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The Washington times., 1922-06-04

The other two, of course, are held
by the railroad and coal industries.
The swelling activity in building
what does II mean? How will It
work? Why should II bring prosper
ity not only to the actual handwork-
ers and brainworkers engaged in It,
but also to men supposed TO have
less intimate relations with ito
grocers, farmers, doctors, publishers,
and even to ministers.
II is an old story that a nation.
wide building boom would accom-
plish great things for us all, but
howf
100000 Workers.
There are about 2,400, 900 men en-
gagged directly in the building busi-
ness when the business booms.
There are about 100000 more en-
gagged in furnishing to those men
the materials with which they work
iron. glass. copper. steel. lumber.
etc. An Eastern expert figures that
the salaries and wages of the actual
builders seem a little high, but let
that pass. II one allows that the
men who furnish the materials to
the actual builders are Equally paid,
one gets a total Of SIC, 900 900 900 a
year. That Is. $40 900 900 .00e dis.
tributed in wages and salaries on
account Of the construction industry
every twelve months that II operates
full time.
Now there Is no doubt that the
present demand for houses. apart
ments and business buildings Is cnor-
nous, that 1t would require four or
five busy years to meet and satisfy
IL. So II cut loose from its present
difficulties the construction indus
try could and would pay this So.
900 900 900 to the 5000. 600 hand
workers anc brain workers in its
ranks. What then? Where would
the general benefit to general busi-
ness come in? Just here:
$4,000, ,OO0, 900 to Workers.
The $40 900 ,0oo, 900 would flow into
the hands Of the workers. From
their hands II would flow out to
others, who sell TO the workers and
their families all tho necessaries and
some OF the luxuries ot life. or the
SIC, 900 900 900 a year. about $4,000
900 900 would be spent for foodstuffs
that the farmers grow and that can
ners, millers. and grocers handle.
About $500. 900 900 would go into
the rent OF homes. About 1.4Oo,'
600. 900 would be spent for clothes.
Something like 500, 900 900 would be
used for fuel. furniture and house.
hold furnishings. The churches and
the doctors, the book and magazine
publishers the theaters and movies
The Washington times., 1922-06-04

OF course, these latter develop
ments were not without significant
effect upon stock prices, which dur
ing the past week moved forward
to a new high average for the year
and for the current movement, but
they were by no means confined
TO the narrow sphere that binds
the limits of stock market activi-
ties.
Sterling Advances.
The advance in sterling exchange
to the highest point in nearly three
years, the actual Inauguration Of
conferences with the Mexican gov
ernment officials relative to the de-
faulted Mexican security issues, the
gratifying progress made by the
bankers international loan commit
tee in Paris, the fairly satisfactory
government report of the growing
cotton crop, further stabilization Of
time money rates and indications
Of generous supplies of credit for
all legitimate enterprises, announce
ment of the first step in the process
Of adjusting railroad labor scales
to the abilities of the roads to pay,
and finally the most favorable pres
entation of business progress that
has been forthcoming in over two
years, have been the outstanding
factors influencing public sentiment
in the week that has come to a
close. Definite announcement of
the completion of the merger Of
the Republic, Midvale and Inland
Steel Companies has removed at
least one of the elements of mys-
terry and uncertainty from the spec
ulative district, while on the other
hand. the exhaustive inquiry into
resources and methods now being
made by the Lockwood committee
has not been without significance
to the stock market as a whole.
Practically without exception
prices of speculative stocks moved
forward to new high levels this week,
the most notable gains being regis
tered by the motors. oils and spe-
cialties, while the railroad issues,
coppers, and industrials Ilade but a
modest response to the bulllSh fac
tors that were so effective elsewhere
In the stock list.
The advance of United States Steel
to 103, the highest price in over two
years, and, incidentally. the effect
which such a movement has on the
general stock list. might easily be
listed as one of the important Incl
dents of the week. Mexican Petro-
leum and Studebaker, the other two
prominent speculative leaders, also
distinguished themselves by selling
into new high ground for the year.
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and recreation parks would get more
than $1,000, 900, 900; the banks would
get perhaps 81 1,25o o.00o. 900 In savings
accounts. And $1,000, 900 900 would
go for those mysterious purposes
which man, in balancing his private
accounts. calls miscellaneous, and
lets II go at that.
The figures are rough. In each
case, they merely touch the surface
Of the business that gets a share of
the $40, 0,000. 900 900. Followed fur
ther they would be still more strik-
ing. but in general they point the
lesson. What Is II?
That from the building industry
alone, II that industry were allowed
to cut loose and fill the demands
now made upon 1t. there would flow
a stream OF business prosperity that
would irrigate half the fields OF in.
dustrial and agricultural activity.
The Washington times., 1922-06-04
Peanut Growers Vote
For War With Cleaners

SUFFOLK, Va, June 3.-Two
thousand peanut growers and their
families have raised the remainder
Of the $1,000 loan to the Peanut
Growers Exchange, and also have
declared war on the peanut cleaners.
Determination to see the exchange
through the present troublesome
period and a spirit Of cooperation
in fighting the exchanges battles
were manifested on every side.
one of the pioneers in cooperative
marketing and more recently with
the Burley Growers Cooperative
Exchange Of Kentucky, was the
principal speaker at a meeting here.
The Washington times., 1922-06-04

NEW YORK, June 3.-Important
action on the part OF the Labor
Board cutting the pay maintenance
Of way employees by an amount esti-
mated at S4S, 900 900. with rumors of
cuts in other directions to follow,
the decision of the Supreme Court In
the long drawn Reading and South
ern Pacific cases, and the acceptance
by Germany OF the ultimatum as TO
terms upon which a foreign loan can
be floated In her favor have been the
principal announcements which have
tended to make the past few days
fundamentally significant in the his
tory OF the stock market.
Railroad Decisions.
The United States Supreme Court
decision in the Reading case stu
leaves much to be desired before the
read jus tment plan can be made op-
erative. The opinion makes II clear
that the first and second preferred
stockholders are entitled to share
in the assets OF the coal property on
an equal footing with the common
shareholders, and as these assets
are very valuable holders of the
ordinary stock will doubtless soon
get over their disappointment. The
opinion finally rendered by the Su-
preme Court that the Southern Pa
cific Company must rid itself of the
Central Pacific naturally creates a
great deal Of uncertainty as to what
will be the outcome. Although COM
binations under the new transpor.
tstion act, subject to the approval
Of the Interstate Commerce Com
mission. are now permitted. there
fore, the court order may never be
put into effect: but even though T.
should It is more than likely that
the Union Pacific or some other sys-
tenn Will become a ready purchaser.
Merger Developments.
The announcement OF the steel and
tobacco mergers follows similar an.
nouncements In other fields and IS
a part OF the general process of re-
adjusting Industrial organization
which Is now going forward as a re-
suit Of the condition left by war and
postwar finance. 1t is probable that
this merger tendency will 20 con.
sidersb:y further and that a number
Of enterprises, some OF them Of con-
siderable size whose operations have
been unsatisfactory during the past
year or two, will be consolidated with
others in order to attain the greater
benefits OF combination and the saw.
ings supposedly incident thereto.
The Financial Situation.
The financial situation continues
to show unusual strength. Not only
does the Federal reserve system
maintain an almost unprec sdentedly
high level OF reserve as per cent
The Washington times., 1922-06-04
HAS 700 ACRES "SPuDS."

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. June s.
c. C. Branch, the first man to intro
duce the potato culture on the penin-
sula more than thirty years ago.
when he started In a small way Mt
Toano, has stuck faithfully to the
business and this year has out the
largest acreage of any single planter
on the peninsula. His more than 700
acres Of "spuds" are said TO be most
promising.
The Washington times., 1922-06-04
W. VA. BANKERS TO MEET.

FAIRMONT. w. Va, June g.
The annual meeting Of group s Of
the West Virginia Bankers Associa.
ton to be held June 8 at the Fair
mont Country Club. The group
embraces banks in Marion, Monon.
gala, Harrison. Taylor, Preston,
Lewis, Barbour, Randolph, Dodd-
ridge, Upshur, Gilmer, Webster and
Bra1ton counties.
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ICE PLANT TO OPEN.

HoPEWELL. Va. June s.-Hope-
wells new Ice plant is being rushed
to completion, according to F. f.
Ellis, superintendent, who Is also su.
pervising the construction work, and
probably will be ready to give service
about June 10.
The Washington times., 1922-06-04
SHIPPING NEW POTATOES.

SALISBURY. Nd, June S.-The
first shipment of new potatoes
from the Eastern Shore Of Virginia
this season was made few days
ago by Robert T. Jones OF lower
Northampton county. The ship
ment, which was three barrels, sold
for S6 . barrel
The Washington times., 1922-06-04
A@sgns T%nn"aH# TaHRS BUSIN ND FINANCE ~5#
Building Boom Aid to
National Prosperity
By GEORGE w. HINMAN.

CHICAGO, June Big building boom to cut rents
that is headline in yesterdays newspapers 1t tells
story but only half the story that should be told for
of the three keys to great national prosperity lies in the
hands of the building trades
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STRIKE CUTS FATALITIES.

Reduction in the number OF deaths
In coal mines was attributed to the
coal strike by the Bureau OF Mines,
in announcing seventy-two fatalities
for April, as compared with le4 dur
ing the same month q year ago.
The Washington times., 1922-06-04
Stocks Move Forward
To New High Levels
Notable Gains Made BY Motors, Oils Steel,
and Other Specialties During
/. the Week.
By w. s. COUSINS.

7 serVos)
NEW YORK, June 3-Important were the develop
ments and movements in the speculative stock market
during the last week. they to considerable extent
overshadowed by the spectacular turn of events in other
divisions of the domestic and international finance and
business
The Washington times., 1922-06-04

manufacturer in Britain turned his
artillery upon the Yankee-controllcd
Ogden's. Wholesalers and retailers
alike Joined to boycott. Ogden
goods. The newspapers thundered
against the treason" Of Ogden'a IN
selling out to Americans and urged
every loyal Briton to down the au-
dacious Yankee.
James B. Duke. however, stood by
his guns. Even when sales Of Og-
denis goods dropped so per cent and
the Englishmen were hurrah!nG over
their success, he never for a moment
flinched. He first tried one selling
wrinkle and then another.
Every day the law lasted cost
$4,000!
But Duke won before a year had
passed.
While he agreed to sell out all his
company's English interests to the
Imperial, the English combine. at
millions of profit, in due course he
formed the British Tobacco
Company and secured control OF the
export business OF the Englishmen's g
combine, so that he became the dem
inant force In the foreign tobacco
business.
Business this summer promises to
he less dull than we usually expect
In sweltering weather. This applies
also to the security markets, psrtic-
ularly the stock market division.
Copyright. 1874, by b. C. Forbes)
The Washington times., 1922-06-04

This week has established I'M
portant milepost In the forward
march of business reconstruction in
the United States and in the finan-
ciaI reconstruction Of the European
countries. The recovery at home is
an evidence of the recuperative
power Of the country itself. stimu-
lated by the favorable reports that
have been constantly coming from
across the water. Comparisons of
existing conditions with these which
prevailed at this time last year offer
substantial evidence OF the excellent
results of the whole hearted co-np-
Grafton OF bankers. business men, in
dustria! leaders and manual laborers
throughout the country.
The Washington times., 1922-06-04
Bond Mnrket Active.

Activity in the bond market dur
ing the past week has been confined
most largely to the new issues. which
have been introduced to the market
by syndicate underwriters and in
vestment houses. The aggregate Of
new bonds was about $4,000. 900,
not including the 10000. 900 guilders
OF per cent Of the Anton Jurgens
(Hollan0 united works. The new
$4,000 900 Bolivian loan was floa ted
this week, as also a S3,934,000 issue
Of the province Of Manitoba. Public
utility bonds totalled SIS, 800, 900: In.
dustrials IS $50 900: state and muni-
cipal $15,770,000; land bank $1,000
900 and railroads $5,S00.000.
Activity in the listed bond market
was larger occupied with the gov
ernment issues and the higher grade
industrials. Speculative bonds. as
a rule, failed to maintain the ad-
vances registered by them in the
previous week. The progress OF
speculative bonds since the turn Of
the year may be soon in the follow
ing comparative table.
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an example which was followed Iy
perhaps as many active issues as In
any similar period since the turn Of
the year.
simultaneously with the announce
ment that the British government
had completed its operations in the
exchange market for the payment Of
its f25.O0O, 900 interest obligation
this fall, sterling exchange broke
through its old level for the year
and sold up to 4.4S. the highest price
since July, 1919. The lowest record
ed price for sterling in recent years
was S.1S on February 4, 1929. since
which time, by a series o: advances
and relapses, II has gradually risen
to within hailing distance Of par.
Arizona republican., 1922-06-13
TUESDAY MORNING. JUNE 1a, 1922
Those old stories of visions and
dreams guiding men haze their
truth: Ue are saved by making the
future present to ourselves.
George Eliot
Come to the Scratch

Mr. Ward in his address at Globe on Saturday
night met of the issues which have been raised
in the Democratic primary campaign. He Is engaged
only in contest with former Governor Hunt and
not at present with any Republican candidate His
speech was one which belongs only to general
campaign. His charges Of extravaganza against the
present Republican administration have nothing
whatever to do with Mr.. Hunt who is not RepuD-
lican and has had part in the administration
Mr. Ward could as properly have introduced into his
speech his views of the tariff imperialism the League
of Nations and the soviet government or Mr.. Elm
STEMS relativity theory He offered no reason why
he rather than Geo. W. P. Hunt, should receive the
Democratic nomination for governor And that is
what the Democrats who so to hear Democratic
candidates want to be told about.
The nearest approach by Mr.. Ward to any point
at issue his statement that our direct primary
law is not perfect. That has all along been more
than suspected. Mr.. Hunt himself is aware OF that
and some four years ago understood ne was sup
porting Mr. winsor's bill for the removal Of certain
defects But Democrats want to know whether IN
Mr. Wards opinion the constitutional clause relating
to the primary law should be repealed; whether he
thinks necessary to destroy that in order to leave
the legislature free to perfect primary law.
Most Democrats also know that the constitutional
primary provision lays no restraint upon the legis
lature. 1t only requires that it must have some
kind of primary law and leaves the kind entirely
to the legislature
The issue then as to the primary law is shall
the proposed constitutional amendment repeating the
primary provision be adopted? Mr.. Hunt says it
shall not be. Mr.. Ward has so far left the Demo-
Gratis in doubt as to what he thinks about it.
Mr.. Ward favors the cooperative marketing
amendment and we suppose almost everybody else
does Mr.. Hunt has given expression to it
probably for the reason that it is not of the group
proposed by the Industrial Congress The Arizona
Labor Journal which than any other paper is
backing Mr. Hunt, advises the defeat of all the
amendments except this We do not know wheth-
er that advice is given because the Journal has
perstitious belief the infaliby OF
the constitution whether it wants to make of
the Industrial Congress amendments and wants to
take no chances Of a confusion in the minds Of the
voters, in which more Of them might escape.
marketing amendment, Mr.. Ward preserved silence
at Globe
We should like to the Democratic primary
campaign be made snappy. But that cannot be
unless Mr.. Ward comes to the scratch" A prize
fight would be tame affair with both Of the
fighters striking at an imaginary antagonist. The
spectators would justified raiding the office
to get their money back.
Arizona republican., 1922-06-13
B AR RE
eY DR.. FRANK CRANE
Copyright. 1921, by Frank Crane)

We get to thinking common
that nothing will happen and that there thing the
SUM- and then genius his bomb
and blows smothering despair sky high.
" there the world right
q ma
OF creative imagination him before living
The other he of
sty in Scotland, of honorary
To find of literature institution of
shattering achangel
coming out of the sIums chance speech Of
6aes BY all must do Just teaser, will
quote few
He speaks of certain
to his unruy half like Stevensons Mr. Hyde,
Of being and sinful it whmsy and wayward He said
his desire be the family solicitor standing firm his
MacConnochie prefers to fly around wing.
He the
and their beters by youth meaning of
betters
with the youth
each other"
better of Nations
dying for quarres that their besters had brought
He definition Of science which 1T is the
Of teaching how know what when
So"
"The artistic eainas" said doing what
eIamoous would rather
be doing something eIse He alluded which
chiefly often
the to the wrong thing"
Again, he said: Courage! don't think be got by
becoming solemnsds before time You have been
letting golden
them golden
he preserving other virtue
Don't forget ornfuy the Victorian Age There
will be of better.
will be Victorian that of thing
Altogether, and shining diamond in the
tenporaneous literature.
Arizona republican., 1922-06-13
Americas Prehistoric Inhabitants

visit the prehistoric ruins of Colo
rado in modern comfort.
Almost every year some new type
of ruin is salvaged from the debris
of the centuries. In 1910 the Cliff
palace which is the largest cliff
dwelling in the southwest, was ex-
cavated and repaired In 1915 the D.
shaped sun temple was brought to
light. The next year a large COM
munity house of a new type was un-
earthed and in 1919 one of the best
preserved cliff houses in the south
west was added to the list Of Mesa
Verde's attractions. Even the wooden
beams of the roof of this house were
still intact
Last summer a Fire Temple evil
dently devoted to worship and con-
servation of fire was discovered. DR..
Fewkes has just left for another
summers work at Mesa Verde and
he has selected for special attention
this year a mound of new form.
Apparently this structure was not a
dwelling but was used for some un-
known communal purpose. 1t is at
present pile of stones 25 feet high
with a depressed center No walls
rises above the surface of the ground.
DQl oil AHt SlOIiSS tON clltlS tA4t
show artificial work indicating fine
masonry.
The size. shape and past use of
the structure can be determined only
by removal of the accumulated debris
laying bare the rooms now concealed
by fallen stones, drifting sand, and a
dense growth of vegetation. 1t is
proposed TO strengthen and otherwise
repair the shattered walls SO that
turists may behold one more OF the
great prehistoric Mesa Verde build
ings somewhat in its original con-
ditions.
Mesa Verde excavations are of
great interests to science. A number
of scholars have made different de-
deductions and set forth different
theories from the evidence so far un-
earthed.
Unfortunately the Pueblos of this
section had no system Of writing be-
yond the few rude symbols scratched
on cliffs or painted on their earthen-
ware jars. From remains found in
their buried dwellings it is known
that they were farmers. coaxing a
scant living out of the dry mesa
country. Bits of pottery and decora-
ted fabrics tell us that they had a
strong sense of beauty. BY such ran
dom clues that lost Mesa Verde tribes
intrigue scientists to further effort in
the solution of their mystery.
Arizona republican., 1922-06-13
A Breach of Promise Suit


Something almost new in litigation in this coun-
try took place at Chicago last Saturday, when John
r. Roberts Texas oil said to be worth
SS000O00, filed breach of promise suit against Miss
Gladys Wells, an actress claiming $4,000. We know
nothing OF this except what gather from
the meager dispatch announcing the filing of it,
though some light is thrown upon it by statement
by the defendant that the plaintiff had presented
her furs and jewels which he told her were worth
$4,000. From this we infer that the plaintiff is
trying to recover the value of the property which
he had thus frittered away rather than to seek
balm and solace for wounded heart
He has difficult task before him and we think
that he has not been advised by deeply informed
lawyer. There is OF course no legal reason why
man may not recover in breach of promise suit
as well as a woman. But the man never does. We
have never heard of such relief being granted to
male plaintiff though plaintiffs are frequent
ly, nearly always afforded it. even on the flinses
pretexts.
The plaintiff Roberts, though elected the breach
Of promise method hopeless as experience has shown
it to be- probably because his lawyer ignorant of
any law by which the return of wedding gifts may
be enforced though the law gives. IL juries do not.
the same relief to the male to the female com
plainant in breach Of promise suit
There is we believe law in this country en-
abling to recover nuptia gift. None is found
in that called the common law, though we do
not suppose American lawyer in 10000 has ever
heard OF 1t. When it enacted or came into use
is not known, but it embalmed in Latin in a
treatise issued in the seventeenth centruy "The
Lawes Resolution OF woman's Rights and the Lawes
Provision for Women" This ancient and forgotten
legislation rather. rule exhumed and brought
out in the trial in London four months ago of
a case in which woman had brought suit against
the former lover of her daughter for the recovery
OF automobile OF whose purchase price she had
paid the greater part. This is the rule Which the
lawyers for the plaintiff successfully relied Isl spon
dedt aliquid ct aliquo impediuntur nup-
ti@e donatio penitus rescindtur nisi osculum in
tervenerit."
This, roughly translated is that in the event Of
broken engagement gifts except kisses to be
returned. The exception of the "oscuum" or kiss is
probably made for the that the kiss being
contributed by both parties belongs half EACH
There seems to be taken into account such a
thing stolen kiss forcibly taken, and
doubt very much whether there is such thing
way, court order for the return of a kiss would
subject the parties to the of kissing again.
and to the danger OF reconciliation which would
set them out vicious circle of making up and
falling out. 1t is the kiss that gets them into
trouble in the first place.