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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1929-09-27

Magical changed What fool was
What was there To make such fuss
about? II was all u farce anyway
What would il matter a hundred years
from new? Again ! drank.
How wonderfully strung ! felti
smashed my clenched fist az; INST the
bar. My knuckles were bruised and
bleeding but ! felt no pain. ! ached
10 fight some one. Then all at once
came the thought of Berna. II came
with tragical suddenness. with poignant
force. Intensely Ii smote me as never
before.
was drunk, deplorably drunk. and
was bound for the Tivoli.
To the right as | entered the place
was palatial bar SET of with bur
nished brass, beveIed mirrors and gilt
tering. vari-cOlored pyramids of costly
liquors. Up TO the bar men were belly
ing. and the bartenders In white
jackets were mixing drinks with mas.
terly dexterity. To the left | had a
view OF the gambling room, glimpse
of green tables. of spinning balls, of
cool men, with shades over their eyes,
impassively dealing. There were huge
wheels of fortune. keno tables. crap
outfits, faro layouts. and. above all,
the dainty, fascinating roulette. Every
thing was in full swing. In front of
me was double swing-door painted In
white and gold. and, pushing through
this. for the first time | found myself
in a Dawson dance hall.
! sat down on seat at the very
back of the audience. Before me were
row after row OF heads. mostly rough.
rugged and unwashed. Their faces
were eager. rapt as those of children
They were enjoying. with the deep SAT-
isfactiOn of men who for many a
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1929-09-27

weary month had been breathing the
free, unbranded air of the Wild. The
sight Of woman was thrillingy sweet !:
the sound of song was ravishing
Looking at many of those toil-grooved
faces one could see that there was no
harm in their hearts. They were
honest, uncOuth. simple: they were
just like children, the children of the
Wild.
A little girl was singing, a little,
winsome girl with a sweet childish
voice and an innocent face. How ter.
ribly out of place she looked In that
palace of sin. She sang a simple. old
world song full of homeIy pathos and
gentle feeling. AS she sang she
looked down on those furrowed faces.
and | saw that many eyes were
dimmed with tears.
AS the last echo died away the audi
ence rose as one man, and shower OF
nuggets pelted on the stage. Here
was something that touched their
hearts, stirred in them strange mem
cries of tenderness. brought before
them half-forgotten scenes of freside
happiness.
The curtain fell Men were clearing
the floor for the dance, so | went
downstairs. pressed my way to the
door. and stood there staring and
swaying. but whether with wine or
weakness | knew not In the yocifpr.
Gus and dambnyant street could hear
the raucous voices of the spielers, the
jigging tunes of the orchestras. the
click of ivory balls. the popping of
corks, the hoarse. animal laughter of
men, the shrill inane giggIes of women
And as ! stood there wretchedly a
timid little hand touched my arm.
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The Picknickers

Cottager (who has kindly permitted
picnic on her grass)-Ye won't leave
litter about, will you? Ny husbands
very partic'larl"
Picnickers (affably)-Oh, mol We
couldn't think of doing a think like
that, We're throwing all our rubbish
down that well there.-Passing Show.
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Dad Understands

Blinks-Well. | guess my wife Is
buying something she has been want
ing for long TINA This afternoon.
Jinks-What makes you think that!
Blinks-She came downtown this
afternoon to buy me birthday pres
emit.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1929-09-27
WOMAN SICK
THREE YEARS
HelpedBy Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound
Little Rock, Ark.-T was sick for
three years after my last baby came.

l could hardly walk
and could not eat
nor slee p a s I
should because I
was so nervous. I
took seven bottles
of the Vegetable
Compound and used
that number of bot
ties OF Lydia e.
Pinkham's s a n a.
tive w a sh and
I am feeling Just
fine. I have a large
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1929-09-27

family and do the work for all. Your
Compound made me q well woman,
and I have a happy home now. al
ways try to keep bottle OF the Vege-
table Compound In the house and ! ten
eyeryone about 1t for know 1t VIII
help then. s-MRs. Fl. A. ADAMS. R 3.
D. s. Box So, Little Rock. Arkansaa
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1929-09-27
No Help Wanted

II say Rafe, do you know where
Dink Judson is?'
AYassuh. He's asleep down beyonc
the barn looking for work"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1929-09-27

Next time you want to dye some
Of your more valuable articles of
silk or wool, try the special Dia-
mond Dyes IN the Blue Package.
They will give these materials
clearer, more brilliant colors than
any "all-purpose" dye. And they
are just as easy to use as ordinary
dyes. Like the 10hite package Dia-
mond Dyes, these dyes contain an
abundance of the highest quality
anilines. The blue package dyes
silk or wool only; the white pack
age dyes, or ti1lts, any material.
Either package; 15c, drugstores.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1929-09-27
The Right Way to
Redye Fine Silks
TeYti1e makers al.

Textile makers al
ways u S e special
dyes for silk or wool.
They know that is
the best way. The
makers of Diamond
Dyes are the first to
enable home dyers to
follow This Milan
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-08
FRAUD PREVENTION
FARLEY IS PLANNED
Conference Here Friday to
Seek Methods of Pro-
tecting Investors.

A conference looking toward co-ordi-
nation of present efforts by public and
private agencies to prevent the sale of
fraudulent securities was announced
today by Jesse " Craig, Lincoln, Nebr,
president of the National Association of
Securities Commissioners. to be held in
Washington, Friday, at the Chamber of
Commerce of the United States.
Among the organizations to be repre-
sented at the informal conference are
the American Bar Association. National
Better Business Bureau, Affiliated Bet
ter Business Bureaus, Inc; American
Bankers Association, Mortgage Bank
ers' Association, Association of Real
Estate Mortgage Bond Houses, Chamber
IF Commerce of the United States, In
"stment Bankers Association of Amer
I. National Education Association. As
,ciated Stock Exchanges, American
,troleum Institute. National Associa-
IN of Mutual Savings Banks, Nation
Association of Real Estate Boards,
ational Association of Finance Com
anies, American Industrial Leaders
Association, Post Office Department,
Attorney Generals Office, Department
of Commerce, Federal Trade Commits
sion, American Newspaper Publishers
Association, New York Curb Market,
and the stock exchanges in New York,
Chicago and Boston.
Each of these agencies has turned its
attention to the enormous preventable
losses involved in the sale of bogus Sc
curities," said Mr.. Craig today, land
their studies have demonstrated the
need for co-ordinated work If this de-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-08
JUNIOR BANKERS SEEK
H0N0RS IN ORATORY
Philadelphia Girl to Represent
This Area in Contest at Tulsa
Convention.

Miss Helen M. Wilcox, employee of the
Eighth National Bank of Philadelphia
and representing Philadelphia Chapter,
American Institute of Banking, won
the public speaking elimination trials
for the second district of the institute,
held last night at the Raleigh Hotel,
and will represent the district at the
national convention at Tulsa, Okla,
June 1914.
w. H. Neal, Charlotte National Bank.
Charlotte, N. c.. was declared second
best speaker and Harper Clark, First
National Bank of Baltimore, the third
best.
There were 10 contestants, represent
ing North Carolina, West Virginia. Vir-
GINA, Maryland, New Jersey and Penn
sylvania, competing, Washington being
chosen as the scene of the trials by rea-
son of the fact that no candidate was
entered from the District chapter.
The contest, sponsored by the insti-
tute, was originated by A. P. Giannini,
Los Angeles banker, who offers a first
prize of $500 in the contest to encour-
age public speaking among young bank
ing men and women. Judges of the
local contest were Alexander Wolf. gen.
eral counsel Bank of Commerce & Saw
ings: Raymond B. Dickey, attorney and
member of the faculty of the local
chapter of the institute. and Arthur
Deering, instructor in public speaking,
Catholic University.
James A. Soper, president of Wash
lngton chapter, presided and there was
large and deeply interested audience.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-08
COOLIDGE ENTERS
INSURANCE FIELD
Former President Is Now Ac-
tive in Rapidly Growing
Business.
BY ]. G. ROYLE.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, May Calvin Cool
idse, former President of the United
States, today was indicted into the
directorate of one of the greatest in
vestment trusts in the world. He took
his part. for the first time in the DELHI
erations of the heads of the New York
Life Insurance Co.
The former President accepted this
position, as he said himself, because it
would bring him in close touch with
the thrift and investment programs OF
a huge number of people. 1t is doubt
full however, If even Mr.. Coolidge
realizes to the full how great part
life insurance has come to play in the
lives of his fellow citizens. This in
fluence is not exerted alone by the
company with which he has affiliated
himself, but by score of others fully
or partly as influential along those
lines.
Growth of Insurance.
Life insurance has grown and changed
to a remarkable degree in late years.
The bigger companies have done much
to turn Americans into Nation of in
vestors. A man no longer has to die
in order to benefit from this type of
investment. 1t is true that the pro-
lection of dependents still is a major
factor in the sale of policies. but the
power and purpose Of concerns like the
Prudential. the New York Life. the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-08
COMMERCIAL CREDIT co.
HAS FINE QUARTER

Study of the report for the first quar-
ter and for March shows that the Com
mercial Credit Co. of Baltimore, is en-
joying a particularly good financial
year. Net income for March and for
the first quarter we're both the largest
in the history of the company, being at
the annual rate for March of $3.79 per
share, against $3.50 per share
in March, 1928, and $500 per share of
the first quarter of 1929. against SLIGO
per share for the first quarter of 1923.
The balance sheet as of March 80,
1929, shows assets of $14,699,64l.
Among the asset items are cash and
due from banks, $l9, 739 ,504; open &C
counts, $40,143,271: motor lien retail
time sales notes, 77,526.124.
The company's liabilities include I'M
secured short term notes amounting to
STA, 6o3,5 85. and capital stock amount
ing to $42 743,715.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-08
sirable, practical movement is to make

sirable, practical movement is to make
Roadway on a national scale.
"A half billion dollars year-some
estimates place 1t at a billions too
great price to pay for carelessness in
the purchase Of securities. Instead of
merely driving a fake stock salesman
from a community which is alert to his
game to one which is less alert-and
this unfortunately is took often the
case-it is desirable to bring these pow
erful agencies together for persistent
national effort to exterminate this prey
upon legitimate business financing"
Discussion at the conference will CEN
ter around the possibilities of ''intensi--
flying and co-ordinating the efforts of
public and voluntary agencies to pre-
vent fraudulent transactions in securi-
ties and of developing Improvements in
pertinent laws and administrative prac-
tices of official bodies The creation
of continuing national conference also
will be considered.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-08
sHoRT-TERM SECURITIES.
tReported by J. g. W. seliEman

tReporteo py y d w. Sengman b Col
Allis- Chalmers Co SIS 1897. esIa 100
Aluminium Co. Of Amer. SIS 1882 iol 1919
Amer. Tel. & Tel. Co. As 1929 eess esss
Baltimore g. Ohio 41zs I953.... S7ss 9SL
RataVian Pet. Corp. 4lzs 1912. eiiz e2I1
Bell Tel. OF Canada IS 1855. 1907 1919
California Pet. Corp. las 1898. i0os4 1919
Canadian Nat. Rwy. 4i2s 1890. ESQ., %
Cana dian Nor. RWy. 4i2s 1926 a7iz p3
Chesa. & Ohio Rwy. 4las 1880. 90 9eis
Chicago Rock Island As 1884. 81 94h
Chile Copper Co. IS l947 ...... gbl2 y0
Cudahy Packing Co. 5iss 1887. 96s4 9Tsl
EDISON FL. II. Boston 4i2s 1880 98l. 80
Gen. Mot. ACcep. Corp. Us 1897. lOII2 luz
General Petroleum Corp SIS 1910 1904 1911.
Goodyear Il. & r. IS 1857. 49,. 1924 S3I2
Grand Trunk Canada 6S 1885. 1881 l04l4
Gulf Oil of Pa. SIS l937........ 1904 lOl
Humble OIL 5l2s 1892. ........, 1907 lOlIs
Internal. Matcn Corp. 5S 1917. VI 91I2
Oregon Short Line Is 1929. 80. 9RTa 81
Pure Oil Corp 5l2S 1887. .... 9BA 30
Shell Union Oil Co SIS l947... 81 97sI
Sinclair Crude Oil Co. 5i2s 1898 96K $685.
Standard Oil of N. J. SIS 1915. iOiM 100
St. L., 1r. Mt. & So. Rwy Is 1929 aq;e 9sss
ST. L. Southwestern Ry. IS 1882 eS s5I3
Swift e. Co SIS 1882. 4 ......... agss 100
Union oil Co. C1 CAM. SIS 1898 s7I2 gsA
United DRUG Co SIS 1888. go. sSM eeh
Western Electric Go. SIS 1914. 1929 l03ia
wheeling Steel Corp. 5iss ls4ss seM zoe
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-08

Travellers and others of similar charac-
ter. have gone much further.
With huge sums available for in
yestment, the insurance companies are
today one of the major factors in the
development of industry, commerce,
agriculture and trade. They hold hun
dreds of millions of dollars worth of
securities in businesses of nearly every
legitimate type. Policyholders, from
their connection with the companies,
have equities in these well chosen and
properly diffused holdings in the ratio
of the amount of their policies, just as
do stockholders in investment trusts, al
though the large insurance companies
are more powerful than most investment
trusts.
AS result of these developments,
the whole business of selling insurance
has changed and Mr.. Coolidge. as a
agency department, is in a position
to promote these changes. 1t is no
longer necessary to sell the idea of
life insurance to the American people.
This is shown by the fact that some
$3,375, 100000 worth of new business
was done in the first three months of
this year. The same general rate has
been fully maintained during April and
the first week of May and this average
is likely to be ecllpSeQ IN June.
Modern Selling Methods.
The whole training, technique and
procedure of life insurance agents is
being changed. There are being de-
veloped insurance specialists, just as
specialists have risen in law, medicine
and in other branches of finance. They
act in much the same position as the
family doctor or the family lawyer.
They do not sell insurance, but they sell
advice. pointing out what insurance is
needed and when and how to buy it.
These superagents are instructed to
be just as careful not to oversell a
prospect as to undersell him, and while
it will always be difficult to prevent
agents from writing as large policies
as possible the gauging of new policies
TO requirements undoubtedly pays in
the long run. The huge growth of the
trust business of the banks and trust
companies has led such institutions to
employ insurance experts to judge the
needs of estates they administer from
an insurance angle.
Banks nowadays frequently insist
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-08
POTATO MARKET STEADY.

CHICAGO, May CP) Omitted States
Department of Agricultural Potatoes
Receipts. 1T cars; on track, So new;
sol old; total United States shipments,
725 cars; new stock trading fair; mar
ket steady; Texas sacked Bliss triumphs.
425a435; fancy, 4.50a4.65; Alabama
Louisiana sacked Bliss Triumphs, 4.00a
425 old stock. Russets. steady to firm:
other stock barely steady; Wisconsin
sacked Round Whites, 65a90; Mime
sofa North Dakota sacked Round
Whites, 70a75: sacked Red River Ohios.
rs; Idaho sacked Russets, 1.90a2.25 for
medium to large
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-08
Public Utilities

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, May 8.-Bonbright d
Co. offer today 10000 shares Of Birming-
ham Gas Co. So first preferred stock
at 95 per share and accrued dividends,
to yield over $50 per cent.
The report of Federal Light &
Traction, including subsidiaries, shows
March gross of S708 1858, compared with
1864, 79l in March of 1928 and net, after
taxes and charges, of $l72,950, against
$l76,O8l. Gross for the IL months
ended Harch 81 amounted to So, 107, 08S,
contrasted with $7,193,610 in the pre-
ceding IL months, and surplus after
preferred dividends of subsidiaries
amounted to $2,032 1858, against ST.
593,877.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-08
STOCK rs LISTED.

BALTIMORE, Md, May Especially
The Baltimore Stock Exchange has
admitted to listing 39.840 additional
shares of the Delion Tire & Rubber
Corporation. which is controlled by
Washingtonians, making 100000 shares
now listed. The exchanges committee
on securities recommended the listing
in order to bring to agreement the
amount listed with the total amount
outstanding the corporation having is
sued additional stock from time to time
without giving proper notice to the ex-
change.
In its application for the additional
listing the company reports that in the
year ended February, 1929, 1t had a
net loss of $152,42O, against net loss
of $145, 1859 in the previous II months.
Total assets of the company are given
as $725,333, with current assets of
$41,271.
Delion Tire stock has been active on
the Baltimore Stock Market recently,
rising from low of l to high of 51s
Last week the companys plant here be-
gan working on five-day week sched-
ule. Previously it had been operating
two days week.
Mrs. Ann Francis died recently at
FOWick England at the age of 1902
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-08
Washington Stock Exchange
SALES.


Cap. Tract. $500 at 9834, $4,000 at
98l2.
Pot Elec. 6s 1851 900 at LOT, $4,000
at LOT, 100 at 1912.
Pot Elec. cons. SSH 900 at 1907.
Wash. r. & E. $500 at 8612, $500
at $50.
Cap. Tract. Colo at s7l4, 10 at s714,
10 at 97l4.
Pot. Elec. 51as pfd.-15 at 107H, 5 at
1878, 10 at 1925, at 1912, 2 at
107ss, 10 at 1071a, 10 at 107Ia.
Wash. Gas Lt.-10 at 10734.
Fed. Amer. Nat. Bk.-2 at 33S.
Natl. Union Fire Coil at 26la.
Chevy Chase Dairy pfd.-10 at 1864.
Dist. Natl. Inv. pfd.-1o at 10l.
Fed. Amer. Co. COMIC at 50h, 10 at
so. 2 at so, 10 at so.
Lanston Monotype-10 at 12S, 80 at
1913, at 1913.
Mergenthaler Linotype-l0 at 107H, 10
at 107l2. 20 at 1917.
Natl. Mtge. & Inv. pfd-16 at bM.
AFTER CALL.
C. & P. Tel. 5s-$l,Ooo at 100, $1,000
at 100.
Pot. Elec. cons. SSH 900 at 1904.
Wash. Casio at 10734, 20 at 108.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-08
SILVER QUOTATIONS..

NEW YORK, May 8 OP.-Bar silver,
54l2. Mexican dollars, II.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-08

Mrs. Ann Francis died recently at
Fowick, England, at the age of l02.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-08

Several local banks are now charging
8 per cent on call loans in connection
with the purchase of New York stocks.
Others are cutting down their loans
on stocks to minimum, but charging
the usual per cent rate. The cur
failing of such loans by banks all over
the country is said to be one Of the
main reasons why stocks have recently
made such slow progress.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-08

that the heads of concerns to whom
they lend money or for whom they float
bond or stock issues shall be insured in
their favor, and the experts determine
the requirements for such business in
many instances.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-08
Borden Co. Expands.

NEW YORK, May 7 CP).-The Borden
Co, which has been expanding rapidly
in the last year and a half. announced
today completion of negotiations for &C
QUESTION through exchange of stock c
eight milk and ice cream companies IL
various parts of the country.
The additions to it's system of dairic,
are Dairy Dale Co. and subsidiaries
San Francisco; Springfield Dairy Prod.
ucts Co. and the Purity Ice Cream e.
Dairy Co., Springfield. Ohio: Terre
Haute Pure Milk & Ice Cream Co.,
Terre Haute, Ind; A. H. Barber 8S Co.
and Grunert Cheese Co., Chicago
Hammond Dairy Co., Hammond, Ind
and Sharpless- Hendler Ice Cream Co
Wilmington, Del.
The annual election of officers of
the local institute chapter takes place
oft haadnYa rterS
New Britain herald., 1929-12-20

motored plane to Middletown, where it was overhauled and made ready for a return flight with seven army f1iers. To decide who would take the controls for the flight 10 Boiling Field, Captain Dinger and Lieutenant Angell tossed coin. The former lost and returned to Boiling Field in a Loening amphibian.
 Arriving at Washington field Cap- tain Dinger learned that the tri- motored ship had crashed at Royal ton, 1 miles from Middletown, when the motor failed Lieutenant Angell and His seven passengers were either instantly killed or fatally injured.
New Britain herald., 1929-12-20

Sugar company, was called to the stand. He said he had called on Con- gressmen in regard to the duty on sugard in the pending tariff bill.
 The witness also said he had a number of conferences with repre- sentative of the department of con- merce. He said the Great Western produced 45 or 50 per cent of the beet sugar in the United States, and that his company paid his expenses here.
 Associated With Producers
 Petriken testified his company was associated with the Domestic Sugar Producers association.
 Questioned about dividends paid by the company, Petriken said the dividends had averaged 15 to 20 per cent during the 23 years the com- pany has been in existence.
 Resides paying 5 to 20 per cent you have laid by enough additional money so that now s3o.00o. 900 placed in the company has been increased to $65.ooO.ooO, Senator Walsh, democrat, Montana, asked.
 "9es,' Petriken replied.
 Petriken said he had discussed the sliding scale with Chairman Smoot of the senate finance con- mittee.
 Did you discuss with President HoOyer?" Walsh asked.
 T called on Mr. Hoover in an in formal way and he asked me what l thought of it. I told him l thought it was surrounded with a good deal of hazard"