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Evening star., 1925-01-19
SELLING PRESSURE
IN STOCK MARKET
Many Saturday Gains Wiped
Out, While Some Shares
Bound Forward.
ny STUART p. WEST.

Special Dispatch TO The Star.
NEW YORK, January 10. - The
stock market today had to absorb
further heavy reali7ins. and as aeon
f. sequence many OF the gains made. Ia te
last week and again at the outset
today were reduced or Cancelled.
United States Steel common sold up
to-a new high and other active stocks
we're bid up actively for time, then
the market au4eted down. Opinion IN
commission house circles was still
MIXED, and the course OF the price
movement showed plainly enough
that more attention was being paid
: TO expressions Of conservat atism
steel Leads Market.
The advance in Steel common
across 126 for the first time was the
principal single incident OF the day.
Tho upturn did not last long. how
ever. and the stock was freely sup
piled later on. It was noticeable
That in the latest upturn of United
p States Steel Saturday and early this
morning, the independent steels with
She exception Of Crucible were not
.orrespondingly drawn along. Re-
public Iron and Steel, Bethlehem
steel and Colorado Fuel at their
highs were we'll below the top fig
ures early in the month. Great
y
o. but on the whole the action OF the
Independent group was disappoint-
,1ent in view of the Hood of opti-
listic references TO the steel trade,
which poured into Wall street over
unday.
General Motors Active.
The course of General Motors fitted
n with recent statements that
owerful operation has been going
Il in this stock. There was a lot OF
~oit-taking in the first hour or so
'ound 73, which carried the stock
lew that figure. But with the rest
the market hesitating in the later
- aiding. General Motors was taken
G. rted buying orders. At the same
: ne there was another sensational
mp in Nash Motors. Other motor
ares were not so much affected. al
ough stocks like Hudson and Moon
ere steady and Mack Trucks went
; CHER.
The passing of the Mexican Sea-
pard dividend had been predicted for
rme time, but the market was not
tirely prepared for It, as was shown
L.. the immediate drop of over three
ints in the stock.
Selling in OIL Shares.
Shell Union at 26h was selling at
= new high, but the action of the
other oils was not particularly pleas
TO the large bull following in
,se stocks. a lot Of taking
IS going on in shares like Pan
nerican. Marland. Phillips Petrol
eUm, Pacific Oil and Cosden.
Saturdays jump in American Sugar
mmon had pretty we'll discounted
se statement of the president. The
irincipsl effect was felt in the pre-
rred stock. which rose over points.
he statement said there was $S1,
0,o00 cash on hand, with no bor-
spwings. and that during the last 10
ars income averaged s11 100000 an
lally, as against Ss.15o,0o0 in the
,evious l0-year period.
Eastman Kodak, still on increased
vidend talk, made a new high
aited States Realty was bid up
sain.; There Was special buying in
re public utilities especially Brook.
Manhattan Transit, Utah Securl- :
IS, which touched so; Brooklyn
Mon Gas at new top across 81,
id Peoples Gas OF Chicago. Inter-
ttional Harvester went up in sym
Cthy with the great rise in wheat
Jfrecord prices.
Evening star., 1925-01-19
WOOL PRICES STEADY.

BOSTON, January 19 (SpeciaD.-
The new week. opened quietly in the
raw wool market, with prices firmly
maintained. Dealers are waiting in
terestedly 10 see whether the London
auctions this week will show any
y moderate shading OF
prices Is regarded possible, but any
material decline, would be n dis
appointment, sa dealers here regard
the price position as very strong.
Evening star., 1925-01-19
MARKET CLOSES HEAVY.
aning for Both Accounts Noted in
Last Hour.
= the Associated Press.

:. the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. January l9.-Stock prices
owed irregulaTly lower today under the
eight of moderate volume of profit
king and bear selling. Trade and finan-
al news was largely favorable, includ-
G lower money rates, new high records
wheat and corn price and encouraging
Isiness developments. Sales approxi-
,ated 1.40O, 900 shares.
The closing was heavy. Selling for
pth accounts was resumed in the late
aiding, several OF the popular rails
I'd industrials falling below last week $
oSing quotations.
Evening star., 1925-01-19
NEW YORK EGG PRICES.

NEW YORK, January 19-Egss-
Firm; receipts. 5.054 cases; fresh
gathered, extra frsts, 3a6f; do. frsts,
6Ia62; do. seconds, 57a60; nearby
hennery whites, closely selected ex-
tras. Sc 2a67; nearby and nearby
Western hennery whites. frsts to
average extras, 62a66; nearby hennery
browns, extras, 67a6s: Pacific coast
whites, extras, 65iaa66: do. frsts to
extra firsts, Sass; refrigerator, frsts,
81 2a53
Evening star., 1925-01-19
Markets at a Glance

NEW YORK-Stocks heavy; standard
sues yield on proft-taking. Bonds
rm; Wickwire Spencer Is jump points.
oreign exchanges steady; sterling
loderately higher Cotton lower: bear
IN private ginning estimates. Sugar
asy: trade selling. Coffee firm: com
lission house buying
CHlCAGO-Wheat new high records;
trong Liverpool cables. Corn season s
ighest; active outside buying Cattle
Iull: increased receipts: hogs higher
Evening star., 1925-01-19
NEW BUSINESS GROWS.

NEW YORK, January 19.-New
business agsregating $3s,s63,7o was
booked by the Westinghouse Electric
and Manufacturing Company in the
last quarter of 1924, a gain of more
than $4,000, 900 over the same quar-
ter OF 1928.
Evening star., 1925-01-19
S7O,0)O,0DO ISSUE
ISOVERSUBSCR|BED
Bond Prices Display Firm
Tone at Opening of
Weeks Trading.
ny GEORGE r. HUGHES.

Special Dispatch to The star.
NEW YORK, January 19.~-Prices
for bonds held generally firm at the
opening of trading for the week
Here and there among the high grade
rails there were fractional recessions,
but United states government bonds
held their ground and inquiry per-
sisted for middle and second grade
issues yielding from 5lk to 6B per
cent The new $50,0o0,0o0 Sinclair is
sue was oversubscrlbed.
Second Grades Popular.
The outstanding feature of the
market for some time past has been
the slow absorption OF these second
grade bonds. To Illustrate, Missouri
Pacific 6s sold today above par, which
was higher than at any time In 1924.
For months this bond was quoted
around 9S, although the financial con-
dillon OF the Missouri Pacific would
have warranted higher price.
Southern Railway general AZ, re-
spending to the same influence. sold
today within half point OF the
record high for last year.
seaboard o. strong.
In the speculative group the fea-
ture was Soaboard Air Line Is, which
at SO equaled their best previous
price. The refundine AZ were also
strong above SO. and there was a
fractional advance in the same road s
adjustment SIS. NJ, K. & T. adjust
ments crossed 81, but receded under
profit-takinE afterward.
st. Paul As of 1875 were fraction
ally lower, but not especially active.
Chicago Railway 5s and Brooklyn
Manhattan Transit SIS were firm
around their recent highs. Wilson
and Company convertible 71as had
a sharp run up for time. Cuba Cane
SIS sold at par again. Chile Copper 6s
were A shade higher. American
Agricultural Chemical 7hs were
again in demand.
Brazil Issues Higher.
Brazil issues were the feature of
ss selling higher. Mexican issues
kept up their advance and Bolivia IS
were a little higher.
In the European list. City of Co.
penhaEen 5i2s reacted and there was
no noticeable improvement in the
French bonds.
Today's new issues included 35e.-
0000 Sinclair Crude Oil purchasing q
three-year 6 per cent notes to yield
6.25 per cent. $5.000,00o Munson
Steamship Line three-yesr S per cent
notes to yield 6.37 per cent and 32.-
500, 900 Cities Service convertible "D''
debentures Of 1856 TO yield over I
per cent
Evening star., 1925-01-19
BUTTER LOWER TODAY.

CHICAGO, January 19.-Butter-
Lower; creamery extras, 3sia; stand
ards. SS; extra firsts, 37a57h; flrsts,
35a36; seconds, 32a3t
-Egss-Lower Receipts, 2,23S cases
firsts, 5pa5sh; ordinary frsts, Beas5;
refrigerator Grsts, 4sa4s1s.
Evening star., 1925-01-19
ADVANCE IN FLOUR.

BALTIMORE, January IL CSpecfaD.
advance of 25 cents per
barrel on Western or Winter patent
and Winter straight f1ours was an
Eounced here this forenoon.
Evening star., 1925-01-19
LIVE POULTRY LOWER.

CHICAGO. January 1s.-Pouitry-
Alive, lower; fowls, 15a21: Springs,
%; roosters. Is: ducks. %; geese. Is.
Evening star., 1925-01-19
RATES ON BAR SILVER.

NEW YORK, January 19.-Bar 5
ycr. sS3s; Mexican dollars, 52%s.
Evening star., 1925-01-19

iPsrtly extra. Playable In preferred stock
Dividend rates as given In the above Il biz
the annual cash payments based on the
latest quarterly or kaif-yearly declarations
Eniees -ethessixessg, n6tc6.>1N extra or sUecisl
dividends not included,
Evening star., 1925-01-19
FOREIGN EXCHANGE.

Quotations furnished by W. B. Hihbs & Coz
Nominal Selling checks
Evening star., 1925-01-19

The next article in tllis series will
appear in tomorrow,s Star.
Evening star., 1925-10-04

aGination to foresee the passing o.
all displacements over the 300 mark.
and then all that are over the 200
mark.
100 Inches Goal.
By that time the average displace-
ment of the racing car will be down
below 100 cubic inches and the motor
car manufacturers Will be bus
working on models more in keeping
with what the race track offers The
belief is that what can be done on
the race track can be done on the
highway.
This even applies to speed. A. J..
Riker in an electric back in 1900
clipped off so miles of Long Island turf
in hours, 3 minutes and 80 seconds
This was fast" AT that time the
average driver was taking his life IN
hands at anything over 10 or Is miles
an hour. The experts were relatively
safe at 20, but only daredevils went
faster. At the Baltimore Washington
marathon in July De Paolo clipped
off $50 miles at an average of 1898
miles an hour. On q smaller scale
but definitely following the racing
car. the car of the average automobile
owner has gone from a typical aver
age speed of 10 miles an hour to
something around 80. With a little
more system in highway management
and safety a fair average Touring
speed may shortly be boosted to 40.
So does the speedway influence the
highway. Perhaps one OF the best
illustrations Of this Is the warning
to road builders to the effect that IL
roads built today are to serve the mo-
torists of tomorrow they must be pro
yided with banked curves. In falling to
appreciate the limitations of the auto
mobile in turning curves at high speed
many motorists have met with seri-
GUS trouble. Yet the highly banked
curves of the modern speedway have
been a constant reminder that when
speeds reach a certain limit curves
must be built to Offset the tendency
Of the automobile to skid.
Laurel Banks High.
Everything on the speedway is
done on an exaggerated scale, but this
has the advantage Of emphasizing its
value as the forerunner Of everyday
motoring. The Speedway at Laurel
offers curves banked to such an angle
that one OF the tiny flashes Of steel
has to travel at least 80 miles an
hour TO cling. At the speeds. how
ever. at which the cars will take
these curves q curve banked any less
would mean a skid. Speedway con-
structiOn therefore reveals high type
of scientific knowledge of traction in
its relation to speed. The same thing
will be required in the building Of
highways. curves being banked in
accordance with the customs of the
Continued on Tenth Page)
Evening star., 1925-10-04
SPEED TESTS AT LAUREL
TO POINT CAR OF FUTURE
Auto Racer of Today Becomes Stock Car
of Tomorrow-Advance in Motors
Mostly Result of Innovations.

When Peter de Paolo, champion OF
the American Speedways, together
with a galaxy of speedway stars dash
away at breakneck speed over the new
Baltimore Washington Speedway at
Laurel, October "a. car owners, driv-
ers and motor enthusiasts will be af-
forded another opportunity to peep
into the future of motordum. The
race course. not merely the laboratory
or motordom but it's continual pro-
logue IS well. has become America S
opportunity for successful automotive
crystal gazing, and the new race at
the new speedway is expected to re-
veal many startling possibilities for
the near future.
What is accomplished on the speed.
ways of today becomes the customs of
tomorrow. Advocates of automobile
racing contests long have recognized
this, but the motoring public, astound.
ed at the daring of the speedway
artists and thrilled with the roaring of
mad motors, is only just commencing
to appreciate the Importance Of rae.
ing as a forecast of coming events.
Cut Size of Engines.
The speedways early predicted the
shrinkage in engines. Back in 1911
Ray Harroun won the first 50O-mile
indianapolis race with an engine Of
447.10 cubic-inch displacement That
seems like a tub Of an engine COM
pared with the small displacements
now seen on practically all popular
cars, but It was an advanced idea in
lts day. While Harroun was clipping
OH 500 miles on the speedway many
a 1911 model LoZier was snorting
away on the streets with a piston dis
placement of $50 cubic inches.
When the racing cars We're getting
new results and breaking old records
with smaller engines, however enor-
nous they may seem to the motorist
of today. the rank and file of cars
were still tagging behind in point of
efficiency. AS late as 1914 Mitchell
was putting out a AZ by motor
with a displacement of 596 cubic
inches. National stood at 448 as late
as 1918. The 1913 Peerless topped the
list with a displacement of S25 cubic
inches. power plant equivalent in
combustion capacity to four modern
motors, which are now capable Of
doing everything the old cars did and
more.
Piston displacements now current
on the American speedways are still
miles ahead of the average passenger
car, but the passenger car is rapidly
catching up. Today speedway dis
placement is Slightly over 120 cubic
inches. Motor cars that will answer
every demand of the exacting motor
lst now range from 200 to 800, ex-
Guiding some of the very small en-
glnes and some of the more powerful
ones. 1t does not require much i'm
Evening star., 1925-10-04
CAR statesmen OF TODAY
/ DISCARD OLD-TIME RULES
keeping Pace With Trade Developments
When Demonstrating Auto Qualities
l. for the Prospective Purchaser.

, quirements. And. in addition to per
forming. the new cars are frequently
| called upon to impart to the driver a
| sense of relaxation and security at
| high speeds and over rough roads
! This is perhaps one of the most in,
tereSting features of the change that
| has come over the time -honored
| demonstra ton ride.
/ The experienced salesman is psy.
| chologist enough to know that when
! the family is in a happy frame of mind
/ the car will seem to be doing much
better than it really is. That is the
| reason. in the olden days, the demon
stration was made Il sort of Summer
evening lark, q spree that cost father
nothing and accordingly blinded him
to the shortcomings Of the early cars.
Today some of the more progressive
dealers and statesmen actually are re-
versinG the process.
Some are even so sure of the pleas
ure to be derived from the car they
handle that they offer to loan their
demonstrators TO any business man
who is in need of a mornings or after
Moons transportation. The prospect
starts off thinking about everything
but the car. and then suddenly realizes
that the car is meeting his require
mentS in a most surprising manner
He begins to enjoy the trip.
1t Is a tribute to preSent-day auto
mobiles to have statesmen picking out
bad roads for prospects to enjoy travel
ing over. In demonstrating one car
1t is the policy now to show prospects
that they can be comfortable and
safe at speeds above 40, mile after
mile.
Increased experience in the use of
80 II
ards of demonstrations. For instance.
the careful buyer now pays a great
deal of attention to the matter of con
stancy of the brakes. He knows that
any braking system can be adjusted to
give a sudden stop under favorable
conditions. What he demands now is
satisfactory stopping mile after mile,
and under all sorts of weather con-
ditions.
Same With Steering.
1t is somewhat the same with steer
ing. Highly inflated front tires on a
car not designed for balloon tires will
steer fairly well. In the newer dem
onstrations the prospect tries to park
the car with the balloon tires under
inflated as we'll as when they are prop
erlv inflated.
Just because the car delivers excel
lent gas mileage on the demonstration
ride is no assurance Of good aver
age mileage. The new prospect for a
car takes the demonstrator on a long
trip through traffic and finds mileage
at It's worst. In this way, too, he
comes to learn something about accel-
GRAFTON by matching the car with
others on the road. 1t is one thing
to step on the gas during an accelera
tion. leaving some wreck of flivver
in the dust, and quite another story
to match the acceleration of cars
that don't seem to want to lag behind
in traffic.
Gone also is the fine day demonstra-
ton. the inspection trip which for OBJ
vious reasons was formerly scheduled
only for sunny days when one felt
happy and extravagant.
Demonstrations are keeping pace
with yearly improvements in the con-
and design Of automobiles.
Evening star., 1925-10-04
Shift at Hill-Top.

Shifting to second gear when going
downhill is simplitied by doing the job
on level ground just before starting
the decline. Most drivers wait until
the car starts rolling down before
trying to make the shift. 1t is the
rolling of the car that upsets their
calculations and causes them unnec-
essary trouble.
Evening star., 1925-10-04
BY WILLIAM ULLMAN,

Up hill in high gear; quick stop
a brief spin with the speedometer reg
istering so: over a rough road a
30. This is the fieeting vision of tn,
demonstration ride of yesterday.
Today Automobile Row is giving
totally different demonstration to dis
cerninS motorists. and tomorrow
perhaps. may make still other de
mandS upon the gentle art of selling
the public transportation.
Already the 100-mile demonstration
has replaced the short spin. particu
larly among the higher-Srade cars
Dealers are going to great lengths
10 sell cars, some even risking demon
strationS in cars already in the hands
of owners and hazarding the possible
loss of a sale through poor perform
ance with a car less inherently trust
worthy.
Following this trend. a vision of the
car demonstration of the future sees
the automobile saleSmen inviting the
prospect to take a ride first in the new
car, then in one in its prime at 5000
miles, followed by one that has had a
years service and. finally. in a car
that has been driven twenty thousand
miles. Since many motors are re
built after the twenty thousa nd-m
mark, ii is not anticipated that sales
with a prospect. This IS prophetic.
but entirely logical If one were to
analyZe the trend in motor vehicle
craftsmanship.
Policy of Latter.Day Statesmen.
In an effort to meet the demand for
demonstrations that will prove a cars
ability to deliver brilliant perform
anCe under all varieties of conditions,
1t a point to get in touch with mo-
toriSt long before he is actually in
the market for new car. They show
the prospect what the car would do
in zero weather when the streets are
coated with ice. They do not attempt
to close the deal. Then, on a hot
Summer day, they give another DEM
onstration in the same model, with A
view to proving that the car is equally
good at both temperature ranges
Finally, they put their favorite car
10 test on a rainy night
The motorist who finally buys car
after such a demonstration knows
what he is getting. He has seen the
car perform under the most adverse
conditions.
The day when the salesman held
the wheel throughout the entire dem
onstration is gone. The prospect now
adayS takes the wheel at the start
and keeps it. He blunders through
the gears and treats the clutch with
the usual disrespect of a novice, but
if the car endures it all it is an argu-
nent in it's favor.
Climbing a hill in high gear. as the
big feature of the demonstration, no
longer puts over the sale. The dis
eliminating car shopper wants more.
He wants to see the speedometer
touch 30-perhaps 40-at the top of
the hill. He doesn't want to feel any
vibration. The car must he capable
Of slowing down to a creeping speed
on the hill for several hundred feet,
not just for an instant. Then 1t must
accelerate without a trace of hesita-
tion.
It is a large order, but the modern
cars seem to be able to meet the re-
Evening star., 1925-10-04
Fire Hazard Law.

California has taken steps to reduce
fire hazard and prevent forest fires
by a law which became effective re-
Gently prohibiting motorists from
throwing lighted cigars. cigarettes or
other burning substances from NOV
ing automobiles.
Evening star., 1925-10-04
Examinations Required.

The District Of Columbia and seven
States require the examination of all
automobile drivers. The States are
Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts,,
Michigan. New Hampshire, New
Jersey and Pennsylvania
Evening star., 1925-10-04
Two Tools in One.

If one end of the pliers is ground
down it becomes very handy screw
driver. While 1t can be used for this
purpose just as the tool Is. sometimes
# IS more convenient to remove the
nut that holds the two sides together
and use the screw driver side alone
Evening star., 1925-10-04

Changing models have their concomi-
tant in changing demonstrations. The
automobilist is Narning this and bene-
fitting by its application.
Copyright. 1929
Evening star., 1925-10-04

The Bureau OF Public Roads esti-
mates that at the end of 1928 surfaced
roads in the State highway systems
totaled III, 400 miles.
Evening star., 1925-10-04

Much Of the snBoofhness
of the Peerless Sir is due
TO the I-bearing large
diameter crankshdr.
"Whib" is eliminated.
Light, recibrocafing paris
are balanced to a nicely as
suring vibrafionless action.
The PEERLESS MOTOR CAR co.
CIepsLsssd, Ohio
Evening star., 1925-11-08
Confusion of Rig hit and Left Hands
May Be One Result of Bilingualism

gualism exist. The mother language
may be used in the home only or as
the play language also, and possibly
in church. The rural children use
their mother tongue in play, hence 1t
becomes for them their preferred
language and one charged with emo
tional values. The urban children,
who use the mother tongue only at
home, form less rich associations
with it.
One of the most interesting results
of the investigation was the demon
stration that monoglots in both
urban and rural districts are marked
ly superior to bilinguists in right
handedness. Bilinguists are subject
to confusion in the matter of right
and left. 1t Is suggested in explana-
ton that the left hemisphere of the
brain controls speech and is also
associated with specialization in the
use of the right hand, so that hesita-
ton and confusion arising from the
use of the two languages apparently
has an adverse influence upon dex-
trality.
The Investigators of bilingual in
telligence, although they have worked
on the problem for several years and
have used many hundred children in
their investigations, are cautious in
their conclusions. They cite them as
valid only for the groups with which
they worked and under the present
organization. Of DcheolakA2 WAaaR.
Evening star., 1925-11-08
Capital Scientist Scouts Great Age
Of Indian Relics Found in Florida

The opening gun in what may de.
velop into a scientific battle over the
human relics recently found In Flor
ida is fred by w. H. Holmes Of the
Smithsonian Institution, in the forth
coming issue Of Science. Mr.. Holmes
challenges the claims of these re-
mains to great age, and characterizes
the idea that human beings have
existed on this continent for a long
period Of time as 'the antiquity
phantom in American archaeology"
The Florida finds, Mr.. Holmes de-
clares, were all made too close to the
surface to belong with any certainty
to the Pleistocene or early post
Pleistocene times, when the ice
sheets were disappearing from the
northern parts of the continent.
Neither does he regard as conclusive
the finding Of broken parts of rough
instruments associated with the bones
of extinct animals. He points out
that Indians have inhabited this re-
gton for many centuries, and he be-