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Evening star., 1926-03-21
Mississippi Society
Lists Honor Guests

Senator and Mrs. Key Pitman and
Representative and Mrs. F'inis J. Gar
rett will be among the guests of honor
of the Mississippi Society at the ban
O.. and dance at L'Aiglon Club
Eaa1ons. Columbia road and Eighteenth
street northwest. Tuesday evening.
---.iator Pat Harrison, as toast
master. will introduce the speakers.
Senator Pitman. Representative Gar
rett and Maj. Charles J. Ferris. U.
A. The Senators and Represen nta
tjves from Mississippi and their
wives, with many distinguished
Evening star., 1926-03-21
Mrs. Dawes as Honor Guest
In Social Event Tomorrow
Mrs. Morris Sheppard to Give Luncheon-Din-
ners Feature Season in Official and
Non.OHicial Circles.

honor Of Miss Esther Eckert, Miss
Elizabeth Coleman. Miss Mary Nay
lor and Miss Katherine Potter, who
are to sail for Panama, March 2a.
The other guests were Miss Lulu
George, Miss Winnie Cox. Miss Relle
Robinson. Miss Julia Watts. Miss
Katherine Wilson, Mrs. Blanche
Sheckells. Mrs. F. Parks and Miss
Mayme Barnes.
Mrs. G.. w Offut Will ha hostess at
bridge Thursday afternoon at the
Grace Dodge Hotel. In honor of her
sister-in.law. Mrs. Lemuel n. Offut of
, Baltimore.
Evening star., 1926-03-21
C. U. Layman Alumni
Announce Smoker

The Washington Chapter. Layman
Alumni of the Catholic University.
will hold it's monthly smoker at
L'Aislon Club Salons Sunday eve
ming. April IL. from to II O'Clock.
Mr.. p. j. Flannery has charge of the
buffet supper and entertainment.
Evening star., 1926-03-21
Sigma Delta Pi Sorority
To Meet at Card Party

a card party. to be given by the
Sigma Delta Pi Sorority tomorrow
afternoon, will be held in the grand
ballroom of the Mayfiower from 2
to 5 O'Clock.
Evening star., 1926-03-21
Mrs. Thomas Sterling
AT Home" April I

Mrs. Thomas Sterling. wife of for
mer Senator Sterling, will be at home
from 4 to o'clock April !. at 21eo
Thirty sixth street northwest.
Evening star., 1926-03-21

- of the Hotel Washington when several hundred
o'clock and will
from official resident society and the diplomatic who will hear
others well known world of
night society will enjoy Lohnsrin presented under
German
and other diplomats officials generally will fiji
and the shington Auditorium
Evening star., 1926-03-21
President and First Lady
Drop Social Engagements
During Period of Sorrow
Express Wish. However. That Their Bereave-
ment Shall Not Interrupt Plans of Official
Family or General Public.
BY SALLIE V. II. PICKETT.

p the OF Coolidge that
neither society shall change their
Presidents father They
permitting grief take official phase and while
mapped hemhe Secretary of Agriculture and Mrs Jard
Tuesday branch
expected observe mourning change social
ran
Evening star., 1926-03-21

the effect Of plng from
silver the decoration
the the
unohsucted by towering OF flowers much
In in
had shades Of soft tint There general
generally instead the " forests of blossoms
40 nlch
Evening star., 1926-03-21

EOR Department Agriculture has held annual
Tuesday forenoon Mrs Jardne
amarys
The exhibition of the finest held
visitors these exhibitions
reach the thousands.
Evening star., 1926-03-21

distinctly than
Dr. Work week the Willard Hotel for
Coolidge the numbering about ~ and
dinner being followed by oored films showing the lite flower from
bossomcd u-blown beauty then
dropped its petals An orchestra with flute and string
OF low
dainty The
of Whitney when such record
and
rtant
Evening star., 1926-03-21

The Minister of Costa Rica, Senior
Don J. Rafael Oreamuno, will return
today from New York. where he has
been at the Marguery for several
davS
Evening star., 1926-03-21

Continued on Sixth Page.l
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-04-02
BANKERS RAISE FUND OF
$500,0O0 FOR EDUCATION

A fund of 100000 to endow schol-
arships and research In economics In
American colleges was recently es-
tablished by the American Bankers
Association in celebration of its Cold
en- Anniversary. The intention Of the
Foundation is to promote education in
the direction of sounder general eco
nomic understanding. Half the total
sum represents subscriptions by the
American Bankers Association, the
American Institute OF Banking and in
dividual bankers. and the other half
quotas assigned to bankers in each
state, The Association gave $4,000
from its reserve funds, and the Ameri-
can Institute of Banking, through in
dividual subscriptions from its mem
bers, who are chiefly clerks in the
banks, subscribed $4,000. Numerous
subscriptions of $4,000, $500 and ST..
900 each were made by individual
bankers in all parts Of the country.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-04-02
AMERICAS WORLD LEADERSHIP

According to statistics collected by
the National Industrial Conference
Board the United States produces
over one-half of the worlds copper;
almost two-thirds of the worlds pig
iron; nearly three-fourths of the
worlds petroleum; over one-half Of
the worlds cotton and almost one.
half of the worlds lumber.
1t supplies more than 43 per cent Of
the worlds coal; nearly 60 per cent
of the worlds steel ingots and cast.
ings and STA per cent of the worlds
paper.
That the United States, with only
about 5 per cent Of the worlds area
and only six per cent Of the worlds
population, should hold this command
ing economic position is not due to
it's vast natural resources alone. It's
supremacy is not mere accident, nor
is it a mere coincidence that with
its economic leadership goes leader
ship in the development of all forms
of communication facilities upon which
industrial and commercial progress ia
vitality dependent.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-04-02
(2) central
(s)

A long row of young women seated
at switchboard; hands moving
rhymically as plugs are thrust deft-
ly into jacks; the faint click of metal
against metal; low hum of carefully
modulated voices and everywhere an
atmosphere of quiet eficiency-such
is the modern telephone exchange.
But in the exchange of less than
half a century ago far different
situation presented itself to the eye
and to the ear-of the chance visi-
tor Almost without exception the
operators in the first exchanges in
large cities were boys, as they were
in the Gold and Stock exchange, New
York City, in 1879.
And boys were then, as they are
now and ever will be, just-boys.
Many an operator of that early day
delights to tell his grandchildren Of
the FRANKS the youngsters played on
each other or-it must be recorded in
all candor-upon the subscribers. The
apparatus was not arranged to permit
the quiet operation of the present day,
and it's youthful guardians had to
shout to each other-at the top of
their voices, when traffic was heavy
the numbers called for by subscribers.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-04-02

STEADILY expanding
IN an average 1925 farm price chicken Of S cents the highest
1921 according
Economics Prices for fowls the New York
when the usual heavy
Prices then dropped to 21
colder holiday on
Increased
some measure lesser consumption 1924
epidemic
rapidly
continued spring poultry
Comparatively lower feed 1920 poultry
the highest
industrial conditions
w years at least.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-04-02
~ Blue MONDAYS
Personal Farm RecoIIections of a
Man in Electrical Industry.

Blue Monday on the farm, in the
days before anyone even limited that
electric power might remove the blue
ness. is wildly recalled by Owen D.
Young high official of the General
e ectric Company. who was raised on
farm and still owns one near Herki-
MGR. y. Y. Says Mr. Young.
Blue Mondays were rightly termed
'h'"e in the old days, with the milk
coming into the house from the barn;
with the skimming to be done, and
the pans and buckets to be washed:
with the churn waiting attention;
with the wash-boiler on the stove
while the wash-tub and that back
breaking device. the wash-board,
stcod by: with the kitchen full of
stem the breakfast cooking in prog.
ress and one pale. tired. and discour.
aged woman in the midst of this con.
fusion Hungry men were at the door
meanwhile, anxious to get at the days
work Blue were those Mondays in
deed,"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-04-02

Even when discipline in the central
Office was at it's best, the air was filled
with strident cries, with the shutting
of many feet as the youngsters ran to
and fro, with snarling threats and
even the sounds of physical combat
when the paths of two of these Mercu-
rial Mercuries crossed in the middle
Of the central Office floor.
A strange contrast, surely, with the
modern exchange, where the volume
of traffic is so great as to make that
of one Of these early exchanges seem
insignificant, but where this vastly
more complicated business is trans
acted with not the smallest fraction
of the ado that made the telephone
operating room of 1879 little less than
a place of unending uproar, veritable
bedlam.
In such contrasts as this the his
tory Of the telephone has been writ
ten. And yet such contrasts have not
been brought about by radical and
sweeping changes, but by process
of gradual evolution toward better ap
paratus and operating methods "a
process which is still going on and
must continue until telephone service
has been made as nearly perfect as it
is humanity possible to make it.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-04-02

a town of few hundred inhabitants,
growing up on farm and receiving
his early education in a rural school.
He later entered Bethany College.
West Virginia, but at the end Of his
junior year he had to quit college and
60 to work in the bank"
His subsequent career was one Of
steady progress. first to higher posi-
lions among small country banks,
then to larger city banks In Texas,
where he rose to the top. In 1914
he was chosen first governor Of the
Dallas Federal Reserve Bank and
served through the opening period of
the establishment of that institution.
He resigned to become president Of a
bank in Birmingham, Alabama, which
has grown under his administration
to be one, of the largest and most sue
cessful institutions in the South.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-04-02

tween midnight and dawn, and de-
livered fresh at the opening of the
day.
AS an example of the way in which
highway illumination assists in the
movement of farm products to mar
kets, there is the lighting of Hylan
Boulevard, across Staten Island, N. Y.
This highway is used extensively
every night for taking produce and
other farm products into New York
City from New Jersey by automobile
trucks. 1t is customary to ferry from
Perth Amboy to Tottenville. proceed
along Hylan Boulevard across Staten
Island, and ferry from st. James to
Brooklyn or New York, thereby elimi-
mating the congested traffic along New
Jersey, and in New York City. Much
of the traffic is at night, so that the
produce arrives at the markets early
in the morning. Hylan Boulevard is
now the best lighted rural highway in
the United States"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-04-02


Bell System during 1925. At the end
If the year 16,720000 telephones were
aterconnected so that practically any
one of them can be connected with
any other one throughout the United
states, at any time, day or night.
over 5O,0O0OO0 ,oll and exchange con-
ections, each an individual transac-
ion, are handled daily.
Three hundred and sixty-five million
dollars was expended by the Bell Sys-
tenn on new plant construction, includ-
ing new plant to replace 100000, 900
of plant retired Net additions to
plant were 100000 This brought
the, assets devoted to furnishing tele.
phone service up to s2,93S, 100000 The
number of persons employed, including
those in the Western Electric Gem.
pany, was over $4,000,
The gross revenue of the Bell Sys-
TEN, he states, was $761, 100000 and
net earnings were az per cent on the
amount invested in plant and other
assets. Earnings available for con-
tingencies and surplus amounted to
~ per cent on the investment-less
than cent day telephone, neces-
sary but relatively small margin of
safety.
1t is shown that there were over
$4,000 stockholders Of the American
Telephone and Telegraph Company at
the end Of the year, making the Bell
System in q sense, publicly owned.
The amount of capital stock of the
American Company outstanding was
$s21,5s' 500, an increase Of SS3,1ls, 400
for the year.
The net income Of the American
Telephone and Telegraph Company
was S1Q7405,OQ0, OF the resulting bal.
ance, after payment Of dividends at
$500 share, $6,O0O,00Q was aRpre-
priated for contingencies and the re-.
mainder, s2O,36O,OO0, was carried to
surplus.
Mr.. Clifford says that the nature of
the business requires a nationwide
organization operating under state
laws and state regulation and federal
laws and federal regulation. This re-
quires various inter-corporate rela-
tious which, however, are simAis IN
prime pie and no. arbitrary. It com.
prises in brief the American Tele-
phone and Telegram Company, which
is the parent company, twenty-five
Associated Telephone Companies, and
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-04-02
LETTING FARM BUILDINGS

Prorer lighting in barns and out
buildings is as essential as in the farm
home 1t is often necessary to do
work before or after daylight, and the
unsafe oil lantern is not satisfactory
for this purpose, principally because
OF the limited range of light.
In wiring farm buildings conduit or
armored cable should be employed.
While there is no likelihood of fire
with insulated electric wires, moisture
or ammonia fumes may rot the insula-
ton, rubbing against walls may wear
1t or rats and mice may gnaw 1t, caus-
ing live wires to be exposed. Where
the wires are run through conduit or
a lead sheathing the insulation will
not wear off or leave live wires ex-
posed.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-04-02
IN AMERICA
AN OPEN HIGHWAY
How Four Boys of Humble Origin
Have Become Chiefs of the
Greatest Financial 0rganiza-
ton in the World.

i Broad highways of achievement are
wide open to all in America no mat
ter how humble their beginning, it is
brought out by writer in Forbes
Magazine, telling of the successive
elevation Of poor boys to the chieftain-
ship of the most powerful association
of financial power in the world.
Nowhere is opportunity so demo-
cratic as in caste-free America, no
where is recognition for faithful SER
vice so little conditioned by inherited
position and wealth." the article says.
''The bounty of America in bestowing
her rewards of great success upon
those Of modest origin is again not.
ably manifest in the rise Of Oscar
Wells to the presidency Of the Ameri-
can Bankers Association.
"The son Of tanner, John H.
Puelichen was elected to this emil
nenee in 1922. Circumstances ended
his public schooling in the seventh
year and he went to work in carpet
store in Milwaukee: At sixteen he
entered a bank as a clerk. rising step
hy step until he became president.
Recognition Of his abilities as a
banker and civic service through pub
DC education in sound economic un-
Outstanding brought him the highest
reward from his profession.
"a former country school teacher,
Walter w. Head, born in a farm ham
let in Western Illinois, was elected
president of the association in 1928.
He gave UP teaching and salary of
$75 to enter banking at $40 a month
In a small Missouri town. He subse-
quently became president of a hank
in Omaha, the largest in Nebraska
and a. dozeA neighboring states. The
positieA he occupied in advancing
agricultural welfare during the period
Of depression led to his being called
the Granger President of the Ameri-
can Bankers Association
"F'rom Irish Immigrant lad to SUI
preme head Of banking in America
epitaMizes the career of William e.
Knox, president of one of the largest
savings banks of the country in New
York. His business career began as
an office boy in publishing house,
and he later entered the bank as q
clerk. Experience with humble peo-
pie in their problems of personal
finance and his incubation of economy
IN all matters attracted countrywide
attention.
oscar Wells, who rises in 1926 as
successor of these men. was born in
an old Weather-boarded log cabin
house In the Missouri River bottoms of
Platte County. Missouri. He became
an orphan when three years of age,
losing his parents in an epidemic that
ravaged the countryside. He passed
under the care of an uncle, head of
z small country bank In Platte City,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-04-02

have become main highways, or at
least well-traveled thoroughfares.
These roads now have as many auto
mobiles on them at night as do some
city streets, and are therefore being
Illuminated. This means that the
poles and wires will be set up, and
the farmers will not have to pay for
this expense. The power company
can afford 10 run wires from these
poles to the farm buildings.
Highway lighting goes hand in
hand with the extension Of rural
lines" says Mr.. Harraden. "The as
surance of rural lighting load, with
its annual revenue certainty, makes
is feasible to extend lines where
the farm load itself would not
warrant the investment Thus high
way lighting helps to extend electric
service to the farmer as well as help
him in transporting his produce to
market.
at is estimated that much farm prod.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-04-02

the Western Electric Company, and
tions of each.
Mr.. Clifford says that although the
Bell System is growing larger and
more complicated, it is less hazardous
to manage because of a better knowl-
edge of the essential facts. He says
that the population of the country
grows at the rate of from one to two
per cent year, general business at
the rate of three or four per cent,
and the telephone business, due to the
higher standards of living and the
trend toward the economy of time,
increases at more rapid rate than
general business.
Telephone service is not a commod-
ity, he says, or physical product
comparable to that furnished by other
industries, or even other utilities.
The problem of furnishing service
increases with the number of tele-
phones interconnected and except
for economies, many factors of cost
would increase greatly. Telephone
costs have been kept at the presen
relatively low point in spite of the
unique character of the business, only
by constant invention and develop
ment of new types of apparatus and
by new and better methods of opera.
ton.
During the past year steady i'm
provement has been made in tele-
phone service so that it will better
meet the requirements of the users.
Maintenance and upkeep have been
continued on high plane, with strict
attention also to all possible econom-
les. The amount of new construction
for 1926 is expected to be somewhat
greater than last year.
Mr.. Clifford speaks of the continuing
work of development and research on
more than thousand problems relat-
ing to telephone service, on continuing
experiments In transoceanic telephony,
and on other phases of radio trans
mission which might have application
in the extension of telephone facilities
The result of improvements and
economies is apparent, he says, In the
cost of telephone service to the pub
lie. Telephone rates are, on the aver
age, only 80 per cent higher than ten
years ago while wages and material
costs have increased much mere and
living costs have increased Is per
cent, Bell System companies do not
need nor do they seek to earn more
than q reasonable return en- theil
property. Rate adjustments have been
made necessary chiefly because of the
change in the value OF the dollar,
Speaking of relations with the pub
lie. Mr.. Clifford states that in the tele
phone business they are founded OF
satisfactory service at the lowest pos
sible rates. This Is the aim of thc
Bell System 1t also aims to conduc
It's affairs in accordance with Amel
lean ideals and traditions.
The highest award for the year
under the terms of the Theodore N
Vail Memorial Fund, was a gold media
accompanied by $500 in cash given to
Anna Iseenelda Lehman, chief operate
of the Chesapeake and Potomac Tele
phone Company, Piedmont, w, Va
This award was made for consptcuou
courage and devotion 20 the publ
service during a severe flood in the
spying of 1924
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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-04-02
HIGHWAY LIGHTING IS ASTEPP|NG
STONE TO ELECTRICITY ON THE EARN
With Poles and Wires Set Up Along Roads, 1t Should Not Be
Expensive or Difficult for Power Companies to Run Wires
to Farm Houses Along Route

Power companies want to serve the
farmer. There are thousands so re-
mote. however, that the companies
cannot afford to install the necessary
transmission. system and neither can
these farmers afford to have the work
done, says w. L. Harraden of the
General Electric Company.
Some farmers are more fortunate,
however, because they live along
roads that within the past few years
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-04-02

uce never reaches market. Over
crowded roads, with resultant delays
in transportation, are contributory
cause to this loss. Adequate illumina-
ton Of highways at night eliminating
headlight glare and reducing the
danger of accidents, makes it feasible
to carry on truck transportation at
night, with a consequent relief in
traffic conditions during the day.
Furthermore, perishable, foodstuffs
may be moved to city markets be.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-04-02
ELECTRIC HEATER

Not all farm homes are equipped
with furnaces. and as result the use
of small electric heaters is increasing
The electric heater can be connected
to current outlet and gives strong
concentrated heat wherever 1t is want
ed. 1t is of particular value in heat
ing small room which is to be used
Tor q limited time.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-04-02
ELECTRIC FANS ON FARMS

A surprisingly large number of
farm homes use electric fans for keep
ing the kitchen cool while cooking and
other daily work is being done. Fans
are also used for drying fruits and
vegetables, drying clothes indoors and
for similar purposes requiring Q
-strong. direct breeze.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-04-02
HIGH SPOTS in
A. 7. & 7. REPORT
Summary Of the Annual Report OF the
American Telephone and Tele-
graph Company.

Progress in the
quality and extent
of telephone serv-
ice is the keynote
in the annual re-
port Of President
w. S. Clifford, of
the A m g ri C a n
Telephone and
Telegraph Com
pany. He states
that more than
$4,000 telephones
LJ-J L. A.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-04-02
IRRIGATION ON FARMS
Electricity Strongly Endorsed by
Texas Professor of Agriculture.

The Importance of irrigation to farm
lands is wildly shown in the above
picture. T. H. Claypool, professor Of
agriculture of Baylor University,
Waco. Tex. shown holding two cotton
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-04-02

About the only time q
ever succeed in making
themselves is when the1
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-04-02

The Cynical Bachelor
that while marriage is a
seldom tongue-tied.