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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-17

| crickets you know about 1.-THE
Cricket on the Hearth'-that exceed.
ingly clever cricket that saved the
White knight from the Red Demon s
sword-and even dear "Fanchon, the
, Cricket" laid these many years on
memory's back shelf. wrapped in
sentiments official swathings of laven-
der and old lace.
| Mr.. Wade tells us that Thoreau's
crickets seemed to him the very
| foundation of all sound II cannot
| tell it from a ringing in my ears. 1t
| is sound from within, not without.
| You cannot dispose of it by listening
| to it. In proportion as / am stilled
| hear it," And If you are acquainted
with crickets, you will feel about the
| same way-though 1t takes Thoreau
to put it in words.
| And water-bugs, mind you-,not the
| ones you have to put powder on to
| keep away from the kitchen, but
their cousins that live in the woods
alongside n Stream--meaning, in this
instance, the Walden Pond Thoreau
found them SO eXcitedly active that he
feared for their nervous systems-"I
would like to know what it is they
communicate to one another. they who
appear to value each others society
so much? How many water.bugs
make quorum? Where did their
backs get polished so? What Is their
precise hour for retiring? All, if
had no more sins to answer for than
waterbury," 1t is truly, as Entomolo.
Sist Wade tells us, that:
I'm reading Thoreau's writings one
is impressed nv tho fonf fhnf
many passages therein, some of them
couched in language of rarest beauty.
contain thoughts which we recognize
as our own, but which. somehow, we
have never been able adequately to
formulate into wordS"--which shows
the difference between genius and
plain every Gay.
1t is a wonder treatise, from start
to finish, and yet: There is one thing
that Thoreau failed to mention, and
which wise entomologist has never
bothered about. but:
If you had happened to spend your
childhood in the deep-down country
between the piney woods and the
bay, you would undoubtedly ha~u
tried to figure out why Nature should
have been so partial to some ere.
atures and downright cruel to others
this way:
Look at birds and butterflies that
wing their way in the air, flashing
every lovely color-and then consider
the ugly, Gravity things, wriggling in
the dirt. 1t doesn't seem fair that
a bird should sing on a bough and
poor snake have to hiss in the grass
and scare everybody around, and not
right, at all, that we should hurrah
over the catching of pretty. silvery
fish, and say bad words If we hook
up a slippery, Shiny eel.
There is some good reason-there
must be-for such apparent injustices.
and, perhaps-just perhaps, mind you
dear Thoreau is now in a wonder
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-17

of the day; but no matter how deeply
you may be concerned as to the psy-
chology of fear, when you have had
to do a mornings hurried shopping for
the last accessories before leaving for
the Summer-and the morning has
been unusually hot--you just can't
help being a bit late. So,
She placed her packages in her lap
and concentrated on fear.
The lecturer went on and on unit,
he reached his thrilling apex, when
with arm raised imp-esSively to note
It's effect on his spellbound listeners
the tense silence was broken by a
series of small detonationS that marked
the falling of packages on the rug
less floor. There was a general look
backward, a tinkle of suppressed gig
giles and a little swooping down to
pick up bundles and restore them to
the late comer's lap. So far as she
YVES concerned. the lecture was a fail.
ure 1t had aroused her from nap.
That lecturer suggests another. He,
too, is a psychologist, and one of his
recent edits went like this-to a
woman disciple:
81 dreamed that I was frightened
and tried to scream, but no sound
would come. Why was that?"
THAT was nonsense-rnerely the
stuff that dreams are made Of There
is no emotion strong enough to pre-.
vent one from screaming aloud. un.
less, of course. one be dumb" But: r.
Last week little girl was painfully
but not seriously hurt by car driven
by a reckless 17-year-old, whose repu-
tation as a chauffeur could not we'll
be worse. The distressed mother of
the victim asked why she did not get
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-17
AROUND THE CITY
by MAMIE LANCASTER.

out of the road. Didn't she see the
juggernaut coming"
Yes, saw the car and was getting
out of the way all right until l saw
who was driving. Then all inside OF
me stood still and I couldn't move
Paralyzed from fear-in contradic
ton to n very wise psychologist who
insists that no emotion is strong
enough to prevent one from crying
aloud, unless, of course, one be dumb
But you know better. don't you,
Haven't you dreamed of being toe
scared to make n sound when you
tried to scream? That was night
mare, wasn't it? And n nightmare
under such. circumstances, puts it Ill
over psychology. Oh, yes, dear sister
Likewise, brother man.
THE humanitarian who lived by the
side of the road and was Il friend
to man has brother in that poet
naturalist of the Walden Woods whose
literary lance was forever charged in
behalf of natures lesser creatures of
the woods and fields and streams. And
if SO be you have missed acquaint-
ance with Thoreau and want to make
up your loss, you will find friend
and instructor in Joseph s. Wade,
over at the Bureau of Entomology,
who has made Il pilgrimage to the
naturalist's one-timc hut at Walden
Pond, near Concord Mass. and writ
ten beautiful things about it. Other
pilgrims from the world over have
gathered stones for the building of a
cairn in that leafy seclusion to mark
the place where genius once lived to
give to man knowledge of creatures
that average man knows little about
and cares less.
But Entomologist Wade, having
paid this tribute. brought back with
him an account of Some Insects of
Thoreau's Writings" which has been
reprinted from the New York Ento.
mological Society. and through the
courtesy of some one who must have
known of this writer's kinship feeling
for small creatures that fly and buzz
and crawl and hop a copy found it's
way to her desk--a treasure to be
shared with any other member of the
column if it can be obtained in no
other way.
Being scientist. an entomologist
has to write learnedly. of course, but.
between descriptions of the naturlist
and his work you Whit the pungency
of woods, catch the silver flash of
water and the sounds of the insect
world-which we of the streets know
nothing about whatever. For one,
there is the creak, creak of the cricket
and that brings reminder of other
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-17
INDIAN PURCHASES AUTO
WITH so BEAVER SKINS
Trapper Admired Car Last Year
and Comes Back With Pelts .
to Pay for It.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia.
July 16.-When Fred Gun-a-Nook. a
Northern Indian. was in Stewart, Brit
sh Columbia, last Fall he was deeply
impressed with a large auto. On be
ing told the price in dollars he was not
impressed. but when told that so bea-
yer skins would buy the car he grinned
and departed. 4.
The dealer was surprised to see Fred
back recently with a grin that spread
over his countenance. His surprise
was the greater when the Indian led
him to pile of so prime skins averag-
ing $40 each. That closed the deal and
the auto is now in Hazelton. British
Columbia.
Gun-a. Nook's father is the Indian
who eluded police of British Columbia
for many years and then gave him.
self up. He was acquitted on charge
Lof murder by the trial jury. !,
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eral agreement to end price cutting
and in explaining the advance point
ed out that everybody else is rails
ing, too"
Almost simultaneously with the cut
early in June, the Federal Trade
Commission announced an investiga-
ton of practices in Virginia by the
principal oil companies, due to COM
plants made by Gov. Byrd and indie
pendent distributors. A commissioner
held a hearing at Richmond, and COM
mittees were appointed to work out
L code of ethics.
Norfolk motorists alone saved from
81 900 to $500 a day while the price
war lasted. ...
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place where all such tangles ara an.
raveled in beautiful fashion, but
He isn't telling us earth.ones a
word. And, as for an entomologist!
Why, you couldn't expect him to
know everything-being human, like
the job-lot of us.
Even with that drawback, Mr..
Wade's little book will give you quick
breaths of appreciation, and probably
lead you into the woodsy Eden Gre
ated by Thoreau. And as the dear
Government isn't noted for it's prodi-
gality in the giving away of it's good
things, free for nothing, this one copy
will be yours for the reading. pro-
vded you think to bring it back
which sometimes we forget to do.
All Of us.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-17
NORFOLk'S GASOLINE
PRICE UP 3 CENTS
City Rate War Ends as Stations
Announce Sharp In
crease.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NORFOLK, Va, July 16.--Gaso.
line prices at most filling stations here
today were advanced from 201s to 23k
cents, including State tax.
The advance raised quotations to
where they were before the price
war" broke out in the Tidewater Sec
ton 6 weeks ago.
Dealers denied there was any gen.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-17

sion as Gle serted aS
that banquet hall
the. poe m tells
about. For one
recent afternoon.
however. the draw
ing room was
opened to a gath
ering of ladies to
hear a lecture on
1.-The Psychology
of Fear"
A late conner
slipped in a back
seat as quietly as
the We r hial
mouse. She is a
notably CT ev e r
woman. much in.
terested in the cul-
f1IraI movements
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-17

it to be more than 70 feet long and
to have a diameter of more than
9 feet at the first branch. 1t was
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-17

necessary to break it up with dyna--
mite before the dredges could han
die il.
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Gigantic Oak Found.

During dredging operations to deep.
en- the ~Kehl-Rhine Harbor a gigantic
oak was encountered on the bed OF the
river. Measurements by divers showed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-17

- HERE is an imposing home in
the fashionable section, where
draped furniture and rugless
floors betoken a family that
is fitting and has left the man.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-17

Seth Thomas m a k e
k t C h e n clock, white
enamel case, decorated
Gin. dial. Equipped with
S-day pendulum move
ment. Size over all, 0 in.
Decorated in pleasing
blue color.
rs: :s;:; e; g ;, 5 ::::: $500
and the factory v
Evening star., 1927-09-24
BALTIMORE BANKS ADOPT
"SERVICE CHARGE" IDEA
Regulations on Small Accounts Go
into Effect October LEVY
Will Be 81 Monthly.
srecial Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch TO The Star.
BALTIMORE, September 24.-Regu-
htions designed to abolish practices
which have resulted in the perform
ance of many improbable banking
operations and establishing uniform
maximum interest rates have been
adopted by the Baltimore clearing
house and will become operative Octo.
Der 1.
Those governing interest on deposits
are based upon the 90-day discount
rate of the Federal Reserve Bank of
Richmond.
One provision OF the amendment
stipulates that no interest shall be
allowed or paid on any account sub.
Ject to check, the average collected
balance of which for the monthly in
terest period shall be les than $500.
Another section. designed to COM
pensate banks for the expense of
handling small active accounts, says:
Every deposit account subject to
check and payable upon demand, the
avera ge monthly collected balance of
which is less than 5000 in any month,
shall be charged not less than 81 as
compensation for services rendered by
the member bank in handling the ac-
count during such month. Any ac-
count against which no checks have
been drawn during the month shall
be exempt from the charge"
Evening star., 1927-09-24
ACTIVE AND STRONG.
TRADING Al IN BONDS.
Speculative Issues Climb in
Sympathy With Advance
- - in Stock Values.
By CHARLES F. SPEARE.

Speeiai Dispatch to The Star.
II NEW YORK. September 24.-Bonds
were quite active again today and
prices in number of issues exceed
ed those made early in the week.
There We're additional gains over
those already made for new issues.
including Mobile & Ohio 4las, which
reached a premium of about 2l2
points: Union Pacific ASS a premium
Of points and in other of the better
grade of railroad low coupon issues
Great Northern 4i2s touched 80. 1t
is expected that the new $20,000,000
issues will be brought out somewhere
around this figure soon.
The announcement from Washing
ton that there will be no opportunity
to exchange second Liberty Az per
cent bonds for the new 312 Treasury
notes after October ]. and no further
exchange offer to those holders Of
second Liberties who have not taken
the present terms did not affect the
market for the seconds. which re-
mained about 10012.
The fourth 4l4s were quite heavy.
The new 3Ss per cent bonds have ad-
vanced a point over the issue price
in the movement of the past month.
In keeping with the strength in
stothS tnefe were Il NUMBER ot dCt4Ne
speculative issues. international Tele
phone 4i5s touched 95. International
Paper 6s and J. Kayser 5las We're
both fractionally higher. Erie con-
Nertible Ds rose Ia points, Missouri
Pacific SIS were at their best and there
was little firmer tendency in local
fractions.
In the foreign list the strength of
japanese, Norwegian. Belgian and
New South Wales issues continued.
Evening star., 1927-09-24
es INDEPENDENT OIL STOCKS.
EVERYMAN'S
INVESTMENTS
BY GEORGE T. HUGHES.
Looking for Higher Return.

The Government has called for re-
demption on November IS next all
the outstan nding second Liberty 4A
per cent bonds. TO those who are
willing to accept it an advantageous
offer of exchange has been made.
suppose. however, you are n small in
vestor in the second Liberty loan
bonds and are dssa tisfied with the
return on the new notes that are to
be given as a substitute. You want
more interest on your money.
Now that is perfectly proper am
bition, and while there is no security
comparable to that Of an obligation
of the United States Government,
there is no good reason why some
other bond or possibly even stock
should he selected in it's place. The
danger is not in making the change,
but in going to extremes.
The trouble is that most mex
perienced investors who sell their Lib.
erty bonds use the money to buy high
~ speculative securities. They are
not content with or 51a per cent,
but want 7 or more. Even il it is
not a question of interest rate they
wish to put their funds into some.
thing that will go higher" In other
words, they want to speculate. Against
any such course the protest cannot
be made too strong
If you must sell your Liberty bonds
at least be conservative with the
money received therefrom. In the
flrst place the savings bank pays from
4 to ~ per cent, and is almost with.
out exception a safe depository. In
the second place a good local building
and loan association makes a sound
investment for the man of small capi.
tai. Then comes IA long list of high
grade public utility and railroad bonds,
the best Of which give In the present
market around Az per cent some a
little more and some "a little less
higher Yield can be had in the
best OF preferred stocks and IL these
arc carefully selected they make en-.
tIfely satisfactory Investments. Just
aa an example take United States
steel preferred, Selling ut 135 and
paying I per cent, the yield is $40
per cent. For all practical purposes
steel preferred is just as good as a
bond. 1t has ready market. is
known the world over wherever there
Is any knowledge of financial matters
and is always good collateral for a
loan at the bank.
Evening star., 1927-09-24
LIST WORKS HIGHER
ON CURB EXCHANGE
Utilities Actively Bought.
Some Oils Strong-.Russian
Bonds Sell Upward.

pecial Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, September 24-Prices
worked higher on the Curb Exchange
today in sympathy with the further
recovery on the big board. The util.
tiles were actively bought and great
interest was taken in the announced
plan for the organization of a new
Super-poWer system, the first step in
which is to be the consolidation of
United Gas & Improvement and Phila-
delphia Electric. Both these stocks
were strong today, the former at
approximately the high OF the move
ment. Other significant advances were
registered by American Super Power
"A" and "B," by Electric Bond &
Share and by Commonwealth Edison.
Some of the Standard Oil shares
were in good demand with Imperial
Oil of Canada as the leader. Humble
Oil improved fractionally. The story
is that Standard Oil of Indiana is in
creasing it's interests in Humble and
desires closer relation with the Cana
dian company. In the miscellaneous
oil section Pantepec Oil made a new
low for the year
The feature Of the industrial group
was the strength in Swift & Co, which
sold at the best of record since 1920.
Swift & Co. has been slow in getting
under way but now seems to be en-
joying the favor extended TO the other
packing shares. Paying SIS, it was
still available on a. better than per
cent basis. United States Battery
jumped 4 points and Bunkerhill &
Sullivan at a new high was up over
5 points.
Alabama Great Southern common
and preferred again We're features of
the railroad section. AS minority is.
sues OF roads in the Southern Railway
system, they have attracted invest
ment buying. New Haven preferred
held its recent gain.
Russian bonds sold UP rather sharp.
ly in sympathy with tardy response
to the cables about the outlook for
settlement of Russja's debt to France
investment interest was reported in
Porto Rican Tobacco 6s. which carry
conversion privilege into Congress-
Cigar stock.
A sudden demand developed for the
shares of the Murphy Co. The
market was bare of offerings and il
took purchases of only a compara.
lively small amount to advance the
price rapidly. Reports of merger ne.
gotiations with McCrory Stores have
been denied
Evening star., 1927-09-24
RANGE IS NARROW
IN COTTON MARKET
Prices FIuctuate Both Ways
From Last Closing, but
There Is Little Change.
By the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, September 24-The
cotton market opened barely steady
today at decline of to 0 points in
response to relatively easy Liverpool
cables, but steadied up after the open
ing. on apprehensions that a cold wave
reported in the Canadian Northwest
might develop into a frost threat for
the cotton belt over the week end.
December sold off to 2065 and
March to 20.93. but soon rallied TO
20.85 for December or about 20 points
from the lowest and 10 to Is points
above yesterdays closing quotations.
This bulge met considerable selling in
the way of realizing or liquidation and
hedging, however. and prices were
back to nearly last nights closing
quotations by tenders in the first hour.
Evening star., 1927-09-24
KORNDORFF PROMOTED.
Heads Federal Shipbuilding, Sub
sidiary of U. S. Steel Corporation.

JERSEY CITY. N. j., September 81
R).-It was announced today at the
offices of the Federal Ship Building
Co, a subsidiary of the United States
Steel Corporation. that L. II. korn-
dorff had been elected president.
Mr.. KOrndorff. who was vice presi-
dent, succeeds Charles w. Bryan, who
died recently. Mr.. Bryan also was
president Of the American Bridge Co.
and prominent for years in engineer.
ing and steel circles.
Mr.. Korndorff assumed his new posi-
ton yesterday.
Evening star., 1927-09-24
POTATO MARKET WEAK.

CHICAGO, September "a P).-Po.
tatoes-Receipts, 161 cars; on track.
500 cars; total United States ship.
ments, 1902 cars; trading rather slow.
market weak; Wisconsin sacked round
whites; Amigo, 1.70a175: other sec
tions, 1.60a1.65. Minnesota sacked
round whites, 1.50a1 go; sacked Red
River Ohios, 1.50a1.6O; Idaho sacked
Russets, 225.
Evening star., 1927-09-24

NEW YORK, September "A C4).-
Producing one-third of the worlds
total output of tobacco and exporting
about As per cent OF the worlds ex-
ports, the United States is the princi-
pal influence in the tobacco industry,
says the New York Trust Co. The
annual tobacco crop of this country,
the bank states, is greater than the
exports from all the countries OF the
world
Evening star., 1927-09-24
SLATED FOR POST.
w. P. G. Harding Likely to Be Di-
rector of the Bank of Poland.

NEW YORK, September "a R.-
w. p. G.. Harding, governor of the
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, who
recently returned from a trip to Po-
land is understood in authoritative
q,.art ars in Wall street TO be the
choice as the American director of the
Bans of Poland, provision for which
is s pulated in the terms of the $40
0)g 100 loan TO Poland, to he f1oated
here and abroad about the first week
in October.
Mr.. Harding is considered in the
financial district the logical man for
the post, although several bankers
have been mentioned as likely to get
the post.
About $50,000,000 of the bonds,
which will bear a per cent coupon,
will be marketed here around SO.
Evening star., 1927-09-24

FOREIGN EXCHANGE.
Quotations furnished by W B. Hibbs & COY
Nominal Selling checks

NEW YORK. September "a Lp)-
Foreign exchanges steady, quota tions
lin centsl: Great Britain--Demand.
4s6k: cables. 4S6 1l-16 G0.dav bills on
banks, 4S2 5-16. France - Demand.
392L; cables, 392 7-16. Italy-De-
mand, 5.45; cables. 5.45as.
Demand-Belgium. 1892; Germany,
23.s3; Holland, 1905; Norway, 26.40;
sweden. 26.SS; Denmark. 26.77,
Switzerland, 1928; Spain, 1884;
Greece. 1925: Poland, 1l.40; Czecho-
sIoyakia. .26914: Jugoslavia, .17s; Aus
tr.ia. 1910; Rumania. .621a; Argentina,
4272; Brazil. 11.87i2; Toxic. $3.50
Shanghai, So; Montreal, i00.l2i2.
Evening star., 1927-09-24
BUSINESS IS BETTER.

ST. PAUL. September "A (SpeciaD-
Business developments in the last
week have had many favorable as.
poets. Hot weather has improved
corn prospects. Business activity is
we'll ahead of the pace of September,
1926, and seems assured for the early
part Of 1928. a better feeling exists
in industrial circles than at any time
this year.
Evening star., 1927-09-24
CABLE RATE AT PARIT--

LONDON. September "a LP).-The
cable transfer rate from London on
New York crossed par today. The
rate of the pound sterling was quoted
at S4.86 21-32. The rise was attributed
to demand for sterling for the remit
tance of funds through London in
connection with foreign loans foated
In America, also the transfer of money
here for utilization at higher rates Of
interest.
Evening star., 1927-09-24
EXCHANGE IS OPENED.

NEW YORK. September "a R).--
Standard Telephone and Cables. Ltd,
British subsidiary of International
Telephone and Telegraph Corporation,
recently installed 700 lines of the first
public automatic exchange in the Irish
Free State at Dublin. Ultimate ca
pacity will be 1000 lines, and another
exchange soon will be opened with
$500 lines, the entire contract having
been given to Standard Telephone and
Cables.