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Evening star., 1923-08-11
Provisions reflected .steadiness of
CHICAGO LIVE STOCK.

CHICAGO, August IL Omitted States
Department of Agriculture).-Hog
Receipts, 1000 head; steady, with
Fridays averages; steady to 10 lower
than Thursdays averages: bulk, good
7.s0a7.95; top, 500; bulk. desirable,
$50 to 325 pound butchers, T.45a7.75:
bulk, packing sows, 5.S5a6.15; strong
weight pigs, 6.75a7.00; estimated hold
over. 5000. heavyweight hogs. 7.00a
$50; medium, 7.10aS.00; light, 6.85a
500: light light, 6.65a7.70; packing
sows. smooth, 5.S0a625: packing sows.
rough, 5.50a5.S0; killing pigs, 6.25a
100.
Cattle-Receipts, 1000 head Com
pared with week ago, better grade
beef steers, yearlings and fat she
stock 25 to so higher; others slow,
uneven; top, matured steers. 12.45;
best long yearlings, 1910; yearlings,
1900; Gamers and cutters, 25 lower;
bulls steady; vealers % higher: de-
sirable stockers and feeders around
SO higher; others slow. about steady:
bulk prices follow: Beef steers. s25a
Ills; she stock. 4.80as.75; stockers
and feeders, 5.35a6.75; Gamers and
cutters, 250a3.30; vealers, 11.50a12. so.
Sheep-Receipts. 1000 head. To-
days trade nominal; receipts mostly
direct for week; western run 179
doubles; compared week ago, fat and
feeding lambs 20, to 35 higher: cuns
generally 50 higher ysariinss and
western lambs, 12.50a12.65; bulk ma
tives, 11.75a12.0Q; culls. s.75a9.50:
aged wethers, 700aS.75; bulk light
weight ewes, 6.75a7.50: extreme top,
7.75; medium and handy weight, 5.50a
$50: heavies, 4.00a4.25; feeding lambs,
1.75a12.65.
Evening star., 1923-08-11
MANNERS MAKETH MAN.
Incident in Which an Auto Casual
ty Revealed Character of Driver.
From the Lewiston Journal

From the Lewiston Journal.
A successful Maine business man
was sitting on his porch few Sun
days ago talking with a visitor. An
automobile in which a party of
young friends rode, passed the house
and then swung into the side of the
highway. The young man who was
driving got out and looked at the
tire of the front wheel. 1t was fiat
He walked to the rear of the car,
looked at the spare tire and then
said something to one of the other
young men who had gotten out. The
into the car. 1t was turned around
and driven down the street. The
business man watched the operation
but said nothing.
Half an. hour later the party came
back along the road and proceeded
out of sight.
II suppose you noticed that" said
the business man to his guest.
II don't know as l understand,
replied the other.
THAT car which just passed had
fiat tire the first time they came by
here. They turned around and went
back and now they have passed
again"
not notice that 1t was the same, was
the reply.
1T was" said the business man. Il
had particular reason for noticing
1t. as the young man driving 1t has
been seeking a place with me. L mad
about made up my mind to give him
the chance. but / wouldn't take him
on after watching this incident
His friend expressed surprise and
the business man went on to explain.
He called attention to the type of
car the party was using and said that
the work of changing the tire would
not have required more than twenty
minutes while 1t ought to be done in
considerably less time. The car
should have all the necessary equip
ment for making the change. II 1t
didn't. the young man showed care
lessness in not having his tools in
place when he started on the trip
.It is true" said the business man.
that he might have soiled his hands.
might have gotten bit of dirt on
his trousers. but the one could have
been washed and the other brushed
BY making the change himself, he
would not have lost the time neces-
sary TO go back to garage to have
II done and would have saved that
expense, but he wouldn't take the
chance Of the little dirt. 1t Is un-
fortunate for him that this took
place in front OF my house for II
cost him the place with our firm:
don't want that sort of youngsters
working for u.s."
Evening star., 1923-08-11
CHERRY TIME IN MISSOURI
STIRS THE IMAGINATION
Tantalizing 0dor of Pie in the
Oven Vies With Glory of the
Cordial in Favor.

Cherry-ripe time in Missouri. Trees
dripping their red fruit over fence
corners along highways or nodding
from garden spots or orchards. From
the tantalizing odor of cherries cook
ing. A CHEEKY pie in every oven.
That Is central Missouri these days,
as a stan correspondent for the Kan
sas City Star found 1t. The cherry
crop Is larger than for several years.
prevent housewives from serving
cherry pie twice 1. day. While many
cherries are going into jars and cans
without sugar, with hopes that sugar
will be cheaper in the fall, there
always is some way to get enough
"sweetening' for a pie.
Drop into many of the Howard and
Charlton county kitchens these days
and you will find women experiment.
ing with mock" cherry bounce.
kick" is missing. but the drinks are
deliciously refreshing. In one kitchen
a housewife pours out sparkling
golden-red drink. adding a sprfg of
mint from her garden. bit of lemon
and a handful of crushed Ice. =.
You may find that a little tar"
she apologies. because l cut down
on the sugar. That's just plain cor
dial. and it's dead easy to make. l
take the ripest, reddest cherries l can
them get piping hot, almost boiling.
and strain through jelly bag. Then.
IL there's plenty of sugar. ! make u
half and half and seal it In glass or
stone jars while hot.
MY man says my cordial is all
right, and he doesn't complain as
some do about missing the kick |
tell him don't believe in folks sneak
ing in alcohol or toddy and doctor
ing things up these days just to
tickle the palate"
Evening star., 1923-08-11
The Residential Town.
From the Salem News.


The great trouble with American
life today is the tendency to see
everything from a money point of
view. People are forever asking with
regard to every choice in life, "will
it pay?" They judge education and
occupation and marriage and all other
relations by the money point of view
But there is side of life still that is
to some extent and in some minds
free from this sordid standard There
is a group of things to which we give
the name of home. There are values
in ones home that cannot be meas
ured by the mere coarse yardstick of
money. So people will often sacrifice
money rewards in order to retain the
home associations that they prize.
The question of developing what Is
called good residential town de-
pends in large measure on the ac-
quirement of this point of view. You
can't have good home town If you
ask in regard to everything you do, if
it will pay in terms of money.
If the object for improving a home
or street or neighborhood is
purely to make money. lot of folks
will never cooperate in such efforts.
If the only motive for planting fine
trees and shrubbery is that they
make a residence sell for more, lot
probability such efforts to beautify a
place do pay in cash, but that motive
alone is not sufficient.
To secure these fine qualities that
constitute a high-grade home town,
something besides money ambition
has to be devoted to this purpose.
People must feel a love for their COM
munity, an attachment to that spot
that they call home. There; must be
kind Of affection for the scene, a
desire to nurse it and make 1t as
lovable and romantic and beautiful as
possible.
Somehow civic beauty seems to have
it's effect on the character of the peo-
pie Of a town. "If you have a dull
and drab looking town, you will draw
dull and drab people" said a lecturer
on civic topics.
Evening star., 1923-08-11
LIGHT TRADING BLOCKS
BUTTER DROP PAST WEEK

CHICAGO. August l1.-Light pro-
duction and trading prevented de
clines except on some scores in small
dealings as the week closed in the
butter market. according TO the week
ly review of the federal bureau OF
AGRICULTURAL economics made public
today. The governments preliminary
report last Monday showing storage
holdings shortage 2,1S3,000 pounds.
while various estimates previously
had placed the shortage at from g.
600. 900 to 100000 pounds. checked
the market activities and eliminated
speculative buying. Moderate avail
able trading supplies, light production
and the fact that fancy butter was
generally short of buyers needs pre-
vented sharp declines in price, while
prices on 90 score butter closed Thurs
day unchanged since Tuesday at -,
43ia and 44la at Chicago. New York.
Boston and Philadelphia respectivel!
Evening star., 1923-08-11
N. Y. BANK STATEMENT.

NEW YORK, August 1.-THE ac-
tual condition of clearing mouse
banks and trust companies Tor the
reserve of s2e,621.06o. This is an in
week Give days) shows an excess IN
crease of $4.396.690.
The statement follows:
Loans, discounts. etc, S4,497,021.o0o
decrease, $45.594, 900.
Cash in own vaults. members fed
eral reserve bank, s4s,soa,oco; in
crease, s2.805 600.
Reserve in federal reserve bank Of
member banks, s4S7,63S,o00; decrsase,
$3.872.000.
Reserve in own vaults. state banks
and trust companies, 1,656.o0o; de-
crease. s1s9.00O
Reserve in repositories. state banks
and trust companies, ss,450.000; de-
crease. $4,000.
Net demand deposits. ss.6o4, ,Sss,ooo;
deposits deducted, s3o.243.ooo.
Time :. DEPOSITS, eEs sits s45s.7ss.oOo; de
Circulation, $32.s47.ooo: increase,
$4,000.
Aggregate reserve. s5o4744.ooo.
Excess reserve, s20,621, o60; increase.
s4.296.690.
Summary OF state banks and trust
companies in greater New York, not
included in clearing house statement
Loans. discounts. etc, s7S0.45260o;
decrease, s9.647.900.
Gold, s3.336,300: increase. $4,000.
Currency and banknotes, s19,44o.
700: increase, SS61,S00.
Deposits with Federal Reserve
Bank of New York, $4,000, 900; de-
crease, $5.519.000.
Total deposits. s79s,o11, 500; de-
crease. S19.S35.000
Eliminating amounts due from re-
serve depositaries and other banks
and trust companies in New York and
United States:
Deposits, s751,471.ooo; decrease.
s20.137.300.
Trust companies-Cash in vault,
S58,45S,200.
Evening star., 1923-08-11
FIND BONE HARPOONS
10000 YEARS OLD
From the Kansas City Star.


A point of extreme Importance for
the history of prehistoric man in the
British Isles has just been settled
by the publication of two reports in
the anthropological periodical, Man,
vindicating the authenticity of two
bone harpoons found beneath the
peat in Holderness, Yorkshire.
The two harpoons are one four and
a half inches and the other ten inches
long. Their interest is great. as
from certain peculiarities they are
now shown to be the work of Magle-
NOSE, a place in Denmark. where
many extraordinary relics of very
early man were discovered. The age
Of Maglemose man may be anything
from 10000 to even 10000 BIC, when
the North sea was dry. when land
and Scotland and when the Dogger
Bank was covered with forests.
In September. when paper was
read by Leslie Armstrong of Shelf
field. at the Hull meeting of the
British Association on the Holderness
finds, the genuineness of these har-
poons was challenged by Mr. Shepard,
the curator of the Hull Museum. who
declared them to be forgeries not
thirty years old
by two expert committees, whose re-
ports have now appeared. They were
compared with four harpoons from
Kunda, Estonia. which are unques-
tionably of Maglemose date. and were
proved identical with them in type,
color and chemical condition of the
bone. The lines Of cutting were also
identical.
The two harpoons are declared gen.
uine and Prof. Sir w. Boyd Dawkins.
one of the greatest living authorities
on anthropology, writes:
"I have no hesitation in saving that
the charge that they are forgeries
Is absolutely without foundation"
Further confirmation of his view is
afforded by the discovery of a similar
harpoon under the peat at Bethune,
in France. g.
Evening star., 1923-08-11
Hadn't Seen Quite All.

From the Boston Globe.
The late John Wanamaker was
deeply interested in salesmanship,
He said one day at luncheon:
'Tn the London department stores
the statesmen and saleswomen have
patient courtesy that is wonderful to
see Our own statesmen are more eff
cient, but they haven't got the pa
thence of the English.
IT know good enough young
salesman who sells mems underwear.
A middle-aged woman came to his
counter one morning to look at un-
derwear for her husband. She was
very fussy. She kept the poor young
fellow showing her underwear for
two hours. Finally, when they both
were exhausted, she got up from her
stool and said discontentedly:
$50 I've seen all the underwear
you have, eh?'
Eyes, ma am, said the young man.
'all except what I've got on.
Evening star., 1923-08-11
BULL FIGHTING WANING.
Reason Given Declared Food for
Thought by Prize Fighters.

From the San Francisco Chronicle
Bull fighting is on the wane in Spain
and the reasons given are such that
they fall in very pat with any discus
sion of prize fighting in the United
States.
A magazine of Madrid Blanco V
Negro. quoted by the Literary Digest,
says:
I'm 1915 there were 6s5 first-ciass
fights during the season: three years
later the number had fallen TO 421;
last year 1t was only 257. and the
time is fast approaching when bull
fighting will be only memory"
Now for the reason given by Blanco
Y Negro:
Since the matadors came TO de-
mand exorbitant salaries their popu-
larity has dwindled. A few decades
ago a torero was almost a national
hero: admiring crowds followed him
and the glory attached to his name
was more important than money
Nowadays the bull fight is a business
proposition"
And we can imagine the tereros
saying, as kearns said of Dempsey a
day or two ago. We draw the money
into the gate; why shouldn't we de-
mand a million for fighting?"
Evening star., 1923-08-11
CHICAGO GRAIN MARKET.

CHICAGO, August IL. - Highest
prices in several weeks were reached
by the wheat market today during
the early dealings. Wet weather de-
laying the Canadian harvest and in
creasing the chances of damage to
late wheat had a bullish influence,
and SO, likewise, did absence of hedg-
ing sales here. Besides, country Of
ferings in all sections We're light.
The opening. which ranged from Il
to q higher. with September 99%
to 99A. and December 1.03 to 1.03h,
was followed by slight further gains
and then a moderate reaction.
Corn and oats averaged little
higher. in sympathy with wheat.
After opening unchanged to "a up,
September II to 77A. the corn mar
ket eased down somewhat.
Oats started unchanged to Il
higher, September SO hardened trifie
more. and then showed a tendency
to sag.
Provisions reflected .steadiness of
Evening star., 1923-08-11
Apple Packing Poor in East.

The real reason the eastern states
apple grower has so much trouble
competing with the western grower
is that he insists upon sticking to
a poor method of packing. At least
this is the statement of B. D.. Van
Buren,. head of the apple grading in
spection work of the New York state
department of farms and markets. He
says:
Apple growers in the east, as a
whole, have not packed well enough
for the best trade among the discrim
mating consumers. Consumers in all
the eastern cities are waiting and
longing for the opportunity to buy
a package of eastern apples packed
and graded as carefully as the north
western box apples. If the growers
in the east will grow and pack in
such way as to meet the demand
that is already here. this demand will
increase to an almost unbelievable
extent"
Evening star., 1923-08-11
DROP IN TRANSIT
COMPANY INCOME
Substance of Report Filed for
July and June-SeasonaI
DuIIness Cited.

Net corporate income of the Wash
ington Rapid Transit Company for
the month Of July showed a deficit OF
$2,903, as compared with loss of
s2.733 for the corresponding month Of
last year. and with a profit of s1.34s
during June. 1923. A huge decline in
transportation revenue was RESPONSE
BILE for the loss, perusal of the
earnings statement filed with the
Public Utilities Commission shows.
Total revenue derived from trans
portation during the month amounted
to s22,96S, as against $24.700 last July.
while expenses aggregated s25.505 in
1929, as against s27,s30 last year
Revenue passengers carried last
month numbered only 2S7.787. while
In July of last year they totaled
350,S44.
Ascribed to Seasonal DulIness.
1t is understood that the usual sea
sonal dullness is responsible for the
adverse showing. 1t should be re-
membered that the 10Th street route
OF the company is. probably, the best
revenue producer. this line serving
primarily the downtown government
departments, whose list OF absentees
during the past month has been par
ticularly heavy, due to the vacation
season being at hand. Then, too, IL is
believed in other quarters the re
quested increase in fare to 10 cents
has led a proportion of the company
clientele to seek other modes or
travel. The decision in the rate case
Is still pending, but will undoubtedI,
be decided in the near future.
$5O.OOO.OOO In Loans.
One hundred banks and companies
operating The Morris Plan Of indus
trial loans and investments made
loans of over $4,000 900 in the first
six months Of the present year, the
number of borrowers being more
than 212,50o. and the average loan
less than s240. the Industrial Finance
Corporation states.
The gain in the number OF loans
over January-June of 1922 was 35-
600 and the increase in the amount
of money lent was over $4,000. 600.
Installment Record.
The weeks insolvency record. COW
ering a fve-day period to the close
Of business on Wednesday. shows
This total compares with one of 31J
reported to r. e. Dun and COMPANY
for six days last week. and with 403
defaults a year ago. when the state
ment also covered six days.
OF the current weeks failures, 10I
had liabilities of $1,000 or more In
each instance. which is equivalent TO
Der. Last week, when there were
l179 defaults. the ratio was o6:S per
cent and a year ago. when 24S fail
ures involved an Indebtedness OF
So 600 or more in each case, the ra-
ito was 61.7 per cent.
Evening star., 1923-08-11
Running No Risks.
From tho Savannah News.

Clorine, the colored cook. ap-
proached the cashiers desk with an
air of determination on her features.
II wants yo' to take care of this
heah cash fo' a while she remarked.
planking down her savings of several
years.
"Why, Clorine?" asked the cashier.
who knew her of old. I thought you
always said you'd never trust the
bank?"
Oats all right, dat's all right, but
de circumstances surroundin' de mat
ter makes me change nah mind, you
see. Use gwine get married. an All
don't want dat much money round de
house with a strange cullud man on
de premises"
Evening star., 1923-08-11
INACTIVE TRADING
! ON STOCK MARKET
List Somewhat Unsettled in
Opening, But Leading Indus
trials Hold Ground.
BY STUART y. WEST.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, August 11.-Although
business on the stock exchange was
comparatively dull today because or
the absence of many of the active
trading elements. the market as a
whole was inclined to do better. The
list was somewhat unsettled, nrst
by the attack against United States
Rubber and Producers and Rehners,
but it was noteworthy that the lead
ing industrials held their ground
very well. When the check came to
the selling in the tires and domestic
oils the whole list went ahead mod
arately, partly under the influence OF
short covering. and such stocks as
American Locomotive, Studebaker.
American Can and Baldwin Locomo-
tive became increasingly active,
point or more above the close on
Thursday.
Pressure Against Rubber.
The pressure against United States
Rubber stocks raised again questions
regarding the current operation and
dividend outlook. At its low today
Rubber preferred was points under
the Thursday final and common
points. At these prices both issues
were at new lows 1t was reported
that rubber companys income state
ment for six months. early next
week. would show large deficit.
over production was the trouble with
the tire companies as in the oils.
Large inventories are being carried
and it was rumored today thai further
rrice cuts would be announced. The
Tire companies have been selling be-
low list prices for the past three
months.
When the e~street received news of
the poStponement of Producers and
Refiners' dividend meeting there was
active selling on the ground that the
dividend might be passed. Producers
got down around 30 and Phillips Pc
r"oleum was sympathetically weak.
Pressure against these issues was
partly lifted before the close.
Erie at High Level.
Most railway stocks received little
attention. but the Eries gained fur
lher ground, with the common close
to its highest of the year. St. Paul
common. which had closed at 25 on
Thursday, broke through its previous
low
The movement of miscellaneous is
sues was mixed, but no important
weakness appeared
Burns Brothers a had a sharp ad
vance from its final price of los on
Thursday in response to the report
that the company is applying spe-
Cial surplus.
Evening star., 1923-08-11
An Obliging Bell Fuller.

From London IDEAS.
A fan who had been drinking too
many saw a Sign, please ring the
bell Tor the caretaker." -a-f-
He walked up and gave the bell
such a pull that 1t nearly came out
by the roots.
In a few moments an angry man
appeared at the door. "Are you the
caretakerg' asked the bell puller. !
Yes. What do you want?"
'I saw the notice, SO I rang the
bell, and now want to know why
you cans ring it yourself"
Evening star., 1923-08-11
WEEKS CURB MARKET
|. CLASSED AS. FITFUL
Intervals of Strength and Weak
ness With Sustained Movements
Interrupted by Harding Funeral.

Ry the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, August 1.-THE mar
ket during the week was of fitful
character. there being frequent in
tervals of strength and weakness,
Interrupted by the period in which
business was suspended on Wednes-
day and the closing of the exchange
yesterday In connection with the flu
neral of the late President Harding.
More activity was shown in the mo-
tor stocks, Peerless ranging from SO
to 39H. .Dubilier Condenser moved
up nearly one point and there was
activity in National Supply. which
rose over points, followed by a
reaction in the later trading. A gain
OF about 8 points in United States
Distributing was the subject of a
good deal of comment.
Coal and Iron issues were generally
In increased demand. Reading Coal
moving up u to 48 and a moderate
advance was made in Reading rights.
Glen Alden moved up one point,
Southern Coal and Iron showed ac-
tivity and strength on Wednesday,
following statements of new fnan-
cial arrangements.
Standard Oil issues came into prom
inence early in the week when Prairie
Oil rose over IL points to 1873. Stand
ard Oil Of Indiana moved up over 2
points. trading being on the largest
scale on Wednesday and there was
active trading also in Standard Oil of
New York. which rose over l point.
Vacuum Oil made a gain of points
in the first half of the week. which
was reduced in the next two days.
Magnolia also made a gain of = points.
Humphreys was one of the strongest
features In the independent group.
A sudden buying movement carried
Southern States up over points TO
1Sn. but IT had it's usual reaction
after that movement. Gulf Oil was
strong at times and advanced over
point. Seaboard, after an early de-
cline, was also in demand and re-
covered it's loss. Cities Service moved
up points in the first half of the
week.
Evening star., 1923-08-11
Big and Little.
From the Boston Globe.

Former Vice President Marshall on
his return from Europe said to New
York reporter:
big men are little men. Lloyd
George is little. Poincare is little.
our whistler was little. Napoleon
was little. Mark Twain, Jay Could
but the list is endless.
IT heard a story in London about
one of these big little men who had
a very tall. stout son. He took his
SON to Boobies Club one day and
introduced him proudly to old Lord
Exc.
"Old Lord Exc looked from the big
son to the little father:
"'Ho.' he said, a block off the old
chip, eh?'"
Evening star., 1923-08-11
Putting Drama in It's Place.
From Everybodys Magazine.

An idea of some of the difficulties
under which people throughout the
country labor in any attempt to reap
profit from judgment and opinion in
matters artistic will be gained from
the following experience of the late
Creston Clarke, the actor:
While playing in a good-sized city
he was approached one day on the
street by an eager young man. who
said:
How do you do. Mr. Clarke? I
saw your performance last night.
I'm on the -"
"Oh," said Mr.. Clarke. And how
do you like newspaper work."
"I think It's fine" replied the youth.
I'm just starting in at 1t. I'm only
dramatic critic now. but II I do well
they're going to give me police work"