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The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1923-01-12
CURRENT BUSINESS CONDITIONS
BY GEORGE E. ROBERTS
Monthly Oct by City
New

The most important feature OF the
business recovery during the past year
has been the improvement in the
prices OF agricultural products. tend
ing to restore the normal relationship
between these and the products Of
other industries The final estimate
by the department OF agriculture upon
the value OF 1922 crops gives them as
81 500. 100000 over the value for the
year 1921. This means so much addi-
tional purchasing power to be ex-
pended among the industries. and they
are all being benefited.
The year ended with the best holi-
day trade on record and with practi-
cally full employment for the avail
able labor supply. The tendency to
higher wages and prices shows that
the slack has been taken up and this
means that the situation is nearly as
good as it can be. Some readJust-
ments may be desirable, but when the
industries are operating at capacity
or to the limit of their labor supply
they can do no more. except as meth
DDS may be improved. Moreover,
when they have reached that stage,
there is danger that additional press
ure will start cycle OF rising wages
and prices. always unhealthful and
temporary After every period OF Ell
Their depression or activity business is
likely to swing past the point OF bal
snce in the other direction This
should be avoided as far as possible
What is wanted is stability, perma-
ncnt employment. regular wages. and
steady prices.
Aside from the threat OF initiation.
and with reservation as to European
conditions, the outlook for 1928 is ex-
cellent. The principal industries have
all the business in sight they need to
have to make a prosperous year; 1t
will remain in sight if industrial costs
move higher. The margin OF profit
upon which employers are working,
however, is very small. In most OF
the industries goods cannot be sold
today on a replacement basis. Such
profits as there are result from max
ing up materials bought at lower
prices than are now prevailing. This
is so because certain industrial costs I
have been maintained at a high level
after the buying power of a portion
OF the consuming public has been re-
duced. Under such conditions every |
increase in costs must be passed on
to consumers, who for the most part
are the wage-earners themselves and
the farmers.
Wages, Prices and Employment.
This attitude on the part OF the
iabit OF thinking of wages as wholly
xage-workers is due to the common
matter between employer and en-
,loye. and that the higher wages are
liked the better for the employe. Mel
her assumption is correct. viewing .
he interests of labor as whole. !
When il is known that wages, prices, I
consumption and employment are all !
loosely related, the fallacy of this idea S
ill be seen. If the compensation OF I
obody would be benefited. and on the
ther hand if compensation is raised
4 a few industries alone, the effect
,il be to curtail employment in those
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1923-01-12
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Elastic Money.

The national lawmakers are busy
ing themselves with many plans and
schemes intended TO make the Fed
eral Reserve Banks more responsive
to the needs OF the people Partic-
uIar emphasis is made OF the require
ments Of agriculture. and numbcrlcss
charges are loosely circulated to the
effect that bank loans in rural dis
tric,s have been relatively less than in
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1923-01-12
Safety First

Pugilist-"Id rather not take gas. ="
Dentist daresayl But I won't
risk attending you without"
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1923-01-12

industries
The upward tendency of wages and
the prospect of another coal strike arc
features OF the 1928 situation prompt
ing the business man to operate with
caution.
The workers in the textile indus
The Industrial Balance.
tries outside of the southern states
have taken only one general reduction
from the top wages of the boom per-
iod. OF p = per cent, in December.
1920. They are now moving for its
OF all labor in twenty-thrce industries
recovery. The average hourly wages
covered by the investigations of the
National Industrial Conference Board
were los per cent higher in Septem-
Der. 1922. than in July. 1914.
On the other hand. the farmers took
an almost perpendicular reduction
averaging about so per cent from the
top level OF 1920. from which they
have recovered about II per cent. and
the average purchasing power OF the
principal farm products in October.
1922. was only 65 per cent OF what it
was in 1913.
For organized labor to demand the
re-establishment OF the highest wages
OF the boom period while buying farm
products upon the present level will be
an effort to perpetuate an unfair adj
vantage and deprive the farmer OF the
moderate gain he has made in the past
year.
Report of Secretary of the Treasury.
In his annual report to the speaker
of the house OF representatives Secre-
tary of the Treasury Andrew w. Mel
Ion reviews the debt-paying and re-
funding operations which the short
dated debt OF about S7.000,000.000 ex-
listing when he came into office has
been placed in more easily handled
form.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1923-01-12
Prospective Revenues.

The secretary reports current gains
in the revenues promising to aggre-
gate about S550,OO0.000, and on the
other hand decreased expenditures OF
about S200,000,000 While the prob
abilities are that the deficit anticipated
at the beginning OF the fiscal year will
not be entirely overcome, the secre-
tary does not think it necessary at this
time to ask for additional taxes.
The secretary estimates that the
total revenue from all the surtaxes
with respect to the business of the tax
able year 1922 will not exceed $780,
100000, which is only about 10 per
cent of the total ordinary revenues.
He believes that it would be sound pol
icy, and at the same time most help
full to the general situation, to reduce
the surtaxes to a minimum of not over
rs per cent, which would mean COM
bined maximum normal tax and sur
tax. of not over 80 per cent. 1t is not
likely that congress will adopt the
secretary's recommendation as there
are too many members who would
rather go through the form of levying
high taxes on large incomes. notwith-
standing convincing evidence that the
taxes are not paid.
Tax-Exempt Securities.
Tax-exempt securities issued by the
Federal and State governments and
the political subdivisions and agcn-
cies of the latter are the most out
standing avenue of escape from the
surtax, according to the secretary.
The debate in congress upon his rec
to stop further issue
If these tax-exempt securities be
adopted and submitted to the states.
las indicated that substantial opposi- !
ion exists and that il may not be
practicable to secure ratification by
he required number of states
Another development OF an inter-
sting character is the denunciation of
,vestors who buy the tax-exempt
The Cordova daily times., 1923-04-02
Daily NeWs
 Letter
Genera! News and Gossip From Abroad.
TODAY-Adee Parker, Moscow cor respondent, writes a column of mls cellaneous news notes.

MOSCOW, April 2.-The Karmeny Theater Players, who have just closed their season in Moscow, have spent eight years in the progressive development of the drama, producing, in that period, fifteen plays. Their manager, Tairoff, with a company of twenty artists, including Kohonen and Zeretelli, will begin at once for eign tour embracing Paris and Berlin, and, possibly, London and New York, They will offer five plays, including Salome, Girofle Girofla, which they played this season with marked suc- cess. The comic opera was special favorite in Moscow by reason of its unique staging, it's rythmic action, it's freedom from vulgarity and it's we'll balanced cast.
The Cordova daily times., 1923-04-02
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The Cordova daily times., 1923-04-02

The Al!-Russian Conference of Agri- 2,000,000 land disputes within the last folr months in thirty-seven provinces of Russia
The Cordova daily times., 1923-04-02

The output of books and magazines last year in Russia reached 1,033 titles and averaged 155 pages each. The number of copies printed exceed ed 12,500 900. School books represent about one-third of the titles and sci entific works another third.
The Cordova daily times., 1923-04-02

strator of blows sold it to the Laps for deer. They took 1t home to use in their gardens instead of the mat tOck and shovel.
The Cordova daily times., 1923-04-02

By recent decree the exchange of publications of Russia universities of foreign countries are postage free, and not subject to censorship.
The Cordova daily times., 1923-04-02

Mass production" of motor boat construction has been organized in Petrograd by an American. The build- ing of a single boat is divided into thirty-two operations and the assem- bline plant sets up a boat in two hours. Two hundred boats have been completed and two hundred more are under construction.
The Cordova daily times., 1923-04-02

Petrograd trusts are making a spe- cial variegated cloth for the trade with the East and are developing a special selling market, with branches in Turkestan and Caucasus.
The Cordova daily times., 1923-04-02

The first blow has gone to Lap land. At the Murman Fair a demon
The Cordova daily times., 1923-04-02

Moscow's four legalized gambling houses were designed to finance the children's homes from the losses of bourgeois, but the Government is finding it so difficult to keep the workers out of them that campaign has been started to close them.
The Cordova daily times., 1923-04-02

Sevastopol factories have adopted a method of smelling metals in a Boulin stove without crucible. The stove is named for the inventor, working, man.
The Cordova daily times., 1923-04-02

The Tungenes, members of the aboriginal tribes of Northern Asia, from a remote district of Siberia, after a council, sent 800 gold rubles to the executive committee of the Communist International at Moscow.
The Cordova daily times., 1923-04-02

Peasants of Pensa are hammering not their swords but their church bells into ploughshares. They have decid- ed to sell all the bells for agricultural machinery and to devote the churches to schools.
The Cordova daily times., 1923-04-02

The Hamburg Line will send steam CTS twice a month next season from Antwerp to Riga and Petrograd. A direct Stockholm-Petrog steamer service will be established, also next Spring.
The Cordova daily times., 1923-04-02

The depletion of the forests in the Ukraine is affecting the climate. With the stripping of 275,000 dessyatins Of forest within the last few years one fifth of the wooded surface has been destroyed, reducing the forest area to 8 per cent, while Russia as a whole has 30 per cent area in forest.
The Cordova daily times., 1923-04-02

A new ice-breaker for the Caspian Sea which has been built in Petrograt will be sent down in the Spring through the internal canal system o Russia to the Volga.
The Cordova daily times., 1923-04-02

The Free Labor Church of Russia is proposing to sell all the church valuables, including the bells, for the advancement of agriculture and use the church towers for meteorological stations. It is asking the priests to throw off their medieval garb and "take on human form"
The Cordova daily times., 1923-04-02

At the Lyons Fair the Russian ex- hibits will occupy a large space and will display flax, woods, leather, grain, tobacco, cigarettes, mica, graphite, match timber, veneer, bristles, horse hair, down, feathers, hemp, wool, rugs, medicinal herbs, semi-precious stones, chemical products and Kustarney work
The Cordova daily times., 1923-04-02

When the dispatches carry the news that the Norwegian fish catch is large every student in Russia gives a sigh, for he knows that again there will be herring in the academic ration. The Foreign Trade Commissariat will, in fact, buy this year in Norway and England 5,000,0O0 poods of herring. And this is only one-fifth the yearly pre-war purchase.
The Holly chieftain., 1923-11-08
INjuRE TIRE BY CURB BLOW
Internal Damage Done Does Not A.
ways Show Evidence Of Harm
at That Time.

When q tire suddenly blows out ap
parently for no reason at all. II u
hard for the motorist to realize that
the cause Of the break was a bump
against the curb that the tire sus-
tanned two or three weeks before. Be-
cause the tire showed no external evi.
dences Of damage at 'the time the
bump occurred. the owner Is likely to
blame the tire when the Internal dam.
age done by the blow finally makes IT.
self felt.
A rubber tire will stand great
deal; 1t will deliver thousands Of
miles Of service over rough roads. and
wear amazingly under conditions that
are unfavorable. One thing that is like
ly to cause serious damage Is sud
den, heavy blow. The injuries done
by such blow are to the fabric that
forms the cnrcnss. The blow breaks
some of the threads, and this breaking
gradually spreads until the tire breaks
down.
The Holly chieftain., 1923-11-08

same screw that holds the No. II iror
wire to the bottom Of the base for the
purpose Of supporting the coils. They
should be ciamped with an iron bolt.
The purpose Of this piece Of sheet
metal Is to give an increased magnetic
pull on the steel wire between trans
mitter butron and receiver, helping to
give q stronger pull on the button
and allowing more current to pass
through the primary Of the spark coils
which increase the signal strength
from step to step.
The telephone receiver diaphragms
are marked at their center and q small
hole punched through with phono-
graph needle. The mandolin "E"
string Is passed through and q very
small hook made at the end Of the
wire. which 10 then soldered with as
small an amount Of solder as possible.
At the outer edge Of the diaphragm. q
small wire Is soldered and connected
to the primary Of the spark coils az
shown in wiring diagram.
The receivers are placed behind the
wooden block and wedged there he
The Holly chieftain., 1923-11-08
Sugar Prices Are Cut

New York.-A prlce-cutting move
ment was started by the big sugar re-
finers in an effort to stimulate lag
cling demand by consumers Fine gran
ulated was reduced to $500 by one Of
the leading New York refiners. The
cut was generally followed by others,
although the latter's list prices ranged
from $S.7O to $685.. Prices represent
a cut of about " cent and follow a
similar reduction In the cost of raw
sugar. For some weeks both the raw
and the refined markets have been
very quiet and 1t is agreed that refin-
ers are determined to adjust their
prices to levels that will meet the COM
petition Of western beets, which have
been offered as far East as the Al
bany district.
The Holly chieftain., 1923-11-08
MANY ACCIDENTS
MAY Be AVOIDED
Few Simple "Don'ts" for Pedes-
trians and Drivers to OBJ
serve on City Streets.

(By ERWIN GREER. President Greer
College OF Automotive Engineering.
Chicago.)
Who is to blame for the numerous
accidents reported every day in the
papers, the automobile driver or the
Pedestrian
The correct reply is ''both."
There are many careless drivers
who violate every common-sense rule
and there are thoughtless pedestrians
who blindly walk directly In front Of
machine. trusting In providence to
save them. II the majority Of pedes-
trians were not naturally careful
when crossing a street and the ma
jority of drivers didn't unconsciously
observe safety first rules there would
be hundreds Of more accidents every
day.
have drawn up a few simple
''don'ts'' for pedestrians and drivers
which think would 60 long way to-
ward eliminating scores Of accidents.
They are as follows:
For Pedestrians.
/. Don't step of the curbing to cross
the street without glancing both ways.
2. Don't try to read your newspaper
crossing the street or stop to argue
with friend half way over.
s. Don't walk behind street car.
4. Don't try to run II caught be-
tween two machines. Stand still un.
til the automobiles have passed.
8. Don't try to cross . crowded
street II the police signal IL set for
the opposite direction.
g. Don't cross In the middle of the
block.
Z. On crowded downtown streets
use safety lanes marked on the pave
ment.
For Auto Drivers.
1. Don't turn corner without
sounding your horn. -
2 Don't try to talk to someone in
the back seat when making turn.
8. Don't cut corners.
4. Don't get interested In something
going on half a block behind you when
making a crossing.
8. Don't try to break speed records
going around corner.
6. Don't try to dodge around the left
side Of a street car to get out Of a
blockade.
z. Don't try to cut too close to
women and children, who are liable
to get ratified.
The Holly chieftain., 1923-11-08

tween the block and wood end-piece
shown In Fig. 5.
The other details may be easily un.
derstood from the drawings furnished
and should present no difficulties to
the average electrical experimenter.
Greater amplification may be OBJ
tained by the use Of higher voltage
through the amplifier. but l have OBJ
tained best results with a small re-
sistance In series with the negative
binding post which will prevent the
passage Of too great current. result.
ing In the heating of the transmitter
buttons.
The first step is adjusted until best
signal strength is obtained, then the
second and third. The batteries may
be dry cells. Five cells give good
results. The amount OF voltage for
each step is found by experiment and
adjustable clips are used from the
three binding posts at the end of the
instrument.-Radio News.
The Holly chieftain., 1923-11-08
AUTOMOBILE
MMF1IN>rS@A

Every car owner ought to make a
practice Of testing the wheels for side
play at least three or four times
year.
Wobbly wheels, besides wearing
bearings and otherwise racking the
machine. have an equally destructive
effect on tire treads.
Motorists these days like to boast Of
their ability to get good power and
mileage from present-day fuels by
homemade" mechanical adjustments.
When an old set Of plstons reaches
the stage where replacement Is neces-
sary, It is sometimes possible to avoid
this expense by having the worn set
expanded or swelled.
A simple way Of stopping the leak
age Of water from around the connec-
tions or packing nuts of 4 water pump
ls to apply heavy grease to the pack
ing and threads of connections.
slippery dirt roads have been safe
guarded against by the production Of
a metal mud rim. which Is fastened to
the tire In "A manner somewhat similar
In ti,af uaed with the common chains.
The Holly chieftain., 1923-11-08
How to Get Away From
Reflex Difficulties

The chief difficulties many seem to
have with the reflex circuit are lack
Of selectlvity and trouble In getting
the set to oscillate properly. The
source Of much trouble can generally
be attributed to poorly designed
radio frequency amplifying transform
ers. This type of transformer is an
important component In the success
Of reflex set. Quality and the trade
mark Of a reliable manufacturer should
be the factors which govern the Sc
lection of an amplifying transformer.
II the transformer is of the open
core type. with the center opened, q
small iron or steel rod placed through
the center hole helps to broaden the
wave length range of the transformer
and permits better control of the os-
cillating point. Generally two or three
one-eighth-inch rods about one inch
long are sufficient.
Reversing the primary and second
ary leads of the radio frequency trans
former often improves results. All
wires must be short, especially those
leading from the grids and plates Of
the tubes. II audio transformers are
used In the circuit. connect the cores
to the ground binding post. Low-ratIo
audio transformers, such as or 31s
to l. can generally be depended upon
In reflex hook-up.
II loop antenna is employed ana
too large condenser shunted across
1t or too much wire is used in the loop
the tuning is likely to be broad.