The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-01-04
Today
Crepe In Wall Street.
chicago's Big Bank.
Kidder- Peabody Advise.
Life Too Much for Me. !"
, ARTHUR BRISBANE
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by ARTHUR BRISBANE-l
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II capable gentlemen Of Wall
Street expressed their feelings in
stead Of suppressing them. there
would be crepe on many doors
and flags at half mast down
there, because of Boies Penrose's
death. Senator Penrose was
chairman Of the finance commit
tee that controls Uncle Sans
mopey. Now McCumber. Of
North Dakota. is to be chairman.
and he will have something to
say.
Penrose. powerful man. was the
dynamo of the Wall Street ''bloc."
Of which you hear little. because
It keeps It's mouth shut and does
business. McCumber. new finance
chairman. belongs to the farm
ers' "bloc," Of which you have
heard q great deal.
II the farmers "bloc" continues
growing in power. you know you
may see serious changes in the
country. You might even see
railroads run partly for the ben
eft Of farmers. instead of see
ing farmers run for the benefit
Of the railroads as in the long
past.
England says finance attaches
little Importance to the twenty
million pound fund planned to
rearrange Europe's finances. To
undertake that task with less
than one hundred million dollars
reminds you of the old lady try
ing to mop up the ocean. George
Reynolds Continental and Com
mercial Bank, in Chicago. second
in size in the United States. hav-
ing just digested a couple of other
banks, now has five hundred mil
lion all to itself. Europe. having
spent and sauandered several
hundred thousand millions on war.
could hardly expect to fix that up
with one-fifth the resources Of
one Chicago bank.
Kidder and Peabody, of Bos-
ton, reaching out into New York
finance on a big scale, have
circulated excellent financial
advice: "Buy bonds and stocks
of corporations not duly ex-
panded, having no floating
debt" The trouble is the invest
ing public doesn't KNOW.
It should ask competent bank
ing authority before investing.
II 1t did that, many families
would avoid ruin. ~
A young girl daughter of a
clergyman, struggling to make
a living in a big city, gave 1t
up, turned on six gas jets. Be-
side her dead body was found
this: Life is too much for me-"
The wonder Is that SO many,
especially young girls, are able
to deal with life and conquer it
at all. It is only the ingenuity
of Nature, giving US as main
yspring the intense desire to live,
that keeps US struggling and
striving. How many, toward the
end, can say that it really has
been worth while, yet we all
hang on.
Forty taken to one hospital in
one day suffering from alcoholic
poisoning. Only five were
women. There you have wom-
ems superiority in plain figures.
But what about prohibition, how
It it working?
You will begin getting the
answer before long in many pre-
mature deaths. Men of fifty
and sixty will begin dropping
off, and insurance companies
will change their statistics
slightly. Wood alcohol kills on
the same day, or within a few
days. All bootleg whiskey kills,
If you give it time.
Italy wants her share Of the
ocean cables taken from Ger
many. England and Japan have
arranged to give US our share
of the loot. If we are not too
proud to take the property of a
bankrupt nation, we ought not to
be too proud to take money that
foreign nations owe us, or rather
to ask for it. We probably
won't get it.
The most respectable clergymen
of the Methodist Church announce
that in their opinion dancing and
some other things hitherto forbid
den, including cards, are not sin
. full. As people change, religion
and laws change with them: John