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Evening star., 1921-05-09
CALL LOANS ARE
FREELY OFFERED
$3OO,OOO Proffered at 7 Per
Cent, 6 1-2 Best Bid-RaiI-
way Common Active.
BY I, A, FLEMING.

| The introduction of the brokers
call money market on the Washington
Stock Exchange was a success in so
| far as the offerings were concerned
but bankers and brokers were apart
| in their views by one-half of one per
cent, with the result that there were
no loans made.
The Riggs National Bank and the
American Security and Trust Com
| pany each offered 500 900 on call at
| ! per cent: the National Metropolitan
Bank and the Liberty National each
offered $4,000 at the same rate.
On the call - per cent was the
best bid and the banks offering money
refused to shade their rates
1t is understood that the banks Of
fering loans contemplated only New
York collateral, as the local market
is entirely too narrow to permit Of
use OF securities listed thereon as
collateral.
The offering Of loans will continue
from day to day. with the prospects
OF bankers and brokers getting to-
gether. now that the latter know
something regarding the daily offer
lngS or cash that may be expected.
Local Securities.
Considerable activity was developed
on the local stock exchange today in
halfway common. $50 shares in all
being traded in at 80. The preferred
sold in small lots from 61ls to 6l
Mergenthaler brought 120.
The bond section was little better
than nominal with one sale of Rail-
way As at 61
There was the usual attendance of
members. but they seemed to be more
interested in the inaugural of the call
money market than in buying or SELL
ing securities
Another New Concern.
The Cleveland Discount Company has
opened an office in Washington. being
located at 734 18th street northwest.
Hogeland. Randle & Speed are the
representatives of the company.
The business of the Cleveland Dis
count Company is financing building
SchemeS of large Importance apart
ment houses. office buildings, hotels,
etc Against these the company issues
bonds up to 80 per. cent or less of the
actual value Of the property in its
entirety. These bonds will be issued
at per cent but marketed at a price
to insure a much higher rate.
Ihe total resources of the Cleveland
Discount Company are s11,746, ,00S9s.
Wall street Notes.
The Mauretania brought sl2, 900. 900
IN gold. with J. p. Morgan & Co the
chief consignee
Cnlted states steel is said to be
working to about onethird Of it's ac-
tual capacity
Lower prices for automobiles are
the order of the day. Big cuts started
by Marmon are running through the
list of manufacturers. Reading sys-
tenn for March shows a deficit, the
first since last August.
Columbia Grnphophone.
Information is to the effect that the
Columbia Graphophone Company held
during April the improvement made
in its business during March It is a
matter for decision, probably at the
next meeting of the directors in June,
whether or not the preferred dividend
will be declared. Recent declines in
the price of the preferred shares have
probably resulted from fear of a pass
ing or cut in the preferred distribu-
tion.
Evening star., 1921-05-09
Quotations furnished by W b. Hibbs & Co
FOREIGN TRADE NOTES.
PUBLIC UTILITIES.

Total declared value Of exports
from the Amsterdam district to the
United States during the first three
months of this year was S16,267.000.
Deducting the value of shipments and
gold coin, however. reduces the ex-
ports to S7,sT3.O0O. which is a decline
of S12,746,0o0, compared with the first
quarter of last year.
Evening star., 1921-05-09
LIBERTY BOND NOON PRICES.

NEW YORK, May 9.-Liberty bonds
at noon: Three and a halfs. S9.2S,
first Is, $50 bid: second As. $3.50
bid: first 4I4s. 80: second tAs, SH2S.
third 4H $. 9o.6S; fourth AIS, S,.3s:
victory 32.s, 91.9S: victory 4a.s. $500
Evening star., 1921-05-09
PARIS BOURSE FIRM.

PARIS. May 9.-Prices were firm oil
the bourse today. Three per Gem
rentes, 81 francs. Exchange on Lon
don. AZ francs IS centimes. Five per
cent loan, So francs 20 centimes. ina
dollar was quoted at IL francs 20 %
centimeS,
Evening star., 1921-05-09

NEW YORK. May 9.-Flour, quiet:
spring patents, S.50a9.0O; spring
clears, 65oa7.50; winter straights,
1Ooa7 so; Kansas straights. S.25aS.75.
Pork dull, mess, 25.O0a26.00: family,
:o0Oa33 90; lard. easy; middle west.
s9oa10.00.
Evening star., 1921-05-09
Washington Stock Exchange
SALES.

Washington Rwy. 4s-Sl 900 at 6l.
Washington Rwy. cum.-25 at 30. - at 80.
- AT 80. - al 80. - at 30. - at 80
Washington Rwy. pfd.-5 ut 81 Il, > at 81 a,
1 at 6li,. q at ~, = ut 81.
Mergenthaler LinOtype-l0 at 10
Evening star., 1921-05-09

Certain-teed Paints and
Fred M. Haas, 1000 r. l. Ave. Me-,
Washington, d. G.
Sidney l.. Hechinger Co., 9th and
G Sts. S.W.; Camp Meigs, NE.
]. w. Loveless, l9 Florida Ave.
NV
Evening star., 1921-05-09

A new export combination has re-
Gently been founded in Vienna with
capitalization of 100000 crowns,
and composed of twenty-five export
and import firms
Evening star., 1921-05-09

AS much as $4,000 has been paid in
London for a simple and easily re-
membered telephone number.
Evening star., 1921-05-09

The highest post office in the world
is at Pharjiong, in Tibet, situated A.
300 feet above sea level.
Evening star., 1921-05-09
Certain-teed Covers More Surface

certain-teed is always highest quality.
1t is produced by great concern
which is everywhere recognized as
a maker of quality products. The
name means, Certainty of Quality
Guaranteed Satisfaction"
Your Spring painting will be more
satisfactory if you let US provide this
highest quality paint. Certain-teed led
in price reductions. We are now SELL
ing this paint at pre-war prices.
Evening star., 1921-05-09
Per Gallon

YOU need less Certain-teed to cover
given area than you do ordinary
paints and varnishes, because the ingre-
dents in Certain-teed are highest quail
ity, are properly proportioned, and are
thoroughly ground and mixed by
machinery that makes no mistakes.
These things also account for the fact
that Certain-teed has greater hiding
power, retains its color and lasts
longer than ordinary paint products.
Evening star., 1921-05-09
FOREIGN EXCHANGE.

uotations furnished by W. B. Hibbs & Co
elling checks: Dollar values at noon toda v
Evening star., 1921-05-09

VarnlSneS Are Sold at Ket
Lewis e. Hummer, z419 Pa. Ave.
NV, Washington, d. c.
p. GOldblatt 6 Co., 1923 Pa. Ave.
NV.
w. E. Perry, Bethesda. Nd.
q. p. Bickford, Berwyn, Nd.
l. w. O'Brien. Laurel Md,
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Dorothy Dix Taks
81 DOROTHY DIX
yorla.s HlRhest PAID Woman TriteT.

How Do Your Children Treat You?-1.
How do your children treat you?
Exactly as you deserve to be
treated.
Exactly as you have taught them to
treat you.
This will seem a hard saying to
those who have undutiful children,
children who neglect them, or are
cruel to them; children who never
speak to them without insulting
them; children who show them no
reverence, and honor, and respect.
MY life has been one long sacrifice
to my children ever since the day the
first one was born. have toised and
shaved for them, and never considered
myself where they were concerned.
There have been no bounds to my de-
votion to them, and do not deserve
that they should treat me as they do"
wall many unhappy parents.
But in their secret souls these ia
theirs and mothers know that they are
getting exactly the treatment they de-
serve from their children and that
their punishment is just
For the eternal law, that as We sow,
so must we reap, prevails nowhere
else SO inexorabiy as in the rearing of
children. 1t is true that every babe
that is born comes into the world bit
of plastic clay that the potter can
fashion to his hand, and what the
child becomes depends absolutely on
what the parents make it.
1t is in their power to fashion it
into something of beauty, and use, or
to make of it a thing hideous and
abominable. There is no getting
away from that cold hard fact.
It is the parents who themselves de-
eide what their ehildrens attitude
shall be towards them. Every father
decides how his children shall treat
him. whether they shall regard him as
tyrant they fear, or a comrade they
love; whether they shall look upon
him as a beast of burden whose mis-
sion it is to work himself to death to
supply them with Injuries, or as the
strong arm that protects them, and for
whose shelter and comfort they can
never be sufficiently grateful.
Every woman decides how her chill
dren shall treat her; whether they
shall consider her nothing but a
kitchen drudge and a seamstress, to be
despised and walked upon, or revered
as an angel whom one almost wor-
ships on ones knees.
The man who never chums with his
children, who never speaks to them
except to correct them, who never
really gets acquainted with than, has
no right to expect them to be conf
dental with him when they are grown,
or to show him any affection. The
man who is never anything but a cash
register to his children cannot, in JUS
tice, demand that they think of him in
any terms but money.
The woman who has never been
anything but a doormat for her chill
dren has no right to expect not to be
trodden upon, and kicked about, and
have her children wine their feet upon
her. for that is the destiny of door
mats.
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JUST A POINTER.

Some indication of the extent to
which building construction and bust
ness generally has revived is seen in
the market report of the American
Lumbernan," which says:
The demand for lumber continues
strong. The lumber industry, broad
" speaking, has made very substan-
tiaI recovery from the depression OF
the early part of the year. Production
for September was practically equal to
the average production for that
month for the last ten years. Lum-
Der shipments, however, we're approx
imateIy per cent greater during this
month than for the average of the ten
wears while orders booked for Sep
TENDER, 1921, were materially in eX-
cess of orders booked for September.
1920, and almost 90 per cent greater
than for the average for the ten-year
period.
extent but the industrial business
shows Improvement. Grating stock,
for example. is in very much better
demand. indicating that manufacture
ers generally are finding a reader
market for their product and conse-
uuently are in need of boxes and
crates in which to ship. Railroad
buying is also on the increase and the
railroads seem to be willing to pay
much better prices than earlier in the
year.
Building, either planning or con-
struction. made a great step forward
in October, and returns to Brad
streets show that, with number of
cities still to be heard from, total val
ue of construction permitted for last
month exceeds all but three months
in Bradstreet's records. With these
partial returns as a basis it is prac-
tically certain that the final total of
October building at 1913 cities of the
United States wifi fall behind only
one month of the past. April. 1920.
Furthermore, it is noted that the to-
tai for the ten months of the present
calendar year is now in excess of the
! hitherto record year 1920, insuring
1921 position as the greatest year for
| ordinary house, office and store con-
struction in the countrys history.
Reports to Bradstreefs from 14s
cities of the United States show a to-
tai value of building permitted for in
october of $154,s12,s11. which COM
pares with a total of s13S,O32,ssS at
those Identical cities for September
and of $ss,S71.s11 for October, 1920.
There is here indicated a gain of IL
per cent over September, itself a rec
ord month for so late a date in the
year and o. rs per cent over october
1920, when building activities were
showing their normal seasonal de-
cline
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about protection. And there is con-
fusion and often real suffering be-
cause of the delay and neglect.
Always be ready.
Have a bank account and Keep add
ing to it. Keep your mind well filled
with valuable information-for you
never know when il will come in to
your great gain. Keep looking ahead
in the position which you hold. You
never know when the next higher job
will come to you.
The great man is always getting
ready for something just a little big
ger. That's what makes him great.
And the useful average man is always
looking ahead and getting ready for
the future.
If something in us could keep is
suing bulletins for our protection
warning us when our strength grew
less. or telling us to step less lively
when our blood pressure mounted too
high, it would remove much of our
useless worry.
To have a strong body--ready to
combat the attacks of the billions of
minute germs that are everywhere-ls
to keep in health.
The happiest people in the world
are those who keep ready.
Let US be as smart and as clever
as the little squirrel, anyway Let US
see that our own simple comforts are
cared for-extending into the future.
Then let us lend our ideas, experience,
money, or ability to the service of
other people.
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Reduction of transportation rates
corresponding to the reduction in the
wages of railroad employees is pro-
coed ng with great elaboration
When rates were advanced the in
crease spread over the entire trans
pOrtaton business like a blanket
When wages were reduced the reduc-
ton was made in, much the same way.
Brit in the process of what the rail-
road officials choose to call "readjust-
ment" of rates, changes have been
made only where they We're beneficial
to the business Of the roads If it
were their policy to adjust rates for
the sole benefit of the shipper as they
sometimes endeavor to make it APP
pear, reductions would have been
more general In almost if not quite
all instances where rates have been
lowered, business in hauling the COM
modify affected las increased to the
advantage of the carrier.
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Questions-Answers

Q. Can you tell me whether there is Il
country named Helyetia, and if SO where
it is located? X. U.
A. Helvetia is the old Roman name for
what corresponds TO the modern Switzer-
land, and the name is still used in poetic
references to that country.
o. What foods should be eaten by enc
who wants to lose weight? v. +. r.
A. Government authorities say that tie
wishes to reduce: fresh fish of any kind
except salmon or mackerel; lean beef,
mutton, or lamb; chicken or turkey. with
toast or crnsts in small quantities; spinach,
lettuce, celery, radishes, asparagus. cauli-
flower, cabbage, tomatoes, onions, tur-
and ripe fruits by way of Desert.
Q. How many admirals of the navy have
there been? s. r. L.
A. The position Of the admiral of the
navy has never been held by any one ex
cept Admiral Dewey, according to the nav
department At the present time ,-5 no one
rank of admiral is held during tenure OF
their respective positions by Robert F..
Koontz, chief of naval operations Hugh
Rodman in command Of the Pacific fleet;
Henry r. Wilson in command Of the At
lantic fleet; and James Strauss in com
mand of the Asiatic fleet 1t is a rule Of
the navy that an officer holding any of
these positions must have the rank of ad-
miFal during his tenure Of office.
Q. Can you tell me what is the strong
est wire in proportion to its weight? n. u.
A. piano wire is considered the
strongest in proportion to its weight
Q. When did money begin to play an
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money used to some extent. it was not
until Rome became a world power in the
centuries just preceding Christs birth,
that money became fluid and took an i'm
poftant place in affairs 1t was also at
this time that soldiers were first paid for
their services
Q. When will enlistment in the various
branches of the service be re-openedf ].
A. Enlistment in the navy and in the
marine corps was re-opened September 10,
and enlistment in the army was reopened
shortly before that date.
Q. Is prune plum, and If so, how
does 1t differ from other plums? G. X. s.
A. prune is defined by hOrticulturists
as a variety of plum which can be dried
without fermentation. In most varieties
OF plums a fermentation about the pit takes
place if an attempt is made to dry the
fruit.
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JUST FOLKS
ny EDGAR A. GUEST.

BREAD AND BUTTER.
I've eaten chicken a IN king
And many a fancy dish,
L think I've tasted everything
The heart of man can wish,
But nightly when we dine alone
My grateful praise l utter
Unto that good old standby known
As mothers bread and butter.
Some think it very common fare
And maybe they are right,
But l can take that wholesome pair
At morning, noon and night
And there's a happy thrill ] feel
That sets my heart a-flutter
As 1 sit down to make a meal
OF mothers bread and butter.
Tho poets sing their favorite foods
In Hitting lines and sweet,
And each unto his different moods
Tells what he likes to eat,
1 still remain the little boy
Who gleefully would mutter
A youngsters gratitude and JOY
For mothers bread and butter.
So now for all the Joy I've had
From such a wholesome pair
Since first I was a little lad
In hungeT's deep despair,
l hold the finest food Of all
Tho epicures may sputter
And sneer me from the banquet hals-
Is mothers bread and butter.
Copyright, 1921, by Edgar A. Guest,
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LITTLE BENNY'S NOTE BOOK
By LEgE PAPE
FRANK FEERNOTs IXCAPE

FRANK FEERNOTS IXCAPE
A Play
Ack
Mr.. Feernot. Frank, look at your
hands, they're a diskgrace to humanity.
Go rite up and wash them.
Frank Feernot. All heck
or you'll rue the day you was born.
Frank Feernot.- If I so up 1 may
never come down agen.
Mr.. Feernot. Leeve the room and
don't enter it agen ded or alive till
your hands are as white as snow
Scene, same a hour later.
Mrs. Feernot- Its strangely funny
Frank hasent came down yet He's
ony got hands to wash no matter
how good he washes them
Mr.. Feernot. That boy will come
to a bad end. Wy cant he be like me
wen 1 was his age? 1 use to get more
dert off my hands in minutes than
wat other boys could in a half hour.
Mrs. Feernot. I think Ill Jest take
a run DIP and see wat he's doing.
Mr.. Feernot-@Soot yourself.
Ack 3
Scene. upstairs.
Mrs Feernot. Frank, Frank. watts
became of you? o my goodniss he's
gone forever. I remember his fatal
verbs and Frank always does wat
he says wen he thinks of it o well
there's no use crying over split milk
I mite as well stick my he'd out the
window and get a breth of fresh air
vile I'm up heer. o my goodniss
there's Frank climbing down the frunt
of the house on a rope made out of
tore up sheets Frank, is that eny
way to treet good sheets2 Come back
and III give you peeces of pie insted
of ony 3.
Frank Feernot. That's a bargain.
Now that I'm down this far I mite as
well come in the frunt door.
Ack
Scene. suppir.
Mr. Feernot- Did you wash your
hands?
Frank Feernot I forget
The end.
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downfall we set the police after him
many times. But the little natter of
law enforcement never interfered in
any way with friendship. Anyhow,
when we first knew him he was a
king OF the bootleggers. When we saw
him a few weeks ago he was engaged
in serving a sentence OF a year in Jail
The meshes of the law have stripped
him of his mazuIna. over at the Jail
they had made a ''trusty" Of him and
he was operating around the public
garage owned by deputy sheriff He
washed the Blue Swallow and was not
averse to taking the small gratuity we
rendered him.
And so, if we had a boy we should
not advise him to take up bootlegging
as a lifework. 1t may be q. lucrative
calling, but il is monotoneus work. It
keeps one out nights and, socially
speaking, is disadvantageous-
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Written for The State journal
BY ELIZABETH THOMPSON

waiting for Answer: Since you
are only eighteen, you are too young
to go with a man forty-three years
old.
I would not advise you to join
road show. The life is hard and rare
Iy leads to happiness and success.
I do not believe the man intends to
ask YOU to marry him. Probably he
has a sweetheart in every town.
You should not go to amusements
wanted to get you in his power" as
you express it.
I cannot say why you attract so
much attention without seeing you.
Perhaps you rouge, wear your skirts
too short and comb your hair with ear
puffs. Or you may laugh too much
and talk too loudly.
The fact that a person is nervous
and can't decide what to say next is
no sign that he is in love.
Dear Mrs. Thompson: We are two
girls in our early teens and are des-
perately in love with two boys who
are two years our senior. We have
gone steadily with these boys for al
most year and about a month ago
they started going with out-of-town
We had lots of chances to go with
other boys but we didn't. These two
boys must have got tired of the girls
from out of town and now they want
us to go with them again In way
we want to go with these boys again,
but we don't want to let them know
we crave their friendship.
Please Civ US your advice.
BOBBY AND BUDDY
If you really want the boys to come
back. I think you should let them
come, not mentioning the fact that
they dropped you at one time. Sim
ply overlook the period when thew
were going with the girls from out Of
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Appeals for money to aid this or
that worthy cause come to the aver
age man or woman in so great num-
bers that most of us can't help them
all no matter how much we may want
tic do so. But the appeal of the Red
Cross, with nc reflection upon any
other, should be given priority. Make
If necessary an additional sacrifice
and pa your dollar that puts you on
the Red Cross roll call list. All are
familiar with the work that the or
ganization is doing and will continue
II do.