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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-09

Yates the open mind; never laughs Cd
new ideas; knows the secret OF getting
along with other people: cliltivates the
habit OF success: knows as man
thinketh, so is he; knows popular no.
tions are always wrong; always listens
to the man who knows: links himself
with a great cause; builds an ambition
picture to At his abilities; keeps busy
at his highest natural level: knows
II Is never too late to learn; never loses
faith IN the man he might have been;
achieves the masteries that make him
q world citizen, and lives great reli-
gious life.
Q. What kind Of shorthand did
Samuel Pepys use2-G. N. c.
A. The method employed by Pepys
Is called the Thomas Shelton Method.
Q. Who proposed the creation Of
| the hrst executive departments and
the FIRST amendments to the Constitu-
| tion?-D. B.
A. Madison proposed the resolutions
| for the creation Of the first three ex-
| IL amendments to the Constitution,
out Of which the first 10 were finally
adopted.
@. Did the United States buy the
land through which the Panama Canal
runs?-R. j. K.
A. The Hay-Bunau-Varilla treaty
provides for the guaranty Of the Inc
tegrity of Panama by the United States,
in consideration of which the United
States should hold a strip of land 10
miles wide across the 1sthnnus OF
Panama. The United States agreed
to pay $4,000. 600 IN &C cash and an
public of Panama.
@. How is the word "safari' pro-
nounced?-F. G. B.
A. 1t is pronounced as If spelled sahY
farce, with accent on the second
syllable.
@. What kind of a speaking voice
did Gen. Grant have?-C. T. H.
A. Gen. Grant had a quiet, low
pitched voice which was always well
controlled.
@. When the Baltimore g. Ohio Rail-
road was started, did many passengers
use It'll. T.
A. when Railroads Were New" says
| that in the first two and one-half years
Of operation, with "a miles Of track
SOC, 900 passengers were carried.
@. Did washington wear wig7--
! A. He did not. He wore his own hair
| powdered and tied back.
@. Who owns the largest tent IN the
| world?-O. S.
A. It belongs to Ringing Brothers
and Barnum and Bailey Circus.
@. Did Shakespeare ever see woman
acting in q play?-E. s..
A. It is improbable that Shakespeare
ever saw woman actress, since In his
day in England all the parts were
played by men.
| @. In what condition was the Venus
: de Milo when discovered?-S. r.
I A. The statue of Venus de Milo was
discovered on the Island Of Melos In
1920 in its present broken state.
@. When did Pancho villa die?-H
! A. r.
A. On July 20, 1928, the automobile
in which Pancho Villa was riding in
Mexico was swept by shower Of bul-
lets, and he and his three companions
were killed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-09

1t is frequently heard that aviation
Is only "in its infancy" An infant
that can go more than 300 miles an
hour makes familiar form of meta
phorical expression appear rather inept.
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AN other States and Canada.
Member Of the Associated Press.

The Associated Press is exclusively entitled
20 the use for republication of all news dis
patches credited to 1t or not otherwise cred
itSd IN fhis paper And also the local news
special dispatches herein are also reserved.
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The MystiAed Moron.

He read the mystery tales which claim
The worlds attention, day by day.
Till homicide. seemed like game
Which maybe 'twould be fun to playi
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-09

"Of course" said Uncle Eben, 'it's
fine to be yoh own boss. But don't
fohgit, son, dat de position Is ginter
leave you 'sponsible fohpaytn' ail de
interest Ia case . mortgage happens"
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Rate by Mail-Payable In Advance.
MARYLAND and Virginia.
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Preliminary Practice.

ut appears that you have become
involved in some conspicuous party dis
agreements" said the friend.
Don't let that fact worry you," re-
Joined Senator Sorghum. What you're
hearing about is merely some team
practice work to make sure that
wen all be fit when the time comes to
get together for the big argument with
the political enemy"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-09

Jud Tunkins says farmer Just now
looks at rough weather as something
like the medicine his mother used TO
give him. 1t Is not pleasant, but it may
prove his salvation
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-09

@. What kind of a speaking voice
did Gen. Grant have?-C. T. H.
A. Gen. Grant had quiet, low
pitched voice which was always well
controlled.
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The Age Of Mysteries.

Crimson Gulch is now a metropolis"
''It's all Of that" sighed Cactus Joe.
Don't you enjoy the improvements"
mot altogether. When anybody gets
killed now, the affair becomes q dark
and suspicious transaction. In the old
days when q person was removed. the
sheriff like as not approved Of the trans
action as being for the good Of the
community"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-09

@. Who owns the largest tent IN the
world?-O. S.
A. It belongs to Ringing Brothers
and Barnum and Bailey Circus.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-09

@. How is the word "safari" pro-
nounced?-F. G. B.
A. 1t Is pronounced as II spelled sahY
farce, with accent on the second
syllable.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-09

There is pleasure In undertaking
to reform our fellow mortals," said HI
Ho, the sage Of Chinatown. I'm con-
templating the faults Of others, we are
often enabled to forget our own"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-09

Washington's swagger colony Of West
Pointers, 4O0-odd, will come together
for their annual dinner frolic next Sat-
urday evening, March Ia. At the same
hour all over the world. wherever
United States Army officers are sta
toned, other local chapters Of the
Association Of Military Academy
Graduates" Win be making merry, too.
Maj. Gen. Andrew Hero. retired what
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-09

@. When the Baltimore g. Ohio Rail-
road was started, did many passengers
use it?--H. T.
A. when Railroads Were New says
that in the first two and one-half years
Of operation, with "a miles Of track
300, 900 passengers were carried.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-09

@. Did washington wear wig?--
v. r.
A. He did not. He wore his own hair
powdered and tied back.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-09

@. Did Shakespeare ever see q woman
acting in a play7-E. s.
A. It is improbable that Shakespeare
ever saw woman actress, since In his
day in England all the parts were
played by men.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-09

@. In what condition was the Venus
de Milo when discovered?-S. F.
A. The statue of Venus de Milo was
discovered on the Island of Melos In
1920 in its present broken state.
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@. When did Pancho villa die?-N
A. r.
A. On July 20, 1928, the automobile
in which Pancho Villa was riding in
were killed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-09

O. What is the record size for pair
of elk antlers?-N w.
A. The largest pair of elk antlers
recorded by the Government was pur-
chased in Colorado Springs in 1897 for
length of beam was 671a inches and
there were IL points. Seven or eight
points on antlers are not unusual.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-09

@. What constitutes an educated
man?-D. L. H.
A. William H. Danforth selected the
following from THE Marks Of an Edu-
Gated Man: An educated man culti-
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Q. What is the myth or legend con
nected with Burne-Jones THE Golden
Stairway"?-A. r.
A. There Is no legend connected
with it. The painting was originally
called THE Kings Wedding"
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@. How many commemorative
stamps are struck Of one kind?-E. q.
A. The number of commemorative
stamps to be issued is specified by the
Post Once Department. The number
Is not always the same, as there Is
greater demand for certain types of
commemorative stanns
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|WARDUR(Y WARNING
IN 1929 RECALLED
Banker ForeSaW Market
Crash Unless Speculation
Was Sharply Reduced.
speelal plspatch 70 The star.


NEW YORK, January 10.-Paul M.
Warburg, about whom all the security
public is talking for his assailment of
gloom and predictions of security price
revivals, is best known to the present
generation as being the outstanding
banker who, in the Spring of 1929.
sharply warned that terrific market
crash was inevitable If the Federal
| Reserve Board did not check rampant
speculation.
Mr.. Warburg, in the banking world,
is considered the best informed inter-
national commercial banker in the
United States. Sincere and deliberate,
his utterances are always awaited by
those who know his work in framing
the Federal reserve act and the valu-
able contributions he made to early
Federal Reserve Board history through
his service on that body.
Tall, medium in build, deliberate and
hesltant at times in his speech-which
Is filled with epigramS-Mr Warhurg
impreSSes his interviewer as a typical
professional lawyer His -coal-black,
flashing eyes add to the impression of
sincerity, while the shape and move
ment of his hands clearly indicate his
artistic taste and esthetic leanings.
Commenting on the inactivity of the
Federal Reserve Board in 1929, when
many thought that organization should
have raised the rediscount rate and
thereby checked speculation, Mr. War
burg said that 1t reminded him of a
typical villain of the old fashioned type
of German drama The villain appears
In the first act, knife in hand, and
threatens to kill the hero The action
is repeated in the second and third
acts but the curtain falls and the vii
lain has not killed the hero.
A patron of all the arts, Mr.. War
burg, who comes from that famous
financial family of Germany-and the
WarburgS hold the same financial rank
there that the Morgans do in the
United States-iS especially devoted to
music. His tastes in music, painting,
sculpture and allied arts are as con-
servative as some term his thoughts
on banking and economies.
The visitor to his Office might be
impressed with the fact that the wood
work there is unstained and unvar-
niShed Mr.. Warburg prefers the
natural lemon pine, with all of its
knots, to covering that would de-
stroy such natural beauty, This former
Kuhn, Loeb & Co. partner who organ
ized the International Acceptance Co.
back in 1928, is equally unvarnished
IN his thinking on economical and
financial problems. Perhaps that Is the
reason Wall Street has read his remarks
so carefully.
A brother, Felix warburg, is a part
her In Kuhn, Loeb & Co.
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Washington Produce

Butter-one-pound prints. s5as6;
tub, 331za34
Eggs@Hennery. sSas5; current re-
ceipts, 30a32.
Poultry, alive-Turkeys, young, 35a36;
old, 30a32; chickens, 28a30; fowls
heavy, 24a25; small, 22a23; Leghorr
fowls, 16; ROSTERS, 10; ducks, Is; keats
large and young, 50a60; old, 25a3O
Dressed-Turkeys, young, 4oa42; old
27a28; small, 22a23; Leghorn fowls, II
ago; capons, large, 37a38; small, 32a35
ducks, 24a25; ROSTERS, Is; keats, young
70a8o; old, 40a45.
Meats - Beef, 1Sa2S; veal, 18a23;
lamb, 19a21; pork loins, 81; fresh
shoulders, 20; fresh hams, %. Smoked
Hams, 26; shoulders, 1s; bacon, 81
Lard, in bulk, liz; in packages, 1872
Game-Rabbits, 20a30.
Live stock-Calves, liz; lambs, 8.
Fruits-StrawberrieS, 50a70; oranges
California. s;ooa5;Oo Florida, 2.5Oa3 SO;
grapefruit, 2.50a3.00; tangerines, 1.25a
200; pineapples, 4.00a5.00; pears, box
4.00a5.0O; persimmons, 100; lemons
600; apples, bushel baskets, 1.00a2.00;
box, 3.25a3.75; grapes, EmperorS, ESQ;
Almeiras, 2.75.
Observation-Disclosures 150-pound sacks
3.25: new potatoes, Florida, 2.00a2 so
mostly $50: Idaho bakers. 100 pounds
275; sweets, per bushel, 1.50a2 90;
Caulifiower, $50; string beans, 5.00a
500; egg plant, 2.50a3.00; parsnips
1.25a1.50; beets, per 100 punches, 5.00a
600; carrots, per 100 punches, 5.00a
600; tomatoes, 3.00a4.50; peas. 8.50a
900; squash, Hubbard. 3.50a4.00; mar
row, 400; cucumbers, Florida hot house
per dozen, 200; spinach, / 90; kale, 75a
100; mushrooms, 75a1.00; broccoli
3.50a4.0o; peppers, 800: lima beans
Mexico. 4.50; 1ceburg lettuce 4.0Qa4.50.
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BUSINESS POINTING
TO HIGHER LEVELS
Workers Recalled, Steel,
Auto and Building Industries
Are More Active.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, January 10.-Things
are pointed upward as the new year
begins. Business is getting back to the
job and starting out vigorously to test
the possibilities Of improvement, says
the Business Week in its report covering
the week ending January 10.
Workers are being recalled after shut
downs for holidays or inventory taking.
Steel activity has rebounded sharply to
the end of November level, with i'm
proved demand. Automobile production
continues the unusual rise that began
in December. Building contracts started
the year at an encouraging level. Most
other indicators have ceased to decline.
The business index has moved hori-
zontally for four weeks at nearly n per
cent of normal, and it looks more like
the bottom than anything that this de-
preston has so far exposed For the
week ended January the index set
tied at 1853 per cent, against 1855 in the
previous week, and 1872 for the same
week in 1880.
Commodity prices are stronger. The
stock market has begun to digest the
first course of unpalatable earnings re-
ports without signs of collie. Most en-
couraging of all the familiar features
Of the bottom of this depression is the
steady and rapid rise in bond prices
since the middle of December. But be-
fore we can kiss it good-by we shall
have to see how far present Reserve
policy Of maintaining extremely low
short-term money rates will be effective
in lowering the cost Of long-term bor-
rowing and stimulating real investment
here and abroad. AS soon as gold stops
coming to this country and France we
can do so with enthusiasm.
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Special Dispatch to The star.

BALTIMORE, January 10.-The plan
of the Maryland Gas Transmission
Corporation to carry natural gas
through Maryland is an interstate
proposition, without any interstate
phases, Thomas r. Weymouth, official
of the Columbia Gas & Electric Cor
poration, told the Public Service Com
mission this week. Mr.. Weymouth is
the vice president of the Columbia
Engineering & Management Corpora
ton. the subsidiary of the Columbia
system, which manages all utilities in
this group.
According to Mr.. Weymouth. the
Maryland company will serve as a
link in the chain under the Columbia
system, which will transmit the nat
ural gas from the fields of West Vir-
Seaboard of the United States.
This company, he said, will pur-
chase the gas from other subsidiaries
companies of the chain at the Mary
land border, will locally distribute the
product to distributors within the
State and will, in turn, pass on the
flow of gas at the opposite end of the
State to another of the chain operat-
ing there.
AS temporarily planned, the Mary
land company will purchase its gas
1IOIu bIlS MdnuldCLuTGIS LlBIlt N
Heat Co. of Pennsylvania at a point
near the State boundary in Cecil
County and will carry it across the
State through Cecil, Hartford, Balti-
more, Howard and Montgomery Coun-
ties, linking up at the Montgomery
District of Columbia line with mains
leading into Washington.
Within several months, pending the
completion of a pipe line through
West Virginia and Virginia, the flow
of the gas will be northward through
the State, and the Maryland concern
will then serve as a link in line sys-
tenn furnishing Philadelphia and New
ark, N. j., with the natural gas.
In response to question from
John Henry Levin, peoples counsel
concerning elements of health and
safety in the pipe line operations, Mr.
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PRICES ARE MIXED
IN CURB TRADING
Market Trend Uncertain, but
No Large ReCeSSionS Are
Noted.
BY JOHN A. CRONE.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, January 10.-Fractional
price changes were the rule in today's
!, Curb Exchange session, which, despite
the selling wave at Fridays close, failed
to meet increased offerings.
Electric Bond & Share was down a
small fraction most of the time Cities
a Service which opened on a block of
4,300 shares at 1873, of %, held around
its opening level Many of the power
and light issues. such as Niagara Hud-
son and United Light g. Power A, were
virtually unchanged.
Market SelectiVe.
Public utilities, petroleums, baking
, shares, trusts and trading corporations,
and later the motors, furnished the bulk
of activity in the first hour, which
was notable for its selectivity.
The fresh cut in export copper quo
tations brought some slight selling into
the red metal shares, while the bid
I ding for certain gold stocks over on
the Stock Exchange stimulated inter-
est in that group on the curb.
December Ford sales and announce
ment of resumption of operations at
the main plant caused a renewal of
) interest in the Ford shares. Cord
Manufacturing and Stutz were the only
independents to display activity in early
trading.
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WILSON co. EARNINGS
UP 10 PER CENT IN YEAR
Special Dispatch to The Star.
GlTGAGn InrntInrrr 1 n IIIi1rn,.

Special Dispatch to The Star
CHICAGO, January 10.--Wilson g. Co.
reports for the fiscal year ended Novem-
Der /, last, a balance after preferred
stock dividends of $542, 444. Net earn
ings after depreciation and interest, in
Guiding minority stockholders portion of
earnings, amounted to $2,542, 1855. On
sales of $270,000,000 during the fiscal
year, the company reported gross earn
ings of $5,95l,740. The company's bal
ance sheet as of November /, last,
showed total assets of $92, 290,171. Cur
rent assets of $39,746,777 were more
than nine times current liabilities which
stood at $4,329, 009
In his remarks to stockholders,
Thomas E. Wilson, president of the COM
pany, said that net earnings for the fis-
cal year showed an increase of 10 per
cent over the previous year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-10
NEW YORK COTTON

NEW YORK, January 10 Especially -
Though trading on the Cotton Exchange
today was not nearly so active as on
Friday, the market displayed distinct
Steadiness, and the list closed 6 points
lower to 6 points higher on the day.
The major portion of the days bust
ness was transacted around Fridays
closing figures, and May ended the day
about unchanged. Spots were reduced
5 points to 1915.
Cotton range:
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ests, and the broad aspects of the stu
alton have reflected betterment.
Annual statements of many corpora
tons naturally are expected to be adj
verse, but the main attention now CEN
tiers in probable future developments.
Some industrial reports during the week
were at least moderately stimulating,
and general business prospects are
being more hopefully regarded. The
commodity price conditions still have
disquieting features, but even in this re-
Spect the present weeks movements
were less unfavorable."
Steel Trade Improves.
Bradstreet's says, in part:
1.-THE assumptions in industry or the
increasing of running time by concerns
that did not wholly shut down covered
wide range, notable being the auto
mobile centers of the Central West,
some tire factories in the same region,
moving picture concerns in Southern
California and a numerous list of re-
openings Of railroad car shops East and
West.
THE steel trade displayed a faster
pace on the productive side, some trade
against, in some cases, only IS per cent
in the last week of 1880. Generally
speaking, the iron and steel trade and
other metal lines, excepting mining,
have rather seemed to lead In these
assumptions or increases, whereas
metal mining and lumber operations
have not changed greatly.
In trade lines there is general agree
ment that the change from holiday
quiet Of one or two weeks ago has been
less marked. In fact, there are sew
eral mentions of statesmen being still
at home pending decisions as to terri
tory to be covered by representatives
of wholesalers and jobberS. Where in
formation as to results of inventories
have been aScertained, or where as in
retail lines clearance sales have been
feature, there is quite marked agree
ment that stocks OF goods carried over
were generally small. In relative &C.
tivity, however, retail trade still leads
other branches of distribution, as for
some weeks past.
Other Lines.
1.-THE weather and crop reports of
the week center around reports of frost
damage done to citrus crops in Cali
fornia and the very general report of
| Winter wheat needing moisture,
whether in the form of rain or snow.
THE metal markets show variances,
such as higher quotations for scrap at
some markets, with declines at others,
while in non-ferrouS metals, copper,
tin, lead and zinc have eased of. In
finished steel some higher quotations
have been announced, but the response
thereto is not definite as yet
1
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-10
GAIN IN BUSINESS
WORLD CONTINUES
Weekly Reviews Point to
improved Sentiment as
Plants Reopen.
Special Dispatch to The Star.


NEW YORK, January 10.-The cheer
full feeling prevailing in business as the
new year began has tended to strengthen
as numerous industrial plants, which
had either shut down or reduced opera
tions, resume activities, but the seasonal
aspects of most of the changes for the
better should not be disregarded, accord
ing to the weekly reviews of the mer-
camille agencies.
Dun'S Review says in part:
After the holiday let-down, some
revival Of activity is the common ex-
perience, and it was looked for even in
the present unusual economic circum-
stances. 1t is because of the conditions
which are out Of the ordinary that cur
rent developments are being watched sc
intently, with appraiSals Of the move
mentS made the more conservative by Q
fuller recognition of the significance OF
the transition through which the coun-
try is passing. Confidence in ultimate
commercial progress is widely expressed
but there is a prudent Discrimination
now to minimize the importance of the
impediments which yet remain.
Gain in Employment.
There are, on the other hand, some
phases that are definitely cheering, anC
prominent among these are the report:
of a larger employment of industrial
workers since the turn Of the year. Any
gain in that direction, however extensive
idleness still may be, obviously Is slim.
ulating, for it enhances the actual anc
prospective buying power. Recupera.
ton from a severe shock to bushes.
presents many difficulties, but the out.
look is being viewed more hopefully II
many quarters, although without over
optimism.
THE improved financial sentiment
with which 1880 closed has been con.
tinued thus far in the new year. A
| further rise in bond prices has beer
considered one of the constructive in.
f1uences, while the market for high
grade stocks has acted we'll The quiet
trading in the latter quarter has beer
<favorably viewed By conservative inter.