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Imperial Valley press., 1924-04-24
Great Britain's
Flyers Held Up
BY United Press Leased Wire

SIMLA, India, April 24.-The
British round the world flight, now
at Karachi, will not get under way
again before Friday or Saturday,
according to advices here today.
Some minor defects developed in
the big Amphibian when 1t seach-
ed Karaehi yestefday, it was said,
and Stuart MacLaren, commanding
the British expedition, decided to
overhaul his plane.
From Karachi the British flyers,
now well ahead of their United
States army competitors, who are
held up in Tnalaska will fly 10
Nasirabad and then to Calcutta.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-04-24
1872 TONS DYNAMITE
USED IN ONE SHOT
By United Press Leased Wire

CORONA, Calf, April 24.-Re
ported to be the largest single shot
of dynamite ever set off, 182 tons
of explosives will be fired at the
Blue Diamond quarry, near here,
Sunday. The charge is stored away
in 13 pockets and 1000 feet of tun-
mel.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-04-24
AMATEUR BOXER KILLED
BY BLOW OF OPPONENT
ny United Press .srnscd wire

BOSTON, Apr. 24.-Frank Molin-
ari, Ruxbury amateur >boxer, died
Wednesday after being knocked out
in fight by Jimmy Picard of
East Boston. Physicians said he re-
ccived bruise at the base Of the
brain.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-04-24

This is an age of nails. The an
clients used a few bronze ones. Once
Americans made them by hand.
Hardwood pegs were q substitute.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-04-24
Driver Fatally
Hurt i'm Crash
BY United Press Leased wire

LOS ANGELES, April 24.-Joe
L. Lee, truck driver, was not expect
ed to live today us result of in
ilries received when his truck and
a street car collided on San Pc
dro street late last night. Four pass
engers on the street car were treat
ed at the Receiving Hospital for
minor injuries.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-04-24

Concrete facts and concrete heads
don't always mix.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-04-24

The Del Monte
Properties Com
pany, Hotel Del
Monte, Calf, use
Zerolene oils sand
greases exclu-
sively in their 23
pieces Of fautomo-
tive equipment.
Evening star., 1924-04-17
BUSINESS SETBACK
NOT REACTIONARY
General Industrial and Trade Con-
ditions in Country Discussed at
Presidents Cabinet Meeting.

Although business has suffered a
slight setback in some lines there
is no reason to believe a general
reaction is about to spread through
out commerce and industry.
This was the general trend of dis
cussion before the most recent meet
ing of the Coolidge cabinet, it was
learned today. Sec stary Mellon
discussed conditions, it vas said, and
explained that there was lessened
activity in certain dire>stions, no
tably coal, textiles, shoes and in
sections Of the southwest
On the other hand. it was pointed
out at the Treasury today that signs
of progress are evident in the rail-
road equipment industry, two large
railroads having just placed orders
for enormous increases in rolling
stock.
The exigenoies of a presidential
campaign were discounted in some
official quarters as not inimical to
business interests, as, it was ex-
planned, there had been during some
campaign years in the past de-
cided increase in demand.
Credit was described as plentiful
for all branches of commerce., manu-
facture and industry, with no pros
poets of a Tightening up apparent at
present
Evening star., 1924-04-17

tend the lines to Nicaragua and the
recent step may be regarded as mere
ly further progress toward the time
when the International Railways of
Central America will extend up and
down the Pacific coast to Panama.
This development is in line with the
recent move made by the United
Fruit Company in inaugurating a
new steamer service from the west
coast of Central America to Califor-
mia and north Pacific coast ports.
The all-rail travel from San Diego
or FL Paso south TO Panama, however,
is not a matter of days, months or
years. The rail lines already built
have been constructed in the face of
many difficulties, physical, financial
and political. However, the prospects
in Honduras for stability are improv-
ing daily. The commercial possibil-
tiles of the Central American coun-
tries are better understood than ever
before. and the demand for their
products has never been so great
since the first refrigerator ship was
put into commission. The Importance
of this trade is such that it affects
nearly every American manufactured
product. and has its bearing in COM
munfties throughout this country,
where the very names of the Central
American republics are almost un-
known.
Fruits U. s. Market Factor.
South American fruits have become
Evening star., 1924-04-17
Are You. n Suckers

Too many people put their money
I'm day dreams and wake up broke.
Never put your name on the dotted
line until you have inquired of some
one in your bank what ne knows
about some stock issue that is Of
fered to you privately.
Evening star., 1924-04-17
EXTRA HAZARDS SEEN
FACED BY INSURANCE
View Held Policies in Certain
Latin Countries Should Have
Revolution Clause.
BY j. @. ROYLE.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
Insurance companies that operate
in some Central and South American
countries are going to have to carry
riot and revolution clauses in their
policies in future If some American
merchants and exporters have their
way. Many New Orleans shippers
have filed claims with the United
States Department of State aggre-
eating 100000 against the govern
ment of Honduras. which grew out of
the recent revolutionary movement
there.
The shippers claim these losses
were sustained on merchandise ship
ments and uncollectable accounts
against Honduran merchants whose
stocks were destroyed during the re-
cent inSurrection. FIVE insurance
companies are reported to have re-
fused to pay damages on these stocks
except where policies contained riot
clauses, and the American merchants
are facing heavy losses unless the
Honduran government can be induced
to make them good. Honduran mer-
chants now have Il large quantity of
goods on order in this country, but
shipments have been held up owing
to unsettled conditions which still OBJ
tain.
Railway Change Not Unexpected.
The formal acquisition of the Guat-
emala railway recently by interests
allied with the United Fruit Company
was not unexpected and is taken in
business circles related to Central
American trade merely to mark an
other step toward further control of
Central American lines by the huge
fruit concern. The interests headed
by Minor c. Keith practically have
controlled all the railroads in Guate-
mala and Salvador for ten years, with
the exception of a small branch out
of Acajutla, which was built by the
Salvadorean government, but on plans
outlined by the Keith engineers.
These roads reach the plantations
of the United Fruit Company and
constitute the distributing system
for their crops. The inauguration of
a new steamer service from the west
coast of Central America to Califor-
mia and north Pacific ports by the
United Fruit Company is taken to in
dicate still further development plans
by that company in other Latin
American districts.
Concessions of recent years have
given these interests the right to ex-
Evening star., 1924-04-17
NEW YORK CURB MARKET
Received by Private Wire Direct to The Star Office

Gillette Safety Razor The buying re-
Elected the excellent earnings position
of the company. New York Telephone
preferred reached higher prices and
sold at 110. Doehler Die Casting. sell
ing eX the 50-cent quarterly dividend
regained the amount which came of;
the selling price.
The market fol oil stocks appeared
to reflect the difference of opinion re-
garding the outlook for the industry
The latest figures on domestic Grade
production, the American Petroleum In
stitute for the week endei April H.
showed an increase Of $3.50 barrels
daily. while those put out by the Oil
City Derrick, another recognized author
ity, showed production at the rate of
approximately 1000 barrels daily less
than in the week previous Kedbann
did better than the rest, crossing %
for a gain of almost points.
Evening star., 1924-04-17

greater factor in the American
markets this winter than ever before.
Melons, grapes and other fruits from
Peru and Ecuador on the west and
Argentina on the east have been
found to stand transportation well in
refrigerator ships and are at their
best when northern markets are bare
of similar products grown in this
country. However, the transportation
charges so far have put their fruits
in the luxury class at prices beyond
the reach of all except the extremely
well to do.
Financiers and steamship men re-
Gently arrived from Cuba blame the
recent Mexican revolutionary activi-
ties for unsettling labor conditions in
the Pearl of the Antilles. In speak
Evening star., 1924-04-17

A school to train woman labor lead
ers has been established in Chicago
by the National Womans Trade Union
League of America
Evening star., 1924-04-17
Sales INDEPENDENT OIL STOCKS.
Washington Stock EXCHANGE.

SALES.
Capital Traction 5s-S1 900 at 97L
Capital Traction Co at 9312.
Washington Rwy. & Elec. pfd -12 at 74h
District National Bank-10 at 1622, 10 at
1924.
National Mortgage & Investment pfd.-100
at S1a, 100 at 81, 100 at Sa. 100 at So.
AFTER CALL.
Washington Gas IS $500 at 1o1, 81, 600
at 1904, $500 at 101
Washington Rwy. & Elec. 4s-s500 at T1%
Potomac Electric Cons. 5s-S1 600 at 81.
Capital Traction-10 a 93L.
Warrington Rwy & Fec. 4s-S1, 900 at II y.
Notce-This exchange will be closed tomor-
row-Good Friday.
Money-Call loans. ) and 6 per cent
Evening star., 1924-04-17

NEW YORK, April 17.-Following
is an official list of bonds and stocks
traded in on the New York Curb
Market today:
Evening star., 1924-04-17

Ing of Cuban conditions, Frank C.
Munson, president of the Munson
Steamship line, said: "The only eco
nomic uncertainty is in labor condi-
tons. Cuba's great advantage of
abundant labor working under
stabilized conditions is somewhat
threatened by agitation. caused to
some extent by defeated Mexican
rebels who have found refuge in
Cuba"
Evening star., 1924-04-17
BY WILLIAM +. HEFFERNAN,
Special Dispatch to The sto-

special Dispatch to The Star
NEW YORK, April 17.-The most
noteworthy movement on the curb
exchange today was the further sharp
advance in the newly listed National
Tea common. At $40 it was selling
10 points above the Wednesday final.
FOLLOWING listing of the stock it was
announced that a dividend of s5 had
been declared, thereby placing it on
an annual basis of $50. The directors
also announced their intention of dis
tributing a stock dividend of $50 per
cent.
Another high-priced industrial to come
Ill Tor. attention at rising prices was
Evening star., 1924-04-17
Money to Loan

Secured by first deed of trust on real estate.
Prevailing interest and commission.
Ioeapb T Weller 420 Wash. l.. & Trust
Bldg, 9th & NV.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-21
STEEL AND EIGHT.HOUR DAY

The process of eliminating the twelve hour day from the steel industry has been proceeding with great irregularity. Some centers report almost complete change to the eight-hour day, while oth- CTS have made little headway. In some cases the subsidiaries of the Steel Cor poration have taken the lead, and in other places the independents have done 50, Some centers report that the eight hour day has been installed with an in- crease in the tendency towards the seven- day week. Others say that the seven-day week is optional with their employees, while some report a decline in the seven- day week.
 Tt is noted that there is a general agreement that the change to shorter days has been effected without any i'm pairment to the output and with decided social benefits to the employees in many ways. Eventually the entire steel indus try will be operating actually on the new basis, and there is no apprehension that the industry will suffer, but rather that it will profit. It is interesting to note that in the case of both the twelve-hour day and the Pittsburg plus, fears were expressed beforehand that their elimina- ion would be injurious. After the event intboth cases the reverse has been found to be true. Reforms bring their own re- wards, if they are based on sound req sons, either economic or humanitarian.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-21
A NEAR.GREAT FRENcHMAN

It appears that many of the leading world figures in international politics of today are kept from true greatness by their own failure in significant crises. For example, the world is ready to give M. Poincare credit for his part in forcing the Germans, into a frame of mind where they were willing to resume their pledges in order to escape further repression of industrial activity. M. Poincare has an official record that needs only the proper climax to make him truly great. Yet it appears that the former premier is will ing to permit political considerations to balk such achievement.
 Premier Herriot has come back from the London conference with some per- sonal triumph because of the successful outcome of the negotiations in which he played prominent part with no incon. siderable skill. But it is reported that M. Poincare intends to take the floor against the government in the forthcom- ing interpellat;ons in the French senate Thus M. Poincare, by failing to discern that the Herriot success, is but the logica
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-21
EeTRICITY AND POPUTATTON.

Use of electricity for power and light re- moves the chief incentives for people to gather in large cities. They no longer need to trans- port the source of these necessities lg77to a common point. The supply flowing along a wire be diverted at any point within wide radius of electric distribution, and 1t is con stant, not subject to interruption by miners
 strikes or railroad congestion. Railroads fol- low the route of main transmission lines to furnish transportation. On navigatble rivers progress of power development and navigation will be parallel, Sites for industries and for cities that form around them can be found at many points within the radius of distribution, where the cost of land is not enhanced by huge aggregations of population, and pure water can be taken from the mountain streams that generate electricity. Hence hydroelec- tric power will stimulate building of many small cities in place of 8 few great ones. They will be smokeless cities, with pure air and water, with room for garden around each house and without slums. Paved high ways and automobiles will make communiea- tion between these cities as swift and easy as it formerly was between sections of the large cities in the age of the horse. Electricity will both scatter the population and draw it to- gether-POrtland Oregonian.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-21
Deductions

From clay tablets inscribed with lhn- guage considered dead even in the days of Babylon's glory, German scientists have de- ciphered certain signs which lead them to be- lieve that the words express rhythm of even time and consequently must be taken for the most acient form of music writing. From the number of intonations 1t has been estab- lished that the ancients used instruments with twenty-two strings or tones. The music has certain characteristic simflarities with Chi nese music of the tenth century before the Christian era. This again has led to the be- lief in archaeological circles that Chinese set tiers populated the valleys of Mespotamia be- fore the Babylonians, Assyrians and Chal- deans came there. From the Bible we know that the Chaldeans lived in UT in Abra- hams time, and were then an old-estRhlished people in that region. Mesopotamia is gen erally considered the cradle of the human race. Simurians with strong Chinese infu- sion lived there before the Chaldeans, which brings us pretty close to the direct descend ants of the first human beings. And we may reasonably ask the question if Adam then was not a Chinaman.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-21
HOw BOBOLTNK WINS MATE.

Just as a man should have home and visible means of support before he can prop erly marry, 80 must the bobolink guarantee protection and have a building lot before he secures a mate.
 When the birds return in the spring from their southern migration, the first arrivals are males only In early May flocksaof cock bobo- links can be found living and feeding in per feet amief Toward the middle of the month the birds widely scatter. Observation will show that each bird holds sway over sec tion of the meadow, and that intrusion by a rival is met by attack.
 The proud possessor has favorite perch, a bush or a tall weed, from which he pours forth his song He is advertising to the newly arrived females of the species that he is the owner of fine suburban plot, with assurance of all the necessities of bobolipk life, and that he is prepared to creek a one-r8em bungalow.
 He also Osinforms other males that this par ticular territory Is occupied and that all trass passers will be dealt with severely. A female approaches the territory and, if pleased with the prospects, remains as his mate, The lit. tie space of meadow becomes sacred to the newly welded pair, and nothing short of death will separate them.-Lee s. Grandal in the Mentor. N
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-21
The Worlds " iisdoa,
Battle Of JutIand Controversy
By PIERRE VAN PAAssEN


 A N official narrative of the battle of Jut- EA land has just been published by the
 British govesnment The British press doubts whether the book will end the contro- versy over that battle, in which, according to Lord Beatty, .'the enemy conducted himself with superb seamanship and in the gentle manly manner which we had expected" One thing is certain, that there was a great deal of confusion and several instances of wrong interpretation of signals in that fight, when the fate of the British empire and practically the whole world hung in the balance From the German admiral's report it has become known that on the morning after the first clash the Germans expected to see the British battieships bar their way to Heligoland and area protected by shore defenses, but though they scanned the horizon they saw not q sin gle British vessel, to our great relief" No body believes that the British avoided an- other engagement with the enemy on that morning and the escape of the German fleet at that time must be laid to wrong signaling. The effect of the first news of the battle among the soldiers in the trenches was ter rife. We recollect experiencing q shudder when it was whispered that the whole British fleet had been wiped out. This report so stfongly affected the morale of the troops that hourly bulletins were issued Later, of course, 1t became clear that the battle had been British victory. At least the Germans never risked coming out again until the sur render.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-21
EnUironn.ent Of Ideas
HALF of any idea Is it's environment.
 We appeal from Philip drunk te
By DR. FRAAK oRANR
philip eober, for the reason that an

We appeal from Philip drunk to
 Philip sober, for the reason that an idea that is one thing in drunken brain is ha very different thing in Q sober brain.
 Every woman knows very we'll that when she is all dressed up, primped, powdered and perfumed, not only her appearance but also the core of her consciousness and the insides of her everlasting soul are changed. Putting on nice clothes is, to woman, something like getting converted.
 4 lawyer can think out case, when he is in his office, with sheep-backed books in bat tie array all around him, with his feet on the table, and the roar of the city pouring into his window, much better than if he were dressed in his Sunday clothes and sitting at the handicapped parlor table, while the chill dren are crying in the snext room
 The Italian mind has certain contents, made up of point of view, principles, perhaps prei- udices, racial traits, and the like so have the minds of the peasant from Slavonia, the Jew from Warsaw, the Scandinavian from Stock holm; yet when these are put into the melt ing pot" of America and soaked for some years in saturated solution of the United States each is dyed, spiced, and favored through and through.
 am the same, generally speaking; but somehow on q bright ssuRny day in spring, walking the wood path with my June-spice. I am not the same man thatYI am on a cold winter morning when the radiator is frozen up, my breakfast is indisestjng, and am wondering where next months rent is coming from.
 Speaking learnedly; let us state that per sonality is but the fixed center of expert. ence; individuality IS no more than small coagulated drop oflthe group I am bit of the all. x
 Of course, this iasoniy partly true nothing is wholly, absolutely, and always true except something that isn't true at all. r
 can overcome my environment, an po weather vane, and so on, and so on. Still for all that, even in the strongest of us the soul lcannot wholly. resist it's setting.
 Hence, here's an open secret, to wit, DamP ly: The most genuine virtrues is that which seeks the companionship of the virtuous the most reliable honesty Is the kind that runs from temptation; the very best kind of a gentleman is one wiio avoids as far as pos sible the vulgar; the real student is he that loves the studious atmosphere; the good man is one who is happiest among good people. | The law of life and Of type is that every organism naturally finds it's appropriate en- yironment
 But what a thin plagiarist I am For did not great poet, ages ago, say this sarne thing, to the effect that blesse6ness is q matter of walking sitting and standing :? Blessed" he spid,, lis the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, or stand ! eth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of 1. e scomf,l,"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-21
TRANSPORTATION VISION

It is reassuring to the territory served by the Panama Canal through the Gulf ports to discover that those who are ad- vocating the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence waterway for grain from the Northwest are not seeking to divert business from the Panama Canal. On the contrary, they are seeking to free the Northwest 8 agricultural industry from the railroad grip that has cost the farmer untold sums, not only in exOrbitant rates, but also in car-shortages, ,Nport preferentials and other devices to help the East and West roads at the unjust expense of the producers. In commenting on the un- favorable report to the Interstate Com merce Commission on the request of the Western railroads for permission to re- duce through rates so that these roads may compete with the Panama Canal, while leaving local rates still at the high level, the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Tide water Association bulletin editorially re- marks: "There is no solution to the Pan- anna problem through the readjustment of rates Any attempt to put back the manufacturer where he was before, or to give back to the railroads the traffic which Panama has taken from them is bound to work fresh injustice. It can't be done that way"
 The policy that should be adopted, ac- cording to the bulletin, is a rounded de- velopment of waterway facilities: "The remedy is not to be found in choking off Panama traffic, but by building other traffic. Not by canceling the benefits of the Panama Canal, but by equalizing it's benefits to every part of the continent As it is now, the grain for which the as- sociation fights does not go out by way
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-21
 The FirefIies

q. L. Elderdice in Baltimore sunl Twilight darkles into night; By the gate a lad and lass Watch the winking, melting light Of fireflies tangled in the grass,
 Glinting, gleaming; Smiling hope is whispering near Of the joyance love holds dear, And the Taptured lovers hear, And the raptured lovers hear,
 Dreaming, dreaming, Gransire, grandame, in the gloom Of the old porch where they sit, Scent the orchards rich perfume, Where phosphorescing fireflies fit,
 Glowing, gieaming; Memory, silent, standing nigh, Backisard points to Junes gone by, And the lovers smile and sigh,
 Dreaming, dreaming. Ever, under summer skies
 Age remembers, bright youth hopes, Notes the pulsing fireflies
 Over fragrant, emerald slopes
 Glancing, gleaming; Little matters youth or nge, So love all life's ills asSuage; lHappy hearts bliss still presage,
 Dreaming. dreanling,