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Grain Market

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, August PA wave Of
LIQUIDATION swept over the grain markets
today after a comparatively steady
opening. and all deliveries of an grains.
with the exception Of March wheat,
sold at the seasons lowest levels Corn
sold at the lowest price since 1900,
wheat since 1882 and oats since August,
1897. Wheat showed rather stubborn
resistance to pressure. and at the ex-
trsme low was only 33s cents q bushei
below last weeks highest price.
The resignation of the British cabi-
net had only q transient effect IN the
market here. September com Did un-
der 40 cents.
Wheat closed weak, sia1A cents
lower; corn. 3sai4 OF; cats, lass
down, and provisions showing to 20
raV1fe 1ree
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New York Cotton


Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, August 24.-An active
covering movement advanced cotton
prices on the Liverpool, New York and
New Orleans exchanges today, October
selling half O cent above low prices Of
last week and ending the day with
gain OF 20 to AZ points.
It was estimated that concentrating
lines involving nearly 100000 bales were
covered during the morning, and I'M
certainty over the change In government
in Great Britain maintained o steady
market throughout the day. spots were
advanced 30 points to 7.05.
Cotton range
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W0TK WHeEe MdHy SU-CdIIeu MUueIH dnu
scientific methods have failed. After all,
most commercial transactions are. in the
final analysis, effected by the exchange Of
goods or their equivalent Gold is merely a
symbol revered by the multitude because Of
the power it yields.
Attention was called recently to the trans
action between Persia and Sweden, the latter
furnishing railway materials in exchange for
Persian products and the suggestion was
then advanced that similar deals should be
worked out between the United States and
her Southern neighbors.
The Brazilian-American deal may mark
the beginning of a number of transactions
which are likely to prove very constructive.
To be sure, the coffee trade may possibly re-
sent the arrangement for fear that the mar
ket might be affected somewhat adversely,
since consumption of coffee In the United
States is at or near its peak
However, ultimately che deal should prove
beneficial not only to Brazil and the rela-
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uuences of large accumulation Of the
yellow metal
If nations whose obligations abroad
are heavy do not possess the gold with
which to meet payments. they have
to resort to other measures IL they are
anxious to carry out provisions Of loan
contracts. Uruguay belongs in this
class. In order TO reduce her COM
mercial deficit she is taking some very
drastic steps, including the suspension
for one month Of the importation of
long list Of articles, including many
Of American manufacture, such as au-
tonobiles. radio sets. electric refriger-
ators and monographs:
(copyright, 1881. by the North American
Newspaper Alliance. Inc)
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Extent of Stock Loss.

NEW YORK. August "a Especially -
The market value of so representative
stocks listed on the New York Exchange
at the close OF the week ended satur-
day, August %, was sI5,247, 322. 36s, q
decrease Of tT73,s7a. 7ss. approximately
5.07 per cent under the value OF $Ie,-
o20, 6s6,158 at the close Of the preceding
week. according to q compilation by
Paul H. Davis a. Co.
This compares with s24,eDS. $50. 47e.
the value Of the shares at the close Of
the corresponding week in 1880.
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New Capital Market.

NEW YORK, August "A Special -
This week promises TO be as quiet
IN the new capital market as last
Offerings scheduled for issue IN the
next six market sessions total slightly
more than 5000 GOO While there may
be few more than this, there is a
chance that it viii be the smallest
weeks total of the year. Today about
81 500, 900 was put out. or this $685.
900 consisted Of small municipal offer
fngs and s635 900 was a real estate
offering. One issue that may be put
out IN the next few days is 5000
900 of Interstate Power Co. of Della
ware 5 per cent bonds. due 1887.
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METAL MARKET.

NEW YORK. August "a (P).-Copper
quiet; electrolytic spot and future 7ha
tx. Tin steady: spot and near
by. $3.50: future. $500. Iron
steady: No. 2 fob. Eastern Penn
sylvania, l5.50a16.50; Buffalo, l5O0a
1900; Alabama, l100al3.00. Lead
steady; spot New York, 4.40; East st.
Louis, 4.22 Zinc quiet, East st. Louis,
spot and future, $50 Anthony, spot.
$50. Quicksilver, SO. o0aS5. 90.
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Lambert Company.
NEW YORK. August "a fSu

NEW YORK, August "a Especially -
A tussle between professional bulls and
bears. in which for the time the former
seem to be victorious, explains the IN
creased activity In Lambert Co. stock.
A new group that has started opera
tons IN the upside Of the stock Is re-
spcnsible for statements about the
while the bear pool continues to cast
doubt on the payment In the trade.
Il Is said the eonapanyse July sales
we're above those Of thu tkAfzae month q
year aeo. which Il likely 70 BE- en-
plaasiNea hg the group working Ter
higher quotations en- the st0ck.
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lively small number Of coffee growing countries but to
States well and the much number of wheat producing
nations
Concerning Oil Mergers.
United States returning
result of the Federal anti action 1911
into being
RECONCILIATION in least original company
process OF being worked TWO units comprising the Standard
Oil Co. New Standard of California
be discussing which would
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Markets at a Glance

NEW YORK. August "a tP).-Stocks
heavy; rails record new lows Bonds
irregular; rails strengthened In late
rally Curb heavy: changes narrow IN
dull trading Foreign exchanges irregu-
lar: sterling steady, French franc says.
Cotton higher: firm cables and small
ginnings. Sugar lower; easier spot
market. Coffee easy: European selling.
CHICAGO, August "A 9F9.-Wheat
easy: large increase visible supply
sympathy with corn. Corn easy; large
receipts. beneficial rains Kansas Cattle
steady to lower. Hogs lower.
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MONEY MARKET.

NEW YORK, August "a lR).--Call
money steady at IA per cent all day.
Time loans steady; 1920 days. l4a1 " !;
4 months, 1hal34; SIS months, IA az
per cent Prime commercial paper, 1A
az. Bankers acceptances unchanged:
30 days, 1a1M; 5000 days, 1a1T;
months, I6al; SIS months, 13sa1H.
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BY the Associated Press.
Reports at the Bureau of Mines indi-
cate there were los coal mine fatali-
ties in July, an increase of l8 over
the previous month, but so less than
for the same month last year.
Production of coal during the month
waS 33,744, 900 tons, approximately the
same as the previous period The
death rate per million tons was 3.11
in July. as compared with 3.34 for July
Of last year.
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CHECK TOTAL GAINS.
Ry the Associated Press.

KA5oUNLutEN
Checks cashed on individual bank &C.
counts in 265 leading cities of the Fed
era1 reserve system recorded an in
crease of per cent during the week
ended August 10. as compard with the
previous week. Total debts, for COM
parable periods, follow, as calculated by
the board:
Week ended August 49,. So, 688, 146, 900
Previous week. ...... So, 480, 1863 900
Same week last year. $11, 443, 528 900
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CHICAGO STOCK MARKET

~ the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. August 24.-FoIlowing Is
the complete oficial list Of transac-
tfnns 10 stocks on the Chicago Stock
Exchange today:
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The present form Of export credit
insurance, as ofiered by the export
credit guarantee department OF the
British Board Of Trade. represents an
extension of the third attempt OF the
specifically to stimulate
British export business by offering as
sistance In connection with the finan-
cIal end Of transactions says H. r.
Hungerford, Office of commercial at
tacne. London, writing in the current
issue OF Commerce Reports.
Re-establishment of British trade In
areas composing chiefly the new states
of central and southeastern Europe
appears to have been the main pIIr-
pose of the original scheme, which
was an early postwar service under
which the Board of Trade was author
lied to make cash advances in respect
to goods exported to specified countries.
Anxiety over the unemployment situa-
ton in Great Britain probably was the
paramount consideration In the second
phase of the undertaking, which took
form more like the normal method
of financing trade. Finally, the busi-
ness has evolved and been refined into
more thoroughgoing and acceptable
practice 10 meet normal business risk
anu. EDiaoCQlEAltAy, WAbtA AESGIdhASC A4t0
financial aspects increasingly command
ing the attention OF exporter and
banker At the same time the pro-
cedure has been stmpltfied, in the light
of experience gained, TO meet more
readily the requirements Of the trade.
First Undertaking.
The first undertaking initiated in
1919 took the form Of cash advances
by the government TO exporters against
their shipments to certain central and
southeastern European countries, then
in need Of economic rehabilitation and
therefore requiring special treatment in
order to develop the maximum amount
Of business The governing act OF Par
Lament limited the total amount that
might be outstanding as advances at
any time to $4,000 900 pounds.
The advances scheme was not broadly
employed and was replaced In 1921 by
government undertaking to guaran-
tee, by Endorsement and for premium,
the payment of percentage Of the face
value Of bills drawn by British exporters
In connection with their shipm ents to
countries specified Ia the original act
and to these Of the British Empire.
Later In the year this scheme was
exhanded BY Parliament for possible
application to business with importers
IN all countries, though In admfnistxa-
tioFi the government excluded from hs
operation exports to British India, Cey-
Ion, the Straits Settlements and thu
Par East. where large stocks were stid
to be unabsoFbed. and to- Russia. II
1895. All az these. except Russla' were
inclutcd for business n machinery mnc
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BRAZILIAN american Deal in Coffee ard Wheat Seen
as Beginning Of Like Transactions, Which Are
Likely to Prove Very Constructive.
BY DIR. MAX wINKLER.


situation method of
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Dividend rates dollars
nual Eek dividend.
Payaee in ustrnent
N h in
Plus in k Plus n m IN
81 In stock year-no regular rate
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BONDS.
5000 Insult uta es 1870. s2ss STA si7s
1000 chi Ry ctfs SIS 1877 81 SO So
Bond sales today, $1,000.
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NEW YORK CURB MARKET : s.: Z. :s, s.: s *.
Note-AN stocks are sold In one hundred share lots
excepting those Designated by the letter tses 5os

s st0ss I md. az ssi nn Oman High Low Oh
The Washington times., 1931-01-16
Not a "Stacked" Committee
But Seeks Backing

Although the special House committee DistrictF Federal
fiscal relations resents all intmaton that is stacked
against District taxpayers has employed through approval
Of the House. Detroit consun to study District tax af
fairs as compared with those of other American cities
This special committee had expected much aid and comfort
for its tax views Bureau of Efficiency but when that
bureau through experts made report not so satstac
tory the committee decided seek elsewhere for possible sup
port of its views It may not get what it hopes for.
We are reminded mental experts who testify in crm
nal trials nvolvng alleged insanity When the fees are large
enough these experts find much material favorable to the
cause they employed to back up
There are volumes of testimony and statements Congress
on taxation here and elsewhere yet virtually impossible to
make just comparison.
To begin with Washington probably the only large city in
the country without bonded debt which many cities
nav large interest returns heavy cost taxpayers
This city controlled and bossed by master politicians
who get in graft and eoffs immense that add to the
tax burdens.
Our close to full value In mosn
politically corrupt cities the assessments low and the tax
rates high high but assessments are
There is honesty the administration OF our municipal al
fairs and low real not given political
or other favorites.
The District government is UNLIKE any other in the world
IN hundreds ways How informative comparisons OF real
value to be made?
The Washington times., 1931-01-16
ONCE-OVERS
For Cheating Help-seekers

Va SACOSAAA6 1ASAE
In times of depression in busi-
ness, if there is anything to the
milk of human kindness it
shows up in those who are not
in need themselves.
There is a general softening
of the spirit.
Even those who are right on
the edge of disaster are ready to
do something for those who are
worse off, out of sympathy.
Naturally, the one who gives
is interested in seeing how much
he or she has helped and how.
If a man is helped to a sum
Of money to care for his wife in
the hospital, and it becomes
known that he used some Of
that money to outfit himself or
take a LITTLE trip, somebody Is
going to be sore.
Perhaps the giver was in need
of clothes and a little trip.
Next time he is going to give
less or not at all.
Bonafide suffering or need
would always find succor If it
were not for the leeches who
grasp all and a little more from
those who will help.
When a man asks for help to
put food in his children's mouths
and takes it and uses it for him
self there is bound to be q great
reaction against him.
The Washington times., 1931-01-16
Listen, World!
BY Elsie Robinson

they upset anything. The
youngsters Of Hi school age,
can't invite friends home. Her
husband, a friendly careless big
fellow feels like a stranger in
side his own door. He has to
go out on the back landing 20
smoke. It's easy enough to see
what will happen to that fam
lily within q few years. But
Mrs. Blank will never feel re-
sponsible. She has been a good
housekeeper and that's "the
primary consideration"
I know q man who thinks
about his business like that.
During the Christmas rush, one
Of the boys in the shipping de-
partment-a poor, half-starved
little codger, working at his first
job-tried to steal a package.
1t was only a cheap sweater,
priced $3.49, but the boss said
he had to make an example
of him "because of the princi-
pie Of the thing" So he had
him taken off in the wagon.
Even the arresting officer pro-
tested but business had to be
protected
Business and Bullets
And those poor men who were
killed at Thanksgiving, trying to
steal turkeys for their hungry
youngsters - remember them?
Business was the primary con-
Sideration" there too. Business
justified those bulletS-or did it2
often wonder what happens
to individuals NATIONS
who get to thinking like that
who become so fanatical
about PRINCIPLES that they
forget PEOPLE. Seems to me,
if I remember my history. that
PLENTY happens.
Copyright. 1881, King Features
Syndicate. Inc)
The Washington times., 1931-01-16

I've just read a curious thing
one of those things that
brings you up with start and
set you wondering. DR.. James
M. Doran said it. He's Chief Of
the Industrial Alcohol Bureau
Of the Treasury Department.
The Bureau, as you know,
poisoned industrial alcohol with
wood alcohol so you can't drink
it. If you do drink it, you'll go
blind and die-horribly. Now
they're going to use another de-
naturant which will make you
want to die, but you probably
won't. DR.. Doran admits that
the deaths from wood alcohol
were regrettable but, says he
"The protection of industrial
alcohol from redistillation and
thus diversion to illegitimate
channels was the primary con-
sideration, although removal Of
poisonS was advisable if that
could be done with the alcohol
still properly protected"
THE PROTECTION OF IN
DUSTRIAL ALCOHOL
WAS THE PRIMARY CON-
SHERATON - that's the
phrase that set me wondering.
I don't know much about the
rights or wrongs of Prohibi-
tion. I couldn't handle the
wet-dry problem if you gave it
to me. But I'm always inter
ested in watching results when
people begin to think like that.
A Religion Of Work
I know a woman who thinks
like that about her housework.
She's made a religion of it. Her
home is amazing-the despair
Of every woman who sees it..
But in her zeal to keep her
house in order, she's forgotten
her family. She's furious if
The Washington times., 1931-01-16
WISE MEN

Brevity is the soul of wit and
ted1ousneSs the limbs and out
ward flouriSheS.
Shakespeare.
Discretion is the perfection
Of reason, and guide to win all
the duties of life. Addison.
If you would not have af-
Fiction visit you twice, listen
at once to what it teaches.
-Burgh.
A good man, through OBJ
scurest aspirations, has still an
instinct of the one true way.
Goethe.
The most brilliant qualities
become useless when they are
not sustained by force of
character. -Segur.
The great error of our ma
ture Is. not to know where to
stop, not to be satisfied with
any reasonable requirement.
Burke.
The Washington times., 1931-01-16

General Sherman said war hell He stood in .
breadine in the piping times Of peace.
Ask down and veteran of the last war which he
prefers.
He will tell you In take the thanks every time
He hero then and wel-fed hero usually. Shells
and bullets pleasant but they than
cold and hunger and perhaps the cries of sick wife and
child at home with nothing to eat and little to wear
Shells killed you off promptly They didn't kill you by
inches, as starvation does
Nothing good for you then But apparently your
Uncle Sam thinks that you should not complain now You
your country lost your ob and ought to be
Of course Uncle Sam has given you bonus, which Will
come in handy in 1945 when is due Meanwhile you are
told that very dangerous to give cash You
needs it to enforce prohibition, pay the Wckersham
commission or something.
The Washington times., 1931-01-16
The Renting Problem
In Washington

Editor, Times:
Did you ever hear Of Live
and Let Live?" or is l. just a
case of Root Hog or Die?"
A vicious cycle exists here
that can be destroyed. For ex-
ample: People are living crowd
ed up in worse than the old
famous New York tencments,
while block after block Of
empty houses stare at you COW
cred with For Rent or Sale"
signs.
Try and rent one! For an
old dilapidated, antiquated,
down-at-the-heel dump of five
or. six rooms you will be asked
to pay $65 or $75 a month.
Some poor helpless fool rents
one; He moves his family into
the dark, damp basement and
is compelled to rent out the
rooms at $5 a week to ether
families of three or more to the
room. BY the time he pays
Tor neat, ugnC, gas, wafer ana
laundry and upkeep he is lucky
to get his basement for S35 or
$50 a month.
Who benefits by such condi-
tions? Certainly not the prop
erty owner. If he has more
than one house the chances are
that most of them are vacant
and going to ruin or occupied
and being ruined, while the ex-
cessive rent he receives for one
rented house will not pay for
the loss on the others.
Every vacant house in this
city represents a dead loss to
the owner, and you owners know
it. Why not recondition your
property, clean it up with a
little paint and paper inci-
dentally you won't have to pay
a laborer $11 and $12 a day
for this work as one badly mis-
The Washington times., 1931-01-16
The Earth; s Attraction
By Archibald Henderson, Ph.D., Del, LAD
Famous Scientific Authority

Bureau of Standards. These ex-
periments will be carried on
over a period of several years,
before an exact determination
can be reached. The method
employed is by means Of a pen
dulum. The pull of the earth
may be measured In several
ways, notably by the use OF a
spring scale or by measuring
the speed of a falling body. But
the most accurate method is by
means of a pendulum.
An Unsatisfactory Method
The ordinary mode Of sus-
pension is by means of a watch
spring, flexible and supporting
a weight or bob. For the most
accurate measurement, this is
unsatisfactory owing to the diff
ficulty of determining the eX-
act point of support. In pre-
cision measurements the pendu-
lum employed is usually sup
ported by a smooth plane resi-
ing on knife edge of agate or
fused silica.
The pendulum is Of fused
quartz, which expands very
little with rise of temperature.
To obviate temperature changes
as fully as possible the expert
ments at the Bureau of Stand
ards are carried out in room
35 feet underground. Moreover,
to avoid disturbing effects,
such as air currents and frlc-
tional resistance, the pendulum
is swung inside a metal case
from which the air has been
exhausted.
The time Of swing for a pen
dulum is dependent upon two
quantities: the force of gravity
and the length of the pendu-
Ium. Consequently, if two OF
these three quantities are nc
curately determined. we may
calculate the third.
The Washington times., 1931-01-16
No Equal Rights Here
Women No Longer Employed in Rum Arrests

Those leaders of Womans National Party who insisted
to President Hoover that there should be no
cognizance of statement that women are no longer EN-
ployed by Washngons liquor squad as nformers against
hooecpers Neither are nformers used in Federal
activities against rum ruQpers
From the strict standpoint of equal rights there is
doubted discrimination in this attitude of local and Federal
prohibition enforcement authorities though the work
rough and uninviting for women
It would be interesting have fair honest statement
from enforcement officials to why they refuse to en-
ploy women in the Are the evils Of the bootleg
game too contamnating and dangerous for women? Do
women lack the qualifications of for such work?
The Washington times., 1931-01-16
Letters to the Editor From Readers of The Times

printing. Statistics show us
that every year there are at
least, 1000 unfortunate persons
buried in Potter's fields, un-
identified.
Think of the grief and agony
Of parents, wives, and relatives,
who are waiting the return OF
their dear ones, not knowing
that they have been buried in
Potters field.
Statistics also show us that
there are from four to five thou
sand men, women, and children
reported missing yearly. In some
cases it is accidental death and
in others it is loss of memory.
Whatever the reason, you can
readily see that by far the
greater percentage of these dis
appearances could be solved if
those persons finger prints were
registered at a bureau Of per-
sonal Identification. .,.
What about the 100000
aliens admitted into this coun-
try every year? Many no doubt
are highly undesirable. Univer-
sal finger.printing and identify
ing every alien at the port Of
entry would soon stop this.
Many innocent men that are
sentenced and hanged, because
of circumstantial evidence, and
no positive identification to dis
prove and kill circumstantial
evidence. No one wishes their
dear ones to suffer this hideouS
ignominy. In the event of a
of identification is through the
finger-print system.
WILLIAM F. GROSSKURTH,