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The Washington times., 1925-03-24
OIL STOCKS SLUMP ON
HEAVY CURB TRADING

NEW YORK, March 24.-Oil
stocks were active and generally
reactionary in the curb market to-
day. Heavy selling of the Oil FOL
lowed the announcement OF further
price cuts in Ohio Crude, though
this was believed to be for the
purpose of forcing out oil stored
in farms and tank cars. OFFERINGS
were heavy and prices settled to
lower levels.
Southern Penn OIL lost two points
at 1853; Cities Service was down
4 at 176: Prairie Pipe Line down !,
at ia; Standard Oil of New York
and Indiana fractionally lower.
Magnolia Petroleum gained about
two points as a result Of new buy.
ing based on it's favorable report
for 1924.
The curb radio and industrial
stocks were pressed for sale IN
large volume and prices were reac-
tionary. Centrifugal Pipe sold
down to 14h Goodyear Tire at 27A;
Continental Baking, Swift, Inter
national and most OF the radio
stocks were lower. Power Corpo.
ration Of New York jumped four
points to IS.
Allied Packers s per cent bonds
lost 2k points at 80; Standard Gas
and Electric 6l8S were active ard
slightlY lower.
The Washington times., 1925-03-24
Canadian Wheat

WINNIPEG, March 24.--Opening
wheat: May, $1.72h 01.72A, down
u to y; July, $1.70@1.69&. down
M@%; october, $1.38. unchanged.
The Washington times., 1925-03-24

CHICAGO, March 24.-Demand
for swine was rather slack and
with a liberal supply on hand pack.
ers were able to force a discount
of Is to rs cents from Mondays
early prices. The best heavy hogs
sold at $13.90 in the early session.
Shippers bought lightly.
to strong and the other grades
steady. Sows and heifers found a
good outlet. Bulls sold steady to
strong. Calves were slow and
weak at the recent break. Stock
ers and feeders were quoted steady
to strong. Lambs were quoted 20
cents higher with receipts lighter
than usual.
weak. Bulk, sis.s501S.sS; top. $3.50;
heavyweisht. s1s;4o@1s;sO: medium
wSs5 sSt sb. s sis7s SiEh
heavy packing sows. smooth. s19.oo@
1928; packing sows, rough. $12.7S@
1899; ;r,E pigs $Ii;o o S1s.6oss ooo m.rkst
s.7 E:Oy good o.iO' ana S Choice. siS.5oSIasS;
Go %4dSo and mss1m .s; TsS99sssSS
cows. $4.50@7.75: bulls $4,000 100.
Gamers and cutters-Cows and heifers,
$2.5005.00; Gamer steers, &6.60W750.
Veal calves, light and handyweight,
$9.00@12.60; feeder steers. $1,000 $50
stoclker steers, $5.60WS.35; stocker cows
and heifers. &3.5006.o0: stocker calves.
$6.60@s.25.
sHEEP-Receipts. 1900: market.
Csc lower. Lambs, fat, 414.BO617.0O;
lambs, culIs and common, 312.O0@13,60:
yearlings, $12.00@13.5G; yearling weth-
ers, $10.0O@41.60; ewes, $S.5O@9.76;
ewes. culls and common, $2.00@4.0O;
feeder lambs, $16.60@1600.
The Washington times., 1925-03-24
GRIP Of BEARS
HOLDS STOCK
MARKET
Brokerage Loans Are Reduo"
ed $500, 900, ooo-Ten-
dency Still Downward
BY International News Service. -,


NEW YORK, March 24.-The
stock market was in the grip of
bearish influences in early trading
today and while a number OF the
market leaders made fractional
gains, the general trend of prices
was downward. The oil and motor
stocks were reactionary, the for
mer rejecting an additional cut In
crude oil prices, announced by the
Ohio Oil Company.
Baldwin Locomotive was again
under pressure and after opening
nearly q point higher, at 11TA.
slurnped to 115M on fairly heavy
trading. u. 8. steel broke through
to a. new low at 11Tss; General
Motors lost ground and the high
priced rails and equipments showed
the effect of a preponderance or
selling orders.
The market exhibited consider
able unsteadiness, simultaneous adj
vances and declines taking place
in active stocks.
II was estimated that the recent
selling wave, in addition to eliml-
mating a number Of weak specula-
tive accounts, had reduced broker
age loans by about $500 900 900 and
thereby strengthened the financial
position Of the big commercial
banks which specialize in call loans.
Neither the grain nor the cotton
market made much or a showing
in the early trading, wheat open
ing fractionally higher and cotton
gaining about eight points in the
first hour. Foreign exchanges were
slightly irregular. Call money re-
newals were posted at 33z per cent.
Gains OF a point or more IN
General Electric. American Can,
Mack Trucks, Pan-American on
New York Central and other mar
ket leaders near the end or the
first hour impaired a stronger tone
to the market.
But these advances were CHERRY
the result OF short covering ana
the market as a whole was nos
inclined to step vigorously in line,
with pressure lifted from the
local traction stocks and a better
feeling over the ''recelvership,
prices rebounded from the recent
lows, Manhattan Elevated modlfleo
Guaranteed, rising about seven
noints from Mondays low. while
iiouidation seemed to have run Its
course. for the time being, the
market lacked aggressive buying
mower and no important gains
were made in this period.
The Washington times., 1925-03-24
Local Stocks
FURNISHED by w. b. HibbS q Coz
SALES.
aSot.1,,.s, sfrfanfvir. :, Cons ba

q (Eufnfanou by w. %. hlDUS - ~
SALES.
Potomac Electric Cons, 6s,
81, 000@991<.
washington Railway and Electric
preferred, 1O@S19s.
L.anston Monotype. 1OQSfh'
20S7H.
National Mortgage and Invest
ment, preferred, 40@9A.
AFTER CALL.
Riggs National Bank. $685.
Potomac Electric G & R, Is al,
1899, $100@102.
washington Railway and Electric
As, $3.0O0@79Ek $2,000Q799s, l'OOO
@79ss
CaptiaI Traction 5s. $1,000 @sS q.
Washington Railway and Electric
5 @81
Money-Call loans SOS per cent.
The Washington times., 1925-03-24
N. Y. Coffee Market

NEW YORK, March 24.-Coffee
opened to IL points lower today.
March, 2O5O: May, 1890; July. 1917;
September. 1920; October, 1900, bid;
DecenAbax 1G.66. bid.
The Washington times., 1925-03-24

New YORK funds In Montreal. GU
premium q $1,000.
Montreal funds in New York 62h,
discount q $1,000.
The Washington times., 1925-03-24
curb Stoke

: tFurn.ahed b W. 2. Hubs 9 Co.,
The Washington times., 1925-03-24
Foreign Exchange

(Furnished by, W. 3. Hibbs q {
The Washington times., 1925-03-24
Clearing House Statement

NEW YORK, March 24.-Clear.
ing house statement:
Exchanges. $1,000, 600, 900; balances
$IO1 .OOO,O0O; Federal Reserve Bank
credit balance, SCI, 100000.
The Washington times., 1925-03-24
--LATEST. NEWS AND QUOTATIONS OF THE FINANCIAL MAR
Liverpool Cotton

LIVERPOOL, March 24.-SpO40
quiet. Prices steady. Sales S,OOS
bales. 4.
MiddIings fair, 1885: strict good
middlings, 14.S5: good middlings,
1855: strict middlings, 14.35, mid
dlinRs. 14:1O; strict low middlings,
1880: low middlings, 1850; strict
good ordinary, 1910; good ordinary.
1850.
Fnturea opened quiet.
The Washington times., 1925-03-24
Chicago Grain Market

CHICAGO, March "a. Grains
were irregular at the opening to-
day. Wheat u cent up to 4 cent
off; Corn u cent to " cents off;
Dat " cent up to Il cent off;
Opening prices:
wheat-May. ITO to 1.70A; July,
1852 to Lac; September, 1886 to
1861.
Corn-May, 1.13k to y; July 1.1s
to 1.16h; September, 1.16 to LICK;
Oats May, 45h to II cents;
September, Az to 4 cents.
The Washington times., 1925-03-24
chicago Cotton Market

CHICAGO, March ~. - Cotton
trading was rather cctive at the
opening today. Prices advanced 6
to Is points. March started at
25.12, s up May, 24.42, IL up: July,
25. so, 10 up; October, 24.5S 10 up.
The Washington times., 1925-03-24
N. Y. Cotton Market

NEW YORK, March 24.-The cot
ton market was steady at the open
ing today with first prices from s
to IS points higher. March opened
at 1885, up 8; May, $3.50, up g.;
July, 1878, up 10.
, 1925-11-24

tie state highway department. at the
dCmiratiCn, it is said, OF PA" Ferguson
led Lee SatterWhite, speaker of the Tex.
IS house of representatives, to threaten
to call a special session of the legislature.
Declaring that no special session is need
ed, Ma" Ferguson has dared her enc
mics 20 take their Whispering" before
a grand jury, thus saving the taxpayers
the expen e of a special legislative ses-
sion.
When an unofficial poll of the state Ie-
gislators showed a majority against an ex-
ira session, Satterwhite abandoned his
crusade but others have taken it up, es-
pecially State Atty Gen. Moody, who,
though cry 80 years old, was swept into
Office on q bigger majority than that CIV
en- Mrs. Ferguson. in accusing the high
way commission Of fragrant waste, he is
SUNG 40 big ravirg con ranies to recover
So. 0G0, 0G0 on contracts.
The act OF Gov. Ferguson in granting
nearly 1000 pardors and ether acts of
clemency has been another source of
cen plant. Many Texas people do net
relish the fact that MA" allows IA"
to sit at the executive desk end transact
state business in her absence.
Last Spring Mrs. Ferguson signed a
bill which she was instrumental in push.
ing through the legislature wherein her
husband is restored the full political
rights that were taken away from him
when he was removed from Office for
alleged misuse of public funds.
Mrs. Edith WilmaGs. tormer state rep
resentative from Dallas. mas taken ad-
vantage Of the political situation to an
bounce her candidacy for governor. Mrs.
Furguson's term expires next year.
The Pathfinder.
, 1925-11-24
Wit and Humor.

Virginia-"So he proposed in his auto
mobile after a week acquaintance"
Narie-"What did you tell him."
Virginia-"I 'told him he was exceed
ing the speed limit"
Judge I What is this man charged
with?
Observation-Disclosures, your honor.
Prisonor--Judge, I'm as sober as you
are this minute.
Judge--Pleads guilly-1O days! Next
case.
."And what do you tell the other men
that come to see your he asked as he
released her from his close embrace.
do you lead them to believe that you
love them?"
Eyes, dearest" she whispered. do
you mind?"
"Ah. but it will be terrible for them
later" he murmured. The poor trust
ing fools"
The bride was exchanging her bridal
costume for her travelling dress. and the
, 1925-11-24
Attack ''Ma'' to Get "Pa"

A move to remove Mrs. Miriam Fer
guson from the Texas governors chair
in the same way that her husband was
disposed of eight years ago is now agita-
ting that state.
The Ferguson.s have been a storm cen
ter of politics in the Lone Star state ever
since MAS" election. TOO much Fer
guson," cry enemies who insist that Mrs.
Ferguson is governor lin name only"
and that the real executive is her hus-
band.
Charges Of wreckless expenditures in
, 1925-11-24

chief bridesmaid was assisting her.
Did | appear nervous during the ceremo-
n.y." she asked
"A little at first. DEAR" said the other.
sweetly, but not after Charlie said, II
will"
, 1925-11-24

public eye, and will he withdrawn to-
night.
Washington. The Shenandoah inquiry
court exonerated Captain Foley of charg-
es made by Mrs. Margaret Lansdowne
today saying he had tried to sway her
testimony before that tribunal, immedi-
ately after the case was closed the court
announced that The former Judge advo-
cate was found not guilty of trying to
sway the testimony of Mrs. Lansdowne
and Of tying to offset with improper
means to influence the Shenandoah com
mander's wife; the court finally disposed
of the case and has it subjected to re-
view by authorities.
NOVEMBER 23RD 1925.
Norfolk, Va. The aircraft tender Pa
toka reported hav no encountered Ghos-
phoresccnt sea off the coast of Cuba so
bright that a newspaper could easily be
read on deck from the illumination.
Rapid City, S. D.-Two unsuccessful
attempts to wreck trains on the Chicago
Northwestern Railroad were traced to a
IL year old boy.
Seattle, Wash. The chief Of police has
appointed a suicide mother in an effort
10 check suicides among young girls.
F16F uuty VIII! Ue W act dS duNloeI "
girls contemplating suicide.
Michigan City, Ind. Al Stephenson,
former grand dragon Of the Klu Klux
Khan in Indiana and who once proclaimed
himself IS The law in Indiana" has
found himself submerged by that law
when he arrived at the state prison to
begin a life sentence for murder. he was
Pi'en prison clothes Immediately upon
his arrival and will be assigned to his
prison tasks this week.
Washington Mrs. William Balling,
80 year cid mother of Mrs Woodrow
Wilson died after several months illness.
Philadelphia. = Brig General Smedley
Butler, for the past two years director of
public safety in Philadelphia announced
that he is going back to the Marine Corps.
Cambridge, Mass. Harvard fought
Yale to a scoreless tie game here Satur-
Cay.
Columbus. Ohio. Harold (Red} Grange
football star announced that he will play
professional football and plaus to organ
ize a team of his own and act as manager.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1925-08-28
BORING FROM WITHIN

If you want to see your union be-
come the easy prey of the open shop
pers, just stay away on meeting
nights, refuse to serve on committees,
kick about paying dues, find fault
with everything that is done, "back
cap" the officers and the members all
the time, shake hands with every
knccker that you meet and encourage
him to keep it up, break every rule of
the union possible, drag the meetings
out until midnight haggling over some
petty matter, and it will not be long
before your union will be so weak
that the anti-union bosses will decide
that it is time to knock you off and
put you out of your misery.
The above is the most approved
plan of boring from within and is re-
sponsible for more unions going out
of business than all the agencies of
our avowed enemies combined. Throw
away your augur and help patch up
the holes that it has made in the past.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1925-08-28
"a "a "a 2
POORHOUSE OR PENSION

Suppose you were an old man un-
able to find work, with no friends
in position to support you, would
you rather go to the county poorhouse
or get a pension from the state which
you might supplement by occasional
odd jobs and so support yourself?
Don't think the question is imperti-
nent. Unemployment, illness, loss of
savings or lack of opportunity ever
to save, the death of relatives-these
and many other factors have COM
PEELED men and women as self-re-
specting as you, who in their day
have given honest toll to society, to
go to the poorhouse.
We all know that they or we in
like circumstances a hundred times
over would have chosen an old age
pension.
The Pennsylvania commission or
old age assistance in its extremely
valuable and we'll written reports
points out that the state also would
profit by a modern, old age assist
ance law.
Pennsylvania in 1922 spent some
$6,200,O00 on her almshouses. O1
this, only about half went to the up
keep of the inmates. The rest went
to paying people to look after them
The old age assistance law woulo
require at most expenditure of about
six per cent for administrative ex-
penses.
The S5,00O,O0O the commission ask
ed for would take care of three times
the number of persons now cared for
in Pennsylvania almshouses.
Unfortunately, after the prepara-
! tion of this report, the highest court
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1925-08-28
Endorsed by the Trades and Labor
Council of Hamilton, Ohio
Endorsed by the Middletown Trades
and Labor Council of Middletown. O.
A DAY OF REST

Every man is entitled to one DAYS
rest in seven. This is Scripture, and
is likewise the mandate of human law.
and of physical law, which asserts
itself sooner or later. Even Judge
Gary in his steel industry has recog-
nized this fact.
The railroad industry stands alone
in requiring certain classes of en-
ployes to be on the job seven days
week. This prevails particularly in
the telegraph, station tower and sig
nal service.
B. c. Forbes, financial writer, has
been waging vigorous campaign in
his column for abolishment of the
365-day work year in the railroad in
} dustry.
Railroad managers have refused to
do away with the seven-day work
week and the 365-day work year on
the ground of the cost" he writes.
Let them investigate what has hap
pened in other lines of industry when
seven-day work weeks and twelve
hour work days have been abolished.
They will discover that their present
hostile attitude was unjustifed."
Mr.. Forbes tells the managers that
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1925-08-28

Mammoth mine, owned by District
No. IL, United Mine Workers of
America The mine is located in Will
hanson county, Southern Illinois, and
the coal is sold to the Chicago trade
unionists, through the Farmer-Labor
Exchange of this city, at $2.25 ton
fob. the mines. 1t reaches Chicago
in cars containing from 40 to SO tons
and is divided up among the club
members in quantities as wanted.
Frank harrington, president of the
Illinois Mine Workers, is actively
backing the project, and Ed. Me
Chrystal, of Assumption, H., repre-
senting District No. IL, is in Chicago
promoting the club plan of .purchas-
ing coal direct from union mine
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1925-08-28

workers shave a full share in the in
crease of production that comes
through improved machinery and fac
tory equipment"
Ethelbert Stewart, commissioner,
United States bureau of labor statis-
tics, recently declared that notwith-
standing the persistent claims of
newspapers about the inefficiency of
labor, "this bureau was unable to find
a single building contractor, super
intendent or foreman who had a rec
ord of work done per man per hour
on the jobs or upon any former job. :"
A committee of engineers appoint
ed by Herbert Hooven to investigate
waste in industry revealed startling
ineficiency of employers who insist on
greater production" by labor.
To this ineffciency must be added
the appalling loss of life and limb,
occupational diseases and labor
turnover that costs society millions
upon millions of dollars because work
ers refuse to accept debasing shop
conditions and low wages.
In addition to these wastes, dead"
values are created by the stroke of a
pen, and watered stock on which divi-
dends are demanded is recognized
business practice.
bor-displacing devices in this
country are developed to the point
where 12-months' continuous opera
ton would glut the markets and
swamp the country with over-produc-
ton.
The low wages that cause child la
Dor make it impossible for workers
to extend their purchasing power
often beyond the bare necessities OF
life.
1t is the employers who are guilty
of ineffciency. Proof of this comes
!, from impartial Investigators.
Because the national industrial con.
/ ference board units are pledged to the
anti-union shop, labor is denied {
voice in eliminating these wastes.
They will continue until agitation
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1925-08-28
CHANGED FRONT ON
CHILD LABOR
"a p Pa "a "a

Forced to finally face actualities,
the national industrial conference
board acknowledges that the principal
reason for child labor is low earn
ing power of wage earners.
The conference board represents
score of anti-union employers asso-
ciatinos
These employers have made be-
lated acknowledgement. They did not
abandon their former position until
compelled to by the insistence of or
ganized labor and the unanimous ver
dict of impartial investigators.
The board, however, beclouds its
eleventh-hour discovery" by an in
timation that production efficiency
must be increased before higher
wages is possible.
These employers eventually will be
compelled to abandon their position
that labor is inefficient, just as they
have been forced to accept the claim
that low wage is responsible for child
labor.
Only recently Secretary of Labor
Davis declared: with our present
iron and steel equipment we can pro-
duce in seven months our needs for
year" He showed that today it
takes 50 minutes of a workers time
to produce a pair of shoes, as against
one hour and AZ minutes in 1916.
Years ago textile workers operated
four to six looms. Today, with wages
reduced, they are operating 38 looms.
Secretary Davis insisted that wage
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in Pennsylvania declared the admir-
able Pennsylvania law unconstitution-
al on the basis of provision forbid"
ding appropriations "for charitable
educational or benevolent purposes to
any person or community"
The judges never found the same
provision an insurmountable barrier
to their own retiring pensions. There
is nothing for it in Pennsylvania but
a constitutional amendment. Other
states not similarly handicapped
should take up this matter promptly.
When even the tory party in England
endorses an elaborate scheme for old
age pensions, it is time for America
to wake up.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1925-08-28

FRIDAY, AUGUST %, 1925
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1925-08-28

the time has arrived for them to fill
in a lot Of "old ruts" and unwind a
few reels of "moldy red tape" What
they need most is to exercise little
mental effort to readjust operations
on a modern basis.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1925-08-28
WORKERS BUY COAL
COMPARATIVELY

BY international Labor News Service.
Chicago. of organized la
Dor in Chicago are forming clubs to
buy coal in carload lots from an Illi-
nois mine owned and operated by the
United Mine Workers of this state.
The coal is purchased from the
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1925-08-28

by the trade union movement and its
friends force these obstinate employ
ers to face facts, as they now partly
do in the child labor case.
"a IA IA IA Pa
WISDOM
If country be found possessing
a most fertile soil and capable of
bearing every variety of production,
yet Notwithstanding, the people are
in a state of extreme destitution and
suffering, the chances are that there
is some fundamental error in govern
ment of that country-John Bright.
|. ~ "a "a "a
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Entered at the Postoffice at Hamilton.
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Issued Weekly at s2s Market Street
Telephone 1896 Hamilton Ohio
Evening star., 1925-03-15

sent August Is, 1925. These acts con-
stitute the charter of the Chesapeake
and Ohio Canal. which succeeded to
the rights and interests of the Patow-
mack Company
Ground was broken for the canal
by John Quincy Adams. President of
the United States. Old newspapers
give interesting descriptions of the
celebration. The directors Of the
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Co. met
the honored guests, which included
the President of the United States
and his cabinet, the representatives
of foreign governments and other
high officials. The procession, at
tended by companies of militia, the
Marine Band and other bands of
music, marched to the Potomac and
embarked on a steamboat. DiSem-
barking, the company marched to
canal boats lying in the old canal
of the PatowmaCk company.
The inspired reporter of the Ma
tional Intelligencer wrote: "All Ma
ture seemed to smile upon the scene.
The senses of the company were re-
galed by scene at once novel and
really enchanting. The music of
Moore's sweet song, The Meeting of
the Waters poured it's melody on the
ear. so as to suspend the labor of
the boatmen and charm to silence
every voice"
Elaborate arrangements were made
for the ceremony of breaking ground.
The spot chosen was near a powder
magazine at the head of Little Falls.
Two companies of rihemen saluted
the arrival of President Adams. Mr..
Mercer, president of the company,
handed Mr.. Adams the spade. The
President pushed it into the ground,