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The Washington times., 1930-09-08
RISE
IN BUSINESS
IS NOTED
Bradstreet's Review Sees Cut
Of Depression; Belief That
Bottom Is Reached Is Made

The enlarged activity with the
accompanying access Of cheerful
ness noted in the last weeks Of
August has made further progress
during the first week Of Septem-
Der with a growing disposition to
believe that the bottom Of the de-
preston has passed In the preced-
ing two months. Bradstreets will
say tomorrow in its trade review.
While there is natural diSposi-
ton to believe also that q great
deal Of the Improvement shown is
purely seasonal. the evidences Of
relief from the dullneSs Of July
and early August are unmistak-
able and productive Of consider
able of the cheerful feeling mani
tested.
Features Of note this week Of
an encouraging nature have to
deal with a future slight increase
in steel production; a consider
ably more confident buying of
staple cotton goods. such as print
cloths and gray goods and the
joining of finished rayon goods
with cottons in the activity: a
better demand for both anthracite
and bituminous coal. the latter in
larger sizes, and screenings and
slack excepted..-a1ld Ia cheerful
report from paint and varilish
manufacturers, whose trades have,
historically speaking, seemed to
benefit when new building is
slack.
In no particular case, aside from
the continued full activity In the
pipe trade. are operations at the
largest or even large volume. but
these various STRINGS Of fall buy
ing seem to argue. at least, a fair
expansion Of fall purchasing, and
a recognition. as In the case Of
cotton goods. that curtailment has
been drastic. that prices are far
below recent years, and that buy
ing of cotton for export was more
uniformly better In August than
for sometime past.
The Washington times., 1930-09-08
so Stocks Reveal
Small Rise in Week

Market value of so representa-.
tive stocks on the New York Stock
Exchange at the close of the week
ended Saturday. September 6
was $24,o84, 4,423,120, an increase
Of $88,839,641 or approximately
SO per cent, over the value Of
The Washington times., 1930-09-08
The Amusements

The movie stocks should be in
the forefront of any further bull
lsh demonstrations in the market
They have their best season ahead,
and earnings Of most of them
held up well even in the summer
slump. My favorite is Loew's.
Earnings for the year are esti'
mated at $40 a share, which makes
the stock cheap around current
levels.
In addition Fox plans to make
a bid for the minority stock of
Loew'S, as forecast here exclusively
twice within the last six weeks.
This would warrant much higher
prices for Loew's. Fox also should
work up in anticipation Of the
offer. / also like Paramount. It
is selling out of line on estimated
earnings Of 81 for the year. Para
mounts conservation and manage
u1ent are highly regarded. Radio.
Keith seems to be good for a few
more points on this move I said
here last week that R-K-O Is the
favorite amusement stock Of a
large operator until recently linked
with large bearish operations.
Ingersoll Rand woke UP with a
snappy advance Saturday. The
company is a leading manufac
turer of road building and other
machinery. Continued road con
struction activities augurs well fol
the company's profit. In addi
ton, machinery companies have
been doing we'll this year. 1nger
soil Rand is. one of the fastest
moving stocks in big board. II
looks higher.
The Washington times., 1930-09-08
NeIDberry Sales Up
u.IT in August

J. j. NewberrJ Company re-
ported sales for August Of $2,474,-
SIS, against $2,505,162 in August.
1929. Sales for the eight months
ended August 81 totaled SIC, $685.
504. against $15,2S3, ,6o1 in the like
1929 period,
The Washington times., 1930-09-08
SPENCER TRAsK DIVIDEND

The directors of Spencer Trask
Fund, Inc, have declared a sec
ond quarterly dividend of Is cents
a share, payable September 80.
1880, to stockholders of record
September 10. 1880. The initial
quarterly dividend of IS cents a
share was paid on June 80 last.
The Washington times., 1930-09-08

likely to be increased If 1881
proves any sort of decent bust
ness year, as most expect.
The Washington times., 1930-09-08

$24,895, ,583 ,479 at the close Of the
preceding week, according to a
compilation by Mcclure, Jones
& Company, members Of the ex'
change.
This compares with $37,0l6, 495,.
502, the value of the shares at
the close of the corresponding day
in 1929.
The Washington times., 1930-09-08
Eternal Vigilance Is the
Price Of Safety

When the salesman promises you hundred per cent
your money, when he talks about the stock being
offered remember to be vigant to be careful and to
get the facts before you invest.
When the real estate dealer tells you the price Of the
lot will go up five hundred dollars October first and
that you can sell and make large profit; again re-
member that ordinary horse-sense caution of your
protection.
When the man who claims to be financer wants to
borrow thousand dollars from you and offers you
his sxtyday note for two thousand dolars still again
be careful.
An army of financial parasites are ready to take
your money Their belief is that the public is merely
group of "easy marks and their creed is to "let the
buyer beware" y
AS an intelligent buyer of securities beware"
Der to Get the Facts First--To
Before You Invest Investigate
The Washington times., 1930-09-08

Probably the most encouraging
fact concerning the business out
look Just now, is the evidence that
commodity prices may be stabiliz-
ing.
Most students of the business
situation agree that the decline in
commodity prices has been one of
the most unfavorable indications.
It reflects the over-production
that has existed, to say nothing
Of the results Of strained credit.
Thus any indication that the re.
adjustment In prices may be near.
ing completion is most welcome.
Index Going Up
In the first place, the two
monthly indexes" Of commodity
prices which have. appeared thus
far suggest the above conclusion.
Dun's average was higher on Sep
tember than on August /. The
BradStreet index was a trifle
lower, but only by a small frac-
tion. It's decline was so much
less rapid than previously that
it holds out hope for a turn.
In the second place, the vari-
GUS weekly price averages have
recently turned up-for example
the Annalist's index and that pre-
pared by Fisher.
More than that, note that In
a list Of basic commodities the
number showing advances in
prices has gained on the number
showing declines. And q large
number remain steady. The
The Washington times., 1930-09-08
NEWS
In Today's
CLASSIFIED ADS


HOUSE FOR RENT - HOlmead
Place; $50; seven rooms and two
baths. arranged as two apartments.
BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY-Thr
chair barber shop, fully equipped;
good business; rent, &4Oi good rea-
son for selling.
DURANT COACH, 1929-Four cyl.
inderss 1885, terms Or trade.
EURNIGHED APARTMENT - 2Oth
st. n. W., near Dupont Circle:
bachelor studio. unusually large
outside rooms with southern expo.
sure; S1S6 per month!
APARTMENT FOR RENT-lBth
81. n. w.; first NOOr front; three
large rooms: kitchen and bath;
q. m. J.; $50.
Thsse are ''sidsli0hts'' on soyns a. s.aa.
tntereStfn0 GdpevfisemeRts yoV ,sif I,1I q
ths BHstness Seryice Directory of to6eTI
JtEss and HGrala ClasSites I6N
The Washington times., 1930-09-08

Stay away from Bethlehem at
current prices. The stock had a
good move. last week, and seems
fully to have discounted any
favorable developments for the
time being. Bethlehem is ahead
Of the present market advance,
and from what I hear is likely
to be the. first to react. Tt :
are still several uncertainties In
the Bethlehem situation to be
cleared up.
The Washington times., 1930-09-08

I like Woolworth. I said here
some time ago that the company's
outlook had taken a turn for the
better despite the drop in sales.
The stock is up about five points
since. Woolworth Is in a strong
field position and Is one Of the
nations leading chain stores or
banizationA . !. Ehe dividend q
The Washington times., 1930-09-08
Store Stocks

Department store stocks are up
considerably since first recon-
mended here. My choices then
were Macy, Best and Associated
Dry Goods; they still are. I be-
feve they will go higher on any
further advance in the general
market.
Abraham 81 straus is another
that can be added to the list. It
is comparatively inactive, but I
understand it's business has
turned the corner. With the holi-
day season ahead, department
stores are sure to make some
real money, and the leaders are
apt to pile up record earnings.
Best'S earnings are running
ahead of last year and those
Others are holding UP well, I am
told.
The Washington times., 1930-09-08

The appearance of this an
nouncement in these columns
is evidence that this news
paper co-operates with and
supports the Better Business
Bureau for your protection.
The Washington times., 1930-09-08
The Oils

The breadth of Saturdays rally
can be judged from the fact that
even the Iowly oils came to life.
Strength in the group was due
mainly to the firming up of gaso-
line prices in the Middle West
and Southwest. The gas" situa-
ton is the sore spot in the pc
troleui1l outlook. and the oils
stocks will probably continue to
act like dogs" until something
IS done to remedy this.
Curtailment Of refinery opera
tions over the winter is the big
need, and the leaders are taking
some steps to bring this about.
There are two developments Of a
bulliSh nature ahead Of the oils
If they rnaterialize. One is the
hearing on the Julian writ in Ok
lahoma the first of the week. If
Julian loses, crude oil proration
will be strengthened. The other
is the Standards Vacuum merger
suit,
Defeat of the Government will
usher in an era of giant oil mer-
gers. Sinclair is on the eve of
effecting one now. All in all, the
long term investor can hardly af.
ford to be without one or. two
good petroleum stocks. There
viii be Q market in the oils some
day.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-07

Meade street northeast dots and 8,
square $1,000; to cost $500.
Capitol View Realty Co.. owners and
builders; to erect one 2-story brick and
tile dwelling, 5209 Ames street north
east dot % and part %, square 5242) !;
to cost $4,000.
Angelo Papachrist, owner; Robert H.
Brown, designer; Maiatico Fireproofing
Co., builders; to erect one history brick
addition, 1016 Bladensburg road north
east dot 152. square 4074); to cost
So 900.
Mary T. Wolfe, owner, designer and
builder; to erect one 2-story brick adj
dition, 1906 G street Got 826, square
43); to cost $500.
Col. Goodwin Ordway, owner; l., j.
Matthews, jr., designer and builder: to
erect one 2-story brick addition. 2010
Thirty-f1fth street dot "B," square S.
1880; to cost $500
Mrs. James T. Hunter, owner: NJ.
Mesrobian, architect; E. Martinson,
Suilder; to erect one 1-story brick office
building, 1888 Ninth street Got 70,
square 368); to cost $1,000.
H. L. Barlow, owner: to erect one q
story porch, $500 S street Got So, square
1902; to cost 81 900.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-07
MAURY APPOINTED
TO APPRAISAL BODY
Former Realty Board Head Given
Important Task by
Executives.

John F. Maury, prominent member
of the Washington Real Estate Board
and former president of the organiza-
ton. has been named a member of the
appraisal committee of the board, it
was announced today by Alfred H
Lawson, president.
The appointment to the post was
made, by the executive committee of the
beard The committee during past
years has made appraisals of local prop
erty running into millions of dollars in
value.
Other members of the committee are
H L. Rust, jr., chairman; Harold E,
Doyle. Charles A. Jones, Claud Living
ston, E. Quincy Smith and Waverly
Taylor, with G. E. Altemus as associate
assistant
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-07

Builders Association by Mr. Lusk was
tabulated and analysed by the Depart
ment of Commerce and its form Is
being taken as model for similar
surveys in other cities.
The statistical organization, Mr.. Lusk
announces, will issue monthly or BIZ
monthly service, giving facts concern
ing building, leasing, vacancies, sales
of houses and general business condi-
tons affecting metropolitan Washing
ton. Specialized studies for particular
sections of the city or an individual
enterprise also are planned.
Officers of the organization are at
DPS Fifteenth street.
The first work of the new concern
is the making of a master community
survey of Washington for the Board Of
Trade 1t is expected this will be COM
pleted by the middle of September
Mr.. LISk will continue as the execu-
tive officer of the Operative Builders
Association.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-07
REAL ESTATE BUSINESS
HAS NEW MODELS, TOO
National Association Declares
Homestead May Increase in
Value, Unlike Family Car.

The real estate business, like the au-
tomobile business, offers the public new
models every year, says the National
Association of Real Estate Boards.
Every one knows that automobile
designers and mechanics work at furi-
Gus speed throughout the months to
produce new and different cars for the
annual markets, but no one stops to
think that real estate men throughout
the country are also working to give
their buyers the latest realty models"
the association states.
But the odd part of this business is
that the old land may be just as good
as the new land, and sometimes better
So while new skyscrapers and new COM
munities provide new models for realty
investors, the old family homestead can
increase in value and does not lose caste
like last years car.
Like the automobile manufactures,
the realtor is working to improve his
commodity for his annual markets, and
as he works out new methods of city
planning, new ideas for big building
architecture, new Improvements in resi-
dental construction, and easier ways of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-07
PRIVATE BUILDING
PERMITS ARE HIGH
Total Volume for Year Is
Nearly That of Same
Period in 1929.
Continued From First Page3


dots % and %, square 1882 to cost
$1,000.
Metropolitan Baptist Church, owners;
L. w. Giles, architect; to erect one z
story brick addition, 1925 r street dots
8O4, SO to 70, So and SO, square 276); to
cost $4,000.
Robert H. and Bessie r. Denton, own
ers; " o. Chase, designer; North
Washington Realty Co., builders; to
erect one 2-story brick dwelling, 1882
Locust road Got 26, square 277D; to
cost $4,000.
Mary M Daniels. owner; H. H. Dan
iels, designer; S. j. White, builder; to
erect one 1-story brick and tile dwelling,
3O27 Alabama avenue southeast part
of parcel 214/102, square 565D; to cost
Sc, 600.
Eastland Garden, Inc, owners and
builders; Kenneth Veith, designer: to
erect one 1-story frame dwelling, 4240
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-07

announced To-Day
by Rufus S. LuSk,
who for the past
six years has been
executive secretary
of the Operative
Builders ASSocia-
ton.
Mr.. Lusk recent
~ completed one of
the periodic apart
ment vacancy sur
veys of this city,
as a guide to local
operators to the de-
mand for the con-
struction of new
housing units here.
The most recent
survey made for
the Oper a tiv e
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-07

In musical circles, both in this country
and abroad, it is generally conceded
that the Curtis Institute of Music in
Philadelphia ranks second to no con-
servatory in the world, although it has
had little more than five years of exist
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-07
WINNIPEG ACT AMENDED
Real Estate Agents Now Required
to Register.

Registration of real estate agents
operating in Greater Winnipeg" is now
required in accordance with recent
amendment to the security frauds pre-
vention act passed by the Manitoba Pro-
vincial Legislature.
The National Association of Real
Estate Boards points out that licenses
for real estate brokers and statesmen
are required by law in the provinces of
British Columbia, Ontario and Alberta,
and that real estate license laws are
now in force in &c States of the United
States.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-07
Hoge, Jr., Offices Moved.

The offices of W. S. Hoge, jr., Vir-
GINA realtor, have been moved from
I5I7 K street to new quarters in the
Shoreham Building, Fifteenth and H
streets.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-07
FACTS ON REALTY
TO Be COMPILED
Establishment of Statistical
Organization Announced
by LuSk.

Establishment of a statistical or
ganization for the purpose of compil-
ing and interpreting facts pertaining to
real estate business in Washington was
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-07

finacing he too is producing new mod
els based on the experience CLEANED
from producing the first ones"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-22

own ONCE is merely that of a single
member Of the central executive body.
He, the secretary general of the politi-
cal party, has dictated the removal of
the premier and named his successor
Heretofore whenever the Russian
Soviet governm-n has been charged
with subversive propaganda in other
countries the official defense of Moscow
has been that these activities were alto
gether the work of the Communist
party and not of the government and
that the Soviet commissars were not
responsible for the activities of the
party. This pretense has never b en-
believed. 1t remains to be seen whether
now it will be repeated If and when
thu government at Moscow is accused
of maintaining pernicious propaganda
in foreign lands.
This is not merely an academic ques-
ton. 1t relates to the matter of recog-
milton of the Russian government by
the United States. Stains acton in
securing the oust,r CT Rykof and
Tomsky and the prospective removal of
Bucharin, whose official head will soon
fall into the basket, stands as en-
avowal OF the interlocking directorate
at Moscow which links up government
and party precisely as the United States
has maintained in its refusal to accept
the Bolshevik organization as a govern
ment in good standing in the family
of nations.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-22
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

ton of his own spirit, but also the ap-
plause of such critics as H L. Mencken.
To please Mencken, one must write
so-and-so, and do it thus-and-thuS.
Sinclair Lewis has succeeded both in
pleasing Mencken and the world.
Which success he himself considers the
greatest we do not know.
x. x X
Lewis literary father, the French
man. Emile lola, also was held to be
a porSrayer CT LIES ugliness, but in
essence he pictured decency, too, if by
no other method than contrast.
His glory, as realist, was that whlie
he put uglineSs and cruelty into WORDS
he also made the reader feel the dill
ference, not by purposeful intent, per
haps, but simply through comparison.
1t will be discovered by the average
reader that such work as "L'Assom-
moir." with it's word-by-word account
Of the havoc wrought by strong drink,
contains aspects of beauty.
1t is a beauty of both foreground ana
background, brought about because even
the ugliness is seen to contain certain
aspects of goodness and decency.
The character of the woman, Ger
vaise, the crippled heroine, if the BOOK
can be said to have such, is one OF m
finite pity, for she might have been
better and made more OF life unoef
different circumstances.
Zola knew this, and he manages 10
make his readers feel it. For the sake
of a study in writing methods, every
admirer of Sinclair Lewis ought to go
back and read Zolas Mana" IL AS
sommoir" and "Germinal."
These are foundation stones in the
mighty fabric of the modern novel.
Their realism seems pale today, IN con-
trast with that of some Of their sue
cessors. or imitators But zola's DOCKS
do give one the feeling of having
known real people, of having been
present at real scenes. And out 81
reality never comes ugliness as total,
celebrating effect, not if one has de-
cency OF mind and heart in the view
ing. Out of it also comes some beauty,
some decency, some loneliness.
X X
Artists and etchers in the city Of
Chicago" DR.. Lyman tells us, can go
down on avenues where street cars
jangle and rumble, with ugliness all
around, and can find things of beauty
that the average eye cannot see. They
can. portray. ugliness as Just dim
background"
That, we submit, is just the trouble
with etchers. They do that very thing,
but how do they do it? BY playing
up" some one feature and falling to
note the rest.
Much art" is similarly false to life.
Who has not seen an architects draw
ing of a home, with all lines softened
by the device of actually leaving cut a
bit of side wall or the sides of bricks?
When the home is finally completed,
and its photograph compared with the
drawing, it will be discovered to be
somewhat, and sometimes entirely, diff
ferent.
The glory Of art in words, such as
the novel, is that it does not sacrifice
truth to an enthusiastic yearning for
beauty. 1t does not-at least the works
Of Lewis and lola do not-depict a
beggar child as a faint background" or
even possessing aspects of glory, but
simply as a poor little one who needs
new shoes and something to eat
Which art" is the best? And which
is nearer the truth?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-22
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

bit of change for Christmas presents.
The lad said he'd been reading about
Mr.. Hoover's efforts to find jobs for
people" and thought he'd go after one
in person.
Two names trimming with signifi-
canoe graced the White House list of
guests at the recent presidential dinner
to Vice President Curtis-William
Green, president of the American Fed
Grafton Of Labor, and Mrs. George H.
Strawbridge of Philadelphia. Green's
presence means, of course, that the
Ratchet has been buried between the
astute A. F. of L. chieftain and Mr..
Hoover They were perilously near a
real fall-out last month when Hoover
named Doak Secretary of Labor in the
teeth of Green's protest, and largely be-
cause Of it. Probably when the men
folks, after dinner, retired to the Presi-
dents study for cigars and talk, Green
disclosed the pending plans TO affiliate
the Federation of Labor with the rail
brotherhoods. Mrs. Strawbridge is the
energetic Quaker lady who is crIIsading
to bring the social leaders of the coun-
try into line for prohibition observance.
That Mr.. and Mrs. Hoover thoroughly
approve of her crusade, Mrs. Straw
bridges appearance at the White House
table amply demonstrates.
\
Senator Henrik Shipstead, Farmer
Labor, of Minnesota, has, more or less
unnoticed. done his first stuff as Mr..
Balance of Power. 1t was his vote
which broke the tie in Senator Borah's
Foreign Relations Committee on De-
cember II and, by making the roll call
10 to 8, sent the World Court protocol
to the pigeonhole until December, 1881.
There were votes for postponement
and 9 against it. Shipstead's aye in
favor of the Reed delay motion put it
over.
X
julius RosenWald of Chicago, mail
order king and philanthropist, told
Washington friend he's thinking of en-
downing a tomb for Wall Streets I'm
known Solvent"
Copyright. 1900