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The Washington herald., 1921-08-07
Increases in July Failures.

The trend toward reduction in
failures that has been irregularly in
progress this year received a check
last month. Exclusive Of banking
and other fiduciary. suspensions.
which are separated from CONNER
cial defaults in Dun's compilation,
the July incolvencies number 1,t44,
42.775,0 Of Indebtedness.
Comparison With the June returns
discloses larger increase in liabili-
ties than in number of failures. the
latter rising "a per cent and the ag-
gregte amount involved. gas Der
cent. While the number of defaults
Of unusual siZe-those for $780, 900
or more in each instance-was the
same in both months, being 5s, the
indebtedness of these insolvencies
increased 23.4 per cent in July. All
failures considered. last months se-
erage Of liabilities is about $500,
or some $3.4oo more per default than
in June. With two exceptions. how
ever-ApriI and June-the July total
is the smallest Of the
present year, and 36.5 per cent below
the high record Of March.
The Washington herald., 1921-08-07
FURTHER DROP IN
PIG IRON PRICES
Believed That Present Quota.
tions Are Below Costs of
Production.
special correspondenes Of The Washington
Herald and New York Eveninr POST


Herald and New York Evening Pest)
PITTSBURGH. Pa, Aug. 6.-whiie
steel prices still have some room for
declines, though perhaps not muca,
pig iron prices are already un-
reasonably low, and there is a bare
possibility of pig iron recording a
little advance in the near future,
giving buyers a hint that such a
thing as price advances in the iron
and steel industry have not been
taken out of teh reckoning for all
time.
A sale of basic pig iron in the
valleys a few days ago put the
quotable market down from $1s to
SIS, (. o. b. valley furnaces. The SIS
price is out of relation with any
conceivable standard. The present
ent freight assembly cost to valley
furnaces on the coke, ore, and lime
stone is in excess of $40, so tha,
with an s1s price less than IS would
be left for producing the raw ma
terials at their points or produc-
tion and operating the furnace,
while obviously IS would fall far
short Of covering the four items.
The only possibility Of an s1S price
being justified would be a large
decrease in freight rates before the
present stocks of pig iron, which
are making the market. are ex-
hausted, and this is quite improb-
able. The rate reductions will
probably be moderate when they
come. amounting perhaps to only 81
or S3~per ton of pig iron. and they
may not come until sgout the end
OF the year. With any kind OF con-
sumption the stocks should not last
as long.
The Washington herald., 1921-08-07

Total sales shares - 900 yesterday lS
80 nd .sn0 two ago IRON
to date l+oeT4e6e year ago and
The Washington herald., 1921-08-07
Gain in Steel Output.

PITTSBURGH, Aug 6!-The broad
ening in demand upon steel mills in
the past three weeks. while plainly
marked. has not greatly Increased
the tonnage. particularly as the i'm
provement has ben chiefly in the
lighter products. Steel ingot pro-
duction now is probably a shade over
20 per cent Of capacity, while at the
riddle of July IL was probably at a
tribe under a 20 per cent rate. A
rate OF IS o. 40 per cent may be
reached by October. but rates of so
OF per cent are hardly to be expected
before early spring, and then only
with decided improvement in gen.
sral business conditions.
The Washington herald., 1921-08-07
ANTHRACITE COAL
SITUATIONS SERIOUS
|SAYCTTY DEALERS
So Declares Manager of
Large Washington
Concern.
SHIPMENTS SMALL
Statistics Show Decrease of
$1,000 Tons Under Nor
NAL Year.
SHIPMENTS SMALL

Z A shortage of anthracite coal will
hin Washington as soon as cold
weather appears. The shortage will
be caused not by failure to dig the
coal out of the ground. but by the
inability to supply the local demand
when everybody rushes to get their
requirements. 1t is purely a local
condition, declare various coal deal
ers. but that will not keep people
from getting cold when the ther-
mometer drops.
Shipments of coal to this city are
$4,000 tons behind normal, freight
figures show. while, the total an
|thracite production is a million and
a half tons ahead OF last year, ship
ruents to Washington are below nor
NAL.
.,r Qaestien OF Delivery.
That means" stated Otto G. Ray
mond, manager of the Agnew Com
pany. that people who wait until
the last minute will be delayed in
getting their coal because it will not
be here to deliver. 1t is a question
Of how much can be stored in the
yards. when that amount is used
up. we have to fill the bins from
freight shipments. Everybody wants
their coal in a hurry. and it becomes
a physical impossibility to deliver 1t
ito everybody at the same time.
IF people would order coal now.
when the teams. wagons and men
are available and not required to
work overtime it would relieve the
pressure on the dealers. and make
less Of a rush in the colder weather,
when. II there is snow. the delivery
lis slowed up and handling Is more
difficult because the Jumps of coal
|freeze in the cars"
The dealers all point out that the
buyer has everything to gain and
nothing to lose by buying now.
Prices have advanced in most in
stances from 55 to 20 cents a ton
over the low quotations made last
April A further advance of from 25
TO 40 cents a ton may be expected
before the advent OF winter And
when really cold weather comes, as
il is bound TO. the people themselves
bid coal prices up in an endeavor to
secure a part of the limited supply
available. In fact, last winter II
was shown that premiums of 81 a
ton were commonly offered for quick
delivery.
Costs Of Mining.
The cost today of mining a ton Of
anthracite. as figured by DIR. George
Otis Smith, head OF the Geological
Survey, shows a price of s7.75 at the
mine DR.. Smith took as the subject
Of his investigation a ton of egg
coal, went to the books Of the pro-
ducer which had an average cost
mine. and found that on the basis
OF a ton of 2,240 pounds, the cost was
divided up as follows:
The Washington herald., 1921-08-07
new ENGLAND MILLS.
GET MORE BUSINESS
Active Demand Develops for
Woollens, Worsteds, and
Ginghams.
Special corespondence Of The waShingtor
Herald and New York Evening Post.)

anu noN 4OTk 6NbuluE EVoIl
PROVIDENCE, Aug. Ga no.
ticeable improvement in buying a.
retail is already said to be reflected
back along the line in some of the
industries of New England which
make goods ready for immediate
consumption. The wooden and
worsted industries are said to be
quite busy. The cotton goods mills
are not as well situated in general
as are the wooden mills. but in some
lines, notbly ginghams, they are
very busy.
This is the vacation period in all
business. 1t is the time when con-
ditions are dull if they are ever
dull. Slackness in summer is Gus
tomary. Mny firms Normally shut
down for a week or NOR in July and
August, and this year are shutting
down for longer periods, giving an
exaggerated idea of quitness. But
there is nododging the fact that
that there is still considerable read
justment. to be gone through before
there will be that balance among
prices in different industries which
is essential before the products Of
one can be exchanged freely for
those of another.
wooIen Mills Busy.
A stzong recovery from the de-
preston of winter is taking place
in New England woollen and worst
ed mills, which are running at
nearly full, capacity. While the
situation throughout the country is
unsatisfactory, conditions in New
England are looked upon as being
a little better than in a majority
of industrial centers. Business men
are not finding many new prob
lens, but problems due to confu-
sion nd uncertainty, resulting from
continued unven liquidation.
The falling on in the volume of
business in the retail stores, espe-
cially the department stores, has
caused more cautionless in buying,
nd this is a handicap on the millss
which are trying to get back to
normal. Some say the decrease In
volume in the retail stores is. due
to the lowered prices. and the phys
ical volume Of goods turned over
Us actually as great. 81 not greater,
than during the corresponding pe-
riod Of year ago. -
The Washington herald., 1921-08-07
WASHINGTON PRODUCE.
1Furuished By Golden Il Co..

Eggs-Southern. 36c: nearby. SSc-
Butter-Print. 47a54c; creamery
extra, 45aslc: store packed. &c
Poultry-alive: roosters. leal'c:
turkeys. 3oa35c; springers. Stassc;
white Leghorns. esa3oc; hens, 27a
soc: keats, 7sc; dressed fowls. 33a
35c; turkeys. 43a+5c: roosters. goa
23c.
Fruits (green)-AppIes Western
per box, 81 .50a3.oo; lemons. per box.
st9al2: Georgia peaches. sS.Soae:
new apples. bushel baskets, s3a3.So.
vegetables-New potatoes. bbls q.
s5.5oa6, 10-reck sacks, IS; canta-
loupes, tops. Arizona standards
per crate. s2.25s2.75: ponies. 75cs
S2.o0 string beans. S.5oa2.oo bu.;
new cabbage, home grown. t.ooa
$50 per bbl.; beets, per bunch. 2a6c;
peppers, per crate, S.ooa2oo; near
by cymblings, per crate, I.5oaz.oo;
North Carolina loupes. standards
sl.5Oa2.o0 nats. 75casl.e5: South
Carolina loupes. standards, 15ca
Sl.5o; fats. 5ocasl. Sweet potatoes.
per barrel. f5.5oas5o; yams, per
bbl.. s4.ooa5.oo..
= New York bunch celery. 15caf. 90;
watermelons. in carlots. 2oa22 lbs,
average s1.25s1.5o; 24a2S lbs, aver
age. s1.75a2.25.
Meats Dressed veal. 1Sal6c;
choice calves. stsaloEc.
The Washington herald., 1921-08-07

1t is now estimated that more
than $4,000 bales of brown sheet
ings and drills have been sold this
year for shipment to foreign mar
kets. principally for the Far East
and Near East. Three-yard sheet
ings have sold in the largest VOL
ume, and are now quoted on a ba-
sis OF. SIC by several houses. When
the foreign selling began. as low as
7%c net was quoted.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-07-17
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The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-07-17
HOW TO NIP A
RUMOR IN THE BUD

CONTINUED FROM PRECEDING PAGE)
viii. Many IA good product with a
good merchandising plan back OF 1,
has been hurt tremendously by ru-
mors not met by the producer.
"Thoro isn't drop of orange In that
drink" said OF summer beverage.
for n while threatened to Kill what
is now "A prosperous business. Glass
cooking ware at one time was held
back because some women would
say To their ncighhors, every good
idea-but glass win break" They
didn't know; they had never tried
cooking with glassware. They were
just individuals who didn't weigh
their words. and so hurt salcs.
Just this week the olcomargarine
manufacturers of America In n
meeting at Atlantic city decided to
inuugurato n nationwide advertising
campaign to countcrsct and Kill off
u flood of rumors which were start
I'd about their product. other in
dustries and companies may havo
equal reason to advertise for the
same purpose. Tho ICltZel Steel
Form company Is buying space I'm
business papers under the heading
"Rumors and Facts to deny ru-
NOR that II is unable to make dcliv-
cry Of steel road forms.
At the present time thcre are ru-
mors about certain products In the
electrical, food ana household ficlds
and about certain chain stores which
are holding back buying and, If not
met. will eventually hurt even more.
There are rumurs about institutions
which are palpably false but which
arc holding back confidence and
faith.
This iS an excellent time for every
manufacturer 10 find out whether
there are any rumors about his pro
duct, ~ to price, quality, size of
package. deliveries, etc, and, II so,
IN go after them. Whether to fight
them by Indirect mcans-that Is sell
ling the positive ideas and ignoring
the actual rumor-or by n quick ca
tcgorlcal denial Of the reports. nam
ing them and proving their falsitv,
depends often on circumstances, the
product tho company and the
charge.
But tho present Is no time for
poison gas ~ he looscd without de-
fousc--w whlsporing campaigns hurt
anlca nnid advertising and mer
chundisiuE ot tho truth Is n proved
method ~ killing oft the rumor
~. .
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-07-17
The Ransom Price.

To ransom means to purchase,
and the ransom price means the ex-
act corresponding price. A perfect
man had sinncd and lost all. a per-
feet man now. by voluntarily going
into death. would provide the cor
responding price for the redemp-
tion OF mankind. Jesus was not a
sinner. He never committed a sin.
Why, then, should he die? st. Paul
answers; Christ died for our sins
according TO the Scriptures" q
Corinthians 1870 st. John adds:
he is the Precipitation (satisrac-
tion) for our sins and not for ours
only hut also for the sins OF the
whole world."---i John 2:2.
God so loved the world that he
gave his only begotten Son, that
whosoeyer believeth in him should
not perish. hu thave everlasting life,
For God sent not his Son into the
world to condemn the world; but
that the world through him might
be saved tJohn 3:16,lD Jesus
was put to death in the flesh. a
man, and was raised from the dead
a spirit being, divine in nature. Il
feter 3:lN) He asCended on high
as divine being, having the right
10 perfect human life, now TO be
sven In the place of that which
Adam had forfeited; and by this
perfect human life and all the
rights incident thereto ne had pro-
Nlded the ransom or purchase price
ior the redemption and deliverance
OF all mankind from death. As
surely as God has made this provi-
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-07-17

Jehovah had In mind from the
beginning the redemption of man
kind from this condition of suf-
frriug ana death, and their rest ora
tion to that which was lost. Abra-
ham, who lived in the land of the
Chaldeea trusted in Jehovah; and
God called unto him and made him
a promise, saying; II will bless thee,
and make thy name great, and thou
shalt he a blessing: and IN
thee shall all families Of the earth
he blessed tGenesis 1879. 80 At
the time this promise was made
Abraham had no children. He was
10 years Of age, his wife had passed
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-07-17

The adoption of citizenship. car.
rying with il, as It docs, The ahaD-
donment of the reservation system,
is not 10 be easily accomplished Mr..
Everett has been quoted as saying
that in his Investigation OF the sub.
Ject be found the Indians suspicious,
disinclined to show documents and
otherwise showing a decided disin-
Clination toward the change.
The feeling n the local reservat on
on tho northern border of the county
along the St. Lawrence river is very
strongly divided. The Rev. Louis
Bruce has led tho faction I'm favor
OF citizenship and In his advocacy
has aroused the opposition OF tho
chiefs 10y his strong dcnunciation ne
moral conditions on the reservation.
80 great has been the feeling against
the clergyman, who is an Indian anh
nleinber OF the ST. liegia-M ohawl.s
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-07-17
autioIis

Robert, aged s, Hn I'm to hts ia
thor with hls uoso~ ~hlccdng
what have YOU been duinr7" de-
mandrd his father, as ne rendered
first aid.
"A hoy hit me" was the answer
well and did you hit him back" ."
"No, father, you see he Was small
Cr than me"
Tho fathers heart g'owcd
"And besides he was a poor boy"
The parental face hcamod with
pride
"And," added the boy, you can
ncvcr tell how strong those poor
boys are Los Angeles Times
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-07-17

with the cessation OF hos,ilit,cs.
statesmen representing the leading
nations involved met in conference
and tgiyinE them credit for the de-
sire 10 establish peace and pros
porityD the result OF their delibcra-
tions was a covenant known a. the
League Of Nations. This is offered
as remedy for present evils win
II smccccd? \ league formed
amongst all the nations of earth and
based upon the principles OF Jus
tice and righteousness. and In which
al the contracting parties would
honest ly carry out the purpose cN-
pressed would doubtless result in
great good. But whore selfishness
Is the chief motive and controls The
The New York herald., 1921-06-26
Amenhotep figures in romance

the Fourth. He was of a line of mighty
warriors and oonquerors, but his in
terests were of different order. He
was a visionary. who believed he had
found a better religion than that Of
lis ancestors. 1t was his purpose to
supplant the old creed with the word
ings of Atm, the semi god. In order to
do this he mad to fight the inertia of
an inherently conservative people, led
by a priesthood who had held power
for over two thousand years. Defeat
was inevitable. The Pharaoh was so
occupied with theology that the Asiatic
of the Hittltes. Although Amenhotep
failed in all that he attempted, his
figure is one of the most appealing n
history. His hymns to the new god
are among the most beautiful expires :
sions of the eternal quest.
Within the last twenty years we
have gained much information about
this vital figure of the past. Mr. Pier
has utilized these researches to tell his
story He uses a very clever method
of linking the present with the past.
something like the device by which
Mark Twain transferred his Connecti-
cut Yankee to the Court Of King
Arthur. However 1t Is more convincing.
Prof. Kenny has become excited by
the possibility that he may discover
the book of truth. He goes for a
ramble among his excavations and
stumbles into chasm. When he sees
the light again he is Kenny the Syrian
He is servant of Menna, son of
Menna, and carves masterpieces for
which the latter takes all the credit.
He falls in love with the Princess
Sessen, but his love is hopeless. He
becomes involved in the intrigue of
two conflicting factions-the Syrians,
followers of the foreign queen who
had displaced Hanit, and those who
upheld the old order in Egypt. Amen
In the hands of the Poitevins. the
victim of his own uxuriousness. The
splendors of the Egyptian court are
described and the manner in which
the Prince of the Hittites defied the
unwarlike Emperor in his own palace.
It is told as though it happened yes
terday, and it is tribute to-~the
vitality of that Egyptian civilization
which was the cornerstone upon which
Greeks and Romans builded.
Prof. Kenny finally emerged from
his life in the shadowy past to find
himself convalescent after@an attack
OF delirium. However, his brief ac-
quaintance with that bygone age i'm
pressed him so vividly that he could
hardly be certain that 1t was merely a
dream, and the reader of his expe-
riences as chronicled by Mr.. Pier
nurses the same shadow Of doubt.
The New York herald., 1921-06-26
REVIEWS OF NEW FICTION

writing, anyway book of statistical
verse;"
What a question, Mr.. Bucket"
Too bad it isn't book OF statisti-
cal poems. I was going to offer you,
free. bit of verse that you could have
used in work of this kind. I wrote
1t in the days when l did feature sto-
ries for The Sunday Blare. 1t begins
like this:
The pickles made in Pittsburgh. were
they laid out in q line,
Would reaoh-and can prove it.
seven times across the Rhine.
"In the past you have accused me
of f1ippancy, Mr.. Bucket" says Mr..
Flick. plainly hurt, yet you are not
above it yourself"
"Oh, don't be offended, Mr.. Flick
Come, tell me why II was necessary
Tor you to do research work in order
to write your poems"
well, you see, it's like this.
thought Nit would be appropriate to
include in book called Mother Ma
ture' some poems comparing famous
writer's to flowers. Being in the book
business. I naturally do not know any
sary for me to dig into the works of
a number of authors to familiarize
myself with their work How did |
know whether to call Whitman tulip
or geranium unless I read his work.
That's So says Mr.. Buckel with
the air of a man who has just learned
a great truth, that's So"
Here is the first poem." says Mr.
Flick handing his employers some
verses entitled ''The Flowers of Liter
atre.'
Great stuff" says Mr. Bucket
reading it. you have a future"
And You have present" beams
Mr.. Flick You may keep It,"
May I really?"
Certainly"
Won't you autograph it for me?
by all means"
And he did.
Here is the poem that pleased Mr.
Bucket so much:
THE FLOWERS OF LITERATURE
A Shakespearian Sonnet in Fourteen
Lines.
BY
FERDINAND n FLICK
A bookshop is a garden where i see
The flowers of literature. That lily
white
Is Wordsworth Yonder dancing daisy
wee
Is Bobbie Burns. That purple aster
bright
| Drunkenly swaying In the summer
breeze
! Is Wilde upon a spree. G fear he
drank
Too many buttercups) Those peonies-
! Pale pink, innocuous beauties, rank on
rank
Longfellow. Phoebe Cary and their clan
OF bardlets represent. That poppy
red.
Drowsy with it's own opium. 7 can
Assume to be Sam Colerldge. 1t is
said
That dogwood wild is Byron. Hear
him bark
An angry "Woofw at frightened
Southey. Hark
The New York herald., 1921-06-26

has peered into the mystic book of
truth and has learned a power of max
ing the dead live again. He seems to
possess the same faith IN his creations
that Algernon Blackwood has in his
stories of uncanny forces. He has
delved in the new science of archa-
ology, which has made many passages
of Egyptian history better known
than portions of our own Middle Ages
and, like his hero, he believes in the
fearful "hekan" spells and the magic
incantations of the ancients. For this
reason he has achieved more of n sue
cess than Bulwer Lytton in his Last
Days of Pompeii' or Lew Wallace in
Ben Hur." The period with which
he deals is one that has absorbed so
much of his thought and study that he
is familiar with It as a living move
ment and makes it live.
Among the many Pharaohs of Egypt
the most remarkable was Amenhotep