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Evening star., 1921-12-12
LOOK WITH MODER ATE FEELING
OF HOPEFULNESS FOR 1922
New England Trade Conditions, However,
Are Somewhat Confused Just Now.
Textiles Are Active.

BUSINESS conditions and the general
financial situation shows gratifying
Improvement here, although the holi-
oay trade has not developed as ex-
pected. There has been a steady in
crease in the construction of both
homes and business structures, and
this increase has been assisted by
easier money. Unemployment is less
serious.
Reports from the farming districts
the last few days are not SO favorable
as they We're earlier in the fall. Crops
are moving slowly. and prices now
being paid for agricultural products
generally are low. Federal loans to
farmers and to the country banks
which are carrying farm paper have
materially relieved the situation.
Shortage Of rain has been an added
anxiety to the farmer. The streams
are low. and there is little snow in
the mountains This means a possible
shortage of power for Industrial pur-
poses. as the late shows melt quickly
and do not possess the power to store
moisture on the water sheds that OBJ
tain with early SHOWS. Pastures are
poor and cattle are suffering. Little
plowing has been done as yet.
Reports on the fresh fruit season
just closed show shipments Of 4O.2O8
cars valued at $S0,OO0.0OO. Grapes led
the other fruits with 10000. It is in
dicated that the fruit movement next
year will exceed $1,000 cars
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FOREIGN BONDS
FEATURE MARKET
by STUART r. WEST.

NEW YORK. December 12.-The
feature in today's bond market was
the great strength of Japanese and
British governments. a direct result
of the agreement reached last week
at Washington. which points toward
permanent peace in the Pacific. The
Japanese issues were well above their
previous high of the year. the first
4i2S selling up to sS and the second
the sterling loan rose two points to
a. City OF Toxic IS. with rise Of
nearly a point, eQualed their high.
United Kingdom issues We're almost
equally strong. The 5ls s OF 1887, the
former high on which had been 9512,
and which had closed on Saturday at
947s, reached 81, at the same time the
512s of 1929 were up 2 points when
they went above 80.
Liberty bonds were lower at the
start. but more than regained this
slight loss later.
Mexican government bonds were in
demand. the As up a point and the
SIS up Il points. This scarcely had
much significance. however. as in
dicating Developments in the Mexican
relations or in the negotiation for the
refunding of the external debt. Rather
curiously. while the Mexican govern
ments were going UP. the per cent
bonds of the National Railways of
Mexico. took sudden tumble
The general bond list was very ir-
regular, with about an even division
of advances and declines All the St
Paul bonds went lower. some of them
losing a point and more. Chicago
Great Western As. Pennsylvania Is
and Hudson & Manhattan refunding
% were among those which lost
ground. The Erie general lien As
were soft. New York Dock As sold
nearly points under their last pre-
vious transaction.
Wilson Bonds STEADY.
Wilson & Co.'S first 6s were not
affected adversely either by the new
$1O.125,000 issues or by the accom-
panying statement that the com
pany would have a deficit from this
years operations.
The Chile Copper 6s and Cerro de
Pasco SIS moved in sympathy with
the strength in the copper shares
generally. The Cerro de Pascos
equaled their high of the year.
American Smelling SIS were also
stronger. The new Missouri, Kansas
sold at new high prices. So did New
York Telephone Is and New York
City 41as of 1868.
The syndicate in charge of the
$1O.125.000 Wilson & Co. ten-year
convertible sinking fund 71s per cent
gold bonds, maturing in 1881, report
ed the early sale OF the entire issue.
These bonds were priced at 96h and
interest, to yield over per cent. The
city of Philadelphia will issue $9,000.-
600 bonds next month. The interest
rate will be fixed later.
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Notes.,


OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla, December
IL (SpeciaD.-Corn Is SO plentiful and
money so scarce in western Oklahoma
that farms and merchants are using
the grain as a medium Of exchange.
Merchants are accepting corn in pay
ment for goods at a rate higher than
the price quoted in the grain mar
kets. They reason that 1t will be
more profitable to store the corn until
prices advance next year than to
carry their stocks of goods over until
next spring.
PITTSBURGH. December II (Spe-
ciaD.-A second great fleet Of barges
loaded with steel products has left
Pittsburgh for down river points. The
cargoes consisted Of over $4,000 tons
Of steel, which 1t would require $50
railroad cars to carry. The heet is
composed of eight two-hundred-foot
barges. which carry pipe. nails
spikes. wire. plates, bars and shapes.
The first shipment Of this character
was made few weeks ago and the
method proved so satisfactory that
a large tonnage is being diverted
from the railroads. 1t required four
teen days for this shipment to reach
ST Louis against nine days for all
rail shipments and steamboat men
hope to reduce the running time OF
the barges to ten days. The shipment
now en- route is from the Jones q
Laughlin plants.
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SEEDS so YEARS OLD YIELD.

ORILLIA, Wash. December 10
Squash seed fifty years old was plant
ed last summer, grew and produced
an abundant crop Of fruit This seed
was brought from Illinois in 1870. by
an immigrant. and was found among
some old papers. The package WAS
recognized as one which had dill
gently been sought fifty years ago.
Although shrunken and dried up, the
seeds were soaked three days in warm
water, planted. and enough germi-
mated to produce q crop.
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BRASS SALE Is DENIED,

HARTFORD. Conn.,. December IL
Charles F. Brooker of Ansonia, chair
man of the board of the American
Brass Company. in a statement to the
Hartford Courant. denies the publish
ed report that the brass corporation
had received a proposal from the An
the purchase of the. brass company's
stock. Mr. Brooker said that the re-
port that he had decided to submit
such a proposition to the stockholders
of the brass company was untrue
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LONDON HAS APPLE GLuT.

NEW YORK, December 12.-Sup
plies of apples and pears on the Lon
don market are too heavy for the
present demand, according to q cable
gram received. The market is badly
glutted and prices are dropping. The
fact that Christmas trade is slow in
developing will likely result in q fur
Their decline. Supplies in sight are
sufficient to last over the lst Of jan
uary.
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ORIGIN MUST BE INDICATED.

NEW YORK. December 12.-All
goods exported into Canada after De-
cember 81 must be marked SO as to
indicate the country or origin, under
a new Canadian tariff act it is re-
ported. The penalty for failure to
mark the goods is an additional duty
of 10 per cent and the holding of the
goods until they are marked at the
importers expense.
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YEARS COTTON CROP

The cotton crop this year will
amount to 3.9S9.403.000 pounds. which
is equivalent to $4,000 bales of 500
pounds gross. the Department of
Agriculture announced today in it's
final estimate.
The average weight per running
bale Is estimated at 1878 pounds.
The price paid producers Decem-
Der 1 was 1872 cents per pound.
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I. S. TREASURY CERTIFICATES
Rate-Matnrity.
TRADE DRUMMERs CHANGE,

PHILADELPHIA, December I2.-
There is Il gradual but steady change
in the personnel of travelling sales
men. according to business report.
before the war there were two
classes" it is stated. One consisted
Of the big fellows who drew good sal
aries and did good business The
other class were the pludderS, out all
the time looking for anything that
might come their way, but they We're
plugging constantly. When business
conditions changed the big fellows
from order seekers to order takers
many lost their pep The plodders
now are making the best statesmen
look to their laurels"
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NEW USE FOR OLD FABRIC.

NEW YORK. December 12.-New
use for an old fabric has been found
by a local concern, which Is now
brio finfsh) that is made Of Fruit of
the Loom" The new tape is said to
cut on a true bias. with the seams
onened and pressed. 1t is marketed
under the standard label by which
"Fruit of the Loom" muslins are sold.
The tape is used for piping. binding,
edping and trimming. Another use
for Fruits which has been found in
the comparatively recent past is
Converting it into fabrics suitable for
the manufacture of shirts.
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Strike Pail Falls Upon
Traders in Southwest
BY JAMES II. RECORD.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
FORT WORTH, Tex. December H.
Further anxiety and distress among
the stock growers of the southwest,
because of the packers strike and a
concerted effort of all financial in
terests to relieve the pressure on TIE
smaller banks of the live stock and
agricultural area. marked the prog
ress Of business in the southwest In
the last week. The cattle and calf
market collapsed under the strain of
the strike. and many a ranchman was
forced to ship his cattle back home
after unloading them at the Fort
Worth stockyards. Hogs and sheep.
however, continued steady.
The federal reserve system and
state and national banks have united
to aid the little banks that are car
rying overdue farm and stock paper.
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REFINED SUGAR QUIET.

NEW YORK, December 1.-THE
early raw sugar market was un-
changed at cents cost and freight.
equal to $50 for centrifugal for new
crop uncontrolled Cubas with the COM
mittee's price 2x cents cost and
freight, equal to 3.9e for old crop.
There were no sales reported.
Raw sugar futures were irregular
with orders evenly divided. and prices
at midday were 2 points higher to
net lower, with the trade awaiting
developments at the spot market.
Refined sugar was unchanged at
5.2o for fine granulated. Businsss Is
limited.
Refined futures were without trans-
actions
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A definite program for this assistance
Will be announced within the next
few days. The banks to be helped are
those outside the reserve system.
Successful marketing of bonds for
road and paving purposes all over the
state was announced today, and an
era Of building and road construc-
ton will follow at once. This il ex-
pected to absorb many Of the unem-
ployed.
Reports throughout the state indi-
cate that more corn than usual Ia
being stored on the farms and In ele-
vators and warehouses to await bet
ter prices. New Mexico, where the
crop was the best ever raised, ID
storing the greater portion OF the
yield.
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HOLIDAY CAKES ACTIVE.

PHILADELPHIA, December ia
large manufacturer of fancy cakes
and biscuits has taken orders for
three times the quantity of fruit cake
sold for 1920 holiday season. He has
added twenty items to his line and
has attracted new business, besides
broader orders from customers. Prices
are go. to 40 per cent lower than 1929.
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ADVANCES TO GRANGERs.

total Of 256 advances for agricul-
tural and live stock purposes. aggre-
eating S3,2s0,000. We're approved by
War Finance Corporation from De-
cember to December 2, according to
a statement issued by the corpora
ton. The advances were distributed
between twenty-three states of the
west and south.
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Relieves Headache

A little Musterole, rubbed on fore
head and temples, will usually drive
away headache. A clean, white oint-
ment, made with oil of mustard,
Musterole is natural remedy with
none of the evil after-effects so
often caused by internal medicine" !"
Get ,rusterols at your drug stors. % and
&c. tars and Tubes: hospital size, -.
Evening star., 1921-12-12

Princess Mary began her schooling
at the age of four, together with her
brothers, in the royal schoolroom.
Queen Mary has always had full con-
troll of her daughters education. The
princess has read great deal. and
she is particularly fond OF memoirs
and letters of famous people. and au-
tobiographies. She keeps a diary. in
which she makes notes of her opin-
ions
Evening star., 1921-12-12
WO0LEN MILLS ABSORBED.

Two wooden mills in this city and one
in Yantic, suburb. owned by the
Norwich Woolen Mills Corporation
and valued at about $3,00O.O0O. have
been acquired by the American Wool
en- Company. it is learned. Terms of
the agreement Were not made public.
Evening star., 1921-12-12
BY EDISON b. SMITH.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BOSTON, December 12-Business
men in this section of the country are
looking forward to 1922 with a mod
crate feeling of hopefulness. The
view of leading bankers here is that
next year will show material i'm
provement over present conditions. al
though they expect the coming year
to be under the average of the last
ten years. Conditions in New Eng
land at the present moment are some
what confused, with some industries
doing well and some doing almost no
business.
Textiles continue active. with the
woolen and worsted mills running
close to capacity. The wool market
is buoyant, but manufacturers are
afraid the higher prices for wool will
hurt the demand for cloth. The paper
industry is improving steadily, and
there is a better demand for building
materials, including lumber, brick.
cement and hardware. 1t is believed
1922 will see decided boom in build
ing.
The housing shortage here still is
acute. Makers of tools, high grade
boots and shoes, machine shop opera
tors and shipyard men find their busi-
nesses still acutely depressed. The
retail trade is enjoying the usual be-
fore Christmas boom sales. which eX-
ceed those of last year in volume.
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las shown little signs of softening.
Leather.

PHILADELPHIA, December IL (Spe-
cial).--Sole feathers are in demand
here at higher prices. Stocks of shoe
manufacturers are running low as the
end of the year approaches. Upper
feathers are sharing in the improve
ment to some extent,
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Lumber.

NEW YORK. December 12 Especially.
Lumber demand has fallen off
slightly in the last few days, but
prices for yellow pine and douglas fir
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HOslefy.


Hosiery.
PHILADELPHIA, December IL
(SpeciaD.-Wool hosiery even now is
being bought heavily for next winter.
Deliveries are being contracted for
eight or nine months in advance at
local knitting factories.
PATERSON. N. j., December -
tSpeciaD. - Paterson hosiery mills
have now been brought up to 100 per
cent capacity production, and con-
tracts have been received which run
we'll into next spring. Silk lines are
the most active at the moment.
Textiles.
CHICOPEE FALLS, Mass, Decem-
Der IL (SpeciaD.-Cardroom speeder
tenders who have been on strike at
the Chicopee Manufacturing Com
pany's plant for four weeks returned
to work today, agreeing to accept a
IL per cent cut in wages.
Iron and Steel.
The tone Of the pig iron market is
strong here. Negotiations now are
under way for 1900 tons for a New
England manufacturer and 1000 tons
for the American Radiator Company
and 1000 tons for export to Japan.
WOODLAAWN, Pa, december II
SpeciaD.-Seventeen mills Of the
Jones & Laughlin Company are op-
Grating today-the largest number
for months.
ST. LOUIS, December IL (SpeciaD.
The iron and steel industries are
just about holding their recent gains,
with the aid of added orders for rail-
way supplies and equipment.
E1>o<rl~Ap Enn1nva~n
PITTSBURGH, December II (Spe-
ciaD.-The Daido Electric Power
Company of Japan has awarded a
contract for $2.OO0,000 worth of cleo
trical equipment to the Westinghouse
International Corporation.
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Hides.

SEATTLE. December IL (Special).-
The hide market here is dull, with
salted heavies selling at 4 to an cents
pound and kips at cents.
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Poultry.

NEW YORK, December IL (Spe-
ciaD. - Prices quoted to farmers
throughout the country at present In
dicate that the Christmas turkey in
this section will bring at least SO
cents a pound.
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Commodity Reports
From Various Sections
Nuts.

HARRISBURG, Pa. December IL
(SpeciaD.-The state authorities have
issued orders that nuts in storage
more than q year must be withdrawn
from the market unless labeled
stored nuts.
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Hensp D,

NEW YORK, December 12 Especially.
England and Japan have
placed good orders for manila hemp
In the last few days. but no special
advance in price is expected.
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PaReE.

STOCKHOLM, December IL (Spe-
ciaD.-The Swedish wood pulp and
paper market is improving and prices
are rising, but prospects for winter
shipments are not promising.
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Coal.

STANDARDIZATION Of miners to ac-
cept a wage reduction from the union
scale is resulting in the resumption
Of work at many mines. The Gleason
Coal and Coke Company mines at
Gleason, W. Va; the Blaine Mining
Company and the Garrett County Min
ing Company have resumed.
PARIS. December IL (SpeciaD.-
Coal production of France is increas-
ing steadily.
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kFaut.

wAUKESdA. Wis. December IL
Especially. Bulk and canned kraut
is moving freely. as there Is
shortage Of this commodity in many
localities.
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Live stock.

SEATTLE. December 12 (SpeciaD.-
The Pacific northwest market has
been cleaned up on feeder lambs. One
large operator is credited with having
bought half a million lambs.
The price has jumped from Sc to $3.50
per hundred pounds in the last month.
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Fruit.

PORTERVILLE, Calf, December IL
Especially. - The shipment OF navel
oranges from this district is averag-
ing about seventy cars a day. Cooler
weather has added color to the fruit.
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Grain.

KANSAS CITY. December II tSpe-
cial),-The new FIVE e-million-dollar re-
finery of the Corn Products Company
here will be put in operation in Feb
ruary. 1t will manufacture sirup.
glucose and other products from
corn.
Evening star., 1921-12-12
Condiments.

NEW YORK, December 1c Especially.
The first shipment of the new crop
of Hungarian paprika is expected to
arrive in January. This cargo already
has been contracted for.
Evening star., 1921-12-12

Europe Buys Stocks.

Europe bUyb StOckHs
Houses handling orders for foreign
account reported that, for the FIRST
time. London was actively buying
American stocks today. This. OF
course. was the logical result Of the
rise in sterling Saturday and again
this morning. Inasmuch as the pound
buys more dollars than it did. all
securities quoted on dollar basis have
become more attractive in English
eyes Union Pacific was one Of the
higher priced stocks which London
was picking up. There was also quite
a bit of English buying in some Of
the low-priced rails. Amsterdam was
responsible for the upward move in
Royal Dutch
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-01-17

A man interested I'm large affairs was
sitting in club in New York when he
heard another near him remark.
There is scientist in Washington
who gets more offers of remunerative
employment than does the motion pic L.
ture actress Of reigning vogue-and at
as attractive salaries" -,
The individual who overheard asked
nm associate in Washington to find and
report on the man Of laboratories who
was kept 20 busy refusing to make
money. Inquiry led 70 Frederick Gard
ner Cottrell, who writes himself down
as a chemist.
1t was found that DR.. Cottrell had
made an invention which brings in hun
dreds Of thousands Of dollars a year,
and that he had given 1t away. It was
found further that he had risen to the
position of chief OF one Of the great
scientific bureaus of the government,
the Bureau Of Mines, and that he was
asking to be relieved Of that post. He
wanted to go back to his laboratory.
DR.. Cottrells principal desire in life
is to spend his time In original scientific
research. He wants to find out new
things under the sun. He has demon =
strated a way of doing just this. The
invention which he gave away was an
appliance which could be put in q
chimney or smokestack and which would
precipitate any particles of dust oil
smoke that might start up the chin
ney. Great Industries know OF his knnck
for practical scientific work and try to
employ him, but he refuses. Despite al
of which DR.. Cottrell is q vigorous
young man, in appearance not unlike
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-01-17
HIJMANSMS d" sy.s"sses .gs OF m Iss @ "e S"s sns sv
BY WILLIAM ATHERTON DU PUY

successful Americans in other walks of
active life.
William Gibbs McAdoo, while secre e
tary of the treasury, was seated one day
in the smoker of train when man
sitting next to him looked up from
an editorial in his paper and said:
well, what do you think of that
blistering idiot, McAdoo2 He knows
about as much about finance as Hot.
tentot does of evening clothes. What
do you think of him?"
II think you are largely right" aid
McAdoo. II think he rattles around
in his job q good deal, and Is far from
understanding all that Is going on. His
training was not all it might have been
for the biggest financial job Ia the ma :
ton. But what could you expect from,
a mere lawyer with job or two OF
promotion to his credit?"
Nothing /! Absolutely nothing!'' wa:
the reply. That is what expected and
that is what the country will get"
Out of their agreement on this subject
the two developed an acquaintance ant
went in to dinner together. BY the tim,
they had got to New York they wer,
so friendly that they spoke Of lookin,
each other up. The stranger gave hi'
name. It was Patterson, and he men
toned the firm he was with.
Then the other spoke. His name wal
McAdoo, William Gibbs McAdoo. sec
retary Of the treasury, with headquar
ters in Washington. The latch strinI
was OUT to Mr.. Patterson, one Of hi
employers, and there was no ban oil
! freedom Of speech.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-01-17
Deaths of a Day
HARRY C. POTTER, JR.
Trust company's Treasurer Dies
Following Short Illness

Harry c. Potter. Jr., treasurer of the
United Security Life Insurance and
Trust Co. and president of the Tredyf-
frin Country Club, died yesterday morn =
ing of pneumonia after an illness Of a
week, al the home Of his father in law,
Joseph F. Page, in Paoli.
Mr.. Potter and his family have been
in Paoli this winter, but maintained a
home in Ardmore.
Mr.. Potter was forty two years old.
He uas graduated from Princeton Uni :
versity with the class of 1898. Al
Princeton he played football and was
captain of the track team: After grad :
uation he entered the banking busi-
ness.
In 1912 Mr.. Potter married Mist
Edith Page. who with two small chill
dren. II. c. Potter, Sd, and Elizabeth
survive him.
Mr., Potter succeeded A. Edward
Newton az president of the Tredyffrir
Country Club. which has become one o
the leading golf clubs in this section
He was also member of the Princeton
and Merton Cricket Clubs.