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Money lightly earned often 10
lightly spent. Money painstahngly
earned usually IL painstakingiy spent.
am told that many farmers are
applying the price yardstick to every
thing they think Of purchasing. ana
that they refuse to buy anything
whose price stiIl shows q drastic In
crease over pre-war levels, whereas
they are more favorably disposed TO
buy things that are on a price basis
nearer the prices they themselves are
receiving for what they produce.
Automobiles and motor trucks man.
ufacturers who have conducted
searching Investigations declare that
farmers are much more disposed to
buy cars and trucks than they are to
buy, for example, expensive farm
machinery, because the latter has not
come down 80 much as automobiles
and trucks. The farmer reckons that
he gets more for his wheat or corn
when buying an automobile or q
truck than q reaper, for example.
There In still q great discrepancy
in the amount Of one class Of goods
as compared with another class Of
goods that the farmers products can
buy. The Bureau Of Labor Statistics
reports that wholesale farm products
are within II per cent Of their 1913
average. But the farmer discovers
that II he wants to buy clothing he
has to pay IS per cent above 1913
prices, that house furnishing goods
would cost him more than 100 per
cent above the pre-war level, that
building materials are still up almost
100 per cent and that fuel Ia rela-
lively high. For instance, less than
three and one-half bushels OF wheat
commanded ton of soft coal In 1913.
whereas the farmer would now have
to exchange five bushels Of wheat for
his ton Of coal. For such an item
as tobacco he has to give up more
than two bushels Of wheat for the
amount he could formerly get Tor
one bushels Of wheat.
How the purchasing value OF rep
resentative farm products has shriv
eIled up was recently brought cut BY
the Census Bureau. Taking the five
year average before the war as par,
or 100, the purchasing power In June
of last year Of the following farm
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Changes Expected in
d 8 Banks TOMORROW
Munsey Trust American Security and Trust
and Mt. Vernon Savings Bank to Hold
Annual Stockholders Meetings.
By HARRY GUsACK.

Following stockholders meetings Of the national
banks in the District of Columbia during the past week num-
Der local companies and savings banks will hold their
meetings this week. ts ..s.,E
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1914, while Dun's compilation records
on advance Of 80 per cent.
Splitting the difference between tire
two compilations would give the pres
cnt increase In the cost OF living AZ
compared with the 1914 basis as ex-
actly one-third.
One important lesson to be drawn
from all this is that It behooves every
industry and every concern that
caters to our farming population to
cut prices to the very bone II they
hope to do anything like fair amount
of business.
1t is declared by those who ought
to know that most farmers are analys.
ing prices extraordinarily keenly, and
that they are bitterly opposed to buy
ing anything still on more OF war
time than a peace-time price basis.
Moreover, they reason that the tent
ency is for every class Of merchandise
to move back toward normal prices,
and that II Is wiser to buy those things
which have already fallen very much
in price than things which have fallen
less
This should interest the labor lead.
ers in many Industries quite as much
as employers. for 1t means that before
full-flood employment can be brought
about in Industries having agricultural
customers, both costs and prices must
be made at least halfway satisfactory
to the consumers. %.
It is bad enough for any industry
when its customers are short Of the
means to buy. 1t Is very much worse
when, in addition. they have not the
will to buy. Only the restoration of
the price equilibrium can remedy this.
copyright, 1se2. by b. c. Forbes.)
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Expresesed differently, the total
value of the important farm crops
last year fell from above $4,000 ,ooo..
COO in 1920 to less than $5,70o,0C0 .OCo
in 1920 to less than $500, 000, 900, or
a drop OF almost $1,000, 100000. 1t
should be added. however, that the
annual average for the nve-yeef
period of 1904 was somewhat un
der $4,000, o0O. 900. Meanwhile, too
the census gives the increase In the
value of Americas farms since tft
year 1910 as $4,000, 100000 In 1920
although, Of course, that grossly In
flated figure has since been sharply
Debated.
The rest of us have benefited, al
least in a narrow sense, from tht
abnormal tumble in farm product
prices, az this tumble has helped tf
lower the cost of living. Even so
however, the cost of living has no;
fallen as much as have farm produc,
,rices, SO that the farmers have sui
fered, and still are suffering. more
for example, than industrial wage
earners-at least, those wage-earners
who have not lost their Jobs.
Bradstreet's gives the average In
crease in wholesale commodity prices
ut the beginning Of this year as ~
per cent above the level In August
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Farmers Are Largest
Purchasers of Goods
Their Ability to Buy and Their Attitude
Toward Buying Considered Important
by Big Business Men, E
LATEST NEWS
OF FINANCIAL WORLD
BY B. @. FORBES.

Our largest class of buyers and consumers are OF
agricultural people They comprise almost onethird
of Americas total population Their ability to buy and
their attitude toward buying therefore, of direct in
terest to us all r., .#
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LOST AND FOUND.

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large, short haired, set black back: tai
bobbed very short. Answers to name Pete.
Liberal reward for return or Information
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The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-05-14

they are perfectly interchangeable
when one approaches the point of
exhaustion and has to give up the
center of the stage to recuperate, the
other steps into his place and the
performance goes happily on, with
out having to stop TO take breath.
The point of it lies in the astonish-
ing resemblance of the heroes; the
only noticeable difference between
them being that one has a merry
twinkle in his eye and the other is a
solemn chap. The solemn one, Bar
raclough, has discovered a marvellous
field of radium, where the mineral
just lies round in chunks. and he is
trying to escape from London with
the aid of the good syndicate of men
of affairs" who are backing him, to
nail down the necessary concession.
No one but Barraclough knows the
secret of the location. The other
wicked syndicate is trying to block
him. The other hero, Richard, is
hired to impersonate Barraclough so
that he can go on and clean things
up.
Richard is kidnapped by the bad
syndicate and put through a Won
derful third degree" a surprising
example of torture with modern i'm
provements. including poison gas
But being a hero he is of course suf-
ficiently tough to stand it.
The best figure in the story is the
independent villain, Smith, who does
some sleuthing for his own purposes
that would do credit to even a Sher-
lock Holmes. One feels little sorry
that he has to be foiled in the end
There is pleasant human touch. too.
about Barraclough's mother. a mildly
humorous old lady of quick wit and
indomitable courage Mr. Pertwee can
do better work than this. on higher
level-as he has demonstrated in
other books-but this story is very
good one of its kind; genuinely en-
Pertaining in spite of its extrava-
gance.
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THE GRAY PHANTOM'S RETURN.
By Herman Landon. w. ]. Watt
& Co.
I" HE many friends of the infalli-
BILE and gentlemanly crook
by choice, known as the
Gray Phantom, will welcome his re-
turn. This most ingenious and re-
sourceful parsonage comes out of
his pleasant country retreat when he
hears that he is suspected of murder.
To clear his own name he sets out
on an attempt to find the true muir
derer, whom he believes to be an
agent of the Duke, his chief rival in
the Underworld. Scarce has he set
foot in New York when his adven-
lures begin and follow so fasr and
furious that the reader lags breath
less block or so behind.
The victim of the gang was an old
tobacconist, suspected of being a
fence" and the mystery was how
the murderer escaped. This last the
Phantom sets out to discover, for the
dying man is said to have named him
as the killer. He finds himself be-
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MEN OF AFFAIRS. BY Roland Pert
wee. Alfred \. Knopf.

MEN OF AFFAIRS. BY Roland Pert
wee. Alfred 4. knopf.
RR- PERTWEE certainly gives
IVI the reader who is in search
of thrills" even more than
his moneys worth in the abundance
of this tale. 1t takes two very able
bodied, up-and-eoming heroes to
carry il off. and, OF course. two hero
ines, although one of the ladies
hasn't much OF a speaking part. And
he is also liberal with his villains: q
whole syndicate" of them. aided by
others who are practicing villainy
on their own hook. Fortunately the
two heroes look so much alike thai
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New Fiction
Continued from Preceding Page.

rest of their lives seem worth the
living. AS the silent, sleepy cliff
slid away behind the train it seemed
almost like an old friend setting out
upon a long Journey"
Whatever the miracle Of the lady
was, it is not quite done when it has
set right the lives of that old quar-
tet. eTwentY years later when the
impudent engaged young woman and
her husband have fallen upon similar
gray days, and most of the parents
have gone their way, there is a mys-
terious conversation with Something
In the same room where the mys-
FERROUS lady had lived for a sum-
mer.
Perhaps the best summary of the
secret is the statement:
We are all treasure seekers in
the beginning, pitched
into life one way or another, but
all convinced that there's hidden
treasure somewhere.
think she knew where the treasure
was. Not in you or me.
But in Emily's idea of you which
must, so to speak, be pulling you
up a bit higher than yourself. all
the time. And your idea of Emily
working the same way.
And so with me, and Joan;
just two ordinary mortals. living
together. and believing in one an
other; it's that which is
the Undying Thing.
1t is a book which by it's nature
defies cold, bald analysis. The es-
sence of it would evaporate in any
such attempt. 1t is rather like a
complex piece of music which must
be heard to be understood. But for
the understanding nearer it has a
message. HENRY WALKER.
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tween two camps of hunters, the
police who want him for the murder
and the Dukes gang. who wart him
because Of orders from their chief.
The interesting popularity o. the
Phantom is not that he eludes dis
covery, but that he is always eing
discovered, tied up, bound, gagged
and handcuffed, not to mention an
occasional dose of chloroform. and
yet his keen brain and strcrg, skill
full hand got him out of any position,
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eccentric heroes. He finally marries
her in order that she may inherit
his small fortune and be safe, but i.
is merely an outward union. 1t is a
difficult situation to make plausible,
but Miss Patrick achieves it. At
Tracy's death the original hero,
Eliot, returns and all is we'll.
If there is a weak spot it is in this
youthful hero, Eliot. He is a little
conventional and lacks something of
the solidity of the others, but one is
willing to believe in him, for Bar
bara's sake. Altogether. it is a fine
piece of work. II. L. PANGBORN.
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M the younger generation of
British novelists who are
making definite and, quite possibly,
a lasting mark in current literary
history. Her work should be better
known here than it is, as 1t has
qualities that demand serious atten-
ton as we'll as the commoner ele-
ments that make for popularity. She
is able to combine tragedy that is al
most Green in its severe dignity with
a strain of romanticism, of sensuous
beauty, without producing a discord.
It is rather like a musical resolu-
ton, from one mode to another, with
perfect understanding of the har-
monies of 1t and the rules of such
transition. In addition, she has an
impish humor, and is even capable
of excellent grotesques in her char
acter drawing. There is tenseness
and a curiously feminine quality in
the story that remind one Of Emily
Bronte and "Wuthering Heights"
(not that there is the least outward
Similarity, but she is a grown-up
Bronte. free of the inhibitions and
incompletenesses that went with the
Brontean era. And she successfully
brings her story out into a quiet
sea of hopeful. happy romance, with
out doing any violence to the plot
In itself a notable achievement.
Miss Patrick is thoroughly of to-
cay in her frankness. She does not
eyade brute facts. and when Barbara
is attacked aud overcome by the
"primeval brute" man there is no
mawkish reticence about it. But
neither is there any of the too COM
mon modern leer. 1t is stark trag-
edy. naked and uncompronising in
its hideousness. and 1t is thrown up
into sharper distinctness by follow
ing directly upon a tenderly beauti-
full love idyll. From that point on
ward Barbara passes through a series
of emotional crises. including fur
Their tragedies. but always keeping
her courage and her own cleanness
Of soul, to emerge finally into quiet
waters. 1t is beautifully done.
In part, it is the familiar theme of
the young girl, with a Gypsy ances-
try, lowly born, but with the soul of
a poet and the longing to escape into
a finer life, to rise above sordidness
into a cleaner upper air. After her
first tragic mishap she gradually
comes to realize that she was still
essentially the same, that self re-
spect was wounded but not slain"
The whole further process is uncon-
ventional. but entirely convincing.
She runs away from her home. after
her mothers death, and after brief
service at country inn she becomes
one of a troupe of diving girls" who
give swimming exhibitions at a sea-
side resort. Here another sort Of
adventure comes to her in the devo-
ton of an artist. Tracy, who is an
invalid, aware that he has but few
years TO live. He loves her, with a
poetic, chivalrous devotion, and with
an ~aTmost fantastic manner that re-
minds one little of some of Locke's
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SAINT TERESA
Henry SydnOr Harrison
American

1.-THE story is told with brilliant in
sight, and moves forward to mag
nificent climax. 1t is bit of real life.
From the beginning the reader is
9ripped and swept onward with the
tale. Saint Teresa is absolutely
original and unique" - Christian
EndeaUOr World.
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SUNNY-SAN. BY Onoto Watanna
George H. Doran Company.

~ ly narrated, with a practiced
skill that makes much of
small things. A Japanese girl of
mixed bloods stands in the center of
interest. We see her first as novice
in tea house. trying her timid steps
with a saddened heart, for her be-
loved mother. the star of the estab-
lishment, lies dead in an upper room
A patron. old and ugly. desires
Sunny. She turns from him in anger
and thereby risks severe punishment
But four young Americans, travelling
with tutor, save her by carrying
her off in dashing Western style.
Then they find themselves with a
ward on their hands. Being young
men of means they form the Sunny
Syndicate" finance her, and leave
her in charge of an American mis-
| sionary. Sunny comes to America,
much to the embarrassment of the
four, particularly Jerry, the insti-
| gator of it all. The embarrassment
at her coming turns to contest for
the honor of housing her when they
see how very charming she is in her
smart American clothes. Jerry wins
out, by Sunny's own will, and she
stays with him in his studio.
But even in Bohemian New York
no young architect can share his
studio apartment with a particularly
pretty girl without some trouble.
The trouble comes through Jerry's
aristocratic mother and the girl she
wants him 10 marry. Sunny leaves
the studio and learns something of
the seamy side of New York life. But
she finds a girl friend and finds also
her runaway American father. II all
comes right in the end, just as we
want it to come.
japanese and American ideas of
| politeness--and other matters-are
neatly differentiated, with fairness TO
both. But it must be admitted that
the art of learning to please, which
is taught the geishas as their chief
life philosophy, has much to recon-
mend it.
And we all-except, possibly a few
| inveterate Broadwayites who cannot
live but in the midst of unseemly
noise-will sympathize with Sunny's
feelings as she wandered the streets
alone and disconsolate.
She sensed the fact that she was
In the Land of Barbarians. where
every one was racing and leaping
and screaming in an hysteria of
speed. Noise, noise. incessant noise
and movement that was
America No one stopped to think;
no polite words were uttered to the
| stranger. 1t was all a chaos, a
madhouse. wherein dark figures
rushed by like shadows in the dark
and little children played in the mud
| of the streets.
And yet the difference between
the sweet, clean, quiet Oriental land
of her birth, where the beauty OF
orderly existence cloaks the cruelty
of one individual to another-and of
sex TO sex-and the true kindness
of individual to individual that un-
derlies the noisy, messy thing We cail
life in America is well portrayed in
the incidents of the story and the
bits of wisdom floating through it.
The four young men of the Sunny
Syndicate are quite real, more or
less, and Katy Garry is a delight.
Sunny herself is novel little hero
inc and somehow quite believable,
even If we don't understand why the
conscientious missionary who had
her in his charge all those months
did not teach her better English.
GRACE ISABEL COLBRON.
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1.-THE popularity of IF Winter
Comes must recede as the wave of
spring books comes rolling in with
Saint Teresa on its crest. Detroit
Free Press.
Certainly the most powerful novel
of the present season. america.
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.ADRIENNE TONER
Anne Douglas Sedgwick

by far th, best book Miss Sedewick
has given us."-London Observer.
"A novel of rare distinction.
ADRIENNE TONER grips and holds
our attention from the first chapter
60 the last" Fail Mall Gazette.
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"Incomparably conceived and in
comparably developed. 1t shows the
highest form of fictional art
NeU York Globe.
AN extraordinary book. The
breath of life emanates from the
pages, and it is intoxication TO
breathe il. "-IIildeeard Hawthorne
in the Neu York Herald.
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BARBARA JUSTICE. BY Diana Pat
rick z. P. Dutton & Co.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1922-11-23
Blacksnakes Good for Golf.

Blacksnakes seeking comfortable
home rent and taxes free, are invited
to the golf links of the Coatesville
County club, in Coatesyille, Pa. Along
the sides of the course underbrush has
been permitted to grow thick, and
tempting rock piles with full southern
exposures have been placed to lure
the snakes from adjacent lands An
educational campaign has been inaug-
urated among golfers with an aversion
to reptiles in order that there may
be no repetition of the deaths by vio-
lence which came to two Of the or
ganization's pets. Champions of the
hlacksnake declare that It Is the most
efficient natural enemy of the ground
mole, which admittedly Is the natural
enemy of golf green's. Not only does
the snake go right into the mole's bor-
ings and discourage that animals oper-
atoms, but ii is alleged to Kill Off rat
tiers and copperheads. 1t is harmless
TO mankind, and is unlikely to appear
suddenly 10 dtsconeert player about
to putt for it works at night.-Ex-
change.
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FRAGRANCE ON PRISON AIR
Electric Perfumer in Cleveland County
Jail Arouses Mind to All Kinds
of Possibilities.

Altar Of roses and sweet scents Of
Araby There's an electric perfumer
at the county Jail. It casts all kinds
of sweetness on the prison air. Just
turn the button and the Jail becomes
a garden of roses or fragrant with the
scent of orange blossoms.
The other day the atmosphere Of
the Jail reflected the aroma of the for
est cedar. II might have been Norway
pine, sassafras, crab apple blossom.
but 1t just happened that the perfumer
was charged to dispense an aroma
tinged with forest cedar.
The machine has possibilities, the
sheriff believes Ii might be employed
to awaken the prisoners each morning
with scents of vioets and soothe them
at breakfast with odors of ham. eggs
corn frltters grapefruit and other
viands not on the regular morning
menu OF coffee and BUTTERFLIES bread.
oh, yes, indeed the machine has pos
slbllities. At night 1t could discharge
the odor of pineapple or figs or dates
and any prisoner with good sense
of smell and strong Imagination
could readily 90 to sleep and feel that
he was In Hawaii
But the perfumer Is In jail only on
triaL-Cleveland Plain Dealer