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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-12-10
TRADE LEADERS
UPHOLD SALES
POLICIES

NEW YORK, Dec. 10.-No re-
trenchment or curtailment of
sales policies is planned by any
OF a dozen large corporations
whose executives contribute to o
symposium in the December
Credit Monthly Magazine, pub
Hshed today by the National AS.
ISOLATION of Credit Men.
George w. Hill, president of
the American Tobacco Company,
announces an aggressive advertis-
ing campaign for his company.
He says:
Our plans for 1880 call for
an aggressive sales and adver
Using policy, with no Curtail
ment in either. Our credit pol
icy will remain the same as
heretofore"
F. Edison White, president OF
Armour 81 Co., says:
I'VE have contempt: ted no
change in our sales or credit
policies, and we see no reason
for even considering them. We
do not anticipate an increase
in commercial failures. In
fact, we look for normal bust
ness after the turn of the year.
The country is sound. New
wealth created in 1929 is far
above the average, and the
future is bright"
A similar view is taken by
Louis F. Swift, president of Swift
and Company:
mo change in sales or credit
policy is contemplated. Recent
experience indicates nothing of
a serious nature in connection
with failures. We are proceed.
ing as usual"
w. Hume Logan, president Of
the Logan Company, Louisville,
sums up his views as follows:
ut is universally conceded
that business is generally &C.
tive and the volume good. We
all know that we have the same
farms, with millions from the
Government to help handle the
crops. We have the same for
eStS and Observation-Disclosures
as far as this generation is
COnCerned-the same factories
and the same machines, the
same management and EN-.
ployeS, willing and anxious to
work: the same amount of
money to operate with. but
cheaper and easier to get.
Leaving out the small per
cent of the population that may
have had paper losses, we still
have 100 millions with all they
had before the crash to buy
with. and with the same desires
and needs for luxuries and COM
forts. Therefore, if there is any
slump in business, it is alto
gether psychological"
The statement of the Interna
tional Harvester Company says
that no change is contemplated
in sales or credit policies, al
though moderate increase in
commercial failures would not be
surprising.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-12-10
COMPLETE TRANSACTIONS ON NEW YO+,K CURB MARKET III
N M

1884 Is Vacuum Oil ..... 1908 9934 lUE4+ =
IS ~ Wick Financial E. 5 S
~
"a y Wenden Copr 80. a = i
7S14 % Western Air Exp. 301s 297s 307l
A. 3 zonte Products. Pa y 2H- Is
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-12-10
NEW YORK COTTON

NEW YORK, Dec. 10 0.N.sD.
The irregularity and decline
caused by the Governments final
crop estimate Of 14,919,000 bales
yesterday extended to this morn
ing's opening market. and prices
ranging from losses Of 4 points
to gains of were quoted. Deem
Der opened at 1898, January at
I'LL, March 1875, May 1853,
July IT'S, October 1853.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-12-10
Magazines Deplore
failing Reporters

Magazines as we'll as news
papers are leaping to the defense
of the three reporters of the
Washington Times who were sent
enced to As days in Jail for re
fusing to act as prosecuting wit
neSSes against speakeaSy pro-
prietorS whom they investigated.
The Periscope and Freedom are
two of the latest to join the
editorial chorus. Their comment
follows.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-12-10
GRAINS OPEN STEADY

CHICAGO, Dec. 10 I.N.SD -
Grains opened steady today.
Wheat was up l4Q Ac; corn, 4c
down to 2sc up, and oats, I'M
changed to FAC up.
Opening Prices-Wheat- Dec,
$1.22H; March, $1.3O; May,
$l.34A@1.34l2; July, $1.33240
1880.
Corn-Dec., 892s 8alac:
March, 941a69434c; May, 97lsc;
July, 980983sc.
Oats-Dec.. 46c; March, none;
May, 50A@503sc.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-12-10

ing witness. Should that attitude
be generally adopted, it would
automatically decrease to the
vanishing point the effectiveness
Of newspaper as an investigator
into subjects of public import,
ance."
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-12-10
BANK STATEMENTS

Washington Clearing House,
$4,654,955.8 80.
New York Clearing House ex-
change, $1,747,000,000.
New York Clearing House bal
ance, $4,000,
Treasury BalanCc, $9l55O,-
4OO.S6.
customs Receipts, &l1,l63 ,657 .6s,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-23
Times Readers Voice Vie10S

Editor Time%In answer to the
statements by DR.. Morris Fishbein
in his syndicated article Average
Barber Shop Not So Sanitary" which
appeared recently in The Times,
we, the undersigned, subscribe to
the following statements:
Some patrons of barber shops go
to get service daily, some three
times a week, some twice week,
others twice a month, others once
a month, and so on, the average
number of visitors to a barber shop
being about two a month. In city
with a population of $4,000, the
BARRIERS wait on 100000 persons a
year.
n all the volume of service
rendered the public, have you per-
sonal knowledge Of one case OF in
lection this year, last year, or how
long has it been, If ever?
There are several reasons for the
remote possibility Of infection In
the barber shop. The first is the
general cleanliness of the public.
The next is, that I've, the basis
of all soaps, is the most effective
germicide that we know. The barber
uses soap to make lather, puts it on
a persons face, steams it. washes
it off, thereby sterilizing each
patron against his own germs, be-
fore continuing the service. In
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-23

lection thereby becomes so I'M
probable as to be only the merest
simmer Of a dream.
Witch-hazel Is not used In barber
shops as an antiseptic, though 1t is
IA per cent alcohol. It Is used 10
allay any irritation Of the skin that
may have been caused by shaving.
Individual combs and brushes are
absolutely unnecessary In a barber
shop, as, all tonics and face lotions
have an alcohol base, so, in use they
are self-sterilizing.
One of the most notable facts
concerning the hygiene of barber
shops is, that no barber that you
ever have noticed. ever has been
seen with skin disease on the face
or troubled with scalp disease. they
all use the same tools on themselves,
that they use on the public.
BARRIERS are recognized by m
surance companies as preferred
risks. Barber supply houses stand
behind their goods for efficiency as
healers and sterilizers. All things
considered, the modern barber shop
is the safest place possible for per-
sonal service.
Charles G. Cavaners, Q Ritter
avenue; Homer z. Branaman, 5444
East washington street: Leon Q.
Count. johnson avenue. and +. Z.
x.edexhaaiS III South Audubon road.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-23
What's Wrong in the Carolinas?

Throughout the country there has arisen the
question:
Whats the matter with North and South Caro-
lina?"
The newspapers have been reporting the disorders
there IN the mill communities, with the textile en-
poyers trying to keep wages below the living level and
the workers seeking a return on their labor which
would raise them above the peon class
The quetsion has persisted, as riots and disorders
have followed in quick succession. Labor organizers
have been fogged, a woman strike sympathizer was
killed, and the grand jury was supine. A group of
strike leaders has been convicted of second degree
murder The mill is an unsafe place to live
Whats the matter with South Carolna?"
Well, one of the things the matter with the state
is the Rev. D. B. Hah1 pastor of Pendleton Street
Baptist church of Greenville, S. c.
Speaking before the South Carolina College Press
Association, he is quoted as advocating the whipping
post for Northern reformers who attempt to change
conditions in textile mill villages"
He says logged union organizers mo doubt got
what was coming to them," but he would prefer the
public whipping post as better means of admins
tering such punishment"
What delightful time the worthy Mr. Hahn would
have had back in the dawn of the Christian when
the great radical appeared to preach his new doctrine
of a better way of living. How Mr.. Hahn would have
ndIdSSeu the re1OreIS, Cne disciples VINO attacned
themselves to Jesus.
How gleefully would Mr.. Hahn have joined with
certain groups in Massachusetts, in 1888 and haired
Roger Williams out of the colony and into the bleak
of Rhode Isand-where Williams set up the first
Baptist church in America
In South Carolina fifty years later he doubtless
would have defended that state against the encroach
ment of northern reformers Baptist refugees from
New England, who by 1854 had founded their first
church in Charleston
Too bad Mr. Hahn could not have lived in those two
ages to unloose the peculiar concept Of tolerance and
Christian teaching he illustrates in this day 1t
would have been fleet-footed Roger Williams who
could have beaten the lash Mr. Hahn out of Massa
chusetts.
However, all is not wrong with South Carolina. A
judge there with greater of justice than
has Mr.. Hahn, has refused to hold union organizer
a charge of instruction and rebellion against
the state Non-suting the case the judge held that
economic warfare between employer and employe had
not the status of a rebellion against constituted
authority.
Mr.. Hahn probably does not approve this jurist yet
the nation generally would prefer to have the judge
rather than that preacher stand a symbol Of the
intelligence and enlightenment of South Carolina.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-23
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
Child of Rich May Shun His Food

only fourteen had to be urged to
eat their food.
When a child refuses to eat. the
first step, according to DR.. L. j.
Roberts, should be an inquiry into
his physical condition. The onset
of a cold, sore throat, or an in
f1ammation of the tonsils or ade-
noids, constipation or indigestion
may cause promptly lack of de-
sire for food.
Too much eating, too much
eating particularly between meals
of candy, a diet that contains too
much fat or too little vitamin B.
or other deficiencies and irregu-
larities of the diet may be re-
sponsible.
Too little time spent outdoors,
fatigue, too little sleep or over
stimulation by too many dancing
lessons, piano lessons and outside
activities beyond the school cur
riculum may be associated with a
loss of appetite.
Whenever loss of appetite occurs,
there is dawdling over the food,
playing around and malnutrition.
In most instances psychological
factors are far more responsible
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-23
REASON By Ff IASDIs

IN every community rich friend of civilization
should provide attorney for trees, since every
body with an AK or saw delights in taking Whack
at them
Along public highways you see old elms and naples
gashed and beheaded to make room for wires when
this easily could be avoided.
And usually when a county builds a new court
house. the architect conyinceS the authorities that
they should the noble trees which have graced
the courtyard for century, so the world may see the
courthouse.
And so please the vanity of human architect, the
authorities slaughter the masterpieces of the Architect
of the universe.
Thus once beautifully shaded parks are converted
into blazing patches of desoation, in the midst of
which white piles of stone stand ferbdding as
skinned rabbits.
XXTE know a score OF county seats with such bar
wv rem deserts in their very hearts when tree
planting would redeem them in ten or fifteen years,
but the authorities won't plant them because the
architect didn't want them.
So if your town is going to build courthouse
your courtyard has stately monarchs planted
by the pioneers trees beneath whose branches genera
tons have rested long days and in, whose
shade old settlers have held their picncs call out the
home guards and protect those trees for otherwise
your authorities will probably sentence them to death
because some architect tells them that's the proper
caper.
A ND every town should have forestry board and
N it should have charge of all tree planting along
the sidewalks
Thus only can uniform and intelligent planting be
done and thus only the tree butcher be controlled
Public spirited men and women gladly would serve
without pay.
Thus gradually be civilized until we arrive
at an appreciation of the majesty of trees quality
now sadly lacking.
The other day for instance we heard gentleman
whose veins filled with ice water complain because
elm at least century old, had been permitted to
stand where it extended few inches over the cement
sidewalk.
Yet that beautiful tree with a trunk diameter OF
more than five feet and spread of more than sixty
feet had been there fifty years before that ar
rived: it had given more happiness to the world than
the bped who wished TO it destroyed and if there's
another life after this that tree will bloom forever
while that polar bear will doubtless repose in unendne
slumber.
Yes, sir, each community should have an attorney
for trees
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-23
&NAAr,NrASSz
H1qaAkt !etTsae-
PRESIDENT PIERCE BORN

November %
.NN Nov. %, 1904, Franklin Pierce,
" fourteenth President of the
United States, was born at Hills
bc~0ugh, N. H.
He was the son Of General Ben
jamin Pierce, a soldier of the Revo-
luton and twice Governor OF New
Hampshire.
Young Pierce was graduated in
1924 from Bowdoin college, where
he had formed a lifelong friend
ship with Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Henry w. Longfellow also was
among his college mates.
He was admitted to the bar in
1927 and two years later took a
seat in the house of representatives
as a Democrat. In 1882 he was
elected a representative in congress
and in 1887 was elected to United
States senate, the youngest member
of that body. He resigned in 1912,
before the expiration OF his term,
and resumed law practice.
He took part in the Mexican war.
Pierce was nominated at the
Democratic national convention at
Baltimore in 1852 as a compromise
candidate and easily won the cleo
ton.
After retiring. Pierce travelled for
several years in Europe. He died
Oct. 8. 1869.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-23

technical phases of both business and engineering
will be most effective, both from the standpoint of
the higher educational institutions and of the in
dustry, if conducted by committee committees
composed entirely of representatives of the industry
Waving aside considerations which may have
brought change of 'front.' the conclusions of the
dean represent healthy turn in the relations be-
tween utilities and universities.
The utilities should be accorded the fullest free
dom to carry their education activities. Like
single-taxers, labor unions, communists and manu-
facturers associations they should be denied special
fayoritism in halls of learning, which are sup
posed to present knowledge untarnished by partisan
ship and group interest.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-23

than physical factors for failure to
eat.
The children Of the well-to-do
in the city had more regular meals
with better food. more sleep and
outdoor play and better educated
mothers than did the children who
live in the country or the poor
children in Tie city.
Nevertheless the latter ate with
hungry parents and hungry brothers
and sisters rather than alone.
They were given little or no at
tention or distraction while at the
table, since their parents primarily
we're concerned with feeding them
selves. They were not urged to eat;
the food was put on their plates
as a matter of course and they
ate it.
The child understood that the
food was something special and
something obtained with consider
able difficulty and therefore to be
priced rather than merely a method
of passing the time.
Those less well-favored children
were eager for food, while children
of well-to-do families considered 1t
something to be avoided.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-23
1T SEEMS TO ME By Hf BRo9S

say, when venturing an assertion,
1T seems to me-" or I'm my humble
opinion" But 1 am SO much out OF
sympathy with the new heresy that
I am willing to go on record and
state dogmatically that McNamee Is
in class by himself.
Alone among the sporting COM
mentors of the air, McNamee
keeps up with the ball. He has told
YOU whether the pass was success
full or incomplete, while all his
rivals are still fumbling around in
an effort to broadcast who it was
that threw the pass and for whom
it was intended.
The average fan cares very little
where the play originated, if only he
can find out Immediately whether
the ball fell uselessly to the ground
or into the arms OF a waiting end
across the goal line.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-23
Must Be Tested

MOREOVER, I have no sympathy
NI with such reformers as insist
that Utopia must begin to function
in its entirety by 8 o'clock toner
row morning.
No large scale economic change
shall be undertaken until it has met
the test. And the test for large
undertaking is the manner in which
it works when tried in smaller COM
pass.
But I am tired of hearing mon
with ideas howled down as horrid
paid agents of Moscow when the
very notions which they advance
later are hailed as inspirational, II
only they happen then to be backed
by so-called respectable auspices.
Indeed, if prohibition had done
nothing else for us, it should have
hammered home the lesson that
labels are singulariy inexact as sign
posts.
1t is ridiculous to reject a legis-
lative scheme because somebody
gets I'D and shouts out roundly
This is socialistic," or This is pa
ternalistic." And, likewise, I agrees
that no program should be adopted
for the same reason.
Panaceas are good when they
work and useless if they fail, NJ
matter how sound may be the the
DRY upon which they seem to be
founded.
Political labels, as well as econ
omic ones, ought to go into the ash
cans along with those colored bits
of paper which mendaciously pre-
claim that the product within is
truly Gordon gin.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-23
Vivid Reporting

r. HEARD McNamee describe the
Il touchdown with Southern Cali
fornia made after receiving kick
of from Notre Dame, and 1t seemed
to me that I never had listened to a
more vivid piece of verbal reporting.
The announcer ran down that
field shoulder to shoulder with the
quarter back, who carried the ball.
McNamee has done his part to
remove much of the fear Of the ma
chine age into which our generation
Is moving.
McNamee has been able to take a
new medium of expression and
through it transmit himself-to give
out wildly a sense of movement and
of feeling. OF such is the kingdom
of art.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-23
SCIENCE
by UA FLD DIE I u
Nation Consumes 6Q,000,000
Pounds of Wood Flour
Every YeGr-But Doesn't
Eat 1t.
. By DAVID DIETZ

CIxTY MILLION pounds OF wood
- -four are consumed annually in
the United States. Wood -four, let
us hasten to add. is not edible and
the consumption spoken OF is in IN
dustry and not at the nations
breakfast table.
1t is to be doubted If many people
ever heard of wood flour. Its use
indicates the way in which the
chemist has co-operated with the
nations industries to eliminate
waste.
Wood flour Is made by taking
shavings and sawdust-at one time
pure waste in the lumber industry
and grinding them to the consist
ency Of flour.
According to a survey just made
by Arthur D. Little Inc, OF Cam
bridge. Mass, 100000 pounds OF
-four are produced annually in the
United States while an additional
10000, 900 pounds are imported from
Germany and the Scandinavian
countries.
Wood flour, though unknown by
name to most people, makes up
more than half the bulk OF such
common articles as inlaid linoleum,
imitation marble flooring. unbreak-
able dolls and radio panels.
1t also is used in the manufacture
of dynamite
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-23
NJ. E. Tracy
Sometimes 1t Seems That
Lao Is Neither Reason
able Nor Human, as 1t
Works ont IN Our Day.
SAYS:

PROHIBITION becomes a bigger
l. farce with each tick of the
clock.
Now one doesn't even have to
buy" to become a felon. All one
has to do is to know that some one
else bought and failed to report.
At least, so says Judge Louis Fitz-
henry of Illinois, and apparently he
has the law with which to back
it up.
4
"The manufacture, sale and trans
portation of liquor, heretofore a
misdemeanor,' declares Judge Fitz-
henry, is now a felony"
BY an act passed by congress in
1870, ANY one knowing that felony
is being committed who doesn't
make proper report of the matter
is a felon himself, subject to the
same punishment"
And there you are.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-23
Public Utilities and Higher Education

- che 1907 convention of the National Electric
-. n.sooio+ion w A Jones. chairman of the
r,bic relations section announced the following
~1n a survey recently made of the text books OF
the country. eight states were found 10 oe USING
+ext books which advocate government ownership VI
the light and power business. This IS thns 'ii"'
ye all ought to be ashamed OF.
The warning went home. The executive com
nittee of the public relations section HhIheoa'eS
adopted a resolution to have thorough-goms sur
GOV made of the educational situation in our colleges
and universities nsofor as it bore any RELATION 10
the public utilities question At the 1928 eonVei'lon'
President Sands announced that:
For this most important work, the association
obtained a man emnently qualified by training and
experience to conduct the survey, Professor G. o.
Rnreles. dean of the college of commerce and ad-
noinistration Of Ohio State university"
Dean Ruggles was given a salary OF $4,000 year
and expenses from the N. E. L. A to conduct the
investigation.
Chairman Jackson of the N E. L. A. emphasized
that such survey could be made only by one hav-
ing the confidence of the educational institutions"
Further comment on Ruggles from Mr.. Ling. di-
rector of the Ohio committees public utility in
formation. said;
"our friend Ruggles at Ohio State university
is one of the most digent little letter writers you
ever came across but inasmuch his ideas coincide
with our own have been striving TO help him as
much as possible
Rugges proceeded with his survey In the mean
time the federal trade commission looked into his &C
Invites and Judson King published his pamphlet
on THE Challenge of the Power Investigation to
American Educators"
Ruggles report on his survey just has been pub
nshed In the foreword TO it he suggests that from
this point onward the public utilities should carry
on their educational" work by themselves and on
their own responsibility. He says, in part:
In the light OF the situation, it is our Judgment
that future cooperation aside from that involving
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-23
What y Billion Means

It is lust as easy to say billion as million Inc
,or has been spoken frequently and Familiarity during
the recent affair in Wall Street And public grown
used TO large figures hasn't been SO much impressed
Charles Ransom, lumber man Of Memphis 4ehll'
turns the microscope of practical imagination 0"
billion dollars ana dramatizes IT, HeIe 10 III" -
figures out: ,..eo.o
c,rist had rot been allowed to draw interest and
tod been Maid out at the rate Of $1,000 day every
sv since up to and including Nov. D. 1929 there still
would be $112,866oO0 left.
If you don't believe it, figure it out Tor yourSeH'
And don't forget the leap-years