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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-01-28
Moderate Activity in Raw Sugar

New York. Jan. 2s.---'rhe raw sugar mar
ket Is moderately active sT'l steady with
Cubas quoted at LILO. cost and freight
and Porto Rico At a67c, 9. /. T. Local
Tenncrs yesterday lhaRcd Il 600 bags
Cubas for prompt shipment AZ 2h c. cost and
freight, and 10000 bags for prompt ship
lnent at l-lOC, cost ana freight. ImpOrta-
tions Included 43, 900 bags Cubas consigned
10 the Warner sugar Refining Company.
The local refined market Is unchar@od on the
basis OF ). 5.lOc, less 2 per cent for cash..
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-01-28
COTTON MARKET

New York, Jan. 2S. 49, The cotton
market opened Grmer at an advance Of
II TO p points today. The upturn was
due to support from Liverpool and
japanese interests and covering for over
the week end. New Orleans and wire
concerns were the chief sellers. Later
the list held well at net rise Of ~ to
o3 pOiuts.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-01-28
Reserve Banks Discount Rates
Official redIscOunt rates at the twelve FED
raj Reserve Banks arc as follows:
Dies After Her Goth Wedding Day

Edgewater Park. y. j., Jan. o.
Mrs Annie Scott Frazier, wife of Levi
d. Frazier, died at her home here late
zier was eighty three years old and had
been active in church and grange work
until her present illness. Mr.. and Mrs.
Frazier recently celebrated their six
tieth wedding anniversary.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-01-28
Financial Briefs
st. Paul December net operating in
come $50. 29l, loss Of S3I2,J ,Jj7.

:. po,I Dooorber NET 0paratinc, in
,.,,,,, Son 5cI q los cf S371 on
Nv a. i,s' For thn ynor rnJrI DrceIn-
L 49, "s 7G1r az 7G3 rn1yI IA S1G .0-
p'' "i vi n,,r,crrG vIrb 500 0OA 3O1
,,.,', III ., ,horc IN II4O
~ '-'''' q
-,.o.;,,.
M,'r N"yernl ruI ,-orn. vi n",,.i'''i do,.1I.
op"d III American i'' !'s',''~I N.,Ci. ,.aI,i.
carried u" pre- ,'t -. .'' ,,'''''''''' ''0''-
up 10 So ne" "'"" '''''N'
The average price Of the twenty active
Industrial stocks declined O.JD per cent
yesterday TO Sl.34. while the twenty
railroads advanced o'Ol per cent to
St,ckhoIIcrs of hfux Rubber Coln-
ro,,v %Hve subscribed 10 Virtually AL
~ tLo 300 OUO shares Of ucw stock Which
y,,os .crentIy offered 70 them III Sl1.5O
n hare
( A.. a,,,,,o, ,,,.,,r,, 49,, C,,,,.,,,-
"ealth I.N' ."h " 'tt,',a! i,,.,'Dr "r,t ~
SGpH'li'- ~
aoortT", ~. ~ tr',,,, 500 go oG1 80 Ssn
P caP'tU@an Unn '''' ''0"' '''''''''0' ~ '.'''
oo''''''
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-01-28

American Railways Company De-
ccInber operating revenue Of the atiil-
ated and controlled companies was 81 =
TO2 2,927, rs compared with $l.TS3, ,i9G
for the corresponding month of The pre-
vious ycnr. The net earnings We're
$IG4 ,537, o gain over the $3.50, oil
,hown in 1920. After a.! DEDUCTIONS
there was available for dividends Oh
common stock $11S,SS0, - compared
with so SOS.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-01-28
LIVESTOCK QUOTATIONS.

Pittsburgh. Jan, 2s. -, HOGs-Rece'pts,
oso0 head. steady. H"ayies SOq0.i6'
SHEEF AID LAMBs--ReccIp,s. 500 head
steady. Top sheep 81 30, top lambs.
CtHtLvEs-Reoslpts, 100 head stea4y.
Tcp. sl9. 80.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-01-28
Prices Improve on Paris sours.

Paris, JRl. 2S.-Pricsa improved on the
pourse today. Three per cent Tentes, So
francs 20 centirAes; exchange en- London, 81
franes "a csntimts. per. esnt loan. SO francs
90 d.ut.u,ss The 'cllsS was quoted al ~
franls 10 - centlmss
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-01-28
DIVIDENDS DECLARED

Wahl Company. quarterly 81, 80 on COM
March "a.
Ph'ladelphia Company. semi-annual 81. .ab
registered February III -
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-01-28

pGny. according to letter sent out
recently by the committee.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-01-28
WANTED-MEN

Tho company whose need II
Expressed above has been estab-
lished for many years and has
resources Of more than s15,O0O,oOo.
The company has a sales organ
iyatton composed OF cicnn-cut,
hand-picked men who are here
"fer life" The company Is proud
Of Its mon and every man Is proud
Of HIS company.
In 1pee new sales records will
hs made. Many territories will
be intepsifled and new territories
opened.
because OF this expansion pro-
sram the company needs ABOUT
ten men who are honest ana
who will work.
These men should he between
twenty-five and thirty-fye. They
should be ambitious and ANXIOUS
TO develop themselves as worm
while, producing saiesmen. ont
! aide experience l. desirable but
not necessary.
There are splendid opportunities
for the men who associate them
selves with us now on salary
basis, Applications are invited
from points outside of Philadel-
phia, as we cover large territory.
Write frankly and confldentially
so that interview may be ar-
ranged. Please mention nge,
business experience, married or
single and telephone number.
Address Box A 926
Care Ledger Ofiice
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-01-28

An opportunity j. open for the Investment
OF capital In a local manufa turing com
pany which has for years been very sue
eessful and has large possibilities for the
future: Investor may become active II
desired.
A $50, LEDGER OFFICE
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-01-28

4Nct change made by coinparlson with last
sale On Ne" York Stock ENchangr.
Tota| nacs. 56i7 shares. compared with
A0lN sh&r"s yesterday. Thus fay This week.
A. A3I sLArnS
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-01-28

At the annual meeting Oi Common
wealth Edison Company there will be
s7Ibmitte1 to ,o,kholders a resolution
adopted bJ directors 10 increase rhe
capital stock from 500 $50 900 TO $50, =
900 600.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-01-28
BAR SILVER

. es.ss silver was x a hlshsr in London today.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-01-28

Stockholders Of AJAX Rubber CoH-
pauy have subscribed to virtually. al!
Of the 200, ,OUO shares Of low stock which
was recently offered TO them ii Sl2,50
n share.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-01-28

The average price of the twenty active
Yesterday 10 Sl.34 while the twenty
railroads advanced O.O1 per cent to
- -.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-01-28

4 preferred stockholders committee
of Washington Idaho Water, Light and
safeguard holders of this class OF stock
during possible reorganization Cf COM
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-01-28

Tho United Fruit Company reports
net enrnings for the T"ar ended pecem-
Der 81 Of SlG,OI5,I63. "ql4! 70 Slb,9'
a Sharc compared with S@o,"ON ,1V',
or %99.Ul Il share, in 1870.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-06-04
NEWS

The only paper from which a man
can really get the news of the world in
a shape that he can understand ia the
newspaper of his own home towns
says stephen Leacock in the June Har-
per's. For me. unless l can have he
Montreal Gazette at my breakfast, and
the Montreal Star at my dinner. ] don't
really know what is happening. In the
same way l have seer a man from the
south of Scotland settle down TO read
the Dumfries Chronicle with a deep
sigh Of satisfaction: and a man from
Burlington. VT. pick up the Burlington
Eagle and study the foreign news in it
as the only way of getting at what was
really happening in France and Ger
many.
The reason is. l suppose. that there
are different ways of serving up the
news and we each get used to our own.
Some people like the news fed to them
gently; others like it thrown at them in
a bombshell; some prefer ii to be made
as little Of as possible, they want it
minimized: others want the maximum"
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-06-04

Springfield, Illinois. 1t is a name
that will more and more become sa-
crei to American ears, more and more
will it evoke in the consciousness of
the world a sense Of what our strug-
Cling and so often baffled human ma
ture may become. Already the figure
that makes the place forever famous
is becoming legendary. And it must
not be supposed that the legend is es-
sentially truth. When a man or an
event that have shaped largely in the
world shed. as it were, all insignificant
trimmings, when all the accidental quail
tiles and occasions are forgotten, there
energies the simplified characteristics
that can stand the test of time. and a
new legend is born. a new symbol for
the inspiration of mankind.
And already after q far shorter spell
than is commonly necessary. the essen
tial figure Of Lincoln is d~isengaging it
self from the mass of more or less triv-
ial incident and political chance that
ven to the making of life. We have,
in ever sharpening outline. the story of
q mar who. working till late middle age
in the quiet routine of a country law
practice. attracting but an occasional
moments notice beyond his own narrow
circuit, was able in his fiftieth year to
respond to the national call with a
combination of executive ability and
spiritual s%ingleness hardly equalled in
history.
Tragedies of Public Service
For this il is which gives Lincoln
greatness in the worlds mind. The
story of public service is one strewn
with the tragedies of men who, while
they carry themselves in their domes-
tic life and in the affairs of their own
private calling with credit, when they
are called to public office are not big
enough for the job. and break under
the strain. 1t is idle to blame them;
nearly all Of us who censure them
would meet with Like failure. We. as
they do. would become so absorbed in
the paper facts and congratulations of
u office table that little by little we
would lose contact with the living hui
man factor behind these generaliza-
tons, and our ~imaginations would run
dry. Like them, we should little by
little lose touch with the men and wom-
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-06-04

evidence available. Their findings
should be put On formal record, and
every building or landmark that is
shown to be incontestably associated
with Lincoln should be marked with a
tablet and as fully as possible pre-
served as national memorials.
The risks attending this matter are
real and immediate: Already. for ex-
ample. / found differences of opinion
between well informed people in the
town as to where Lincoln's various law
offices were. The site of but one of
the three is marked and it was only by
appealing to Mr.. Rankin that the mat
ter was settled. This indicates the
kind of thing that may. and unless some
practical steps are taken at once, Ger
tainly will happen. / would not give
the impression that his own town is
deficient in interest in Lincoln; far
from it. There is an abundance Of the
most loving care, and / am sure that
once the idea took DOT there would be
no lack of enthusiasm or judgment to
make the already considerable records
complete.
The legend of Lincoln is secure: it's
beauty and its meaning for the world
will grow from age to age and these
VIII nave their reverence III tHe spirit
of man. But the environment from
which the legend sprung will have its
own durable significance, and now is
the time to see that it is preserved
with all the added glamour of anthem
ticity. For the imagination can work
freely upon and makes its own sym
bols finely from recorded facts. what
ever their medley, but it is impover-
iShed when II has no basis other than
mere travellers log-bound gossip.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-06-04

that either of these methods will be
applied at once by governments which
are too weak to raise the needed funds
by taxation or direct borrowing. Such
a program, rests upon the ability AMI
willingness of Il people to hear burdens
which are now being shunted off until
tomorrow, though they are thereby in
creased. This observation of course
does not apply to all the European gov
ernments. for some are clearly pursu-
ing the proper course. Time, however.
is required to produce results by this
means, for taxes canno be suddenly
increased nor government expenditures
decreased on n large scale without up
be in existence at the moment.
In fact, it may be question whether
immediate sterilization is really neces-
sary or desirable until a more nearly
permanent commercial equilibrium is
achieved. The exchange values of GER
tain of the European currencies, not
ably sterling, have advanced so far in
recent months that they are now within
measurable distance of their former
PARTIES, and this improvement has
been attained without apparently in
tensifying the depression through which
Europe has been passing.
RevaIue Paper CurrencIes
Indeed, the firmness with which re-
lief by initiation from present economic
ills has been renowned by some gov
ernments is a fine tribute to the wis
dom and courage of their peoples. But,
unfortunately. such fortitude is not the
attribute of all the European countries.
The more we examine the progress of
currency expansion. unavoidable though
it may be, the more apparent becomes
the necessity for eventual %revaluation
of certain paper currencies.
ALREADY Russia is reported to have
revalued her currency by decreeing that
10000 of the old rubles are worth one
new gold" ruble. but such a revalua-
ton is illusOry, since 1t rests on the
fiat Of the government, rather than on
the convertibility Of the new rubles
into gold. In fact, Russians. outside
of a few cities, are doing business by
must continue to depreciate as they
are issued.
1.-THE essential difficulty with most
proposals for revaluing deprecated
c%urrencies, expedient and inevitable
though the process may be in many in
stances, is that they make no provi-
sion for convertibility into gold or any
other commodity the value of which is
relatively stable. Until the convertible
ity of a currency into some recognized
standard of value, which is itself slow
to change its worth, can be established
and maintained, proposals for its re-
valuation without provision for such
redemption will be premature, and the
process, if carried out, will mean no
more than a new start on the same
Of initiation.
Time and considerable effort Of the
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-06-04

=. Here I have lived a quarter
of a century and have passed from a
young man to an old man.
Trusting in Him not knowing when or
whether even. / may return i.
let us confidently hope that all will be
well :"
And leaving this enchanted spot of
American ground, ! wondered Milton
thou shouldst be living at this hour"
cried Wordsworth in one of his coun-
try's darkest seasons Might not all
our western world apostrophise Lin
coin today. But while such cries may
profit us little enough, they may well
be an inspiration if they come from
true reverence, from a will to be
worthy of SO admirable an example.
Should Establish Memorials
Lincoln cannot return, but what Lin
coin was may be a hope for every man
whose mind turns to the problems of
public service. And, thinking of this,
it seems well that, while so great a
renown is safe in the keeping of the
worlds heart, everything possible
should be done to ensure for the mans
life story a local habitation and a name.
Already the generation that knew
the bodily presence of Lincoln has al
most gone First hand evidence of his
habits and associations is still to be
had. and if it is sifted here and now,
records can be made which will be of
~immeasurable interest 20 future gener-
atoms of Americans and mankind. 1t
is a mistake TO think that tbs Is q
thing that can be done 1T any time and
that there is no hurry. In II few years
it will be too late. The Surviving wit
nesses will have gone, ard then, when
the American nation insists that the
circumstances of Lincoln's daily lie
are lasting interest, for ail that bis
essential significance is independent of
these. the arguments and quarrels of
tradition and circumstantial evidence
will begin, and half the conclusions
reached will be wrong.
Mark All Associations
A small and carefully selected com
mittee of Springfield citizens. with per
haps one or TIVE Americans from out
side the city should be formed at once
to examine every piece of first hand
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-06-04

en- from whom we had risen to u au-
thority. The necessity for dealing with
mankind in the aggregate would cheat
us of our power of realizing intimately
man the individual. There is but one
mar in many millions who has at once
the breadth of vision and the personal
residence necessary to the fit control
of a state. and the chances are always
against his being chosen. When we
pass judgment against the d~iscredited
public leader. We should do SO humbly
enough-"There, but for the grace of
God, go l."
But When Rare Man Comes
But when the rare man comes who
manifests great executive power and at
the same time keeps his spirit daily
alive to direct and tender human con-
tact, he has in him the making of a
legend. Such a one is Lincoln, more
completely l think, than any man in
the western world since Cromwell;
more completely, perhaps, than Crom-
we'll himself. since Lincoln had the
larger serenity. And the magical thing
today is that in the little community of
Springfield you may yet walk side by
side. as it were. with this man who is
already a legend of the world, almost
taking his hand. AS / stood in the par
Tor of his simple home, a Portuguese
exile, returning to the scene of his
boyhood after Sc years, told me that
in that far corner be had courted Lin
coins seamstress.
His words could have had no sharp
er edge of romance had he said that
he and John Milton used to buy their
~broadcloth at the same shop. went
to see Mr.. Harry Rankin, full of eager
brightness in his eightieth year. In
the book of recollections that he gra-
gave me he wrote, these
lines are written-by the hand that
often grasped Abraham L~iDcoln's."
the gift from him, / seemed to
lose my own reality. to have become a
in an old tale, to be verify liv-
ing in history.
Before Springfield Courthouse
/ stood in the open space before the
courthouse, where Lincoln
used to foregather with his friends on
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-06-04

Saturday evenings for political discus
sion, and went up from there into the
room where he conducted his cases.
The room, now in twilight, without the
aid of Vachell Lindsay's lovely poem,
abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight"
which l had just heard from the poets
lips, l was aware of a more than shad-
owy presence at my side; the magma
ton so readily supplies the link be-
tween yesterday and today.
And the man beside me was not
wholly the man who is so exactly re-
corded in a dozen contemporary por-
traits and the large anthology of mi
uute and exact descriptions. It YVES.
rather, this nan crystallized into the
essential significance of himself, seen
through the eyes of poets WHO seek
only central realities or by the touch
of a sculptor such as st. Gaudens or
Barnard, adding symbolic appearances.
| was in company with Lincoln, the leg
end. the mortal man walking now in his
immortal habit. The old alchemy had
done its work. and man had become
greater thar himself without losing one
breath of human dearness and init
macy, in the transition.
Spell Is Cast Again
And then I was taken out to Oak
Ridge, the little hill topped by the
great monolith that rises above Lin
coins tomb. Here Major Johnson. a
veteran Of the Grand Army of the Re-
public, is the quiet custodian. full of
the gentle courtesy that so often dis
tinguishes the old age of men who have
born gallant parts in heroic days. Here
again was the spell. The American
(Nivil nor bod haan as far off a fra
ditional thing to me as our own battle
of Edge Hill and F1odden Field. And
now standing beside the dust and bones
that had been Lincoln. with a mar who
had gone into battle with General
Grant, one who had been under arms
when word came that Robert f. Lee
had surrendered at A~ppomattox. ending
as nobly as he had fought. Lincoln,
Grant. Lee, already they ring like
names cut of Homer, and yet their
words seemed still to fall upon the
evening air. so soon may a legend shape
itself when the pressure of human af-
fairs is acute enough.
1t is but seldom that they are. but
moment in modern history seems TO
me to be comparable in epic quality
with the American Civil war. The
great stories of the world are gener
ally shaped long after the events from
which they spring have passed. but in
those fierce American years, 1S61-1S65,
the event was SO single in issue and
the chief actors so clear in personality
that the durable outline of the story
began to shape itself in less than a
generation after the event had gone by.
So that now we who stood by the tomb
set in its ring of oaks, were sensible
Of n fable perfecting itself as surely
the worlds mind as that of Troy,
We were almost at arms length
Of the men whose lives were this later !
Odyssey.
Scene of LincoIn's Farewell
Returning to the town | passed the
of Lincoln's law offices. in one
ease the actual building. l walked the
path to which for nearly 20 years he |
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-06-04
Need Gold Terms Value For Europe Money

The question which is uppermost in
the minds of American observers and
students of the European fiscal situa-
ton, states the current Guaranty
Survey" issued Monday, May 30, by
the Guaranty Trust company of New
York, is that of the ultimate stabiliza-
ton Of the value of European curren-
cies in terms of gold. This must be
accomplished at some ratio, not nee
essary the pre-war parity, if the
world is ever again to be able to carry
on international or domestic trade
without the hazard Of widely fluctuat-
ing exchanges.
The position of the paper cu%rrencies
and the i%mpounded gold reserves of the
different European countries, the
Survey" continues, presents a con
fused variety of factors both favorable
and u%nfavorable which makes a study
IOf the situation as q whole desirable.
The paper currencies have practically
ceased to expand in some countries, IN
others initiation is going on at a more
rapid pace than ever before, while in a
few countries material contraction has
already taken place.
Large and small countries alike are
represented in each of these classes.
The most prominent among those which
are contracting their paper money cir
culation are the former neutrals and
Great Britain. France and Italy may
be classed with these or among the
countries. like Czecho- Slovakia, the
volume of whose currency appears to
be relatively stabilized, but France and
Italy continue the expansion of their
shOrt-term debts. Currency initiation,
however, is still proceeding at a rapid
pace in Germany. Austria, Hungary,
Poland and several other eastern Eu-
ropean states.
Looked at from the standpoint of
gold reserves, the European situation
appears somewhat improved, although
the gold is not in free circulation and Is
held also as a reserve against depos-
its in the note issuing banks. The fis-
cal situation in various European coun-
tries show wide differences. however,,
for some have surprisingly large
amounts OF gold or hand while others
have virtually no gold at all.
Stabilize In Gold Terms
'The question which is uppermost in
the minds of observers is that of the
ultimate sterilization of the value of
these currencies in terms of gold. This
must be accomplished at some ratio,
not necessarily the pre-war parity, if
the world is ever again to be able to
carry on international Or domestic
trade without the hazard of widely fluc-
tuating exchange. This, however, can
not be brought about until the govern
which are increasing their fiat
currencies through their banks of is
sue either balance their budgets by in
creased taxation and reduced expendi-
lures. or finance their deficits by some
sound means.
Doubtless it is too much to hope |