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Evening star., 1923-09-23
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n estimate of the total wealth
N of all the inhabitants of the
Il United States will be made
public by the census bureau
beginning within the next thirty
show startling increase over those
Of decade ago. Indications are that
the total will approximate s500,000,-
000, 900.
In 1912 the country's total wealth
was somewhat less than s1Ss,0oo, ,0O0,-
00o The indicated increase is at the
rate of about 60 per cent.
The survey will be. the most COM
prehensive of it's kind ever under
taken. 1t was begun fifteen months
ago and has engaged the attention of
about 175 employees. Tens of thou
sands of returns have been received,
digested and are in course of tabula-
tion and final preparation.
Values VIII Be Higher.
Returns will be shown by states
and their subdivisions, as well as
by great commodity groups. There
are twenty-five of these groups, in
cluding new subdivision covering
automobiles, motor trucks and farm
tractors. In 1912 this class of prop
erty was relatively. so small as to
headings. Today, with about H.
900, 900 motor vehicles in actual serv-
ice, the. new group will represent
values materially higher than of
some of the older groups.
Perhaps the greatest increase VIII
be shown in real estate and taAaoIe
improvements. A decade ago real
estate and buildings were valued at
nearly 800, 600, 100000. Their value
today, in all probability. will ap-
proach $4,000, 900. 900. The sensa-
tional advance in land values. coupled
with the mammoth building con-
struction programs of the past two
wears. will carry the totals to much
higher figures, it is thought, than
apparent on the surface.
In addition to the privately owned
real estate and buildings, including
farm property, the survey will contain
an estimate of the value of tax-ex-
empt realty owned by the federal
government, the state, counties, mu-
inequalities and charitable and re-
ligious organizations
So great is the volume of this class
of property that it's value probably
will run to from IL to l5 per cent of
the value of privately owned real es-
tate, the totals reaching upward of
$50, 600, 100000, or sum about equal
to the Vdlue OF ali the TdiIEOdu SyS -
TENS and lines.
Less Live Stock I'm U. 8.
4 In at least one instance a decrease
in values Is indicated. This Is in
the case of live stock and is at
tributed, in large measure, to the
pa ssing of the horse The prospective
decrease also is attributed somewhat
to the comparatively low prices OBJ
tainable for live stock. Ten years
SI.-s rel, 80 Ha av.fc 1txrr
stock was about s6,25o,0o0, ,000. Today
II may not exceed $4,000. 100000.
Manufacturing machinery, tools and
implements, valued ten years ago at
s6, 900, 900 eco, will show. it is ex-
pected, a tremendous increase in
valuation, perhaps more than dou-
bling it's former total. Gold and silver
coin and bullion probably will show
An increase of from so to 70 per cent.
due largely to the huge importation
of gold.
In estimating the value Of silver
Evening star., 1923-09-23
CONGRESS EARN BLOC
GETS DIFFICULT TASK
President Wants Definite Plan of Farmer
Relief Before Calling Extra
Session.

bushel for his wheat, there would be
an immediate and just demand that
the government also guarantee the
price of corn per bushel and the price
of cotton per pound, to say nothing of
oats. rye and potatoes.
Senator Borah told the President
that corn and sugar beets were the
oases in the desert of western farm
prospects. The truth is that corn
never suffers the violent fluctuations
that are common to wheat. so wheat,
an easy crop to raise. is always more
or less of q gamble. Government Of
ficials believe that if the government
should guarantee wheat, the farmers
would abandon other crops to raise
wheat and a much worse situation
than the present one would be Gre
ated.
AS to the much lambasted sugar
beet, mentioned in such praiseworthy
language by Senator Borah, this is
the one crop raised by the western
farmer on what virtually amounts to
a fixed sum guarantee. The sugar
beet crop is all contracted for before
a single beet seed is put into the
ground. The beet sugar companies
advance the farmer so much money
for each acre OF beets grown and
then divide with him the price real
lied for the sugar when 1t is placed
on the market Despite the many at
lacks IndL- nave DeeU H0due upon llc
beet growing industry, some of them
under government auspices. there has
been an extension of crops this year
in virtually all the beet fields and
Senator Borah regards this happy
circumstance as one of the saving
factors for the west. The domestic
sugar interests attribute the in
creased paintings to the protection
against Cuban dumping provided by
the tariff and feel that in this in
stance, il in no other, the tariff
schedule was justified. They also
have contended that the tariff had
nothing to do with the furry in sugar
last spring, because the rise came
long after the tariff was effective.
and a drop ensued while the tariff
was still in effect
Senator Borah still is hopeful that
some early means will be found for
relieving the condition of the wheat
farmer in the west. President Cool
idge is of the same mind. but the
President refuses to call Congress in
extra session when he has no definite
constructive and permanently help
full plan to suggest to House and
Senate.
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these days we cannot have too many
open spaces, freely available to every
one who seeks the rest and enjoy
ment of the mountains. One of the
greatest services which the national
forests are rendering to the American
people is through their opportunities
for public recreation. Washingto-
mans also know the Virginia trails
will find many a delightful camping
spot or fishing stream or mountain
climb in the Potomac or Massanutten
or Shenandoah forest purchase areas.
Ranking the Shenandoah valley.
Policy Held Sound.
The best of it is that by every rea-
sonable test the policy of buying
judiciously selected national forests
is economically and financially sound.
The two million two hundred odd
thousand acres thus far approved for
purchase. including over four and a
half billion feet of merchantable tim
ber, has cost on the average a trifie
over So per acre. Already the yearly
returns from sales of timber and
other commercial uses go far toward
offsetting the yearly cost of protec-
ton and administration. We have
been buying these lands only since
1911. but the average tract Is worth
today at least so per cent more than
was paid for it. And the growth of
young timber is accommodating all the
time. Many of the public returns from
this undertaking are not measure BILE
in dollars: but if Uncle Sam wished
to make shrewd investments of pub
lie funds he could do far worse than
buy forest lands with them.
The people of the United States are
at last awakening to the seriousness
of their forest situation. A few start
ling facts are sinking in. such as
that we are cutting timber three
and four times as fast as it is be-
ing grown and that we have accu-
mulated S1.000,000 acres of logged
off land so denuded and burnt that
II has small chance of growing tim
ber again without planting. They are
setting about to put the house in or
der. And they are finding the acqui-
sition of more public forests Reces-
sary part of the iousecleaning.
Much of our future timber will be
grown on private lands. The signs
of tho times point TO that more and
more clearly. Yet private forestry
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~ RESIDENT COOLIDGE has
- given to the farm bloc" in
Congress its most dificult
task The farm "bloccers'
have found that the new President
is a pretty hard-headed politician
and executive. Mr.. Coolidge is as
much interested as any one else in
giving relief to the farmers. II
should always be remembered that
of his fathers farm into the White
House But Mr.. Coolidge has said
in effect to the members of the farm
bloc in both Senate and House:
Bring me a concrete plan for the
relief of the farmers and I will call
an extra session of Congress. Until
we have plan, why bother with
Congress?"
This is the Presidents answer to
the insistent and clamorous demands
that have come to him from many
directions urging that Congress be
pass some sort of remedial legisla-
ton.
Would Appease Farmer.
AS the prospective candidate of the
grand old party for the presidency
, next fall, Mr.. Coolidge is as desirous
as any of the men on Capitol Hill
that the farmers Of the country
should be appeased as to temper and
given relief as to their financial diff
| ficulties. But Mr. Coolidge DOES not
believe in calling an extra session
without a definite plan, thus raising
false hopes which cannot be met and
which might cause a reaction de-
cidedly disastrous to party prospects
at the polls In November, 1924.
President Coolidge was gravely i'm
pressed by the story of farm con-
ditions in the west brought to him
by Senator Borah of Idaho. The SEN
ator said conditions could hardly be
worse The Department of Agricul-
ture is not inclined to take so gloomy
view of the situation and insists
that the remedy for the farmer lies
in his own hands. The government,
Jit is contended, can neither guaran-
tee the price of wheat nor provide
foreign market for It. II the farm
ers Of the west grew an overabun-
dance of wheat this year, anticipat-
ing a foreign outlet, they were the
victims of a mistaken economic idea.
The prevailing opinion in Washing
ton still is that the United States
American wheat farmer will have to
take his chances along with all the
rest of the country or the conse-
quences of such policy.
Senator's Have No Plan. .
That the farm bloc senator's who
have visited him or written him have
no plan which he regards as prac-
ticable at this time. is indicated by
the fact that President Coolidge has
intimated within. the last twenty
four hours that he sees no reason al
this time for calling an extra session
of Congress. He will not close his
mind to such an idea, however, and
IL the "bloccers' can give him some
thing definite to go on, he will act
Otherwise Congress will not convene
Department of Agriculture officials
are strong in their opposition to any
plan which involves a government
price guarantee for fran crops. They
say that il the government should
guarantee~th the wheat farmer SITS q
sa y = , = A i. ~.
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Business Concerns
Expect Good Year

The way in which individual bust
ness concerns are looking forward
confidently to good business is shown
in replies to a number of question
naires that have been sent out. A
majority of the big business concerns
of this country are thus registered
as counting on a whirlwind finish to
an extra good year.
Out of the 15S replies 123 expressed
expectation of big, good or fair bust
ness. Six have had the largest busi-
ness success in their history, while
only three concerns reported losses.
one of which had been UP against
long strike. There were 121 re-
plies which showed increased busi-
ness over corresponding months last
year, ranging up to Increases of more
than 100 per cent. There were 25 of
the 121 whose increases ran from so
per cent to over 100 per cent. Twenty
out OF 12a recorded themselves as
preparing for big business.
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suit Of this action The allies will be
forced TO alter their whole scheme of
action. Though Premier .Poincare has
agreed to closer cooperation of the
allies in conference. he likewise has
made il plain that there must be no
occasion for disruption or misunder-
standings once conferences have
started. In other words, Premier
Poincare would have all decisions
reached previously through diplo-
matte channels. Thus the actual con-
ferences would merely place official
stamp upon such courses as are au-
thorized by the respective powers.
The whole situation Is fraught with
potentialitles of far-reaching conse-
quence, but there is every reason to
expect that from the present quag-
mire Of Misunderstanding and doubt
as to future course there will emerge
definite courses within the next ten
days.
Evening star., 1923-09-23
Pilferage Losses
In Shipping Grow

American shippers are being shown.
by specialists of the Department of
Commerce that they have a direct
and vital interest in the serious prob
lem of pilferage and are urged by
the federal officials to cooperate with
the government agencies for prevenz
tion of such losses
new and alarming wave of pill
forage from goods in transit has been
noted by American exporters and
agents of the United States govern
ment. While losses are paid in the
first instance by the responsible char
acter or by an insurance company.
pilferage losses fall en- the shipper
at least in part, through higherr
freight rates, which absorb the extra
cost to carriers OF large claims for
losses. p
Evening star., 1923-09-23
Unity in Franco-British Policies
Not Yet Reached, Is Belief

Continued from First Page.)
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T HE following is a brief summary
OF the most important news of the
world for the seven days ended Sep
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estimate of the total wealth
~ of all the inhabitants of the
~ United States will be made
An public by the census bureau
Evening star., 1923-09-23
Nation Has Added 2,25O,OOO
Acres to Forest Land Holdings

Continued from first Page.)
Evening star., 1923-09-23
BY ROBERT T. SMALL

RESIDENT COOLIDGE has
given to the farm bloc" in
Congress it's most difficult
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-11
BIG SEIZURE MADE

Canadian Authorities Begin Round.
 Up Of Struggled Goods
 MONTREAL, August 10.-Royal Canadian mounted police and customs officials seized four automobiles and thousands of dollars worth of auto mobile tires today in a roundup of smuggled goods.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-11

would become of the American film play without judicial errors"
 As a general suggestion to Amer ican producers who yearn to put their stuff over" with French spec tators, it may be noted that M. Vi-
 vien, after his review of Tess" heaps encominums upon French film, The Legend of Sister Beatrice"
 being the tale of misguided nun,
 who elopes from a convent with an amorous nobleman. Deceived and re- pentant she returns after many years to do penance finds that in her ab- sence the Virgin has been taking her place. condoning the waywardness of
 impressionable youth.
 On the same page, by the way, | is another review In which Paul Gin l isty sings the praises of Ida Rubin stein in the title of a prose trans
 lation of D'Annunzio's "Phaedre" | (Phaedra). Phaedra, 1t may be re- | called, was the wife of Theseus. In the DAnnunzio version she Is smit- ten with the charms of Theseus son,
 Hippolytus, and, in jealous rage,
 strangles with her own hands beau tiful captive offered to the youth by
 his father. returned from the wars.
 Most of the stage presentation is de-
 voted to a Venus and Adonis scene | between Step-mother and step son. This, also, may serve as sugges-
 tion to American film exporters.-
 Jacques Vivien, in Le Petit Parisien,
 Paris. (Translated for The Star)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-11
THE UNLUCKY AGE

Daddy, l want to talk to you. Sim portant." Betty aged IS, corralled her youthful-looking father as he dropped into a deep chair on the veranda, and fixed an eager eye upon him.
 well, what is it now?" he said. idly. Want to go and teach African head hunters to play the ukelele, or start movement for the utter anni- hilation of parents?"
 oh, daddy" protested the sup pliant. T only want to go to an art class next year, 'sted O going back to scho-"
 Certainly not" Daddy put both feet on the floor, unfolded his arms and looked stern. Last week you wanted to study chiropractic, or some such thing. The week before you were going to be tea-room queen because you had learned to make pretty cheese balls. Just before that"
 Daughter" interrupted pleasant voice from inside the house, won't you run over to Mrs. Anderson's with this beef tea for her sick maid?" And as the eager little figure darted away, a wise,\ sweet mother came out on the veranda.
 Don't you know, dear" she que ried, that 13 is the unlucky age? It Is teeming with gorgeous new ideas every few minutes, and always gets cold water thrown on them. Betty isn't dangerouS-She's only adoles- cent. Let's sympathize with all her pet schemes and forget them She does! All her little tendrils are reaching out to climb up by. We mustn't confront her with decisions now, either. Changing the subject is much safer Arguments only make
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-11

Each plant had lovely pie grow ing upon it and nearly all the pies were ripe and ready to eat.
 Little Ned Gnome found a great big knife near a large pie and with this he cut out large slice.
 Look outr' Raggedy Ann cried
 Little Ned Gnome did not have time to look out, for he had no more than lifted out the large slice of pie when three blackbirds flew out.
 The first blackbird shipped off lit tie Ned Gnomes nose just as clean as could be.
 The second tried to snip off Rag gedy- Ann's and the third blackbird tried to snip off Raggedy Andy's. But, of course, the Raggedys' noses were just painted on and the black birds were disappointed.
 The three blackbirds flew to a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-11
The Summer Kitchen

When l was q little girl" said grandmother, my mother had what she called the summer kitchen It was sort of shed or lean-to just outside the kitchen proper It had large openings for windows, and there was a wood cook stove there. Outside a great beech tree waved it's branches, and mother used to sit in this breezy place and shell peas, knead bread CT do her summers can ming at a big black walnut table that would be worth fortune now. Her kitchen coal stove went out and stayed out through the hot season.
 Well there is a charm about do- ing things outdoors" said her mar ried granddaughter reflectively. T often take things out on the step to stir or whip. This little kitchen gets very hot, too, with the gas stove going. 1 wonder why I don't move outside altogether for August any way, and haev summer kitchen of my own?"
 She stepped to the door and locke d out over the grassy space just out side the back door.
 Ut will be like old times," unused grandmother, ito have a summer kitchen again."
 There's that extra awning that wasn't used Ut the north end of the front porch, because it wasn't needed. l might put that up out here, fasten- ing it to the side of the house. Then you know we have an excellent kero- sene stove that we got for the cot tage at the lake. That cooks splen- didly, and the flame can't blow as it would if I used a gas stove out doors I can move this smaller kitchen table out. and a chair or two. It will 'be q little like camp ing, and I really believe I'll be moro comfortable
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-11
Shift The Burden
 From Your Shoulders

Do you realize it is much cleaner, no more expensive, and very much more conven- tent to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-11

; high tree, and Just as they settled there one of the little Witches put her head out of the bushes and cried, ''Ha, ha! Those were magic pies anu I hid the trained blackbirds in that pie just to get your noses. Now if you want little Ned Gnome's nose, you will have to come to our house for itr'
 We won't go!" little Ned Gnome said. "It doesn't hurt me speck to lose my nose!"
 But the Raggedys felt sorry for him, and as the Witch whistled for the blackbirds and started towards her home, the Raggedys and little Ned Gnome followed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-11
SCREEN DISCUSSED
Public Has Had Enough "Inspired
 Sentiment" Says Paris Writer

The conclusion is unacceptable that, from the American standpoint, the screen is sort of book to be skim med over without any particular re- gard for the text. That Is the only way one can explain the childish ness, absurdtty and utter lack of imagination displayed in the seen arios which come to us from the other side of the Atlantic.
 The French public demands at least common sense in the develop ment of the screen story. While tech nical qualities are appreciated they do not prevent a natural interest in the action of the piece. Incf- dentally, we are beginning to get extremely tired of seeing the same, badly worn film, passed from one exhibitor to another, and shown over and over again. Besides, they are old films.
 Our spectators, of course. enjoy purely photographic excellence, a cer- tain ingenuity in the choice of set tings and recognize that, often, pains have been eaken in interpretation, but they are annoyed by the i'm probable situations, the reiterated pointing of q moral and however complicated the action may be the comnlete triviality of most of these f7.7iis. In addition to being fed up on adventures which have all the same general plot, we feel some scorn at what seems to be rather slight valuation of our intelligence Consequently, it would not be sur prising if the French public soon cried. Hold, enough!"
 We French like clearness and logic. since those are qualities of our race, and most of the American films are tncoherent. Scenes of vio- fence are succeeded by scenes of the most insipid sentimentality. and there is no regard shown for the element of composition nor for the dictates of good taste.
 Vertically these films have served their turn. It would be risking the future to the cinema to continue borrowing so abundantly from such a repertory. The scenario may seem of little importance to Americans but it is the thing" as far as we are concerned.
 The author of the foregoing criti- cism follows it in the same column with a review of the Associated Ar l tists' film, Tess of the Storm Coun try" to which, says the writer, the general observations made above | apply only in part. However, he find: | the story "banal specimen" and while Mary Pickford is no longer received with an ovation, still, sht | Is gracious" Sketching the plot, ht action in permitting herself to be father was unjustly charged: 'Wha
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-11

RESORTS AND TRAVEL
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-11
Ys222HgR ENAE E!i|l.I1 gll5z ; I,s'57l;,lOTT 5l;,
By HELEN KENDALL A BOOK VACATION

How would you like to take a trip up to the Thousand Islands this summer% asked the man O the house, casually.
 His young wife dropped her sew ing and gazed at him wide-eyed. For a moment she looked as if a thousand paradises had opened be- fore her.
 Why, George Frederick Miller, what on earth do you mean? You sald you couldn't go anywhere this summer on account of the senior partners illness-anywhere out of town, that is"
 Well, I can't, Betsy, but is there anything to hinder our taking a printed trip up there? I've brought home magazine with an article so VlVidly written and so beautifully il- lustrated that you'll think you've gone when you read it. And we'll take some book trips, too-out through California and down through Mexico (though that's pretty hot for August, and perhaps motor through Normandy.
 You see, I must stay here so that l can be in daily touch with the of- lice, and go down if anything big comes up. But I'm going to stay home with you for three weeks; and while you make these new sport shirts for me, I'll read aloud to you. Instead of reading light summer novels, let's get some really inter- esting books of travel, and try to imagine ourselves doing all the things the writer tells of. We'll read cool, nautical things-tales of fishing smacks off the Newfound- land coast, descriptions of the Ca nadlan northwest. We can go any where, do anything, if only we de termlne to forget ourselves and our surroundings before we start
 And so these two voyagers sat in their quiet trellised garden and ofoVe away in an imaginary motor to an imaginary train or boat. They tramped through cool forests, and went surf bathing in turquoise seas; they stood silent on great mountain tops, and gazed into unfathomabl canyons They met amusing natives and chatted with them, and slept in log cabins or white-washed huts. These book journeys were varied With tranquil jaunts in their own nelghborhood. The spirit of vaca- ton time was theirs.