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New-York tribune., 1922-08-30
American Glue Common

Question: have been advised tnat the
oontmon stock Of American Glue pays larga
dividends and !s good investment for the
conservative buyer. Please give me your
opinion OF IL and also the preferred stock
Is 1t good. reliable company M. E. r.
Answer--The American Glue Com
pany is seasoned corporation that has
operated with good profits for years.
The preferred stock ranks with the
most conservative stocks and the COM
mon, although it contains the same ele-
ment Of speculation found in all COM
mon issues preceded by preferred
stock, is good investment for any one
who can keep posted on developments
in the company.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-30
Penn Seaboard Steel

Question: am thinking about buying
100 shares of Penn. Seaboard Steel stock
for speculati ton. Would you please ad-
wise me. either through your newspaper
or direct. what you think of the above
for an investment of that kind? / have
read several articles IN the newspaper
that there Is a rumor of a merger
c. NJ. n.
Answer Pennsylvania Seaboard
Steel stock is extremely speculative
and for this reason we cannot offer
any suggestion on purchase. Rumors
connecting this company with others
in so-called merger plans have been
frequent in the past few years and
we have no reason for believing that
New-York tribune., 1922-08-30
Investment Information
there is any more substance In the
current story than there was in any
Of the previous ones.
No Need for Excha nae

vice. ! hold $4,000 Treasury notes. 1aa4
6Aa shouid sell them at this time and
buy three high grade long term bonds? II
80. viii you kindly soEEest siitabie and
safe bonds7 aisc hold 81. 500 Liberty bonds
1859, which tntcnd to hola.-J j. ID
Answer-We fail to see the ncces.
sity for exchanging the Treasury notes
Tor lohg term bonds We believe you
viii have ample opportunity to make
the. exchange at date nearer to ma
turity,
New-York tribune., 1922-08-30
Value of Stocks Shrank

Queston---will you kindly ,nfor,, 49,.
OF your Interested readers as TO the value
of ; 1. the following stocks: Stevens Duryea
nTu.omooile Co., Chicopec Falls Mass. .
stesicraft Corporation of America. cleve-
Answer-Stevens-D -Duryea units are
quoted at s1a bid, IL asked; Dayton
Rubber units, 25 bid, 30 asked, and
steelcraft units, SO asked, no bid, in
the open market for unlisted securi-
ties.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-30
Toronfo


I.oNDoN, Aug. 80. Standard copper
spot, as2 rs Sd; futures, a62 It's Sd.
Electrolytic. spot. sss l5s; futures. soc
iss, Tin, spot. $3.50 aas Cd; futures,
s169 ITS cd. Lead, sper, e::..a; futures,
&23 ~ Cd. Zinc, spot, $50 ITS Sd: iu-
lures, $50 rs Sd.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-30
BRANCH OFFICES
v1sEaaisn wabass p Rgg.,s.. ,sssss s.zs s1s
= H... 90 1924-37 6.75 6.2S
London Market Barely Steady

/, LYNDON, Aug. 29.-Prices were bare
iy steady on the Stock Exehanpe To-
day. Bar gold was quoted at eSs ID.
money was loaned at 2 per cent. Dis.
count rates were: Short and three-
month bills, 2 7-16 per cent. Consois
Tor money were quoted at 67M, British
3 per cent loan at 99% and British AZ
per cent loan at 971h.
C1oc:,oc~ z+s1Ix
New-York tribune., 1922-08-30
Federal Land Bank Bonds
Joint Stock Land Bank Bonds

Joint Stock Land Bank
6s, 1951-1931 ......... ..100k 1927 Ats
Joint Stock Land Bank
las. 1951-1931 .......103t5 105h 4.63
Joint Stock Land Bank
IS, 1939-1s24 .....,.... 90 100 soc
Chicago Joint Stock Land
Bank 51as. 1951-1g31. ..f05 108 4.7o
Chicago Joint Stock Land
q Bank 6s, 1927-1940... 99% 1904 A.so
Chicago Joint Stock Land
Bank 5s, 1951-1931. ....10o% 1o2 AGA
New-York tribune., 1922-08-30

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New-York tribune., 1922-08-30
Boston Curn
Chicago

,ss ss Al &. sn,pblas ;, Il Il q q 4 q Il Il
so Armour pf ... 100 100 100 100
tG0 Arm Iseath pf. s7H s7ta S7ss SIM
Loo Booth Fish sM 10 sls lo
soehi q (shIs 7 s s,ey s ~ II pf ~ " 81 A
IS Ola Match ...al7sz Ii7ig 1f7lTa + N IL
zoe Godchaux lie I'd iS ls
s15g Gossard al 27 81
100 Hart = 81 NJ. 10 10 ~ 7e
New-York tribune., 1922-08-30
THE AMERICAS

ARGENTINA (par s2.44 cents paper peso,
Demand ....... 1906 1910 2s75
BRAZIL tpar SEAS cents paper nilreis1
Demand 1890 1890 I2,1sh
Cables .........13.35 1875 1925
PERU (par s4se poundj
Checks a.05 4.05 322
ECUADOR tpar 1880 cents sucre}
Checks ......... 1925 23.25 1925
CHILE (par s6.s cents pesoI
Cheeks lts5 1870 ss7A
Checks ...... so. 90 So5G 64z5
VENEZUELA (par 1873 cents q boiivar)
Chscks s.1sl8 1919 1855 G
Canadian Exchange---New York funds In
Montreal l-lS per cent premium; MontreaI
funds in New York. Lie per cent discount
New-York tribune., 1922-08-30
Eonds
Cleveland
Detroit

So Am 1t & Trac.14s is3S14s 14sx
90 Colunlb Motors ga az az gI
1000 Cont Motors sis sG SS 81
200 Detroit Edison.l1ls IL 1lia lis
soo Michigan sug So sH 61s sH
100 Motor Irods 7sts 7sh 70 rs
zoo Packard 1890. lax lax l4is 14uS
Is do .of ...... STA S75 STU s7E
10 Farke Davis .-121 12l IaI III 3
335 REQ ....... II IA IA u a
New-York tribune., 1922-08-30
Bends

Sales 1000 ornitteds. Open High. Low. last
s. Allied Pack 6s.3. slia az eIhsisa
do S.. sa.s s4ss ss5 s4H
10 Am 1t & Tr 6s. .167E 10S 1o7& 1Ss
do IS W w.....10l 1o1 IooT ieom
Am Rep Corp S.. sa 80 as s3
2 Am Tel SIS 1922. .1o01s l0o1s 100 " 1oon
do ss 1924. ...1o1N NoIN I0l Il ioiM
q Anaconda Cop 6s.1oa 1o2 log Ias
Is do ~ 1923. .Io(5s Ie41 I04a 104H
Angi-An . 7ha.l03M 1caH 1895 1oaH
New-York tribune., 1922-08-30
Miscelianeous Stncka
Chemical Stocks
Sugar Stocks

Car Sug.. II Is iGrt Wstn 24o 26s
Cont sug. 4 lszINtl Am. 10 20
do pf- National $50
|C Aguirre. 80 s2tsiNi Niane. l5u
Fifdo new rs III ISavannan. So 57
Federal ..f1i do pf.. 81 100
New-York tribune., 1922-08-30

4callcd for payment at 1904 September
IS. 1922, called for payment at foeis
.eptenlher j. 1929 SCALED for payment
ii lo3 October 1. 1922. ttcalled for pay.
-aent at l02 October 1. 1872.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-30
, stock quotations were:
The Dollar in Foreign Exchange
Continued from nare th,p...,

JAPAN tpar as.s cents yen)
Demand ..... Al 80 AT S5 Aahn
,,s5 Gaplss 4s.o5 1910 ISIS. .SS
INDIA (par 1855 cents rupee)
Demand .2s.I2la 2s25 1875
Gables 2s.37h 2a.60 $3.50
STRAITS SETTLEMENTS tpar 56s cents
"a dollar)
Demand ..... 5225 5225 42gE
Cables ........s2.5o $3.50 4a.oo
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-12-02
TEACHERS' SALARIES SHOW STEADY RISE IN CITIES;
 AVERAGE 1922 PAY S1.OOO
Average Salary In 013 Was Only $515 Per Annum
 Rural Districts Pay Teachers POorly-Many Country School Ma ans Receive $500 Yearly.

It is true that the index of the cost of living is now about lI5 as compared with 100 seven years ago, but il Is highly improbable that the downward trend will within the next decade justify any reduction of sal ary of the long poorly paid teacher The Literary n gest for June 10 states that ali price i0diCes show little change Of late and some indi- cate d slight rise"
 When we say that the average sal ary of the 6So,ooo public school $S71 in 1920, and not more than $1,- 900 in 1922, it must not be forgotten how unequally the salaries are dis tributed.
 Rural Pay Lower
 In 1922 the Bureau of Education computed salary statistics for about 4S per cent of the rural school teachers and for about 60 per cent. of the urban teachers. It was found that in 19 states there were teachers in One-rOOm rural schools receiving less than $500 q year. There were six states where teachers in the one room rural schools received medt- an salary between $500 and s4OO. five states where the median salary was between $500 and S6OO, and six states where the median salary fell between S6OO and STOO. In only five $IO00. In the schools with more than one teacher the salaries gener- ally were higher. In a state where the median salary of teachers in one teacher schools is between $60O and $1Uo, that 5n the twO-teaCher schools Is between $700 and $500, and in the three or more teacher schools in the open country between $500 and 5000. and in the consolidated and country village schools between $500 and $1,- 900.
 The median salary for city eIemen- tary school teachers Is $5.124. In the group of cities from 2. 500 to 1O.- 900 population, the median salary is $1.097; in cities from 10000 to 2O,- 900 population. $1.241; in cities from 25,O00 to 100000 population, $1,379; and in cities of 100000 or more pop uIation, $1,S4S.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-12-02
400 HOMELESS
 IN QUEBEC FIRE;
 CONVENT SAVED

Terre Bonne, Que. Dec. 2.-Fo our hundred persons were homeless today as a result of a fire which last nlght wiped out the entire lower part or Terre Bonne, destroying more than T5 residences and store build ngs. in cIuding the town hall and the post of r:0e. The convent of the COugrega- tiou Of <otIs Dame and Juvenat Col Iege. conducted by the Fathers Of the Very Holy Sacrament escaped dam age.
 Famed by high wind, the flames believed 10 have started in the sash and door factory of Joseph Limoges. spread with amazing raP=dity, despite efforts Of f5remen to s stem them When fire apparatus arrived from Montreal. 2 , miles distant. large sec -ion of the town had been moved down by the blaze. The firemeu quickly established a safety line and prevented further spread except in inc direction of the river
 Forcing it's way to the edge of the river the blaze destroyed everything in it's path. This district was still
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-12-02

Tn 1918 the average salary of all public school teachers, both elementary and high. in urban and rural districts, was $5I5.
 With what feeling of eIation CD. country have examined the statistics of the Bureau of Education for 1918 to find that their average salary for that year was S635! And what must have been their feeling in 1920 when they found that the average salary was SSH. an increase of 69 per cent. over the salary of 1918! But after looking over d column of figures re- latIng to Iv-ng costs and the pur- chasing power of the dollar the feel ing of elatiOn and qualification no doubt subsided to the zero point. for they found that the cost of living 1913 and 1918, and that the purchas- ing power of their salary was only - per cent. of what it was when their salary was $515. In other words. the teachers in 1918 found that the av- craze salary had been reduced to $365- In 1920 the purchasing power of the teachers dollar was still less than $ 5 per cent. of what t was in 1918, for the cost of living had in creased exactly 100 per cent. in seven years @Td that munificent salary of SSH was worth only S435 as com pared with what the S615 would buy in 1913.
 Average Reaches S1.000
 Complete statistics for 1921 and 1922 are not yet available but ac- cordtng to an estimate made by the National Education Association the average salary for 1922 is only about Sl,UOO, which without doubt s a very liberal estimate. In some parts of the United States, especially in the cities teachers salaries have been in creased somewhat since 1920. but in some Of the rural districts strong eff forts are made in their behalf many thousands of country teachers will find themselves in worse condition than in 1913.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-12-02
GOVERNMENT RESEARCH GIVES FOOD FOR THOUGHT DURING
 NATIONAL EDUCATION WEEK
Next Week Observed As Education Week Throughout the Nation-Bureau of Education Records Show Inequality of Educational Op- pOrtunity.
pOrtunity,

Tn keeping with the national Education Week program the Bureau Of Education, which is a Federal department of tho United States government, has issued it's yearly bulletin, many items of which are intensely interesting tO all who take ac-
 Q part in the work of the public schools
 The statistics gathered by agents of the Bureau of Education are the .- suits of long and intelligent research covering period Of several years Education Week will be observed throughout the United States rom December 9 to as a result of Pres itent Harding's proclamation of last week.
 Government research in a majority of public schools throughout the Uni ted States shows a noticeable inequal- itE of educational opportunity and school support for children.
 Effect of School Attendance
 Measured by per capita valuation there is a wide difference in ability tU support schools among states, among counties within states. and among districts within a county. corre spending variation in school Oppor- unity may or may not (but usually does follow.
 In order to discover the relation ship, if any, which existed between tax valuation and school attendance in counties within a state, q study was made by the Bureau of Education Of nine counties in one state. In Group A were included the three counties standing highest in the state with respect to assessed valuation per child enumerated. in Group B. tho three counties standing lowest on the basis of this computation, and iIl Group c. the three constituting tho middle group. It was found that in Group 4, 60 out of every 100 Chil- dren were enrolled in school; in Group C, 66 out of every 100; and in Group B, only G1 out of every 100 were in school Even after enrolled the children in the poorest counties did not attend as regularly as thOSN in the WealthieSt. The average length Of school term varied all the way from S-+ months in a county in lH Group B In other words, tn" schools in the pOTcst counties (ueaS. Erei by per capita tax EaIuatiOn) ara open on an average 4 F months less than the schools in the waalthiest.
 E'Tcct on Per Capita Expenditure.
 The child living in the best county in Group A was given an education which cost on ar average $50 per year. whereas the child living in the retrest county m Group B was given au education which cost e6 per year Tho a-IoIu- of money invested i1 anoI1tcd to $I51 in the richest Couu- Jv and &ll in the poorest county.
 Causes of These Educational
 Inequalities
 While inequalities in wealth pel child are inequalities in ability to
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-12-02
Debased Currency
 Useless In Teaching
 Arithmetic i'll Vienna

Vienna. Dec. "A curious ef- feet of the deDasod Austrian cur rcncy is disclosed in the ucces- sity of revising the system of iu- StructiOn in decimal numbers in the schools.
 AS in all other countries, the simplest method for such in- struction used to be in terms of money, appealing directly and undcrstandmgiy to the child mind. Thus it was easy to form uIatc lessons 10 the effect that one heller represented one one hundrcdth Of crown, and so on.
 Now one heller represents variable sum; with no cOmpar- ative stability, and the school authorities are trying to find an- other basis or symbol for prim- ary instruction.
 Furthermore. children today never hear of helIers except in school The lowest purchasing unit is 100 crowns, and it takes three such mites to buy a box of matches
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-12-02

provide schools. in nequalities in the rate of district taxation represent in euuallLies in effort to support schools Tn the nine counties referred 10 the valuation varies from Sl,5g0,0o0 z the poorest to $61, 1,5OO. 900 in the rich est, in valuation per child enrolled from $500 to slightly more than S3r~ 100. in average tax rate rom O." mills to 11-7 mills.
 However the greatest extremes or variation in this state as in oth CT states, organized on the district pA9As. with respect to educatlCndI opPol , tunIties and with respect to ScnDo' burdens, are found not among couEl~ rie- hut among school districts Seven counties in the states so OrSaIlize.t were selected from a group or l' chosen ar random, and the IolloW-tla' c0rnparls0us are made between the rirnas+ and the poorest districts or these seven cOuries. The assessed valuation per Ca-ld enrolled n i-l'' richest district is $2,53S-in the poor est district, S1O1. The expenditure Ter. child enrolled varies from $+2 III the richest to $5 in the poorest dis trict-the district tax rate rom mills m one of the richest Of these districts to 12 mills in one oI the poorest
 If the richest of the rich districts in the seven counties under consider atiou is compared to the poorest or the poor districts and both levy the
  make the same effort to support lhelr the poorest district can raise only S5.26 per capita per enid en- rolled while the richest can raise 'S34.6O per capita. In order to raise as much money per capita the poor est district would need to levy more than seven times the rate necessary in the richest district.
 Inequalities Between City and
 Country
 COuDaF=Sous showing inequality of opportunity between rural and cIty children are also striking. Generally speaking. cities pay higher school tax, better salaries. have better buildings and eau pment, and spend more per child on educationthan rural districts. state in the Union. In one state studied by the Bureau of Education, comparisons were made between 1b city districts and the same uumb Der of rural districts located in the same counties While all of the city dis tricts pay special tax levy for school support vary from approximately 3 to approximately 10 mills aand av- eraging about mills, 50 per cent of the rural districts made no special levy whatever for the support of their schools and the highest made by any one was mills These data indicate that rural districts in this state. at least, were not doing their share in the way of levy -ng taxes In this case the inequality referred to was due in part to a lack of effort on the part of the rural people to main tain as good schools as those in the city. In the other eases cited, where district valuations are so low that only S5 can be raised, even with n sh rate of taxation the inequality is, of course, due to the inability on the part of the country people to sup port good schools.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-12-02
HIGH SCHOOL. CHATTER

Seniors are busy nowadays eIab- Orating on their plans for a joyful eel ebratiOn of that ancient Institution of the High school Pig Tail Day. Once more the sedate and dignifed last year men will return to the ways and days of their very early youth. The halls of the school will echo with childish voices, the eyes of the Jun iors and Sophs will be turned toward the be-knickered and Buster Brown coIIared boys and the pig-tailed and giugham- -gowned girls. It is fes- tive occasion. this Pig Tail Day. when everyone returns to Childhood's 's pranks.
 Plans are not yet completed for the big do-nEs which are scheduled for some time next month. Miss Maude kemmerer, faculty advisor. is work ing with the class in effort to make this years celebration out live the many remembered Pig Tail Days of the past.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-12-02
SCHOOL BOARD
 ID ASK PR0MPT
 ACTION 0NH. S,
Board of Aldermen to Be Asked to Give Immedi- ate Attention to Bond Issue for New H. s.

Immediate action of the bond issue for the erection of the new high school will be sought by the Board of Education at its next meeting on Monday night. 4 committee will ap- pear before the Board of Alder men to plea for the prompt ap- prOpriatiOn of sufficient funds to enable the East Side High school to get a start toward erection.
 The board of Aldermen has delay ed authorization of the bond issue because the Board of Education would not agree To the hiring of Bridgeport architect to design the school.
 Object to Strings
 The Board of Education, while re- ported to be agreed that a Bridge port architect be comm 'ssiOned to design the school, doesn't want any strings on the bond issue. The committee that will appear before the aldermen Monday will make this plain. it was said today.
 The Board of Aldermen, as now constituted. iuclines faVOrably to inn mediate action on the building pro Iect and author "a tlOn CT the bona issue is anticipated, it WAS said at City Hall today.
 The dispute in the Board of Educa- tion now is confined to making choice of a local architect, it is re- ported, Ernest c. SOuthey has com siderable backing for the job.
 Leonard Ashei1l, accord .ng to re- ports at City Hall today. has the "in- side'' track with four or five mem- bers of the board and may be named to design the school
 Some Of the members of the board expressed themselves as willing to employ an outside architect with a designer of h:gl school building. but only on condition that he be taken on as q consultant to a local des' 'Ener. This would assure a local man being safeguarding the interests of the pub lie by hiring man of wide expert eUce to pass on the plans.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-12-02
A EnirflcId WnI


 Comes q long moan from Fairfield adherents who even at this late date continue to bemoan the fact that tn eiT, high school football team was severe Iy chastised last week at the hands Of the Red and Black eleven. A Far field newspaper in it's write-up of the game hands out a list of walls that would do credit to a dispensary.
 The suburban scribe remarks that the 4l-6 defeat was not to his mind decisive; that the wind, the weather and the officials effected the playing of the Fairfield team; and that the unnecessary Toughness of the local lads bruised several of the Fairfield CTS quite terribly
 Football, may we state for the scrIbc's benefit is a necessarily rough game. Young fellows charging pelI- mel against one another with intent 10 thrust aside the opponent are off times subjected to severe batterjnev The brutal pounding the Bridgeport boys were deliVering' is the way he puts it.
 As for "brutaI pounding" the off claIs who presided at the game stated after the fraCas that the HII+0pDers played eIcelleutIy clean football throughout The weather was bit ingly cold. the wind was adverse'' caused Fairfield's defeat. Ave. but Bridgeport was confronted with the same adverse circumstances which the Fairfield scribe attributes to his own teams downfall
 One thing in his favor. however Fairfield sport writer states that the boys from his town are anxious to be ac1cmmodated on BridgepOrt's sched- uie next year.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-12-02

burning early today. Scenes of wild confusion attended the first alarm. FFgusehoIders rushed from their burning homes carrying whatever they could salvage Women dragged sle!gns along the streets into which were loaded the few artcues rescued. The fathers Of the Holy Sacrament, saving rhe Blessed Sacrarn ent, carried it about the smoke filed streets whiie men. women and children knelt in prayer.
 IL was q spectacular fire, the light being clearly visible in Montreal Citi- zens there for a time thought it was within N 5utreaTs city limits. AL though ---e night was cold, the blsz- ing town became so hot that men went about In their shirt sleeves.