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Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1921-06-17
ADMIRAL SIMS VOICE
OUR good Admiral Sims likes

n UR good Admiral Sims likes
v to hear his voice. He nevet
misses an opportunity to make
speech. Sometimes he meas
ures up to the traditions said Of
one of the great political parties
always to say the wrong thing,
at the right time.
Our readers will remember the
salacious mess dished up to the
reading public few months ago
in the tongue fight between Adj
miral Sims and Secretary Dan
iels. Sims was after those
medals being passed out by
Great Britain, received a few
dozen, more or less, and wore
them with apparent pride. Mr..
Daniels said such an act was in
compatible with our American
traditions. He may have quoted
from Burns
"A Prince can make a belted
Knight,
A Marquis, Duke, an a that,
But an honest mans aboon his
might,
GUIDE faith We mauna ia that,
For a that, and a that,
Their tinsel show an "a that,
The man o. independent mind
He merely laughs at "a that. "
However that may be, Daniels
went out Of office when Mr..
Harding went in, and a man by
the name Of DENLY was appoint
ed as secretary of the Navy. A
leave of absence was recently
granted Admiral Sims who at
once sped to London and start
ed talking. He is reported to
have said, among other things,
in his London speech:
There are many in our coun-
try who technically are Amcri-
cans. naturalized and born there,
but none of them American at
all. They are American when
they want money: but Sim
Feiners on the platform They
are making war on America to-
day. The simple truth of il is
that they have the blood Of
English and American boys on
their hands.
They are Ike zebras, either
black horses with white stripes
or white horses with black
stripes. But we know they are
not horses; they are asses. But
each of these asses have a vote,
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1921-06-17

Dcen Established under law az
places where the public can put
or deposit, y their money anc
yaIuables and rest free from the
worry Of fear, lest the money
and valuables be unlawfully stol
Ell. In such respect, thu
bank" becomes thing almosI
sacred. We haven't the stats
ties at hand to back up the as
sertion, but in our opinion more
people have lost their money
from thieves WITHIN the bank
than have lost their money from
BURGLARS from without the
bank, during the past genera
ton.
In China if a bank fails the
proprietor is beheaded, we are
told, but our banking system il
America is less severe, and the
paper this morning says Ole Lar
son was sentenced yesterday tc
a term of from three to ten years
in prison. His attorneys also
gave notice of appeal. Larson
by his attorneys, will monkey
back and forth, and if Larson
EVER DOES GO TO PRISON
it will not dry the tears MOI
feed the mouths of hungry child,
rem he has unjustly and illegally
deprived Of money which was
their due.
Within a stones throw of the
NEWS RECORD Office tn ere
lives a hard working, honest
frugal family. They contracted
for the purchase Of a place here
on which to make their home.
At the time of the signing of
the contract, the man had some
thing like $1,000 on deposit ii
the bank at Black Diamond. Il
represented the careful savings
Of several months-the sweat OF
many days-the dreams of many
nights = the hopes of a hard
working man, trying to get
ahead" To Vashon they came
less than six months ago, happy
to see snug little home of then
own here, with all the charm this
island holds out. The contract
was signed, blowing was done, a
COW or two purchased, the gar.
den was planted, and the nest
egg Of $1,000 was laying safely
..(?) in the bank in the town from
which they came. Then all OF
a sudden, like thunder out of q
clear sky, came the report that
the president of the Black Dia.
mond bank had skipped to Can
ada and the bank was closed
The savings of this man who had
recently come to us, were
gone. Imagine the rainbows of
this family fallen in the dust,
and then multiply this family by
thousands of other families in
a similar predicamcnt, and you
have vision of the enormity of
the crime of BANK LOOTING.
However, and that is the rea-
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1921-06-17
BASKET FASTENER is HANDY
Particularly Suitable for Fastening
Tops on Fruit and Vegetable
Containers,

The Scientific American in lllustrat-
ing and describing a basket fastener
the invention Of ]. +. Kennedy of
Charleston, i. o., says:
"The invention relates generally to
fruit and vegetable baskets and more
particularly to the fastenings thereof,
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1921-06-17

SEXsaZzsz0zyZ4ssnzszszsstxsE.
] at u..s.---J
M'iihSl2ll
N!M!:!:: M!'''
80 ll2o Pacific Ave.
! Tacoma, Wash.
4 They SAP That,
4 No greater tribute
can be paid to any
4 House than that of
4 continued patronage;
4 it shows a confidence
A alike in the firm selling
4 and in the goods
! they sell:
4 This store is main
d tanned and kept up by sew
4 eral thousand people Of
d this city and the country
4 surrounding, who come to
d us for what they need
q because they believe that
4 we will be fair with them
4 in their dealings with us;
4 being fair does not
mean alone a fair price at
4 the time of sale but, con
4 tinuing on from that
\ time, our personal
y guarantee Of satisfac
4 tory service from
4 any article bought
4 makes every transaction
I in this House safe
y for Won
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1921-06-17

Have you tried one of those 3
favored ice cream bricks at Fur
bush's? Take one home.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1921-06-17
Pianos Tuned

Now is a good time to have your
piano tuned. Z. c. Shanahan,
Dilworth Point, P. 0. Address,
Eashon, Wash. 19tf
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1921-06-17
A Perspective View Of Basket With
Cover Secured.

an object being the provision of
simple and inexpensive means capable
of ready use without the necessity Of
driving fasteners In the basket cover
as well us n fastener which may be
specially applied and will be effective
In use"
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1921-06-17

-Patroni2o our advertisers first.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-13
Wheat Went to q
 Sharp Setback In
 Chicago Grain Pit

Chicago, September 12,-Sharp set backs in the price of wheat took place today with traders giving spe- cial attention to new low record quo- tations for German marks and to a decided increase of the United States visible supply total Prices closed heavy, 3iac to 4hc net lower; De- cember, s1.29 to s1.29A and May $1331a to $1.33A. Corn lost i4c to 9sc to s4c and oats 5sc to 1c. In changed to soc down.
 Wheat finished near the lowest point of the day. Bears put par ticular stress on the demoralization of German marks as indicating a poor outlook for export trade in grain. Some buying on the part Of export houses was done on the breaks, but whenever the mark ct showed a tendency to rally the selling pressure increased. The outpouring of offerings became especially ur- gent, after the visible supply figures were posted exhibiting 5000, 900 bushels enlarg ement within week. Bulls were further handicapped by predictions of rain in Argentina. whereas little notice appeared to be taken of snow in Canada and in Mon tana as well.
 Corn and oats declined with wheat Frost reports from South Dakota and Wisconsin appeared to have practi- cally no effect on values. s
 Provisions were governed by the hog market, which at first was steady, but later had an evident downward slant.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-13
NEW ORLEANS COTTON
 Nv Assot.iafex prAsa


 New Orleans, La, September 12.- After very brief show of strength on the opening today the cotton mar ket fell off under liquidation and con tracts remained depressed from then on and finally closed at net losses on the session of D. to l10 points It was a day of wide and nervous fluc- tuations. and, while there were many partial recoveries. the strength that has been so prominent of late was missing.
 The opening bulge was due to a sharp rise in Liverpool and to mui- titude of telegrams from Texas tell ing of enormous damage to the crop in that state by the excessive ra ins, high winds and washouts of last week but after october touched 2l.00c the selling out by longs commenced and a sharp break resulted which landed prices 50 to 105 points under the close of last week. For awhile the tone was steady and partial re- coveries came about but these all ways invited further liquidation so that prices moved up and down within rather moderate limits until the bull letins from the weather bureau, in- dicating that the hurricane was mov- ing out into the Atlantic ocean and away from the cotton region, had their effect.
 Then there were further breaks. Added selling resulted from the con tinued weakness of foreign exchange and the lowest prices were reach ed on rumors of the possibility of a mo- ratorium for Germany. Here the more active months were no 10 122 points under the close of Saturday, October falling to ls.0Sc. In the late trad ing the market was highly unsettled
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-13
By BRIGGS

ing the oil was arrived at. Thus in- stead of all the money going to a few Indians on whose land the liquid wealth chanced to be found, it was to be divided equally between all members of the tribe.
 The first year, 1915, each member of the tribe received s170.25. The following year each and every Indian received sS26.Oe
 The following year, 1917, each and every Indian whose name was on the government books received, to have and to Told, s2,60S.
 In the course of time the year 1919 rolled around and the good oil Santa Claus left S5,171 in their stock ing, and all they had to do in return was to be an Indian.
 And then the year 1920 folded its tent and stole away and they found themselves $10,0s1 richer.
 Eachy ear the sum gets bigger. Each year just being an Indian gets to be better paying. job. One or the last bills President Wilson signed was one extending Indian oil pro- lection until 1946. Up to that time the land will be leased out to white operators and the profits turned over to the Indians. After that the 1n- dians will have to shift for them- selves.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-13
COTTON UP IN THE
 AIR AS ID A FIXED
 MARKET VAL UE
Getting Off to an Early Ad- vance, Heavy Selling Set In, Causing Heavy
 Reactions
By Associated Press

New fork, September 12.-There was a continuance of excitement and further violent fluctuations in the cotton market today. An early ad- vance on the Texas storm scare met heavy general selling, much of which seemed to come from the south and was followed by a break which in the case of October was not checked un- til it brought the maximum fluctua
 tion rule into play. That delivery sold off from 21 5Oc, the early high point, to 19 soc, and closed at 19 .57c. IT @ break in the late months was less se- we're, and last prices were several points up from the lowest, but the final tone of tie market was easy at a net decline of 80 to 120 points.
 The influence of the Texas storm news was shown by sensational ad
 vance in Liverpool before the open- ing, and after Starting irregular at an advance of 20 points to a de- cline of points active months here sold 20 to 75 points net higher. At 21 .1Sc for December and 20 .65c for January, the market met increase d offerings, which included heavy southern selling, supposedly to hedge purchases of spot cotton in the belt.
 There was good buying for trade account on a scale down, and after slowing net losses of about 90 to 12o points. the market rallied rather sharply, but weakened again duri~ g the afternoon uroer continued heavy liquidation and hedging. December broke to 19 4Uc and January to declines of 130 to 200 points from the best, and of 90 ito 140 points from Saturdays closing figures.
 Reports that the gulf storm which had appeared threatening toward the end of last week, was passing out to sea, and a private report placing ihe mi d month condition of the crop at 47, which indicated no more than the average deterioration since the end of last August were considered fac tors on the decline. There was also a feeling that the Texas storm had been chiefly injurious to the grade of open cotton and that any cotton lost in the bottom lands might be offset by the filling out of bolls elsewhere. Most of the local brokers. however, attributed the break to liquidation in an overbought market rather than any special feature in the days news, although there was some bearish comment on unsettled exchange rates and European finances.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-13
THE .FIyE-FLUSHER,

l
 i C. Nj, Adams, in Forbes Magazine. i Some persons have so highly de- veloped their instinct for detecting
 false appearances that their minds i reject all positive qualities and re- | spond only to the negative-just as l the camera film rejects the red and
 records the blue rays. But it is quite l as important to recognize the unas-
 suming man who holds five good cards--the "five-flusher," as it is to
 unmask the buffer. You will never
 know what potential productive qual- ities lie dormant in your employees 1 till you search them out; you will l never know what sales possibilities 1 are being overlooked until you plumb l the resources of the unpretentious in dividuals who have $200 ensembles | and s10000 bank balances. | Many as their petty pretenses and | camouflagings make them seem de- | clares Mir. Adams four -flushers are | in reality far fewer than the i've | flushers who go unrecognized--mer who hold five good, bona fide cards but manage to play them so unpre- cautiously that they seem to have not | even a single pair; and, strangely enough, those who lose most through
 failure to recognize them are not the unTGCOknlZ6Q put slHOSS WDO ldll lo do the recognizing.
 "A plainly dressed man wandered into an automobile agency in a large middle western city and made inuuiries. The cars were high priced too high priced for the unpretentious visitor to afford, the know-ita all floor man decided after giving the inquirer the once-over: so he simply
 answered the questions in a bored way and let the caller go without even attempting to make him pros pect. The same thing occurred in three other agencies of high priced
 cars. The chagrin of the Weisen-
 heimer salesmen can be pictured when, a few weeks later, they dis covered that the plainly dressed man
 had bought not one, but two, Rolls
 Royce phaetons-the only specimens
 of that expensive foreign car in that section of the country.
 Every man whose buying capacity Is rated below what it actually is
 represents direct loss of sales pos
 abilities.
 Every applicant for employm ent
 whose prospective performance is rated below what it will prove to be. represents direct loss in perform ance possibilities.
 Every man, or woman, whose per- sonality is rated below what it really is, represents an irreplaceable loss in human possibilities.
 That is why every estimation of character should include a search for something more than appears on the surface-for qualities not revealed by arbitrary, inflexible, cut-and dried methods.
 Tt is useless to set up any abso- lute standard for making such an> estimate. I know one woman who rates men according to their hair and another who rates them according to the shine of their shoes--and each claims complete success
 The important thing. the thing that so many otherwise keen judges of character fail to do, is to set up a standard that will measure the unrecognized five -flusher-not in terms of what he seems, but in terms of what he actually is--for he represents possibly the greatest single waste from our present method of appraising character"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-13
SENTIMENTAL. AND TECHNICAL MARKET FEATURES STOCKS
Dealers In Exchange Were Prepared for the Additional Slump Listed In German
 Exchange
By Associated Press

New York, September 12.-The re- sctionary course of today's stock market seemed to be governed to an unwonted degree by sentimental and technical considerations. Irregular re- versals accompanied the forenoons trading, but leaders made up much of their loss later. only to fall back again in the final hour.
 Shorts evidently were disposed to resume their recent operations on the heavy decrease of August tonnage reported by United States Steel at the close of Saturdays session, and the further demoralization evinced by German and other European ex- changes.
 Another turbulent session in the cotton market and some reduction of available call and time funds also figured in the unstable but fairly ex- tensive dealings. Last weeks favor ties of the oil, steel, equipment and motor groups. notably Mexican Pe- troleum, Baldwin and American Lo- comotives, Bethlehem, Crucible and United States Steels, and Studebaker sustained net losses of to 51a points.
 Sugar, tobaccos, chemicals and shippings also registered declines of ] to 4 points. Metals and lea thers displayed firmness, the latter being helped by declaration of regular divi- dends on Endicott-Johnson. Rails, especially coalers, hardened, but eased at the end when transcontinen- tals gave way.
 Dealers in exchange were prepared for the additional slump in German exchange, London quoting new low record before the opening of this market. Branch iorio Spanish bills also were down, but Swiss and Scandinavian rates moved "ces"st tisis 7e~'>tSt',- ard 4sr esssetsr~ ro- miatances improved on prospects of loan by our bankers.
 Trading in bonds diminished from last weeks activity and price changes were mostly toward lower levels This applied to Liberty is- sues and most of the foreign war flo- tations. but a few convertible rails made slight gains. Total sales, par value, S10.775OO0
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-13
nICHEsT WOMEN IN THE MoaLr

RICHEST WOMEN IN THE WORLu Homer Croy, in Leslie's. | The richest women in the world per capita, are the squaws of the Osage Indian nation.
 There are many individuals who are richer than are the Osage women. but none approach them as a class. ltsis all explained in one word oil.
 It all came about in curious way. The Osage Indians were once Tn southern Kansas and got from the government $40 year for giving up their land. On farms they were settled and here tried to scratch out a living, but it was pretty tough scratching, for in the early days, Kansas was no bed of roses.
 The Indian Territory was then being laid out into state and into this new section the Osages were moved and it was their luck to draw, seemingly, the worst part of Oklahoma.
 Harder scratching than ever it was, so hard that the transplanted people yearned for their cyclones and grasshoppers. Among the sage- brush and alkali they moved, wrest- ling nightly with the soil, until 1915 when a few men with greasy overails came through calculatinr and testing and digging. Pretty soon black, gushing, bewildering flood rose.
 ..Oil. oil" the cry went out. More people came, more oil rigs went up, and the rush was on. It became the scene of the widest oil excite- ment From all over the world peo- pie poured in; towns sprank up al- most overnight and canvas cities rose where the prairie, dog . few wseka before had picked his teeth In. eDnlentm<.u
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-13

LlVerpoOl. l~I. te4.,Jlr l-.-Spot cot ton in good demand. Prices hardee- ing; good middling, 14.9ld; fully middling, 14.22d; middling, 13.77d; low middling, 12 .97d; good ordinary, II .92d; ordinary, II .17d; sales, 15,0oV bales, including 9,7o0 American. Re- ceipts, 15,000 bales, including 14.7o0 American. Futures closed weak; Sep- tember, IS. .34d; October. 13 .29d; Jam uary. 12 .97d; March, 12 .65d; May. l2. 43d; Ju1y, 12 .25d
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-13
PORT MOVEMENT

New orleans: Middling, zoe; re- ceipts. s1o01s exports, 5,1o6; sales, 4,s47 stock, 396,73S.
 Galveston: Middling 20.50c; re- ceipts, 15,224; exports, 4,7S0; sales 1.716; stock, 275,119.
 Mobile: Middling 1S.75c; receipts S02; stock, 14,S31.
 Savannah Middling, 19.75c; re- ceipts, 4,572; exports, 3,s5o; sales 219; stock, 132,S3S.
 Charleston: Middling, 19.5oc; re- ceipts, 370; stock, 191,740. | Wilmington: Middling, 19c; re- ceipts, 16S; stock, 30,020.
 Texas City: Stock, 14,1S5.
 Norfolk: Middling, 19.25c; receipts, 716; sales, 2S4; stock. S7,115.
 Baltimore: Stock. 90s.s
 Boston: Middling, 2i.10c; receipts, 5; stock, 5000.
 Philadelphia; Receipts, S95; stock, S,15S.
 New York: Middling. 1e.Soc; re- ceipts, 3l9; stock, 149,992.
 Minor ports: Receipts, 7,1so; ex- ports, s,222; stock 2,356.
 Total @steday; -Receints, S2.S61; ex- ports, 22,60S; stock, 1.S11,945.
 Total for week Receipts, 5S,669; exports, 42,240.
 Total for season: Receipts 599,247, exports, 555,690.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-13
MAKING HARBOR IN PAUMOrIS

From tho Dangerous Islands, by Frederick O'Brien in Asia maga- zine.
 As the long boat rose on a wave, we jumped upon the cargo. Four Ia bititians were at the heavy oars, with Piri a Tuahine, the steersman, at the stern, holding a long sweep for rudder.
 Now came as delicate bit of ac- ton with sails as yachtsman, with his mother-in law as guest might reclllessly essay.
 The schooner lowed us to within 800 feet from the reef Then. when it must have looked to a landsman
 that sine was almost in the breakers, we cast off the line and took to our
 oars. The maneuver had been nice lseamanship to save time by minim- izing rowing, but certainly it was
 not in Lloyd's rules of safety. In five minutes our boat was in the surf, rolling and tumbiing. Then I had q
 Polynesians, the ablest breaker boat
 men in the world. All about seemed
 to me solid coral rock or distorted masses of limestone, covered and un- covered by the surging water, but suddenly there came into my falter-
 ing view as the steersman headed
 towards II, strange pit in the reef. Into this the water rushed furiously, drawn in and sucked out with each roll of the ocean. The Tahitias at a word, stopped rowing. They tugged with their blades to hold the boat against the sweeping tide while Piri Tuahine scrutinized intently the onrushing waves. He judged the speed and force of each as 1t neared him. On his accuracy of eye and mind depended our lives.
 in a few seconds with 2 wild shout, he set the boatmen again to pulling like mad. while he both stsered and sculied with his long oar. "Tamau te paina"' they yelled amid boom of the surf. Hold on to the wood!' and down into the pit weftore; down and in, the boat raced through the vortex of the chute. Al was in the strong hands and steady nerves of Piria a Tuahine. A fmiscalculated swerve of his sturdy 1ever. and we would have been smashed like egg shells. boat and bodfes, against the massive sides. But spirit and wood were steadfast
 In few twinkliJgs of an eye we were past the reefand in the moat, in fast shoaling. qjiet water. studded with hummocks and heaps of coral. Tie sailors leapN Into 1t, shoulder deep, and guided and forced the boat as far shorewaH as possible. so as to minimize the labor of cargo carry ing. Then CaFain Moet, NcHenry and I plunged Unto water up to our waists and wsfed to the beach.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-13
MARINE NEWS
By Associated Press

Port Eads, September 12.-Arrived Abangarez, Cristobal; Bolivar (Br.) Kingston; Cadiz (Spain), Galveston Chicago Maru tJap.), St. Lucia; Dan ville, Mexico; Excelsior. Havana Frisia (Dutch), Vera Cruz; Manatee Leghorn; Michael l.. Embiricos (Greek), Key West; Tipton, Ceiba Truxillo, Tampa; Venator (Nor.) Kingston; William G. Warden, Balti- more
 Sailed: B1aafjeld No. (Nor.), Tam pico; Choctaw, Porto Rico; Newons (Br.). Tampico; Nicarao (Hond.) Port Cortez; Orcus, Tampa; Quimis- tan tHond), Tela; Sinaloa (Nor.) Frontera.
 Mobile, September 12.-Arrived Liberty Minquas, Fall River; Man. chioneal (Nor.), Port Barrios; schoon- CTS Rose Murphy, Porto Rico; Chau- tauqua, Tampico.
 Sailed: Elizabeth Bandi, Gulfport