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The Washington times., 1930-07-22
JERVEY IS PROMOTED

Louis P. Jervey has been elected
assistant secretary of the Amer
ican Fore" group Of fire insurance
companies. Mr.. Jervey Is at ETes.
ent agency superintendent Of the
southeastern department.
The Washington times., 1930-07-22
American Chain Six
Mos. Net 1929 Share

American Chain Company in
the six months ended June 80 re.
ported earnings today equivalent
to $3.29 a share on 250,22l com.
mon shares, against $2.63 a share
on $25O,033 common shares in
the like 1929 period.
The Washington times., 1930-07-22
MOVE BOSTON OFFICE

Palmer and Company announce
today the removal of their Bos-
ton office to rs Federal St.. under
the management of Griffin S.
Fallon, H. Turner Slocum and
William M. Walden, jr.
The Washington times., 1930-07-22
SHEAR IN NEW POSITION

White, Warren & Co., Inc, an
nounce Arnold b. Shear, formerly
with Shear & Co., is in charge
Of their railroad bond depart.
ment.
The Washington times., 1930-07-22
Beech Nut E0rnin0s
Near LeDeL of 1929

Beech-Nut Packing Company re.
ported today for the six months
ended June 80 3 profit of $1,43s,.
8l4. compared with $l.553, ,242 in
the corresponding half year Of
1929.
The Washington times., 1930-07-22
InteTnat'L Harvester
Books Soviet Order

International Harvester Com
pany has received an order from
the Soviet government for q large
number Of tractors through Am.
torg Trading Corporation.
The Washington times., 1930-07-22
Heavy Melting Scrap
Steel Cut rs Cents

CHICAGO, July 22.--Heayy
melting scrap steel is quoted $12
to $12.25 ton, q decline Of IS
cents on maximum range. The
market Is strictly nominal.
The Washington times., 1930-07-22
London Crude Rubber
Stocks UD 3I3 Tons

LONDON, July 22.-Stocks of
crude rubber in London on July
~ totaled S0.S14 tons, an increase
of 313 tons.
The Washington times., 1930-07-22

hottest" tips when it crossed 100
broke badly. 1 hear Of important
profit taking and that one Of the
pools in the stock has switched
to another speculative favorite.
Yet important interests are bullish
on the stock and declare it may
become another radio. One
broker summed 1t UP by saying
that Vanadium may go 800 or ii
may go to 500. Faith is being
placed in the development Of the
company's titanium deposits as a
huge source Of income; but If
this proves a flop" the stocks
chief source of speculative interest
will be gone.
A tip a few days ago that a
pool would take Houston Oil in
hand for a sharp rise fell flat,
the stock Stumping about 10
points instead I hear, however,
that good buying will come into
Houston If it goes much lower,
based mainly on the company'S
big natural gas holdings. The
stock is worth watching and Is a
fast mover.
Here and There
I hear Of q big pool being
formed in Fox. which shot up
over three points after being
mentioned in this column last
week. One of the leading market
operators is being mentioned in
connection with the report that
the stock will be given q big
play. I am told there will be
move in corn products. The COM
pany is making money and the
stock has a high rating. Wool
worth is in a buying range for
the long pull, and should reflect
any upturn in chain stores sales.
Snuff companies are doing we'll
and American Snuff, Helme and
U. S. Tobacco offer attractive
investment and speculative
opportunities.
There has been good buying
IN General Motors and consider.
able higher prices are predicted
before the end Of the year. Coluln.
bia Graphophone has reacted to
the point where it is worth
watching for a quick play. This
columns tip on Columbia last
week was good for two points
Friday Sinclair's action hasn't
been anything to cheer about but
the stock should sell higher on
Its merits and merger prospects.
Continental and Atlantic Refin.
ing are two other oil stocks that
IN wheat was an additional
factor in the sharp break in
Case Threshing.
The Washington times., 1930-07-22
C.& O.EARN|NGS
MAINTAINED

Chesapeake 6 Ohio Railroad
Co. and subsidiary roads reported
today gross operating income for
June Of $3,299, ,786 against $780,
O02 in June 1929. Gross for the
month totaled $11,35l, ,427 against
$12,249,830 last year. In the six
months ended June 80 net oper-
ating income totaled $18,25,534
compared with $19,579,6l2 in the
like 1929 months. Gross operat-
ing income for the period totaled
66,052,114 against $7l, ,920,774 in
the corresponding 1899.
The Washington times., 1930-07-22
Packard to Close for
2 Weeks Vacation

Packard Motor Car Company
will close down for vacations
July 1S to August 4. Workers
employed 5 years or more will be
paid,
The Washington times., 1930-07-22
Tinaken-DetrOit Axle
To Close 2 Weeks

T1mken-Detroit Axle Co. is clos.
ing down for two weeks for vaca.
tionS and will reopen August 4,
The Washington times., 1930-07-22
LOCAL STOCKS

FURNISHED by w. b. Hibbs 4 Coz
SALES
Capital Traction Company,
10067, 10@67, 10067, 20O67,
10Q67, 100667s.
Potomac Electric 51a per cent
pfd. 1O@107A, 1O01O7s, 30W
108.
After call - Capital Traction
Company, 10966T, 100667s.
Norfolk and Washington Steam
boat Rts., 35016.
Capital Traction IS, $4,000
94A.
Mergenthaler Linotype, 1O0
S6A.
Capital Traction Company,
20Q67, 2O067, 2O067, 1O@67,
10Q67ls, 100671s.
The Washington times., 1930-07-22
Southern Railway

Southern Railway System re-
parted gross for the second week
in July of $2.741,4S0 a decline of
$564,048 from the same 1929
week. Gross for the period from
January / to July II totaled $780,
971, ,438, a decline of $15.543, ,49l
from the corresponding 1929 per-
iOd,
The Washington times., 1930-07-22
Steel

Steel
United States Steels hour-point
dip is bringing 1t in a range
where scale down buying seems
warranted. The report for the
second quarter, due next Tuesday,
is expected to show So for the
common stock, or better than S6
for the half, as against the 81
annual dividend. The third quar-
ter may be worse than the Sec
ond, and the outlook for the last
three months of the year is un-
certain. At that, Steel will earn
about $12 q share this year,
which brings the current selling
price down to a conservative
earningS-price ratio, and Steel
will be the first stock to share in
any improvement in the market.
Good buying is heard in STAN
dard Oil of New Jersey, both
from speculative and investment
sources. Definite proof that the
oil situation is under control will
mean much higher levels for
Jersey. Earnings are out of line
with the present market price,
but the company has rich hold
ings in other fields, especially
chemical and natural gas.
The Tobaccos
Cigarettes stocks as a group
seem the cheapest on the big
board. The sharp increase in
June output after the decline in
May was a pleasant surprise,
particularly in view of the show
ing Of other industries.
American Tobacco is easily the
outstanding stock in this class,
and with earnings running at an
estimated rate of $40 share,
seems in line for a sharp run
up. The new stock, when the
Split-up is effected, is likely to be
a speculative leader. Liggett and
Myers is a high-grade stock and
offers large profit possibilities.
Reynolds hasn't acted well all
year, despite the reports of pool
activities. Lorillard'S estimated
earnings of better than 50 for the
year make the stock an attrac.
tive low-priced speculation.
I hear of a pool In Wrigley,
and that the stock will get
play when market conditions
warrant. Earnings for the first
half were at last years level.
The stock made a new high yes
terday. American Chicle also is
making about as much money
as last year, but the stock is COM
paratively inactive.
Vanadium. one of the streets
The Washington times., 1930-01-29
Addict Nations Demand REAL
CURLING of Opium Traffic

THEY found big San Francisco drug peddler guilty
l day last week. BLACK Tony" Parmagini tried
five counts found guilty by jury in forty minutes and he
and his chief lieutenant fined $4,000 apiece and given
Neventeen years in a Federal prison.
When Black Tony" was arrested nobody dreamed any
thing would happen him. He too big. He wasn't
little peddIer. He wholesaler, and everybody thought
he had drag He'd get out of that scrape all right and
somebody would suffer for daring to arrest him.
Even BLACK Tony" not worried Dapper, powerful
"Back Tony in of the drtest businesses earth
couldn't POSSIBLY go to prison But he's going there and
he IL stay there, and he II do pedding.
Some people who really about the CHASTITY evils of the
world opium traffic pessimistic about its suppression
They've followed the meetings of the opium committees of
the League of Nations and what happens them
They read about how the committee adjourns for tea
whenever the delegate from China makes embarrassing
speech They've the minutes of the sessions clipped and
shaped for publication They've how the opium bloc
manages to envelop and uffocate any REAL effort to
press the miserable business
And seeing things they sometimes lose heart
lose hope that the big drug peddng natonshe big national
"Back TONES of this wordwl be forced out of the
business They cant much hope in sending Black
Tony of the Pacific Coast to Jail long the Black
nations keep making selling exporting and smuggling drugs
for profit
But they need not lose heart wholly. The Opium Com
mttee is meeting in Geneva this week The efforts
being made to thwart the suppression of the opium traffic
but there's difference now and hopeful difference The
opium bloc can work in the dark any The addict
nations louder than in their nssence that
thing be done.
They DEMAND change and they have the sincere help
Of the delegates from such countries Italy
states-and later they will GET that change!
Evil things be frankly any more Black Tony
nations longer boast of their opium profits They
cannot be bold San Franciscos little Back Tony bold
The little Black Tony to prison and within few years
at the most the Black Tony nations will be FORCED
raise wheat instead of poppes to make bread instead
poison.
And with all the strength Of its great heart this nation
b helping the coming Of that day
The Washington times., 1930-01-29
The Tolls and Spells of Victory
By Herbert Kaufman.

ENGINEERS in charge vehicuar bridge now building
the Hudson have ascertaned wire cables even
under the negligible heat of January expand inch
four thousand feet.
human spiders delegated to spin those tremendous threads
begin their task at. three o'clock A. M
There's such word goodenough in the lexicon Of
physics.
The scientific mind takes nothing for granted Which
why universities plan to discourage the tendency
students to follow purely cultural courses.
Collegiate education increasingly protests against the pref
of undergraduates for superficial finishes Literature
the classics and philosophy aren't stern enough drill masters
they're too indugent with unpublished mental buttons.
The future has constantly less opportunity offer ndd
uas who know phase of everything and nothing much of
anything.
its bueprnts won't be Ineligible to smatterers There are
big jobs waiting for sloppy thinkers approximations and
detail neglectors.
We've entered business partnership with the eectron the
atom and the ether. Industry is knocking phs, gases
apart to recompose them into cheaper and
efficient structural materials
calculations splitting harbreadths and mole
cules and persons who don't what it's
don front-rank hopes.
week learned to manufacture better steel at
less cost and fifteen per cent reduction in waste
Yesterday Cooper Union experimenter placed tempered
gold at disposal and thereby completely revoluonized
dental technique.
French chemist pursuing his researches in Switzerland
has finally down the clue to motion pictures in full
ural colors.
No line tangled what some cunning fingered fact
fisherman will straghten the kinks.
Progress has been chiefly served by two widely different
types-the imaginative and the tenacious.
Theory seldom proceeds beyond contemplation of posi-
bity; then renquishe the half gnawed bone bulldog
patience which cracks through marrow.
There has been little of the spectacular nothing of wzardry
in which have permanently enriched
perience and substance.
Their primary prove the lives
of Harvey Bacon Archmedes Marcon Besseme Edison
Grille alike may be epitomzed in revealing phrase He
not a halfway man
The spos and tolls of victory inseparable.
The Washington times., 1930-01-29
Doctors Are PRIVILEGED
Why Not Newspapers?

CTATE SENATOR HASTINGS, of Brooklyn N Y has ex
~ planned clearly why newspaper employees should
compelled to tell grand ries courts legislative commit
tees where they obtained confidential information He is
porting bill introduced in the State legislature to protect
newspaper from contempt of court proceedings
THE physician and nurse" said Mr. Hastings may not
testify in respect matters procured the course of their
professional duties the lawyer be compelled to
the confidence professionally reposed in him
also is immune with respect those matters impaired to him
in confidence by his communicate
The recent episode in the National Capital when three
Washington Times reporters Jail exposing vice for
the public has emphasized the necessity providing the
Fourth Estate with similar of protection in the
public interest
Senator Hastings does well to say that is for PUBLIC
protection
That is the the newspapers urge that it be
passed.
only newspaper interests were affected BY it. this news
paper, for one would be less interested
The Washington times., 1930-01-29

Many peoples including not
few scientists, enjoy playing
with the idea that the universe
is constantly renewing itself
and will never suffer dissolu.
ton. If matter has been found
IN our neighborhood to he
suffering humiliation and
transforming energy into radia-
ton, why may not a reverse
process be taking place in other
parts of the universe? While
dlSlntegration is taking place
here. rebuilding may be going
on there?
Unfortunately, TRANSFORMED
zion OF matter into radiation
so far as science has been able
TO d1ScoVer-iS not a reversible
process. Radiation has never
oeen caught changing back into
matter. 0
AS we go back to first causes
we can learn from science onlv
that very, very far bacI, in time
was the universe wound up. A
movement of rotation was set
up but science gives no answer
10 The question: Who gave the
original spin to matter?
The universe began as a form
OF gigantic mechanism, fully
wound up. From the beginning
It began to run down. It is now
like some mighty clock which
has partly run down. The be-
ginning Of the universe, accord
ing to the calculations of
present-day science. was not in
ftnitely remote in the past. The
ending Of the universe will take
place, It is estimated. at some
time IN the future, not infinitely
remote.
The Washington times., 1930-01-29
LISTEN WORLD!

By Elsie Robinson

YOUR marriage wasn't going
to degenerate into the dull
routine that had trapped your
friends. For YOU-TWO under
stand each other you
could always be perfectly frank
with each other =.
So you started the great ex-
pertinent together, full of Cour-
age and honest and splendid
vision.
But, somehow, by the end of
the first year, the vision wasn't
quite as glorious. That per-
feet frankness hadn't material
lied. OF course. you were just
as much in love as ever. but
we'll, Ella didn't exactly approve
of some Of your notions, Bill,
and Jim got all smoked up over
some of your ideas. Sally-and
so, ITO KEEP THE PEACE
you kept certain things to your
self, stopping giving yourself
up to those dreams, stopped
flaming with those noble re-
bellionS, stopped listening for
that secret music.
LEARNING TO GET ALONG
WITH EACH OTHER"-that's
what you call it.
LETTING PART OF YOUR
SELVES DIE'-that's what it
really is.
Letting your individuality
wither and your differences
smooth out into a deadly con-
tormity. Yet those very diff
ferences were what first made
you attractive to each other
and that individuality was what
made marriage alluring.
And now, because you didn't
have the courage to be honest
with each other, because you
didn't have the courage to be
yourselves, you are smothering
in that monotonous sameness
which has engulfed your friends.
You don't fight. You never
criticize each other. And so,
with each year, you grow more
comfortable and complacent-
AND MORE DEAD!
is THAT what you call "a
happy marriage?"
The Washington times., 1930-01-29
SECRETS OF
HEALTH
BY DR.. Louis z. Risch-
COME believe that spirits
~ exist and some do not.

COME believe that spirits
~ exist and some do not.
Those who believe they do
will assert, of course, that
spirits have proved their exist
ence time and again and to
persist in denying that their
messages are genuine is to re-
veal an obtuSeneSS of mind that
borders we'll, something
bad Notwithstanding like i'm
beCility.
Those that believe that spirits
do not exist either scott at the
idea and take no notice of it
or, if of a scientific bent. they
keep an open mind, attend
Seances, examine mediums--in
short, are willing "to be shown"
One thing is certain. Spirits
have not yet revealed them
selves to the satisfaction of
everybody!
II you hear a voice and I do
not. the voice is true for you
but not for me.
If you think and believe you
see a man crouching by the
roadside while I strain my eyes
to see him as well, but am un-
able to agree, then again, the
crouching figure is true for you
but not for me.
That, in effect, is the situa-
ton regarding spiritualiSm to-
day.
~One need not doubt the
honesty Of mediums nor their
good intentions.
One need not suspect those
who believe in spirit manifesto
tionS are knowingly subscrib-
ing to a fraud.
What is true for them is
simply not-that is not yet
true for the vast majority of
the population.
No phenomenon Of any kind
whatsoever can call itself a
scientific fact unless and until
the phenomenon can be re
peated, can be controlled, and
can be demonstrated to the
satisfaction of everybody who
beholds it.
How does the existence Of
spirits measure up to this acid
test?
You will agree that it falls
far short to date.
Certainly, so far, no one has
been able to exercise any meas
urable degree of control over
the spirit world or its inhabi-
tantS.
Report has it that spirits are
rather difficult to get along
with at times. that they play
tricks, that one must subscribe
to certain rules and regulations
else they won't communicate.
One should not say that
spirits do not and cannot exist
even if the theory seems far
fetched. Anything is possible.
Look at radio. If such striking
phenomena can be demon
strated what may we not ex-
pect next?
Nevertheless, at the present
stage of spirit investigation you
are perfectly safe in remaining
skeptfcal.
Don't, at any rate. fall into
the error or believing what you
want to believe,
Apply the test necessary to
establish . scientific fact and
you never can 60 far wTenR.
The Washington times., 1930-01-29
Major Pratt Seeks Reforms in
Police Department

THAT is an extensive program of reforms and better
ments Police Department recommended by Major
Pratt head but large numbers of them desirable
made the department to be adequately
equipped in the handling of crime in all its phases.
In his proposition make all policemen prohibition
forcers chief police is however inviting situation that
department than the football Of poll
tics which hoped would be eliminated by betterments
intended lead the greatest possible efficiency and to fore
stall unnecessary and unfair criticism
There has never any doubt that the disposition
Congress and elsewhere to find fault with the police depart
ment destructive of the morale of the force and that
often, the criticisms without reasonable foundation.
Require each policeman to become prohibition enforce
berest phase of American politics today That bitterness
is reaching dangerous point and nothing that be
imagined will be harmful to the force than being
jected the criticisms that flow therefrom.
Congress ought to be able to this and realize the
dangers involved ought not put mlstones around the
necks of Washington policemen.
Surely the prohibition law should be enforced Washing
ton 1T should be done we'll too hut the enforcement should
be the hands of Federal agencies that have nothing else
to do but that the responsibilities clearly with them
repeatedly proclaimed in Congress that this Fed
City It's citizens know to be that because thew are
shorn of practically right of direct participation in its
affairs.
Our Police Department already the burden of pro
hbon enforcement here There special squad for that
purpose and it is given little aid by Federal enforcement
agents is far better that special squad should be sub
jeced criticisms and random charges that the whole
force should be mixed up in the niquites of it ALL
Major Pratt doubt wishes the good will of those in
Congress who willing to mper the whole force and who
will most likely pass legislation that will make prohibition
enforcement agents Of each and every policeman leading in
the end to much larger police force much greater
cost than to the TAXPAYERS OF WASHINGTON not
to the Federal Government.
Congress grants the larger force Major Pratt seeks at
the of the people of Washington the demands from
Congress will be ncssan that the increased force be required
do what Federal agents should what the Federal
Government should pay for Then will demands for
still larger increase in the force
The District Commissioners should consider this plan long
and seriously before approving it. They can do nothing else
but promise all possible aid to TIL Federal Government in
enforcing prohibition here but they will mistake
they agree to the whole local force becoming responsible
this enforcement inviting evils that will keep the force
less demorazed with ending charges wrong doing
and iuefficiency.
The Washington times., 1930-01-29
THE MARRY
GO-ROUND
BY Helen Rowland

MRS. SOlOmOn'S Sayings
DEHOLD, my Daughter, upon
New Years Day, a man of
Babylon vowed a VOW and took
oath solemnly. saying: Never
again shall liquor touch my
lips! For ali the stuff is BAD,
and I am Through with it,"
Yet, a fortnight had not
passed, when I met him upon
the highway And he was on
his way TO Speakeasy.
And I questioned him, saying,
Alas, for what reason doSt thou
DO this thIng?"
And ne answered me, sadly,
saying, Madam, what reason
wouldst thou prefer? For can
give thee fitty-seven varieties of
reasons, and each one good!
Verify, verify, the reasons for
which a man taketh a drink are
as the leaves of the trees, and
the daisies of the field, innumer-
able!
10, he taketh a drink, when
he is SOrroWful and cast down,
in order that he may forget his
sorrow and drown his troubles.
And he taketh a drink when
his heart is glad and he is full
Of rejoicing in order to 'cele-
brate' his Joy.
when he is lonely and with
out friends. he taketh drink to
cheer him and comfort his
heart.
And when he is merry and
among his friends, he taketh a
drink in order to be a good fell
low
when he hath lost his
moneys in the stock market, he
taketh drink to steady his
nerves.
And when he hath won much
moneys IN the stock market, he
taketh another to commemorate
his success.
when he is down upon his
luck and without funds, he
taketh a drink to forget his pow
erty and TO give him the cour-
age to face the world.
And when he is fortunate
and his Golfers are full, he
taketh drink because he can
afford the best stuff-and why
not?'
when he is weary and over
worked, he taketh a drink to
give him stl ength for his labors.
And when he is idle. he tax
eth a drink because there is
nothing else to do
Behold, he taketh a drink in
order to avoid cold-and in or
der to CURE a cold. Because a
woman hath refused to marry
him-and because a woman
hath promised to marry him.
Because he &c young and full of
spirits-and because he Is old
and needeth a stimulant. Be
cause it is hard to GET-and
because It Is EASY TO get. And.
likewise Just BECAuSEr