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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-04-24
Chicago Live Stock

CHICAGO, April 24.-Hogs sold
stronger here today. Arrivals were
estimated at 1000, which was under
expectations. Lights topped at
$14.25. Prices are $50 higher than
week ago.
Cattle are steady for the day. but
26c lower on good grades for the
week.
Lambs are fully $500 higher than
week ago. Fat lambs quoted at
$14@16.10 are the highest this year.
Hogs - Receipts, 5000; market
strong. Bulk, $12.1O@13.40; top,
$14.25; heavyweight, $11.60@12.7o;
medium weight, $12.3O@1S.5O; light
weight, $1S@14.10; light lights.
$13.1O@14.25; heavy packing sows.
smooth, $11.1O@11.S5; packing sOws,
rough, $10.75@11.1O; pigs, $13.600
1925.
Cattle - Receipts, 500: market
steady. Calves, receipts, 100; mar
ket steady. Beef steers, choice and
prime, $10@10.50; medium and good,
$8.75@9.75; good and choice. $3.50
1915; common and medium, $70S.
Butcher cattle, heifers, $5.5O@1O.10:
cows, $5@8.50; bulls, sos. Gamers
and cutters, cows and heifers, $40
$50: Gamer steers, $5,50@7: veal
calves, light and handyweight. $8 so
@11.50; feeder steers. $6@9; stocker
steers, $5.50@S.75; stocker cows and
heifers, $4@6; stocker calves. $500
$50.
Sheep - Receipts. 1000; marKee
steady. Lambs, fat, $14@16.1O;
lambs, clipped. $1S@14.5O; lambs.
culls and common, $11 ,5O@12.50;
yearlings, $11.50@13.5O: yearling
wethers, $10@11.50: ewes, $50 10;
ewes, culls and common, $4@6;
feeder lambs $14@14.75.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-04-24

INDUSTRIAL CURB LIST
SHOWS LITTLE CHANGE

NEW YORK, April 24.--Industrial
stock prices were firm In the curb
market today. There were no wide
changes In prices IN either direc.
ton, though some Of the low priced
utility stocks made notable gains,
United States Light and Heat NOV
ing up from 1911 to ~.
The oil stocks continued active
and the buying movement In do
mestic bonds was sufficient TO
carry prices Of many Of the active
issues to the high prices Of the
year. Humble OIL was q leader in
the Standard OIL group. though
profit taking near the close resulted
in q decline from the best price q
the day. Standard Of Nebraska sold
up Z points at $50. while Redbank
and the South American oils were
steady.
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Pittsburgh Live Stock

Cattle supply, $50; market, steady
choice. $s.90@10.50: prime. 1926 q
9.75; good, $9.25Q9.8O; tidy butchers,
$s.7599.10: fair. $8.25@8.65; com.
mon, $6.50@7.50; common to good
fat bulls, $5.50@7.50: common to
good fat cows. 1896; heffers, $7.25T
@100; veal calves. $3.50.
Sheep and lamb-Supply. 1900;
market, higher; good. $3.50; lambs,
SIS; spring lambs. ST.
Hogs-Receipts, 1000; market.
active and higher; prime heavy
hogs, $13@13.5O; heavy mixed,
$13.75014; mediums, $14.25@14.50;
heavy workers., $14.25614.5O; light
workers. $14.50914.60; pigs, $14.50@
1850; roughs. $1O@11; stays. $607.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-04-24
New York Commodities

NEW YORK, April 24.-Whole-
sale prices today were:
Foodstuffs - Wheat. No. red,
S1.S2 corn, No. 2 yellow, SOC: oats,
No. 3 white, 53hc; flour, MIMI,
So. 40: beef. family, 24c; sugar, gran
uIated, 51.5c; pork, mess, S4hc;
coffee, No. Z, 1870; butter, cream
cry. 90 score, 3S1hc; eggs. fresh
firsts, 31c.
Textiles - Cotton mid. uplands,
1913.
pitts. $500: billets re-rolling, 5000
$500; sheet bars, 3600@87O0; galvan-
ICED sheets, 46O0460; hoops, 25O@
26O: bars, 200; plates 100; plain
wire. $50: nails, 266.
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RAILWAY CHIEFS URGE
BILL TO CHECK STRIK rs

Five railroad Presidents appealed
to President Coolidge today to
throw Administration support be-
hind the passage OF the Watson
Parker railroad bill to insure its
passage at this session Of Congress.
Unless the bin il passed, they
warned, the country win have no
assurance Of peace In the railroad
industry.
The bin sets up a system OF
regional arbitration Of wage dis
putes, and Is favored by both the
road and by the unions.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-04-24
LixarpooI Cotton

LIVERPOOL, April .24.-Cotton
range. Fair demand for spots.
Prices steady. Sales, 1000 bales.
Middling fair was $11.46; strictly
good middling, $10.96: good mid
ding, $1O.66; strictly middling.
$10.41; middling, $10.01; strictly low
middling. 1871: low middling. 1886;
strictly good ordinary, $7.41; good
ordinary 1855.
Futures opened quiet; May. 1886;
uary, $3.50.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-04-24
Foreign Bonds
Railway Seeks 1900 Cars

The Illinois Central Railroad 10,
day applied to- the. Interstate Com
nnerce Commission for authority 20
issue S5,018,000 Of 41a per cen:
equipment trust certificates. the
proceeds to be used in buying 1900
freight cars and other rolling stock
A. q total cost OF $7,172,100.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-04-24
Baltimore Grain Market

wheat-Easier. No. 2 red win
ter garlic domestic, $1.74h; re-
cepits, SO bushels; shipments, LOO
bushels.
Corn-Easier. No. yellow
domestic, 81 cents bushel; receipts
6.966 bushels; shipments, 4,4S1
bushels.
Oats-Steady. No. Q white domeS-
tic. 521z cents bushel: receipts,
1890 bushels; shipments, 1850
bushels.
Rye-Nominal; receipts, none;
shipments, 253 bushels.
Hav-Firm.
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NEW YORK, April 24.-The cot
ton market was steady at the open
ing today, with first prices show
ing advances of to points. May
opened at 1870, up "a; July. 1915,
unchanged; October, 1876, up .Ol
and December. 1903, up .O3.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-04-24
SENATOR COPELAND
QUITS As BANK HEAD

NEW YORK. April 24.-Because
of pressure Of business at Wash
ington Senator Royal s.. Copeland
has resigned from the presidency
of the Fordham National Bank
here.
Officials Of the bank made the
announcement today.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-04-24
DrOo in Metal Prices

Copper, lead. zinc, tin and silver
have all been at new low levels
Tor the present movement In the
last day or two. Lead Is the only
one Of the lot in which the volume
Of sales during the week has been
well maintained, Engineering and
Mining Journai-Press reports.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-04-24
BUSINESS BOON
REPORTED
BY RICHARD HATTON

An interesting survey Of business
conditions in the United States is
Contained in the mid-month review
Of the Irving Bank-C Columbia Trust
Company, of New York, which says
Ia part:
The first quarter-year has wit
messed volume of general business
wei above normal, and the spring
opens with activity in many basic
Hines still well sustained.
Despite some drastic recessiOnS
In Industrial stocks, business Opin-
aon, as contrasted with speculative
opinion, remains sanguine.
While conditions in some lines
OF manufacture, notably textiles, do
not seem to justify a cheerful out
look, in many others there is no
definite reason for anticipating any
severe recession in the immediate
future.
Last months sales Of 522 retail
Trims reporting to the Federal Re-
serve Board were IL per cent
higher than in March, 1925, and
sales OF and 10-cent chain stores,
12.5 per cent larger.
Leading mail-order houses re-
March over February, and 1928 per
cent over March a year ago; sales
for the first quarter Of the year
increased 9.5 per cent over the cor
responding period in 1926.
Building expenditures called for
In permits issued in, 142 cities dur.
ing the first quarter OF 1925 totaled
$s23, ST.. S9S, q gain OF 2.S per cent
over the first three months Of last
year.
Aggregate bank clearings at 1913
American cities established q new
high record in March. New York
city clearings amounted to $685.
OS1, s72, 942. Or 20.3 per cent more
than in the same month last
year.
'CIearings in the other cities were
0,413, 426, 165, an increase Of "a
per cent over March, 1926"
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Local Stocks

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Capital Traction 5s, $3,0O0@991s,
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Capital Traction Co, 50104i5,
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Potomac Electric Power pfd., 40
107, 501O7.
washington Gas Light, 4067&,
10067A, 6@67%, .1O@67A, 1O06sA !,
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Lanston Monotype, 1OW84.
Washington Railway and Electric
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Bank Increases Capital

The capital stock OF the Security
Savings and Commercial Bank has
been increased from 5000. 900 to
$500 900 by the stockholders and a
stock dividend OF 500 shares has
been authorized to holders Of record
on the date Of the passage OF the
resolution. The stock win be pro-
portioned at the rate OF one share
for each four shares now held.
The remaining shares will be APP
porticned and sold to the stock
holders Of record April 81 at the
rate Of one share for each four
shares now held, at $500 per share.
The right of the stockholders to
take the shares allotted to them
Is transferable.
This increase in the capital stock
ID In line with the constructive
policy OF expansion which has
marked the institution since its
foundation
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oil Stocks

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Seward daily gateway., 1926-06-22
i. .LATUA PETE

A scientist declares that the earth will be overcrowded within three generations It will if they keep on making automobiles and if drivers and pedestrians become more careful.
Seward daily gateway., 1926-06-22
REMEMBER THE VETERANS

All signs point to an increase of revenue in spite of the tax reduction according to dispatches released by the Associated Press. The country is prosperous and the Treas ury shows a surplus after all government needs have been satisfied. The public debt is being cut down at the average rate of $9O0,000,000 year. In these circumstances it does seem a pity that Congress does not grant an increase of pensions to the rapidly dying veterans of the civil war and their widows. There are only 114,0O0 veterans left, and the number of widows is about 100000 The deaths are at the rate of g. 900 a month in each class.
 The veterans are now 80 years of age and over. They are mostly dependent upon their pension, which is not sufficient to keep them in comfort. They should receive at least $100 month each, without qualified tion as to their physical condition or other means of living The United States is now in position to pay off its debt to these sav- iors of the Union. No one would be injured by this small allowance The taxpayer would not feel it, and might even obtain a reduction in taxes notwithstanding the al- lowance of a more liberal pension to the civil war veterans and their widows.
 Every consideration of humanity, grati- tude, and public interest calls upon Cong ress to make the declining days of the rem nant of Americas defenders comfortable and free from want.
Seward daily gateway., 1926-06-22
UNIQUE LETTER RECEIVED

Editors are never so calloused that they do not appreciate letters from their readers expressing appreciation, the editorial col umns of the Juneau Empire of recent date announced. And because the letter, which is quite unique, approves of the Empires position with regard to it's opposition to brown bears, the letter was set down liter ally as follows:
 FROM LATUA PETE
 Haines, Alaska,
 June 9th, 1926. Editor Juneu Paper
 Deer Sir
 am injin but Read rite see it your story in May 29 paper bout Brown Bairs you said it just rite loos it my lations by Brown Bair. My uncin 6 my cusin l get Hurt l long time lay like ded from Brown Bair not much good before l no good tall now
 Haines pippin council give it to me a job to Ketch dogs to help me out they no I can no Ketch dog pretty sofe hey My cusin cum from Cordova He say Doc Chace write it most game laws Doc Chace He Hire lots gides and go out and Kill big Brown Bare Him and Bare Have lots picter taken and send all over U. S. now lots Hunters cum from U. s. and doc takum out in His big Bote Pretty Soft Hey
 ..LATUA PETE
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-25
Women's Shoes Larger.

THE average size of women's shoes
= has increased from Az to 6I5 in
the last six years, according TO re
port recently made to the National
Shoe Retailers Association, says Pop
ular Mechanics. Changes in style and
the participation of women in ath-
leties are believed largely responsible
for this development.
1t was also declared that women's
ankles have grown half an inch thick
err as a result Of wearing low-heeled
oxfords. Style experts are speculat-
ing as to just how far this tendency
will go and when the trend will start
the other way, back to smaller shoes.
They point out that foot fashions,
like others, have undergone numer-
GUS cycles. There was a square-toe
vogue in England at one time, until
Queen Mary a5l6-1559 issued a proc
lamation forbidding widths greater
than inches. High heels came to
America before 1870. but suddenly
went out because of a Paris cdict,
then returned in 1858. Toward the
latter part of the seventeenth century
in Venice it became the custom for
women to wear "chopines," or exceed
ingly high shoes, almost like stills.
The height Of the footwear indicated
social prestige.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-25

treal?" If the Obliging Man told the
truth he would say. mo, / don't
know. / have never known, You
might write to the Buffalo Chamber of
Commerce, But he can't bear to do
this. The temptation to be an expert
is too great, So he begins pulling time
tables out of his pocket.
Buffalo to Montreal" he murmurs.
"let-me-see. Yes, here we are
S:10-8:40-9:30 --no. wait bit. that's
Buffalo to Chicago. What YOU want
is Buffalo to Montreal. eh?"
Eyes, but 1t doesn't really matter
''Oh, it's all right. TIL get 1t in a
| minute, Let me aee--Buffalo to To-
ledo---huml--that wouldn't be it-Buf-
falo to Toronto-hum-Buff and
the West, What you want is Buffalo
to Montreal, chr"
"Yes, but please don't trouble
''Oh, not at all. It's no trouble.
Buffalo to Montreal--ah, here we are
mo, wait minute--this is the wrong
| folder. What we want is the d. & III
"Oh, please don't trouble"
Not at all. Now then. Here we
] are Montreal, Montreal, Yes. Here
| it Is. Montreal. New York, Montreal,
Troy--what you want is Buffalo to
Montreal, eh?"
Yes. please"
well. ! think I've got 1t right here.
Leave Montreal 9:45 PM, arrive Bing-
| hamton 5 amino, that't not 1t. You
| don't want to so to Binghamton, do
you?"
And here of course. is the chance to
end the dialogue. You have only to
say, well, now that ! think of 1t,
believe I'd just as soon go to Bing-
| hamton."
Right says the Obliging Man,
you get off this train at midnight at
| Syracuse change at Auburn at 1880
pm. Sunday only (you wait till Sum
day., and arrive at Binghamton at
$40 am. At least it says Leave
BinghamtoD, but ! guess that's mis-,
take, it must mean arrive. Yes, that's
| 1t. You get out at midnight"
And once again, 1t Is cheaper and
easier to do i
But PERHAPS the worst case of all
is the scene that happens when you
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-25

Geo. claimed it would be too much
like a taxi.cab, and said how about
that lovely pea-soup shade of green.
And vetoed that because pea soup is
fattening and am on a diet.
So in the end we decided where,
after all, on a repaint job, the best
thing would be nice dark shade of
black. All right. hon, says Geo. you
buy the paint tomorrow and we viii
all get together on Sunday and paint
1t, that will be lot of fun, it will
be regular picnic, and now leave
us take look at the brushes.
SO he done so and the old clothes
brush was full of Paris green that 1t
had got through me continuously
brushing off my Paris green dinner
dress, 50 that was out. Then he went
up in the bathroom and looked at his
toothbrush but it was kinda worn out,
1t wasn't good enough to use on the
car, SO he hung it up again ana says
10 me well, Jennie, | guess you better
get brushes, too, get couple, Ana
Junior says Aw Ma, If you're conner
paint the car, get me brush too, Ma,
| wanner help! And / says that $
nice, darling, sure you can help lot,
YOU can put q leash on the car and
hold it, SOS it won't run away While
we are giving it new coat of make
up!
Well. it seems painting the car
come to be regarded around our place
as a kind of Summer Festival, every
body wanted to get in on II one way
OF another, the cook claimed she
would help, she loved to paint, 1t
would be lot of fun, she knew a lot
about painting on account her brother
was a painter and worked regular,
Al,
night.
Then, the same evening, that Joe
Bush of the Hawthorne Club and his
wife came over to call and when we
told them how we was goner paint
our car, Sunday, and what lark II
was to be, and ETC., why the two of
them both got real enthusiastic and
SAYS where they will come over and
help us do a little larking. they
thought it would be the greatest fun!
So Geo. says the more the merrier,
too many cooks can't spoil the paint
Job! And they says ha! ha! and went
on home, and the next day ! went
down to the Emporium, right straight
to the perfumes and makeup dept.
and asked the girl for some stuff to
reiuvenate a old car, but she sent me
over to the hardware dept, which in
notion dept. on account they only sold
auto paint when people got notion.
Well anyways, 1 went on over there,
and the man says what kind do you
want, do you want something that
will dry quickly, or something that
will remain wet until after the in
stallment collector comes around next
time? And ! says oh they won't re-
move it, it's a old model, want some.
thing that will dry quick, So he says
we'll, here's something new, Glue-Coe,
it hardens Immediately, in fact it hard
ems the minute YOU take the lid off
of the can. Or there is some Kooko-
Koloring, but that takes a. long time,
it takes at least 90 minutes to dry.
And I says all right, l guess we
can wait 90 minutes, give me that
and he says what colour? And says
black. and he says so sorry, it only
comes in baby blue. So / says well,
/ have an idea, why not use paint?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-25
BY STEPHEN LEACOCK.

T HERE is a type of individual
who should properly be known
as the Obliging Man. 1t is his
special mania in life to per-
form little services, on request,
for his fellow men. He loves to give
directions and instructions: he likes
20 be asked by stranger the way to
a particular street; he likes some one
to ask him the time; he likes anything
in fact, that will let him say 'allow
me" and permit me-"
And with 1t all the Obliging Man,
as met with on train or In a hotel
or on the street, Is one of the worst
nuisanees in the civilization of the
Twentieth Century.
Take as an illustration of this the
scene that happens when you ask the
Obliging Man, let US say, in the smok-
ing end of Pullman car If he can
tell you the time.
The dialogue runs like this
Gould you tell me the right time,
please?"
The Ohliging Man takes out his
watch and looks at it. What he ehght
to say is About eleven O'Clock. :"
Then he would receive the answer
THANK you" and the episode would
he at an end. But the phrase, the
right time" has misled him. He
thinks you mean the time to hair,
to a fraction of a second, the kind OF
time that an astronomer would use
for measuring the fight of comet.
So he says;
my watch is eleven.three, think
It may be a little slow.
''0h, thank you"
az think It's more likely about
eleven.flve. I think was about two
minutes slow last night.
Thank YOU"
But my watch may have been
gaining a little since then. 1t often
does. 1t might be only elevenfour.
Thank you"
II noticed by the clock in the sta
ton that 1t was tenthirty when I
was ten twenty-nine. So that would
make n eleven.two right now"
Thank you."
But think SEINE one said that the
station clock was two minutes out.
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when they smoke?
Sincerely,
I. N. HALE.
Answer-When little boys smoke
they go up an alley.
Dear Mr.. Wynn: My wife is good
cook, but she can't make pies, and
love pies. What can she do TO learn
to make a good pie.
Sincerely,
LEM N. CUSTARD.
Answer-Have her go to some
school and take up course in "pyrog-
raphy.'
Dear Mr.. Wynn: My uncle says
you can carry water in a sieve. isn't
that silly? Yours truly,
Answer-Not so silly. Your uncle
is right. You can carry water In a
sieve by waiting till the water freezes.
Dear Mr.. Wynn: just can't seem
TO make head nor tail out of these
things they call thermometers. Can
YOU explain them to me?
PoIAA REGIONS.
Answer-They are very simple to
understand. When the weather gets
very cold the mercury cuddles all
together in the bottom to keep warm.
Dear MFR. Wynn: / have a friend
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Lardner, as College Foot Ball Player,
Introduced Some Startling Methods

where a high.class basket ball guard
was wanted, and winding UP in the
spring at Tulane, which was anxious
to land a good pitcher who could also
pole vault, hurdle, throw the javelin
and run as anchor man in the relay.
With a schedule thus outlined | had
leisure to write and enjoy myself In
social way during the Summer
months.
Editors note: Mr.. Lardner, asked
to explain the meaning of sextuple
threat as applied to half back, said II
meant a half back who could not only
kick, pass and run forwards. but also
run backwards, act as field judge and
announce the results of out-of-town
games. He said that in all football
history there had been only four really
great sextuple threaters-himSelf, Ma
rilyn Miller and the Mayo Brothers)
At this time Ada Rehan, the actress.
was collecting autographs and pictures
Of taxicab drivers. There was a law
in New York that every driver must
have his picture pasted on his license
card. AS was not driving taxi and
had never been to New York, she
asked me to write verse in her
book. This was at party she gave in
Chicago and everybody was dying of
thirst, so wrote:
Water, water, everywhere.
Enjoying 1t, you think,
With water, water, everywhere
And nothing else to drink?
Alone, alone, all, all alone,
Alone on a wide, wide sea.
And i would that my tongue could
utter
The thoughts that arise in me.
Miss Rehan was very much pleased
and made the suggestion that we go
home as she had a matinee the follow
ing day. She was then playing in
stop! Look! LISTEN
1t was now that the Spanish war
broke out and enlisted as a general.
Ito be continued)