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The Punta Gorda herald., 1922-09-29

! steals our property he is criminal
and the law DEGREES a punishment il
he is caught. If he sends a servant
to rob or assault us he is responsible
for the acts of his servant.
A neighbOr may not trespass upon
our lands or rob us without answer
ing to the law but he can send his
cattle, hogs and horses to trespass
upon our lands and steal the hard
won fruits OF our toll and we are
helpless. If we retaliate the law will
punish us for attempting to defend
cur property.
IN no other state in the Union do
such conditions exist Our fruit pro-
ducers and truckers are too often at
the mercy of wande ring stock, milk
less cows that live on grassless land
and owned BY landless people: cows
that are yard high, a yard and a |
half long and half a yard wide. May |
the day soon come when it will not |
be necessary to put up a hundred |
dollars worth of fence to keep out
l SO COW or a 80 hog.-Florida
irower.
The Punta Gorda herald., 1922-09-29

with the tax money and get goot
streets, municipal sewerage. anC
other things which will enhance the
value of your property and make life
more worth the living"
The Tribune has spoken before OF
the conversion, and the consequent
growth and development, of a city in
another state which for a long time
had as its boast, I'VE don't own a
dollar and we don't owe a dollar. "
Yes shouted a live wire trying to
interest it in municipal improve
ments, 'and you amt worth a
damn" 1t was "a dead town paying
only five mills tax" Today it is one
of the liyest for it's size in the state
and it never asks how much addition
al tax an improvement is going to
cost. but How soon can We get it
after we vote the bonds ?"-Tampa
Tribune.
The Punta Gorda herald., 1922-09-29

Just as that prominent member of
the local bachelors club predicted,
the ladies Of the land are rising in
revolt against the long skirts which
the Paris designers say are 1.-THE
stlye" this year-if we are to believe
reports from various parts of the
country. They shall not come down"
is the slogan Of club organized at
Flint, Michigan, whose members de-
clare they won't wear skirts longer
than ten inches from the ground. 'Tis
to be hoped the ladies will not weak
en-, for aside from those afflicted with
chronic Mysteries, everybody admits
and recognizes the fact that the pres
ent styles are the most slightly, sensi-
BILE and sanitary in ages. Absolutely
the only advantage tina, can be claim
ed for the new skirts, that we can
think of. is that they relieve eye
strain.
The Punta Gorda herald., 1922-09-29
A Friendless Congress

No other congress, so far as W,
know, has ever been so generally az
object of public contempt and deri
sion as the one that has finally ad
IJourned for the fall campaign after
nearly eighteen months of almost con.
tinuous session.
There have been other congresses
that were bad; there have been other
| congresses that were derelct in their
duty; there have been other congress
es that were incompetent and leader
| less; but by common consent the six
! Ity-seyenth congress has been the
worst bungler of them all. 1t has
become a congress practically without
! friends. Republicans not only refuse
to defend it but they join eargly with
the democrats in condemning it.
Even the secretary of war in Mr..
Harding's cabinet has publicly testi-
fed to its incapacity.
The country will not get very far
however. if it contents itself with as
sailing the sixty-seventh congress for
its manifold stupidities and makes no
attempt to arrive at the cause of it
all. The reasons why dissatisfaction
Is general and congress is generally
condemned can be found in the
1920 campaign which the republican
leaders organized and carried through
to an unprecedented majority at the
polls.
That campaign was corrupt to the
very heart of it. 1t was crooked NOR
ally and it was crooked Intellectually;
it was directed toward the single end
'of melting public discomfort, of arous-
ing race and religious animosities, of
organizing the hyphenated vote and
of capitalizing all the unrest that had
inevitably resulted from the most
disastrous war known to human his
tory.
1t was a campaign of hatred of
destruction, of mendacity and of dem
agogy shameless beyond comparison.
1t accomplished the purposes of the
men who planned it, but it left the
republican party bankrupt in charac-
ter and bankrupt in leadership.
Elections can be won by the meth
DDS that the republican senator's i'm
posed on their party In 1920, but
government cannot be successfully
by those methods. In
the last eighteen months the govern
ment OF the United States, except in !
its routine processes. has broken |
down. 1t has proved itself incapable |
Of evolving either foreign or domes-
tic policies to meet the needs of the
1t has ceased to be repre-
sentative in the very essentials OF
representative government 1t has :
become a thing apart from the life of |
American people, unable to help in
The solution of their problems and
generally making bad matter worse
by its dull-minded interference.
Although no congress has ever
The Punta Gorda herald., 1922-09-29

been criticized more savagely thar
the sixty-seventh congress, the World
: doubts if its intellectual level is much
: lower chiefly because it has been
cursed by the record that the republi-
can leaders made when they were
directing the opposition against Presi-
dent Wilson. Politicians are usually
more afraid of inconsistency than of
anything else, and whenever a sane
solution of any national problem has
been at hand congress has been fore
ed to turn away from it in order to
remain faithful to all the dishonest
speeches that were delivered against
the Wilson policies.
\ strong. commanding leadership
could probably have welded together
a working majority in the sixty-sec-
enth congress and have saved the sit
uation, but there was no leadership.
Mr.. Harding was selected by the old
guard at Chicago because he had
none of the elements of leader, and
within the managing group of cong
ress there were only third-raters like
Lodge.
The republicans had their hymn of
hate against Wilson in 1920 and the
country is now paying the fiddler. |
That is about all there is to the story. /
There is no mystery about it. Moth /
ing better could have come out of /
hat. kind OF campaign. - New York
World.
The Punta Gorda herald., 1922-09-29

After reading some OF the mum.
erous editorials opposing and sdyo-
eating adoption of the proposed
constitutional amendment providing
for reappOrtionment, we are remind
ed of the conversation said to have
taken place between minister and
a boy whom the former found fishing
on Sunday. Don't you know it's
sin to Ash on Sunday my little
MANI" asked the preacher. why
suppose you were to fall in and
drown, or suppose an alligator came
along and caught you, or suppose you
caught a whale and he pulled you in
and carried you out to sea? ... .
Jaw, spOsin this. sposin' that-spos-
in hell! Let me do some sposin' ;"
retorted the young sinner. "Sposin'
you was out on the plain and great
big buffalo wuster swallow you and
leave your head stickin' out, do you
sposin' you'd bite his tail and make
him run faster?"
The Punta Gorda herald., 1922-09-29

Within a month or so the advance
guard of the army OF fim-fammers
which invades Florida each winter
will put in appearance Theren be
good-looking danes and damsels with
enticing ways whose game ia to fleece
hicktown merchants and others out
of good cash for a worthless lad" on
a hotel desk card or other similar
fake advertising scheme; other poor
but good looking and persuasive dam
sels who are working their way
through college by selling subscrip-
tons to magazines that sometimes
never come: well dressed and high
stepping young men who offer stock
in Consolidated Potato Washers, Inc.
or the Bubble Magic Six, which will
pay lV00 percent the first year; wire
tappCrs and every other variety of
bunko man. and plain highwaymen,
Sacond-story artists and bank robbers.
Yes. they arc coming, probably in
greater numbers than ever before,
and they viii find easy picking, for
Mr.. Uarnum'S remark is Just as true
now as It was forty years ago.
The Punta Gorda herald., 1922-09-29
Advertising Rates

What has been needed in this neck
OF the woods for a month or two past,
was a dehydrating plant for table
salt and smoking tobacco
The Punta Gorda herald., 1922-09-29
CLIPPED COMMENT
Unjust Law

The common law is supposed to
give equal rights to all; it is supposed
to protect one neighbor from the dep
relations of another. Ir a man comes
upon our land after he has been
warned TO stay of he becomes tres
passer and is liable to the law. If he
The Punta Gorda herald., 1922-09-29

This may be an awful country, but
things are not as awful as might be
In Paris the men are wearing ear
rings and in 'Hingland the chappies
are wearing corsets supported by
four straps and tied with pink ribbon.
The Punta Gorda herald., 1922-09-29

An exchange wants to know what
has become Of the old fashioned fami-
ly doctor. What we'd like to know
is, what has become OF the old fash
ioned family?
The Punta Gorda herald., 1922-09-29

American Press Association, New
York, y. Y. foreign Advertising
Representative
New-York tribune., 1922-10-18
In Wall Street
Hoover On Allied Debts 10 u. ..

fss Secretary Of Commerce. Hoovsr's ex-
position Of che Administration atti-
tude toward the debts owed by Euro
'pean Rovernme etlts to the United States
Treasury, regarded as the official an
swcr to the views promulgated by
Thomas w. Lamont, Of j. r. Morgan
Il Co, and Reginald McKenna, chair
man Of the London City and Midland
Bank, Limited, ut the American bank
ers' convention, was construed in the
financial district yesterday as declar-
alton against cancellation or fnodifca-
tion Of these debts at this time and
as a defense Of the debt funding COM
mission and It's powers. There was
little disposition to challenge his state
ment that Europe ctaild pay in time,
but there was a tendencya to debate
whether the United States, on moral
grounds, should, insist on payment in
full. Further. bankers are by no means
unanimously in agreement with Mr..
Hoover as to- the absence of disturb
Ing effect Of payment on American
trade and industry and his citation Of
figures covering invisible trade items,
which at best con only be estimated,
was regarded as dubious argument.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-18
Trend Upward
In Irregular
Stock Market
Mex Pete Is Particular OBJ
ject Of Bulls in Connec-
ton With Stock Dividend
Reports; Rails Are Firm

i Despite trregularity resulting from
profit taking toward the close Of trad.
ing In shares yesterday, the trend In
the principal speculative markets was
toward definitely higher quotations
Sterling exchange, sentimentally helped
by tho strengthening Of British credi.
by tho payment on Monday Of $780,
ooe,eoo to the United States Treasury
on the account Of interest, continued
TO surge upward, and wheat and cotton
quotations, responding to speculative
influences at work in the other mar
kets, climbed upward, as shorts covered
their commitments.
In the stock market, attention was
focused on special issues, on which
price raising activities were concen-
trated. Mexican Petroleum, whose chair
man admitted that the question Of a
stock dividend would be discussed, was
the particular objective Of the bulls,
who excitedly bid the stock up to 1928
share. The stock closed at 226. up
2oh points for the day. The appetite
OF those traders hungry for melons
was further gratified by the recommen-
datfon of the directors of Vacuum Oil.
another of the so-called Standard Oil
group, OF stock dividend Of 800 per
cent. "Mex Pete" the market leader
yesterday, Is especially sensitive to
pool manipulation, because Of thu linn
tied floating supply. ANY change in
the capitalization Of the company
should provide for the striking Of "Mex
Pete" shares from the list and their
conversion into Pan American Petro-
ieum shares, into which most Of them
have already been converted.
In the general upturn the rails were
again Arm and New York Central
jumped to the highest levels since 1917.
Traders are apparently seeking to dis
count further increases in earnings Of
the carriers. The transportation act Of
1890, which assures groups of roads a
fair return on their property value. Is
just beginning to get fair test under
something like normal business condi-
tions. For TINA it's influence was
obscured by changes in the rate and
wage structure and by general trade
depression. Beginning tomorrow The
Tribune will publish daily for fortv.
consecutive days analyses of the pres
ent earning power Of individual rail-
road properties.
IN the bond market the influences
making FOR moderate reaction were
again operative, but before the close
prices steadied. Call money rates aeain
vsciilated between and per cent.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-18
What's Behind
ActiUe Stocks !?
l26--Brown Sho~

As to capitalization the Brown
Shoe Company is less than half the
size OF the Endicott-Jo ohnson Cor.
poration, but the ratio of sales -
capitalization Of the two for tbe
period l920-'21 was identical, The
brown Shoe Company was incor.
porated IN 1918, taking, over a hns;.
ness established in 1879. Its So. 400
uUo common stock is preceded hv
$o,2e2, 500 Of per cent cumula+;vs
preferred on which dividends hava
Deen paid regularly since 1919. The
common has an irregular dividend
record, the last payment hav;ng
been made in September. 1een The
operating properties and euninment
OF this company were carr,ea ~
the last balance sheet ne onlv e.
39S 600 and current assets axcaa3ad
current liabilities by sS.071 non Ths
net tangible assets annlirahlo ~ ~
the common stock, after allow;ns,
the full redemption vajua ~ s1os
!or tne preferred and excluding the
ltem OF trade name, good wifi and
pa. winch are carried at Sd
ayoo,yVu, amounted Co S33.S2 a share.
.no ~ she nscal year ended October 81,
sysa, tne company sustained loss
q ?i,l2e,0oo, after paying preferred
dividends, but in the nine-year be-
rfod, 191S-s2l, earnings sverared
s7.S7 per cent year on the average
amount OF common stock outstand-
ing. AT the end OF the last fiscal
year the surplus stood at $3.50. 900.
compared with $S,S3e, 900 on Octo.
ber 81, 1919, but d great part of this
difference 10 accounted Tor bv the
$2 ,100, 600 OF stock distributed ne
dividend in June, 1920. AS recently
az last August the company was
operating at full capacity. with suf-
ncient business on hand to main-
tain that rate for at least two
months. Range Of common stock:
High, 118A, In 1926; low, rs. in
1919; last ssis price. 81.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-18
Bank Clearings at 1922 Peak

Bank .clearings locally touched the
highest point yesterday reached to
date this year, the total reported be-
ing $1,000, 100000. The previous peak
for 1922 was attained on May 2, when
clearings amounting to SLIPS, 500 900
were recorded, and the high for all
time is $1,423, ,063 900 on January 8,
1921. The large aggregate reflects the
enormity Of Mondays money turnover
in connection with various payments
to and by the government.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-18
The Dollar in Foreign Excba,, !,

Continued strength Of sterling was
one OF yesterdays features in fora;1n
exchange trading. Cable rates on Lon.
aon advanced cent and q half n
S4.4o] Francs continued to lack sun.
port, and Belgium rates dropped below
norwegian rates reacted, but swed-
sn ana Danish crowns rallied. Other
oohtinentais were irregular.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-18
Westinghouse Bookings

The Westinghouse Electric and
Manufacturing Company in the quar-
ter ended September 80 booked new or
ders with value Of $37,353,227, an in
crease Of 49.6 per cent over the CORE
spending quarter Of 1921. New busi-
ness taken during the quarter was re-
ported to be in excess of s5,226, 600
better than that Of the previous quar-
ter. Billings for the September quar-
ter We're $30,637,548, compared with
S21,14l,537 for the corresponding quar-
ter Of 1921. 81.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-18
standing Committee TO Nee.

The standing committee Of the As.
sociation Of Railway Executives is ex-
pected to resume meetings on Friday
OF this week. following the usual sum-
mer recess. Although 1t was said yes
terday that matters Of 'internaln in
terest only will come up for discussion
1t is understood that the meeting OF
the committee will be preliminary to
the calling of conference Of all the
member roads, when it is believed that
the reduction of the fixed rate of re-
turn on railroad capital investment
from s per cent to 5N per cent will be
formally considered.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-18
Coal Ioadings Increase

Complete reports received yesterday
by the Gag service division Of the
American Railway Association showed
that more cars were loaded with coal
during the week ended October Ia than
In any previous week since the coal
strike began, on April /. The total for
the week was 220,751 cars. On the
basis Of these ioadings, production dur
ing the week was approximately H..
100000 tons, the, greatest amount pro-
duced for any one week since April /.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-18
Tobacco Products Sales

It was unofficially stated yesterday
that cigarette sales by the Tobacco
Products Corporation thus far this
month Indicate that the October total
VIII exceed those of September, the
previous high record. Revival of buy
ing In the "A" stock was attributed 10
the company's improving business out
look. VI
New-York tribune., 1922-10-18
Crowder calls on Bankers

General Crowder, in New York over
the week end, discussed the Cuban
situation and loan prospects with
bankers here, but actual negotiations
depend upon the State Departments
attitude. 1t is not expected that ap-
proval will be long withheld, and with
market conditions right the fotation
should come soon. For the moment,
however, there Is nothing new"
New-York tribune., 1922-10-18
Sears, Roebuck Notes Paid

CldISAsSD, Oct, Sears, Rocbuck
~ oo:s Chicago mail order house, re-
outstanding of chs issue 81 sie. .5f,f, .oiltl.
due Octoher 1B. were paid Monday.
Tbs company also Ani,onncos thsf ro
asw hnancing 4 eontsnrl
New-York tribune., 1922-10-18

~ Bank ClearinEs-Bank clearing. At
New York yesterday were: Excbanpea
Sl.Z0o,oo0; balances, $104, ,00o, 900.
Silver - London, 33Xd: New yort
aMGmsstio bar, 9shc; foreign, eeNc;
New-York tribune., 1922-10-18
Money and Credit

Call money continued to feel the ef-
fects Of Mondays turnover vastardor
Opening and renewing at & Der cent
the rate rose to 8 per cent before .' 4hn
clcse, the supply of money offered
being hardly in proportion to tina de-
mand. Time money was unchanged = .
TO rate. with business still limited hv
the difference in ideas Of banks and
New-York tribune., 1922-10-18
Transactions Yesterday in Listed Stocks
Summary Of Stock Exchange Dealings

Copyright 1924 New York Tribune Inc,
STOCKS
New-York tribune., 1922-10-18
New Treasury Loan on Exchange

The new United States government
AZ per cent bonds, traded in for the
first time yesterday on the New York
Stock Exchange, fuctuated on trans
actions aggregating more than 3,000,-
600 between 100 and 100.06. Bankers
saw in the low premium the result Of
q possible technical error by Secre-
tary Mellon in keeping the books open
on exchange for another week. This
has enabled a fair volume Of arbitrage
operations between certificates and the
new bonds and the small premium is
believed to be the consequence. Incl.
dentally, applications now pouring into
the Federal Reserve Bank Indicate that
subscriptions on the exchange basis
may reach several hundred million dol
lars, necessitating moderately sharp
scaling down Of allotments if the total
issue Is to be kept within $3.50, ,000, 600.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1922-08-08
HOG RAISERS SECURE
VALUABLE ADDITION

The III Jardi,, Poland China Hog
breeders Association have added an
other fine boar pig to the property Of
the association. the animal having been
secured Yesterday from the W. w Allen
herd at La Paloma County Agent
AlSmeyer accompanied ~ J. q. Nash.
president Of the association. and j. G..
Graham I seardon and X. II. Easter
~. all residents Of ~ Jardin. went out
to the Alles farm Yesterday for thc
purpose IF inspecting his herd. and
made the purchase of the Young boar.
The animal il the son Of Yankee Boy. "
The famous S:..4c0 boar which heads
the Allen herd
The association recently purchased a
boar from the ". Holland herd in the
FL .lardin community and the two an
imalS will he a valuable addition 10 the
hog breeders of that section.
The association j. planning 10 hold
hog show in III .Iardin in November
and the prize winners at this show viii
be sent q the Valley Fair at IIarlingen
in December.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1922-08-08
GEORGE G. CARRET
VISITS VALLEY TO
CALL ON VOTERS

George q. Garrett of Dallas. car'li-
date fnr nomination for state treasurer
~ the second primary. accompanied hy
br and Mrs Fred ~. Johnston and Mrs.
J. ". Darrell If San Antonio. arrived
IN brownsville llSr night. The party
will also visit Other Valley points for
the purpose of giving Mr. Garrett an
opportunity ~ meet Valley voters.
Mr.. Garrett received the seroirl high
est vote in y field nf seven candidates
AZ the democratic primaries bis oppon-
cnt ~ thf first primary leading him
by about 10000 votes. hat IN the Second
primary Mr.. Garrett has rrt-rived aS~lIr-
arce Of the support II four If the five
candidate defeated IN the first primary.
which indicates that the race will he
close one. Mr.. Garrett j. well known
contractor at Dallas. has resided in
Texas MI hi> life. AL H. wen known in
all sections of the state.
Mr. Garrett spent III" day getting ac-
qualnied with voters in this section If
the Valley ami will leave III the morn
ing fer other Valley points.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1922-08-08
MONEY RAISED
TOFlNISH WORK
OST EXTENSION
All Counties With Exception
of Live Oak, Have Funds
on Hand 10 Build Santone-
Brownsville Road

Dr. Fred IL. Johnstnne of San An
tonic. president OF the old Spanish Trail
Association. H. iI the city today Dr.
IohnStone j. not here on Trail business.
INT ~ never lets an opportunity pass u"
tell of the work that i being accom-
pii~hrd ~ the aSSociatinn
In regard 10 the san Antonio Browns
yiie extension 81 the Trail. entering the
Valley ~ way of Edinhurg. Dr John
stone reports that bonds have been v"t
rd and the funds secured IN every coun-
" on the extension. with the exception
nf Live paE. and that work il progress
sing ai rapid rate. Cameron comfy.
be said. was making extremely rapid
progress. and he was enthusiastic over
the highway already constructed here
and the construction program now being
worked ont ia this county.
The old Spanish Trail. the only
twelve months -in-i -ihe-yrar. coast -to-coaSt
highway IN til" lifted States has n
bright future before it," Dr .Inhn>tonr
stated. In every state travcrScd ~
the highway the interest j. fully a.
great rs i j. right here in the Valley.
and we will ultimately have a hard sur
face highway from the Atlantic. a. the
Pacific. the hest highway in the country. -"
The plan ~ highway Identification.
which was originated by Valley ladies.
H. now being carried ont ~ the other
great highway systems nf the United
States. the Lincoln Highway maxi the
Identification plan a big advertising fea
ture. All along the oST the plan i
being promoted and meeting with very
flatteriug results. The enterprise of
the Valley women in planning beantif-
cation &C tie Trail is Showi. is re-
suits from the Iacifi. 10 the Atlantic. :
br. JohnStunc said The women in
practically every town through which the
Trail passes are taking up the work.
and they express the drte-min alton Ia
make the pS1' the most beautiful and
popular highway IN the United States.
The Interest they have taken in this
work and the e'ergctic manner in which
they are accomplishing it is amazing"
The Wnr Department. which has Civ
en- the oSr official recognition. has re-
uueSied that markers BE placed closer
together. and camnaign with this aS
itS object viii he inaugurated in the
near future. In those sections fray-
erScd by the Trail whore trees or pos; :
orc scarce il j. proposed to utilize =
inch iron pine. hearing the Trail mark
ing. sctti1g three posts to the mile.