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Slide Lines
BY BRUCE BARTON.

-HIS is the business record
OF John Smith, who 10
now Al.
i He started work on a
newspaper, and while he was
there he piseed cut his income
by selling real estate. Then he
transferred into the bond busi.
ness and seld Insurance. On the
side.
He 10 now selling wall paper,
which, according to him, 10 sueh
a poor job that he has to carry
sam pies Of floor wax and pat
emit attachment fer radiators In
order to keep going.
X Il X
John 10 honest and hard work.
inc. His complaint about the
rneaaer returns which the bust
ness world has given him caused
a friend Of mine to make an in.
vestisation. II revealed the fol.
lowing facts:
one OF the men VINO S1aTtso
on the newspaper with John
SmithSis now part owner ct the
paper and has an. income OF
more than $4,000 a year.
X X X
Real estate has steadily ad.
vaneed in the city whore john
Smith played with real estate az
q side line, and q number OF
real estaters, no older or smarter
than John, are now very we'll
to-do.
X X X
Both the Insurance. business
and the bond business have
prospsred in Johns old town,
providins automobiles and COM
Portable homes for several men
who were formerly his col.
leagues.
y X X
A. for wall paper, I myself
happened to bs riding with the
(Copyri
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sales manager Of a wall paper
company q few days after hear.
ing Johns story.
y y y
n understand your business 10
q peer business" said. "pees
anybody ever make q really soed
thing out Of it?"
Said he: sold Adrian Meeker
10 the best answer TO that. He.
worked for us as q salesman Tor
20 years. Hard territory his
was, toe. The other day he 70.
tired with $4,000 and took his
family cut to California"
u X u
So il seems that each Of the
businesses which Jehn Smith
tried on the side has been very
good to the people who stayed
with it on full time.
y II 50
J. c. Penney told me the other
day about q young man who
might have been one OF his frat
partners. The young man played
the trombone and was COM
PEELED to leave the store early
every night because he made $5
a week by footing his horn in
an orchestra. He 10 still tend
ing store in the daytime and
footing at night. Mr.. Penney 10
the head Of more than 500
stores.
u X X
There are men who have made
fortunes by running ybootblaek
stands, by buying junk from
automobile factories, and even
ny contracting with a city to
collect its garbage. Almost any
business seems to be q good
business ~ q man gives il all
he's got.
X X \
But the side line 10 the slide
line.
!, 1921
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however. agreed to suspend for the time
being the construction of the last
of the Is treaty cruisers now listed in
the British Navy. The keels OF the
FIRST two of these vessels, the Surrey
and the Northumberland. were laid
Gown only last year. while the keel OF
the third such cruiser. authorized in the
1929 program, seems not yet TO nave
been laid. Apparently this action means
that the British government is willing
to reduce permanently the number OF
large 10O00-ton cruisers in the British
Navy from 10 to Is, provided the United
States makes similar reduction In us
building program. -,
In other words. the United States Will
not be obliged. in order to attain parity
with Great Britain, to build OF
the is cruisers whose construction was
authorized by Congress this Winter. II
both governments reduce the number OF
their treaty cruisers by three the rela-
tive strength of each feet remains as
1t was before.
Construction q Burden.
But II the United states wishes to
achieve parity with Great Britain 1t
seems that the construction OF the re-
naming IL cruisers will be necessary:
The construction of these cruisers VIII
impose a heavy burden upon the Amert-
can people. Nevertheless the United
States cannot demand parity from the
British Empire and expect Britain 10
reduce its fleet to a level which Will
make 1t unnecessary for the United
States to take on the burden OF new
naval construction.
The British government has already
reduced its cruiser strength to less than
half of what 1t was before the World
War. The Macdonald government has
indicated its willingness to reduce the
treaty cruisers from Is to IS. The
American people should not be disap-
pointed If Prime Minister Macdonald
is unable to make further reductions.
parity to the United States, but it be-
lieves that a fleet of about so cruisers.
large and small, is essential to the
safety of the empire.
The United States is relatively self
contained; It has merely two long
coastlines to defend. and comparatively
unimportant overseas possessions which
are practically defenseleSs because OF
the lack Of naval bases. The British
isles on the other hand, are vitality
dependent upon overseas sources OF food
supply; the possessions Of the empire
are scattered in every corner OF the
world. 4
Moreover, the British government Is
involved In European and even In Far
Eastern politics to greater extent than
the United States. It has accepted
heavy commitments to an economic
blockade under the League of Nations
which do not bind the United states.
Wor these reasons the American public
should not expect the British govern
ment to reduce its cruiser feet to q
point where It will be necessary for the
United States to build 10 or IL OF the
IS cruisers authorized last Winter. II
the United States wishes parity with
the British Empire, Il seems inevitable
that NE must expend several hundred
million dollars In cruiser construction.
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author of Hardy Rye" Indianapolis
The Bobbs-Merrill Company.
THE power Of this novel-and it has
l. clear power-lies not entirely In the
fact that Daniel Chase stands in pos
session of the New England character
but that he, both hover and artist, has
seized upon the spirit Of the New Eng
land soil and landscape as wei. the
story, therefore, is what is commonly
called q plain account Of hard living, OF
mans struggle with an upyielding land,
of surroundings unbeautifui, Of men and
women destitute Of the charm OF sn1il.
ing faces and winning words. Yes, that
Is the kind Of story which Daniel Chase
offers in 1.-THE Pines Of Jaalam." A
farm, bleak and bare-save for the
''pines." You have seen hundreds Of
these farms throughout New England
and New York A girl. bleak too, in
her fight with hard WORK. with three
dependents, not one of whom has q wisr
of hope and inspiration for the lighting
Of any of the hours of blighting hard.
ship. To unload this burden Of land
poverty-that is the sensible thing tC
>do. So says the canuy realtor, hanging
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Copyright. is2s.)
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States Which Do Act.

Certain States do that suppressing
DC cuiiarly vigorously. Among them may
be mentioned in star class by them
selves South Carolina, Alabama, Utah
and Oregon.
Certain other States at the other ex-
srene have no State laws whatsoever
for giving any Statewide enforcement
Those States are New York, Maryland,
Wisconsin, Montana and Nevada.
Subtracting them from the 90 States
of the Union, 1T might be specifically
said that ct any rate we have 80 States
including especially South Carolina and
Alabama aiid Utah and Oregon. that
are endeavoring to put the Federal
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Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star
BALTIMORE, Md, July 22.-Poultry,
alive-spring chickens, pound, 2sa4o:
Leghorns, 24a3o; poor and thin, 2la22;
old hens, 30a33; Leghorns, 28a30: old
ROSTERS, 1920; ducks, 20a28; guinea
fowls, each, 5Oa1 90: pigeons, pair, rs.
Eggs-Receipts, 1929 cases: native
and nearby tirsts. 3la32; current re-
ceipts. 80; small, rs.
Butter-Good to fancy creamery,
pound, 41a44; ladies. 33a35: store
packed, 29a29la; rolls, 3la32; process
butter, 40a41.
Hay and Grain Markets. b.
new, 1888; July delivery, 1879 August
delivery, 1888. No. 3 garlicky, spot,
1891.
Sales, bag lots nearby. new, 1.l5a1 20:
cargoes on grade. No. 2 red Winter,
garlicky. 1888; No. 8. 1874; No. 4, 1.31; ;
No. 5, 1928.
Corn-No. 2 export, July delivery, no
quotations; No. 2 yellow domestic. spot,
1.20a1.2l: cob corn. old, 5.75a6.0o.
Oats-No. white, domestic, spot. sea-
60; No. 3 white, domestic, spot. 571aa58.
Rye-Nearby, 1.00a110.
Hay-Receipts none. While hay Is
-
1t is more than enough for demand,
which Is being supplied mostly by trucks
from nearby points. a few carloads be-
ing received. There Is not enough BUSH
ness passing to establish prices on the
various kinds of merit at range Of
13.00al6.00 per ton for timothy or clover
hay.
straw-No. 1 wheat, s.ooalo.oo per
ton; No. ! oat, 9.50a1050.
Vegetable Prices.
Potatoes, 100 pounds, 75a1.25: new
potatoes. barrel. 1.75a5.00; sweet pota-
toes, bushel, 1.50a2.25. Beets, 100, ITS
a2.25. Beans, bushel. 1.25a15o. Cab
bage, hamper, l.00a1.10. Carrots, 100,
S.SOa4.5o. Celery. crate, 4.0oa5.o0. Gu
cumbers, hamper, 50a85. Corn, dozen,
l8a35. Lettuce. crate. l.00a4. 90. Lima
beans, bushel. 3.25a4.25. Onions. ham
per, l.00a1.25. Peas, bushel, 4.O0a4 SO.
Peppers. hamper, l.00a1.25. Squash.
hamper, 35a40. tomatoes, hamper. ! so
a2.75. Apples. bushel, 75a2.50. Black
berries, quart l5al8. CantaIoupes,
crate, 1.25a3.50. Huckleberries, quart.
Ioa25. Oranges, box, 2.00a4.00. Peaches,
namper' oSaSO. Watermelons. 15a6o.
Live Stock Market.
Cattle-Receipts 400 head; fair SUP
ply, market dull at steady prices. Steers
-Cnolce, 1870 to 400; coed, 1915 to
1875; medium, Ills to 1925: common.
$50 to HOO. Heifers-Choice, ii IS
to 1925: good. 1925 to 1915; medium.
$50 to $50: common, 7.55 to 8.25. Bulls
Choice stable. $50 to 1850; fair to
good, $50 to $50; common to medium,
100 to 800. Cows-Choice stable, 800
to 1000; fair to good, 6.75 to s.75: COM
mon to medium, 500 to 75O.
Sheep and Lambs-Receipts, 1000
head, 5000 supply; market lower; sheep,
ZOO to $50; lambs, 800 to 1900.
Hogs-Receipts, $500 head: moderate
supply, market higher; lights, 1880;
heavies, 1880 to 1910; medium, 1880;
roughs. 800 to 1l.20; light pigs, 1925:
pigs. 1910; Western hogs, IS to 80
higher than quotations.
Calves-Receipts. $50 head; fair sup
ply, market steady; calves, 500 to 1850.
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UTILITIES FEATURE
TRADING ON CURB
Ticker Falls Behind in Heavy
Turnover-InveStment
Issues Active.
BY HARRY II. BECKER.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, July 22.-In another
section of extremely heavy trading,
with the ticker falling far behind bust
ness on the floor, utility stocks staged a
violent upturn on the Curb Exchange
today.
Elsewhere in the list active stocks
were mostly higher and there were only
one or two cases of real weakness.
Prominent among the electric light
and power leaders was Central States
Electric. Closing at 1874 on Saturday the
stock mounted rapidly to 222, where it
was up SO points on the Gay and at a
new high. Another high priced issue
to make peak price was Middle West
Utilities, which gained almost 9 points.
Duke Power likewise added 8 points to
its gain of last week and reached a
fresh top.
Electric investors rose spectacularly
between sales. 1t has reputation for
violent fluctuations and lived up to it
today. Last week it lost over Is points,
but most of this was recovered III to-
days forward movement.
In lower priced issues Commonwealth
& Southern opened at a new top on
a block of $4,000 shares. Columbus
Electric Power was still another strong
utility.
The utilities, however, did not monop-
ollie trading interests. Urgent demand
appeared for the stock of Pennroad
Corporation. the investment subsidiary
of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The
initial sale was block of $4,000 shares
at an advance of over a point and the
best since trading in it was begun. IN
doubtedly this can be used by the Penn
sylvania to further its various merger
plans, but there was no fresh news on
the subject today.
Investment trusts were actively
bought. The list included Goldman
Sachs, up nearly S points just under
III: National. up almost 10 points
under 1875 on top of the more than 81
point gain of last week, and, third,
National Investors, with more modest
gain but still record high.
Among general industrials Grigsby-
Grunow, out at a new peak up over s
points as it sold at 81. Aluminium Co.
of America advanced 10 points, taking
with it Aluminium Co., Ltd, both SELL
ing at record prices.
An exception to the trend was
Checker Cab. which had another sink
ing spell Selling at So. it was off S
points net. Firestone Tire weakened in
sympathy with the heaviness in rub
Der and tire stocks on the big board.
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utility groups both showed per cent
rise for the week. The rails ssgged
slightly from their record peak on
Tuesday but the utilities made a new
high on Friday, advancing each day
Of the week except Monday and Thurs
day. The foods group also made a
new high on Friday.
The motors, auto accessories and cop
pers were all off sharply from last
weeks prices and the oil group index
Is slightly lower for the week. although
more individual issues in the group
showed gains than losses.
The compact survey OF New York
Stock Exchange movements of COM
mon industrial shares is given below
in price indexes Q926=100). There
are two indexes of market price move
ment. The first c"shares outstand-
ing") represents all common industrial
shares listed on the exchange. the i'm
portance of each stock being considered
according to the shares in existence,
or outstanding. The second index
$50 leaders, shows the price move
ment of the common industrial stocks
most heavily dealt in during the week,
this list changing weekly with the
shifts In trading popularity.
The shares outstanding" index
shows what a substantially representa-
tive $l00 worth of stocks in 1926 would
now amount to if held unchanged since
that year. The 80 leaders" index
shows the result of reinvesting the 500
every week In the market favorites of
that week.
The last column of the table gives
the rate OF return on the weeks SO
leaders at current prices.
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WHEAT PRICES SOAR.

CHICAGO. July % CP.-Hurricane
buying Of wheat today ran prices up
cents a bushel above SATURDAYS
closing figures. Sizzling temperatures
and rainless skies, causing worse and
worse crop damage in the Northwest
were reported. and, despite huge profit
taking sales, the market went skyward.
especially in the last dealings. Word
Of big purchases of North American
wheat for shipment to Europe tended
likewise to hoist values and there were
authoritative estimates Of as low as
$4,000, 900 bushels yield of wheat this
season in the Canadian prairie prov
inces. far less than half of last years
production.
Wheat closed wild. 7 to ~. higher
than Saturdays finish, with rye show
ing 5Ss to 5s4 gain. Corn closed 215
to ga. oats 10 to 2 advanced and pro-
visions unchanoed IN dou,,
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ST. ANNE TO BE H0N0RED.
Rev. James M. Cotter to Conduct
Solemn Iridium at st. Aloysius.

Rev. James NJ Cotter, noted preach
ed of the Jesuit Order, will conduct a
solemn iridium in honor of ST. Anne,
mother of the Virgin Mary, in St.
Aloysius Church. North Capitol and I
streets, beginning tomorrow night at
7:30 o'clock and ending Thursday night,
the eve of the saints feast day.
An authentic relic of st. Anne, 1900
years old, will be exposed for veneration
at all the exercises of the iridium. A
iridium mass will be celebrated by
Rev. Father Cotter each morning at Z
o'clock.
The sermon Tuesday night will be
on why We Honor ST. Anne; We'd
nesday night, "St. Anne's Position in
the Church; Thursday night "St.
Anne's Miraculous Powers"
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EARNINGS REPORTED.

NEW YORK, July % Op).-Beechnut
Packing Co. ended the first half year
with profit of s1.553,242, equal to 1924
a share ON the common, against
S1,51O,484 or $3.13 a share, in the first
six months of 1923.
Net earnings Of Briggs & Stratton
Corporation for the first half year we're
the largest in the company's history.
The total of S312,966, equal to $270 a
share, compared with $338,89S, or SLIP
a share, In the first six months Of 1928.
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Markets at a Glance

NEW YORK, July % (P.-Stocks ir-
regular: General Electric at new high.
Bonds mixed; American l. G. Chemical
5i2s at new top. Curb irregular; Mid
die West utilities soar to record price.
Foreign exchanges firm; Japanese yen
scars nearly half cent to new 1929 high.
Cotton lower; beneficial showers Texas.
Sugar steady; improved spot market
Coffee easy; lower Brazilian reports.
CHICAGO, July % (P.-Wheat
strong; absence rain in Canada. Corn
strong; bullish Illinois and Missouri re-
ports. Cattle irregular. Hogs steady.
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AIRCRAFT EXPORT COMPANY,

NEW YORK. July % L4O.-United
Aircraft Exports, Inc, is being formed
Corporation to handle the latter's ex-
port business. Francis H. Love will be
president of the new company Fred
erick B. Rensselaer, president of United
Aircraft & Transportation, will be
chairman, and william e. Boeing.
chairman of the parent concern, has a
place on the directorate. Mr.. Rent
schiller reports that United's foreign
orders In the last year exceeded
100000.
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PARIS BoURsE PRICES.

PARIS, July % OP).-Price move
ments were irregular on the Bourse to-
day.
Three per cent rentes, rs francs 40
confines. Five per cent loan, 1o2 francs
70 centimes.
Exchange on London, 1913 francs ss
confines. The dollar was quoted at as
francs 1924 centimes.
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POTATO MARKET.

CHICAGO, July % up Omitted
States Department Of Agriculture) -
Potatoes-Receipts, 1875 cars, on track
1858, total United States shipments Sat-
urday, 772; Sunday, % cars; trading on
sacks moderate, market slow. barrels
trading slow, market dull; Kansas and
Missouri. sacked, Irish Cobblers, best,
1.e0a2.10: Kentucky, sacked, Irish Cob
blers. 2.50a2.60;: Kansas, sacked, Early
Ohio's, ITO; Virginia, barrels, Irish
Cobblers. best. 500; others, 465.
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May Build New Plant.

NEW YORK, July ~ Cp.-wall
Street advices from Akron, Ohio, say
that directors Of the Goodyear Tire &
Rubber Co. are expected to discuss at
their next meeting construction Of
new plant in South America, probably
in Argentina. Charles A. Stillman, 6
vice president of Goodyear. recently
returned from survey Of the South
American field.
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Farm Buying Power
special Dispatch to The star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW HAVEN, Conn.,, July 22.-The
farmer benefited in increased purchas-
ing power by last weeks shifts in COM
modify prices. While products Of the
farm went up, non-agricultural goods
declined slightly, both working to in
crease the purchasing power Of farm
products.
Corn. wheat. oats. potatoes, eggs and
steers were the most important agricul-
tural products which went UP.
Index numbers of agricultural and
non agricultural prices for various
periods are given in the following table
with the index Of farm purchasing
power which is their quotient. For each
the average for 1926 represents 100:
Farm Asricul- Non agri-
purchasing tural cultural
-DOWPF nriCAs prices.
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CHICAGO DAIRY MARKET.

CHICAGO, July % LP).-Butter un-
changed; receipts, 1904 tubs: cream
cry extras. 4lL; standards, AN; extra
frsts. 4oa4o1a; firsts, 381aa3ela; sec
onds, 37a38.
Eggs higher: receipts, 1892 cases:
extra firsts. 32a3212: f1rsts, 3Ia31l2; or
binary firsts. 29a30i2.
Poultry-Alive, steady; receipts. 2
cars; fowls, 2SL2; Springs. "a: broilers,
90; turkeys. 20a30; ROSTERS, 81 4; ducks,
l7a21: geese.e15; Spring geese, %.
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FETAL MARKET.

NEW YORK, July "a C9.-Copper
No. 2, +. Q. b. Eastern Pennsylvania,
2o.5oa215o; Buffalo, 17.5oa1a.5o; Ala
bana, 14ooa15.5o Tin steady; spot,
47.37; future 1890. Lead stesdv; SPOT,
New York, CTS; East ST. Louis, SIS.
Zinc steady; East st. Louis. spot and
future, $50. Anthony, $50. Quick
silver. 12l0O
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Stock Sale Planned.

NEW YORK, July % CP.-Stock-
holders of Proctor & Gamble Co. will
be asked to authorize sale Of 100000
shares Of the proposed new 100000
common shares to group Of New York
win be $50 900 shares at 6e2s and the
option 20 purchase 100000 additional
at 90 each before next Fehr1axy "a.
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profitable. Both
the rail an d
utilities common
stock groups adj
v a nc e d to new
high records.
The common in
dustrials as a whole
we're OF slightly
from last weeks
! e vel although
ending the week
only about two
index points from
the peak record OF
July z. The weeks
so heaviest traded
industrials, how
ever, made q
record high.
Tho rail and
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STOCK PRICE index
CONTINUES TO GAIN
Rail and Utilities Groups Show
Rapid Advance in Quoted
Values.
BY IRVING FISHER.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch TO The btar.
NEW HAVEN, Conn, July 22.-The
stock market last week gave strong
evidence of its confidence that serving
the public is going to be increasingly
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COTTON PRICES DROP.

NEW YORK. July % tSpeciaD -
Generally favorable weather over Sun
day with predictions of fair weather in
Eastern States brought out more con-
tracts today and cotton prices reacted
about So bale from high levels of last
week. Profit-taking operations caused
the list to end around the bottom.
Spots were reduced As points to 1900.
Cotton range:
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believed that the request was not made
IN good faith, but for the purpose 6f
nlndering and embarrassing the man
agement.
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FIRM ANSWERS SUIT.
Stanley Co. Claims Legal Action Is
to Hinder Management.

Answer has been filed ut Whining
ton, Del, In the Superior Court by
the Stanley Co. Of America to man
damus procedure, filed several weeks
ago by three stockholders, who seek to
pany to learn the real value of the
Stanley Co. stock they own.
The answer states that examination
Of the books was refused because it was
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IJuIY 2yl July Gg1 Jan "a
Feb'2a) lFeb'2s> Mays
tCopyrigiit, 1929. By Irving FISHERY
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Nearly n n--f4-lsl1s # III. imports into
Corto FIR avs sv-sn iJl:s country.
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Farm Agricul- Non agri-
purchasing tural cultural
power. prices. prices.
Baltimore Markets

right, 1929, Irving Fisher Syndicate, Inc