The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-10-20
DAILY NEWS LETTER
BUSINESS SKY TAKING ON ROSE1ATE HUES, SAY
 BANKERS VISITING N. Y By LUTHER A. HUSTON, International News Service Staff Cor
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New York, Oct. 20-The bankers Of the nation have quit looking at busi ness conditions through smoked glasses and are now viewing the sit nation with the undimmed vision of optimism.
 This was made evident in conversa- tlons with scores of bankers, who at tended the recent convention of the American Bankers Ass sociation here. The talk of the men of dollars was of distinctly cheerful tone. although few were willing to admit that the sun of prosp erity was more than just cliEi ping above the horizon. l Southern bankers were particular ly optimistic. Several of the leading ffnanciers of the South expressed the belief that conditions. par icu1arly those that affect the planters of sugar, rice and cotton, were better this year than for several years back. One banker declared that the planters would be able to repay all of the ad- vances made by banks to finance this years crops and to liqufdate a portion of the indebtedness hanging over years.
 Conditions in the Middle West. ac- 1 cording to bankers from that section are improving, but better prices for are needed to restore complete pros perity to the farmers. Prices for | cattle hogs and sheep. they said. are | good, and these animals are being l marketed at profit.
 1 Bankers from the coal producing sections of Pennsylvania declared that the ending of the miners strike had witnessed renewed activity in those districts and conditions rapidly were approaching normal.
 job of riding herd on the city's safety and morals should be produc- tive of better wages. Ten thousand of them have signed memorial to TJ,,Io inc Q 0 s. al to increase the pay of patrolmen be supported in the preparation of the city's budget for next year They contend the pay of policeman who should not be less than $2,oOO per year.
 Soldiers from New York's East Side who died in France are to be honored by a memorial to be erected facing the Williamsburg Bridge across for the memorial has been launch It takes a brave man. or boy, to smile when the heart is sad. Eddie Bennett, the cripled mascot of the New York Yankees, is entitled to the crown Of bravery.
 After the final game of the worlds series, when the Yankees, out-played, out-gamed and out-witted, had strag- g1ed off the field, Eddie. dragging sweater belonging to Bullet Joe Rash %hs sralinf He was the oniy representative of the beaten Fiugmen in sight of the throng that still lin gered in the stands and on the play blue for the heroes he had chaper- oned throughout the long Summer had failed and the cheers had all been for the "other gang"
 of the defeated team in sight. the crowd picked On little Eddie and be- gan to taunt him for the Yankee de- marked how deep the taunts cut Ed dies loyal heart. He contlnueo ms
 m ournfu1 march to the clubhouse.
 Just as he was ready to pass rom turned and faced the crowd; A smile albeit q sardonic one, twisted his lips He doffed his cap In true oaseoaii fashion. turned, and disappeared to- ward the clubhouse and the cham pionship of his fallen idols.
 The old idea that whiskey is !sia an an an tidote for snake bite got a Jolt nete Ri. mars an expert on anti-toxins.
 ''Whiskey should not be given vaf+ af+ tims of snake bite" he said: IL only serves to assist the poison in circulating through the system
 Tn Dr. Ditmars' opinion the best an- tidote for snake bite Is snake polson Recently he extracted from the deaa- Iv fangs of twenty-five eopperheads and nine cotton -mouthed water moe casins a quantity of venom which he plans to use in developing an anti taxin for the bite of snakes.
 The venom will be sent to the insti- tute of Serum Therapy, Government institution of Brazil. where several horses will be inoculated to produce an anti toxin which will be shlppeo back to tho United States