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Evening star., 1926-02-16
COTTON SELLS OFF
IN TRADING TODAY
Overnight Buying Orders Help
Early Market-Foreign
Cables Unfavorable.
By the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, February lG.-Cotton
futures opened steady. March, 2o.0T;
May. l9.4S; July. 1887; October. 1928:
December, 1889. The market opened
At unchanged prices to decline Of 4
points.
Overnight buying orders and further
covering of March and May shorts
owing 10 the nearer approach, of the
first notice day and the comparatively
small amount of cotton here available
for delivery were supplied by liquida-
tion or selling against purchases of
later deliveries, and the market eased
shortly after the call in sympathy
with different Liverpool cables and
reports of continued good weather for
early farm work in the South.
March sold off to 20.02 and October
20 1920. the market showing net losses
of about ; to 5 points at the end of
the first hour.
Noon Bids on Cotton.
March. 20.02: May, 1917: July,
1888; October, 1915; December, 177S
Cotton Market Closed.
NEW ORLEANS, February 16.-
The cotton market and rice market
are closed today. Mardi GraS day.
Evening star., 1926-02-16
REGRETS LAND LAWS.
Firestone Says They Hinder Rut
Der Growing in Philippines.

MANILA. February 16 UP.-Harvey
Firestone. jr.. who arrived here on
the President Mckinley on his way
to Singapore, said that he had not
come to the Philippines with the inten-
tion of testing the feasibility of grow
ing rubber here.
Should the government see its way
clear to revise the land laws in such
way as to meet our requests he
said, I'VE shall doubtless make an at
tempt to organize a rubber plantation
in the Philippines.
1T is to be regretted that American
rubber interests are prevented from
entering into that big industry in this,
the only American possession in the
tropics
Evening star., 1926-02-16
ORE IMPORTS HEAVY.

BALTIMORE, February 16 (SpeciaD.
inbound shipments of ore through
the port Of Baltimore produced heavy
tonnages in 1925. Baltimore imported
l,3l3,856 tons of iron ore last year
from Cuba, Chile. Germany, Greece
and Spain. Import Of manganese ore
reached 4S2 .661 tons. shipped by Bra
Zil, Turkey, England and British In
dia. kainite imports totaled 36,191
tons, from South and East Africa,
Greece and Cuba.
Evening star., 1926-02-16
WAGE DEMANDS ARE HELD
OF FAR-REACHING IMPORT

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE, February 16.-De-
mands of railroad employees for wage
increases are regarded as Of supreme
importance" in the monthly bulletin
of the Baltimore Association of Com
merce, just issued. Uncertainty as to
the status of business for 1926 il the
controversy between the unions and
railroad arrangements becomes acute
is expressed. Business interests are
urged to watch the situation and be
ready for eventualities.
Evening star., 1926-02-16

Have You Been Stung Yet:
Some men have to get stung good
and hard before they learn to be eau
tious In making investments. Before
you invest-investigate!
Evening star., 1926-02-16
Sales in INDEPENDENT OIL STOCKS.
Washington Stock Exchange

SALES.
Washington Rwy. & Elec. pfd.-10 At 91 1.
Commercial National Bsnk-1o At eco.
10 at 25Si4
lOI II 10 at lOl u, 10 at 10l u.
National Mortgage and Investment pfd-
so at SIS. so at 8.
AFTER CALL
Capital Traction 5s-s1. 900 at 100. $500
Washington Rvy. Elec. pfd.-lo at 81.
10 at 81.
oFederal-American National Bank at
Washinrton Gas Lght-lo at G3b.
American Security Trust Co.-1o at
Washington Gas Light-15 at 73H.
Chesapeake & Potomac Tel. Of Va. 5s-
Capital Traction Co-7 at 1o7.
Money-Csll loans. and per cent.
Bid and Asked Prices.
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Evening star., 1926-02-16
AIR REDUCTIONS NET

NEW YORK. February 16 Op).-Air
Reduction Co. reports net profits Of
s2,o16,S65 for 1925. equivalent to $1,000
Il share, compared with 1856 share
in 1924.
The American issue., 1926-09-01
WOMEN'S DEPARTMENT
Mrs. N. H. Trirnble, Asst.

ship Committees may greet Mrs. Peabody
personally. Luncheon will be served at
II m. Reservations at eighty cents
plate, can be made through our office.
Mrs Trimble spent five weeks this sum-
mer in the Twenty second Congressional
District, promoting the objectives of the
Womans Department. Christian Citizen
ship organization was effected in East St.
Louis, Belleville, Edwardsville, Collins
ville and Granite City Alton had already
started this work.
Mrs. Lillian Haynes, untiring prohibi-
ton worker of St. Clair county, has been
appointed head of the Woman's Work in
the southern district, to complete and car
ry on that which Mrs. Trimble began. She
can be reached through the East St. Louis
office, 412 Metropolitan Bldg.
Mrs G.. NJ Mathes, our State Superin-
tendent, who has spent the summer in Eu-
rope, will be back at her desk again Sep
tember 9Th. We shall be most happy to
welcome her home.
The American issue., 1926-09-01
Prohibition at a Price

editorial with the caption Prohibition At A Price"
In this article labored attempt is made to show
the underlying motive OF England in entering into spe-
cia arrangement with The United States to effectively
choke off the smuggling of Intoxicating liquor to
shores and similar arrangement with Canada now in
the process of completion
The contention OF the Tribune is that England wants
above everything else" from the United States a modf-
cation OF the debtpayng arrangement between the two
countries and merely matter of selfish interest
is willing to take strenuous to keep her boot
Logging ships at home.
lhe Willingness of Canada to cooperate with gov
ernment TO the limit in snuffng the smuggling of
liquors border is attributed by the Tribune
The American issue., 1926-09-01

Canadas desire curry favor with the United States
that the tariff wall against Canadian farm products
may be lowered
The Tribune evidently believes that the statesmen of
other countries breathe moral atmosphere developed
from the low levels OF pagan maeriaism in which
are brewed Of its editorials that relate to ndvd
ual human life and the public welfare.
The whole impact of the Tribune editorial is that the
"prce in dollars and for the abolition of the bev
erage liquor traffic high to Americathat ii costs
too much.
Yes! 1t does cost lot of money But it is
bagaele compared to the wenty four hundred millions
of dollars that before national prohibition every
year in this country taken out of the legitimate chan
nels of trade and expended for booze.
Does the Tribune forget that?
The American issue., 1926-09-01

But the beverage liquor traffic has cost America lar
greater price than even that colossal sum-
1t did directly and indirectly, cost this country
100000 open graves each year for many years seventy
five per cent of our crime thirty per OF insan
ity and large proportion OF our divorces.
It pcopled Our poor houses, filled our orphanages
crowded our asyums, corrupted politics and flung
its defiant challenge in the face of the church OF the
living God
Yes! "Prohibtion At A Price" Its fearful, an
appalling horrible price willing to pay before
we could that the prohibition OF the beverage Il
quor traffic the only solution OF the problem The
date is now overdue for the delivery of the goods.
The wild beast OF lawessness crouches for a final
spring
1t is time to close in and kill
The American issue., 1926-09-01

as an economist and banker said Mr..
Cordes Manufacturers and bankers
throughout the United States are wholly
in favor OF prohibition. In industry, con-
ditions are heavenly to what they were in
the prohibition days, and savings
banks are filled to overhowng with mon
ey. Children are better fed and clothed
and mothers are happier than they were
prior TO the enactment of the Nolstead
Act. The law has helped where 1t was
most needed. OF course, the rich are act
ing foolishly. They have acted SO since
before the flood, but they pay the price
financially and morally, SO let them go
ahead until they come to their senses II
they ever do. AS to the young folk, some
are doing things we don't like, but | be-
lieve the reports of drinking. are like the
report of Mark Twain's death grossly ex-
aggerated'."
The American issue., 1926-09-01
AUTOMOBILES AND THE PROHIBITION LAW

vets wins out there will be no restraint
on the sale of booze anywhere in Illinois.
Every crossroads, village drug store, and
soda fountain could sell without limit.
The deaths from automobile accidents
in this country last year reached the ap-
palling total of 10000.
Put alcoholic beverages within easy
reach of the multitude and the harvest of
death would be beyond human language
to adequately describe.
With vicious campaign on now in Il
linos to break down the Prohibition law
the saloon or worse will be with us again.
It is time for the decent. men and v'o-
men of the state to do some serious think
ing and prohibitive voting.
The American issue., 1926-09-01

Suppose it was necessary to give one
sufficient reason, to the exclusion of all
others, why the Prohibition Law and its
rigid enforcement must of necessity re-
man unalteraby the fixed policy of the
state and nation What would that reason
be? Manifestly the fact that there are to-
day upon the streets and highways of
this country twenty million automobiles
and millions more due to crowd our thor
oughfares in the near future.
The license system with all its restric-
tions upon the indiscriminate sale of in
toxicants has been repealed by the Eight
eenth Amendment
If the wine and beer program OF the
The American issue., 1926-09-01
POINTED PARAGRAPHS

Roger w. Babson, the economist says:
"The solution of the problem Ciquor)
lies in again renewing this fight and con-
tinuing to warn our children and the COM
munity against the dangers of touching
liquor, as parents did before the days of
prohibition. 1t is important that both
young and old should not touch liquor,
but it is very much better that they should
voluntarily refuse it when it is around
than to go without it merely because they
cannot get it. ;. The purpose of all leg
islation should be to make manhood rath-
er than merchandise.
The American issue., 1926-09-01
COMICS FROM The WET CAMP

We shall continue to carry on Our work
with energy knowing that our cause is the
one for which millions have died upon
thousand battle felds-the cause of hu-
man freedom.-E. Thele, State Director
for Association Opposed to Prohibition.
MOI By reason of booze millions Nave
died without the honor of battle field.
believe that the people of Illinois think
am sincere-George T. Brennan.
George, you've another guess coming.
The greatest enemy of temperance in
the nation today is the And-Saloon
League.-George F. Brennan.
Thank you. Yes, the Anti-Saloon
League is surely an enemy OF the so
called true temperance" advocated by
the Senatorial aspirant.
The American issue., 1926-09-01

1t is the duty of those who believe in
prohibition as a profoundly serviceab,e
moral and economic force to meet this at
tack in kind. Its foes are we'll organized
and lavishly subsidized. Strongest of the
organized bodies by which prohibition was
effected and by which it can now be
defended is the Anti-Saloon League,
which deserves to the fullest degree the
support, both moral and financial, of
Americans having social welfare at heart
But individual activity, as we'll as organ
lied resistance, is necessary. If those who
believe in a sober America would but
voice their opinions as forcefully and as
steadily as do those who are striving to
break down the barrier of the Eighteenth
Amendment, the true opinion of the Ma
ton would be more accurately represent
ed.-Christian Science Monitor.
The American issue., 1926-09-01
bad Officials are put into office by good
people who do not vote"
Mrs. Thos. G. Winter.
Mrs. G. M. Mathes, Supt.

The Woman's Department OF the Hi
nois Anti-Saloon League is organized to
get out the church vote, to elect friends
of prohibition and clean government to
public office. Our first work in the Fall
campaign is to secure complete reg1stra-
ton of church voters in those centers
where all previous registration lists have
been destroyed. The Christian Citizenship
Committees of five hundred churches i'll
Chicago and East St. Louis are already
organized to carry through this project.
Working to this end, sixteen wards in
Chicago have called an All Day Christian
Citizenship Conference of church women
to be held between September 18th and
October 1st Wards participating are q, ID,
II. 81, %, %, 80, IS, 80, 81, SO, "A, 40, AZ,
4S, so. Our leaders in these wards expect
to work so thoroughly that every church
voter can go to the polls with definite in
formation as to candidates and issues.
Miss Gracio Houlder of Australia called
recently to tell us of the strong tight her
country is waging for prohibition. After
participating personally in two Australian
campaigns, in which America was held up
as horrible example of the impossibilty
of enforcing prohibition, Miss Houlder
came to America to see at first hand how
prohibition actually works. She has gone
into every sort of place where people
congregate socially, and has an encourage
ing report to make of the beneficial re-
suits of prohibition enforcement here.
Miss Hou1der expects to make it known
in Australia, that reports of prohibition
failure in America, which have been
spread the world over by the wet press
and enemies of prohibition, are entirely
false. She will attend our Christian Citi-
zenship Councils to study the methods OF
our Woman's Department.. and to bring to
US a message of encouragement and in
spiration.
For details of the Conference in your
ward call Main 1869 and ask for The
Woman's Department.
The crowning event of Our Fall activ-
tiles will come on October 9th at big
get-together luncheon of the Christian
Citizenship committees OF Cook county in
the Cameo room of the Morrison hotel.
The room seats twelve hundred guests
and its capacity will be taxed.
Mrs. Henry w. Peabody, chairman of
the Woman's National Committee for Law
Enforcement, will be our guest and
speaker. We have arranged reception
in the parlors adjoining the Cameo room
IL a. m. so that our Christian Citizen
The American issue., 1926-09-01

The Cook County sponge squad recent
1y swooped down upon a brewery located
near Elgin and conhscated the machinery
valued at $45,00O and 800 gallons of beer.
The American issue., 1926-09-01

more be proven in the wrong as they
were when they predicted that prohibi-
ton never could come. It is here. It is
here to stay and behind it is the great
mass of the people who stand for the
home, for the church, for law and order
and for prohibition of wrongful things.
The American issue., 1926-09-01

If real referendum vote on prohibition
were taken there would be shock COM
ing to the vets in the opinion of William
f. Cordes president of the Florence Saw
ings Bank, Florence, Massachusetts,, and
director of the Northampton National
Bank Northampton, Massachusetts. II
base my opinion entirely on my findings
The American issue., 1926-09-01

This is our ideal land where you
meet no drunkard staggering on the road
towards his doom, land where you have
no slums for humanity to rot in, land
where you have two-thirds of its prison
cells empty, land with its warehouses
vanished, a land with its children we'll fed,
we'll clothed, we'll sheltered, we'll trained,
with their merry laughter ringing through
the streets, land where the curse of
drink shall be driven from all hearths.-
David Lloyd George.
The American issue., 1926-09-01

Chief Justice Taft of the United States
Supreme Court declares that: Liberty
guaranteed by the Constitution is liberty
regulated by law. The law which regu-
1ates liberty is that which is adopted up
on the will of the majority for the gen.
eral public benefit In no community
where there is any neighborhood relation
between one person and another or be-
tween one family and another can there
be complete freedom of action"
The American issue., 1926-09-01

All over this land, the home influence,
the Christian sentiment. the decent, God
fearing and right-thinking, overwhelm-
ing majority are not advertising loudly or
proc1aiming their might, but if and when
the time comes for them to rise up and
express themselves again, they will do it,
and the minority of those who are SO
blatant in their wetness and their con-
tempt for established law and order will
realize their great mistake and once
New Britain herald., 1926-03-17
Great Disappointment

London. March l7 PD--Therc is great disappointment here over the failure of llr Geneva meeting, Its mHr Is assumed because of its considered 'hur, is virtually no hope
 hut any development today will tly0ublv alter the situation. II is tue there is a general feeling of re- u.t o,,r lbo l.ocmuo pact signutor- i.s dpr5raiou that their work will e'and hU' noNHl'hstanliuE this mlti- ga'lng feature some Of the ncWspa- p,rs are of th" impression that the League of Nations has suffered a scyrra blow,
 "TAa game has not been played as it must Inc played ir tho League of Nations is 'o justify ifs creation, " suys Inc DMly Telegraph. If such things arc done in inc green leaf lover tho framework of the council, what will be don, in the dry. when 70 real crisis arises between two im- pornm rowrrs"'
 Tho Times rltcrs 10 tho "prcpos- torous mrigW,s in tho assembly and wonders what d' spcratc reason made it so critically important for Poland 10 have N seat that sweden and IC2cchosloyania should have been prepared to withdraw from their uon-poruianrnt seats in her favor .This nouspapor comments moro Istrongt% on spain alul Brazil.
 "Thcso two statos,' it says, "and Icspcciauy IraMl, seem 10 have plac' I,d themselves in a position in whicf they court the odium of q great fail lure. Tho pcrtinacity of Brazi lis somewhat remarkable, since Bra gil is not u first class power anC could hardly be expected to maintain an obduratc attitude in critical af
 fairs that directly concern Europe without some assurance of powerful
 outside support"
 The Times also notes as significan that France, Italy and Jugoslavi agreed on the principles of pac
 regarding the affairs of centra EuTOpC
New Britain herald., 1926-03-17
Kentucky Woman Likely
 To Re Freed of kininr

Pikevilc. Ky. March r CP) - Charged with slaying her brother in-law, Ernest Coleman, Mrs. M. NJ. Coleman of Greasy Creek, Ky, was held to the grand jury under s2,000 bond in her examining trial in county court here yesterday. Her husband, whose brother was killed by Mrs. Coleman as result of al- legged slanderous remarks about her, furnished bond. A number of bystanders also offered as bonds men.
 In fixing bond, County Judge John w. Fruit said If the la" of self defense ever had place, it is in this case, but owing to the circumstances, it will require the defendant 10 give reasonable bond. Unless there is other evidence, she will be cleared.
 Mrs. Coleman killed Ernest in a pistol duel Saturday after she had wounded him the Monday before shortly after he was acquitted on charges of gossiping.
New Britain herald., 1926-03-17
ASHES WILL REST
 ON BOTTOM OF SEA
Remains Of Eugene May to Min6le With Treasure He Sought

Oakland, Cal. March 17 Pt-The ashes of Eugene C, May, scholar, chemist and adyenturcr, will sink beneath the waters of the Pacific 10 lest upon the treasure troyc that he sought so hard, but failed to find in life,
 May died yesterday in the country hospital here from knife wounds solf-innictcd as a result of disap- pointmcnt over repeated failures 10 reach tho treasure box of the schooner General Grant, which sank in storm off the Auckland Islands in 1866 while carrying q group of miners from the Ballalat gold fields in Australia to their homes in Eng land. There were SS in the ships company-but Is were saved.
 one of the survivors showed May where the Grant was sunk in but Il few fathoms of water, He also told him that there was s10,00Q,000 in liallarat bullion and dust in the ships strong box.
 Fired by the nearness of the treasure, May fitted out an cxpedi- ton in Australia in 1912. He was ready 10 square away to the Auck- lands when the Titantic went down There was hue and cry around the world for costler and safer shil equipment and May could not meet ! lpt,,anI a p phnnlnnnl lo S petition after losing some s60.000
 Later he tried again, planning tC | start from California. But once more tho scheme failed. while tho 1o.000,O ,O00 in sunken gold continued to taunt him.
 Other ventures collapsed and sicl and Respondent, he finally gave III and put knife to his wrists in hi cheap Oakland lodgings. Friends found him before death came an( sent him to the hospital where h. died.
 r. II. Simpson, a friend. Is to talk his ashes to the Aucklands with al expedition that he is fitting up fo another try at the Grants lonl submerged treasure. The ashes vii be spread over the ocean where tn Grant went down.
 May, who was 6S. was graduat of three universities, an eXper chemist and a soldier of fortune. II obtained some rich farming lands il Mexico q number of years ago, bu Pancho Villa came along later an stripped him of these holdings. H was a native of France, but wa naturalized in 1880.
New Britain herald., 1926-03-17
Substantial Spring Trade Seen in Hardware Business

New York, March l1-ln it's weekly hardware market summary Hardware Age will say tomorrow;
 Reports from leading hardware market centers indicate that hard ware jobbcrs anticipate substan- tal spring volume on seasonal lines, Current business is running some what behind last years sales for March. This is particularly true in tho east, The majority of dis tributors, however, feel that this loss may be overcome as the spring sea son approaches,
 Retail stocks are generally very light. Prices have been remarkably firm, with rumors relative 10 possi- ble advances, Collections have been difficult in many cities,
 Freight car loadngs have been heavy. Steel production has set now records. Employment has been good and wages satisfactory, accord ing 10 opinions of hardware market students. These several factors should help bring about an i'm provement in the hardware busi- ress, it is felt"
New Britain herald., 1926-03-17
PET D0G SAVED IN
 TRIAL FOR MURDEP
New Evidence Shows Teddy
 Didn't Kill Pussy

Philadelphia, March 17 R - Teddy. the sleek Belmont fox ter rier, accused of wilfully chasing, shaking and causing the death Of Blackie, q pet kitten, was saved from stern punishment at the hands of the law yesterday when a report of an autopsy on Blackie's body revealed the kitten had been run over by an automobile.
 One minute after Teddy's case was resumed, following an ad- iournmcnt from last week, Police Magistrate Glenn declared the de- fendant acquitted. The terrier was not in court to receive Congratula- lions, however, having been left al home by Elmer T. Wilt, his owner, to enjoy what Mr Wilt feared might be his last home cooked meal.
 The unusual case, prosecuted by James G. Spear, owner of I'lackie, at the instance of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ani- malls. had attracted widespread in tcrcst. Scores of correspondents had written the court and the liti- gants, pleading for lcniency for the dog.