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The New York herald., 1922-06-24
",roDEnN MrLLER,s" OUTLOOK

Special Dispo',h 10 THE New YORK Hrasrp.
CHICAGO. June 23.---Modern Muior's
outlook follows: "Only slight reduc-
tions, due TO hot weather, will be made
In the Kansas wheat estimate. Back
ward wheat in localities shows the effect
of heat wave and some light weight
wheat will result. The best secttcns will
The New York herald., 1922-06-24
BOND CLUB ELECTS OFFICERS.

At the monthly luncheon OF the Bond
Club OF New York yesterday at the
Bankers Club the following were elected
officers for the ensuing year: II. &.
Bortle. president, vice-presIdent Ma
tionai City Company Donald Durant
vice-president. member OF the firm of
Lee. Higginson & Co.. r.. p. Currier.
treasurer, member OF the firm Of Mar
shall Field. Glore. Ward 4 Co. Gilber.
The New York herald., 1922-06-24
PennsyIvania's improvements.

With the purpose Of expediting the
movement of through freight. and par
ticularly to provide enlarged facilities
for preference shipments. the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad management has laid
plans for improvements and extensions
to the Enola yards OF the road on its
low grade freight line three miles west
Of Harrisburg. Pa The betterments
will cost approximately $4,000 and VIII
bring the yards capacity movement up
to 1000 cars daily This work, which will
be started Immediately. is part of extern
sive plans for betterments which VIII
make it possible to handle larger
volume of traffic over the entire Penn
sylyania system.
The New York herald., 1922-06-24
New Offerings Scarce.

In bond circles little activity is ex-
pected in the investment market until
after the Fourth OF July. At least no
exceedingly large new issues OF bonds
are anticipated until after that date.
The few new issues that are being
sroomed for public offering next week
are comparatlvely small. There win
be offerings early in the week OF one
small foreign bond issue and several
domestic industrial corporation issues
The New York herald., 1922-06-24
DIVIDENDS.

Stock OF
Record. Payable.
Asbestos Corp. a. S1.50..... July July i5
Chase Mills, q. $3.50. ....... June % July /
D. G. Heath Go, a. pf, si.75..June "a June 80
Indiana Pipe Line. q, $2.. July IS Aug. Is
Kerr Lake Mines. Ltd. q.
i2isc ................,.... July July IL
Maple Leaf Milling Co, q. s2.Juiy July is
Mexican Eagle OIL Co, pf.
1Jco
Mexican Eagle OF Co. f5qb... 80. 80.
Mortgage Bond Co. q. si.75.. June % June 80
Slower Mfg a. Eng Co, q. 81. June "a July 1
steel Co of Canada. q. pf.
Si.75 ...,.................. July q Aug.
steel Co OF Canada, q. S1.I5.July Aug
u s Mortgage a Trust Co.
York Railways Co. ini, Joc. July July IS
York Railways Co, pf. q,
Si.2J ......................Ju June 20 June 80
The New York herald., 1922-06-24
4p. e. QUARTERLY DIVIDEND.

The board OF directors of the United
States Mortgage and Trust Company
declared yesterday quarterly dividend
of per cent. on the capital stock OF the
company. payable July /. 1922, TO stock
holders of record Juno 26. 1922.
The New York herald., 1922-06-24
FOR NEW BANKING HOME.

wAsHrSGroN, June 23.-The Senate
Banking Committee favorably reported
to-day the bill by Senator Spencer (Rep,.
MOI granting permission to the ST
Louis Federal Reserve Bank to construct
a now banking home for Its headquar-
ters there and a branch bank building
at Little Rock. Ark. -
sESh1 AEhM AUrS- nr
The New York herald., 1922-06-24
NEW YORK RAILWAYS
SHOWS GAIN IN INCOME
April Report Reveals Net of
SIS, 400.

The April report of the receiver of
the New York Railways Company shows
a net corporate income Of $23,4s0. con-
trasted to deficit OF $13.792 in April
last year. For the ten months ended
April 80 earnings show surplus of
s139,533, against a deficit Of s394.152 in
the corresponding period ended with
April. 1921.
Generally improved operating con-
ditions are reflected in the drop in ratio
OF operating expense to operating reve-
nue. of from S2.34 per cent. in April.
1921, to s7.2S per cent. In April. 1922.
The receivers income statement for
April, 1922 and 1921. and for the ten
months ended with April 80. 1922, and
April 80. 1921. follows:
The New York herald., 1922-06-24
FOREIGN MARKETS.

LONDON, June c3.--rrading was quiet and
prIces were steady on the Stock Exchange
to-day. Quotations follow
Bar silver. 35Tsd an ounce.
Bar gold. o3s. ~.
Money, . per cent.
Discount rates: short bills. 2M per cent.
three months bills. 2Mn2h per cent.
Two and one-half per cent. consos. J6A.
british per cent. war loans. paT.
British AZ per cent. war loans. e4is.
re Beers, 1iA.
Rand Mines. 2is.
The New York herald., 1922-06-24

G. Browne. secretary. member of tho
firm OF White. Weld e Co.
The New York herald., 1922-06-24
FAR EAST.
SOUTH AMERICA.
lANADA.

New York funds IN Montreal, sfa.45 PIE
MUM a 81 900: Montreal funds In New York,
S13.25 discount q VI 900.
The New York herald., 1922-06-24

PARIS, June 23.--Prices we're steady on
the Bourse to-day. Quotations follow
tnr.a
The New York herald., 1922-06-24
NEW YORK. STOCK EXCHANGE QUOTATIONS
YJuNE3

1922 1921. 1920.
1s5.92l.732 SS,680,2l9 121, ,740. .4S6h
The New York herald., 1922-06-24

I0psn- High I Low Clos Net
4 t,p esf 4 est ing. lCh'nge.
The New York herald., 1922-06-24
FRIDAY. JUNE 20. 1922.

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-14
KANSAS EDITOR UPHOLDS
 A SACRED CAUSE

William Allen White consented to write ed- itorials for Judge, but he retained those prin- ciples which have made Kansas shining ex- ample or target for mockery, according to one's point of view. There some people who will call "Bill" provincial Emporia is his habitat ana he looks at the world through the eyes of Emporia.
 It was generally understood that when Ed itor White began his weekly contributions to Judge he was a sort of free lance, expressing his own views for what they were worth, but "Bill" has nice sense of honor, it seems, and when he made the dire discovery that Judge was leaning toward the beer and light wine program he resigned. It is all right for the Irresponsible editors of Judge to advocate a return of moist conditions, if they want to, but "Bill" is bone-dry and, having learned, as he says, ''that the man back of the pay roll after all is the man whose judgment should go in matter of this kind,' he and Judge parted company.
 Editor White is good writer, of the best in this country, but we would not have world, or all the shekels in New York. The Kansas conscience is perhaps the most robust to be found anywhere, and Bill" has just given us another illustration of the fact that it never sleeps. He saved the honor of Kan sas, Emporia and himself by quick decision.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-14

Ganna says Harold will not interfere with her musical career. Some spiteful members of the Chicago Grand Opera company say Ganna as an artist is false alarm.
 * x
 An Illinois man, 100 years old, has been earning his own living ever since he was 3. But he is not model character. He has been smoking tobacco for 88 years.
 * *
 Even if Mary Garden did profess willing ness to marry Bill Hart once upon time it has no particular bearing on the present crisis in the Hart family.
 Members of the -four brotherhoods" will have hard time convincing anybody that g militiaman is going to take a shot at them, just for luck
 Probably the greatest thrill anybody can experience nowadays comes from going into the market for the first time to buy car. Now Mrs. Edith Rockefeller Mccormick is said to be thinking of marrying a Swiss. Why this predilection for foreign cheese? The men who killed Marshal Wilson in Lon don were speedily put beyond the reach of mawkish sentimentality.
 
 An Argentine minister has resigned to fight duel. The unfortunate fellow probably lacks a sense of humor.
 < < It's bit unkind the way New York editors poke fun at their contemporary, MT. Fingy Connors of Buffalo.
 Bill Hart defies the world to prove that he ever wronged man or woman. Sounds like movie stuff.
 touch of autumn in the air is painful reminder that the coal strike has not yet been settled
 Great Britain's economic outlook is reported to be better. It could not become much worse.
 * <
 France and Great Britain suffer from the usual imcompatibility of close neighbors. MT. Harding doesn't propose to get cal loused hands by yielding the big stick.
 \ '
 The striking shopmen will have to admit that they are not winning in walk. MT. Dempsey, we are informed, prefers dark meat for sparring purposes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-14

the best moral and material development, rec ognizing the rights of all.'
 The democratic nominee for governor will go into office under the most suspicious cir cumstances. He is right in declaring that de- mocracy is reunited. The dissensions inevi- table in even the quietest campaigns are end ed. At any rate, they are but an echo. AL though it would have been better if Brandon and McDowell had been nominated without opposition, the campaign of their opponents was conducted on high plane, and for that reason there should be no vestige of ill will left. Colonel Graves accepted his defeat gracefully and his congratulations to Judge Brandon were received in the same spirit
 With an overwhelming vote in his favor, and the people of Alabama standing solidly behind him. Judge Brandon will be able to give the state a wise and constructive admin istration. Perhaps no other man has ever assumed the gubernatorial office with more friends and fewer enemies. Whatever oppo- siton Judge Brandon has encountered has been almost entirely political and devoid of personal feeling
 All indications point to peaceful admins tration while Judge Brandon is governor, which means that he will be able to devote his time exclusively to serving the people of Alabama and carrying out the policies to which he is committed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-14
Oliver Optics Centenary
From the New York Herald.

From the NeW 1Ork Herald.
 The centenary of Oliver Optics birth was celebrated in Boston by tearing down the house at Fields Corner where he lived for half a century and where he wrote nearly all of those 125 books which endeared his name to the American youths of bygone generation
 The story-teller to the boys of long ago was born in Medford, Mass, on July 30, 1922 He died in the house now being razed in 1896 Probably not one boy in many thousands who read his stories knew that his name was Will liam Taylor Adams and that he was of the family that produced John Adams and John Quincy Adams, both Presidents of the United States. Even had boys known it, the fact for them would have had purely academic interest, whereas their interest in Oliver Optic was personal and intimate. He was the fa- vorite story teller, the firesde crony.
 If, perhaps his story personages smacked somewhat of the Good James and the Bad Bill variety, the fact was submerged in action. There generally was something doing in the Oliver Optic stories. In the sunset hours of his long life he is said to have expressed re- gret that he had been more sensational in some of his stories than was quite proper. It is safe to say his boy readers never dis covered the fact, and equally safe to say was over influenced to other than cleanly, wholesome living by anything that Oliver Optic wrote.
 At time, back in the sos of the last century, his readers numbered millions. The actual sales of his books exceeded a million and half copies, and for every book sold it is easily within the mark to say there were very many readers. An Oliver Optic story generally went the rounds of all the boys in the neighborhood. of it's lucky owner. In Capt. Mayne Reid he had close competitor. There really was wild west in those days, and Mayne Reid was the favorite writer in that territory. He led oldsters as well as youngsters into it.
 Pretty nearly all the old familiar titles of the Reid and Optic stories are gone from the bookshelves. The boys of the present tune do not read the stories of Oliver Optic, which deal with past mechanisms of life. Boy story heroes of today soar in arplanes and cruise in submarines. The Oliver Optic boy heroes knew nothing of these things. They never heard of a telephone or of radio messages. Still they were hearty enough Americans for their day and generation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-14
A NEW CORRUPT PRACTICE ACT

From the Montgomery Advertiser
 The first job the legislature of Alabama should take up when it convenes is the amend ing or repeal of the present complicated and 1nfair corrupt practices act The legislature should provide the state with simple and in tellgible corrupt practice act for the conduct of primary and general elections.
 The present law is confusion worse con- founded It was passed originally puni- tive measure for the punishment of leaders and candidates who assisted in the defeat of Richmond Pearson Hobson and B. B. Conner. A partisan measure, when the legislature passed it, it was bound to prove complex, com plicated and unfair. The intelligent man, be- fore he becomes a candidate, hires capable lawyer to advise him as to every step he takes Even then when the campaign is over he IS seriously concerned for fear that he or some of his friends have unwittingly violated the law. There is no necessity for such law as this. The state needs corrupt practice act but 1t does not need such corrupt practice law as the one now in existence passed in resentment by minority of the party.
 The legislature should frame simple, workable act enforcing good and honorable conduct upon workers and candidates and not one that regulates every act of candidate and restricts unfairly the conduct of his cam paign by his friends Any such law as this visionary and theoretical act is bound to prove unavoidable in the practical affairs of life. The basic assumption behind the framing of this act is untenable, viz That every man running for office in Alabama is an unmitigated scoun- drel and that the voters themselves are set of scoundrels with hands out for graft money. It is possible for man to be a candidate for office and not be scoundrel and it is possible for voters to take an interest in politics with out being grafters.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-14
COUNTRIES BUSINESS ON
 A SOUND BASIS

That the business of the country was head ed to remarkable volume when the railroad strike began July is shown by the increase in freight handled by leading railroads in July in spite of the two strikes.
 Freight loadings on the Illinois Central in- creased 16.6 per cent to 160,421 cars in July.
 The Burlington increased it's freight loadings during July per cent loading 147,ooo cars
 Atchison freight traffic in July was 1890 cars, compared with 119,Oo0 cars year ago.
 The high records that would have been mace but for the two strikes may be surmised It is evident that the country's business is on the upgrade in practically every direction, and when the strikes are ended will assume pace the equal of that of 1920. It will be sounder business this time and a sounder prosperity will be the result, because the business ot today has nothing artificial or of transient nature about it, but is being done in response to demand based on peoples everyday wants.
 Today's business is done on modest profit business of the inflated period. Another fea- ture of today's business is that it is more clearly on a cash basis than in the history of the country. That is one of it's best fea- lures.
 Even the farmer has gotten away from the yearly accounting system He has varied pro- ~duction over the year and has money all dur ing the year from the turnover of farm by products. Men are paying as they go. That is the best of all business methods
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-14
POINTED PARAGRAPHS

From he Chicago News
 EvelJ crook has his own peculiar bent.
 Many man accepts favor who won't take joke.
 Better big dogs bark than the bite of a little dog.
 young widow with fortune is fortunate if she remains widow.
 Your opinion is all right-if you can t the right people to indorse it.
 Truth may be stranger than fiction, but it is less valuable in literature
 When it comes to sticking point some people have porous plaster beaten.
 Probably money does talk, but some people refuse to give currency to their conversation.
 A girls jealousy tickles a mans vanity dur ing their courtship, but after mar-iage-well. that's different.
 When you meet a charming stranger do not take too confidently to him. He may be in very urgent need of that dollar you have in your pocket.
 There are advantages in most everything. Thick-skulled people are. not narrowed and dsgressed by delicate doubts and subtle mis- givings.
 A man of one idea isn't so bad if the idea is good.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-14
SYSTEM OF VOTING.

"Only those engaged in the task can realize what trying and tedious job the tabulation of the votes of the 1892 boxes in this county was when the election commissioners canvassed the returns of the recent primary" said George Whitfield.
 "The canvass was commenced on Thursday at o'clock, and it was 80 o'clock the next morning before the count was completed It seems to me that better plan should be provided in our voting system, either by the installation of voting machines or the Gevising of some plan that would simplify the present method.,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-14
WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE "FLAPPERr

From the Atlanta Georgian.
 It is somewhat difficult for the Georgian to understand the outcry against the 'flapper." ]" She seems to be doing in the main merely the sensible, comfortable, healthful thing The Georgian fails to see the basis of the criticism of her by so many newspapers.
 Those very same newspapers for years had editorials inveighing against high heels, and re- lating the positive physical injury that high heels did to womankind, besides making her more or less ridiculous in appearance. We'll, the "flapper" has discarded high heels. She wears sensible, low-heel shoes-and gets criti- cised for doing so!
 These same papers had any number of edi- torials against the corset and the injury the corset inflicted The "flapper" discarded the corset-and has been abused for having done sol
 Again, these same newspapers had any num- Der of editorials deploring the long skirt 'that dragged on the ground and dirty and insani- tary in consequence" The "flapper" wears short skirts-and is nagged for doing so.
 The ''flapper" is more sensible than her critics, and more consistent The young girl of today is raised in the spirit of new free dom, and healthful and beneficial freedom She is not constrained by corsets, high heels, long skirts or conventions of any kind. If she wants to cut her hair short, she has as much right to do it as a man has to cut his hair short. It is a matter merely of con venience, comfort and healthfulness. There is no question of morality in it., and the man who tries to make it a matter of morality is merely stupid bigot.
 The other day little, old book' was sold from famous collection in great city, It was written by Puritan minister 250 years ago.
 This Puritan minister inveighed against the immortality of-what do you think? He in weighed against the immortality of women wearing their hair long.
 It was the custom of women in those days to wear their hair short; and consequently, in the eyes of this good man, any departure from that custom was immoral.
 The same class and the same kind of man who inveighed against long hair 250 years ago is inveighing against short hair today
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-14
COOL ON THE PACIFIC COAST

To the Editor of The Age-Herald:
 In reading an issue of The Age-Herald, I see that Birmingham is having "hot' time of it this summer. Out here in Frisco I am freez- ing to death, as I came prepared for an un- usually hot summer, but on arriving l found that winter wraps are worn the year round. I am spending my vacation in making . voyage on the steamship "Nyanza," stopping at the larger sea ports of the Pacific coast, Mex ico and the gulf coast, travelling by way of the Panama canal.
 It surely makes Birmingham seem nearer to be able to get The Age-Herald at all of the larger cities, even if the latest issues are any where from a week to 10 days behind time. With best wishes to The Age-Herald and thanking you, I am, yours truly,
 H. B. KNIGHT,
 Quartermaster Steamship Nyanza. San Francisco, August 7, 1922.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-14
A GOOD TIME COMING

"The one sure thing about the Alabama Merchants convention here August 29 to 31, ]" said Charles F. Yarn, lis that the 2,000 visitors expected are going to have good time. All sorts of preparations are being made and a variety of entertaining features will enliven the three days.
 "One of the big features will be the fashion show which will be the closing event and will be held in the Tutwiler ball room. Beautiful local girls will be the models and Birmingham merchants will make their best displays. The wives and daughters of the visitors will greatly enjoy this event"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-14
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
BEAUTY SPOT FROM THE SKY

"The swimming pool at Linger Longer Lodge seems like some gigantic gem amidst rare setting of rich emerald green when viewed from high altitude in the sky" said Sumpter Smith, aviator, after landing here few days ago from Montgomery.
 Recently have flown over Shades noun tain quite frequently and the sheen on the water has been landmark which I have observed with decided interest. I notice each week when the pool is drained and see it re- gain it's beauty as the water fills it to the brim Words fail somewhat to convey the in- pression which such picture makes upon the eye especially from height of thousands of feet but those who observe it will never fail to remember the scene. 1 intend taking pho tograph of the pool the next trip make"