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cent, eight months of 11.3 per cent.
Chrysler Corporation July passenger
car registrations totaled 29,131 units
VS.. 1854; Plymouth registrations
numbered 1882 VS.. 8.089.
Consolidated Film Industries August
net profit, after Federal taxes, totaled
$l24,576 VS.. $77,624 in July.
Exchange Buffet August sales off
17.l3 per cent; four months of 1859
per cent.
Gulf, Mobile & Northern Railroad
Salaries Of employees other than those
in train service organizations reduced
10 per cent.
Household Finance Corporation de-
clares extra stock dividend Of per cent
in class A stock, on class A common,
and per cent in class B stock, on class
B common; also regular quarterly 90
cents dividend on both classes Of stock
Industrial Rayon net profit after
taxes, two months ended August 81,
$202,934.
Power Corporation of Canada Ltd
on sale of securities, year ended June
80, 1914 VS.. 1899.
Prairie Pipe Line seeks authority to
reduce rate on crude petroleum from
points in Oklahoma and Texas to Kan
sas to Is cents barrel and to 30a4
cents barrel on shipments to Kansas
City.
Pure Oil believed to have operated at
loss since beginning Of fiscal year; ag-
gregate sales Of refined products run
ming materially ahead Of last year.
Sally Frocks August sales up 1872 per
cent, eight months of "a per cent.
Singer Manufacturing declares 81
extra and regular quarterly $3.50; d.
vidend paid $3.50 extra June 80.
Timken Detroit Axle reported August
sales Of oil burners up 30 per cent; ag-
gregated oil burner sales to September z,
up about 80 per cent.
United States Lines reported has OPP
Grated at substantial loss thus far in
1881.
Utah Copper maintaining output at
40 per cent Of normal.
Western Air Express passengers car
ried in August totaled $40 VS.. 294 in
July. eight months 1,484 VS.. 864; August
air mail carried totaled Ss,li4 pounds
vs.. 54,991 In July.
White Motor July shipments reported
50 per cent below same 1880 month,
and about % per cent below monthly
average Of first six months in current
year.
Airway Electric Appliance onits
quarterly preferred dividend; previous
payment. $1.75 in July.
American orporation-Fifteen cents
common dividend declared; paid 5 per
cent stock dividend July /.
Associated Oil-OmitS capital stock
dividend; previous payment IS cents,
June 30.
General Motors-Had 1888 pre-
Terred and 276.476 common sharehold-
ers in third quarter, VS.. 1926 pre-
ferred and 1853, 400 common sharehold-
ers in second quarter.
Sicily Oil-Reported 10 have real
lied about 100000 cash from sale
Of its 612 per cent interest in Natural
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Danger Signals
BY GEORGE T. HUGHES.

These articles are concerned primarily
with investment, that Is to say, the care
Of money after it is acquired and not
the method Of acquiring It, Neverthe-
less, it may not be out Of order tol
digress a bit and consider Just what
Justification there is for writing about
investment at all in these times.
world Tor that matter are passing
through one Of the greatest industrial
depressionS in history. Commodity
prices have dropped in many cases to
record lows. The security markets have
verged on Generalization. Unemploy-
ment Is widespread. Salaries and wages
have been reduced and the margin over
absolutely necessary living expenses mar
rowed too often to the vanishing point
Why should there be any need Of in
struction in investment technique when
there Is nothing to invest? Is it not
q fair objection that investment discus
sion would have been timely in 1923
and 1929 when we were all prosperous
or thought we were, but is entirely
superauous now?
Well, one answer is that II we had
practiced the principles Of sound In
veStment two or three years ago we
would not be where we are today. The
trouble with most of US was that we
didn't invest then, although we called
1t investment. We speculated. Another
answer Is that the accumulation of
surplus for investment is a matter of
thrift and hardly any Of us ever prac-
tice thrift until We have to. OF course.
we will have to do things on q smaller
scale now, but that very fact makes it
more necessary that we chart safe
course.
With only q small amount to invest
there Is all the more reason for needing
the danger signals and it is the object
Of this series to point out those danger
signals and to indicate the path Of
safety. Even II we have no surplus at
all to invest now we certainly expect 10
have eventually and. meanwhile. we
can familiarize ourselves with the eles
ments Of the art. for investment Is an
art and not q science.
CCopyright 1917
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INCREASED COPPER
CONSUMPTION SEEN
Slight Improvement in Next
Few Months Predicted
by Brookmire.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, September 1.-THE
copper industry has reached the state
where a slight improvement may be ex-
pected within a few months, according
to the Brookmire Economic Service,
Inc, which has tabulated copper con-
sumption, In thousand short tons, for
the major consuming industries in the
past three years. Increased consumption
is not expected in this year or in 1882 to
establish return of marked prosperity
for the copper industry, but to snow
small gains over current levels.
There is no longer any question
that copper is cheap" says Brookmire
statement Few, II any. producers can
show profits with copper at 7i2 cents
per pound. Nothing Will bring about q
reduction in output and consequent
halt in the trend to higher levels OF
refined inventories more surely than
continuance of non-profit price levels.
We. therefore, expect more drastic
curtailment of mine production In the
months ahead Blister stocks have
shown an uninterrupted decline since
last October and are now the lowest
since August, 1921. A change for the
better in demand for copper could bring
about Improvement rather quickly. This
has not yet appeared however, and we
expect another increase in refined
stocks to be reported for August"
The following tabulation shows cop
per consumption, In thousand short
tons, for the major consuming 1nous-
tries: ,..
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RESERVE
CREDIT INCREASED
Daily Average Volume Out
standing for Week Is
100000 Greater.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
The daily average volume OF Federal
Reserve Bank credit outstanding during|
the week ending September 9, as re-
ported by the Federal Reserve Banks, was
1892 ,000. 900. an increase of $4,000, o00|
compared with the preceding week. and
$4,000 900 compared with the CORE
spending week in 1890
On September total Reserve Bank
credit amounted to $4,000, 900, a de-
crease OF $4,000 900 for the week. This
decrease corresponds with q decrease of
$S4, 100000 In member bank reserve bal
anceS and increases of $4,000, 900 in
Treasury currency, adjusted, and So, 900, !
600 in monetary gold stock. Offset in
part by increases of $57,OO0,00 in
money in circulation and $29. OO0, 900 in
unexpended capital funds, non-member
deposits, etc
Holdings Of discounted bills declined
81, DOC, 900 at the Federal Reserve Bank
OF New York and increased $4,000 900 att
San Francisco. 100000 at Philadel-
phia and 100000 at all Federal Re
serve Banks
The systems holdings of bills bought
In open market and of United States
securities were practically unchanged.
September 8 totals lin millions Of
doilars), with changes from a week ago,
were:
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Salary Cuts Ordered.

NEW YORK, September II R.-
Eighty-fi per cent Of the employees of
the Gulf, Mobile & Northern Railroad,
except those in train service organiza-
tions, will have their salaries cut 10
per cent. The reduction is voluntary
and will be in effect as long as the
road is unable to cover interest charges
and taxes The reduction amounts to
approximately 80 per cent Of the rail-
roads taxes and charges.
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Gas Co. of America to remaining mem.
beers of controlling group.
Waldorf System August sales OF
per cent; eight months, of "a per cent.
International Telephone & Telegraph
declares as cents dividend; formerly
paid so cents quarterly.
Interstate Department Stores August
sales OF II per cent, eight months up
3.9 per cent.
Jefferson Electric IS cents quarterly
common dividend declared; formerly
paid so cents quarterly.
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An old farm wagon was used to con-
vey the casket containing the body of
Mary Emily LADY Tennyson at her flu
neral ct Ffeshwater, England recently.
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Washington Stock Exchange
SALES

Wash. Gas IS A-sl,o at 1o394.
Pot. Elec. SO pfd.-5 at 113.
Pot. Elec. 5l21O pfd.-5 at 1905, 10 at
11oN.
AFTER CALL.
Wash. Gas $500 at 1861.
Wash. r. d E. 4s-$500 at 93A.
Bid and Asked Prices.
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Unlisted Department.

(rhese securities not listed under Exchange
rules.)
BONDS.
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FOREIGN EXCHANGE.
Quotations furnished by ". r. HihoS d Co
Nominal gold Selling eherfI

Trade conditions In the Union Of
South Africa continue to improve.
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Stock and
Dividend Rate.

1871 z Ohio OIL.
5SS 2 oliver Farm Equip.
Ga 3N Omnibus Corp.
IS 81 Omnibus pr (A) 49,.
rs 35 Orpheum Cir pr 3d..
5Sh 3lh Otis Elevator (2M)..
39% 25l3 Owens Ill Glass (2).
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DIVIDENDS DECLARED
NEW YORK, September IL (P.-

chi 1i / ~. DIVIDEND due at this time
Rio Tinto ...... Dividend due At this time
Safety Car Heat 8: Ltg..s1 :. Due Oct. /
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oaleS OF ot0cKS on New York Exchange.
1890 A.M......... 20O.OO0 1900 Noon aoo ooo
1870 PM. 100000 2:10 PM......1 500 600
Dividend table are the annual
cash payments based the latest
49, 1ESdvSsnd sIess than 100 extra
IN STOCK Payable in cash stock
3% in stock Paid this n 81 in
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Butter-One- pound prints, 50; tub,
80.
Eggs-Hennery, 2s; current receipts,
1Qa00
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-27
Uncle Rays Corner

Most of us would hesitate to look
 a. bee in the eyes. When someone
 speaks of bees, we are likely to think
 of either "honey" or "stings." By
 looking a. bee in the eyes, we shall
 gain no honey-but we might gain
 a sting.
 Some bees, however, might be looked in the eyes without danger Of any kind. I am thinking of the l drones. They haven't the power to
 sting.
 To look a drone in the eyes is an | interesting adventure, especially if we use a magnifying glass. In the first place we notice five eyes on the face of the insect! There are three small eyes near the center of the upper part of the head, and at either side is a very large eye. The I large eyes are compound, each one | being composed of hundreds of small parts.
 Thus we may say that drone has wonderful eyes.
 You have probably heard drones called examples" of what we ought not be- and that is true as far as it goes. All they do is enjoy life until their tragic end. They make no honey, and need to obtain their food from the workers of the bee hive. At the end of the open seas, they are stung to death by the work CTS or are pushed from the hive to make their own living or die. 1t does not seem fair for the drones to let the other bees do all the work; but the drones have no choice. Nature did. not give them tongues long enough to obtain nectar from fowers-so how could they work?
 Drones have been called "kings of the hive" and in sense they are
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-27

fragments, but the housing of the precious junk of antiquity re- quires more space than the mu- seums of Rome can comfortably af- ford. The principal storehouse for the fragments found in the excava- tions at present proceeding, is the Rome Antiquarium, the basement of which is now fairly full of broken relics of the classic times.
 The ruins of small country villa of the Pompeiian type were recently discovered in the course of widening the Via Aventina. In Via Pc, now fashionable resi- dential quarter, the remains of two co1umbariums have been un- earthed. The columbarians were family vaults for cinerary urns, so called from their similarity in ap- pearance to dove-cotes. Here the ashes of generations of ancient Romans and their slaves and att tendants were enclosed in terra cotta vases. The section of Rome stretching from Via Pc to the church of St Agnes along the ways been the cemetery district of Rome. It lies in the Eastern quarter of the city, and today the chief Roman cemetery stands to the east of the town. In connec- tion with excavations, there is a certain amount of private digging going on in and around Rome.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-27
NEW YORK
wiIh GiIbert Swan

New York.-Only in recent years has Broadway been so paved over by so many writing gents. It has been cheered, jeered and feared; it has been laughed at, wept over and interpreted in every language, including Arabic; each corner has been peered into and it has been called by more tricky names than a new brand of cigar that had offered $10,000 for the best trade mark.
 I'm not certain it deserved all this. After all, there is considerably more to New York than Broadway. And when the last weary straggler has been cleared from it's midriff toward dawn, you'll find that all its fre- quenters grabbed taxis and private cars to spin away to the rest of this Manhattan that you don't hear so much about.
 As a matter of fact, some of the best true tales of New York ever penned have been those of the late James Huneker, who-if you asked me-would have made the greatest of all New York columnists had he been born 20 years later, and those of Konrad Bercovici.
 Now the tales of Bercovici are stories of the foreign neighborhoods: they are of the coffee houses of the East Side and they are of the f1d- dlers in little Hungarian cafes; they are of the ways of the Armenians and Turks in the downtown belt and of the old Spanish dwellers in the mid Chelsea belt.
 There is music and color in these stories and a quality of drama quite different from the Broadwayesque connections. You'll find them in a book titled, Around the World in New York" And I hear he's work ing on still better work of the town. To date, I don't recall his using the word Broadway.
 Huneker, particularly in "New
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-27

i lCosmopolis," had anecdotes of the old days when Luchow's was a "car- riage trade' cafe in 14th street, when a different flavor went with | the romance and adventure of the big city. There is more of opera and art and beer drinking and of forgot ten places.
 o. Henry wrote of Madison Square and Union Square, and buns who sat on park benches; of waitresses who met waitresses; of the life and rhythm and coincidence and irony of everyday things. Broadway was no more to him than any other thor oughfare. In fact it was less. And there was Stephen Crane, the young genius who died long before his time, who wrote in "The Open Boat" of things that befell beneath the elevated tracks, and one unfor- i gettable story of a night spent in a Bowery flophouse.
 The Edith Wharton novels were of New York that tucked itself behind red-stone dwellings, many of which have become speakeasies; which breathed tradition and rode in carriages. Greenwich Village, near the Washington Arch, was a sort of capital of her particular aristocracy. The yarns one hears concerning old times are much more likely to concern the goings on in Peacock Alley of the old Waldorf than in 42d street, and when legends of the the ater are dragged out the location is the Bowery of the Weber and Fields vintage. Thereafter. the scene might creep up as far as 24th street and have the Frohmans as central char acters.
 And things keep going on in all those places quite apart from the rackets, gangs, actors, gamblers, theater folk. night clubs, chorines, slickers and all the rest of the Broadway brigade concerning whom so many thousand words are penned.
 GILBERT SWAN.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-27
OUR DAILY NEWS LETTER
BY EDWARD STORER United Press Staff COrreSDOnden

I
 | United Press Staff Correspondent. ) | Rome-The new College of Prop agation of the Faith, recently inau- gurated on the slopes of the Jani- culum hill by the Pope is one of the most remarkable new buildings in Rome. It was built chiefly with American money obtained largely through the efforts of Cardinal Mundelein of Chicago. It is said to have cost $1,50O.00, and it looks as if it had. It has many of the services of a first class 1 hotel, without the obtrusive lux l uries More than half the stu dents rooms, for instance are fitted with telephones. The heat is obtained from naptha gas a complicated mechanism for regu- lating the entrance of the heated air, and the dispersal of the over heated air.
 The kitchens are imposing. When one enters them while a meal is in course of preparation, the effect is like entering a great power plant. Giant cauldrons. electrically oper- ater, are to be seen turning out soup for the 300 students. There is a potato-paring machine also electrically operated which peels potatoes at bewildering and high | l yefficient rate. There is an elec- tric coffee roaster and grinder, electric egg-beaters and coasters. The noise in the kitchen when every thing is in full blast is impressive. The refectory is on the floor above and the food is brought up from the kitchens in service elevators. The | l-;A t. I~xr 12x let Iev, the charge of a head cook.
 students of 30 different nation alities. Indians, Africans, Chinese. Japanese mix with Americans, British, Canadians. Australians, French, South Americans. Ger mans and Spanish. They all speak Italian.
 Futuristic Eating.
 Academician F. T. Marinetti, poet and futurist chef. has begun to introduce the futurist cuisine abroad. After a lengthy discourse to a group of amazed inhabitants of Tunis. he regaled the local Italian colony and a number of complacent French authorities with the following menu served up in the Italian "Chianti' restaurant of Tunis:
 The first course appeared on the menu as tree trunks wrapped in the Italian tricolor." The tree trunks were, 1t seems. made Of macaroni. Followed "Mediter- ranean fruit with sulphur sauce." then "edible seaplanes' (wild ducks). The sweet dish was with chorus" whatever that means, and the fruit was listed under the algebrical formula.
 Rome Pushes Excavations
 The excavations in and neal the ancient forum of Trajan are be. ing continued with vlgor by tho governor of Rome in pursuance oi the general archaeological pro- gram. Between Via Alescsandrina and the Trajan markets tesselateo marble pavements and columns oI marble and toher stone have come to light. Nearly every day bring' It's find. As c rule nothing of yer, great importance Is discovered but n vast accumulation of broken fragments Is being gathered to gether. What to do with all thi' material is becoming something oi c problem for the Hrcheoiogica authorities of Rome. They gre b, training extremely reluctant t' throw away sven ineonsiderabl'
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-27
WHAT THE PRESS AGENTS SAY

years of enviable success, remains one of the outstanding idols of the fans.
 The secret of Meighan's success is his compelling personality and his keen analytical mind, coupled, as scarcely needs to be said, with his natural histrionic ability.
 The ordinary biographer might point to 'The Miracle Man" and as- sert that it was 8 fortunate circum. stance for Meighan that he was cast in the stellar role of this famous picture and insist that it furnished his real vehicle to rame.
 But it was Meighan's own per suasiveness, his own faith in him. self and his judgment that led to '"The Miracle Man." When this great drama was first published as a story, Meighan sensed in it an ideal vehicle for himself, and after George M. Conan had produced it on the stage, Meighan determined he would make the screen version.
 The picture was produced and it carried Meighan and nearly all other members of the cast to star dom.
 It was his faith in himself and his dogged determination that first led Meighan into the profession. Born in Pittsburg. Pa, where he grew up and was educated. Meighan played for three years with David Warfield and enacted the leading role in "The College Widow" during its long run, appearing both in this country and in England.
 Returning from England he DOT trayed his first role in a motion pic- ture, appearing in "The Fighting Hope" Innumerable successes fol- lowed. They included, in addition to "The Miracle Man." "Tthe Bachelor Daddy" "Manslaughter," "Old Home Week." "Our Leading Citi- gen." Irish Luck" "The Man Who Found Himself," '"The New Klon- dike," We're All Gamblers" and other successes. His last screen ap- pearance was in "The Racket" an underworld melodrama. directed by Lewis Milestone.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-27
JOHN BARRYMORE IN
 "SVENGALI" AT WARNER
 BROTHERS STATE THEATER

A large audience greeted with en- thusiastic approval, John Barry more's latest characterization "Sven- gali" the master hypnotist of "Tril- by" which was such sensation both as 8 novel and as a play a gener- ation ago.
 George Du Maurier who wrote ''Trilby" also illustrated it, and MT Barrymore has faithfully followed the artist in his makeup. In the wild eyed mesmerist with lanky hair hanging to his shoulders and matted beard which the sinister fingers for ever nervously carees-there is no trace of the debonair Barrymore who is acknowledged to be the greatest of the screens great lovers.
 The romance of Trilby, the beau- tiful model, who unwittingly falls victim to the evil magic of Svengali, is one of those stories which seem to possess eternal youth, like those of Faust and Marguerite or Beauty and the Beast. The scenes are laid in the fantastic haunts of the Latin Quarter in Paris and in strange dives in the picturesque lands where the hypnotist spirits Trilby in an effort to evade her three friends, Taffy. the Laird, and Little Billee. The sets provided for "Svengali' are ingenius in the extreme, and one amazing scene actually photographs the flight of thought over roofs and through clouds from the mind of Svengali to the mind of Trilhy and the return of Trilby's shud- dering surrender to his master mind.
 The portrayal of Trilby by Marian Marsh Is doubly amazing when 1t it known that she is but eighteen and makes her screen debut in the diff. ficult role. which requires the whole range of emotion. To exquisite ficwerlike beauty of face and form Miss Marsh adds rare inteiiigenct and sincerity.
 The supporting cast include. Iumsden Hare, Donald Crisp and Bramwell Fletcher as Taffy. ths Laird, and Little Billee. Luis Al berni exquislteiy portrays Gecko, tht humble fiddle playing slave of Sven gall. and Carmel Myers makes aT arrestlng Honori.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-27
BRITISH THIEVES
 ARCOT PUzzLINC

London.-Word that British movie audiences were weary of hear ing "Oh. Yeah" and "Ok, Chief" and a few other inane observations of the talkies. has prompted a Holly wood film company to inquire about British slang.
 A few of the phrases, 1t is sug- gested, might be as puzzling to the Iowa farmer as "on the lam" was to Britain when it first burst from the screen.
 They include:
 Cole-penny.
 Show-place to burgle.
 Peter-safe.
 Thimble-watch.
 Ginnes-one who avoids paying anything.
 Cape of Good Hope-soap.
 Dig a grave-a shave.
 Rod-overcoat.
 Mush-umbrella
 Cosh--walking stick. In Chokey-punishme cell. Squeeze-siik. That's dead-no one at home. Plates of meat-policemen's feet.
 ar-pulling-cadging money. Red tackle-gold chain. Skin purse. On the bottle-in hip pocket. In the Newgate-inside vest pock- cts. At the runouts - fake auction rooms. Tea Potting-sending messenger boy on errand while you hold his parcel and then run off with it.