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Business Notes

NEW YORK, September 5.-While
the beginning of the Fall season activity
was noted in trade during the week,
volume continued well under the same
period a year ago, according to reports
from New York retail executives. Two
factors were cited as of marked inf1u-
ence. One is the late date of Labor day
as compared with year ago. The other
is the delayed opening of schools.
Fall notions buying showed marked
improvement in New York this week as
retailers turned their attention to mer-
chandiSe for approaching sales events.
Manufacturers were busy throughout
the week on goods wanted for immediate
shipment. including novelty items and
large volume of staple goods Sewing
supplies dress accessories, clothes hang
ers and wide variety of other articles
were included in the staples purchased.
Turnover in mems wear stores during
the week was stimulated somewhat by
the final drastic reddc tioi16 put into
effect on clothing, and several large
stores. featuring the lowest sales prices
in years. received a fairly large volume
of business, store executives report.
With the spot call for velvets con-
siderably larger than the supply avail
able, the velvet trade is advancing into
one of its best seasons in recent years.
Producers have a large backlog of orders
on which they are working. and pro-
duction has been speeded up to hasten
deliveries.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-06
NEW AUGUST OFFERINGS
LOWEST IN TEN YEARS

Special Dispatch to The Star.
CHICAGO. September 5-August,
1881 was the dullest month IN ~
Sears in both the stock and bond mar
tets according to the monthly invest
nent review of Lawrence Stern & Co.,
Investment bankers.
Gilt-edged bonds and well secured
ehort-term paper alone were the stable
elements in declining bond market
che review states. Both bond and stock
offerings were extremely meager and
distribution practically at a standstill.
-, The total of new offerings for the
month reached 10-year low in bonds
with sl25o86,385. Stock offerings
amounted to 378.622-a combined
total of SAP, 465,007.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-06
PUBLIC UTILITIES.
MISCELLANEOUS.

$500 Barber & Ross. Inc, 6iaS, 1896 =.
$500 Columbia Country Club 5l2s. $780,.
1000 D. C. Paper Mfg. list IS. 1887
100 Washington Market IS, 1886 .......
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-06
WASHINGTON STOCK EXCHANGE
YEAR 1881 TO DATE

by &c, CO
SEPTEMBER
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-06
WEEKLY SUMMARY OF IHE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE
r WEEK ENDING SEPTEMBER S. 1891.

FOR WEEK ENDING SEPTEMBER 5, 1881
Week. Year to Date.
High. Low. High. Low.
Average price of so stocks 1924 1908 17307 1925
Same period ago............... 245.6O 1912
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-06
STOCKS DEPRESSED
BY CONTINUED DROP
IN CARRIER SHARES

CONTINUED From First Page.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-21
Coincidence,

That the world is really very small
place and that coincidence. is a re-
markable and interesting thing ware
amply proved at a lecture recently at
Rockwell Field, California, where ground
school addresses on wartime lombard
ment aviation were in progress. Lieut..
j. r. Pearson, jr., was the lecturer Of
the. day, and the students" were eager
~ listening to his recital of the circum-
stances which led to his miraculous
escape from death in battle over the
front lines. Attacked by four enemy
planes, his gunner and himself wounded
and his controls shot away, he was
saved by the timely intervention of q
lone allied flyer, who divcd to his rescue,
shot down two OF the German machines
and forced the other two to flee.
Although Pearson did not know It,
there was one man in the room to whom
his story was of more than ordinary
interest. When the lecturer finished,
Capt. Frank o. d. Hunter, one of the
few remaining World War "aces" on
active duty, called him aside and
quietly said, Pearson, I was the pilot
of the Spad who shot those two Ger
mans off your tail" And so, after a
twelve-year period, the rescuer and the
rescued met for the first time to dis
cuss a fight that occurred over the bat
tlefields of France more than seven
thousand miles away.
Few cases could more wildly illus
trate the conditions in which war flyers
battled in the skies. 1t is an illuminat-
ing contribution to the history Of the
great struggle. There are probably
other events of equal interest which will
be unearthed in the future and when
discovered they will ind world avid
to learn about them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-21
American Literary Manners.

American letters are rather a. an ebh
tide when two of the most eminent ex-
ponents, meeting on social occasion in
honor Of distinguished foreign author,
get 10 insulting each other and slap
ping faces. Unfortunately the code
duellc has passed. else such an affair
might have been conducted upon
dignihed plane. Blu at best the en-
counter Ee.ween LeWs and Dresser was
silly ana unbscoming. In the first place
LEWIS, who seems TO have acquired an
unhappy faculty for giving ofense even
before his recent acco.ade at Stockholm,
Rffronted his host by refusing to speak
In the presence Of one whom he accused
Of plagiarism and Of two others who
Tad criticized his selection for the Nobel
prize. 1t was quite within his RICH S
quietly TO withdraw from the dinner
upon discovery Of the presence Of those
whom he disliked. 1t was not his right
20 declaim a refusal TO speak in their
presence, coupling this refusal with a
specific charge Of literary theft, the
baseSt offense that can be committed
in literature. 1t was an old charge, once
much discussed, and supposedly dropped.
Its revival was deliberate affront to
one whose position in letters, whatever
may be the judgment Of many regard
ing the merits Of his work, is thorough
~ established.
But one offense does not warrant
another, in such situation. An ag-
grieyed guest at social affair does moi
turn his hosts premises into an arena
Face-slapping, however justified, Is
taboo in such precincts. 1t may be
done with entire propriety outside the
walls or in another place Of assembly
but not ION the lot" as it were. Dresser
was perhaps provoked by words that
have not been reported. following the
incident Of the dinner-table refusal t.
speak in his presence. His flash Of
temper was doubtless melted By an
egregious offense. Still, that was moi
tie pie1 to explode in wratk HI
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-21

would better, after the fashion Of the
boys of fewer years, wait around the
corner for his offender to appear, and
there pitch into him for a satisfactory
set-to, even at the risk of arrest for
scrapping in public.
Well, it was altogether a sad situa-
ton. 1t will of course be reported
abroad 1t will be exploited lin Eng
land, where the writer's are avid for
evidence of American barbarity. 1t will
be noted by the eminent and loquacious
Mr.. Priestley, who is now travelling in
this country, basking in the light OF
publicity due to some remarks of his
own anent American letters Perhaps
it will be turned into literature on the
other side, possibly into cinema drama,
as bit of characteristic Americanism.
American authors in fisticufTs over
plagiarism" Nobel winner slapped for
insult" Literary theft in States re-
sented by blow"--what possibilities for
headlines and titles" the case affords!
But there is another aspect to the
affsir: This may all be rated as good
publicity for both authors. The reading
public may be intrigued into buying
their books in hope of finding some re-
f1exes of the Slapping match.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-21

one serious rival to dispute his leader
ship. Miss Barbara Carstairs, who
spent half q million dollars in seek
ing to take his crown, has given UP
the sport as too expensive, and Sc
grave succeeded but died. Now Kaye
Don has taken up the race for Eng
land in the boat that carried Segrave
to his death. Reports from Britain
recently indicated that Don, a veteran
racer on water and land. had attained
an unoficial speed of one hundred and
ten miles an hour.
So it should be merry battle again
between England and the United States,
but Americans can be assured that
the record will not be taken and re-
main long in foreign hands If Gar
Wood retains his enthusiasm. Eng
land already holds the automobile speed
record and the airplane speed record.
America looks to Wood to keep the
worlds championship on the water.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-21

From the Atlanta Journal.
AS counsel for the defense, Coach
Robert Zuppke of the University of
Illinois delivered telling and singu-
larly clear-headed analysis of the status
Of collegiate athletics before the meeting
of school superintendent in Detroit.
Critics of the athletic system now in
vogue Throughout the colleges and uni
versities of the Nation have been so
jealous recently in their indictments
that they have in some cases distorted
more or lass inevitable defects into
lurid evils, and Coach Zuppke's
opinion serves as a timely reminder
that the issue has two sides, and that
the better side has been virtually for
gotten in some quarters.
That overemphasis has developed
here and there in athletic competition
between colleges is obvious, but wise
treatment of this condition does not
some proponents have advocated. There
remain innumerable healthful infiu-
ences arising from clean-limbed con-
tests among the youth OF the Nation,
and it is to these benefits that the
eminent Illinois mentor directed at
tention. "At the beginning" he points
out. 1.-The students managed these
activities themselves, but so unsucceSS-
fully that the faculties of the majority
of the institutions decided to take con-
troll This fact should be borne in
mind in any consideration OF the evo-
luton of collegiate athletic systems,
for unless the starting point is recalled,
progress cannot be aasayed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-21

States do, These are our lands, won by
our pioneer laborS 1t looks that way.
But read history. The original Is
States gave all their public lands to the
Federal Government. The Federal
Government created the new States
out of those lands and others, pur-
chased later. The States have no legal
or natural rights, but have doubtless
acquired some moral rights to the prop
erty. The Government, however, seems
to have done a very good job with the
public lands"
eff California sentiment is favorable. I"
remarks the Oakland Tribune, 1T is
probable some considerable areas OF
unreServed and unappropriated public
lands will be turned by Uncle Sam over
to the commonwealth. At least, the
Presidents committee has made the
recommendation. The suggestion car
ried out. Congress will take action at
the next session. If a State does not
accept the grant or fails to pass the
necessary measures within 10 years, the
establishing of national range COM
prising the public lands If recommend
ed. Left out of the areas affected are
those desirable for national defense
reclamation, reservoirs, national for
eStS, parks or monuments and migra-
tory bird refugees. Some States, par
ticularly those of the Northwest, have
long sought this change Others have
not been overly anxious to assume re-
sponsibilities which the Government
now accepts
Referring to such lands in Minnesota,
the Duluth Herald adds that 1.-THE
States would have the expense of taking
care of the areas, providing fire pro-
lection and so on. Minnesota now has
several million acres of land that ii
cannot find use for or even adequately
care for. What inducement is there for
taking over any more?" The ASbury
Park Press finds an obstacle in the
fact that these States "have no money
for conservation uses"
zone opportunity they do present, ~
concludes the Dayton Daily News. I'm
these desert wastes a saving solitude
can be found. Into such deserts went
the prophets of old TO muster the
vision and the poise for their precarious
prophet careers. In due time a psople
EerYe-rasped by the noises of their
crowded city lives will value the still
ness of the desert as a means of re-
cuperation and rest. In that day we
shall be glad that nature supplied
rocky mountains and arid wastes. What
they lack in fertility they may supply
in faith"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-21
Higghlights on the Wide World
Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands

nothing more. Such forget that after
all mans soul is mere important than
his body.
False Theories Blamed
For World Wide Depression.
Fl Universal, Mexico D. F.-The most
illuStrious senior, DR.. Leopoldo Ruiz y
Flores, apostolic delegate to the repub-
lie, and titular archbishop Of Morelia,
made an inspiring appeal over the radio
from the capital recently, in connection
with the campaign for national pros
perity. The transcendent theme of the
archbishop's discourse was to the ef-
feet that the economic crisis now dis
turbing every country in the world has
been brought on by the false theories
of so-called industrialists, who have
taught US how to acquire material
wealth, but caused us at the same time
to forget all moral obligations to hui
mainly in general while anlaSsing our
private fortunes.
ut is impossible for social harmony
to exist in any country" declared the
archbishop, where a few of the people
become rich, and the great majority be-
come impoverished. Just now we are
suffering the consequences OF obJectives
conceived in such system of self-ag-
grandizement. The divine ordinances OF
social justice and common charity can
not long be ignored without bringing
upon us heavy penalties.
THE campaign for national pros
perity now being promulgated by pronii-
nent manufacturers and industrialists
to amend our errors intends that
hereafter all shall have a proportionate
share in the country's prosperity. In the
meantime we should all avoid extrava-
gance and luxury, especially those wom-
en- who are prone to indulge in expen-
sive embellishments and fancieS TO
crafty their vanity. We must all exert
our best efforts to increase the produc-
ton of useful and necessary commodi-
ties"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-21
Gas Situation Called
Unfair to Consumer

To the Editor Of The Star:
Those Of us who have had occasion
to buy gas appliances from out Of town
have noticed that it is always necessary
to specify as to whether they are to
be used with artificial or natural gas,
the obvious reason being that the
burner for one kind of gas is not suit
able for use with the other.
For years we enjoyed artificial gas
and now, after previously adulterating
it with the poisonous water gas, 1t is
further adulterated with the poisonous
natural gas. for the profit OF the COM
pany but not the consumer.
Persons who now desire to Shufne
off this mortal coil no longer have to
stop the keyholes and other fine orihces,
but can accomplish their suicide by
simply closing the door and turning
on the gas, without such a long wait
and wide-spreading odor.'
From the way those, who are sup
posed to look after the interest Of the
consumers, swallowed all the proposals
of the company as to changes in the
gas value and the messing up Of the
former simple method of computing
charges, so that the average consumer
would not be able to find how things
were going, it appears to me that they
were neither well informed nor over
anxious to see the consumers get q
square deal.
The resulting complaints bear out
the opinion of some of us who had
no power in the matter, and for long
time we are going to reap the rewards
of changes made with only the benefit
of the company considered. A host of
consumers have had a minimum
charge" put on them which means I'M
earned profits for the company, espe-
cially during the Summer time, when
some families may be away for months.
The average family, unless it uses con-
siderable cooking gas, has to pay more
and, as II that was not enough, the
pressure is increased to make them
use more.
Recently while making coffee the
gas dropped out altogether under the
pot twice in five minutes, attention
being drawn to the fact only by the
percolating noise cces ng. We are
now considering all-electFic service as
the less dangerous Of the two. Nor Is
the gas furnace for US.
w. Z. ALLEN. =
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The speedboat Championship.

Thanks to Gar Wood, Americas
white haired veteran of speedboat rae
ing, the United States has regained
its laurels on the water. For yester-
day on Indian Greek at Miami Beach,
Florida, he sent his ninth Miss Amer
lea whining over the placid surface at
more than one hundred and two miles
an hour TO break the record of the
late Mai. Sir Henry Segrave of ninety
eight miles an hour, a record made by
the gallant Englishman only a few
hours before his death when his speedy
craft struck a submerged tree. 1t was
Wood who lost the title to Segrave and
it was then that he determined to build
new and faster Miss America. Yes
terday's success was the result of that
determination.
In rsgaining the record Wood has
accomplished his lifelong ambition to
drive boat at one hundred miles an
hour. He was the first man in history
to reach a mile minute on the water.
and he attained this speed only after
years OF experimentation with various
types of hulls and motors. An enthu-
siast of the persistent type, he then set
his goal for the one-hundred- mile-an-
hour mark, and through the years has
constructed one Miss America after an
other in an endeavof to attain it. And
characteristic of the worlds best known
spesdboat racer was his statement after
yesterdays trials: "As soon as I get
back 70 Detroit I am going to start
work on Miss America x. She win have
four thousand horsepower, eighteen
hundred more than this boat, and I
expect to do at least one hundred and
twenty miles an hour"
At the present time Wood has only
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-21

+ Q. Where was there q law against
taking baths in bathtubs?-F. w. p.
A. In the early history of the bath.
tuo, various measures were taken for
the restriction of its use. The Com
mon Council Of Philadelphia consid-
bathing between the months of No
Vemper and March. Virginia laid tax
! OF $50 per year on all bathtubs and
I SNCIa heavy water rates. In Boston
tnere was an ordinance forbidding their
use except on medical advice.
@. Who participated in the ancient
Olympic games?-J. I.
"A. In ancient Greece the entire pop
uiace participated in Olympic games.
@. How many slaves did George
! Washington have at the time Of his
desth?-O. w. c.
A. He was the owner Of l24 slaves.
@. VIII you be kind enough II give
me very rough estimate on the num-
Der OF books Of one title sold yearly.
the book not being by noted author,
and we will say. fair story? l should
like to have some idea about ii, in
order to know what a certain per cent
would amount to.-E. S. K
| A. A publisher whom we have con-
suited says: I'VE sell an average of
| approximately 5000 Of each book of
fiction which we publish. that Is by
an author with q little known name.
In some cases the sales run slightly
under this number, In other cases they
run higher"
@. How large are college campuses?
&C. F.
A. They vary in size. Some urban
colleges have practically no campuses.
Campuses maintained by landsgrant
| colleges differ considerably. The largest
is that OF Mississippi Agricultural and
Mechanical College, totaling 800 acres,
and next largest is that of the Univer-
| sity OF Florida with 673 acres Others
vary from $50 acres at the University
| OF New Hampshire to as little as is
acres at the University Of Idaho.
Q. Why was the game Of Badminton
| given this nsme?-C. E.
A. Badminton, in crude form, was
first played in India and was called
| Poona after the town in which Il
originated. 1t was brought to England
| in 1872 by British army officers and
| in 1873 was named Badminton IN
| honor of the Duke of Beaufort, at
whose home, Badminton, the game was
formally introduced.
@. How large a speckIed brook trout
has been caught?-T. T.
A. The largest square-tailed speckled
brook trout on record is one which
| weighed 14l2 pounds and was caught
| by DR.. J. w. Cook in the Nipigon
River in Ontario, Canada.
@. What is the chemical theory of
| odor?-J. G.
A. Odor is the volatile portion Of
substance perceptible by the sense
| Of smell. The odor theory assumes
that the odor sensation is due to the
| combination of chemical radicals, call
| ed osmorphic groups Of the odorous
substances that combine with certain
substances of the nasal membrane,
called osmoceptors.
@. Which costs more for construction.
! a mile of concrete road or q mile of
| railroad?-R. u.
A. The average cost of constructing
a mile Of concrete road is $4,000. The
average cost for q mile of railroad Is
J between $4,000 and 5000.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-21
The Unemployment Figures.

The Unemployment Figures.
The value of the figures revealed by
the new census of the unemployed is
tbs bare presentation of the picture at
at its worst. More than six million men
out Of work reflect an unprecedented
condition in this country, an alarming
state of affairs. The sooner its signifi-
canoe is realized the better it will be.
There is some comfort, of course. in
the knowledge that the statistics apply
to unemployment at its peak, reached
last January after the ebb of the Christ
mas tide Of business, which always
brings about a seasonal slump and
which this year was made more acute
by depression confined to no one coun-
try, extending throughout the civilized
world. Since the enumerators COM
pleted their count business has begun
the upward curve. There are signs Of
recovery everywhere and many believe
that the lowest depths Of the valley are
behind. A like census, taken today,
would obviously reduce the figures.
Winter has passed and Spring has come.
But balm of this sort means nothing
II 1t is applied as mere healing lotion.
The knowledge that the worst is over
is scant comfort if it means that the
climb to another peak must be followed
by q descent even more rapid, and to
lower levels, than the last The chief
problem before the Nation today is to
fill up the swamps and morasses Of de-
preston in advance and to prevent the
repetition of such figures as those just
revealed.
It is a task that should call for the
most intelligent and able leadership the
country can supply. 1t has already be-
come the chief theme of discussion, and
there are favorable signs, such as the
enactment Of the Wagner legislation, the
progress of public works projects. the
study of such partial remedies as un-
employment insurance, that the problem
has already left the category Of mystic
rious phenomena and has assumed the
tangible proportions of question that
can be sensibly answered. There is nc
doubt thst a practical solution exists
and eventually will be found. The
danger is that rapid recovery from the
late depression will lessen the demand
for it. The system abhors medicinal
remedies when it is sound and healthy.
The Department Of Commerce figures
show a tremendous increase Of l49 per
cent over the unemployment statistics
first announced by the Census Bureau
for April of last year. The increase is
explained by the monthly change Of
figures, which mounted rather steadily
until January of this year. While the
count this last time was confined 10
nineteen cities, the Department Of
Commerce estimated the increase for
the country as a whole by applying TO
its previous totals the percentages OF
increase actually noted in each of the
nineteen cities. There is thus avoided
the danger that might have resulted
from any tendency to un&errate the
situation. AS the unemployed popula-
ton has drifted to the big cites, sur
rounding which are the industrial estab-
lishments most seriously affected by the
slump, the latest figures undoubtedly
represent the condition accurately.