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Evening star., 1926-08-31

nation the matrimonial cost mounted
to S..
But down in South K'lina you can
get married for, two-fifty, plus the
perquisite Which is some difference
difference enough to tell in the scale
against Shelby considerably.
Evening star., 1926-08-31
ACTION BY VATICAN
SURPRISES ITALY
Pope's Cancellation of Interna
tional Sports Congress Regarded
as Not Justified.
BY the Associated Press.

ROME, August 31.-The Italian gov
ernment expresses surprise through
the semi official Stefani News Agency
over an announcement by the Vati-
can that Pope Plus has Cancelled the
international meeting of Catholic
Sport Associations, which was to have
been held in Rome this week
Evening star., 1926-08-31

Whether YOU in Frederick. Md; Fredcricks
burg. Va; Schenectady N. Y. or anywhere else in
reach of phone, The Hecht Co. is always at your
service Simply call Personal Shopping Bureau,
Main 500; your order will be promptly filled and the
cost of your phone call refunded.
Evening star., 1926-01-29
COMMODITY NEWS
WIRED STAR FROM
ENTIRE COUNTRY

BOSTON, January 29.-Ernest G.
Howes. president of Howes' Brothers
& Co.. sole leather merchants. re-
ports that the leather industry is in
better shape than a year ago, that
there is more stability to the market.
with less disposition to sell and a
healthier situation all around.
CLEVELAND, January 29.-Ac.
cording to President E. J. Kulas, o.
the Midland Steel Products Co. the
concern did about $25 100000 worth
of business in 1925 and a larger vol
ume in 1926 is indicated by the order
just received for SO, ,000, 900 worth of
steel stampings for Dodge Brothesre.
MONTEREY. Calf, January 90
The fishermen of the California
Coast report a most successful Sar-
dine season. The record days catch
so far exceeded 500 tons.
KANSAS CITY, January 29.-An
additional 10000 bushels of storage
capacity will be added to the plant
of the Moore-Lowry Flour Mills here
The new tanks will bring total ca
pacity to 100000 bushels.
NEW ORLEANS, La. January 90
Orders for shoes are increasing in
this market and rural merchants are
asking for immediate shipment, in
dicating their stocks are low.
PORTLAND. Ore, January %
Stagnation of the potota markets of
the Northwest continues. Most grow.
ers still hold for higher prices.
Evening star., 1926-01-29
EXPORTS SHOW GAIN
TO LATIN AMERICA
Slight Decrease in Imports Seen in
Annual Report of Commerce
Department.

A gain of 12 per cent in exports
and a loss of 2 per cent In imports In
United States trade with Latin Amer
lea for 1925 was predicted today by
the Commerce Department, based on
figures for the II months ended with
November. Exports from the United
States to Latin American countries
were placed at sS65. 100000 against
S76S,74S,000 last year. while imports
were estimated at S1,028 ,000,0
against S1.058.788, 900 in 1925. The
loss in imports, the department said,
was largely due to low sugar prices,
which more than offset the gain due
to high coffee prices.
Sugar imports showed a loss of 80
per cent in value and an increase OF
per cent in volume. while coffee
showed an increase of about IA per
cent in value against a drop of 13
per cent in volume. Rubber showed
an increase of about ia per cent in
value and 16 per cent in volume.
On the export side losses were
shown for the Barbados, Bermuda,
Cuba and Peru, and gains for every
other country or possession. Cuban
losses in export business aggregated
about thirteen and third million dol
lars, while Cuba's imports from this
country dropped $105, ,000,0
Evening star., 1926-01-29
CALLS OUTLOOK BEST
SINCE CENTURY BEGAN
New York Banker Notes Great
Change in World Psychology
Toward Business.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, January 29.-The year
1926 opened with more promise and
more warrant for optimism in busi-
ness and world affairs than any other
since the beginning of the twentieth
century. Francis II. Sisson. vice presi-
dent of the Guaranty Trust Co. Of
New York declared last night at the
Midwinter meeting Of the Illinois
Bankers Association.
With agriculture, industry and bust
ness definitely on the upgrade both at
home and abroad and promising to re-
main SO, Mr.. Sisson said, there is
every indication that the trend to-
ward stability which marked 1925 as
'the first year of peace" will con-
tinue.
The greatest change has been in
world psychology. rather than in the
vast progress in material conditions.
Evening star., 1926-01-29
ROAD SETS NEW
INCOME RECORD
Western MaryIand's Net for
1925 Best Yet-Cost of
Operation Reduced.
SPECIAL Dispatch to The Star.

BALTIMORE, January 29.-Net in
come of the Western Maryland Rail-
way in 1925 set record for all time,
although operating revenues We're far
short of equaling those for 1928, when
they We're $23,055. .036. and for 1920.
when they totaled $40 ,205,6S7. In 1925
the company reported operating rev
enues of $l9,S61,773. an increase of
$726,21l. compared with the preced-
ing year.
Net income was $1.779,059, a large
increase, compared with 1924. The
operating ratio in 1925 was 70.3l per
cent, against 74.03 per cent in 1924
The increased volume of traffic was
handled at a saving of sl99S51 in
operating expenses, "a showing prob
ably not equaled by any other rail
road in the United States of COM
parable size.
When adjustments of accounts are
completed il is estimated that the
Evening star., 1926-01-29
DAIRY PRODUCTS.

BALTIMORE. January 20 tSpe-
cialD.-Young chickens. pound. 22a35:
leghorns. 22a30: Winter chickens, 3Sa
10. old hens. 22a32; leghorns. 22a24
roos erS. IS capons. S5a40: ducks. 25a
"a: geese. 1>a25: young turkeys. 50a
81: old. 4oa42:. poor and crooked
breasts. 25a3o; pigeons. pair, 25a3O; ;
guineafowls. each, 35a75.
Dressed poultry-Turkeys young,
45a50; old. 3sa40; chickens. young.
30a35: capons, 35a45 ducks, 30a35:
geese. 20a2S
Eggs-Receipts. 9l2 cases: native
and nearby, fresh. dozen. offered 37a
IS: candied. 39ai0.
Butter-Good to fancy creamery.
pound. 42a41: pound prints. 47a49;
ladies. 34a36: store packed. 30: dairy
prints. 3oa50: process butter. 39a40:
rolls, 30a35
Ema ncipated women in Turkey are
subjected to the same taxes as men
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MERGER is APPROVED.
Lead and Zinc Company Unites
With Western Land Firm.

JOPLIN, Mo, January 90 UP).-Con.
Solidation of the Consolidated Lead
and Zinc Co. and the Underwriters
Land Co. has been approved by stock
holders of the two companies here.
The properties merged are valued at
more than $1,000 900. and consist of
nine mills in the Picher, Okla. dis
trict. in addition to leases and royalty
interests.
The company will be incorporated
under the laws of Delaware. Directors
elected today include: John B. Swift,
president of the Eagle Picher Lead
Co, Cincinnati, and A. f. Bendelari,
vice president and treasurer of the
E,aE.e. PiCher. ChiCa GO
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JAVA LOSES WORKERS.
High Pay ON Rubber Plantations
Alarms Employers.

BATAVIA. Java. January % CP).
The American consumer of rubber
is not the only sufferer from the high
price of that product and conse-
duent boom in the producing areas.
Employers of labor in Java also are
complaining because higher wages in
the Sumatra rubber plantations are
drawing workers from this island by
The thousands.
Steamers leaving for Sumatra are
beSiaged hy Jayanese coolies who re-
fuse local work because they earn
five times as much on the rubber
estate.
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AUTO SHOW POPULAR.
Baltimore Reports Largest Attend
ance Ever Known.
Special Dispatch TO The Star

Special Dispatch to The Star
BALTIMORE. January 2S.-Attend-
ance records for the 20 years during
which the show has been held were
broken at the automobile show at the
Fifth Regiment Armory last night
when 7.715 paid admissions passed
the gate.
The 1926 show is reported as being
a great sales" show. Within q
short time last night two Of the most
popular cars on the floor were sold
with immediate delivery promised.
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MONEY DEMAND SLOW.
Merchants and Manufacturers
Have Ample Funds.

Specia, Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE, January z9.-Demand
for money has not come up to expecta-
ton, and there is no reason to believe
that calls for credit will assume i'm
portant proportions until funds are
needed to finance Spring activities,
say Baltimore bankers
Quiet Of the loan market is not diff
cult to understand. Merchants and
manufacturers realized better than an
average year in 1925. Some closed the
period with the largest cash balance
in their history and are in position to
finance their needs without recourse
to the loan market.
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1925 BEST STEEL YEAR.
Bethlehem President Reports Bust
ness Remarkable.

NEW YORK, January 90 R.-
Characterizing 1925 as one of the most
remarkable in the history of the steel
industry. Eugene G. Grace. president
OF the Bethlehem Steel Corporation,
announced yesterday that the COM
pany's earnings totaled $38,988,742,
equal after charges and preferred
dividends to $3.50 on the common
shares. compared with $33,996,48 or
$2.56 a share, In 1924
The final quarters operations yield
cd the corporation the largest profits
OF any period during the year, net
earnings Of $10,543.136 comparing
Win 3l0.399.316 in the first quarter,
sS'IoS'o2s In the second and $S,337. 1872
In the third.
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RAILROAD SUIT DROPPED.
Case Against Southern Railway
Dismissed by Judge.

CHARLOTTE y. C., January %
CP.-Judge +. Y. Webb. in Federal
District Court here. has signed a de-
cree dismissing the suit In equity
brought by the State of North Caro-
lima against the Southern Railway
Co. and j. W. Fry and a. f. Smith.
receivers of the Atlantic and Yad-
kin Railway Co. to prohibit the
Southern from bidding for or pur-
chasing at the forthcoming receiv-
ers sale the Atlantic and Yadkin
Railroad. extending from Sanford. "
C.. t. Nounty Airy, y. G, via Greens
boro. The suit has been pending for
several months.
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FIRM IS SUSPENDED,

NEW YORK. January % LP.-
The New York curb Market has an
nounced the suspension of the firm Of
Cadigan & Nixon of oil City. Pa. fol
lowing the receipt of information that
the firm had been placed III the hands
of a receiver.
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DIVIDENDS DECLARED.

NEW YORK. January 20 R.-Di-
rectors of the Standard Sanitary
Manufacturing Co. have declared a
dividend of 81 a share on the COM
mon stock. which previously had been
$.26 share quarterly The regular
quarterly dividend of Ia per cent on
the preferred also was a'ItLoriZed
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WHITNEY FUND RAISED.

NEW YORK, January 90 Cp).-Mem-
pers or the New York Cotton Ex-
chanse nave raised a fund of $1,000
10 pace bust of Eli Whitney, in
Ventor OF the cotton gin, in the Hall
OF Fame. it is announced by Richard
L. Harriss. president of the exchange.
Evening star., 1926-01-29

final balance earned on the s17,742.-
$50 first preferred stock will approx
mate 10 per cent, on which accruals
since 1918. when 1t BECAME cumula-
tive. up to January this year, total
$3.50 per cent.
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BUTTER HIGHER TODAY.

CHICAGO, January 90 LP).-Butter
higher-Receipts. 5,203 tubs. Cream
cry, extras. a.; standards, 44H: extra
firsts. 43i2a44: firsts, 411aa4214; sec
onds. 39a41.
Eggs lower-Receipts, 10,s6s cases;
firsts. 33a34; ordinary firsts, 80.
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| tracy
The SOL DiscIoSeS An
other Story Of Ameri-
can HeroiSm.
BY Nj. e. Tracy

Died at their posts, every man
Jack of them. the radio operator at
his key, the engineer with his hand
upon a lever. the helmsman in his
place.
1t was worth all it. cost and more
to make the sea yield proof of such
heroism.
The SOL comes back to us, not as
a coffin, but as the shrine of un-
crushed spirit.
The calm courage with which
those lads met the brief agony of
their fate is matched by the I'M
daunted labor with which they and
their ill-starred ship were wrested
from the clutches of Old Ocean
The divers who worked amid ooze
and slime, twenty fathdms, Q20
feet down, burrowing like rats to
carry sings under the sand-embed-
ded hull; the commander who drove
his campaign to uccess through
weather fair, or foul. the pumpmen
and mechanics whose work was more
grinding than glorious and the sail
-ors who stood by with tug, supply
ship and crane-these. too. deserve
a share in the kind of idealism that
the S-51 memorializes.
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OH, NO. MIR. WELLS

Marriage is all right for the peasantry, declares
Mr.. h. G. Wells, the noted British author, but under
modern conditions it doesn't work out so nicely.
One of the reasons he advances is that women
now have little homework to do, what with electri-
cal appliances and all that, and he suggests that
they ought to find some work outside the home. Let
a woman try one husband after another until, even
tually she finds the proper mate and a task she can
share with him, is his hypothesis.
We fear Mr.. Wells has struck a foul tip this
time. What we need is not so much casting about
with one husband and another. or one wife and an
other, but a little plain knowledge and common
sense.
Simply because both the wife and husband are
employed outside the home, is, that just cause for
tripping from flower to flower until the sort of honey
that just satisfies the taste is found?
And, after it is found, then what? Aren't we
right back where we started, with an old.fashioned
marriage and all that on our hands again? No mat
ter what you call your mating, there is just one kind
of mate to meet your need.
say, Mr.. Wells, old top, just what are you get
ting at?
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-WomenWin Be Women

Since have been pirates,
why shouldn't they become bootleg
gers?
Ann Bonny and Mary Reed both
sailed under the black, albeit with
Tovesick captains who were glad to
40 their bidding, the one to be hanged
and the other to be spared because
Of approaching motherhood.
What is there then so surprising
in Major Walton A. Green's state
ment that the Illicit liquor trade is
developing a female contingent. >or
that the desire for fine clothes 1T at
the bottom of It?
What is there to wonder 1t in his
assertion that women are cleverer
at the game than men, or that they
find a congenial field in the peddling
of cocktails at the Nations capital?
The major is merely beating up
old ground. merely pointing out that
women are about the same as they
always were-a certain type Of them.
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A 100 PER CENT AMERICAN
by MRS. WALTER FERGUSON.

Sergt. Alvin C. York is acclaimed Americas greatest
individual World War. hero. His name is known from
one end Of the country to the other and, being a white
man, no word of praise has been withheld in his be-
half. He well deserves all that ne gets.
But the other day down in Oklahoma, there went
to his Happy Hunting Grounds an Indian by the name
of Tommy Blind Woman who, during his obscure life
since the ending of the great war until his equally OBJ
scure death, told with pride that he was the first Red
Man to cross the Rhine.
THIS Indian boy, only 81 years old when he served
Americans. and due to his primitive instincts was
able to make his way through the enemy lines un-
noticed. He served in the Marine, st. Mihiel
Meuse- Argonne and Vesle sectors until the signing of
the armistice. Because lof his ability and bravery, his
valor in action and his stoicism under fire. he re-
ceived the greatest honor the Nation can bestow, a
Congressional Medal. II
His most notable deed was the capture of seven
of the enemy, intrenched in a shell hole with machine
guns. Nine men were assigned to this duty, but all
were killed or wounded on the way, and this Indian
rifle is in a Washington gallery, kept as a record Of
the patriotism and excellent service of one native 100
per cent American.
This boy belonged to a. vanishing race and Inis
zeal and courage will never obtain the admiration that
is accorded to white men. Inbued with the blood OF
warriors who spent their lives fighting off the invading
Caucasian, he served nonly the cause Of a race that
reduced his people to a mere fragment of humanity.
This Ineian brave goes to his lonesome tomb
He sleeps now imam old Indian cemetery hidden deep
in the quiet woods among others of his tribe, and we
who owe him SO much will probably smile at his alb.
surd name, Tom Blind Woman, slayer of seven Of the
enemy single,handed and brave fighter for a country
no longer his own.
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An Absurd Argument

If the debt pact is ratified, France
will give us bonds, as other ma
tons have. \
There would be about s11, 900, 000.-
900 worth all told.
We could dump those bonds on
the market if we wanted TO at some
future time. letting them go at any
old price and upset the financial
equilibrium of Europe.
That is what France pretends 10
fear.
She is particularly afraid that
Germany might buy her bonds cheap
and the demand collection at par,
offsetting the r%eparation account.
But why would the United States
do any such thing? When has this
Government bartered securities, espe-
ciaily in such a way as to disturb
the general financial situation?
The idea seems too absurd to argue
about
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A REAL SOLUTION.

The announcement of the street car company
that the employees who formed a union and struck
are now former employees.
These men were, presumably, capable and enl-s
eient men and rendering good service to the public
Stripped of all nonessentials, the strike is Tor
more wages.
The reason they ceased work in a body was to
obtain more money.
They we're paid from 81 to AZ cents an hour for
their work and insist that the scale is not only IN
just but below a living standard.
If thew are rights in their contention, then the
comnanv will he operated by dissatisfied men, no
matter how many recruits it may add at the present
time.
For if the wage be below a decent living stand
ard. then no man will or can be happy upon II,
And dissatisfied men mean a continual recur-
\ renee of trouble.
Strikes are costly and stupid methods OF set
t,irg differences especially in public utilities which
are under State control.
They cost the owners of properties IN pfonts'
They cost the men in lost wages.
That the company, by offering bonuses to those
who remained upon the Job, has been able 70 keep
m service does not make for a permanent peace.
The one question involved is whether the wage
IL fair and Just. The people of this city can not az
IOrd 10 Pay leSS.
The cost to the city of this strike, which is
wrongly being interpreted as a private war between
the company and a portion of its men, Is neavy.
The unusual activity of the police in enforcing
ordinances, the placing of officers on cars the pre-
cautions against violence, costs money to the tag
payer.
And all the time at the State House is a puphc
service commission representing the public Interest
That body, with power to fix fares, fix schedules
- ..--.aS --hora roodod should II miohf seem.
be interested in the wage paid to the men.
The condition of the workers is quite as I'M
nortant as the condition of cars or the tracks.
The people of any city, and especially OF a city
which is on its way to a million population, are ready
to pay fair wages for a public service.
1t is inconceivable that they would be Wiling ID
pay lesss
Perhaps these men who say that 81 to AZ cents
an hour is an unfair wage are wrong.
The service rendered may not be worth It, The
wage may be luxurious and more than ample.
But there is a definite way to find out. The pub
lie service commission should be asked, If it does
not care to act on it's own initiative, to investigate
the wage scale and determine its justice.
The whole theory of control Of public utilities is
that the public is represented and protected in re-
turn for granting of monopoies.'
If there were ever a time when the public needs
more than spolicemans club to protect its rights,
this case seems to furnish it.
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HERE'S YOUR TRUE LOVER.

Charles Fox and Joe Gerock, of Fort Worth,
Texas, we're rivals for the hand of the same girl, one
Ileta Leggett, and she was seiously i'll in a hospital
in Chicago.
Fox and Gerock, naturally, wanted to see her,
and see her quickly. Together they went to a flying
field, where it was found possible to obtain a single
passage in the mail compartment of the Dallas to
Chicago mail plane.
After hours of debate as to which sho lid go,
Gerock finally won out, and as the propeller began
to spin, Fox, shaking hands and saying, Tell her l
love her. tainted and was removed to a hospital
in a state of collapse.
Here is a tale worthy of the pen of a master
short story writer. What a pity that both Of them
can't win the girl!
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Ak LA TAXI

One sure way of getting your name in the paper
Is to devise some new method Of getting married.
Wedding ceremonies have been performed in air
planes, on boats, by wireless and beside deathbeds.
A couple in West Virginia recently were married
in a taxicab, the ceremony being performed to the
merry tune Of the clicking meter. 1t causes one to
wonder whether the strain of listening to the costly
clicking wasn't a little too much to impose on a
nervous, blushing groom. A marriage ceremony usu-
ally is a deliberate, Impressive thing, but tile chances
are this young benedict breathed a sigh of relief
when the thing, was we'll over.
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THE FLEET AND THE FARMER

For Sale-George Washington, President Roose-
welt, President Harding, Republic, Leviathan and
other vessels of the United States lines. Owner
compelled to sell because these ships are just on the
point of making money. Address United States
Shipping Board, Washington, D. G.
The United States shipping board this week or
dered advertising prepared for the sale of the ves-
sells named. The above want ad might serve>a as copy.
It tells the situation precisely. Chairman OConnor
of the shipping board, yesterday, while refusing to
discuss the revenues earned by these splendid trans
Atlantic liners, indicated in an interview that they
were pretty close, at least, to making money. He
intimated also that il they were bought cheaply
enough, there would be a profit in it for the buyer.
Gradually the pressure on the Government-and
within the Governmental get out of the shipping
business before it is really profitable is becoming
completely successful. Ships are being sold by the
shipping board all the time. Only when names OF
great liners like the Leviathan ndIGeorge Wash
ington are mentioned does any one pay attention to
this fact.
In the interview, prepared by Chairman OCon-
nor's publicity man, theresis this statement
HE (OConnor) also repeated what he has many
times said publicly, that government ownership is
only justified when private operation is impossible"
Let's consider that statement in the light of a
dramatic incident which occurred in the fall of 1924,
an incident that O'Connor loves to talk about.
That fall a great wheat crop was piling up in
Atlantic port warehouses and aboard freight cars,
waiting for American ships to carry 1t to Europe.
There was also a considerable Congestion of cotton
and lumber in Atlantic ports, waiting likewise for
ships. This freight, it was believed, would result in
such a boost in freight rates, If turned over to for
eign shipping lines, that the growers profits, would
disappear.
The United States Fleet Corporation was asked
to put a lot of it's idle ships into service to handle
the grain, cotton and lumber and save the growers
profits. The feet corporation refused. saying it
would mean a loss on every cargo. Appeal was then
made to the shipping board and oConncr himself
went to the mat with the feet corporation, forcing
it to supply the needed ships. The immense, crops
were moved. $3.50
AS o,Connor proudly tells it, his action in
creased The profit to the American growers by ten
billion dollarsl
All the talk today with regard to the farm situa.
ton centess around means Of helping the farmer dis
pose of his surplus crops abroad.
Yet here, right In hand, Is one means that works.