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producers are reported as unwilling
to take further orders for delivery
sooner than the fourth quarter OF the
year.
Fourth. an increasing shortage of
labor coupled with rapidly rising
wage scales. In the last-named in
stance, officials believe. there may lie
the inception of the wind which may
develop into the whirlwind. The pres
ent period of increased activity has
all the makings, it is pointed out, Of
another vicious spiral of prices such
as occurred in 1918 and 1919, with in
creased wages. increased production
costs and increased prices rotating
around one another to dizzy heights.
Fears Runaway Market.
I'VE should take every precaution
against too rapid a rise in prices"
DR.. Klein states. There is no way
the government could police the stu
alton, and 1t is extremely doubtful il
it would be wise for the government
to do so, even if 1t could"
What should be done??' DR.. Klein
was asked.
1.-THE government can only suggest.
1t Is not up to the government. how
ever, but to the business interests Of
markets ANY runaway is dangerous
to everybody In its path.
Many business men are thinking
along these lines today, and / have
no doubt will practice self-restraint
in the matter of profits and in other
matters to prevent runaway markets.
In several lines there are potentiali-
ties for a runaway. market. The situ-
alton must be kept in hand by the
business men concerned"
The railroads have seldom. If ever,
been called upon to haul SO large
volume Of freight at this season of
the year. THE number of cars loaded
with freight" says the American
Railway Association, continued to
run unusually heavy for this season
of the year, exceeding by considera-
BILE margin the corresponding week
in previous years"
AS to the prospective car shortage,
opinion is divided. The railroad Off
cials themselves place the current
net shortage at less than $4,000 cars
Government officials are less opti-
mistic. They fear that most unusual
Of all car shortages a big shortage In
the spring. 1t has been years since
that season has recorded such stu
alton. The building boom, If it ma
terialiZes, will be responsible.
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silver, lost all influence in fixing the
price of silver until war conditions
disrupted the London market
The enormous increase in export
trade of China and India during the
last twenty-five years, coupled with
the fact that tradition made the use
of silver necessary as a medium of
exchange in these countries. resulted
in the far east becoming the worlds
most important market for the ne al.
by the United States was followed by
an Increased flow of silver to India
until the market there was glutted,
with the inevitable result that the ex-
change value of the rupee declined so
per cent
The government closed the Indian
mints to free coinage and established
the sterling value of the rupee. From
that time on London has been able
to fix the price OF silver throughout
the world.
A monsoon in India. a food or
famine in China have greater effect
on the price as fixed by London than
the abandonment or discovery of a
new mine in the United States.
Market Ruled by Brokers.
Four silver brokerage houses in
London fix the market Representa-
tives of these firms meet every busi-
ness day. They hold the orders to
sell bullion and also the orders to
buy silver to meet the exchange bal
ances drawn upon London accounts
The price is adjusted to meet the sit
uation, advancing when the exchange
demand exceeds the supply, declin-
ing when the reverse is the case. The
price is thus fixed and the result ca
bled all over the world. A Butte miner
sells load of ore for London price
received by cable.
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Excessive Profits May Menace
Returning National Prosperity

general conditions which showed the
following outstanding features:
First, the prospect of a car shortage
of serious proportions within the
next sixty days.
Higher Commodity Prices.
Second, a survey of general price
conditions showing a gradual rise,
dating back to last October and in
some cases still further, in the prices
of almost everything in Widespread
use. The list included lumber and
other building materials, petroleum,
which recently went to the highest
figure since 1920; cotton, now almost
double the price Of last year and still
rising; iron and steel, copper, which
has gone back to about the l5-cent
level, and many manufactured prod
ucts.
1t also included farm products. but
in that case the rise Is generally re-
earded as beneficial in restoring to
the farmer some measure OF his pre-
war purchasing power.
Third a general expansion, particu-
iarly noticeable within the past three
or four months. in the Volume of ma
terials produced and III the number OF
orders taken. Lumber producers. for
instance, report orders for coo 900, 900
board feet more than they had this
time year ago, and iron and steel
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"As | See 1t"
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Continued from First Page.)
Later political interest will revive
Later, indeed, the drums and slogans
and shibbolethS of the temple pharl-
sees who run politics will meant their
old spell-maybe. But now-no. Only
in Washington in the Sandhedrin are
the chief priests and Levites upon
this glorious island of iridescent
dreams excited about the signs
tokens and portents in the political
sky-omens that are largely in their
own eyes!
For instance. Ford for President
Washington thinks seriously of Ford.
Washington feels that he may be the
democratic nominee; that his pacifism
and know w-nothingism, his standardiz-
ed ignorance Of human affairs may
appeal to something in this country,
particularly in the cracker part Of
the south. So the republicans are
laying out their problem with Ford
in the equation. This surprises one
who comes into Washington fresh
from the grass roots. The grass roots
are not moved by Ford. Nor by any
one else just now. They are cold in
'the winter of their discomfort" cold
toward Ford. toward McAdoo; bitter
cold toward the republican party, and
politics generally do not warm up
the average citizen in the country.
*
But the average citizen of Wash
ington is super-average. He is in
Washington because in the matter
of political acumen or political luck
he Is able to make living out of his
fellows. And he takes his talent
seriously. He is always tinkering at
his trade. Curiously just now certain
regular republicans are in mood to
abandon Harding. They seem to feel
that he should not run again. They
do not, think he is unpopular, but they
hold that he is just impossible. Hard
ing can, of course, renominate him
self, in spite of them. Any President
can. But Harding Is not fighter.
Nor has he about him the fighters
Of the great financial interests as
Taft had. Wall street would let
Harding go down the stream without
life line. In the first place, and
chiefly because he is not opposed just
now, as was Taft. by an element In
the party which Wall street regards
|as dangerous. Indeed Harding Is
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queen and what the donkey replied
to the gate post"
And now what did the donkey say
to the gate post?-really! Well, -,
replied the donkey "if you mean my
party nominee it looks like McAdoo." -
Whereupon the gate post, being To-
Gated in Washington and, therefore
most dense, shook it's head. For
Washington gossip rather minimiZesa
the chances of McAdoo. Phrases in
f1uence Washington-the heir appar-
ent, the Prince of Wales, the cup
bearer-names, of course. but not
has the Fordphobia- Ford is the
worst Washington can imagine, and
Washington is in a mood TO see the
worst. Still, it might be Cox! And 2
there are those who hope fondly that,
the Ku klux prosecution OF Catholics
will wax strong and successful until
collapse and reaction make a hero
out OF Gov. Al Smith, the Roman
Catholic Governor of New York. He
has the elements of a strong candiL
date-force, intelligence. candor, cour-,
age and a kindly consideration for
the other mans viewpoint. He could
carry the east. The south. in spite of
the Ku Klux, would have to vote for
Smith on the democratic ticket-but
the west? No one knows. McAdoo,
Cox and Smith-and that's all, abso-
lutely all. Here the fairy story ends.
1t Is all Washington knows.
x X -
In the enchanted island of dreams,
where unenlightened self-interest
makes every one blind and proud OF
it, that is all there is to tell about
what the prince said to the queen and.
what the donkey replied to the gate
post 1t is a pitiful little story, yet
to hear it around the boards of the 2
powerful and the great one would !
think 1t the law and the prophets.
But the story does reveal much. 1t
shows, with other things, what our
rulers are thinking about. They are
apart from US in this world of their.
own; exiles set aside to form the
needed checks upon democracy. They :.
are not the mainsprinse of democracy,
these Washingtonians, these superior
godlike folk who are so blind and
so happy In their blindness. But be-,
cause they see visions 1t may be wei
to set them down. Thus we may know
what some of the great forces Of our
life are holding in their hearts. Their,
hearts are not destiny: but, after all,
the instincts of Washington come In
some queer way out of the republic
They are only a small part OF it,.
but still real part OF the aspiration
of the American people. -
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BY HARDEN COLFAX.

Business conditions have entered
upon the most critical stage of
the readjustment period, in the
opinion of Commerce Department and
other government officials here who
are watching with some uneasiness
the rapid expansion of Industry and
the increasingly fast upward swing
Of prices.
II would suggest to business men
that they keep COOL make sure Of
their facts, refrain from snap judg-
1nent, and hold their profits to rea-
sonable figures" Julius NJ. Klein,
director Of the bureau Of foreign and
domestic commerce, told the writer
yesterday. There is danger ahead II
We go too fast. 1t Is entirely possi-
BILE for business to run into a period
Of imitation which would be dis
astrous.
II do not believe we have reached
the point yet where imitation is a
serious danger. but we are headed in
that direction. We should sit steady
and not rock the boat"
In making this statement, DR..
Klein had before him a summary OF
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league of nations-Sees or fears as
the observer may view ii. Just now
France has the stage. France in the
Ruhr is condition, not theory. AND
to get France out America must get
in. To let France stay in and blow
up European civilization in her de-
termination to ruin or dismember
Germany will mean that American
farmers. having no outside market for
their crops. will put politics into their
economic despair In the next election.
If they do 1t is goodbye to the re-
publican party.
And so many observers. feeling that
the Presidents policy will lead up 10
ropean civilization is sinking, are
watching the death of the old order
here in Washington with pessimist1c
eyes 1t has little life in it. Leader
ship is wanting, or if present as IN
the case Of Hoover or Borah meets
jealousy. Johnson's leadership would
mean further isolation and q read
justment of our economic life to meet
the death of Europe. Moreover. Jonn-
son Is a man of passion-pardonaD
hkely to blow himself out of the
situation by the violence of his con-
yiction.N Borah Is calm, sensitive,
good guesser. a grass root prophet,
and a statesman not afraid of ms
yesterdays. He also is not afraid or
getting into Europe because he once
clamored to keep out But he lives in
q state with so few votes in the cleo
toral college that they would be neg
ligible in any practical calculation OF
the result, and unless conditions are
desperate Borah is fantastic. IN. b.
Conditions are desperately
X X = I;
Now as to Hoover, he has one draw
back-his common sense. His polit1-
cal I. O. Is low. He merely knows
Europe and understands America in
terms of facts. Moreover. his mind
correlates the facts into truth. But
he knows no party politics. The pat
ter. of the temple priests who are
keepers of the republican ark Of the
covenant wearies him. Not more than
it wearies any normal American, but
Hoover looks weary when they chat
ter. So they will have none of him.
If Hoover Is nominated it will take
a mob from the galleries to force him
upon the convention. And republican
conventions have never yielded to
mobs. But next year may be different.
And then, again, 1t may not be. And
above everything the reader must not
forget that all this fairy-storying is
Done in Washington-in the island Of
dreams quite apart from reality. 1t
is only what the prince said to the
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doing things now which Roosevelt in
his maddest moments did not threaten
These farmer credit and marketing
bills. for instance. go far into
populism and Harding and all his ad-
1ninistration are backing these bills
So while Wall street does not protest
perhaps trusting to the Supreme
Court for annulment of the measures.
still Wall street would not put up
hght for Harding. And as Harding
Is not at all militant, it is evident to
the super-statesmen, who play Provi-
dence IN Washington while Providence
is absent from the town, that Hard
Ing may be removed from the picture
If they need him removed. Which is
where they get fooled.
Just now these elder stand-pat
statesmen feel that Harding must go.
They probably will change their
minds. But now the fates are playing
with the names of Hoover, Borah and
johnson. These three may be con-
sidered at the next republican con-
vention. Unless it is Harding. no
conservative need apply. 1t is most
curious that all three were Roosevelt
men In the big split in the party a
statesmen of that day have stalked
OH the stage to death or oblivion.
And the chess players of the party
are using new knights. 1t was for
SO little real advantage that the
stand-pat Horatius' kept the bridge;
eight years of Wilson's liberalism en-
acting the insurgent program and
four years of Harding's gentle yield
ing. complete the surrender that
Wilson began. No wonder Wall street
refuses to produce a temperature at
the prospect Of Hoover, Borah or
Johnson.
The truth Of the matter is that Wall
street is pretty well out Of politics.
A new generation has arisen there as
well as In Washington. Ten years un-
der the direct primary has put Wall
street out Of practice in directing
politics at their source Candidates
for senator and governor from the
west never come now as once they
came to the elder Morgan's office for
his blessing. And his son knows little
about the details of politics and cares
less. Business Is getting out Of the
government, not in, as Mr.. Harding
promised US that 1t would get in.
x 4 \ X
So it is Hoover, Borah or johnson,
with Lowden in the of1ng. Lowden is
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So it is Hoover. Borah or johnson,
with Lowden in the of1ng. Lowden is
tho candidate whom Washington for
got. And the issues-foreign affairs.
Washington sees swing back to the
Evening star., 1923-02-18
BY HENRY ". BUM.

. HE following Is brief summary of
the most important news Of the
world for the seven days ended Feb
ruary III
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English Women
Sway Esau Sons

Continued from First Page.)
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BY OLIVER OWEN KUHN.

N ANY is the time that the bully
IN Of the neghborhood gang of
youngsters becomes less
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1923-12-21
Right Marketing
Of Farm Produce

in daily touch with general crop and
market conditions. More than 80
radio broadcasting stations dispatch
the news over the continent, and by
means Of leased telegraph wire sys-
TEN that stretches across the country
from Boston to San Francisco into
the Southwest and along the Atlantic
seaboard. important market flashes
are dispatched 10 hours daily from
and to the leading market centers for
subsequent distribution among farm
ers and other agricultural interests.
These marketing services to farm
ers have been rendered more effective
by the consolidation Of the economic
work Of the department into the bu-
reau of agricultural economics which
Includes the former bureau Of crop
estimates, farm management, and mar
kets. The consolidation Of the three
bureaus, particularly as regards inter
related marketing activities, has made
possible an enlarged service extend
ing over the broad field Of problems
from farm organization to the study
Of retail distribution.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1923-12-21
Some Excellent Ways to
Get Grapevines Started

The grapevine is one Of the easiest
fruit plants to propagate, according to
the horticulturists Of an Eastern col
lege Of agriculture. Any amateur can
grow them at home. For filling a va
cnncy in n vineyard the easiest and
surest way Is to leave cane unpruned
on n neighborlng vine. In the spring
lay the vine down and cover with 3
to inches of loose dirt, that part
which Is in the place where a new
vine is designed. BY fall the covered
part will have produced sufficient root
growth to allow the parent cane to
be cut away. If several plants are
desired the entire cane may be COW
cred with dirt. Nearly every bud will
produce a plant. The following spring
the plants may be separated with a
sharp spade and transplanted.
For producing plants in greater mum
bers. cuttings are used. In the fall
canes that grew during the year may be
cut Into lengths Of two or three buds
each. Canes should have the thickness
of a pencil with joints to 9 inches
apart. Cuttings In bundles of 10 or Is
should be buried in the garden with
the butt ends up, the ends being COW
cred with 8 or inches of dirt. When
freezing weather comes on they may
either be placed in moist sand in a
cool cave or left outdoors and mulched
with straw or other litter. This prac.
tIce promotes the growth of calIous
over the cuts. In the spring the canes
should be planted in nursery rows 9
or 8 inches apart in the row, with
rows 21k or feet apart one bud being
left right at the surface of the ground.
the other underground.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1923-12-21
Sanitation and Preventive
Serum Are Urged.

prepared by the United States Department
Of Agriculture,
Approximately per cent OF the
hogs on farms in the United States
died of hog cholera last year. This
appraisal of the ravages Of hog ehol-
era is made by the bureau of animal
Industry, United States Department OF
Agriculture. for the year ended April
80, 1923, and is based on estimates
Of the bureau Of agricultural econom-
les Losses were heaviest In Iowa,
Nebraska, Indiana, Missouri. Illinois,
Ohio, Georgia, Minnesota, and South
Dakota in the order named. Each
Of these states lost more than 1907
600 head of swine from the disease
during the year, assuming that 80 psr
cent Of the deaths from all causes
among hogs is due to cholera The
total number Of swine lost from hog
cholera exceeded 2,250,000. valued at
approximately S29,39s.O 900.
The highly contagious nature of hog
cholera makes the disease difficult to
control. The preventive serum treat
ment combined with strict sanitation
and thorough dlsinfection of premises
after outbreaks. are the most effective
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1923-12-21
Merger OF TWO stat. Boards.

The State Board Of Welfare and
the Board Of Mental Hygiene will be
merged in one body If plans Of leading
factors in the aforementioned board
are adopted by the incoming Legisla-
ture.
Both boards have something to do
with the care OF the insane, but the
line of demarcation between the two
was not made clear in the State reor-
ganIzation act. The Board Of Welfare
seems to claim authority over the
Mental Hygiene Board, and though
there has been no clash. friction, 1t
appears. is likely at any time.
In the case OF the charges against
the management OF Spring Grove Hos
pital and Foster Clinic the investiga-
tion was made by the Board Of Mental
Hygiene, but the report was sub
mitted to Welfare Director Emory L.
Coblentz.
Legislation will be offered to fix the
status of each board more definitely,
If there Is no consolidation. It is said.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1923-12-21
Apple Trees Need Plant
Food for Proper Growth

Apple trees on thin upland or other
poor soil are likely to need fertilizing.
For such orchards. f. H. Ballou, as
sociate horticulturist. Ohio experiment
station. recommends the application
of a mixture OF equal parts Of nitrate
of soda or sulphate Of ammonia, and
acid phosphate.
He would apply these fertilizers
very early in the spring just as the
buds begin to swell. For poorly
nourished twenty-year-old apple tree,
about ten pounds of the mixture Is
suggested This is scattered evenly in
a circle beneath and little beyond
the branches, but keeping few feet
away from the base of the tree.
For trees from five to ten years of
age applications of from three to Eve
pounds are recommended.
Fruit trees covered with rich dark
green foliage and large twig growth
probably need very little heterogeneous
plant food.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1923-12-21
PLANE sTEERED BY RADIO
Machine Guided Two Hundred and
Fifty Miles During Experiment
In France.

A number Of experiments have been
made with radIo-controlled vessels md
airplanes, but one Of the most success
full trials was that recently held In
France, when a plane was driven $50
miles and steered the entire trip by
radio. The indications were received
on an apparatus called the radio
goniometer, which showed the air
planes position with relation to the
wireless station. This device enabled
the pilot to make the journey with an
error of only 2 per cent in direction
on the outward flight and with entire
accuracy on the return.
One advantage Of the apparatus, II
practicable, says the Los Angeles
Times, is the assistance It would lend
70 night flying, a branch Of aviation
that is receiving much attention just
now. The mail service of the United
States intends starting schedule for
night-fiying planes and hopes to speed
up the service to San Francisco By
night travel.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1923-12-21
set up machinery to regulate price
and methods OF distribution.

Bsltinore-The Atlantic feet viii
not make Baltimore its base for the
winter months, Secretary DENLY wrote
Mayor Jackson, expressing his warm
thanks to the Mayor and the Balti-
more Yacht Club for facilities ten
dered to the fleet personnel, Mr.
Denby said that the feet will go to
the West Indies for extensive maneu-
yers and that the problems to be
worked out are so extensive the ships
will have little idle time.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1923-12-21

Casing-head gas hos been made
since 1904. An oil which has the fac
ulty Of absorbing gasoline from natural
gas is sprayed downward through a
tall pipe or tower, while the natural
gas coming out at the top is practical
ly without gasoline, while the oil at
the bottom has absorbed II. Then.
by simple process of distllIation. the
gasoline is derived from the oil. and
the oil goes through the same oper-
alton again. A good-sized plant can
treat S0,0O00O0 cubic feet of natural
gas this way, and obtain at least 5000
gallons of gasoline day.