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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-01
HUBBARD BROS. & co.

Members New York Cotton Exchange, New Orleans Cotton Exchange, New York Produce Exchange, AssOciated Members Liverpool Cotton Association. Orders solicited for the purchase and. sale of Cotton and Cotton Seed oil foP future delivery. Special cOnsig nments OG SpOt cotton for delivery.
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Week. 2,364 season. 5,l9l,i
 INTERIOR MoVEMENT
COTTON LETTERS

NEW ORLEANS, La, May 31.-The cool rainy weather of the past two days, coupled with prospects of more pears to have made those who were short nervous and at same time stimulated a good deal of fresh buy ing in anticipation of bullish estimate from the government Monday. The Times Picayune made the condition 66..3. The feeling Is growing that the government report Monday will be ac- cepted as bullish even if 1t comes as high as 67- owing to recent unfavorable weather and that an upheaVal Is likely to occur if 1t comes much under that. Kahn & Virgin to Fenner 6 Beane.
 COTTON NEW ORLEANS, May 31.-The week. end finds tendency of the cotton mar ket upward owing continuance of un- favorable weather in the interior. more rain in Texas and in scattered dis tricts of other sections of the belt with temperatures below normal in the upper part of the cotton region which Is considered unfavorable for progress of new crop.
 Private advices from Texas coast reigion and from the lower Rio Grande section of the southwest Texas any rains are delaying cultivation and mak- ing plant growth at the expense of fruitition; that the plant in those sec tions Is growing too fast. not fruit ing well, and unless dry hot weather is had soon, there will be little new
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FLAX MARKET

NEW YORK, May 31.-Raw silk rubber and steel unchanged. Holiday
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CINCINNATI, Ohio, May s1.-Hogs: Receipts, 4.2O0; steady to 1Oc higher; heavy,. $7.s0; packers and butchers, %'8O; heavy fat cows, $5.00@6.25; pigs and lights, $4.5O@6.9O.
 Cattle: Receipts, 1,5O0; market steady. Lambs, steady
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FoREIGN RXCHANGEs

NEW YORK, May 3l.-Foreign eX- changes quiet; quotations in cents: Great Britain demand, $4.SOA; cables 4.3Is, 60-day bills on banks, 4.2SM France Demand 5.os; cables, BIO Itsiy; 4.sS1a, ASA. Belgium, Al, AZ Gefpnany: (per trillion), .2312. Hol- land. 37.S6. Norway, 1869. Sweden, 26.AS. Denmark, 1877. Switzerland, 17.s2. Spain, 1868. Greece, 1.ss. Pc land. 900 0l2. Czecho-Slovakia, 2.93A Jugol Slavia, 1.231a. Austria. .OO14. :. Rurnania, A. Argentina, S2.75. Brazil, 11.66S Tokio, 409s. Montreal, 9sb.
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LIVESTOCK

KANSAS CITY, May 31.-Cattle receipts, 2,000; calves, 200; for the week |; better grades of fed steers and yearl- ings, 25c to soc lower; better grade beef cows and heifers, 10c@15c lower; canners strong; cutters, steady; bulls, fully steady; veals, $1@2 lower; feed CTS, 25c lower; stocKers, 25c@50c low CT, weeks bulk prices; fed steers. $7.55 @9.75; Texans, $5.75@7.60; yearlings, $7.00@S.50; beef cows, s4.50@6.75; hei- fers, $6.5o@S.5o; canners and cutters, $2.5o@375; bologna bulls. $4.25@4.s5; vealers to packers, $S.00@9.00; stockers and feeders, $5.7567.50.
 Hogs-receipts, $500; steady to 10c higher; bulk of sales, $6.75@7.05; bulk 1s0 to 260-pound averages, S6.90@7.O5; packing sows steady; mostly, $6.40@ $50; stock pigs, strong.
 Sheep-receipts, 1000; for the week lambs, steady to 50c higher; top natives and Arizona springers, $16.00; clippers mostly $13.25@13.75; sheep, 25c@50c lower; weeks top; Texas wethers, $7.50; i; late sales mostly $6.75@7.25; fat ewes largely S5.5O66.25,
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NAYAL STnREs

NEW ORLEANS, May 31.-The ric, exchange will be closed on Saturday, during the summer.
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NEW ORLEANS COTTON NEW ORLEANS May 3l.--F0lowlng are the opening. highest lowest and closing quotations on the New Orleans Cotton Exchange:
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RICE MARKET

 DULUTH, Minn., May 31.-Close flax May, 2.4sA asked; July. 2.S9%; Septem Der, Els; October, PIP asked.
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POULTRY AND PRODUCE
 KANSAS CITYY, Mo, May S1.- Boosters 1c lower at lie; hens hc low CT at 21c.
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LONDON MONEY

LONDON, May S1.-Bar silver S51s pence per ounce; money, IA per cent; discount rates short bills, per cent; 8 months bills, 8 1-6 per cent.
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MARKETS AT A GLANCE

NEW YORK:
 Exchanges closed. Foreign exchange ,,uuiet French franc lower. F CHICAGO: Cattle-Irregular; hogs, irregular strong demand. Wheat weak, in sym pathy with weakness at Winnipeg. Corn. easy, better weather.
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Hogs-receipts, 12,000; steady to strong; bulk good butchers, 200 pounds and up $7.4o@7.45; good, 120 to 13o-pound pigs, $6.5o@S.75; bulk packer sows, $6.S5
 Cattle. receipts, 1,7O0; compared with week ago, native beef steers, 25c to 40c lower; light yearlings and heifers, 25c to Soc lower; beef cows, 50c to 75c lower; canners, 10c to 15c higher; bulls, steady to strong; light vealers, $1O0 lower: stockers and feed CTS, 25c to soc lower; Dulks for week; native steers, $7.55Q975; Texans, $7.65 @7.S5; yearlings and heifers, $7.50@ 800; beef cows, $5.006.25; canners, $225 @2.75; bologna bulls, $4.25@5.00.
 Sheep receipts, 500; steady to strong; receipts mostly spring lambs; top and bulk, $16.25; culls,. $9.25; few fat light ewes, $6,50; heavies, $5.5o; for week, fat lambs weak to 25c lower; culls, soc lower; sheep, steady.
 ss-5 n, LIVESTOCK
 CHICAGO, May 1.-Hogs-Receipts, 1S,00O; desirable kind strong to 5c high CT; others slow, steady to 10c lower; strong demand; bulk good and choice, bulk desirables, 160 to 225-pound weight, $71O@7.35; bulk packing sows, $6.5o@ 66o. Bulk good and choice strong weight killing pigs, $5.sO@6.1o; esti- IudLSQ nOLQOVer, 9,UUU,
 Cattle: Receipts, 5000; compared steers active, 15 to 25c higher; light kind and yearlings sluggish; weak to 25c lower; fat cows, Soc to $100 lower; cutters, 20 cents off; canners and bulls about steady; vealers, $1.25@1.50 lower; stockers and feeders, 25 to 50 cents lower; weeks bulk prices follow; fed steers, $S.25@10.50; stockers and feed ers' $6.OOQS,00; beef cows, $5.25@7.00; beef heifers, -$6.50@S.00; canners and $50.
 Sheep: Receipts, 5000; today around 5000 direct; market generally steady; few native springers, S1675 for week around 14,O0O direct; 72 cars fed lots; compared week ago. lambs strong to shade higher; sheer, ,2505Oc lower; bulk prices follow: Fat lambs, S14.O0614,75; spring lambs, $16.O0@1675 western springers, $1715Q1745; yeariing weth- ers' $12.OO@12.25; fat ewes, $6.O0@7OO.
 NASHVILLE, Tenn, May S1.-Cat- tie: Receipts, 75; market steady; heavy steers, d.50@S.50; beef steers, S7.OO@ 7.50; heifers, $7.O0@7,50; cows, $6.O0@ S;5o; feeders, $4.5o@s.5o; stockers, ss.5o
 Hogs: Receipts, 1000; medium and heavy hogs and throwouts, 10c higher; light hogs. 5c higher; 2tJ pounds and up, S7.45; 165 to 200 pounds, $7.45; 130 to 165 pounds, $6.50; pigs, $4.4OG5.40; throwouts, $5.40 down.
 sheep: Receipts 1000; choice lambs and seconds, 25c lower; fat sheep, soc lower; choice spring lambs, $16.O0@ 1850; seconds, $10.00Q11.OO; cull lambs, $6.OOQS.O0; choice fat sheep, $5.00@5.5O; medium sheep, $3.O0@4.OO; cull sheen, $1.OO@2.OO; bucks, $2.5O down.
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Evening star., 1924-09-04

] WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR DEBTS
Contracted by any other than myself WAL
TER Il. MORTIMER. 1853 4th St ne 5s
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to Shanghai, however, and the ap-
pointee of the Chekiang governor
took office. Shanghai seemed to want
1t that way.
U. 9. Envoy Causes Flare-Up.
The controversy fared up again
when DR.. Jacob Gould Schurman, the
American minister stopped in Shang-
hal In January and went out to call
on Tatao Lu Yung Hsiang at Hang
Chow, who, though being an indepen-
dent governor. was not recognized by
the powers At that time the vari-
Gus provinces were imposing con-
sumer taxes on cigarette smokers. DR..
Schurman. possibly under the impress
sion that the independent governor
and not the kiangsu governor as well
was imposing the tax. indicated the
powers would demand Peking take
measures to prevent this collection.
This was interpreted by many as
sanction by the powers of a war on
Chekiang. and it has been used as a
justification for the present conflict.
Every influence is undoubtedly be-
Ing used to bring Chang Tso-Lin into
the fray. Chang and WI joined forces
in 1920. and ousted Tuan Chi Jul and
the Anfu clique from Pekins. For a
year the puppets which the two war
lords put into office were recognized
as the government of China and then
the Readers were at war. Chang was
defeated on the plains south of Pc
Evening star., 1924-09-04

THIS Is TO GIVE NOTICE THAT THE FIRM
of r. Lee Taylor & Co.. heretofore operating
meat business at stalls Nos. as. a and 75
Ifh 81. wing of Center Market, has been dis
solved Mr.. Bernard Lee Taylor. one of the
former partners. Will continue 10 maintain the
same business at the same place. under the
same title. Mr. William T. Chewniug the
other nf the former partners will become as
So"iated in the conduct of a meat busine ss
with Charles W. Keith at stalls 81 IS and SO
in the ifh Il. win: Of Cente- Ma kAt
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GERMANY IS NOT READY
TO ADOPT 6-H0UR PACT
Economic Conditions Delay Ac-
ceptance of Washington Agree
ment, Says Minister of Labor.
Rv the Associated Pre>s


BERLIN. September 4-The Ger
man government is as yet unab to
act on the International eight hour
agreement. drawn up in Washington
in 1919, Minister of Labor Brauns de-
clared yesterday in the first official
governmental statement to the press
on Germany's attitude toward the
agreement
Germany" he said, "favors the
agreement in principle and has never
refused to ratify the principle in
yolved, but the government as yet is
not able to act because she is facing
extraordinary conditions incidental
TO the burdens placed on her re-
suit of the war"
Herr BraunS declared that the en-
tire economic situation of Germany
was so unclear that the government
could not proceed Independently as
the other nations had Furthermore.
ne added. such varied practices had
been adopted by the other nations re-
garding the working day that il was
difficult to understand the attitudes
of many.
The -Lokal Anzieser declares today
that because of the Dawes report
there is no possibility of Germany
accepting the Washington agreement.
as il would handicap reconstruction
and reparation payments. The Eor-
waerts. on the other hand. insists that
Germany must ratify the agreement
as soon as possible. The entire ques-
tinn will come up before the Reichs-
tag next month.
Evening star., 1924-09-04
WIDENING STREETS
ISSUE UP TOMORROW
Large Attendance Fx~ected at
Hearing in District Building
on Proposals.

A repres, ntative turnout of organ :
jyations and indiv dualS is expected
TO gather in the h"rrdr"om or the
District Building ut 10 O'Clock tomor-
row morning for tn" public hearing
on A proposal to widen five of the
main traffic arteries OF tn city.
The board of Commit sinners. Engl-
neer Commissioner Rell said today. is
not committed to any of TIL" suggested
changes in street width. the purpose
Of the hearing being to get the views
OF the community before passing on
them.
The streets tO he considered for
widening are NJ rreet IN Georgetown
from TWentN-n;n.h TO Thirtv-fifth,
Tenth street from + street to Missa-
chuS"trs avenue. Eleventh street from
!, to q streets X street from Four
teeuth to Sixteenth streets and
Eladenshurg road from Fl street to
the end of the present ASPHALT paving.
IT after the hearing the Commit :
sioners, should decide to widen any
If the streets mentioned approval
of Congress would have to be obta ned
in the next appropriation act. The
possible effect of an extensive street
widening program on the shade trees
pro tably Will be one phase of the
question dtscu sed at the hearing.
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However. the program has been
carried out as planned in central
China. The Yangtse Valley Is under
his control, his officials are installed
in Shantung. the cost of decrepit
navy has been foisted on its railroad.
and :, controls everything from the
great wall south to the three southern
provinces except Chekiang province
and Shanghai City.
Chekiang and Shanghai stand out
like red blot on Marshal Wu's
otherwise perfect chart. They con-
troll the mouth of the Yangtse and
without them the most important
link in dominating of central China
is lacking. Chinese soldiers VIII not
fight in bad weather. on holidays or
after dark. Only a few weeks more
of balmy weather remain in this
year. but by a quick campaign. the
trick may be accomplished. The at
tempt to capture Shanghai has been
anticipated for months, but when 1t
came at the eleventh hour of the
waning Summer. it was a surprise. as
nave been most of Marshal Wu's
moves.
Shanghai Long Sore Spot.
Shanghai has been a sore spot for
the Governor of kianGSu ever since
he was appointed to office by PekinS.
Shanghai is in kiangSu province but
instead of being under the control of
Nanking. the capital of that province.
1t is under Hang Chow. the capital
of Chekiang. Politics has separated
the greatest commercial city of Chine
from the capital OF its own province.
The defense commissioner of Shanghai
the most important official in the
city. is appointed by the Governor of
Chekiang, system which survives
from the old Anfu party days when
Tuan Chi Jul was the power in
Prking.
Less than year ago the effort of
kiangsu to get control of the metrop-
oils within it's own border came to d
CRISIS when the defense commissioners
was assasinated and a successor was
to be appointed Each governor
named a man. The one from Nam
king did not risk his ribs by going
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tContinued from Fist Page.)
the latter China's largest and richest
province, with. a popula ton Of sixty
mifion, nation in it"elf--have, only
been subdued this last Summer by the
governor of HHp"h. whom WI dele
gated for the task They would smite
Wu's force on the South and West.
while DR.. Srn Yat Sen, for the past
20 months busy with a local war
around Canton. would hail 1t as the
opportunity to annihilate WI and
"gain unity China. Wu realizes all
this, but he has weighed it, and as he
has tr1umphed over Chang, Sun and
others in other years, he is ready for
the fray.
Though the present fighting is merely
between troops of two provinces, it
accords with the military strategy
which Marshal Wu has successfully
used in adding other provinces to his
string. for civil purposes called the
central government and recognized by
the powers as the on'y government of
China because Peking is its capital and
the foreign legation quarters are there.
Human troops subdued Hupeh in 1923.
and gave WI the rich cities of Hankow
and Wuchang. including the Hanyans
Irs' nal. He appointed the governor Of
Hupeh, and this year the latter was
called on to furnish the troops and
finance the expeditions to subdue
Human, and Szechwan. In the latter.
WI got the Chengtu arsenal. Shanghai
also has an arsenal prize.
Wu's Strategy Apparent.
The present skirmishing Al it starts
shows every Indication of the deft
and nimbi" brain of WI Pei Flu
behind the scenes. Chi Hsieh Yuen,
tuchun of ki"ngSu, who recognizes
the au' hority of PPking. is launch ns
the attack on Lu Yung Hsiang. tatao
of Chekiang Che renounced the mill
tary title of tuchun), who declared
his province independent several
years ago. When other governors
have been unable to Subdue their
ncighbors, WI has reinforced them
with generals, troops. ammunition,
funds and his own military genius.
He may do the same in the present
struggle.
The present attack on Shanghai
also accords with part of the program
which Wu Pei Flu has been carrying
out this year. His program at the
opening of the year was to bring
under his control all of China South
of the great wall-leavinS Chang Tso
Lin North of it unmolested for
another year. Or. Sun Vat Sens
big province of Kwangtung u no.
mans land. but Wa has taken
Szechwan Human, KiangSu and Fuk il II
on its northern borders. Yunan in
the far south under Tuchun Tang
Chi Yao also is independent and the
portion of the program also must go
over another year.
Evening star., 1924-09-04

king in 1922, and his broken army
fled back north of the Great Wall.
Since then he has been developing
the steppes of which he is master,
storing gold in his Manchurian banks,
building up an army, manufacturing
poison gas, aeroplanes, Stokes NOR
tars,. artillery, ammunition and rifles
with foreign experts doing the in
structing. WI Pei Flu has been going
ahead on similar scale for the
struggle which they consider newt
able. When ! saw Chang last spring,
he said that this struggle would not
come this year. Wu, when seen few
months earlier. was more optimistic
He may have precipitated H. by the
attack on Shanghai.
The aged Tuan Chi Jul, though re-
tired from politics and solacinE his
years by studying Buddhism in his
home in the foreign concession in
Tientsin, is not power to be ignored
The Governor of Chekiang is his pro-
tege. 1t is certain that his message
TO Chang was that now is the time to
strike, before his rival adds the I'M
mense wealth of Shanghai and an
other arsenal to his resources DIR.
sun VIII add the same advice, as
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months ago he announced the consol-
idated government of China, which in
cluded the present lineup against
Marshal WI.
Foreign and Chinese business in
Shanghai will be seriously hurt as
long as the troubles continue near
the city, and it has been largely
through their influence and protests
that it was ayerted on previous occa-
sions. While the port of Shanghai,
being on the whangpo, will be open
to ocean commerce, it's outlet to the
interior on which it's trade depends
will be broken. The only persons not
depressed are the arms trafhckers.
They invision fortunes. as the inter-
national arms embargo is harder to
enforce than preventing rum run
ming.
Copyright. 1924, by Chicago Daily News Coz
Evening star., 1924-09-04
Democrats to Meet.

The Mcdonald Washington Black
burn Club will meet tonight at 8
o'clock at the home of Mrs. Francois
Berger Moran, 23l5 Massachusetts
aveEue. Members of all Democratic
clubs are invited
Evening star., 1924-09-04

Say 1T With Gude's FIOwer~-
Prize winning American Beauty
roses always in favor. 1912 F.-Ad-
NertlSement
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WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR NO BILLS
other than those contracted by myself A. l..
FRANKS, 2l3 18th ST ne es
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WANTkD--TO BRING 4 yANl.OAD OF FUR
niture from New York. Philadelphia Bethie-
hem and Easton, Pa: Wilmington Del . DO
ser, y. j.. and Richmond. Va to Washing.
ton. SMITHS TRANSFER & STORAGE CO.
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DEVASTATING VAR, UNEQUALED
IN HISTORY, LOOMS in CHINA

Continued from Fist Page.)
Evening star., 1924-09-04

WANTED : To BRING 4 NANIDAD OF
furniture or part. New York, Boston Pitts
burgh Norfolk, Va. from or to Washington.
Special rates National Delivery Assn, NJ 53s
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-04-18
HEAVY USAGE WEARS
AWAY GRAVEL ROADS

Because the gravel is grinding
away under heavier traffic faster
than it is being replaced with new,
many sections of the Minnesota
trunk highway system are not in as
good condition as two years ago
division engineers agreed at re-
cent monthly meeting at the St
Paul offices Of the state highway de-
partment.
Trunk route patrolmen will be
urged to haul more gravel this season
toward restoring the graveled sec
tions, even at the expense of other
work. This remedy for the threat
ening condition was decided the only
alternative although the engineers
said that continued extravaganza in
the use of gravel on the heavier
travelled roads will result in a gravel
famine in the state before many
years.
Evidence that there is too little
rather than too much road dragging
during dry weather, was submitted
when several public criticisms to the
contrary were taken up. The en-
gineers without exception were OF
the opinion that dragging is essen
tial in dry weather to prevent the
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been wired on securely. Wire guy
lines, fastened to ironstakes driven
into the ground supported the cross.
Similar demonstrations have been
made at Virginia and Eveleth re-
Gently, but just what it is supposed
to mean, no one seems to know. as*
Palm Sunday services, St. James
Presbyterian church, II a. m. special
musical program will be rendered by
the choir. The evening service will
be in charge of the Rev. Mr.. Brown
of Ely. who will preach and ordain
and install the newly elected boards
of elders and deacons. Mayor Suth-
erland and Mr.. Brown will exchange
pulpits for the evening service at
z 80. **Charles Ronkainen and Miss
Elsie Johnson, well known and popu-
| lar young residents of this place
were united in marriage last Sunday
at the home of the brides parents
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles johnson, on
Main street. Rev. Kerranen of Ely
read the marriage ceremony and the
attendants were Miss Ida hampton
and Wayne Ronkainen, a brother OF
| the groom. ***Mr. and Mrs. Der
Johnson motored down from Ely
Sunday and spent the day with
friends and relatives. They were
accompanied by Miss Aurora Lind
beck. ***Ronald and Miss Alvins
Morcom and their mother, Mrs. E. ]
Morcom, together with Miss Ella
Gruben of Tower, motored to Ell!
last Sunday in the Morcom cars
Mako Pasich of Ely renewed &C
quaintances here Sunday.-Towel
Il News.
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COUNTY CLUB BOOSTER
TRIP AUGUST IL AND IL

The st. Louis County club at its
meeting at the Duluth Chamber Of
Commerce Saturday, decided to
abandon it's semi-annual meeting
conducted on the range, and con-
centrate all energies on its Sixth
Annual Booster tour Aug. IL and
.12.
Practically every range town will
be visited, according to w. c. Sar-
gent, president of the club. The
itinerary will be mapped out at a
later meeting.
The club is negotiating with range
towns for the purpose of finding a
location for conducting the inter
national Potato show next fall.
Duluth has had the show every
year since 1917 and / believe it
would be more beneficial to a range
town, to have it," Mr.. Sargent said.
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that in certain trades there is a
tendency to fix standard wages for
all kinds of help, and that not much
more than the fixed rate is apt to
be paid, except to foremen an super
intendents.
The idea prevailing among the
workmen in certain trades seems to
be to discourage those who would
like to do more than the standard
amount and thus get the benefit of
excepiosal mechanical skill. An
ambitious young fellow is not salts
fed just to drill along with the
mass. He has confidence in his own
powers, believes he can think out
methods for increasing his produc-
ton, and make himself more valu
able than the average. If it is sug.
gested that he enter some trade
where the workers are paid FIXED
amount per day, with little or nj
additional advantage to be gained
by special effort or use of better
methods, he does not like the idea
Such a fellow is more apt to b'
| attracted into some business or of
flee or store position, because there
no limitations are placed on hi
effort. He feels he can rise as fa
as his abilities will let him.
It is highly desirable that NOR,
bright young fellows should go int
! the mechanical trades. To attrac
them any regulations that restrlc
production and that discourage am
bilious fellows from going ahea'
and doing their best with the hop
of reward, should be done away.