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The Washington times., 1930-06-30
.WHEATP0SITI0N
HAS LITTLE TO
|. COMMEND It
Lowest Prices Reached Last
Week in Sixteen Years;
Experts Frankly Worried
BY SAUL LEHRER

Wheat prices this week sank 10
the lowest levels in is years.
With the grain at this figure
the farmer receives about 10 cents
q bushel for his product. to- re.
pay him for his labor and other
expenses involved in raising it,
The weakness in the wheat
market Is due to a surplus Of the
commodity all over the world. A
large carry over from last years
crop aggravates the situation.
The decline has been helped
along by a sharply falling stock
market. But with the season ad-
vancing to q point where harvest
ing will soon begin, traders will
divorce the stock market from
their calculations and devote
their attention to such factors as
deal solely with wheat.
More Wheat Coming
The most important fact with
which, the grain market has to
contend with Is how much wheat
is there. There is too much al
ready, with more coming. Can
ada has steadily increased her
wheat-groWing area by means Of
the Marquis wheat. This type Of
grain by virtue Of its quick grow
ing quality. has enabled the Do
minion to expand its grain rails.
ing activities into the Northwest,
an area heretofore unSuited to
this product.
Russia, after several years Of
inactivity. has again come back
as a premier producer and is
exporting her surplus into Eu-
ropean markets. Australia has
increased her production in ex-
cess of 81 per cent through the
use Of Federation wheat, a type
similar to that raised in Canada.
The Argentine since 1918 has
raised her production 80 per cent.
thereby adding to a commodity
with which the world is already
glutted.
Less Wheat Consumed
The why's and wherefores of
overproduction are interesting as
they bring into view factors which
seem unimportant when observed
casually. With the situation as
bad as it is today, however. every
detail must be viewed to see
whether or not it can be turned
toward the solution of the prob
lem. To some extent the Situa-
ton is caused not only because
more wheat is being grown but
that less is being consumed.
The displacement of the horse
and the mule on the farm ana m
the city by the tractor and tie
automobile has deprived the
farmer of an outlet nevertheless
The propaganda in favor of vege.
tables and vitanins and the diet
fads are among the reasons for
the Is per cent decline in the
consumption of bread in the
United States alone.
Furthermore as the monthly
publication of the Central Bank
of Chile point out. THE rational
ization of industry and the in.
creasing mechanization through.
out the world mean the gradual
disappearance of heavy labor
The workman is becoming a ma,
chine minder. Consequently the
amount Of food necessary for
each workman is diminishing"
Depression q Factor
8. The depression Of prices now
current throughout the. world
must not be lost sight Of. When
men are unemployed and wages
are reduced there is always an
accompanying drop in the amount
and quality of the food eaten.
The fall in price of silver has
seriously reduced the ability of
people In China, Mexico and In.
dia to, buy the bare necessities Of
life. -
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lacking such expansion, also have
reported fair increase OF sales.
Lifting of pressure on General
Electric and Westinghouse Is due
to belief among professional
SPECTATORS that these issues have
been thoroughly lduidated.
Vanadiufn's g Market Action
On every rally in the market,
Vanadium moves ahead briskly,
and the shorts fall over each
other in their stampede to cover.
No doubt, there is large short
interest in the stock, which had
q sensational rise to 143A before
the liquidation began q few
weeks ago. Now, with the stock
down to 762s it is practically i'm
possible to borrow 100 shares of
the stock, which tends to dis
courage the most courageous
short seller. And sustained rally
is likely to bring sharp rise in
this issue, and I have no hesi-
fancy in recommending its pur-
chase under 30.
Sponsors of Electric Power and
Light have been giving the stock
excellent support on declines, and
accommodating it on rallies. Its
gain of Z points Saturday was q
fair indication of the good buy.
ing and the. nervousness Of the
shorts.
American Can Prospects
When a sustained recovery
comes into the market, it is a
safe bet that American Can will
be one of the most prominent
leaders. It is difficult to ac-
count for the decline Of this
issue from its 1890 high of 1864
to its low of 108. It closed Sat
,urday at HAN, fractional gain
on the day. There are few COM
panies in any. industries that
have better prospects for this
year than American Can. AS I
haze stated before, the fruit and
vegetable. growers of the Pacific
Coast are practically certain to
have on the best years in his
tory. There will be an enormous
demand for metal containers, and
the chief benefit of this demand
will accrue to American Can and
Continental Can. the two really
important companies In this field.
It is likely that American Cans
earnings for 1880 will approx
mate closely its profits Of last
year. A veteran trader remarked
last week that anyone who sells
Can short around present prices
has. more nerve than brains. And
] agree.
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Dullness Ahead

At the end Of Saturdays record
dull session, in which only SS7,59O
shares were traded in. most brok'
ers and leading operators were
inclined to believe that the long
anticipated. dull summer period
had arrived and that commission
houses would do little business
until the first Of September. It
was the quietest Saturday since
Jdly, 1928.
Bendix Aviation should do bet
ter in view Of the report that
the company probably will earn
its second quarter dividend in the
face Of general depression in the
aut0motive and aircraft indus
tries.
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u. S. Firm, Will Make
Tires in ArgettiHre

ARKON, o.. June sS uNS.,)-
Construction of tire factory at
Buenos Aires. Argentine, by the
Firestone Tire. and Rubber Com
pany, will be started Tuesday, ac-
cording to an announcement Of
company officials.
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Indiana Pipe
Western Pacific. :

Western Pacific Railroad Com
pany had net an operating deficit
for May Of $1T9 100 against net
income Of $82.7O5 in May. 1929.
For the five months ended May
81 there was q net operating de,
ficit Of $5T9 ,S96 against a sur
plus Of $625,5O5 IN the CORE
spondinG 1929 period.
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NEWS
In Todays
CLASSIFIED ADS


An ATTRACTIVE used-car bargain.
REQ wolverine BrOughanl. Late
l9s7 model: $500: terms or trade-lh
accepted.
APARTMENT FOR RENT - East
Capitol street: first floor; one room,
kitchehettef and bath; FrigldaiTep
facing street; reasonable.
HOME FOR SALE--SeatOn Pl. NJ
I "A, sIx rooms and bath: brick; all
modern improvements; valued at
$500; assessed at $500; for quick
sale win accept $1,000; cash, e1.6OO;
call owner Tor details after p. m.
FURNISHED ROOAE-Thirteenth st,
near Massachusetts, Ave-; nice light
and cool front room; newly fur
nished; $3.50 per week and mp; eon-s
tInu0us hot-water heat.
H0MR FOB THE AGED--A real
home: nurses IN attendance; -',Id
people, lnvaIIds. coBvalescents; rea-
sOnRble.
APARTMENT FOR RENT--CieOrgia
Avenues; tE8 large, clean rooms q
bath and ranges $3.50.
These are "siaeishts'' on some - 3aay
nferestiR1 ddpeyttSeBe sRts you tbiH find IN
GdaVS Times and Herald Classified Ads.
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aSG i've years

The only decrease in Federal
expenditures In the last decade
was in 1925, when they were cut
$3.50, 100000 from the previous
year, with war burdens tightening.
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Directors of the Sharon Steel
Hoop Company today halved the
dividend by declaring q quarterly
dividend Of 25 cents . share on.
the common stock placing the
issue on q 81 annual basis
against the 81 previously. paid.
The dividend is payable July IS
to holders of record July 5
Directors of the company de-
clared that the company is in a
storing financial condition and
has in the treasury large amounts
OF cash and securities bought in
the open market during the last
few months.
~ Pittsburgh Steel
Directors of the Pittsburgh
Steel Foundry Company today
declared the usual extra dividend
Of. as, cents q share in addition to
the regular quarterly dividend of
IS cents. payable July Is to hold
ers of record July Z.
Indiana Pipe
Indiana Pipe Line Company to-
day declared the usual extra divi-
dend Of IS cents a share In ad-
dition to the regular quarterly
dividend Of so cents payable
August is to holders Of record
July as.
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store Sales Increase

For the last three business
DAYS. we have been hearing more
cheerful news than has come in
for several months. The latest
important development in this
direction is the announcement
that In the first five months OF
1880, sales of mail order and
chain stores gained about $50
per cent ever sales Of the first
five months Of 1929, the most
prosperous year of all times. A
Z per cent decrease was recorded
in March, but substantial gains
were experienced In each Of the
other four. months. May sales
were Al per cent larger than
those Of May. 1929.
Expansion of store chains is
largely responsible for the gains.
although old established stores,
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Weakness in Timken


The bears devoted plenty Of at
teniotn to Timken Roller Bearing
Saturday, hanlmering 1t down to
q new low at 572s on expectation
Of poor business during the sum.
rner months. Before the autumn
collapse, Tin1ken seemed to be in
excellent position. with its de-
n1and from both automobile and
railway sources, but the business
depression has resulted sin esti-
mated that earnings for this year
win Be only slightly more than
So q share. compared with $6.l9
Q share last year:
JOhnS-N Ganville registered new
1880 low Saturday. If there Is
no pickup in residential building
soon, this issue is likely to estab-
lish lower bottom.
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, APARTMENT FOR sRENT--CieOrgia
Avenues. tws large, clean rooms /.
bath and raHEes $3.50.
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These are ''siaeti1hts" on some ~ RaRy
interesting ddueyttSeBs eRts you UHt find N
tCdGVs Times and Herald Classified Ads,
The Washington times., 1930-06-30

'Ex Dividend. dEx-riEhts 70 per
extra.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1930-10-01

ings or apartments as blinds for speak
easy purposes. Such cooperation, however,
has not been manifest in certain sections
of the country notably New England and
New York
The government has helped bring the
real estate men around to its way of
thinking by making special provisions to
meet their cases. 1t has been customary
for the owners of buildings to deny that
they knew their property was being used
for the illegal sale of liquor. Now plan
has been worked out by which federal
agents notify owners when their tenants
are under suspicion. If a subsequent raid
proves that the property was being used
as a speakeasy, the owner who has been
previously warned cannot come into court
and claim that he had no knowledge the
law was being violated.
In the larger cities where estates are
handled by agents, the actual owners are
undoubtedly unaware in many cases that
their property is being used for unlawful
purposes. 1t is necessary, therefore, to in
clude the agent or representative of own
ers, who have first-hand information of
conditions, as a party to the crime when
misuse is discovered.
1t is readily apparent that powerful
instrument for combating speakeasies
lies in the hands of property owners, but
that the conscience of property owners
has not been particularly keen in this re-
Spect and that the federal agents have
not welded the instrument very effec-
lively is evident from the continued num-
Der of speakeasies which may be found in
leased property.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1930-10-01
DO YOU KNOW 3?

the law not generally violated than the traffic and
tax
open, andar no products of prohibit
foem of prohb more
prospective
shon hquorsan an leads to drunken
to be
a
n any n
- on n
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1930-10-01
REALTY HELPS PROHIBITION
Owners Fear Paddock

Just before the transfer of the pro-
hibition unit from the treasury de-
partment to the department of JUS
tice, the treasury department issued
pamphlet which reveals the fact that
on account of the padlocking provi-
sion in the Volstead law and because
also of the help which prohibition has
already been to the real estate market
in furnishing additional numbers Of
home buyers who have saved their
money instead of spending it for LID
uor, real estate owners and agents will
become an effective aid in the en-
forcement of the prohibition laws. We
reproduce the following from the
Freeport Revietu New York; of recent
date:
The padlocking of bootleg retail sales
places during the past few years has re-
suited in much loss Of revenue on the part
of property owners, whose buildings re-
manned closed and without tenant for
months at time in some instances.
AS a precaution against this, real estate
men, through the real estate boards in
many large communities, are now incor-
porating in all leases made with tenants
a provision that premises shall not be used
to violate the prohibition laws, and that
evidence of violation will result in i'm
mediate cancellation of the lease.
The cooperation of real estate boards is
admitted to have been forceful deterrent
during the last year in effecting the elm
ination of retail liquor dealers using dwell
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1930-10-01
VETS LIBELING COLLEGE
STUDENTS

According to the Buffalo New York;
NelUS, educators and women connected
with the Young Women's Christian Asso-
citation recently completed the committee
Of fifty who have given their names as
endorsers of prohibition and of the pro-
gram of the Citizens Committee for Law
Enforcement"
One of the leading women connected
with this committee of fifty is Mrs. Justus
Egbert, president of the Buffalo branch of
the American Association of University
Women. According to the Buffalo Ne10s,
Mrs. Egbert declared that America is de-
veloping thinkers, not drinkers. To those
of us who are interested in the young peo-
pie of college age the prohibition question
can have but one answer: We want pro-
hibition and we want it to prohibit.
zone of the byproducts that especially
interests us is that the annual enrolment
in colleges has tripled in ten years. There
were about $4,000 students in our colleges
in 1920. There are 100000 now and there
are 100000 more students in our high
schools than there were ten years ago.
Neither are we as totally discouraged
about drinking in the colleges as we are
intended to be because we know better.
Straw votes taken by irresponsible student
groups in about eight Eastern colleges
seem to indicate degree of drinking
which is regrettable if true but there are
498 major colleges in this broad land Of
ours. What about the other 400 colleges?
Let us hear from them! We have indeed
heard from them and we know that con-
ditions are infinitely improved over the
old days-'drinking reduced to mini
num- is negligible is not problem &C
cording to people qualified to speak ac-
curately and dispassionately on the sub
ject."
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BOOZE AND THE ART OF
CONVERSATION

The new Catholic bishop of Dubuque,
Iowa, Francis J. L. Bechman, is quoted as
follows in the NeiD York Times:
Prohibition has killed sociability and
has made real conversation lost art"
Something has gone wrong somewhere
in the news columns, for the matrons in
the list of the 400 are continually telling
us about the increased drinking in this
society group and the wet newspapers say
the same about society and trade ban
quets and college and university fraternity
life Of course, we must admit what every
body knows that little alcohol starts the
tongues to wagging but if liquor be plen-
tiful as ever why the complaint from the
good archbishop?
One editor suggests eff sociability de-
ponds upon liquor let's begin to serve it in
the church parlors, in the school play
grounds, at all athletic contests, let col
leges and universities advertise their So
cial drinking bouts, let intoxicants be
added to the menus of all church suppers
and let us announce that alcohol is to be-
come the inspiration of all the social life
of the nation"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1930-10-01
In BAD COMPANY
Prominent Southern Democrat Says
That Southern Democracy Will
Have Nothing to do With
the Banner Inscribed
Roosevelt, Raskob
and Rum"

The NelU York HerdLd-TTibnne on Sep
tember 10 carried q United Press dispatch
from Wilmington, North Carolina. which
bodies i'll for the presidential aspirations
of our New York governor, Franklin D.
Roosevelt Referring TO the recent letter
of Governor Roosevelt to Senator Wagner.
in which he calls for the repeal Of pro
hibition DR.. Arthur J. Barton, pastor OF
the Temple Baptist church at Whining
ton North Carolina, who rendered no
small service in the southern campaign
against Governor Smith in 1928. Is quoted
as follows in the dispatch referred to
above:
There is nothing new in Governor
Roosevelt's statement Everybody knows
he is a dripping vet. D.. = the last
paign he underworld Governor
Smiths campaign from end TO end and
belabored prohibition as the source OF all
manner of evil and crime.
Nobody supposed for moment that
he had change of heart.
HE and Mr.. Raskob are much mistaken
if they think dry Democrats of the South
will follow them in their efforts to de-
liver the country from the "damnable al
fiction of prohibition.
Southern Democrats will not march
under banner inscribed Roosevelt, Ras-
kob and Rum.
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CANADA AND LIQUOR

The population of the seven wet prov
inces of Canada is 9,147,500, or about one
and one-half times the population of Ohio.
In these provinces during 1928-9 the liquor
sold amounted to $780,, COB. Of the
5,152 liquor making and liquor-selling
agencies, only STA are owned and operated
by the government, and 4,578 are privately
owned.
The net debt of Canada last year was
$2,215 504, 705, and Ben Spence, the well
known dry leader of Canada, figures thai
the annual payment of the liquor bill al
five per cent for eighteen years would
obliteratc Canadas huge debt.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1930-10-01
LIQUOR AN ISSUE IN PENN
SYLVANIA

The Democratic party~of Pennsylvania
has declared for the repeal of the Snyder
Armstrong law. the Volstead act and the
Eighteenth Amendment. The repeal OF the
Snyder-Armstrong law would place the
whole burden of prohibition enforcement
upon the federal government
The Republican party has no prohibit
ton plank in its platform.
The principal contest in the state is
centered on the gubernatorial candidates.
The Democratic candidate is John H.
Hemphill, who is campaigning on re-
peal platform. The Republican candidate
is former Governor Clifford Pinchot. Gov
ernor Pinchot stands foursquare for pro-
hibition and its enforcement
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1930-10-01
GOVERNMENT CONTROL WHISKY IN ACTION

none-will cause an investigation of
the police power of Canada from coast
to coast.
"I predict that it will crystalline the
voting power of the provinces into
body that will toll the death knell Of
the Canadian liquor traffic.
mo, civilization is not falling down,
and this lamentable deed must not be
charged to anything but to brain
crazed or made irresponsible by liq-
uor."
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1930-10-01
LONG TIME AGO
But the Fight was Against the
Saloon and the Liquor Traffic

Saloon and the Liquor Traffic
The tearing down of an old school house
in Plymouth, Connecticut built in 1881,
has disclosed the attitude of the citizens
of the town at that time toward prohibi-
ton. In the cornerstone of the structure
was found a copy of the Waterbury Amer
lean of August 5, 1881, which indicates
that local ordinance had been passed by
Plymouth, outlawing liquor, with the fol-
lowing editorial comment:
We have parted with our last rum
shop and it Is continual source of
joy to all of us The quiet and COM
fort of living in town free from rum
seems more like heaven than any,
think we expected in this life. There
is no reason why we should not raise
up young men who would take a good
position in the world and be worthy
of it Certainly one great source Of
danger is removed from our midst.
If this good state of Connecticut
could be as well rid of rum as Ply
mouth is, what host of worthy young
men would be saved to the worldl
Capable and good men are as good
production as brass, iron, wooden and
cotton goods.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1930-10-01
BLINDPIGGER HELD LIABLE

A Cleveland (Ohio) judge has ruled that
speakeasy proprietors must share the re-
sponsibility for the actions of their pa
irons The other day a customer in q
Cleveland speakeasy got drunk, and tried
to kiss man who was in the place, and
when the man resented being kissed, the
customer hit him with brick. The two
proprietors were made co-defendants with
the thrower of the brick, and the judge
fined the two proprietors $1,000. The case
against the brick HEAVIER will be heard
later.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1930-10-01

A tragic incident, which, character
istically enough, received but Scant
notice in the newspapers of this coun-
try, occurred recently near Dauphin,
Manitoba. Mrs. Sophie Light, the 20
year-old wife of E. j. Light, of Ipswich,
South Dakota, organizer of the Can
ada TO Panama Cana Association,
was shot to death by constable OF
the Royal Canadian Mounted Police,
September l.
Mrs. Light was accompanying her
husband on publicity tour which had
brought them to an interprovincia1
picnic held in the ASsiniboine valley.
The officer shot Mrs. Light without
provocation as she waited near her
automobile for her husband, who was
taking moving pictures OF the crowd
short distance away.
The coroner's jury at Dauphin re-
turned the following verdict:
Sophie Light came to her death as
the result of wounds caused by bull
let fired by revolver in the hands OF
Constable John w. Pirt, of the R. G.
M. P. of Yorktown, Sask., while under
the influence of liquor"
Eyewitnesses to the tragedy testified
that the officer was intoxicated at the
time of the shooting. Sergeant Rem
tom, who arrested the mountie, stated
that Pirt was "hopelessly drunk"
wv. Parmley, of Ipswich, South Da-
kota, president of the Canada-to-Ca-
nal-Highway Association, issued the
following statement, September 6:
whisky and whisky alone was re-
sponsible for the death of Mrs. Light.
A mounted police redcoat of SaSkatch-
evan. at greater interprovincial
gathering on the Manitoba side of the
line where were present prime minis
tiers and other high officials of Canada
and the United States, without provo
cation, while intoxicated, shot to death
an American citizen lawfully there on
a peaceful mission of friendship and
good will.
"He was a member Of the body that
is the highest ideal of Canadian law,
order and efficiency. Whisky, whether
sold under government authority and
agency or by a law5reaker, works the
same result.
1T predict that this tragedy regret
ted by all Canadians and condoned by
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1930-10-01
DICTIONARIES

The Pennsylvania Legionnaires in their
recent annual convention in Harrisburg
refused to include in their resolutions
declaration against prohibition as advo-
Gated by the Philadelphia and Pittsburgh
delegations.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1930-10-01

The politician or candidate has his
troubles when he sets out to satisfy both
vets and drys
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1930-10-01

Not only vote for dry candidates for Of
flee, but see to it that your dry friends
and neighbors cast their ballots