
do pr ... 20 rs
Petit Null -. 34al sess
Pitts Coal pr 81 s6A
Pitts Steel pr. 80 81
p & w Va Or - ~
Pond Or Coal loi5 1Si.
Ry Sec ..... 54A 56
Ry st Spr pr.lo6 100
Rand Mines. Il 30
REFS 4 Co. :. s 2
do ps ...e~ ~ 50
New-York tribune., 1921-03-08

rowings and payables Of about sbas. 4
100000. against $io,0o0.ee st VIZ sbs;]
ef 1919. American Sugar sss.el
showed a sagging tendency " loss
days market, declining at 2s
81 =, net loss Of ~ points,
New-York tribune., 1921-03-08
Money and Credit

Call money rates held at per cent
Yesterday Banks were preparing to
meet the call tomorrow Of $4,000, 900
government deposits.
Yester- Year
day. age.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-08

Bid. Asked
Fed NJ K s. s 8
do pr ... - 2oH
Fisher BY pr 9dta es
Gen Am Tank AZ 81
Gen Cigar. 6lis 90
Gen Motors pr II ~.
do : nc pr. 75ia Il
Gilliland o pr 50 81
Granoy NJ -. 20 ~
Gray Davis. lli1 124a
G VI n No. . 10
Habirshaw Flee II l2sy
Hartman Corp 20 -
Hydraulic St. II Is
Ind Ref pr. 81
Int Agri pr. i6 AZ
Int liar 49,. esA 100
do pr l06 lQS
Int Motor TT - 35
do lst pr T.. - 70
do "a pr. e.. 81 So.
Int Paper pr. 90 lol
Int Nickel pr 80 81
Int Salt ... 56's 20
Iowa Central. 5la y.
KCFS&M pr. Sos 6O@
kayser lst pr 96 l20
Kelly Spr pr 7s 30
Kelsey. VIII pr. 20 %
Kcok e. d II 4 10
Is IL d NJ pr %
kresge S s. .l34 l45
do pr .. 90 le2s.
Kress & Co. - IS
Laclc,.e Gas. :. ~ A.
l. T. Il W pr. 20 oS
Ligg & NJ T. .140 l55
do Or .....1O4 l05Ir
do II ......if0 ia
L-W Il Is, pr % 30
do "a pr. 100 III
Lorillard pr.-.l0o 10
Mackay Cos. .. 6lIa sa
do pr ..... IS 5S
Madison .... Is lsik
do pr .... 62ia 65
Maiaii Sugar n 81
do pr 80. "a
Manhat Beach = "a
Msnhat III. .. 81 -
Martin Parry. l+ia Is
Mat Al w.. i5r ,i7n
New-York tribune., 1921-03-08

IN mixed cOllAtera ...........
IN industrial collateral.. +
Time money mixed col
New-York tribune., 1921-03-08
FAR EAST
cllai mr. INC go .

CHINA Shanghai par loG.39 cents g ,anN
Demand 600 90 1890
Gables ......... 62.625 62625 1880
CHINA (IIoug Kong par unsettlcd)
Demand ....... 45.5u $500 io1.oo
Gables ......,,,fe 20 $500 1otlo
New-York tribune., 1921-03-08
rApAN (par asa cent. a ven

1APAN 1par 1913 cents yen)
Demand ..4s.25 $50 l7l25
Cables 1850 1915 4T.315
INDIA (par 1896 cents g. rupee)
Demand .......2b.00 $500 $3.50
STRAITS SETTLEMENTS (par 56s cents
dollar)
Demand ......45.2o 442b
Cables .........4o.50 1850
New-York tribune., 1921-03-08
Transactions Yesterday in Listed Stocks
Summary of Stock Exchange Dealings

(CepyrIEh, 1871, New York Tribune Inc)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-06

of Dostoieysky. His scientific trdin-
 ing throughout most of his life he was a practiclng physician) made him an exceptionally careful and faithful
 observer of the Drosaic facts of lie. Tt is perhaps fortunate that the work
 of Chekbov. through Constance Gar
 Eetts translations. is becoming in- Icreasingly familiar to American read CTS. For he is perhaps as well quail fled as any one to dispel the Illusion
 that Russia is a country inhabited
 only by saints, criminals and m ldmen, la manufactory of psychical and ro-
 1itical revolutions.
 The latest valume of Chekhov, translated under the title. The Cho>
 rus Girl and Other Stories" includes one fairly long story, My Life and
 a number of shorter sketches. My Life" is the autobiography of a rather uncommon type of individual: a man who honestly prefers hard manual ia bor to easier and more dignified occu- pations.
 "Rothschild's Fiddle" is the story ol la village coffin maker. Had Chckhov been acquainted with the writings of
 pr. Berthold A. Baer, philosopher of
 optimism and stanch panegyrist of the glories of the Campbell Funeral
 church, Broadway at Sixty-sixth
 street he might have enriched this
 tale with some appropriate reflections on the manifold consola tions of a cot-
 fin maker As it is, it makes rather
 grim reading. with note of pathos at the end.
 Lovers of Dickens should thor cughly enjoy Chekhoy, even if the Russian authors work is placed in a less familiar setting. The spiritual affinity between the two men is quite strongly marked. Both hate cruelty | and injustice both. without subso -ib- ling to any abstract cult of humanity worship, sincerely love and are in- | terested in human beings. Neither l Dickens nor Chekhov possesses a pros found psychological instinct; but both, by means of lively imagina-
 tion and an observant sense for de- tails have created work that is true and appealing and enduring A single volume of Chekhovs tales will do more to introduce the American reader to the Russian people than dozen books of excited politic1l propaganda.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-06
BRITISH LADORERS
 GET b|G ADVANCE
Increase in Wages Last Year Affect 100000 Workmen.
 Idle Army Grows
By Associated Prens

London. February 15.-British labor has gained great advance in wages as well as a further shortening of working hours during 1929. but the new year begins with rising tide of unemployment.
 increases in wages during 1920 have amounted to nearly f5.0oo,000 and affect ed 7,547.0o0 workers.
 labor correspondent of the Liver pool Post says. however, that 'it is proo- ably modest estimate to say that the whole of these wage increases have been swept by unemployment and under-em- ployment. For example, the textile work CTS to the number of 1o5S,o0o received, in the earlier months of the year, ad- vances in wages totaling f5so 900 a week. The greater number of mills are now running only three days a week and it is well within the mark to put the loss from under-employment at ei ,0ooOo0 a week.
 Tn the engineering and shipbuilding industries 1,202,0Oo workers received ad. vances to the amount of G420.5oD a week but here again the wage advance has been more than lost by unemployment and under-employment Dock workers have had the same sorry experience and the lesson which it carries is that in competitive trades the wage-earning power can only be maintained on an out rut of corresponding value"
 During the year 553,7o0 workers have obtained an aggregate reduction Of 2,- 07l,D0 hours week Although there have been more industrial disputes than in 1919, the number of working days lost by strikes shows a diminution. There were l.563 disputes during the year 1e20, involving 1,952, 900 workers and 26. .567, ,0DC days were lost, the latter being swelIed by the coal strike in October and No yen1bcr
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-06
Bon Songs of .Japan

From the Way of the Farmer in Japan.
 by Robertson Scott, in Asia
 As it was the Bon season in Japan
 the season in which the dead are sup posed to return-and I had heard good deal about police suppression of Bon dances and songs. was interested when a guest at the hotel began talking about them. He had seen a great many Bon dances and heard great many Bon songs There can be no doubt that there has been some stupid interference with the Bon gathering. The country people seem to be suffering from an ll-consid- cred town made moral code and the {de- termination of Japanese officialdom to make an end of everything in country as well as town that may be regarded | by foreign observers as ''uncivilized. " Sometimes ignorant, foreign advisers have been behind such actions In towns the sexes are not accustomed to meet But country people are accustomed to work together. They therefore find it | natural to dance and sing together. As to the Bon songs. it is evident that ex- pressons regarded as outrageous and in- decent in drawing room might not be so terrible on hilltop among rust'cs used to very plain speech and the easy reception of facts of lire that are cur taned from townspeople My chance ac duaintance in the hotel recited a num- Der of Bon songs and next morning ne brought me some more which he had re- membered and had been kind enough to write down. They merely established the fact that rural wit is as elemental in Japan as in other lands. Most of ths songs had a Rabelaisian touch, but near ! ly all were amusing, even in translation. The following is an example:
 NIT. Potato of the countryside
 i Got his new European suit
 | But potato is still potato
 He took che and half rin out of his bas i And bought anne (barley sugar., and licked at it.
 GA rin is the hundredth part of sen which in it's turn is half cent) Such an illustration as the Bon son gs 1 furnish of the precise moral and mental condition from which the Japanese coun- l tryman is to be raised is desirable if rural sociology is to be studied. There is far too much theorizing about the countyyman, far. too much idealizing of him and far too much rating him as . clod. If the countryman of all lands is free spoken, let us not be hypocrtica about him. A big gap seems to yawn be- tween the paddy-field peasant in his breech clout and the immaculate clua- ! man in his morning suit and spats. Bur what is the difference between the savor of the average Bon song and oi
 mary smoking room jest?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-06
ever screened.

It ought to be, because it is the second Of Fatty Arbuckle's big features, and the round comedian was never better than the boy who tried to make five mlllans grow by throwing one away. And that isn't all of the comedy at the Strand this week. where "Brewster's Millions" will be shown. Snooky will be seen in his latest offering, "The One Best Pet
 "Brewster's Millions" is pure comedy from start to finish Of course, there is romance in it, and Fatty makes of the picture a delight.
 It is the story of Monte Brewster who is left fatherless at the tender age Of two years Fatty" permits no substi- ute to do the hard work in his plays, and this is no exception. He appears in person as the infant.
 His two grandfathers quarrel as to how the boy, a promising and lusty youngster, should be brought up, so that when he is five years of age, his mothers patience is exhausted and she tells the grand fathers that she will bring up her chee-ild in her own way, just as she pleases. without interference from either of them. Fatty himself, too young to realize the import of his mothers decision, plays dinary five-year-old child, and little reck- ons what the future holds in it's store for him. The grandfathers give it up as bad job and wash their hands of responsibility for his upbrnging-all Of which is a good thing for the ,youngster
 When he is 9, Monte (stll Fatty"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-06

"Slecpy-Timc Tales is The Tale of
 Rusty Wren" and there is much charm in the pages of this little book for the child who likes to read.
 The Tale of Rusty Wren" starts off with "A Pleasant Home and on through the chapters "Johnae Greens Idea" Rusty Is Jealous Mir Crow to the Rescue.' Rusty in Iron ble." Bad News. The Unwelcome Visitor" Help" HelpH' "The Forgot ten Guest" and "A Strange Mistake" '" the reader is regaled with exciting moments in The Life of Rusty Wren
 "The Tale. of Rusty Wren" is a worthy successor to The Tale of Jolly Robin" The Tale of Solomon Owl 1 'The Tale of Daddy Longlegs," "The Tale of Betsy Butterfly and all the other adorable "sIeepy Time Tales'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-06
STRICTLY MUSICAL
 BILL FOR bUOU

Loews Bijou patrons will enjoy a strictly musical and comedy bill for the opening bill of the coming week. in each Of the five acts there is music and in most of them a deal of comedy
 Cantor and Yates have added another tabloid musical comedy to their produc- tions and this will headline the pro- sramme. It is called Lets Co.," and is written around railroad trip. The everyday occurrences on railroad train are burlesqued and jagged" in a man. ner said to be truly delightful or course some songs and bit of danc- ing add to the variety of the sketch. Billy Batchelor, Hazel Vert and Bob Brown carry the principal roles and are said to get every possible laugh out of every situation.
 Craig and Catto are newcomers in vaudeville. They are former mus cal comedy artists and are said to bring to vaudeville a line of songs and chatter that is new and refreshing
 Fred Grey and Nellie Graham are to be seen in sketch they call The New Musical Bellboy.' They inject many laughs into their offering, which is chiefly musical, and in which both are said to furnish some splendid music on brass instruments, saxophones, bagpipes and trumpets.
 popular song revue by a pair of singers whose voices are said to be above the ordinary is the offering of Bert Bren- nan and Josephine Marley.
 Bert Wilson and Billie Marion are to be seen in a jazzy dance cycle that is said to show an exceptionally selected series of dance steps, many of which are reported entirely new.
 Olive Thomas will live again on the screen in the Selznick production. 'Everybody's Sweetheart which is said to be one of the most attractive pictures in which the late film star appeared
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-06
MARDI GRAS BALL

Birmingham is big enough and pro- gressive enough to do things in metro politan way" said Hugh Hill Saturday night, ''and that's the reason booked the big Mardi Gras ball for Edgewood park the coming Tuesday ,night. Even though we haven't Mardi Gras on the scale that Mobile and New Orleans at tempt it. we are going to stage ball on an even bigger scale than those two cities, IIllco Amusements has gone to great expense for the Tuesday night ar fair, but tha management feels that the attraction will draw enough amusement seekers to the resort to warrant the ex- penditure."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-06

himselD who is now an orphan, strus- gles on slim salary as a clerk in a steamship office.
 After a series of incidents in which his poverty is accented, and his efforts to make both ends meet take on an ex- tremely humorous aspect to the audience, it comes about that Grandfather Brew ster offers to make a gentleman of ms grandson, and presents him with mill lion dollars.
 The other grandfather makes a counter proposition to Monte, to take him into his business as an active partner and give him five million dollars, if at the end of the year he is absolutely broke. How he carries out this compact, spends the million and experiences the stran Sest tricks of Fate rounds out the story in an hour and half of riotous laughter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-06
MINERS DODGE TAXES
By Associnted Prcss

Cardiff, Wales, February 5.-Some coal miners of South Wales are being paid as high as n.ooo a year, while wages amounting to f7o0 to fS0o are fairly com mon Despite this, the government IS having difficulty in collecting income taxes from the miners. Last year nearly 15,000 of them were summoned for non payment, but only i9 of this number were committed to prison.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-06
Pride Drives Starving
 Budapesthans to Death
Ry A..oclatea rr.ss

By Associated Press
 Budapest. January 1s.--An Amer. lem Red CrOss Kitchen has been opened here tO feed 50OO0 children. but the naiscry among nduIt~. ac- cordinG to Captain Pedlow of the Red Cross, surpashes even that of Vienna.
 ~They hide their suffering through pride and they revolt at the idea of aakinE help from for ciRnera." CAptnin Pedlow said. '4To help them one must coneeal the cksrfabIe aspect of the work. have seen much poverty, but never anything like that of Budapcat.''
 In Vienna, he snid. American and other foreign aid had brought some relief while virtually n0thiNE had been done by the outside world here.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-06
POLES BUY PAINTING
Canvas at Vienna Hurts Pride of
 Patriots
By Associated Press

Vienna, February 5.-The painting en- titled "Reichstag," canvas by the Pole. Matejko. has been sold to the Polish government by Austria, not primarily to bring some money into the Austrian treasury but to satisfy Polish national pride. It pictures the scene in Warsaw ir 1766. when the Poles, under the force of Russian pressure, renounced thelr fight to have their own Parliament.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-06

1.-THE CHORUS GIRL AND OTHER
 STORIES"
 By Anton Chekhov. (Translated From the Russian by Constance Garnetp The McMillan Company. Publishers New York City.
 Of all the Russian wriNers An on Chekhov is perhaps the most realistic using the word in it's humber and nore literal sense He does not pos sess the romanticism of Turgeniev, or the spiritual enthusiasm of Tolstoy, or the abnormal psychopathic insight