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Evening star., 1924-05-08
BY WILLIAM f. HEFFERNAN,
Received by Privat
Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, May S.-The only
stocks to show marked improve
ment in the curb market trading to-
day belonged to the high-grade
speciality class. which ordinarily are
inactive and attract little attention.
Aside from further unsettlement in
oil shares, the usual active leaders
found difficulty in attracting an out
side following and dealings were for
the most part professional
An exception was Glen Alden
Coal shares, which were actively
taken at new high prices around 9S.
Buying operations in this stock had
been held in check recently on re-
ports of food damage to several of the
Evening star., 1924-05-08
Markets at a Glance

NEW YORK-Stocks irregular;
four oils at new lows. Bonds
heavy; foreign liens react with ex-
changes. Foreign exchange weak
francs break forty points, then rally;
sterling off. Cotton higher; bullish
crop advices. Sugar steady; Cuban
buying. Coffee lower; European SELL
ing.
CHICAGO-Wheat easier; better
Argentine labor reports. Corn lower;
liquidation. Cattle steady to firm.
Hogs active and strong.
Evening star., 1924-05-08
FARM OUTLOOK BRIGHT.
Nebraska Board Of Agriculture
Sums Up State Situation.

OMAHA, Nebr.. May s.-~A brighter
outlook for agricultural production
than has been noted for several
spring seasons" is the way the
state board of agriculture character
ICES the condition on the farms of
Nebraska in its report, May 1.
Reports indicate that live stock,
second basic industry of the state, is
in excellent condition with pastures
and ranges 10 to 25 per cent better
than year ago. Cattle feeding looks
bright with per cent more cattle
on feed in the state than at the same
time last year. The hog production
Evening star., 1924-05-08
ORDERS NEW COPPER RATES,

New rates on copper bullion from
r1arkdale, Ariz., to San Pedro and
East ,dsV av bv the s fntersstate Commeree
Sommfssion. Former rates having
heen found to be unreasonable, action
vas brought by the United Verde Ex-
tAnsion Mining Company against the
atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe and
a+her railroads
Evening star., 1924-05-08
METAL MARKET.

NEW YORK, May s.-Copper
steady. Electrolytic spot and nearby,
1888; futures, 13%al31s.
Tin easy; spot and nearby. 1852;
futures, 1887.
Iron steady; prices unchanged
Lead steady; spot, 7.25a7.50.
Zinc steady: East St Louis spot and
nearby, 5.75a5.80.
AntimonY, spot, S.7a,
Evening star., 1924-05-08
iNr OIL STOCKS.
Washington Stock Exchange.
SALES.

SALES.
Southern Building 6es-$50o at s9i1, 81, 900
at 9915, 81. 900 at 991a, S.. 600 at 991a.
Washington Rwy. & Elec. con.-10 at 71b
Washington Rwy. 6 Elec. pfd.-3 al "a, 5
at "a. 10 at "a, 10 at "a. 10 at "a, 10 at ~.
Washington Gas Light at 4s. 10 at 47&,
at 472,.
141, 10 at 141. 10 al 141, 10 at 141, 10 at 141.
Security Storage at 335.
AFTER CALL.
Washington Gas 6s $500 at 10os.
Commercial National Bank-10 at 141.
Washington Gas $500 at 95.
Money-CalI loans. and per cent.
Evening star., 1924-05-08
NEW YORK MONEY RATES.

NEW YORK, May s.-Cali money
rate, az; closing bid, II; offered at
sA last loan, 81; call loans against
acceptances, 3A; time loans steady;
mixed collateral, sixty to ninety days,
Az; four to six months, IA; prime
commercial paper Az
Evening star., 1924-05-08

wheat crop April / was 81 per cent Al
compared to 81 per cent a year ago
The spring wheat area was reduced
20 per cent and oats and barley acre.
age increased. Farm labor is beips
well supplied.
Evening star., 1924-05-08
Are You "A SuckerY

Too many people put their money
in 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 he knows
about some stock issue that is Of
fered to you privately.
Evening star., 1924-05-08
ASKS $4,000, 600 BOND ISSUE.

The wisconsin Central Railway
Company applied to the Interstate
Commerce Commission today for per-
mission to issue $4,000 900 in 512 per
.n.nt three-year secured gold notes to
lns used for additions and betteyment.
Evening star., 1924-05-08

NEW YORK, May s.-Following is
an official list of bonds and stocks
traded in on the New York Curb
Market today:
Evening star., 1924-05-08
STOCKS.
PUBLIO UTILITY.
NATIONAL BANK.
TRUST COMPANY
PUBLIC UTILITY

American Security & Trust. 3o2
Continental Trust. SAY
Merchants Bank. 130
National Savings & Trust. SEQ
Union Trust. t.............. 165
wash. Loan & Trust. 800
Evening star., 1924-09-30

company, has sympathetic voice.
which is shown to advantage in her
vocal selections. The dancing Is full
Of pep. Both setting and costumes
are attractive.
unique animal act, Lady Alice's
Pets, is the opening number of the
bill and will have wide appeal for
children. especially. Currier and Nc
Williams give a skit entitled The
Act Different that is well thought
out and popular. Most of the comedy
of the bill is presented by two teams,
Marie Sabbot and George Brooks, in
"A Terpsichorean Cocktail and
Harry Ward and Harriet Raymond,
who call themselves "mirthologists,"
and apparently, not without reason
from the response of audiences early
Evening star., 1924-09-30
ADJUSTMENTS
Continued from Eighteenth Page.)

Absent from the stage, the attraction
lapses into mediocrity.
This Miss Arnold. of which there
are two in the cast. yields not one
iota to any one in pulchritude. vivac-
ity, execution. A mere lass with un-
shorn locks, she presents an interest
ing study in contrasts. Versatility is
another of her assets as she sings.
dances. plays the violin, saXophone-
all commercially.
Aside from Miss Arnold. "Round the
Town" is simply a burlesque which
Evening star., 1924-09-30

possibly approaches vulgarity at
times. The comedians are only fair,
and the show boasts no strong male
character. Female headlners carry
the score, Misses Russell, Jackson, Lew
and Lucia Arnold being better than the
average.
Added attractions are scheduled for
the waning nights, including wres
tling. amateur night and auction
night, in the order named.
Evening star., 1924-09-30

this week.
The flm, 1.-THE Man Without a
Heart" is one OF those modern So
ciety dramas with matrimonial mix
ups that are cleverly Strengthened
out so as to please best all con-
cerned. Jane Novak and Kenneth
Harlan are featured
Evening star., 1924-09-30

Economical, too! For remember
that Oh Henry! isn't a "bar
candy" but a fine candy made
in the size of a bar to sell at 10c
for the convenience of people
who don't want much candy at
. time. but do want GOOD
eandyl
Evening star., 1924-09-30
Experiment Not Worth Gamble.

The experiment of Government
ownership is not worth the gamble
unless the Federal and local govern
ments can give the public lower
rates" Mr.. Hoover declared. IF the
Government is to reduce rates it must
do either by the saving of private
profits or by reducing operating ex
pense or Jumping them on the tax
payer. During the past four years
the railroads have on an average
earned less than per cent on the In
terstate Commerce Commission val
uation. Even if this value were re-
duced by 20 per cent. they would
have earned only ) per cent Our
electrical utilities are regulated at
earnings between and per cent on
their invested capital. The Govern
ment could not borrow the huge sums
necessary a less than 5 per cent.
In a sale to the Government the
constitutional requirements would for
various legal reasons probably re-
suit in a much larger sum than the
SAC, 900. 100000 of present valuations
by commissions and others.
Moreover. the wasteful distribution
of the hundred and fifty million Of capi-
tai invested annually in the post office.
reclamation service. Shipping Board.
rivers and harbors and roads, would
priations when our Legislative bodies
get a chance to handle two billions
per annum of new capital outlay.
For all these reasons / am convinced
that interest charges alone to the
Government would be larger than the
present utility profits and no econ
omy lies there. Rather the way OF
the prodigal.
Economy Must DecrSaSe
Nor can the Government operate as
economically as private enterprise.
If we take over nearly three million
new employees into public service we
must put them under an alright civil
service, to be hired by separate
commission and promoted by senior
ity and at once We have created a bu-
reaucracy. Otherwise. we would have
nearly three million jobs to be given
out and d political debauchery un-
paralleled in all history.
There are certain inherent qualities of
bureaucracy in it's deliberative action,
the necessity to maintain joint RESPONSE
bility, its enlargement of red tape de-
signed to prevent error in Judgment and
conduct, all of which are perhaps ali
advantage in pureiy governing func-
tions, bat they become disaster when
-'pplied to the rapidity of movement
Jital to business and service. Numbers
increase for every task The alterna-
tive is political favoritism. And at the
top. where exceptional talent and genius
must be had. neither seniority nor COM
pctitive examination nor politics will
secure or find it. 1t is one thing to
choose a postmaster, but another to
choose railway. president.
Evening star., 1924-09-30
PUBLIC OWNERSHIP DESTRUCTIVE
TO DEMOCRACY, SAYS HOOVER

ICES whole hearted devotion to work" ="
Mr.. Hover quoted from the remarks
of Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor, in
speech at Montreal in 1920, in which
Gompers said IF were in a minority
of one in this convention, I would
want to cast my vote so that the
men of labor shall not willingly en-
slave themselves to government
authority in their industrial effort for
freedom"
Destroy Incentive to Invention.
Government ownership would de-
stroy all competition in invention and
mechanical progress in utility fields,
Mr. Hoover said. THE essence of
progress is that we shall have new
mechanical invention. new ideas in
administration, new developments In
service. BY this operation we de-
stroy the competitive market for new
invention and new ideas, for their
value is determined by competitive
bidding 4 must sell his invention to
the highest bidder. If 3 demonstrates
unusual administrative ability he has
an enlarged market .or his services
with competitors. The G railway eX
periments on new improvement to
attract customers. Neither Congress
nor administrators can appraise the
value of these things.
America has made the most mar
velous advance in the history of man
in the technology and administration
of transportation and applied cleo
tricity. Can any one believe that
this invention. this courage, this ap-
plication, this stimulation to genius
that our nation has brought forth
would ever have developed under d
board of directors Of 500 members
of Congress and hundreds of mem
bers OF State Legislatures? Govern
ment utilities in other parts of the
world get their technology from us.
So far as ! am aware. no single
vital Invention has ever come out of
Sovernment-owne utilities. Science
is only at the threshold of its house
of wonders. 1t may even solve
methods of transportation that would
cause the abandonment of railways
to the taxpayer as it would have
done to naturalization of the stage
coach.
Evening star., 1924-09-30

Imagine q rich butter cream.
dipped in a luscious chevy cara
mel, rolled in crispy, cracking
nutmeats and then given a thick
overcoating of milk chocolate!
That's Oh Henry! As fine .
candy a you ever tasted! Try
slicing it 10c . bar everywhere.
Evening star., 1924-09-30
Company Transferred.

Company c, 18th U. s. Engineers.
has been transferred from Camp Gus
ter, Mich, to Fort Humphreys, Va
Evening star., 1924-09-30
Strand-'Venetian Masque-
raiders.

The Strand has an unusually clever
dance and song act as the headliner
this week. Olga Boehm. the statu-
esque prima donna, who leads the
Evening star., 1924-09-30

The United States has one tele-
phone for every nine inhabitants. and
Italy has one for every 800.
Evening star., 1924-09-30
for Bridge and Nah Jongg Parties

And many mothers, knowing the purity
and the fine quality of Oh HenryJ keep
q dish of Oh Henry! sliced all Of the
sweets, they can always have a slice of
this delicious, pure candy. Your children
will just love Oh Henry!
Evening star., 1924-02-28

run, on the west by Holmes run and
on the south by Cameron run. Old
folk remember it as the site OF Fort
Ellsworth, q landwork which was be-
gun on the day Col. Ellsworth was
shot by jackson ut the Marshall
House in Alexandra in May, 1861.
From that high land one gets as
broad a view as. can be had in the
District or adjacent country, and the
tower of the temple on that hill will
rise 800 feet above the ground. 1t
will be an. impressive object ON the
southwest skyline Of Washington.
This structure. though not finished,
is already called the. George Wash
ington National Masonic Memorial,
and the association in charge of the
work has just met in its fourteenth
annual session. 1t was said during
the session that more than $4,000, 900
has been raised by the Masonic
fraternity of America for this Wash
ington Memorial, and that an appro-
priation by the association of $780,
600 will soon be made for carrying on
construction. And thus the work on
this great temple goes on. 1t is expect.
ed that the memorial will be completed
in 1897.
Evening star., 1924-02-28
Washington "Slums." ("

II Is repeatedly urged that the
"slums" of Washington be CLEANED
up" and one Is given to understand
that the "slums" are in some Of our
alleys. The word "slums' as applied
to a part Of Washington is new to
many Of our people. They have be-
lieved with reason that there were no
"slums" in Washington in the sense
that there are sluns in London, New
York, Chicago aud other cities Of the
largest class It must be true that
some: Of our alleys are in bad shape.
The housing shortage swelled the alley
population, and with the Districts
shortage Of money and other perplexi.
ties alley paving, alley lighting and
alley cleaning suffered. Principal
streets have been in need Of paving
and lighting. There was winter ac.
cumulation OF trash in back yards
abutting on alleys and on some vacant
lots, and the authorities have exerted
themselves toward q cleanup Of such
places. -
There should be no inhabited alleys
in Washington. and our people have
done what they could and will con.
tinue; to do what they can to correct
this. But to say that Washington al.
leys are worse than anything to be
found in New York or Chicago is 60
ing little too. far. There is over
population in some alleys. but this is
not to be compared with congestion in
extensive tensmeut sections o& New
Evening star., 1924-02-28
"A Novel Suggestion.

Judge David Ladd Rockwell, who
is William C. McAdoo's campaign
managet-in-chief, comes forward with
new idea. He would have the oil
investigating committee interrogare
all candidates for the democratic pres
idential nomination who are lawyers
as to what fees they have obtained in
their law practice and who were their
clients. He is quoted as saying that
ne is in earnest in the suggestion. He
insists that what is fair for one Is
fair for all. Mr.. McAdoo. he says,
barred his business relations with his
clients to the investigators and he
thinks that others should do likewise.
He particularly would like to have
Senator Reed show up his books. He
thinks the Missouri senator should
reveal the names of all his clients
since 1920 and tell the amounts he
has received. So that is where the
shoe pinches, In the past few days
Senator Reed has been mercilessly
grilling Mr.. McAdoo in his speeches in
Illinois and Missouri on the subject
Of the enormous fees Mr.. McAdoo! is
alleged by him to have taken since
he left the cabinet to practice law.
From Judge Rockwell's demand II
would seem that Senator Reed has
touched upon the raw.
In the name Of the Prophet, enough!
Is the country going mad over inves-
legations?
Evening star., 1924-02-28
; Holes in Cheese.

OF course, the holes in Swiss cheese
-Schweitzer. it used to be called-are
not the, particularly delectable parts
of that highly esteemed comestible,
but they are characteristic. They are
a sort Of trade mark. So it is re-
garded as highly desirable to put holes
i'll that sort Of cheese. AS well try
to have rnacaroni or spaghetti with.
out holes as Swiss cheese. Macaroni
without holes would be noodles, and
SO Swiss cheese without holes would
be just plain cheese. 1t is all in the
hole. -
1t row appears from testimony
given before a congressional commit
tee. on agricultural appropriations
that sometime ago the Department
Of Agriculture managed to get two
Of its experts to the point Of finding
out how TO put the holes in Swiss
cheese. This was q great achievement,
although the department is not in
the cheese-nalsins business. The
makers received the usual salary
paid to government experts, which
has never been regarded as mu-
nif1cent. Then somehow the secret Of
their success in hole-making leaked
out. and soon along came one of the
big cheese companies of this coun-
try and hired them away from Uncle
Sam. They are now making holes
in Swiss cheese for the trade.
This is the way all through the de
partments. Men-and some women.
too-develop as highly expert work
ers in special lines, reach the maxi
mum of pay allotted to their grades
and then are lured of to private EN-
ployment at two. or three, or even
more, times their government COM
yehsation. They undoubtedly add TO
the value of the industrial organiza-
tions Of the country. but. they leave
vacancies in the government service
that are as hard to fill as the holes
in the Swiss cheese. Uncle Sam
should eventually learn lesson from
these vacuities.
Evening star., 1924-02-28

RS" but whatever tends to broaden
vision, to increase powers of enjoy
ment, to enrich and ennoble life is
eminently worth while.
The fact is that a great deal is be-
ing done today through our public
school systems to accomplish this
end. Less, it would seem, however.
can be said Of our college curricu-
lums. The tendency Of the time is
toward those courses which At the
student to earn a living without re-
gard to whether or not he or she
knows how to live.
OF course, those who have no
knowledge Of art, no contact with
art, are unaware of its value as q
source Of pleasure, of recreation. AS
.Hawthorpe said of stained-glass win
dows, Only those within can realize
their beauty
Evening star., 1924-02-28
George. Washington Temple.

ke all Masons know, and as. most
other persons in the District and
nearby Virginia also know, a Masonic
temple. to be one Of the great temples
Of the world. is being built on the
crest of the ridge west of Alexandria,
an eninence which time out of mind
has been called Shooters Hill, or
something very like that. Why 1t is
called Shooters Hill seems not to have
been explained by historians In Alex.
an6ria, though there Is not much
doubt that they could do it. It.is clear
that some man named Shooter or
Shutter or Sutter or something Like
that lived on this hill or at its base
in the long ago. Through the land
records Of Alexandria, Fairfax and
Prince William counties the story Of
this land has been traced, but no con-
aeetion between it and a man named
Shooter has been found. On the maps
OF the geological survey it is Shutters
Eill. The name Suter is an old one in
these parts, and was familiar in
Georgetown long before the. estab-
lishment OF the District. OF. Columbia.
and the name no doubt goes back in
Virginia before the establishment Of
Georgetown or Alexandra. But the
nanae OF this hill is not . matter Of
great importance. There are in our
part OF the country many place-names
which are hard to account for or
which cannot be accounted for.
Old people in Washington know
this hill well. It is the southeast, end
Of q region OF high hills and plateaus
bounded On ths nos4h hy EoVrsn0s
Evening star., 1924-02-28
. Speedy Justice.

Three mopths from the day OF the
murder Of two Brooklyn bank mes
sengers on the steps of an elevated
railroad in that city and the theft, of
the cash they were carrying, the
fourth of the gang arrested and &C
cused of the crime has been convicted
Of. murder in the first degree. The
fifth gangster. known by name, is still
at large. This is a remarkably speedy
disposition of a case that In ordinary
circumstances would have protracted
for many months. perhaps more than
Il. year. The fourth man, convicted
yesterday, was an employe Of the
bank. which the messengers served,
and il was upon the informat ton given
to the gunmen about their habitual
moves i'll the carrying Of money that
the crime was plotted. He pleaded that
this information had been forced from
him by the gangsters under threat of
death. But unfortunately for him he
had told different stories In the course
Of his statements after the crime and
before his trial. The disagreement be-
tween them was such that the jury
found no ground for reasonable doubt
as to his guilty intent in supplying
the facts that led to the murders.
What this New York court has done
in the speedy administration of justice
other courts can surely do. The con-
viction Of four gangsters Of murder
three months after the commission OF
the crime is proof that the public can
be protected il the processes are only
speeded, without denial OF justice to
the accused. With enterprise on the
part Of the prosecuting officers these
cases can be brought to trial while
the crimes are fresh in the public
mind and in a way to create the deep
est possible impression upon the
minds of the members of the criminal
world.
Undoubtedly failures OF justice and
protracted trials have bred a contempt
for the law on the part Of the pro-
fessional or habitual criminal. He is
willing to take his chance, inasmuch
as that chance seems to be good for
escaping the penalty, which the law
provides for his misdeeds.
Capital crime is less prevalent in
England than in this country in pro-
portion to the population. This is
doubtless due in large MESA ge' to the
fact that British justice Is more
speedy and more certain than Ameri-
can justice. that criminals are more
quickly caught and tried, and when
convicted punished. -
Congestion in the courts is the main
cause Of, delay in trying criminal
cases. This. congestion is due in large
part to the undue protraction Of trials.
In some celebrated cases in this coun-
try many weeks are occupied in testi-
mony and many days in argument,
not to speak OF the days required to
secure juries. Meanwhile other crimes
are being committed and other cases
pile up awaiting action. And when
a conviction is tecorded there are ,ap-
peals and other means Of delay, some
times with retrials lasting almost as
long as the original ones. All this
makes for crowded calendars and for
long lapses between crime and punish.
nent. The New York cases should set
a pace for the courts in every juris.
diction in this country.