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Third of Name Takes Up the
Fight for "Come-baCk" of
Father Caught in the Stutz
Motor Corner
BY MALCOLM ELLIS
Copyright, 1924 by the Consolidated Press
Assoca tion-Special Leased Wire


to The Atlanta Journal.)
NEW YORK, Aug. 18.-The old
blood tells. And that is why an
other fighting Ryan is going back
to Wall street to resume the fight
of the Ryan khan against the butting
bulls and the choking bears.
The name of Ryan has been a
power in the street" for two gen
orations. Now a third Ryan is about
to take UP the battle. The old grand
father, Thomas Fortune by name,
beat Wall street and all its willy
ways. His son, Allan A. Ryan, went
"broke" in spectacular attempt to
Corner Stutz stock and crush the
brokers who dared to sell it ''short."
Thomas Fortune Ryan would not
help his son, so he was ousted from
the street. The name of Ryan was
dragged in the dust.
Now along comes Allan A. Ryan,
Just out of college, starting out in
a small way after a seat on the
curb exchange, but with his eyes
fixed on TIE big board" and a de-
termination in his heart to regain
his fathers fortune and to make
the name of Ryan once more feared
wherever the bulls and bears gather
over a fatefLi ticker.
From his retirement, watching
hin, is the seventy-three-year-
man whom Wall street called the
shceWdest trader of his time, the
man who organized the Southern
railway, the American Tobacco COM
pany and the Seaboard Air Line
railway, built Chicago's Elevated
loop and merged the traction compa-
MES of New York into the Inter
borough, who purchased control of
the Equitable Life Insurance COM
pany, in a bitter fight with Harri-
man and held the five greatest banks
of New York in the hollow of his
hand.
1t means more to Thomas F. Ryan
than to any one else to have the
name of Ryan back on the street,
because he was the original fighting
Ryan. He dared to fight Whitney,
Hartman, Belmont and others who
crossed his path. He was the most
powerful figure of the street when
he retired and the failure of his son
left him bitter, although the son
had Teen estranged from him ever
since he called his fathers second
marriage twelve days after his first
wife died, "disrespectful and dis
graceful"
eff somebody doesn't stop him, .
William C. Whitney warned Wall
street, when he was fighting with
Ryan in the SOS, he'll have every
dollar in Wall street." Remember
ing that, the street has already be-
gun to watch the younger Ryan.
The beginnings in finance Of the
grandson and grandfather are much
alike. A giant in stature. but only
twenty years old. Thomas Fortune
Ryan came to Neav York in 1871 b
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FIGHTING RYAN" RETURNS
TO BATTLE OF WALL STREET

way Of Baltimore, where he clerked
in a department store and begged
jobs from door to door Of the IA
nous brokers of the street. He had
no money, but he had cunning ana
vision and daring. Before he was
thirty, Ryan had married the dAdgh.
ter of the man in whose store No
had clerked in Baltimore, organized
the Seaboard Air L inc railway and
had his first million. Wrigley haG
learned that Ryan couldn' be stopped
and was allied with him in deal
that won control of the metropolitan
railways.
At the height of his turbulent
career, marked by an unsuccessful
fight with Hartman for the control
of the Union Pacific and success
full fight with Hartman for the con-
troll Of the Equitable Life-a fight
that brought about the Hughes IN.
vestigation and a cleanup Of the
insurance business-Ryan held di.
rectorates in and control OF fifty
one companies, including the biggest
bank in the United States. He owned
three life insurance companies, a
big block of American Tobacco, con-
troll of Seaboard, of the Georgia rail.
way, the Georgia Bank and Trust
company, the American Surety COM
pany, big block of the Southern
railway, the Pere Marquette, the
Hooking Valley and in addition to
various other interests, was advance
ing money to King Leopold for the
development of the Congo Free
State.
In return as dividend, King
Leopold sent him twenty-seven omit
diamonds.
The Equitable fight won Ryan his
greatest notoriety. lie and his as
sociates had almost a majority, Har-
riman and his held almost q ma
jo~ity. James Hazen Hyde held the
block of stock that gave control
Hartman had tried for years to con-
Lrol the Equitable; Ryan had only
recently turned his attention to it.
RYAN persuaded Hyde to sell him
the controlling block. Hartman
was in a rage He threatened Ryan
and failing in that cajoled him.
Ryan held en- to Equitable and or
ganized a trusteeship headed by
Grover Cleveland, just out of the
presidency.
Ryan retired in 1908 with more
millions than he could count, his son
Allan taking up the fight. Allan or
ganized the Royal Typewriter COM
pany to fight the trusts" He also
was daring trader and the market
followed his movements. While he
WIS i'll in 1920, bears began to drive
on Stutz stock and drove it low.
Ryan was angered and purchased
every share of Abe stock he cou1a
get his hands on. He drove it from
about par to 1919 a share and caught
brokers who had sod "short." IIe
forced them to pay up, some Of them
Dttying the stock as high as $500 a.
share to deliver it to him upon his
demand. He had paper fortune
Of $35,000,000 but he had wiped
away the market for his stock. Two
years later, as result of the Stutz
fight, he went "broke" with SIG in
cash and $5,000,000 in unsecured
debts.
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and fair complexion. I am looking for
letters from all
MTSS) WILLIE 10 MAULDIN
LavOnia, Ga
Dear Auntic and Cousins: Will you
please move over and give lonely Geor-
Sia girl a seat by Aunt Julia and Myrtle
Thompson? l surely hope to be admitted
for l get lonesome, as my mother died
February - 1924. and your mother is
your best friend on earth. l sure do
miss her 50 | want all YOU cousins to write
me- for l like to read letters. None of
You cousins can sympathize with me I'M
less you have had the trial, but we have
consolation and TINT is that she was ready
ana wiling to 20 TO n better place he
Fopd Ihere was 10 mourn her death father
ana three children. but the desire of my
heart Is to meet her in heaven. have
dafR red mar Blue eyes and fair COM
PeNloh All who care TO write 10 q sad
ana lonely Georgia girl. let your letters
come. as Mable Moore and ! am going ia
see VINO receives the most letters All who
zee my letter / hope will write to me,
lure 1t you want it. Much love
(MlSSl MYRTLE MANTOOTH.
Crandall, Ga. R9"te /.
Dear Aunt Julia: Will Won admit +,ro
North carolina girls into your happv band IF
oo5S and girls: Cousins, we are not roinr
Use =" IKE q subject this time, rs some of the
c1'SlhS 30. We are just going to give Won
al Ituc poem called go
The Peach Tree
See our little peach tree,
We are teaching fl to grow.
n such little baby thing
There's lots it doesn't know.
We bade it stand up very straight
And hold tight to the ground.
/" arlhk the rain in by the pint
And sunshine by the pound.
1t done quite we'll. bnt now Won 600
We've nothing else to teach;
e re wishing we could tell it how
To grow a juicy peach
Oh! we had better be going. and we thspt
Aunt Julia so much for printing this W.
VIII answer all letters received. Please send
our mail separately. With lots of Iovo "a
nest wishes to all, from two cousirs anu
MISS EMMA Lou FLEMING
MISS MAMIE FLEMING.
Manson. y. C., Box ..
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icine, and used Lydia E. Pinkham's
Sanative Wash. If you only knew how
much better feel Now when my
friends say they are sick | tell them to
take Lydia e. Pinkham's medicines. |
give the little book and your medicines
the best of thanks. " : Mrs. HAME-
RINK, 1865 25th Street, Detroit, Mich.
In newspapers and booklets we are
constantly publishing letters from
women, who explain how they were
helped by taking Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound.
These letters should guide you. If
you are troubled with pains and ner-
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bear in mind that the Vegetable Com
pound has helped other women and
should help you. For sale by drug
gists everywhere.
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have whole quarter-pint of the
most wonderful skin whitener sof-
tener and beuutifier.
on bleach into the face, neck. arms
and hands. 1t can not irritate. F'a-
nous stage beauties use it to bring
that clear. youthful skin and rosy
white conn lexion: also as d freckle,
Sunburn and tan bleach You must
mix this remarkable lotion yourself.
It can not be bought ready to use
because ii acts best Immediately
after it is red.
advertisement
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Milion-Dollar Loss
In Cement Plant Fire

GADSDEN. Ala. Aug. 1S.-The
national cement company's plant of
RaSland. st. Clair county. was
swept by fire Saturday night. ac-
cordinS to word reaching here to
day. The loss is estimated at ap-
proXimately S1.000,000.
The stock house. packing house,
machine shop and nearly all the raw
grind were destroyed.
The plant was built Il years ago.
and has changed hands several
times. George E. Nichols, OF Kan
sas City, is president of the firm
which now controls the plant.
The plant had daily capacity of
5000 barrels The loss is believed
to be covered by insurance.
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DOROTHY DIX DISCUSSES LIFE
TALKS ON HEART AND HOME

throw me into the same trap that
it has thrown thousands Of others.
l opened my eyes wide and looked
about At once doubt entered my
mind. Again, it is said that where
there is any doubt in the mind Of
lovers, it is not the real love that
possesses them. Now, ! love a young
man very much, yet see many things
in him which l. fear will detract
from our future happiness. Please
tell me what to do. DOUBTFUL.
Answer:
The only love that is blind is par
entail love. 1t is perfectly possible
for mothers and fathers to honest
iy believe a homely child beautiful,
dull child clever and to see an angel
in a little devil, but that is only be-
cause the child is a part of them
selves, and our personal vanity keeps
us from realizing our own faults
and weaknesses.
The love of a man for a woman.
or a woman for a man, is never
blind, but real love is all-forgiving.
You do not have to think a man
handsome, or brilliant, or a perfect
knight in order to love him. On
the contrary, you can be perfectly
aware that he is no sheik as to
looks, and will never set the river
on fire, and that he is awkward
and gawky, and will need a lot of
polishing up by good wife. Yet you
know that he is more to you than
a perfect paragon of a man would
no oil ne
is, with all thy faults, love thee
still"
1t is the men and women who
know themselves and each other fer
poor, weak, stumbling human beings
who know how to make allowances
for each other.
Dear Miss Dix-My husband and
[ have been married six years. We
began having trouble several years
ago, and as time passes we get along
worse. We cannot agree on any
thing, for we do not care for the
same things. He is one Of the most
unreasonable persons to be found
anywhere, yet when he was counting
me he appeared to be one of the
most congenial. | cannot stand it
much longer. What shall I do?
MISERABLE WIFE.
Answer:
If you cannot agree, why not agree
to disagree? Sit down and talk it
out quietly Tell your husband that
if he won't interfere with your opin-
ions, you won't interfere with his.
Absolutely refuse to argue. If he
says black is white, let it go at that.
You can think what you please on
the subject. 1t takes two to make a
quarrel, and an argument drops flat
if no one controverts it. When your
husband begins to quarrel just walk
out of earshot. You can break any
one of the habit that way Any
woman can have peace in her home
if she has the courage to fight for
it, and silence is always her best
weapon.
DOROTHY DIX.
Copyright, 1920
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other appliances
peculiar to Wom-
en-.
1t has be-
come s c h a
habit with the
fair sex that /
D + e s u m e i t
would take a
decade to abol-
ish it. However,
I think that if
m e n w o u | d
shave in public
it would soon
make the Wom-
en- sit up and
take notice. Ii
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lcT- L Eedu IL, jI}Su
said to my hus-
band, Please go
and get me some
Lydia E. Pink
h ANS Vegetable
Compound. | want
to take it, The
first month | took
three bottles of
Vegetable Com
pound and one of
Lydia E. Pink
hor,o'c Rlnnd Mad
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To Whiten Skin
with Lemon

The only harm
.eSs way to bleach
The skin white is
20 mix the juice
OF two lemons
with three ounces
Of Orchard White,
which any drug
cist will supply
for Il few cents.
Shake we'll in d
hottie and Won
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tNk.l IUHN THOMAS MOUNTS.
Wptun,Dka Ala ROute .

Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: VIII you be
kind as 10 admit two Georgia girls into
ycur happy band OF boys and girls: We
have been reading The journal for some
time. and like il fine. VIC s-e sure We
cannot write such m interesting letter as
some. hat hope we viii he welcome Mos.
OF the easS-SS 6SAs saASsSk, ksk we sal
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Dear Amt Julia snd Cousins: VIII vou
please admit another Georgian girl into
YOUR happy hand Of bows ard girls? live
in the country and like II fine have
haen reader Of the letter FOX for long
time. Cousins. Won ought 70 be with me
mex week. 7 am going on 4 canning trim
to Toccoa Fails 20 - school 1T "a
vori9. 7 VIII enter high school rexe year
l have iigss sAobbedl hair. brown eyes
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DETROIT WOMAN
RECEIVERS
Health Much Better After
Taking Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound

Detroit, Michigan. Your little
book left at my door was my best doc
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an artificial face, go to. Doc! The
painted woman always has had an
allure for man that the simple,
natural woman never has possessed
My Dear Miss Dix am getting
disguised and discouraged with life,
and yet / have only lived eighteen
years OF course, my problem is
none other than one Of the heart
Every one says that love is blind.
Now. when love came my way 1 de-
cided not to let love blind me and
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not take one. We will leave the space for
more gifted writer's. Eula Lee has black
hair CbobbedD, blue eyes and dark complex
ion. Nellie Mae has dark brown hair
(b6bbedl. gray eyes and fair complexion.
We both are school girls. We will gladly
exchange photos with anyone. Our ages are
fourteen and fifteen. We viii try to an
swer all letters received. With bushels Of
love to all Please send our mail scpa-
rCtely. We are your lonely cousins.
(MISS) NELLIE MAE EASON.
(MISS) EULAu LEE EDWARDS.
SnrrcncN. ca. Rnnfe [.
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tAIISS) VIVIAN SUMMER,
Chula Ga, Route l.

Dear Aunt Julia: VIII You please admit
Georgia hoy into YOUR happy band OF
boys and girls? My greatest ambition is
to set an education. [ think any person
could get more ont of life il they were
educated l am a boy Of seventeen years.
have dark red hair. brown eyes and light
complexion. All you cousins let your let
tiers come viii 60 before | break
Aunt Julia : rules. Your new cousin
John ALBERT GRIFFIN,
Nashville, Ga, Il. Z n. 3.
Dear Aunt Julia. Wul you please admit
three Alabama kids into your merry circle:
We viii not take q subject this time for
fear we won't be admitted All you cousins
write to us end we will surely answer Oar
ages are between one and twenty. With
oceans of love. we are YOUR cousins,
tMISSl INEZ PILGRIM.
tMTSS) THELMA MOSELEY
MIN TLINAL NLAD
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How Live Stock Farming Will Help
the South

r. S. c, Raleigh, n. c.,
writes: L will appreciate it if
YOU will give me your idea of
the part which systematic de-
velopment of live stock produc
ton will play in bringing wealth
and permanent prosperity to the
farmers of the south. Do you
think there is need for laying
special emphasis on this line of
work, due to the fact that the
south has been following a sys-
tenn OF single crop production
for so many wears?
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Dear Aunt Julia: Will you please admit
two North Carolina school girls into your
happy circle? l, Mary, have brown (bobbed)
hair and blue eyes. |, Alice, have brown
hair and brown eyes. We are great chums,
and in the ninth grade. You may guess at
our ages. Now don't disappont us, as we
are anxious TO hear from all Of you boys
and girls. Wen promise to answer every
letter we receive. Please send mail sepa-
rately. We bid you all adieu.
(MISS) MARY MINCY.
(MISSD ALICE HENRY.
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What [ object to is not cosmetics.
but their application in public, for
[ hold that woman's complexion
should be a secret between her and
her mirror, and that no man should
be put wise to it. 1t destroys the
illusion, it dissipates the charm, TO
see how the trick is performed. A
very wise man once said to me that
his idea of a subtle woman was one
to whom a man could be married
for seven years without his ever
finding out whether her hair was
her own or not Same way with her
complexion, say |,
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Dearest Aunt and Cousins: VIII YOU please
admit girl from the dearest state in the
Union Mississippi? Although there are very
few who write from this state, l will take
courage and write. This is my first visit,
so l won't stay long, | will tell you of our
trip to girls grandfather that we took.
We started from home about O'Clock and
got to his house about 10. We were GER
tainy tired. We ate watermelon and figs
while we rested, and, oh what good dinner
we had waiting for us! Everything that
hungry girls like. We stayed all night and
started for her rncle's house the next morn
ing. We stayed while there and then
started for home Oh, yes, we did go in
swimming, too. That was part of our plan
| have brown eyes, brown hair (bObbed) and
olive complexion. | am fifteen years young.
My birthday is January ). Have l twin
Everybody write to a new cousin,
MISS NORA MAY SMITH.
Liberty. Miss II .
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women knew how men desplse the
sight of an artificial face, they
might change their system. DOC
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Answer: I certainly agree VIZ
YOU, Doc, that it is dlsllluslohln si
thing to see a woman calmly h9 ~
out her rouge and powder ana np
stick and proceed to make up ne
face in public place. Ana certalil,
ly nothing is more amusing Ollon
the expression Of perfect con-,
placency with which she 1lnai III
surveys her artistic labors When the
Job is done.
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Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Az I sec
letters from married ladies, l will endeavor
70 bother YOU short time. ! have two
married daughters and two yet at home. l
am real busy woman at first one thing
and then another. can fruit-have about
eighty quarts Of nice mjXtur put up. /
do my own work, except that done by my
daughters | am forty three years Of age
and have black hair and hazel eyes and
wou!d-be fair complexion. My birthday is
May 81. | live in Jackson county, Florida,
$50 acres of nice, level land. have
good home, but my husband talks Of selling
ont and moving to Texas or south Florida
We have a fiyc-horse farm open and plenty
of improvements, and should be happy. /
would thank Aunt Julia ever 50 much to
allow this 10 80 to the printer, as it is my
first attempt TO write, aud l am easily dis
outraged Cousins let your letters come to
(MRS.) MALINDA GILSTRAP.
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(MISS) NAE BELLE ALIEN
"eSJ. Miss, Route ;. Box IA.

Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins. W.,
ief two lonely girls from the dear ola s+ate
81 Florida in for few minutes? We arc
Two motberless girls. and dads housekoan-
tyS, some of you cousins come down and
.slo rs eat peaches and figs We have
aust coolies OF them. How many Of va,
'aEe glad when school time comess We are
w we are in the eighth and ninth grades
row many OF You cousins like TO reads If
anybody has the books. "ITiiIharI,',
Leighton Homestead" please send tbem
10 lis and we will return the favor any
way We can Some Of you cousins write
70 US ana We will guarantee answers to
a., !atds ana letters received Your new
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But what I object to is the pub
licity and not the cosmetics Ma,
ture made a pretty poor, bungling
lob of most of us females, and we
need whatever helping out we can
get, since it is the part of human
ity to be as easy upon the beholder's
eyes as we can. Therefore, I hold
it is a virtue and not vice to put
permanent wave in naturally Ian
ky, slinky hair; to paint a rose on
a sallow cheek, and to pluck
wandering eyebrow into a thin
straight line.
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Ellijay, n. c..
:, :,
ZellWood, Fla, =. o. Box 102.

Dear Auntie and Cousins: I have just fin
iShed reading the cousins letters, and en-
Joy them very much. Like most of the
cousins, l live on a farm, and would not ey-
change with any city boy or girl. There
are six children in our family. four boys ami
two girls | have dark brown hair blge
eyes fair complexion and am fourteen years
or age. If anyone he's the book, when
Pollyanna Grows Up" will they please send
1t to me: | will return the book and favor
IN any way can. All You good -looking
boys and girls write me. | will be soin.
now, as Aunt Julia says be brief. new
cousin,
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Really, Doc, you haven't any idea
what a debt you owe to the hand
made complexion, for it has virtual
Iy eliminated the homely gir!. Beau
ty is only skin deep, you know,
and every skin nowadays is so nice
Iy kalsomined and tinted that it is
the skin you love to touch.
If you should meet girl au
naturel you would be like the man
who thought he objected to rouge.
When his wife came down dolled
up for party he said to her. stern
ly, Madam, go upstairs and wash
your face" The obedient wife did
as she was told When she return
ed as ugly as God created her,
the husband said, Madam, go up
stairs and put on twice as much
rouge as you had on before"
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1t is the men and women who
know themselves and each other fer
poor, weak, stumbling human beings
who know how to make allowances
for each other.