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The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1922-05-12

When this country is heavy ex-
porter of wheat and -four it doesn't
help the farmer to put a tariff on
wheat that will keep out Canadian
grain. That would merely mean that
Canada would ship this part of its
surplus to England instead of market
ing it through the United States, and
that the United States would ship a
little less grain abroad. The price
would still be made in Liverpool.
The farmer will find the protection
offered him is an illusion. The protec-
ton on what he has to buy will be
real.
There are enough things which this
country can produce economically and
proftably to absorb all its resources.
It does not need to devote itself to
the production of goods that can be
produced more advantageously abroad.
Tea can be grown in the south if the
planter will go to sufficient expense.
But it would be bad policy to make all
tea drinkers pay excessive prices for
their tea in order to support an in
dustry that is not adapted to the
country. The same principle holds
good all along the line.
What is needed now is wider mar
kets and lower prices. The new tariff
bill proposes narrower markets and
higher prices.
It's enactment would be blow to
American ndustry.-Monroe County
Appeal.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1922-05-12
ME-. MY PAL AND OUR GAL

/ just got back from Hillsboro,
where / have been working on farm.
AS times are hard. | agreed to work
for my board, but | had the misfor-
tune to lose my appetite SO came
home, thinking that it was no use to
work for nothing.
AS | came down Main street with
my belongings tied up in a red hand
kerchief, hung over my shoulder on a
pole, met my pal who had just come
from work at the shoe factory. His
fingers were in an awful shape and
! asked him what was the matter and
he told me he had been pulling lasts
at the factory. l believed him all
right and I asked him if he had been
to see our gal lately, and he told me
that he had retired. I suspicioned
that he had got fired so | decided to
call on her that night.
| fixed up and on the way | bought
her sack of popcorn. When | got
near her house "a bee stung me on the
back and l set the popcorn down and
went to undressing that bee. got it
and got all fixed UP. The kids near
were all laughing at me for goat
had eaten my popcorn. So l had to
go home as / knew she didn't like a
tightwad and had no money with
which to buy more. Just as soon as
/ get job and some money III get
some popcorn and go to see her, but
what / want to know is what to do to
get even with that goat?--DeSoto
Press.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1922-05-12
NEGRO PROGRESS NOTED

A half century of discussion of the
negro question has not brought forth
solution satisfactory to every ele-
ment in the two races concerned. But
the negro himself has gone about
solving the problem of making him
self better citizen, by buying homes
and farm lands, by taking advantage
of what educational opportunities are
offered him, and by giving steadily
increasing support to his own spirit
ual agencies.
The progress of the race during the
last fifty years, as told in the Negro
Year Book. is an achievement OF
which it may well be proud. In a
half century homes owned by negroes
have increased from 10000 to $50, 900
farms operated from 10000 to 100,.
600, and business conducted from q
100 to $4,000. Negroes hold at pres.
ent some 20,000,000 acres Of land, al
area equal to that of the New Eng
land states without Maine. Added tC
these evidences of material progress
are the statistics which show that lit
eracy among negroes has increased
from 10 per cent to 80 per cent, thai
voluntary contributions to churches
have increased from $4,000 to So,
100000, and that the number Of
churches has risen from 700 to as,
600.
The contribution of the negro to thu
economic wealth of the country, par
ticularly the south, has been one of al
most inestimable value. Nor has tn,
south proved itself wholly ungrateful
as was pointed out in an address de
livered at Hampton Institute by An
son Phelps Stokes. He told of tn
millions of dollars spent for negr
education, and said the southern whit
man had taxed himself heavily to edu
cate his negro neighbors. The pas
decade, particularly, has witnessed I
marked change in the attitude CT tn
southern white man towards negr
education, which has resulted il
steadily increasing appropriations
New York Evening Post.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1922-05-12

municipalities. There are also the
debts of the public utilities and of the
corporations, both great and small,
the mortgages on farms and city real
estate; to which mus: 0e added chat
tel mortgages on farm implements
and household goods, not forgetting
the ubiquitous automobile, and last of
all there are the promissory notes Of
the, business man owing to the bank.
This mass of debts is literally noun
tain high and has been computed to
be a sum equal to a third if not half
OF our national wealth, both public
and private.
Not only is the interest on this
principal constant drain on produc-
ton but business itself can be done
only by a constant and unwilling re-
pudiation of part of it, that is, by
failure, by bankruptcy. Only by con-
tinually, wiping off part Of the in
debtedness is it possible for business
to carry on" A study of COM
pound interest table will show that
but for this periodical cancellation of
part of the debts owing, it would be
possible for the credit class long since
to have swallowed up all the wealth
OF the country, AS it is. they have
lien on one-half of it, with none of the
responsibility or care or worry to
make it productive.
Shall we deal with causes or ef-
fects? Is not interest the mother of
debt, not her daughter? Will the ad-
vocates Of cancellation tell us when
they propose to cancel the new debts
which will inevitably follow if interest
is left uncurbed-also the huge mass
of private debts which strangle bust
ness with cobra grasp?
Cancellation cannot be a permanent
remedy because it blots out only GER
tain part of the present Indebtedness
from which the world suffers. Even
if all debts, public and private, were
repudiated, it would help only until
the interest-taker begins accommodating
his toll and in 10 or 10 years we would
be back to "the miserable oscillation
between usury and Bankruptcy
Dearborn Independent.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1922-05-12
WHAT WILL RADIO BRING?

When Edward Bethany, 35 years
ago, wrote his fascinating prophecy,
Looking Forward" from the year
1000, people gasped at his daring,
while approaching his imagination. In
one astounding chapter the RIP Van
Wrinkle" Of the narrative is taken to
the music room, where he is asked TO
make known his choice from a very
long 24-hour music program. He in
dicates an organ piece; his hostess
"made me sit down comfortably, and,
crossing the room, so far as / could
see, merely touched one or two
screws, and at once the room was
filled with music of a grand organ an
them"
Such an incredible prophecy that
the Bellamy work was classified in the
libraries of "fiction"; and so speedily
has scientific developments occurred
that in many libraries it still is "tic-
ton" Yet this is only 1922, not 1000
and by the time the Bellamy era pre-
diction is reached who dares to fore
tell the achievements of men.
The radio is an accomplished fact.
Man has discovered a great secret;
now he sets to work to develop ard
apply it. The limitation of the human
voice exists no longer, and a whisper
thrown to the air becomes instanta-
neously chorus in a million homes.
It's possibilities are so limitless that
the day is not far distant when every
home, every building. public and pri-
vate, will be equipped to receive the
signals from the air. The radio re-
ceiving set will be as much part OF
the building as the furnace and the
kitchen stove. 1t may be possible, as
it is now, for every man, woman or
child to read. at the instant of trans
mission, whatever is given to the air
What then? When every home
when every building in the country. in
the civilized world, has it's receiving
set to let in the voce of the world
lust as today every home has its win
dows to let the sunlight and fresf
air, how best will this wonderful dis
covery be used for the convenience Of
mankind? There is field for a jules
Verne to explore-he could fling q mar
around the world in 80 days, today {
message is flung around the world II
as many seconds.
But all speculation dies away be
fore the inevitability of further ant
even greater advances in the use o.
the new medium. Millions whose i'm
agination has been captured by thu
geni of the air are giving then. minds
Daily experiments are recorded. A
United States general has just an
nounced one great step. Inventions
are cumulative. Given a key TO thu
beginning and development follows
more rapidly almost than the laymal
can follow, or the manufacturer pro
duce the appliances.
IT, is not too much to anticipate. Thu
radiophone as the supreme medium
of human fellowship, whereby all peo
pies may grow closer together il
thought and purpose; with the inevita
BILE destination of differences whicl
comes with understanding.
This great triumph Of peace ha
brought to the present day stimu
lus and interest so much greater thai
anything recorded in history that
seems as though it cannot do less thai
reconstruct the very basis of human
ity's daily intercourse and relations
--Ex
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1922-05-12
1T ISN'T YOUR TOWN, IT'S YOU

During our newspaper experience,
The Times editor has published the
following poem, or something very
similar, several times. But each time
we read it a new and even more fore
ible application is given to it in re-
gard to many of the people and things
in the average community. 1t is
worthy of your careful reading and
consideration and we believe will give
to most everyone a new and improved
vision on the correct method Of liv-
ing:
When you want to live in the kind of
a town
Like the kind of town you like,
You needn't slip your clothes in a
grip
And start on a long, long hike.
You'll only find what you left behind,
For there's nothing that's really
new;
It's a knock at yourself when you
knock your town,
1t isn't your town, it's you.
Real towns are not made by men afraid
Lest everyone else gets ahead,
When everyone works and nobody
shirks,
You can raise town from the dead.
And when, while you make a person
al stake,
Your neighbor can make one, too;
Your town will be what you want it
to be,
1t isn't your town, it's you.
Author Unknown.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-06-16

sioner, today was under obligation to
bring about the construction of a $4,000
emulsified asphalt road through South
port, as the result of promise made to
a delegation of Southport citizens yester4
day. The other county commissioners
were not at the meeting. Leo K. Eesler,
county auditor, "sat in" but took no part
in making the promise. The road will
be paid for out Of the general fund Of the
county. The majority of the property
owners in the vicinity of Southport are
opposed to the constructor of the road,
so it was necessary to appeal to the
county to build it.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-06-16

point Of obtaining a better balance in the
industrial structure. Observers have
noted that the iron and steel industries
have exhibited healthful signs Of growth
following the launching of betterment
projects in that field.
Slowing down of business over the pre-
ceding months released large volume Of
funds which has sought investm ent, and
much of it has gone into Government.
Such securities as Treasury certificates
have been offered in large volume and
have been heavily over subscribed by in
vestors.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-06-16

amount of money sent by interior bank
ers to New York to be loaned on time.
There is said to be more money drawn to
New York on such a basis than has been
reported since the free market for time
funds was restored some time ago.
Larger volume of security sales and heav-
Ter offerings of new industrial issues have
absorbed a part of this fresh supply Of
credit
Generally officials here are Of the opin-
ion that the fotation of security issues in
the heavy volume recently noted shows
readiness by the business community TO
spend large sums for improvement pur-
poses. In many directions it has brought
a stimulus to the basic industries.
The country is working around to the
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-06-16
DECISION HELD
CAUSE OF ART
CRISISIN PARIS
French Portrait Painters in
Debate Following Ruling
From Court.

PARIS. June 16-The American court
decision which upheld a Pittsburgh mil
lionaire's refusal to pay the artist for
portrait which wasn't a speaking like
ness has set all the art circles Of Paris
in a state of discussion as to whether
a painting must or must not look like
the person it is supposed to represent.
ct takes courage TO say that a por-
trait must be a likeness" declares Glenn
ent Vautel, the columnist Of lie Journal.
1T would then follow that a novel must
be interesting. a poem must have sense,
a singer must have 9 voice, a play must
amuse the public and music must be
an agreeable noise"
VAN DoNGEN IS
NAMED REFEREE
The celebrated Paris art critic, Van
DOngen, is called in by L'Eclair to
referee the argument and render his de-
cisiOn. Van Dongen solemnly assures US
that IL is much easier for an artist to
paint the portrait of a woman, because
her face nine chances out OF ten isn't
normal anyway. Whereas a mans face
changes from day TO day, depending up
on his digestion, his business success
or failure and his general outlook on
life, cosmetics aid in making most
women who come TO studios to look the
same week in and week out, irrespective
of their individual idiosyncracies.
Certainly I believe the artist should
attempt to obtain a resemblance" de-
clares the master.
But when you say resemblance, where
does It commence and where does it end?
It goes without saying that If you want
an absolute line-for-Iine likeness. Il is
much better 10 go 70 a photographer than
to a portrait painter.
PAINTERS AND
PAINTERS" HE SAYS.
There are painters and painters; every
painter has his individual style. with
which the public is familiar. When a
client comes to me for a sitting he knows
how the subject will be handled. He
knows perfectly that his portrait painted
by me won't look anything like what it
would If it were painted by Bonnat or
Gervex. Understand. I am not criticising
the work Of my colleagues. But I want
to make clear that every one sees with
different eye.
Recently I painted the portrait Of a
celebrated journalist. Certain critics wrote
that the painting made him look as if
he had just left the morgue. Others said
II looked like he had Just stepped out Of
q bar room Now you must admit that
when a man leaves the morgue he doesn't
have the appearance Of man who has
just taken down his foot from the rail of
a bar.
a painter should first OF alI know his
subject. He should study the person
study his habits, his facial witches. his
mannerisms, his character. He thus can
attain a synthetic resemblance"
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-06-16

surplus of funds available for outside in
vestment.
Reports to the Federal Reserve Board
show that in many classes Of business
commitments have been fully liquidated
and considerable cash balances have
been carried in the banks There is less
demand for customers to resort to the
banks for working capital
Reserve board reports show that a
gradual liquidation of large stocks of
commodities held over in order to avoid
dumping them on the market has'thrown
funds into the hands Of thousands who
are now using the proceeds in bust
ness Development.
Increasing ease in the banking situa-
ton generally is shown by the vast
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-06-16
Bazaar Promoter Is
Sent to State Prison

Roy Marsh Brydon, promoter Of the
bazar for the National Disabled Soldiers
League, held in indianapolis some time
ago, was found guilty of issuing a fraud
ulent check and sentenced to one to five
years in the Indiana State Reformatory
by Judge James A. Collins in Criminal
Court today. He was also fined 500
and costs.
She specific offenss with which Brydon
was charged was giving a worthless
check for SO to Jack Harbor, 2106 Or
leans street.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-06-16
Lewis Expects No
Strike Conference

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. June I6.-There
are no immediate prospects Of a confer
ence with the operators or a sediment
OF the coal strike. John L. Lewis. presi-
dent Of the United Nine Workers, de-
clared here today.
Lewis stated the miners were willing
20 meet the operators. but can do moth
ing until definite action is taken by the
owners He warned Of coal shorta ge
this winter even II the miners were to
return 10 work At once
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-06-16
BANKS REPORT
HUGE CREDITS
ARE AVAILABLE
Light Demand for Loans Has
Created Great Surplus of
Funds, Says Report.

WASHINGTON. June 16.-The banks
are swollen with surplus funds. Nearly
s., 900, 100000 in credit is going begging.
American banks reported loans a year
ago Of $4,000 100000. Today the same
banks report only $lI ,O00. 100000 in loans.
Easy money conditions provide the
answer Because of light demands made
upon them, banks everywhere have
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-06-16

as the result of fractured skull. and
DR.. George Christian, deputy coroner, is
Investigating. Kean was injured at the
Shelby street round house of the Big
Four railroad. Kean is said to have been
struck by a hoist
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-06-16

FRACTURED SKULL FATAL.
Hayden Kean, 81, 800 Wyoming street,
led at the city hospital late yesterday
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-06-16

FOUND WITH WHITE MULE.
Earnest Haupt, 1915 South Alabama
street, was arrested by Officers Crevens
and Kegeris, when they found a half
pint Of mule on him.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-06-16
Tutewiler Pledges
Southport Highway

Harry D. Tutewiler. county commits
The New York herald., 1922-09-15
Tennessee Power Dividends.

The Tennessee Electric Power Conn
pany has declared initial quarterly divl-
dends OF y per cent. on the company !
per cent. preferred aud I y pcr cent
on the per cent. preferred stock, pay
nbie october 70 stockholders Of record
September 20.
The New York herald., 1922-09-15
FINANCIAL NOTES.

11e Government 81 the Union ~ South
Atrtca has forwarded ~ tho New York
eeeney ~ tho National Bank of South Africa
4 fuli rcport concerning proposed new lines
~ railways soon 70 be constructed IN uia
union.
=. r. TIolzderbcr 60. have issued rpc-
cial circular on the listed equipment stocks
ISuczynsk d CO. have prepared a conpre-
henalve circular on Mexican securities ~
affected by the Mexican debt agreement.
Prank Il. stanton 4 GO. have issued sps-
clal circular on Radio Corporation-Posta
Telegraph agreement.
willard w. Loeb has become connected with
,he municipal department OF L. +. Rothschild
9 Go,
~. &. Guinsn. formerly with sutro :
Eiimer & Co IN their bond department
Warren H. Nash has been elected al
rector of the Corn Exchange Bank.
galornou Bros K Iiu,zler announce that
Iobp / Hughes. formerly lean clerk OF the
irving National Bank, viii be associated With
them IN their money department.
Miller x Co have opened a branch oftcs
N Montreal. Canada.
The Chatham and Phenix National Bank
mated trustee under IL mortgage securing aii
issue OF saSo,Ooo first mortgage per cent.
bonds of the Eastiand, Wichita Falls and
Gulf Railroad. -
stroud Co., inc, announce that w.
Botta has become associated With thcm
their bond departmenL
The New York herald., 1922-09-15
TOPICS OF WALL STREET.
Rail Executives Position.

A check over on the railroad shop
strike situation revealed yesterday that
the executives who flatly refused 10
treat with the Brotherhood chiefs are
stin firm In their intentit n OF breaking
the strike. Statements made during the
course of the day Indicated TO change
in the front OF number OF Eastern
railway heads. The position OF some of
those who were party TO the conferences
with the labor leaders was more OF a
mystery however. The roads. which are
standing pat on their refusal to deal
with the strikers ares making every eff
fort to make their position known TO
every man In the shops at present.
Every encouragement is given TO the
unions organized by the workers of In
dividual systems and from these quar-
ters It Is stated emphatically that the
national shopmen's union is now thing
OF the past.
The New York herald., 1922-09-15
Recent Gains Held Well.

One theory advanced for the failure
OF the stock market to have a general
reaction is that the individual reactions
OF certain shares in which advances have
been too rapid has removed the neces-
sity for more general decline. II was
noticeable yesterday that attacks on
various issues were successful only in
the cases OF stocks which have advanced
materially on buying OF a purely specu-
lative character and in which support
was not forthcoming. One raid on the
tobacco issues was unsuccessful except
in the case OF the two classes of Ameri-
can Tobacco. Tobacco Products, both
the common and the Glass A shares held
firm around the high levels Of che last
few days. Sumatra gained fractionally
and United Retail Stores was in fair
demand.
The New York herald., 1922-09-15
Expect spurs I'm RAN orders.

That there win be q rush on the
part OF a number OF railroads to place
orders for first half delivery OF steel
rails with the manufacturers was indi-
Gated in comment heard In local head
quarters. Some of the roads operating
in this section OF the country make use
of independent producers of steel when
placing orders for new tonnage. The
policy of the Steel Corporation in sup
plying first OF all their old customers
has forced this practice on several car
riers. The exact position of the inde-
pendents is not bnown, but It is under
stood that the prices. which have been
quoted, approximate the new sf3 level
of the leading producer With two
weeks still to go before October l. when
the Steel Corporations new price be-
comes effective. IL Is considered likely
that there will be squirt in buying OF
new rails for forward delivery in order
to take advantage of lower prices.
The New York herald., 1922-09-15
Hide ana Leather stocks Firm.

Firmness in the shares OF Central
Leather and American Hide and Leather
Is ascribed TO improved trade conditions
and the outlook for better earnings. In
the month Of July American Hide and
Leather carried s55.000 TO surplus ac-
count. Its bank loans have been re-
duced 70 point below the pre-war
level and the company has approxi-
mately 100000 In cash on hand From
sources close TO the company Il Is
learned that despite its improved fnan-
cial and earnings outlook thare In little
likelihood that a return Of the stock to
per cent. dividend basis will be
considered before next spring.
The New York herald., 1922-09-15
Bad Order Locomotives.

Latest available estimates or the slt-
uation surrounding locomotives are un-
derstood to place the total OF bad order
units at about 35 per cent Lacking a
definite report on the matter officials
arc inclined to favor this estimate a.
indicating about the condition N the
end Of last month. The report OF the
Interstate Commerce Commission to the
Senate recently placed the number of
bad order locomotives at something like
half OF the total on rails throughout
the country