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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-29
GRAPE PLANT is RAlDED
Two Held with Liquid and Bottles
on warrant signed by o'NeiIl.

NEW YORK, October 10 [El.-Four
prohibition agents, with . search war
rant signed by United States Commits
sioner Francis A. O'Neill, Tuesday
raided the premises of the Melo-Vino
Co. and arrested David Levine. mana
ger, and Jacob Kohler. an assistant. A
quantity OF liquid grape concentrate In
bottles was seized
Levine and Kohler we're charged with
possession and sale Of q material with
which liquor might be made.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-29
PROTESTS ARE MADE
TO KEEP NAVY YARDS
Massachusetts, and South Carolina
Members Of Congress Call
ct White House.

By the Associated Press
Massachusetts, and South Carolina
members OF Congress beat a path to
the White House yesterday 70 protest
against closing the navy yards at Bos-
ton and Charleston.
Three Of the 10 ENGAGEMENTS on
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To prevent families from perststinc
In living in condemned houses. .Airdrie
Scotland. win remove the roofs from tn,
buildings.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-29

London police will permit taxi drivers
10 display illuminated For Hire" signs
on their cabs ut night.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-29
Oriental Rugs

of
n off
desired and blend
In buying Oriental Rugs the Importance than the rug
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-29

ofacaais IN virtually al major coast
cities Indicated favoraNie o4ztlooks In
ctyIdual Instances of business gains and
plant expansions were cited.
The Sacramento Chamber found
wholesale trade ahead % last year. with
retailers keeping pace with 1890.
Building EtFaiRfter and smoother
highways stimulated employment IN all
coast cities. Around Portland. ORG
there was a rush 70 get construction
well along before winter, while in Cali
forniA work went ahead with big prof.
ects.
Pickup in laundering.
Shafts Ct business sunshine have
permested the depths Of the forests In
Washington, which reported some pick
up In numbering Eight more mills
around Aberdeen resumed operations
this month, putting $50 men back 70
work and increasing the active mills in
that area to IS. Only eight mills re-
main closed. Additional pulp wood cut
teTs also were put 20 work.
Pocket checkbooks are being used
again. for the volume Of checks h3ndled
by banks prime indicator of general
buSiness-has shown y strengthening
tendency lately The total fer q cities.
reported by the San Francisco Federal
Reserve Bank. showed = gain Of more
than IS per cent last week over the
previous week. All but two OF the cities
showed gains.
The Washington times., 1931-05-20

Over $1,5OO,Oo0,OoO worth OF
merchandise, composed of over
$4,000 different items, is sold an
nually by the 10000 retail drug
stores in the United States. OF
the $500, 100000 annual business
done by the 5000 units eompris-
ing the chain store group, ap-
proximately 33 per cent is derived
from soda fountain and lunch
counter sales.
This indicates that their pro-
portion of the drug volume is ap-
proximately Is per cent Of the
total annual sales, whereas the
$4,000 independent stores handle
IS per cent. These facts are
brought to light in a survey Of
the retail drug field conducted by
executives of McKesSon & Rob
bins, Inc.
Manufacturers from all over the
world are selling about $4,000
items to the public through the
The Washington times., 1931-05-20
RAIL BOND SLIP
SEEN ASDRAG
ON STOCKS
Little Chance of Betterment
So Long as Investors Dump
Holdings, Says Spectator
By THE SPECTATOR

NEW YORK, May 2O-Con.
sidering the extent Of the de-
cline Immediately preceding Tues.
days session, the market could
hardly be said to have distin-
guished itself in holding its
ground yesterday.
Despite a sharp decline in the
utility averages, the index of
rails and industrials showed suf-
ficient improvement to maintain
the Standard Statistics 90-stock
index exactly unchanged on the
day.
Rail Bonds Dip
The relative firmness Of the
carrier stocks might be taken as
an indication that a period of
price sterilization lies imme.
diately ahead in the market,
were it not for the unsettlement
in the bond list, in which the
average Of representative rail
obligations dropped back almost
a point, close to the low level of
the year.
AS long as investors maintain a
steadfastly peSsimistic attitude
and pour out their holdings on
the market regardless Of price,
little IN the way of sustained bet.
terment can be hoped for. What
is necessary now is a change of
sentiment more than anything
else. Regardless of how intrinsi-
cally cheap many stocks may hap
pen to be, little on the upside can
be accomplished until the idea
takes root that the bad news has
been discounted by the fall in
values.
The recent publicity attending
the declines of American Can and
U. S. Steel under the par mark,
has brought out some interesting
comparative figures as regards
the past earnings record Of each.
Steel Record Best
Although American Can will
probably report earnings per
share greater than U. S. Steel in
1881, the latter's past record
shows a potential earning power
per share considerably greater
than Can. In the 10 years 1921
80, Steel earnings averaged $3.50
per share as against $471 per
share for American Can.
The greatest earnings showing
by Steel was made in 1929, when
$21.19 per share was reported
contrasting with the peak of
$8.O8 per share reported by Amer.
1can Can in 1890,
The Washington times., 1931-05-20
SAC NEAR NOON
WIPES OUT
GAINS
Westinghouse, American Can,
Telephone, Other FaVorites
Later Find New Low Ground
By w. S. COUSINS

NEW YORK, May 20 QN.S). h.
After an Intellectual attempt to
throw off the effects Of a steady
downpour Of selling orders, the
whole market settled down to
lower price levels today.
Early advances of / to 4 points
IN the leading rails, industrials
and utilities were completely
eradicated at the noon period and
fresh dips into low-price ground
were taken by American Tele-
phone and Telegraph, Westing-
house, American Can and other
favorites.
Fox Film Under
A new selling wave in Fox Film
carried that stock below 13 for
the first time this year.
Bulls in the railroad stock
marked prices of New Maven, New
York Central, Atchison and
Southern Pacific / to 312 points
higher in an effort to attract
outside buying to this group Of
old favorites. The plan might
have succeeded had not a deluge
Of selling orders flowed in over
the big board in the early after
noon, flattening out the early
rallies in these as well as the
industrial stocks. United States
Steel was again under fire and
fell off from 101 to SO, while
American Tel and Tel, which
started the day at I'll, sold off S
points at 166 in the third hour.
Business and industrial reports
were unchanged. The iron age
reported a new 2 per cent drop
in steel mills activity to As per
cent of capacity, against Al per
cent last week and 81 per cent
at the March peak.
Continued slashing Of short
term money rates is not reliShed
in Wall Street, but at least one
more cut in bankers acceptance
rates is looked for.
Cotton recovered more than a
dollar a bale and grain prices
were steady.
Call money was in good supply
at 112 per cent.
The Washington times., 1931-05-20
CHICAGO LIVESTOCK

CHICAGO, May 20 G.N.SJ.
Hogs-14,000 steady to strong, top
sos, bulk $5.S5@7; heavy, $6.15
@6.7O; medium $6.5O@7; light
$6.8O@7.05; light lights $6.75@
7.O5; packing sows $5.2505.85;
pigs, $6.50@7; holdovers, 5000.
Cattle-8,000 steady. calves:
steady. Beef Steers: Good and
choice, $8@8.75; common and me
dium $5@7.5O; yearlings, $500.
Butcher cattle: heifers, $5@8.25;
COWS, $4.5O@6; bulls $3.5005.5O;
calves $7.50@9.75; feeder steers
$5@7.75; stocker steers $5@7.75;
$50. ~
sheep-7,0Oo steady; lambs SO
$3.50; 9 culls and common, $40
$50; spring lambs, $861I.5O;
yearlings $6.80Q8; ewes $2@3.5O:
feeder lambs, $7.5O08.50: clipped
lambs, $7@8.75.
The Washington times., 1931-05-20
Baltimore Con. Gas
Bonds Will Be Sold

Offering is expected to be made
shortly of an issue of $4,000, 600
four per cent first and refunding
bonds of the Consolidated Gas
Company Of Baltimore.
The purpose is to refund the
company's five per cent issue due
in 1865, as well as certain other
underlying securities. The new
bonds will mature in 1881.
The Washington times., 1931-05-20

New York funds in Montreal $O.9594
premium at $1,000. Montreal funds in
New York $O.93% discount at $1,000.
The Washington times., 1931-05-20
Largest Silk Order
Placed With JUDdn

katakura & Co, Ltd, has con
tracted to sell E. CARL g. Co..
Inc, total of $4,000 bales of silk
valued at 100000.
This is the largest single pur,
chase Of Minerokawa raw silk in
the history of either the japanese
or local markets.
The Washington times., 1931-05-20
81, 500, 600, 900 Annually
Sold hU. S. Drug Stores

drug stores, while the average
drug store has capacity of only
about $4,000 items. Thus, the
average manufacturer and the re-
taller must depend on the $50
wholesale drug houses for assist
ance in warehousing and selling
the various items the public has
come to associate with the drug
store facilities.
The Washington times., 1931-05-20
Anthracite Coal
SHIPMENTS BiO0er

shipments of anthracite for
April, as reported by the Anthra,
cite Bureau of Information
amounted to 1921, 1854 gross tons
This is an increase over March
OF 834,281 tons and, when com.
pared with April, 1880, an in
crease of 959,217 tons.
The Washington times., 1931-05-20
WASHINGTON STOCK EXCHANGE
SALES

SALES
Capital Traction SIS, $500@82R.
Washington Railway and Eelec-
trio As, $1,000@S9A, $1,000
1924.
Lanston Monotype, 10000, 100
80. 10000, $1,000.
AFTER CALL
Capital Traction SIS, $5O0@82A,
$1,000@83.
Potomac Electric 51z per cent
preferred, 5@109A.
Washington Railway and Elec-
trio preferred, 6098.
Washington Gas 6's A, $4,000
1O2A, $4,000 lO2A.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-02

LECTION Of duty, which was no way to
treat a tired municipal executive.
Mayor Jimmy says that he Is taking
. physician along with him to Germany
so that he will follow discipline. SITS
the discipline that I think will do me
good there" he remarks. IT could
probably observe the same regulations
at home If I had somebody standing
over me to make me follow them"
That raises an interesting question, per-
tanning to ohicial discipline. The
mayors rejoinder to his CITIES and the
Governors acceptance Of his defense
would suggest that there u no disci-
plinarian on the job in New York to
insure the official health of the execu-
tive. And that fact may have a bear
ing upon the political developments of
the next few months.
Lest 1t be suspected that Mayor
Jimmy Is going away to avoid testifying
before the special legislative commit
tee now conducting an exhay ytive in
quiry into the affairs Of 0rea.sr New
York, he has just gone before one Of
the sections of the committee to tell all
he knows about certain transactions
before the Board Of Standards and APP
peals Of .he Fire Department in the
days when he was q practicing lawyer
and not municipal official His testi-
mony amounted to precisely nothing,
for he could not recall single circum-
stance bearing in any way upon the
dealings that 1t is suspected led to rapid
enrichment Of certain personal bank
accounts.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-02
Live Stock in Russia,

Whether Soviet Russia, as Lady Aston
remarks after an exhaustive inspection
lasting one week is the best run coun-
try in the world" will remain q matter
of opinion, but there can be no doubt
that it is Just now a country bristling
with bold experiments. AS a belated
segment Of the five-year plan for in
dustry and following the 1929-1s30 plan
for agriculture, Dictator Stain has now
decreed a two-year plan for live stock
raising. A decree just promulgated at
Moscow calls for an intensive program
for the breeding of pigs, sheep. cattle,
poultry and rabbits during the re-
mainder of 1881 and in 1892. The
carrying out Of the scheme is termed
"the central problem Of Soviet agricul-
ture henceforward, just as grain pro-
duction was in the years 1929 and 1890. -
Once live stock whence meat for
food is deriyable is being raised in
adequate quantities, the Soviet has
arranged for adequate facilities to ex-
plot it. Two replicaS Of the famous
Union Stock Yards at Chicago, once
the Windy Citys odoriferous glory, are
to be built An American packing
specialist has just returned to Moscow
from Chicago with the necessary plans.
He asserts that the plants to be erected
in Russia will be the equal in size,
equipment and production capacity of
anything in the world.
Stains recently proclaimed policy of
greater reward for greater service" is
to be extended to growers of live stock.
Walter Duranty, New York Times cor
respondent in Moscow, asserts that the
abandonment of the proletarian princi-
pie of paying everybody the same wage,
irrespective of skill or output, is pro-
ducing good results throughout Russian
industry. If Stain contrives to fire the
cattle raising peasantry with enthusiasm
for the two-year plan, Russia will be
on the high road to complete independ-
ence, so far as its food supply is
concerned.
What will interest America and other
cattle-raising countries most is whether
the day is dawning when dumped"
Russian beef, pork and mutton, fabri-
Gated on modern lines, will become the
same menace in the international mar
ket as Soviet dumped" wheat already
is. If such prospect is realized, Soviet
forced labor conjures up fresh peril
for the capitalistic world, especially
lands like Argentina, Canada and Aus
tralia, as we'll as the United States,
hitherto the great meat-producing and
exporting countries.
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Building a Great Memorial.

The poposed George Washington
Memorial Parkway, skirting both banks
of the Potomac from Mount Vernon to
Great Falls, is easily the predominant
feature of the Capper-Cramton park
legislation and, at the same time, the
most difficult Of attainment. The cost
of the land and development. for one
thing, is tremendous, requiring an
eventual outlay of about $l5,000,o00.
The Federal Governments share OF
the undertaking, $7,500,o00. has already
been authorized and, of this amount, a
million dollars is now available. But
the authorized and appropriated moneys
are tied up by the important proviso
that they are not to be spent until the
State OF Maryland or Virginia, or the
political subdivisions thereof, or ''other
responsible sources" make available
their share of the funds.
The dificulty Of raising the State
share Of the $i5,oo0,000 required is
obvious, but there is no lack Of scnti-
ment in favor of the project in either
Maryland or Virginia. The nature OF
the memorial itself commends it. 1t is
reaNrded as one of the greatest parts
of the whole, broad scheme Of develop
ing the Capital and its environs. And
the loss to the people Of the extraordi-
narily beautiful and picturesque land
involved Is not to be contemplated.
The recently announced formation,
therefore, Of an incorporated Board Of
Trustees, representing in its membership
the District Of Columbia, Maryland and
Virginia, Is to be regarded as one Of
the important steps toward realizing
the acquisition and eventual develop
ment Of the parkway. The board will
be charged with the acceptance Of gifts
or pledges from private sources. from
the states or from their political sub
divisions, to be applied toward the pur-
chase and development of the parkway.
Congress has authorized the advance or
loan of Federal funds for acquisition of
different units Of the land when and
If there is definite assurance that its
funds will be matched and repaid, with
out interest, over period of eight years:
The newly created Board Of Trustees will
y empowered TO seek and, 10 accept
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-02
ORDERLY LIVING
BY THE RIGHT REV. JAMES E. FREEMAN, D. D, IL. D.
Bishop OF Warrington

Tert: 40 every thing there Is a
season, ana time to euery purpose
under the hedven. "-EcclestGsteS
I, IT'LL
The perfect order of the universe in
which we live Is evident to us on every
hand. Season follows season in unin-
terrupted succession, and seed time and
harvest, Winter and Summer proceed
with q regularity that knows no let or
htndrance. So accurate are the move
Tnents Of the planets in their courses
that we have come to make precise fore
casts of their movements and to make
accurate time tables concerning them.
We I've in an ordered and orderly
world. It was this that prompted the
Psalmist to cry out: When consider
the heavens, the work of Thy fingers.
the moon and the stars, which Thou
hast ordained; what Is man, that Thou
art mindful Of him?" To the mind Of
th1 poet so precise and orderly was the
world about him that he could not con-
ceive OF its Creator as deigning to con-
slider man.
It is an anomalous fact that, in the
midst OF this perfect system and order,
man should be the rebel He alone
seems to be ungoverned and ungovern-
able. He is unwilling to be regulated by
rules or to be governed by system.
Time tables and prescriptions that con-
Germ his habit and practice he Is I'M
willing to consider He wishes to be
free lance and to live his life according
to his own beheStS. In the face of all
this, 1t is clearly evident as life proceeds
that 1t cannot be enjoyed unless it
recognizes definite rules and regulations
that concern its well being. From the
beginning Of time wise thinkers and
philosophers have been endeavoring to
make evident that, rules are indispen-
sable to mans highest happiness and
efficiency. An ancient authority, name
ly, Hippocrates, at the beginning of his
medical aphorisms says: Life is short
art is long, opportunity fleeting. expert
ence uncertain and Judgment dificult"
One Of the most modern Of these great
thinkers has said: The main thing TO
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-02

Canada, the northern neighbor of
the United States, carries on national
enterprises which dwarf some of those
Of our own country. To appreciate
fully what the Dominion has accom-
plished one must make two striking
comparisons and proceed from that
premise.
Although Canada Is considerably
larger than the United States terri
toriallX, 1t has but one-fourteenth, APP
proximately, Of the American popula-
ton. Yet the handful of people oc-
cupying the vast Dominion has pro-
duced works which compare favorably
with the most pretentious in this
country.
Although the Dominion has 1908 900
square miles Of mountain and plain.
including almost every type Of soil and
natural endowment, she has but g, 1877
600 inhabitants. This number Ii no
greater than the people Of what Is
called the metropolitan district of New
York City, q single American COM
munity. Over the immense stretches
OF Canada only as many people are
available to carry on the business of
the Dominion as there are dashing up
and down the subways and the sub
urban trains Of New York.
Compared with that 3,603, 900 square
miles of area, the United States has
3.026.000, but to populate 1t now has
some l24,0o0,00O people.
1t has been inevitable, therefore,
that Canada should have taken to. the
air. With such tremendous distances
to cross to bring q full measure Of COM
munication to her people, the air seems
especially indicated. The result is that
she now has nine companies operating
regular services over 40 different fixed
routes.
Transportation in such circumstances
as those facing Canada has always been
major problem. It Is interesting to
note that 1t was Canada that built the
f1rst transcontinental railroad. While
American companies were dickering
with stock control, in some cases, and
Congress was quarreling over the land
grants, the Dominion government made
the dirt fly and constructed line from
coast to coast, q line which runs as q
monument TO the enterprise Of the
statesmen who planned 1t. There now
are two tranScontinental Canadian
railroads, while there is not one in the
United States.
Shortens Great Distances.
Similarly, the Dominion government
assisted with subsidies the construction
Of highways, telegraph lines and other
essential lines Of communication for
the purpose Of knitting together It's
tremendous Dominion. 1t opened the
Welland Canal to bring Great Lakes
traffic down the st. Lawrence River TO
the sea and thus open this greatest Of
inland fresh waterways to ocean navi-
cation.
With such a record it was, then. but
natural that the airways should be
seized upon as a further means Of mar
rowing the great spaces and making the
vast territory more comfortably fit the
relatively small population. These air.
ways now have been extended until
they cover, on regular services, q total
Of 1865 miles.
Entertaining much the same doctrines
! of national life as the American peo-
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Less Work and More Loafing
As a Solution for Depression

by law order them to grow less cotton
1t Is not q conspiracy.
Similarly, II q committee of the
American Petroleum Institute, q private
body, should get out statistics intended
to curtail Oil production, 1t would alarm
Attorney General Mitchell, but II a
committee of the Federal Oil Conserva-
ton Board Of the Government of the
United States gets out the same stats
tics in order TO arrive at the same
objective Mr.. Mitchell is unconcerned
The process of thought involved has
three steps:
/. Concerted action is necessary to
prevent ruin through overproduction.
2. Concerted action through private
selves would be oppressive and extor-
Tomato
3. Therefore concerted action must
be accomplished through governments,
federal and local
1t has been argued to members Of the
Federal Farm Board by lawyers of
distinction that the board now by law
has the power to control the produc-
ton Of agricultural commodities through
controlling interstate shipments of
them. These lawyers would have the
board allocate to each cotton-produc-
Ing State, for instance, the right to
produce a certain number of bales
OF cotton and then refuse to license
the shipment out of that State Of more
than that number.
The board does not believe that it
possesses such a power The discus
sion then turns to the desirability Of
comforting such a power upon it. Bills
moving in that direction are expected
in the next Congress.
That output restrictions of some sort
Will be in some way legalized in many
industries, agricultural and non-a0ri-
cultural, during the next few years
begins to be accepted here as an over
whelmtng probability. The effect upon
employment Of wage-earners Is there
upon visualized as an expanding
problem.
The Lumber Survey Committee" of
the Federal Timber Conservation Board,
IN urging curtailment Of lumber pro-
Consideration should be given by
individual manufacturers to the tim
ing OF reduction of production in such
manner as to involve minimum hard
ship to dependent employees"
Hence another reason why the Secre-
tary OF Labor, Mr.. Doak, and the presi-
dent Of the American Federation of
Labor, Mr.. Green, talk so much and
so often about the five-day week and
the six-hour day and more leisure and
the same pay.
y
The ultimate generalization of the
whole matter is:
This week emphasizes the proposition
That we are moving toward controlled
prooucuon and that with 1t we are
moving toward q constantly sharpened
demand by labor for curtailed toll. but
assured income. Governments STABILIZE
ing the producer will ultimately find
themselves stabilizing the wage earner,
and the statesmen who do 1t will con-
tinue to denounce "bureaus"-and to
create them.
tCopyright, 1872