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Evening star., 1923-12-15
IMPORTS OF BUTTER
HEAVY DURING WEEK
Gradual Price Declines Noted in
New York and Phil
adelphia.
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press
CHICAGO. December IA light
demand and increasing production
were responsible for the unsettled
and easy condition OF the butter mar
ket during the week. Prices of top
scores at Boston and Chicago re-
mained unchanged and the declines
in New York and Philadelphia were
gradual.
The increase in the make was re-
ported to be small and receipts at the
four principal markets were larger.
although some storage butter may
have been responsible for the latter
increase.
Trading stocks during the week
were larger than the previous period
Dealers were unwilling TO carry over
surplus supplies in spite of improve
ment in the demand due to the holi-
days. Foreign butter was partly re-
Sponsible for the large stocks of me-
dunn grades. Arrivals at New York
included 1.252 casks Danish. S.24S
boxes Argentine, 500 boxes Irish and
11S,140 pounds Canadian. Chicago
reported no Canadian arrivals.
Range and closing wholesale prices
80 score butter at the four principal
markets follow: Chicago, unchanged
at SO: New York, I less "A t "a: Boston,
unchanged at SO; Philadelphia. less
at "a Z.
Evening star., 1923-12-15
CORN PULLS DOWN
PRICES Of GRAIN
Larger Supplies Expected in
Market-Export Gossip
Helps Wheat Trade.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, December Is: = Ideal
weather for conditioning the new
corn crop has done much this week
to pull down the price of all grain
and Of provisions as well. Compared
with a week ago, corn this morning
was 1ss to 3B lower, wheat at Il and
u to is off. oats at Is and z to rs
down and provisions showing 2 to %
decline.
Corn Prices Tumble.
Predictions that receipts of corn
soon would be much enlarged were
current, and were accompanied by
persistent selling that became notably
aggressive as the week drew to an
end. Opinion, however. that the
movement of the new corn crop was
likely to be augmented to any re-
. markable extent was by no means
unanimous, and receivers were quoted
as leaning to the view that arrivals
of corn here the remainder of Decem-
ber would be comparatively light. 1t
was also asserted that only about
ten more weeks this season are left
in which an accumulation OF stocks
of corn may be looked for and that an
unprecedented amount of new corn
has been fed to live stock owing to
abnormal lack of supplies of old corn.
Wheat Firmcr Than Corn.
Relative firmness of wheat as com
pered with corn was due largely to
assumption on the part of many
traders that plans would be evolved
to finance exports of foodstuffs to
Germany. In this connection. the an
nouncement that the United States
would share unofficially in a parley
for settlement of German reparations
was especially effective. Meanwhile,
deliveries Of wheat here on December
contracts were much smaller than had
generally been expected. On the
other hand, bears made capital of
reports pointing to steady inflow of
Canadian wheat by rail into the
United States. duty paid.
Some falling off in shipping demand
for provisions was noted, but receipts
of hogs here were lessened toward
the end of the week.
Evening star., 1923-12-15
TRADE HELD BACK.
Duii's Review Finds Warm Wealth
er Retarding Factor.

NEW YORK. December 15.-Dun' $
Review today says:
..It is not the season now for ln-
creased operations in other than re-
tail channels. nor for definite indica- :
tions of the probable future trend Of
hnsiness generally. Activities have
conferred on meeting holiday demands
which reflect the large public buying
mower. and some calls for quick snip
ments of Christmas goods have come
to wholesale markets. Yet distribu-
tion of heavyweight apparel mas
been checked in many places by ab-
sence of low temperature. with lack
of normal snowfall. and more is heard
of denominations of such merchan-
disc.
THE moderate weather. however,
has made possible a continuation OF
outdoor work for a longer time than
usual. giving employment to labor
which might otherwise be idle, and
the November building statistics show
that much additional construction has
been planned This is one of the
strong points of the general situation
but elsewhere in the industrial field a
slowing down process is visible"
Evening star., 1923-12-15
Aduances u, Stock Market
Indicate Good Trade IN 1924
Congress Causes Railroad Shares to
Lag-Foreign Trade improves.
Gold Situation PuzsIing.

the high cotton prices were mainly
responsible for swelling the export
total. But the significant fact re-
mains that exports last month were
the largest since February. 1921, when
american industry, both at home and
abroad, was in the midst of it's post
war defiation. A new high point has,
therefore, been made In the recovery
In our foreign commerce. which set In
two years ago. The fetch about the
breakdown Of Europe's buying pow
err and how it was going to react
upon our outward trade has been
pretty completely discredited.
Balance Fayors U. s.
The balance in favor of the United
states for the eleven months ending
November 80 was $241000,O00. The
department of Commerce heads have
been quoted as saying that this would
nave been wiped out, and much more,
too, by the invisible" debts, had il
not been for very heavy buying of
American securities for foreign ac-
count. No figures. however, have been
given to support this statement. TAX
ing In the annual payments on the
British war debt, 1t is question
whether what we have to pay in in
terest and dividends abroad is not
more than offset by what foreign ma
tions have to pay us.
On the other hand, 1t Is fact that
bOtH american lOuTlStS expenditures
and remittances to the other side by
the foreign born and foreign relat ed
population here make up an annual
debit item immensely larger than be-
fore the war. 1t is this, plus wha I
is owed to the foreign carrying trade,
upon which the department relies to
support its contention.
Gold Export Prophets COMPOUNDED.
Predictions of year ago that we
would soon be large exporters of
gold have not come true. On the
| contrary, in the eleven months ended
November s263, 100000 net gold was
sent into this country. The reason
for this upset, so 1t is claimed, is to
be found in the desire of European
capital to transfer on a large scale
into dollar securities. Nevertheless.
the "gold-export" prophets of last
winter and spring were carried away
by the notion that having no more
gold to send, Europe would pay its
debts to us in goods. They gave
this as the explanation for the ex-
cess merchandise exports which ran
from February through May. when as
a matter of fact 1t was wholly due
to the abnormally large purchases
OF foreign raw materials incident to
our short-liYed trade boom.
Copyright 1921
Evening star., 1923-12-15
BY STUART p. WEST.

Special Dispatch TO The Star.
NEW YORK, December 1.-THE
rising market in the industrial shares
one Interpretation. 1t has amounted
to an expression of confidence in
business conditions as they are and
declaration of belief that these con-
ditions are going to continue well
into the new year.
Railway shares have not partici-
pated In the advance, because of the
uncertainty of the legislative outlook
at Washington. Wall street feels
quite sure that if the radical and op-
position elements, acting in concert,
were to get bill unfayorable to the
railroads through Congress it would
be vetoed by the President. Other
wise, the reasoning is, he would be
acting inconsistently with the stand
taken against confiscatory measures
in the annual message.
Therefore no serious uneasiness is
felt over the anti-railroad agitation
accomplishing anything at the pres
ent session. But the investment COM
munity and the speculative body as
we'll are of the opinion that the po-
litical situation must clear before 1t
would be wise to go more into Sc
curities subject so largely to public
control.
Business Developments Favorable,
Practically everything developing
in business conditions themselves has
been favorable. For the first time
since last February crude oil quota
tions have begun to move upward.
The advance has fitted in with the
latest statistics, indicating that pro-
duction and consumption have come
much nearer together than would
have been thought possible two
months ago. Official estimates on
cotton consumption have borne wit
ness in remarkable fashion to the
fact that the great rise in the staple
has not yet discouraged buying for
the cotton goods trade. They have
made it more certain that specializing
has been a minor factor in the ad-
vance. but that this has accurately
reflected the relations between de-
mand and supply.
Sugar Outlook Good.
The outlook for profitable prices in
the sugar trade next year has been
improved by the downward revision
OF estimates on the I3zf world crop
November shipments of copper metal
surpassed all records. The steel re-
views reported that purchasing had
already begun for the first quarter
and the feeling became stronger that
with the passing of the inventory pc
riod over the year end this forward
buying will pick up considerably. As
q movement measuring these reassur-
ing data the rise on the stock eX-
change does not Yet appear to have
been excessive, even although it has
done some pretty generous discount
ing.
Foreign Trade Encouraging.
The November figures on the for
eign trade were another interesting
contribution of the week No doubt
Evening star., 1923-12-15

Copyright. 1921
Evening star., 1923-12-15
NEW YORK CURB MARKET
Received by Private Wire Direct to The Star Office

overnight selling orders. But these
were easily absorbed before the end
of the first hour and the advance was
resumed.
Standard of Indiana crossed Fri
days high to 61k. a new top for the
present move, and the Kentucky
shares were at their best around 106.
up over points on the week. Salt
Creek Producers, Southern States and
Cities Service were leaders of the in
dependents, all at their tops for the
week.
Cuba Company lost part of the i'm
provement made early in the week.
The rise in Mesabi Iron kept on mod
erately, the stock reaching new
high on the move at 71a.
Mining shares closed the week
quiet. The only incident of note was
new high record in st. Croix above
the dollar mark.
Evening star., 1923-12-15
BY WILLIAM +. HEFFERNAN,
Received by Pri'

NEW YORK, December 15.-Aside
from some further advance in oil
stocks. little happened in today's two
hour session on the curb exchange.
Sentiment remained the same as it
has been all during the past week,
and while no attempt was made at
higher prices in other directions, the
disposition was to carry commitments
over the week end rather than to
take profits.
The result was a falling off in the
volume of business, and only slight
changes in miscellaneous and indus
trial shares. Oils started in some
what lower under an accumulation of
Evening star., 1923-12-15
RUSH BEET SUGAR
TODEALERS IN EAST
Western Producers viii Pre-
vent Shortage Before Cuban
Shipments Arrive.
BY j. c. ROYLE.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK. December 15.-The
Cuban sugar mills, or centrals as they
are called, have begun grinding the
1928 cane crop of the island. Nearly
fifteen mills now are in operation,
but 1t will be almost a month before
the sugar SO produced can be de-
nvered in this market The supply
of beet sugar produced in this coun-
try is counted on by dealers to pre-
vent any shortage and consequent
extreme advance in prices Of refined
sugar until the Cuban shipments be-
come available.
Each day the western beet sugar
producers are wedging their products
closer into markets around New
York. New Brunswick and Elizabeth,
y j., we'll within the metropolitan
area. are the latest centers to be in
Vaded.
Big Season I'm Michigan.
Beet sugar. factories in Michigan
have practically completed slicing
for the season, as exceptionally open
weather and prompt freight car sup
ply landed the beet crop at the Mich
igan factories almost thirty days
ahead of the usual time. The year
for Michigan growers and manufac-
history of the industry. Production
Of the six leading companies will
aggregate $4,000. 900 pounds, COM
pared with 155,000.000 pounds last
year.
The profit to growers and manufac-
turerS was augmented by the better
ment in the sugar content of the beet
crop, which increased from 13 to 10
per cent. This increase meant forty
pounds more sugar per ton of Seets
sliced than was obtained last year, or
an addition of about S320 a ton to be
divided by producer and manufac-
turer.
Colorado Crop Plans.
The Colorado production this year
will approximate 500 100000 pounds of
sugar and it is estimated as the sea-
will be paid $19,00O.000 in round fig
ures for their 1923 crops. Prospects
for record-breaking crop in 1924
are frightened by the outlook for a
large supply of water for irrigation.
Reservoirs started the winter will
filled and mountain watersheds are
covered with snow to a great depth
already. In addition, farm soils are
In good condition because of the un-
usual rainfall during the fall. Two
thousand acres of prospective new
sugar beet land will be opened by the
proposed branch of the Union Pacific
railroad running north from Fort Col
Inns.
Hawaiian Sugar Arrives.
The first consignment of this sea-
sons Hawaiian sugar arrived in San
Francisco this week. consisting of
30.19S bags of raw sugar. The latest
estimates of the Hawaiian crop is
1906. 100000 pounds or about 100, ,0Q0,-
600 pounds more than last year.
Evening star., 1923-12-15

ST. LOUIS, December 15.-In the
last ten months 472,203 privately owned
automobiles and motor trucks have been
registered in this city.
Evening star., 1923-12-15
Colorado Crop Plans.
Hawaiian Sugar Arrives.

The first consignment of this sea
sons Hawaiian sugar arrived in San
Francisco this week. consisting of
30.19S bags of raw sugar. The latest
estimates of the Hawaiian crop is
l ,206. 900, 900 pounds or about 160, ,000,-
600 pounds more than last year
Evening star., 1923-12-15
Washinuton Stock Exchange.

SALES.
Washington Gas 5s-s1 900 at "a. mn
cbasapeake and Potomac Tel. 5s-sl'ooo al
35la ,., ,fd5 at 111h
AFTER CALL.
Washington Gas is '33-S2,0oo at looA'
slu otronni;tan a. r., r. u925) 5s-s1 600 at 991s.
Capital Traction $500 at BAY.
wardman PARK Hotel 6s-S2o0 at sst2-
Evening star., 1923-12-15

NEW YORK, December l5.-Follow-
ing is an official list of bonds and stocks
traded in on the New York Curb Mar
ket today:
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-08-02
TRUST YOUR BANKER

TRUST YOUR BANKER-If there ever was a
time IN the history Of business when people, who
have little money to invest should refuse to list
en- to the siren song OF very large number of
agents securing the country to sell stocks and Sc
curltles OF one kind or another, it is right now.
Millions of hard earned dollars have been Dour-
ed into these rat holes simply because the agents
nave held out inducements in the way of interest
above that which home institutions can pay.
Buying foreign and unknown stocks ALWAYS
puts us IN mind of the man who patronizes the
Sears and Roebucks of the country These same
out-of-town purchasers when hard times come
Hlong and they need credit, must then apply to the
rome merchant, whom they have ignored, for helm
: ust SO with good many investors who buv stocks
they know nothing of and when loss comes at it's
dong with alarming frequency these DAYS. then
they must sneak around to the home banker for
greatly needed help
The home banker, who IS generally honest and
Conservative and who you have known all YOUR life
" not advise you to go on Wall Street neither
VIII ne try to steal your money but he can and
VIII tell you OF good bonds to buy and good invest
nents to make. He knows because he is in the
money business. When you want horse shod
on don't take him to a plumber, you take him ia
ne blacksmith shop because the man there is il,
he business. And it's the~same with money. oo
10 some man who knows, in whom YOU have con
dence and IN all money transactions he OUGHT f.
Jc your home banker
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-08-02

A SQUARE DEAL-How would you feel if
some day, the firm the individual that gives
you employment, told you that you were not need
cd any longer, and that another man presumably
just good as you could be engaged from either
Macon Atlanta at few dollars less per year
v hat would you say?
The same principle applies to Buying at Home
Everytime you send money out-of-town, and fail
20 give the local merchant an opportunity OF at
least showing what he has to sell, you are doing
exactly the same thing in different way. Put
yourself in the merchants place, and you will
know exactly how it feels.
Remember that you earning your liveli-
hood in Fitzgerald and that the merchants are en-
titled to the same consideration from you, as you
expect from your employer
The next time you feel the inclination to send
money out of town. just give the local merchant
thought See which merchants are advertising in
The Leader and tell them what you want
Advertisers in the Leader want your patronage
ard invite you to their place of business 1t is thru
this business spirit OF valued advertisers that
1t has been found possible to publish weekly for
your benefit, live, newsy paper, which we have
every reason to believe is appreciated by large
percentage of the population.
Buying at Home also means that the industrial
economical problem which we must all face-there
IS another aspect to the question, the aspect we
pointed out for your consideration in the opening
paragraph of this article
Buying -at-Home also means hat the industrial
firms of the city should make it point of buying
all they can conveniently and economically pro-
cure in the city Several of them do, and their ac-
ton is highly to be commended but are there not
several firms which possibly overlook this import
ant phase of local economies, Buying at Home
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-08-02
LAW OR PRECEDENT?

1t is a positive relief to see in the
state papers the attitude taken by edu-
Gators and others toward the better TN
Outstanding of the law of the land as
embraced in the U. S. constitution
To the casual observer it Ia ~noear-
e6 that good old and sac~c, d Gu
ment as the safeguard and guafantor
of our rights as American citizens. For
SO long a time we seem to have been
living under the rule of precedent on
ly, a complication of contradictory
rulings increasing by the many thous-
ands pages each year until it is d
wonder that the courts and lawyers
ever evolve a decision on the merits
of a case, in fact it is al matter of
doubt that they do so at any time
Back to the bed rock of inalienable
rights tested by the golden rule and
the merits of the individual cases and
Justice might be relieved of her blind
fold and every man have a square deal.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-08-02

,EDDETTES
ON
n THINGS
ALMOST FORGOTTEN
w - By M:
= Issv4sAA-0ASSs

Large picturer carried By the SUI,
day Atlanta Journal OF handsome
drinking fountains erected by w. C..
T. y. organizations recently at Way
cross and at Cairo recalls the indif-
ference and neglect of tie memorial
drinking fountain that our local w. c.
T. U. erected on our Main and Cen
trail street park thirteen years ago.
This was considered fitting monu-
ment to the memory of our leading
woman citizen and ardent temperance
worker of the early days. Mrs. Nettie
c. Hall, who because of her continued
publicity work in connection with the
Enterprise of which she was at one
time owner and with this and other
papers in an editorial way gave her
the fonder appelation of Mother En-
terprise" which is engraved upon the
fountain. Some defect in plumbing ar
rangement in the beginning SO that
overflow was not adequately provided
for, caused the fountain to be shut
off for such long time as to fall into
disrepute as a convenience. Since
that time sanitary drinking arrange
ments have been installed elsewhere
making our fountain to appear the
more old fashioned and useless. No
doubt campaign to improve ant'
modernize its service could be effected
if the present w. c. T. U. would car
ry it on.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-08-02

Vast System of National
or Interstate HIGHWAYS

There was day. not very far back,
when vision in road building was
about as broad as a mans farm or a
community's interest. Pork barrel
methods and political pull, not yet a
memory. were big part Of the ac-
cepted order. Then it became possible
to see to the county limits and still
later It gradually was revealed that
roads leading from one county to
another might be convenience to a
reasonable number of travellers. Thus
emerged the idea of state systems.
1t has remained for recent months
however, to bring into potential exist
ence vast system of national or in
terstate roads that in few years may
reasonably be expected to lie, like
long ribbons of white, across every
section of the country and link up the
states. the cities and counties even
more closely than they were joined in
the construction of railway lines The
idea isn't dream, but a thing of ma,
tional statute. provided for in the fed.
er2i highway act of last November and
now rapidly assuming form through
cooperation of the state highway
departments with the United States
bureau of public roads.
The system will comprise more than
$4,000 miles, Z per cent of the entire
public road mileage Of the United
States. OF this amount three-seventha
will be composed of interstate roads.
the remainder to make up connecting
state systems. There is state and fed
eral money enough in hand or in sight
to start the actual work, and nearly
all the states now have submitted to
the national bureau plans for the Sec
tons of road that will go into the in
terstate system. And the bureau is
seeing to it that the sections meet at
the state lines. No federal aid will be
allowed on any highway which does
not fit into the general scheme of a
national or state system.
This is vision in road building
bounded only by the limits of the coun-
try itself. 1t will mean results in the
shape of roads that link up and lead
somewhere and bring service to all
rather than a favored few.-Kansas
City Times.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-08-02
ECLIPSES IMPORTANT

The scientific world has ban more
interested it seems in last year and
this over possible developments to be
discovered in eclipses of ,un IAN in
many years preceding in which it had
been assumed that all that was to be
learned was already known. Einstein
and his theory of rela|vity which on
ly the learned can understand has SER
we'd to upset previously conceived ileas
to the extent of arousing the gravest
concern over possible confirmation or
disprof of these theories and which it
is hoped clear picture of the sun in
eclipse will reveal Last wear the oh
jective point was in or. near Australia
in September and clouds INSTRUCTED
the view. This year also in Septem-
Der the observation will be made from
points in Mexico.