Evening star., 1923-06-05
BUSINESS CHIEFS
NOTE PROSPERITY
Leaders Expect Good Times
to Continue-Ice Cream
Prices Raised.
BY j. c. RoYLE.
tn The Star.

Srecial Dispatch TO The Star.
NEW YORK, June 5.-Business men,
bankers. manufacturers and financiers
of the middle west are apparently
unit in predicting continued prosperity
for this country. The check which was
felt in many lines in the last month";
they said today. had been a beneft
rather than a detriment in that It had
stopped a tendency toward imitation ana
the big head attitude with which busi-
mess was threatened.
America is far behind in normal con-
str1Iction of buildings notwithstanding
the record breaking pace or the las.
twelve months" Edward F. Arras OF
cleveland. president of the International
kiwanis Clubs. said today. New build-
ing in every section probably has drawn
unsettled labor from less remuneratiVe
Industries. but il has more than com
pensated for this by starting general
wave of prosperity over the land wnich
will continue a long time unless II Is
abused"
Prosperity General.
"The country appears TO be ENJOY
ing healthy. happy perloo OF pros
nerity," said Lynch Davidson OF Hous-
ton. Texas, lieutenant governor OF
that state apparently we were
travelling a little too fast Garner IN
the wear. but the tendency toward q
inflafion seems to have been checked
7 know that to be true in the build
ing line There has been slowing
up which to my mind has been
healthful l think that we have no"
hit the proper stride"
THE east has been swept by wave
Of prosperity for many months. Salo
\. y. Dalton of Kansas City, head OF
the chamber of commerce OF that
city and vice president of the Pee'
Brothers Manufacturing Company
..Now the great middle west trade
territory finds that prosperity has
advanced across the mississippi
river.
Middle western merchants are en-.
loving an unprecedented volume OF
trade" said Sigismund Harzfeld
operating one of the big department
stores of the Missouri territory
, "Buying, which usually is quite lisn'
at this season of the year, is stano-
ing up in a manner 10 make mer
chants marvel
Live stock Men Happy.
THE sun is breaking through tne
clouds for the live stock man. DE.
clared E. B. Spiller. secretary anc
manager of the Texas and south
western Cattle Raisers' Assocla tlon
in commenting on the general ousi'
Herds are being rebuilt rapidly
Prices are getting right: Pasturast
is ample and water is plentiful. Fol
the first time since 1919 conditions
for the cowman and sheepmah ars
promising. ,,..hr1h
stated that he could see no reason
why the country should not contlnu' W
to handle large volume or ousinesS ,.sss
production is large, he saio' pu
so is consumption. Labor Is iuiIs
employed and there is no evioenc'
of money stringency. Present con
ditions warrant confidence Ill the IL
ture' -,
Youngstown Sheet and Tube Com
many, declared that orders on tMht M
books of that concern now We're rn' ,'
hest in the history of the company
All nlants of the Otis Steel Company
I'm the midwest are operating AZ ca
pacitv, according to President bartoi
Ice cream Prices Raised.
High wages. which are drawing
labor awav from the farms. are
blamed for the advance in Ice credn
urices. which went into erect In fnll'
adelphia and other cities today
THE reason for the 4-cent-a, quar-
rise in our price to dealers Salo
G. r. Lindbach of the Abbott Alder
nev Company of Philadelphia Is tne
increase in the price OF commooltles
The cost of fruit has gone UP, susal
is high the vanilla bean is expehsr.,ss sly
and there is a shortage OF MIX. ins
A latter is due to the fact that mgr
wages in the factories are drawing
labor away from the farms.