Evening star., 1923-06-26
CAPITAL KEYNOTES
BY PAUL J.. COLLINS

To recapitulate the price trend: Tt
appears that the wholesale dealers,
when confronted by the organized
buyers for the Army of 10000 con-
sumers were able to drop their prices
AZ per cent under the 1920 prices. but
somehow the costs to the masses of
unorganiZed 110,000,000 consumers
have increa sed. The farmers have re-
duced their prices 16.S per cent but
the cost to consumers has not fol-
lowed downward but has remained at
the 1920 peak, If not increased.
The spread between producer and
consumer increases.
Who gets the AZ per cent and the
16.S per cent retained from the
Ito 00n.000? What are you going to
do about it?
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Now that Thomas Edison. ir., son
Of the inventor, has spent four years
taking a course in the Boston Tech,
he finds that he has a lot of things
to learn before he can hold a job in
his fathers laboratory. He confesses
that his training is largely cultural
and theoretical and he is going back
10 50 hool for a year or more OF prac-
tcai' work in geology. biology aud
cnginecring
How he vocational training faddista
VIII ElOat over that situation, They
may ne IpOitn III the ''Ru "llGN young
Edison, with his science. begins to
tie up his knowledge Of principles
with the practical" as q novelist
ties up all thread ends Of his plot
and story when he reaches the de-
npuemeut. Wait fUI@ the young man
who. has sense enough To discover
That he does not know more than his
daddy, just because he has won It
shccpSkin. There are thousands Of
graduates from all kinds Of schools
who have yet to learn that much.
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There are about 4,5000o0 soldiers
VIII" at the close ."f the war were en-
titled 10 be given the victory medal" :"
The distribution was undertaken soon
after the mastering out of the Army.
but 80 slack were the methods OF dis
sributinn that nearly half have never
reached the men who are entitled to
thom. The Army still! holds 2,ll9.UrV
II the medals. waiting Tor claimants
who VIII probably never know that
there is such 4 medal
Each medal has also bars, naming
II" major cuggGrInruts in which the
particular soldier took part. In the
Cpurs" of years these medals ami bar
"Il L"Coin" very precious souvenirs,
especially 10 the veterans Cor their
FciHtlVoED whose service was at the
'front.' Doubtless, any veteran can re
cover his medal by writing to the
War Department directly or thToug h
the American Leg Eion.
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= witness tgstilcs Ia the trial OF Ger
tain sh!pbuiid"rS thIt Of the $2.909 coo
Of gross receipts resulting from the
operation Of the ships. the fleet cor
poration received $l9.G7 The rest re
mainea with the operators
The $19.67 appears just like rhc
mId-aeaspa bargains On millinery
marked down from $40 tcr q hat with
4 <ca%hcr. If the fleet corporation
and thrifty wives and daughters keep
their eyes open for bargains like
that, we shall some day U3g out Of
this "demnit!uH grind Of financial
straits.
The United States foreign mail
service is said to be Suspended until
the beginning Of the new fiscal year.
July /. because the appropriation for
the present year is exhausted Yet all
the mail awaiting transportation
abroad has its fun postage prepaid
~ the sonders. How comes ii thaL
The Posi- once Department collects
itli pay III ADVANCE ana thGn fdi!$ to
perform the service paid for? When
a bank continues to receive deposits.
while susptndin= payments, what
H&pp~E": Is Uncle sam making q
COLLECTION or June postage stamps?
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Alleged ''proEresaiye" farmers pro-
pose Jlat the government undertake e
10 purchase At 4 certain guaranteed
price ali the leftover wheat and other
grains Fine, Now let Uncle sam
agree 10 publish and pay for all copy
that newspaper men and magazine
writers find coming back with rejec-
ton Slips from unapprectative and
cruel editors. That viii Iiveu up the
ConGrc cssiunaI Record, and make life
one sweet song fer writers. There is
z IarIuer-iaDor party; lets start Il
FARMER Ia hor-SCTibb!er party and turn.
the EaSCals out. When wheat is
guaranteed Il market at So bushel.
should not brain harvest find A
ready sale at a dollar a word?
lCcrysirbt. 1923. by = V Collins