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The Washington times., 1922-03-19
PASSENGER TRAFFIC
DROPS copper CENT
Railway Executives Report
Large Decrease 40 Conn
pared With 1920.

Passenger traffic ON the railroads
of the United Statss In 1871 was ap-
proximately 20 per cent below what
1t was In 1920, according TO Q state
ment issued today by the ASSOCIATION
Of Railway EXECUTIVES.
Passenger miles for the year, that
ID the number Of passengers multi.
piled by the distance carried. totAled
1882, S97. 900. compared with 4S,S4l.-
622. 900 In 1920, or q reduction Of
i. sos .936. 900. These figures are
based on reports from carriers rep
resenting . total mileage OF S2A.Ss7
miles.
Revenue derived from passenger
service in 1921 totaled $1.153.762.002.
which was $133.67l.441 less than the
total passenger revenues In 1SzO,
despite the fact that the Increased
passenger rate was only In eject
during the last four months In that
year. Reports show that Of the total
passenger revenue, 332.s01.S60 was
derived from the Pullman surcharge
In 1921.
Comparisons show that the per-
centage Of surcharee total passenger
revenues were largest In the months
when the passenger revenues were
the lowest. Passenger revenues In
November. 1891. amounted to $780,
SOS, $50. the lowest for any month In
that year. while the Pullman sur
charge was t2.86s,5a6. or 9.33 per
cent. In July and August. the ratio
OF surcharge to revenue was 2.b9 ana
2.67 per cent, respectively. although
passenger revenues In those months
were the largest for the year.
The average monthly revenue de-
rived from passenger Traffic In 1871
was $96.14S.00O, while the average
amount derived monthly from the
Pullman surcharge was &2,716.SSO.
or asa per cent Of the total revenue.
Taking the average for the year.
however. tabulations show that the
maximum deviation from the aver
are on the total passenger revenue
IL 1852 per cent while the maximum
deviation on surchargo revenues u
S.2e per cent. This shows that the
surcharge business fuctuates rela-
lively less and II less affected by
business conditions than II the gen
eral passenger business OF the oar
rioru.
The Washington times., 1922-03-19
c. & ri Of West Virginia
Shows 6.43 p. C.. Earnings

WHEELING. ". Va. March Is.
AT the annual meeting If thu
stockholders Of the -hssapeaks and
Potomac Telephone Company of
West Virginia held recently, opsra.
tons for the year 1871 were report.
Cd showing that the compsny earned
for the year s.lS Per cent ON tina
average book value Ut it, PROPERTY.
The total telephone revenues Tor
the year were $3.50. $40: the total
sxpsnsss. including dsprs-iatiou ana
taxes We're SS.7es.o7e; % thyt the
net telephone earnings, there tore.
were &ess.ss3. The avsraSs book
value OF the plant In ssrvios for the
year VS. S12.s1o.Sss. or appruxi.
matsly e1sooo.oo0 greater than for
the previous year. "
The Washington times., 1922-03-19

February export figures show a
still further decline iof our so-called
favorable balance, ths amount due
VI over and above our debts for the
months business falling off - com.
pared with January. The months
excess of exports. however, was still
$4,000, 900. Changes in our trade are
The Washington times., 1922-03-19
PEANUT GROWERS ELECT,

PETERSBURG. Va, March IA
The members Of the Peanut Grow.
ers' Exchange from the Seventh dis.
trict met In the rooms Of the
Chamber Of Commercs for the cleo.
ton of a director, which resulted
in the reelection Of James q. Webb,
jr., Of Suffolk, a. q director of the
exchange, Edward Dvoreck was
elected secretary.
The Washington times., 1922-03-19
C. OF c. SECRETARY OUT,

WINCHESTER, Va. March a.
Thomas Burley, Jr., rendered his
resignation a. executive secretary
Of the chamber Of commerce. to ac-
cept q similar position at Morgan.
town, w. Va, and II IN expected he
will take up his new work at an early
date. He has been secretary Of the
local organization since shortly after
the close of the world war.
The Washington times., 1922-03-19
MONEY tn GRAIN

10000 bushels Of wheat or corn. Nc
runrsnt.e price aiyss you an opp Om
tunity TO take $500; 20 SEQ. 90 isoo.
etc. Write for particulars and free
iNVEsrCRs. DAILY GUIDE. ss.thvsss
Branch, Deak DO. loo4 Baltmers Ave.
Kansas City. No.
The Washington times., 1922-03-19
identify OF 5
RICHEST MENIN.
/ j. s. IS PUZZLE
Ford, Rockefeller, schwab and
Baker Lead In Wall Street
Contest.
By MAX KAsE



NEW YORK. March 1S.-Wall
Street has contracted its brow and
- speculatiysly chswing 1t the end
Of . fraysd pencil. A great guess
ing conteCt q On. Not concerning
bears or bulls or foreign exchange
or the political situation in Pata-
gonia. Nothing % simple. Five
citisens Of the United States ara
known to have paid an income tax
on net income of 36.000.o00 q year
last year. The revenue department
has been appealed to for the identity
Of this quintet, but the revenue de-
partinent II not saying. It never
does. And 70 Wall street u guess.
ing.
Wall street sleuths have made
some progress and have positively
determined that two Of the priN.
legged five-million dollar c1tisens are
Michiganites. while the remaining
three come from this city. Going
still further with their deductions,
the financial 'Hawkshaws' believe
for q certainty that the Fords-
Henry and Edsel-are the Michigan
members Of the exclusive high pay.
ing income tax clique. The elder
Ford's extensive holdings are known
to insure him an income well In the
neighborhood Of 5000. 900. Edsel ID
Ia large shareholder in his father
company and, together with his
tractor company. u believed to
qualify for membership.
John D., Of Course.
But when It comes to the New
York members Of this quintet the
local Sherlock have torn their
hair and wilted their collars In their
concentrated exertions and admit
they are stumped. One guess In az
good a. another. John D. Rockefel-
Ter. r.: John D.. tr.; George +.
Baker. Charles M. Schwab, Thomas
r. Ryan. ]. p. Morgan and VIII.
lam Rockefeller have been brought
forward ~ most likely candidates.
In fact, John D., n. II positively be-
lieved to be one Of the three.
It IL doubtful whether John d.
knows his exact income. The ''oil
kings" railroad and banks and oil
wells and mines and interests in
other enterprises. Wall street has
figured. must yield him the neces.
sary income to Do classed with the
elite. John D., jr.. II also receiving
serious consideration In view Of the
large transfers Of property being
made over to him by his father.
John D., sr., II 10 known. has steadi-
ly placed the Junior In control and
ownership Of valuable properties In
recent years.
0esrgs Baker wealthy.
0eorgs r. Baker. the banker. with
his large railroad interests and hold
ings in numerous Industrial corpora
tons, In another who may be ono of
the three. 20. F." II not % well
known to the public at large, but he
can write checks quite a. large "a
the next one. Chares M. Schwab.
with his steel holdings; ]. p. Nor
gan. the international banker; VIII
liam Rockefeller (the SILENT; Thomas
r. Ryan. Of copper fame-may be
one of the favored three.
Those of the Wall street element
who believe In q bunch declare II
will be q family affair--two Fords
from Michigan and three Rockefel-
lers from New York.
And, also. Wall street II wonder
ing. Perhaps some unknown who
has not yet flashed across the fnan.
cial armament II one Of the three
local members. II 20. who II he?
The contest 10 waxing hot and
merry.
The Washington times., 1922-03-19
Deposits in D. c. Banks
A. shown by the Call Of the comptrollsr Of the
Currency ~ Of March 10.

hank. show an 81 100000
the Comptroller
H%Sisy savage Of Trust Company
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-15

who saw the horrors of the recent war, was struck by the stupid folly and cruelty of sacr- ficing millions of lives and untold millions of dollars in property to settle differences that should be adjusted without firing shot or shedding drop of human blood MT. Irwin to reach the front. He knows at first-hand what war means. He put his experiences and observations into book entitled, "The Next War" which has been widely read, and his lectures are serving still further to show that the repetition of such a conflict as that of the World war would be infinitely more destructive than any catastrophe humanity has ever wit messed before.
 Through his book and his lecture on the same theme MT Irwin is helping to strengthen the conviction that common sense demands the abolition of war. It is already far too dis astrous, too widespread in it's desolation to be tolerated any longer. MT. Irwin and many other students of the problem who visualize war in the future picture it as involving not fighting men alone, but entire nations, subject to attacks with poison gas, aircraft, bacteria and every means of destruction that science can invent.
 The business and professional women of Br- mingham deserve thanks for bringing MT. Irwin to this city. His lecture promises to be one of the most instructive and interesting ever heard here.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-15
LETTERS TO EDITOR
PUNISHMENT OF BOYS

To the Editor of The Age-Herald:
 Legal punishment is for reformation, not for revenge. When man takes the law into his own hands and inflicts an injury that re- suits in death, for possible offense, it mat ters little what means he uses to effect his purpose-dynamite bomb loaded gun or sharp ened steel-so long as the result is manslaugh- ter; and if the same is effected without notice warning it is more heinous than impulsive homicide: it is murder in the second degree.
 The foolish boys or young men who have been accused of footing store at Mentone if proved guilty on trial before jury, are liable to be damned for life with the brand of felon attached to their names They have been shocked enough, God knows, by the death of their comrade; and if there is remnant of good in each of them, reformation will have been already effected by the design and act of the man they aimed to plumber.
 All the circumstances of the case should be taken into consideration, and if mercy be not the leading intention of the prosecutor, he too should have justice rendered him, and be tried on one of the most serious charges against the commonwealth.
 It would be safe, polite, and gracious if the storekeeper withdrew all criminal charges against the boys, and rest content with the satisfaction he has already received.
 As an old resident of the mountains of Ala bama, I am well aware of the disadvantages there under which growing boys labor in the way of culture and social development, so that in raising my voice in favor of lenient judg- ment for the young gangsters who strove to rival one another in rowdyism, am sure am but the spokesman of large section of the educated community.
 JOHN E. PURDON, M. D.
 Box 73, Willits, California. January, 1922.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-15
A MORNING PRAYER
MAKING USE OF BIRMINGHAM'S "CET-TOGETHER" MACHINERY

The enthusiasm and unanimity with which the retail druggists of Birmingham organized them selves as a division of the Chamber of Com merce serves to illustrate the growth of idea in a community. The "get-together" creed has been preached in Birmingham since it was born at the round table of the first board of directors of the Elyton Land company when they agreed that there should be second Birmingham Eng land, and Pittsburg of the south. "Get to- gether" has been the slogan at annual chamber meetings and, since their origin, at the dinner clubs.
 But to "get together there must be some agency. The agency was here all these years, but not until last year was it discovered to be in the Chamber of Commerce, which, by dint of its large and influential membership and it's organized equipment, stood prepared to be the rallying point for cooperative movements.
 Wholesale merchants and manufacturers tried utilization with the chamber and found it distinct benefit. The young of Birming- ham brought into connection with it began serving the community with nerve and eff ciency. Truckers, associating themselves with the chamber, evolved successful truckers market. The Italians of the district discovered their capacity for community service through their division of the chamber.
 The retail merchants have lately lined up with the chamber and now the druggists have come in more than 50 strong as advance guard of greater numbers. These divisions enjoy economy of service and a joint inspiration through association with this central organized body. The chamber has facilities to care for imum of expense and maximum of accom- plishment.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-15

What has become of the old-fashioned school boy who used to walk to the platform Friday afternoon, get firm grip on his memory and speak that classic oration beginning, 'Ye call me chief"?
 Bill White thinks the gobs missing Jo- sephus Daniels. Maybe so. There are not many Secretaries of the Navy who are willing to admit that gob is as good as admiral.
 A former teller in a North Dakota bank, short $7S,0OO, received sentence of 30 days in jail and $1O0 fine, which was equivalent to saying, "Go and sin again."
 A Kentucky lawmaker would prevent beau ties in bathing suits from walking on the streets. This doesn't come under the head of street improvements. The democratic wife of republican will be the first woman member of the state demo- cratic executive commttee Still, their home life may be happy.
 "American Struck by Queer Custom of French rt"-Headlne. A bulky volume might be written about the queer customs of American courts.
 Republicans are now without courage. A few of them voted against Newberry and repub- llcan made corking good speech against the Dyer bill.
 Hon. Fulton's championship aspirations have been punctured again. There's pugilist who evidently believes in the Salvation Army slogan.
 The Birmingham man, under the influence | of Jho mic oil hoy for folding bed, probably lives in modern flat |
 European cabinets change with such ire quency an American cabinet officer creates the impression that he is growing old in office.
 Tom Watson is having some difficulty in proving that the American army merely went to France to conduct "lynching bees"
 Mayor Oles of Youngstown, is getting so much publicity we expect to hear from him sooner later the Chautauqua circuit.
 Only a narrow strip of water separates France from England but temperamentally they are as far apart as the poles
 MT. ziegfeld's plan to depart from our shores in 1924 is of course subject to change without further notice.
 A writer for the New York Times who found the south flat its back is invited to come down and take another look
 
 There more dams in Henry Ford's phil osophy than most industrial captains have ever dreamed of.
 It is said there is no mysterious white | in the heart of Africa Writers of exciting fiction should worry.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-15
----- FARMERS, MOTOR VEHICLES AND HARD ROADS

Farmers of the United States own 30 per cent of the motor cars and trucks in the country. Of the 10 ,0OO. .000 motor vehicles registered last year the farmers owned S,OOO,000. The farmer is essentially concerned in building good roads for the more efficient service of his automobile and truck at the lowest cost.
 The official report of motor cars in use shows that nearly 135,ooo,ooo tons of farm products were hauled to market by trucks last year. This is much greater tonnage than could have been moved by horse and wagon in the same space of time and with the same outlay of money.
 The motor vehicle has become necessity on the farm. By the same token the road that win permit the greatest service of the motor vehicle is another economic necessity.
 These are thoughts to be borne in mind Jan- uary 30, when Alabama votes on highway measure that if carried will give the counties of the state interlockng roads at half price.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-15
ACHIEVEMENT ADDED
 TO WONDERS OF SCIENCE

Dr. H. H. Goddard director of the Bureau of that "Polly" has fought a losing battle against science Polly" who is figured in the dual cated and Bernice is now recuperating, but is not yet strong enough to leave the hospital She wants to be we'll enough when she goes out into the world to fight Polly" alone if her second self tries to regain possession of her body.
 Polly" says Dr. Goddard, fought hard to keep from being evicted, but Bernice helped the doctors and after growing weaker and weaker, Polly" finally, after a manner of speaking gave up the ghost Bernice is now normal girl with taste for enightening books, and wants to be a musician. When "Poly" had the upper hand Bernice was not such fine girl and her mentality low
 All of which makes interesting reading even if we don't quite understand it. Most of us have dual personalities of one kind and another, and we are not always successful in hiding them from the neghbors, but they seldom make us subjects for a clinic. It's lucky thing, too. What with the struggle of trying to keep our faces clean, make both ends meet and obey the Volstead law, we haven't time to fight to a finish with our dual personalities.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-15
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
A BOOSTER POET

w. D. Lanier of the Hillman Drug company has composed metric exhortation on Boost ing Birmingham" copy of which has been sent to the Chamber of Commerce, to which special reference is made in the composition The verses read as follows:
 ''Hello, there, you blamed old rooster, ''Why don't you be booster?
 Boost your city, boost your friend Boost the church that you attend. "Bopst the street which you're dwelling; Boost the goods that you are selling. Boost for every forward movement; Boost for every improvement Boost the man for whom you labor; Boost the stranger and your neghbor. ! Boost the the thing that all good men
 nurse;
 Boost the Chamber of Commerce. eff you'd make your city better,
 Boost it to the final letter"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-15
THE BRAvEsT ARE THE TENDEREs7

From the Washington and Lee Bulletin.
 Watching fire in the mountains, the pany admired it's scenic grandeur. General Lee remarked: Tt is beautiful, but l have been thinking of the poor animals that must perish in the flames"
 Near Richmond as storm of shell swept the field, General Lee ordered his attendants to the rear, and while attentvely. surveying the area under fire was seen to stop, pick up a fledg- ing sparrow which had fallen to the ground, and carefully restore it to nest overhead.
 Amid the carnage of Charlottesville his or ders to the Confederate surgeons were, Treat the whole field alike"
 At the Petersburg crater, in the midst of the battle, he dismounted to help wounded man, and kneeing over him, finding him past hope, was heard to say: Alas poor soldier May God make soft your dying piow!"
 At the door of his home having given aims to poorly clad man begging aid, he pointed to his retiring form and said to one near him, That is one of old soldiers now in necessi- tous circumstances. He fought on the other side, but we must not remember that against hin, now"
 Crossing the Pennsylvania line with his army he announced, "We make war only upon armed men," and on occasion, in the presence of his soldiers, dismounted and put up farmer'c rail fence which they had torn down.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-15
HE SAW" ARKANSAS
From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch
 Arkansas lost friend when Jacob D. Gold man, St. Louis cotton merchant, died. He was it's friend when it's friends were few, and when it was the fashion to grin at every mention of it's name. He believed in it then and always since and backed his belief. Wagering lifetime of enterprise and effort against widespread dispar- agement, he won fortune.
 But he did great deal more than that. He helped state liev down joke. That is the hardest thing for a state or community or an individual to live down. Offenses or shortcom- ings may be forgiven but quip that makes tho world laugh is not forgotten though it contains little truth or none at all.
 Arkansas suffered from that. The mention of it brought the picture of the horseback traveller asking the fiddling native why he did not menl his roof and the natives answer that when it rained it was too wet and in fair weather it didn't need fixing. It was unfair because Arkan- sas-at-large was never like that. But the world likes to laugh, and it does not inquire too closely whether the laugh is fair.
 Goldman probably did much to prove that Arkansas was not like that. He also did much to "sel' St. Louis to Arkansas. Both enterprises were profitable to him, but is always the way, the benefits derived by the pioneer and the ferred upon doubting and deriding generation.
 If Arkansas joke it was joke on those who did not believe in Arkansas.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-15
POLL TAXES DON'T AFFECT

Although I am in favor of payment of poll taxes quickly l just want to explain that the payment of poll taxes has nothing to do with the qualification of a voter in the forthcoming good roads bond amendment" says Charles L. Harold, Jefferson county manager of the cam paign.
 Tt is after January I that poll tax payments become delinquent and that a voter is disquali- fled. The good roads issue and the soldiers poll tax measure will be voted upon January 30.
 "One feature that appeals to me in the bond issue for roads is that if passed and made ef- fectve many men in the state will find employ ment.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-15
FEW TAKE EXAMINATION

"The December teachers examination was probably the smallest that has been held in this county within the last 15 years," says Dr. N. R. Baker, county superintendent of schools.
 'This is due to the fact that it is now possible for teachers to extend their certificates by means of extension work done during the sum- mer. They prefer this plan rather than the examination.
 "I find that the 42 transportation projects in the county during the month transported in the aggregate 934 pupils daily. This is an aver age of more than 20 pupils to the transfer. To date, the attendance these transfers is more regular than in former years"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-15
POINTED PARAGRAPHS

From the Chicago News.
 A man who acts small makes big mistake.
 Women can always see the point of a point less joke.
 Why isn't man cool when he shivers in the hour of danger?
 The man who is always down in the mouth seldom gets up in the world.
 Conservatism is the halfway place where an- tagonists meet and settle nothing.
 After a man secures girls hand he some times finds she has him under her thumb.
 If women were unable to see the fine clothes other women wear they would have fewer wrinkles.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-15
STARTS WORK ON HISTORY

''I have begun actual work in the compilation of the Masonic History of Alabama for the Eel lowship Forum," said o. A. Porter, Alabama representative of the forum. "I leave for Mobile tonight where I will gather data from the southern portion of the state. From there Dothan and Selma will furnish portion of the material for this project.
 Most of the material, however, will come from Birmingham and Montgomery, and I will have to spend several days at the state capital. From Birmingham I will conduct the business of the forum and the prospects of making the history complete and valuable one is indeed encouraging at this time. There 50,000 Masons in the state and Alabama ranks among the leading Masonic states of the union."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-15
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
"GUESTS"

The winds of chance have blown us far From the homes that once we knew, We know what cheerless cities are
 And the wide, waste places, too; Hunger and cold we've learned to dread In many port of call, For we are the men who find bed
 On the floor of the city hall. Long are the days and bitter the nights For the man without a job, Who still the hopeless battle fights
 With a curse-perchance with sob. But, anyhow, here's roof overhead Lifes not so bad after all; , For we are the men who find a bed
 On the floor of the city hall.