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The Washington times., 1930-05-29
Gas Output Gains
In Southern Cities

CHICAGO, May 28.-Produc-
ing units of Southern Cities
Public Service Company increased
their gas output 171.248,544 cubic
feet or S.42 per cent in the first
four months Of 1880 over the
same period of 1929.
Southern Cities properties in
the four months ended April 30,
this year produced 2,205,136 383
cubic feet of gas compared with
2,O3S ,887 ,839 in the first four
months of 1929. April gas pro-
duction, however, showed a slight
decrease, totaling 442,396.327
cubic feet this year against A45,-
1928 cubic feet in April of last
year.
The Washington times., 1930-05-29
Sinclair Pipe Line
To Be Finished Soon

The 10-inch pipe line which Sin
clair Pipe Line Company is build
ing between its Payson Pumping
Station on its main north and
south pipe line and the Oklahoma
City field, a distance of approx
mately 36 miles, will be complete
about June / at a cost of about
100000.
The company already has in
operation between these two
points an 8-inch line. After the
completion of the new line the
company will have a capacity Of
$4,000 to 10000 barrels a day out
of the Oklahoma City pool.
The Washington times., 1930-05-29
Seattle Firm GiUen
Arnuu Planes AWdrd

The Navy Department yester-
day awarded to the Boeing Air
plane Company of Seattle, Wash,
a contract for q new fighting
planes to cost approximately
$406,000.
The planes, single seaters with
giant Pratt and Whitney wasp
engines, are of the fighter
bomber type, each capable Of
delivering attack either by ma
chine gun or small bombs. They
are extremely high speed.
The Washington times., 1930-05-29
Western Maryland
Earnings Hold Well

Earnings of the Western Mary
land railway for the first three
weeks Of May this year have run
very close to the total for the
corresponding weeks of last year.
figures made public by the road
yesterday show. The earnings
for the period were estimated at
$1,028.73827, as compared with
$1,000, ,859.07 for last year, a de-
crease Of only $2,120.80.
Income from miscellaneous
sources for the three weeks pc.
riod jumped 239 per cent. Freight
revenue from coal and coke also
also showed a small increase and
from milk hauling a jump of 10
per cent.
The Washington times., 1930-05-29
DEMAND
FEATURE IS
IN PIPE
Downward Price Trend Con-
tinues; Motor Car Needs
Higher, Study Reveals

'''Sf
NEW YORK, May 30. - Pipe
line demand is the conspicuously
active feature in an iron and steel
market characterized by sharp
contrasts, Iron Age will report to
morrow.
One large pipe maker is now
booked for the greater part Of the
year, and with others rapidly
building up their backlogs, utili-
ties are Fastening to enter orders,
in some cases placing tentative
contracts before the complete de-
tails of projects have been worked
out.
Auto Outlook Bright
Brisk business in reinforcing
bars, the prospect Of a contin
uance Of the present rate of auto
mobile production. fair outlook
in structural steel and sustained
activity among shipbuilders and
manufacturer of road machinery
are other encouraging factors.
Aggregate demand for iron and
steel, however, continues to sag
and ingot production for the
country at large has receded from
"a to 73 per cent Of capacity.
The Steel Corporation, because
of its diverSification, has succeed
ed in holding it's rate at 80 per
cent. Operations among indepen-
dents vary widely, with some
plants on a so per cent basis and
with at least one scheduled to
shut down entirely during the
first week in June.
Prices Still Weaken
The downward trend of prices
has not yet been halted. Heavy
smelling scrap is off Is cents O
ton at Pittsburgh, Chicago and st.
Louis, and so cents at Cleveland
and Philadelphia. Recent irreg
ularities in semifinished steel
have led to general reductions
BilletS, slabs and beet bars have
been marked down from $33 to
$31 a gross ton. Skelp is also
down So a ton to ITO cents q
pound. Tin mill black plate is
more freely available at 275 cents
Pittsburgh, q decline of 81 a toll
from late minimum quotations.
Small rivets have been re
duced per cent, the new dis,
count being 10. 10 and 5 off
Light plates and blue annealed
sheets are subject to more fire.
quent shading in certain mar
ketS.
The weeks pipe line awards in
clude an order for what is said
to be the longest natural gas
line ever to be laid, 1,250-mile
project from the Texas pan
handle to Indiana. It will be con
structed by the MisSouri-Kansas
Pipe Line Company, which has
placed the steel required with the
leading pipe maker.
Many Orders Placed
The Southwestern Natural Gas
Company has awarded lis miles
of Is and 18 inch gas pipe, 10000
tons, to the A. o. Smith Corpor
alton. The Barnsdall Corpora
ton is reported to have tenta.
lively ordered 800 miles Of 6-inch
pipe, while the Phillips Petroleum
Co. is understood to have placed
a provisional contract for $50
tons of 10-inch.
Motor car production is being
maintained and the expectation
is that May output will equal that
of April. June will show little
curtailment, according to present
indications, and may even regis
ter a slight gain, since large
schedules by manufacturers bring
ing out new models will tend to
offset possible reductions by the
Ford and Chevrolet companies.
The Iron Age composite prices
are unchanged, finished steel at
2214 cents a pound, and pig iron
at $17.58 a gross ton.
The Washington times., 1930-05-29
Todd Shipydrds Net
Equals S5.77 Share

Todd Shipyards Corporation
and subsidiaries report a net
profit for the year ended March
81 of $1,256,378 after depreciation,
Federal taxes, etc. This is equal
to $5.77 a share earned on 217,679
shares of no-par capital stock.
In the preceding year the com
pany reported a profit of $1,072,-
645 after charges. but before Fed.
eral taxes.
Directors have also declared the
regular quarterly dividends.
The Washington times., 1930-05-29
Warner Company
Votes 25-Cent Extra

The Warner Company has de,
clared an extra dividend Of 25
cents a share on the common
stock and the regular quarterly
dividend of SO cents share on
the common. Both dividends are
payable July Is, to stockholders
of record June 80.
Regular quarterly dividend Of
SITS a share on the first and
second preferred stock also were
declared. Both payable July /,
to stockholders of record Juae IA.
The Washington times., 1930-05-29
Grocery and Drug
Sales Hold Up Well

Sales Of groceries and drugs
by wholesale firms during April
remained at about the same
level as in April last year, ac-
cording to reports to the Fed
eral Reserve Board yesterday.
Sales of dry goods fell off II
per cent, however, while hard
ware sales dropped Is per cent.
For the first four months of
this year, groceries sales were in
the same volume as last year,
while drugs fell off 6 per cent,
hardware II per cent and dry
goods II per cent.
The Washington times., 1930-05-29
American Ice Net
Declines for April

Profit of the American Ice
Company and subsidiaries for the
month of April was $220,135 after
interest, but before Federal taxes
and depreciation. This compares
with $341,764 in April, 1929. For
the four months ended April 80
net earnings before taxes and
depreciation amounted to $780,
384, as compared with S679,771
for the same period of 1929.
The Washington times., 1930-05-29
Change Seat Value
EShOws $4,000 Rise

Arrangements have been made
for the sale of a New York Stock
Exchange seat for the sum OF
$468, 900, according to announce
ment made yesterday.
The price represents an In
crease of $4,000 over the last
previous sale.
The Washington times., 1930-05-29
u. s. Steel Plans
Coast Expansion

SAN FRANCISCO, May 90.
An expansion program for the
U. S. Steel Corporation on the
West Coast has been announced
here by James J. Farrell, presi-
dent. The plan includes a gen.
eral rounding out of holdings Of
Columbia Steel Company, which
was acquired by U. S. Steel last
November, and further develop
ment of other plants and proper
ties and mines in Utah.
Mr.. Farrell said a study is
now being made of public prop
critics.
The Washington times., 1930-05-29
Soft Coal Output
ShOUS Increase

From incomplete carloading re-
ports, the National Coal Associa-
ton estimates the production OF
bituminous coal during the week
ended May "a as slightly under
8,300,O00 net tons.
Following are the revised fig
ures issued by the Bureau OF
Mines: Week ended May 10,
8,285, 900 net tons; May IT,
8.l55 900 net tons.
The Washington times., 1930-05-29
No Revenue Reform
L1US-NO MOneY

CHICAGO, May 90 1.N.SJ.
City employees are today looking
forward eagerly to the passing Of
the revenue reform laws by the
State legislature before June 80.
II these laws are not passed by
then employees may as we'll pre-
pare once more to find pay en-
velopes without pay in them.
The Washington times., 1930-05-29
RELIANCE MFG. DIVIDEND

The Reliance Manufacturing
Company. of MasSillon, Ohio, has
declared the regular quarterly divi-
dend of 81 a share on it's common
stock. payable July l to stockhold-
ers Of record June Is.
The Washington times., 1930-05-29
LOCAL STOCKS

FURNISHED BY " 3. Hibbs Coz
SALES
Capital Traction IS. $1,000
95A, $1,oOO@s5, $2,0oo@e5, $500
@95.
Capital Traction Company, 40
065.
Potomac Electric 512s preferred,
5@1O71a.
District National Security pre-
ferred, 5@84.
Federal American common, 10
@31.
Lanston Monotype, 1O0125.
Mergenthaler Linotype, 100
101A, 1O@1O1A, 10@101B, 100
101A, 100 101A, 20@101A, 200
1O11A 2O0101A, 10@101H, 100
101A, 10@1O114, .1O@1013s.
The Carpet Corporation, 500
26A.
AFTER CALL
Washington Railway and Elec-
trio As, $1,0O0@87.
National Mortgage and Invest
ment preferred, 400@4l2.
Washington Railway and Elec
trio preferred, 10@9812.
Washington Gas IS A, $4,000
10212.
Mergenthaler Linotype, 100
1918.
Potomac Electri 512s preferred,
5@1071a.
The Washington times., 1930-05-29

A new flexible tariff clause,
vesting in President Hoover an
absolute power to raise or
lower tariff duties upon recon-.
mendation from the Tariff
Commission, was adopted today
by House and Senate tariff
cOnferees, as their reply to Vice
President Curtis action in hold
ing their first compromise IL
legal.
The new draft was reported
to the Senate by Senator SmOOt
(R.) of Utah, with an an
nOuncement that he would call
for action on it Monday.
AvoWing determination to en-
act the tariff bill before Congress
adiourns, House and Senate con
ferees resumed their arbitration
sessions today to eliminate for,
hidden portions" from the new
flexible tariff clause.
The original compromise, vest
ing in the United States Tariff
Commission the power of making
recommendations for specific rate
changes subject to the Presidents
approval or veto within so days
also gave the commission power to
The Washington times., 1930-01-14
MENTAL CANNIBALS
By Herbert Kaufman

sUuIEb--
II ATCH the gauge your think and make sure You re
running out of idea fuel You used notion yester
day What have you since done to replace it7
The foehanded forester plants two every time he
down one OAK And every man who expects to remain
in authority should restock his head he wthdraws
from its accumuations
The folk whose orders you are wary defending
their positions by studying the latest tactics and
marketing strategy And everybody in your
ambition to dislodge you.
You'll overtake your leaders, and you'll be pried
aside by assistant unless you decide faster strike
harder and plan better than either.
We're all less merciess members Of an insatate
wolf pack mainly motvated by expediency dashed TO
given goals by personal advantage.
Ideaism and sentmentaly may insist otherwise but the
weight of evidence aests that the law of survival still rules
in civilization well as jungle.
We have and hold little except through valid title To live
is to fight
The only difference between the battle property power
and bread waged the days and the present
there regulation Of foul play and the exploitation
mental and physical crippes
No man is secure who cannot stand his merits and his
record.
Progress is only benevolent its purely phlantropc func
tons. It has pity during office hours
The very individuals who later poured their weaths into
civic educational and social benefactons have consistently
been foremost exponents of code which promotes the efficient
and eliminates the unfit balance sheet advice
Nobody rich enough create universities build
hospitals and endow libraries by any other method
And any other philosophy would tend encourage assi
tude, incompetence and thriftessness
Nature herself has set the pattern for human nature All
purposes bent the perfection of specie The
types that don't enough for share Of the to push
their toward it, must always the penalty of tmidty
and half-hearted effort
There generosity in the Mathusian conception of
and results but there is incontestabe verify there
sturdest and the urdest units among such
invariably preempt prosperity and domination. The weaker
drift to the sidelines of action.
certain jobs do and won't delay them for
aggards It's valuable tme and the people who
get of their minutes may exact the most
for them.
Throughout the universe the harpes cry heard the call
for equipment for fundamentals and for wits to shorten
operations ampy the of substance and reduce
the piles dribbing from clock and machinery.
The degree your earnings must be beet by the tmeines
of your learning So reschool or retire.
Daily MirrorI Inc,
The Washington times., 1930-01-14
LISTEN WORLD!
We Should Be Proud
By Elsie Robinson

eyes. Never again so callouS as
before love taught us pain.
Love found us common, but it
left us great. 1t left us richer,
even though it broke our hearts.
But hearts are never really
useful till they break. I'm
broken hearts hold such a
little room they are too
dark and cramped until their
walls go down. Then. only. has
love space to spread its wings.
Do not, cry Life is over"
Life has just begun. Until now
you have lived like a small
child who finds content within
its box of toys. Now you are
grown ready for wider
life " " ready to put aside
the little toys of self. Now
you can love all lives where
once you loved but one "
and understand all grief and
loneliness and need. And. from
your hard-won wisdom. find a
way to heal.
And by that healing you will
heal yourself. And only through
that healing can your own
wounds be healed. Tears do
not heal nor brooding
over grief kissing old
letters clutching a tiny
shoe sobbing and beat
ing air with frenzied hands.
These things leave life hallow
as it was before, Only love
heals the hurt that love can
give. Only more love can fill
loves empty place.
So-Love! Choke back your
tears and smile! Spread out
warm. friendly arms to all the
world! If love was worth the
having, prove it now! Walk
proudly in its living memory!
The Washington times., 1930-01-14
The knowledge Test for
Readers of The Times

Fill in each blank
l. Antonio stradivarus the greatest
makers of all time.
2. Opium is the dried Juice of the
8. Blarney is another for
T. y! tear the - when they bring gifts.'-Virgil
5. A boa aconstrictor is a large
Do you know:
Why straodonAvon England visited by tourists from
all the world?
7. Who was the President the Confederacy?
g. What poet said: ~
BLOW, blow, thou winter wind;
Thou art so unknd
AS mans ingrattude?"
9. How many pins to a gallon?
10. What is card with two spots called?
II. On what coast Of Cuba is Havana?
IL. What does the expression Hotel Dieu" mean
3 With what country do you connect the Bolivar?
II. When does Labor Day Gomez
Is In what play by Shakespeare does Macdun appearP
Aaewsa q EisEisa Easel
The Washington times., 1930-01-14
THE MARRY
GO-ROUND
BY Helen Rowland

LOve-in the Modern Manner
A MAN may run from dan
"A ger-but nothing bores him
SO much as game or woman
that is perfectly safe.
Nearly everything one does Is
a gesture" these days-from
wearing a monocle to shooting
your husband.
Some men step out of their
responsibilities as carelcSSly as
they step out of their shoes
and just leave them around for
a woman to pick up after them.
Where is the husband who
used to have brain-storm be-
cause his dear little wife
WOULD insist on washing his
"horrid pipe? He is probably
rummaging through his wife's
desk, to see if he can borrow
one of her cigarettes, till she
gets back from the bridge club.
The kind of love that can't
survive a few diSappointments
and shattered illusions is too
flimsy to stand the wear and
tear of matripony,
To a woman a love-affair is
like mystery story, she always
wants to see how it is going
to turn out" But a man is
usually satisfied to give all his
attention to the current chap
ter. the current emotion-and
the current kiss.
It is always the skilled swim
mer who is eventually drowned,
and the man who has gracefully
escaped from so many love af-
fairs that he thinks he bears
a charmed life, is usually the
one for whom Fate is preparing
the next breach-of- promise suit.
The kiss was probably in
vented by the first man, as a
labor-Saving device for ending
an argument or filling in a con-
VerSational pause.
Every breach-of-promise suit
is another nail in the coffin Of
masculine chivalry. When
lovely woman StoopS to law
suits, and seeks to make her
sWeetie pay-She changes heart
beats into dollars, and washes
all her charm away.
The Washington times., 1930-01-14

II COULDN'T bear to face the
= holidays with my darling
gone" she writes. II couldn't
bear to see other people hap
py " it makes me feel so
bankrupt"
So many crying that this year
" every year. But we should
be proud. we who have loved
- proud even if we've lost.
We should be happier than
other folk, stronger and steadier.
and more generous like
that old proverb which says NO
blesse oblige." For love has made
us noble. Love is a kingly ser
vice and grief it's accolade.
We should not act as if we
had been robbed. We feel we
have been robbed because our
CAAOASAAO "a 4OFC Web0' d44 dWIy.
We never owned that dear life
that has gone. It was no more
our own than are the flowers of
spring; the far, white stars; the
lonely, rowing winds. Like these
it was a part of everlasting
Beauty and immortal Life. It
was not ours.
We were its partners
but it came filled us for a
while with song. And then it
went. and left us to go on alone.
But we should not go bitter, en-
vying other Joy " as though
regretting the great price we
paid. No matter what it costs,
loves worth the price.
For loves the greatest Won
der that can happen to a life.
Never again will we, who've
loved, be quite the same. Never
again so selfish as before love
shared our hearts. Never again
so stupid as before love lit our
The Washington times., 1930-01-14
staggered Hours" For Street
Railways Again BObs Up
1t Would Stagger and Demoralize the Domestic Life
OF All Washington

THE old ghost of staggered hours for opening and
closing Government departments and bureaus in Wash
ington again makes its appearance
President Hoover has submitted to heads of Government
for consideration that the matter be taken
lup at some future Cabinet meeting if advisable.
The agger proposition frankly admitted to be for the
benefit of street railways and bus lines Their burdens
lin handling the terrific rush during morning and afternoon
hours will increase when the downtown Government
buildings come into
The tremendous burdens that imposed on the
houskepers of the city, and the widespread changes in the
domestic life Of the whole town. must also be considered
seriously considered too
Back in days the staggered hours proposition in
CURED the opposition of practically all Government
i'm Washington and it this strong opposition pre-
vented the scheme being officially favored permanent
thing.
There was some adjustment of hours to help the railways
however Our merchants for opened their places of
business at o'clock in the morning the hours Gov
ernment places To relieve transit congestion the majority
OF business men changed their opening hours to 915.
Downtown congestion going to be serious within few
years. but the Government will be partly responsible because
plans have been made to handle automobiles The Govern
ment has been threatening make things by closing
Thirteenth Street below Pennsylvania Avenue
So far the street railways bus lines are concerned
the shift in working population south of Pennsylvania Ave
nue. will not for long time increase the total number OF
passengers to be hauled It will require rearrangement of
to accommodate the shift from one part Of the city
to another.
lines essential This merger would enable rerouting of
take of important changes in the passenger field
There are many opportunities to do this.
Another point is that the street railways complain
steady falling off in passengers and loss in
Two years ago the street railway lines able
take of much larger traffic than they have ThS
made schedules and got Government workers down during
the o'clock rush They certainly ought be able to take
of any increase in any given section of the city
1t is a rather nOUel idea that the domestic life
and habits of city should be completely disar-
ranged for the benefit of public utilities especially
uvhere this upsctthng of normal lUays might be
AVOIDED by Wise cooperation the part of GOU-
crnnent and District officials Nth transit lines in
trying care for doUOntOtUn in other O0ys.
Why not a referendum, Uernment work
| ers this subject together u suggestions from
them that might help to sOlUe the congestion
problem?
The Washington times., 1930-01-14
WISE SAYINGS

And it is a common , saying
that 1t is first better I'd catch
the stag, and afterwards. when
he has been caught, to skin
him. -Rrackton,
Genius is the introduction of
a new element into the intel
lectual universe.
Wordsworth.
1t Is the cause and not the
death, that makes the martyr.
NAPOLEON.
Simplicity is an exact med
ium between too little and too
much. Reynolds.
They that on glorious ancestors
enlarge.
Produce their debt instead Of
their discharge.
-YeunR.
The Washington times., 1930-01-14
SECRETS OF
HEALTH
BY Dr.. Louis e. Risch-

TO hear some people talk one
u would think that the inStitu-
ton of marriage is done for
ever.
Marriages are decreasing in
frequency. yes. But whether
this will continue remains to
be seen. Men and women are
marrying at older ages than
they used to.
Economic conditions have, of
course. a lot to do with it,
but often a man or woman,
even if financially able to
marry. wonders If age is i'm
portant and what is the best
time to marry.
At the outset 1t may be
stated that marriage should
never be deferred too long.
Habits should have been al
ready we'll formed before mar
riage, but if we wait too long
habits become fixed and un.
changeable and that invariably
leads to discord.
Happy marriage means mu.
tual give and take.
Never marry if you're not
prepared to play the game &C.
cording to this cardinal rule!
Remember that no single
man or woman can marry and
remain the same. No matter
how deep their love, no mat
ter how great the mutual un.
derstanding, happiness is bound
to go by the board If tolerance
is not and cannot be practiced
on both sides.
Scientists say that 25 is an
ideal age for marriage. The
body is moulded by then-also
the mind.
Both men and women should
know something of the world
before they settle down to the
stern business of marital re.
SponsibilitieS.
BY this statement I am not
Implying the deSirability of
riotous, licentious behavior.
l merely wish to emphasize
the enrichment to be gained
from a wide acquaintance with
people. in studying various
types OF character. in Compar.
ing ones own emotions with
others. under diversified condi-
tions.
Furthermore, before mar.
r1age one ought first to develop
selt-control. One should also
nave softened ones own pre-
judices.
In short, marry only when
you have crystallized within
yourself a definite viewpoint
when you know what you really
want and are seeking in life
all gained through the lessons
OF a broad and enriching ex
perience.
Love is not the only criterion
for marriage!
In fact, to marry when only
In love may lead to disaster.
Invariably, the hectic love OF
courtship fades and gives way
as it should, to mutual com
panionShip, help and under
standing. But unless love be
based upon something more
solid than fascination and sex
appeal, these latter qualities
that cement marriage together
and make 1t lasting may ueveI
develop,
The Washington times., 1930-01-14

THE old ghost of staggered hours for opening an
/ closing Government departments and bureaus in Wash