The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1921-04-30

Gus competition of beans imported
from the same famine stricken land.
The question quiet naturally
, arises, if there is a famine in China
why ship the produce to a market
that is already overstocked? The
answer to the query is that the
Chinaman shipping the eggs and
beans is not the Chinaman that is
starving. It is reply to the ancient
biblical question, Am my brothers
| keeper?"
One of the main difficulties is, OF
course, the lack Of strong central
government in China and the inabil-
ity of the Chinese people to amalga-
mate into a composite nation. The
almost total lack of railroads and
other transportation facilities also
makes proper distribution impossi-
| BILE.
Readers of the financial pages OF
the daily papers noted recently the
advance in the price of the common
stock of the American Telephone
and Telegraph Company from
around 90 to 106. The cause of this
sudden leap was the announcement
of the company that the board of
directors had decided to place the
company on nine percent dividend
basis instead of the former eight per-
cent annual dividend.
President Drake, in announcing
the change, makes the further state
ment that there has been no time in
the past ten years when the company
could not have paid the higher rate.
This is indeed interesting reading
when almost every state in the union
has applications pending for permis-
sion to raise telephone rates.
The A. T. & T. is the parent COM
pany of the Cumberland and a num-
Der of other sectional telephone cor
poratons. In plain English the Cum
berland and ohers is the cow and the
A. 7. & T. is the mixer.
The death of Cardinal Gibbons at
Baltimore closes the life of another
great American. The eminent
churchman was a native of New Or
leans and like many other great
Americans who have achieved
fame and honor, was reared in a
family of moderate circumstances.
He worked his way up from the bot
tom to the top by his own efforts
and industry.
Had Cardinal Gibbons not enter
ed the service of the church it is a
certainty that he would have achiev-
ed distinction in some other profes-
sion. He would have probobly been
great statesman or jurist His
knowledge of affairs both domestic
and foreign was very great and his
counsel was frequently sought by
men of affairs.
His was a life we'll lived and Of
fers inspiration to the youth of to-
day that they too, by hard work and
right living, may live a life of use
fulness and, departing, leave be-
hind them footprints on the sands
of time"
Why all this yawp about Yap?
Yap is tiny island in the far pa
cific and is of Importance only as a
cable station between the United
States and the Orient The United
oIdtcS IS dLAIOuS W nave SCIco
rights there that they may at all
time maintain uninterrupted cable
communication between this country
and the PHILIPPINES. We must have
this communication if our trade
there and elsewhere in the far east
is to prosper.
With the island under the entire
control of the japanese it is appar-
ent that cur cable communication
must pass through the hands of our
greatest competitors in that terri
tory. Obviously this would be of
great advantage to Japan and detri-
mental to the best interests of this
country.
Various other cipher codes are
in use by business houses and gov
ernments and these codes, while in
suring a certain percentage of secre-