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Evening star., 1932-06-25
NATURAL GAS EXTENSION
IN NEW YORK EXPECTED
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, June 25.-The extension
of natural gas service to communities in
Central and Western New York State
is expected to receive great impetus as
a result of the Public Service Commits
Sion's decision in the Syracuse Lighting
Co. case, which virtually established the
principle that gas companies in the
States have the right to charge con-
sumers for the number Of thermal units
used instead of the number Of cubic
feet of gas.
With the way cleared for the COM
panies to capitalize the greater heat
content of natural gas, it is expected
that the Standard Columbia Gas
interests, which have established DOM
mating position in the gas fields in New
York and just over the line in Pennsyl-
vania, will lose little time in extending
their facilities eastward from Syracuse
to Albany and thence across into New
England.
(Copyrisht, lsa2)
Evening star., 1932-06-25
CAPACITY REPORTS
HELD MISLEADING
Industrial Board Challenges
Importance of Excess
Output Figures.
BY ]. r. BRACKET,
Associated Press Financial Writer.

Associated Press FINANCIAL Writer.
NEW YORK, June 25.-ExceSs Ca
pacity, that often castigated bugbear
of American industry. may not be so
much Of a bugbear after all-may not,
in fact, even be excessive in normal
times.
special study by the National In
dustrial Conference Board indicates
that so-called excessive capacity is
normal and unavoidable; that more IA
cilities for production must be main
tanned that can be utilized to meet the
ordinary variations Of business, such as
irregularity of consumption demands.
The mistaken assumption of great
Overcapacity, the board says. results
from calculations of production po-
tentislity, as if factories could and
would be operated to the limit at all
times.
New Reckoning Used.
On this basis there is often excess
capacity, but experience shows that no
such ideal regularity of production can
be expected. The board, therefore, for
the purposes of comparison for prac-
tical use, calculates that actual ca
pacity is not the technical theoretical
ability of the factory but rather its
actual best performance IN a period of
better than normal business. such as,
for instance. the best month in 1929
and in 1925.
Technical theoretical capacity of
steel ingot and casting production in
1880 was estimated at 68 $50 l81 gross
tons. As matter of fact only 40,699.-
483 gross tons were produced in that
year. and in 1929, the best year, pro-
duction was Sc, 6,433, ,473 gross tons. Thus
production in 1880 was about 40 per
cent of technical capacity.
The board estimates actual capacity
of steel ingotS, on the basis of the best
month in 1929 and 1926, at 57,522,0 900
tons. Total actual 1929 production,
therefore, was 954 per cent of capacity;
in 1880 1t was 6S.8 per cent, in 1881
43.3 per cent.
Similarly, technical automobile capac-
ity has been estimated as high as
100000 cars annually. The board
estimates actual practicable capacity at
6,367,476 cars. Production in 1929 was
84.2 per cent of this figure; in 1880 it
was 52.7 per cent; in 1881 1t was 375
per cent.
Actual shoe capacity was 413,184, 900
pairs. In 1929 87.5 per cent of this
figure was produced, 1876 per cent in
1880 and 76.5 in 1881 Estimates Of
technical capacity, on the other hand
have reached as high as 100000, 900
pairs.
Competitive Machinery.
In perfectly planned societv. tech
nical capacities might have NC mean
ing. There would be no or ( COM
petive machines and the 9th varia-
tions which business now m meet
would be eliminated or minimiz.
But in the present system SON. econ
omists hold it unfair to compare actual
production with technical theoretical
top figure. That would indicate in many
instances wastage even in the best OF
times of so per cent of capacity.
Evening star., 1932-06-25
Loss in Gold Stock.

NEW YORK, June IS LP1.-There was
net loss of approximately 81 ,486, 900 in
the country's monetary stock of gold as
a result Of yesterdays transaction In
the metal
There were exports of $4,000 800 to
Switzerland; 5000, 800 to Belgium and
81 SOL 700 to France, but these ship
ments we're largely offset by an $ll .002,-
600 decrease in the stock of gold under
earmark for foreign account. On the
import side the only transaction was
the arrival Of $l5,70o from Mexico.
Evening star., 1932-06-25

spread on better grade lambs to pack
ers narroweSt of season; closing bulks
follow: Good to choice, native eve and
wether lambs. 6.OOa6.25; best, CTS;
weeks top, TOO paid for both native and
range lambs; native bucks, 5.00a5.25;
throw-out, 4.00a5.00; fat ewes, l.50a
ZOO: few 225; choice Idaho range
lambs, averaging 81-87 pounds, 6.50a
TOO early in week.
Hogs-4,000 head, including 5000 di-
rect: steady to strong with Fridays av-
erage: l80-250 lbs, 4.35a450; top, 4.50;
270-z0O lbs, 400a4.25; pigs, 3.75a4. LOO;
packing sows, 3.25a365; compared with
week ago, 5Oa6o higher; packing sows,
25a40 up: shippers took 500; holdovers,
1000; light light. good and choice, l40-
l60 lbs, 415a4.40; light weight, l60-
eco lbs, 4.25a4.50; medium weight, 200
$50 lbs, 4.S5a4.5O; heavy weight, $50
$50 lbs, 4.lOa445; packing sows. me-
dium and good, 2T5-500 lbs. 3loa3.80:
pigs, good and choice, 1oo-l3O lbs, $50
a4.00.
Evening star., 1932-06-25
U. S. TREASURY BALANCE.

BY the Associated Press.
Treasury receipts for June % were
$3862 ,064.07; expenditures, S27,497,- =
323.61; balance, $594,8 6O,347.30 Gus
toms duties for % days of June were
$13, ,195, ,99384.
Evening star., 1932-06-25
Steel Ingot Production.

NEW YORK, June 25 [P).-Produc-
tion of steel ingots and castings in 1881
totaled 25,945 sol tons. compared with
4O,699, ,483 tons in 1880. the American
Iron and Steel Institute reports.
Evening star., 1932-06-25

Completion of the railroad connecting
Saigon and Aranya, French Indo
China, is expected this year.
Evening star., 1932-06-25

BONDS.
1000 w. B. & A. Railway 1st 5s..,. S
Evening star., 1932-06-25

Twelve-year-o Josephine Lewis Of
Drefach, Wales. has won $40 prizes in
elocution contests.
Evening star., 1932-06-25
NEW YORK BANK STOCKS

NEW YORK, June 25 (P)-Over-the-
counter market:
Evening star., 1932-06-25

Dividend n tab he
based
' "
u unit Of tradlng les; than 100 tParty
46 IN STOCK PAID this regular
stock Payable in cash stock Plus 81 Plus 2.
Paid last yearno regular Plus
Evening star., 1932-06-25
BALTIMORE STOCKS.
BALTIMORE, June 25.-

STOCKS.
Evening star., 1932-06-25

Effective today. the rediscount rate
of the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank
will be 2l2 per cent, instead of 312 per
cent, which it established October IT.
The New York Federal Reserve Bank
dropped its rate yesterday from to 212
per cent, while all the other Reserve
banks continue on 312 per cent level.
The most and the worst that can be
said of the situation as Summer sets
in. reports The Business Week is that
business and security markets are
marking time till something happens.
at Lausanne. Geneva, Washington, Chi
cago, London, Berlin, Ottawa, or what
have you.
For the June 80 examination New
York State banks and trust companies
may value stocks held as collateral
against loans at their average price for
the preceding year, and all bonds with
an investment rating of b" or better
at par.
Evening star., 1932-06-25

Banks.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-02-12
IN
new
YORK
!!'!!I Glib Swan

New York, Feb. l2.-Greenwich
Village, so long associated with in
iquitous goings- on. arty revels and
Bohemian whoop-la, has finally be-
gun counter ATTACK against all scam
dial mongers.
Its champion, If you please, is the
very sort of champion boosted by
every country side: good, old-fash-
Toned country newspaper. In the
basement of one of the villages CEN
trail points you'll find we editor"
hand-setting his type on such big
town items as: Eye Knife and Fork
Cafe will be closed on Sundays" The
editor, by the way, bears a moniker
that some movie gent might well en-
Joy wearing-C. Grand Pierre!
With group of loyal cohorts, G..
Grand Pierre would have the world
know that the riotous goings-on as
sociated with "the village" are staged
by phoneys, who drift in from the
Bronx, Brooklyn and elsewhere and
that the true villager is striving to
accomplish something"
X x Y
This flake" village atmosphere, by
the way. is perpetuated by so-called
artists masquerade dances" and
such-like, and almost everything
goes" The crowds, however, are
drawn from other sections of the big
town; lads and lassies who believe
they will see models and artists ca
vorting about in gin-soaked bacchan-
ALA. Most of the 'bacchantis" are
props, paid for cutting up.
X X X
The Greenwich Village ball is q
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We spend billions for harbors SO
ships can get in, then pass stupid
laws to keep them out. This is done
by q bunch of ignorant, cheap, self
ish, economic morons, the interests
who pay Congress to pass the laws!-
Clarence Darrow, attorney.
China today is the greatest exam
pie Of so-called unpreparedness.-
David 8. ingalls,, assistant secretary
of the navy.
We are engaged in q war against
depression-President Hoover.
x 4 X
We have no territorial or political
ambitions in Shanghai. = Foreign
Minister Yoshizawa of Japan.
* j. X
Ninety per cent of whisky prescrip-
tons issued by doctors are for bev-
erage and not medicinal purposes
DR.. Arthur D. Bevan, ex-president of
the American Medical Association.
X X X
Nobody is going to read all that
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Daily Health Service
BACK AILMENTS USUALLY
REQUIRE INTENSE STUDY
Rest and Diet Are Important Factors in Curing Aches

II the spine can be rested BY hav-
ing the patient lie face downward
with pillows under his hips, the op-
portunity may be used to apply hot
packs to the back to relieve the pain
and the inflammation. The patient
was taught to breathe properly acA
efforts were made to strengthen his
abdominal muscles so as to help dis
tribute his weight properly. A brace
was planned which helped him to
hold himself in the proper position,
and when the patient got back on his
feet he was taught how to use his
body more correctly in the sitting.
standing and bending positions. When
he finally learned how to sit and
stand correctly, his backache and In
digestion cleared up, and he was
asked to change his routine Of life
30 as to overcome his constant IA
tigue.
This record Is an indication Of an
immense amount Of study and the
care necessary In order to take care
properly Of q patient with backache.
The diet, tho amount Of fluids taken
and the amount Of rest are all i'm
portant. It Is not possible merely to
treat the painful point and to take
it for granted that that will relieve
the condition,
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traditional event and an old-time
villager, named Cynthia White, Is its
priestess. For some 20 years she has
been about the village and makes her
home at the Breevort, historic inn Of
lower Fifth avenue. She is credited
with having accumulated neat for
tune by staging two parties a year.
For years the mayor and best
known of village characters has been
Bobby Edwards. His ballads have
been sung in every attic and base
ment eatery and his soap box ukuleles
figure in village legends.
Yet the other day when Bobby an
nounced he was going home for a
visit, the address was found to be
Winnetka, Ill.
An announcement from the Hobo
College contains the information that
there is now a course in panhandltng
sarcasm and the determination of
parasites.
Mention of which recalls story
told about Jim Thornton, grand old
stage veteran, by Johnny Walker, the
film director. Thornton, way back In
the days-when, was frequently to be
found about the city's barrooms.
One day, in the course of saun-
ter about the swinging door resorts
Jam picked up disheveled bum from
a bench in City Hall Park. Arm in
arm he appeared in the Broadway
spots with his blowsy- looking friend.
But Jim's money had run out and
he appealed to fellow actor for $40.
The loan was refused. Thornton grew
indignant:
"You can't turn me down and en-
barrass me that way in front Of my
friend" said the old trouper. But the
other would not come across.
For the last time, let me ask you
for that ten. :"
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Alfred E. Smiths Candidacy
New York World -Telegram)

Alfred E. Smiths announcement of
his passive candidacy is all to the
good. Not because 1t necessarily will
make Mr.. Smith the Democratic
presidential nominee, but because it
will prevent Governor Franklin D.
Roosevelt or any other candidate TAX
ing the nomination in a walk-away
and on his own terms.
The nomination should not go to
any man by default. Mr.. Smiths an
nouncement will prevent one-man
control of the convention. It assures
the rank and file a chance to con-
slider and choose. That Is the demo-
cratic method: and 1t should be the
Democratic party method.
The effect of the Smith move will
be to make the re-convention cam
paign a real contest. Only in such
a contest can the issues be brought
out. That is particularly true regard
ing Governor Roosevelt, who to date
has been no more specific on issues
than he has been forced to be. But
1t is also true of other candidates.
MI. Smith Is so colorful as po-
litical figure that no drab campaign
Is possible with him in it. Whether
he kills it or not, things happen when
he is In the picture.
This does not mean, of course, that
Mr.. Smith is going out to campaign
for himself. His statement says spe-
officially that he will not. But his
friends will be active in his behalf
Why? We doubt that it is because
even his closest friends think he has
much of q chance of nomination or
election. But they do want him and
the group he represents to have some
voice in the convention. That is as
1t should be.
Mr.. Smith probably is powerful
enough to split the Democratic party
II he were determined to rule or ruin
But there has been nothing to indi-
cate that such is his intention. The
fact that he is becoming a passive
candidate on the urging of his
friends. rather than an active candi-
date on his own behalf, is pretty good
proof that he is not trying to dictate
his nomination.
Doubtless part of the explanation of
Mr.. Smiths passive attitude Is that
he Is not anxious to give the Repub-
ucan campaign committee another
opportunity to use the forces of re-
ligious bigotry to help defeat his party
and divide the country.
Mr.. Smiths announcement will not
put him in a good position to nomi-
nate himself. but 1t will put him in a
better position when the time comes
to help choose q nominee and plat
form representing his type of liberal
Ism.
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one might convert It into an air night
club, but then there would always be
the danger Of some man and his girl
having q falling out.
i X \
The United States and England
are openly piqued over the japanese
situation. It's q cinch that China
isn't very enthusiastic about 1t.
X X
Japan may drop out Of the League
Of Nations. Maybe with references
and a little pull Japan would allow
us to take its place.
X X +
Oklahoma sent IS more state
guardsmen into the oil fields. Alfalfa
Bill isn't going to be kept Oft page
one by any Oriental fracas.
q
In fact, II this sino-Jap trouble
gets much worse, Alfalfa Bill may
have to do something rash: like de-
claring the business curve depends
on bustles.
Copyright, 1882, NEA Service, 1nc.)
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be witch, evidently believe that un-
tutored tribesmen can be civilized by
sheer force.
Sixty scaffolds in a row ought to
make an imposing spectacle. The
surviving natives, whatever their pri-
vate emotions about the affair may
be. will at least be impressed by the
fact that the old custom Of killing
witches is not approved by the gov.
eminent.
SO, in the course of time, 1t will
happen that no more witches are
killed in British East Africa. And
the natives-whose mental processes
will still find nothing wrong in the
idea of killing witches-will, in spite
Of themselves, take on one more at
tribute Of civilization.
This Is all rather interesting to
mediate upon. especially since all
the rest Of us are more or less in
the same boat.
We have managed, without intend
ing to, to get ourselves into a spot
in which we must very speedily take
on the customs of higher civiliza-
ton or perish.
First we mechanical the world. We
made possible the production of goods
on scale infinitely greater than any,
thing previously dreamed of. We inn
proved transportation, so that all dis
tances shrank to fiftieth of their
old length. We improved commune
cation systems, so that every man had
the world for neighbor. We erected
an enormously intricate and compli-
Gated financial-industria system, so
that the whole world has to stand
or fall together.
Having done this, we failed to un-
derstand that a civilization of that
sort could not be conducted by men
and women whose mental outlook
was just about what the mental out
look Ct their great-grandparents had
been.
Our troubles today come chiefly
from the fact that we have not yet
been able to live up to this glitter
ing new civilization. Our minds, for
instance, still accept such things as
ignorance, poverty, prejudice, inter-
national rivalry and war as natural
features Of human society-although
our new civilization must inevitably
go to pot unless such things are elm
mated.
We stand pretty much where the
African natives stand. We must get
civilized or perish.
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81 TQ1yR2yAAY s.
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LLOYD GEORGE,C REPLY

LLOYD GEORGE'C REPLY
On Feb. IL, 1918, Premier Lloyd
George Of England, speaking before
Parliament, answered the addresses
Of chancellor Won Herthng Of Ger
many and Count Czernin Of Austria
Hungary.
Lloyd George charged Germany
with insincerity. and warned that 9
new war situation had been created
by swinging of Teuton reinforcements
from the east to the west.
King George of England and Kaiser
william Of Germany made speeches
the same day. Speaking from his
throne, King George declared that
Germany had ignored the Allies just
demands and the war would be pros
ecuted with all the vigor we possess. !"
Kaiser William said that Germany
would like to live at peace with its
neighbors, but that q victory Of Ger
man arms must first be recognized.
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BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor, Journal Of the. American
HR>As~~l Ap~ncfo tim


DR.. Brown describes the case OF 9
man who had suffered for some 10
years with frequent attacks OF pain
in the back. Finally he could not
ride in an automobile, lift anything,
or even lean over to put on his SHOES
without getting a catch in his back.
It was found that the habitual po-
sition Of his body was In the extreme
range Of motion Of his spine, particu-
larry low down on the back, ana that
as q result it took but slight effort to
produce q strain. Associated with
the backache there was long stand
ing record Of indigestion. difficulty IN
action Of the bowel, headaches, ana
nervousness. The man realised tnat
he had been overworking and that ne
was in general fAtigued.
At first 1t was difficult for the man
to lie in bed because the back was
more uncomfortable in bed than
when he was on his feet. However,
he was able to get good rest by plac-
ing one or two pillows under his
knees, taking the strain Oft the lower
part of his spine. Sitting in bed IN
an erect position put more strain on
the spine than when he was on his
feet.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-02-12

Ed Suckut of Bowdon, commissioner
Of the second district in Wells county,
writes to renew his subscription to
The Tribune and ends his letter by
saying: Hoping that the citizens of
North Dakota will go to the polls on
March Is and vote for honesty and
economy in our North Dakota govern
ment and leave the capital at Bis
marck," etc.
This is good evidence that the
Jamestown capital removalists are
going to have hard time binding
the people of the state to the facts
involved In their effort to obtain the
state capital.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-02-12

unemployment stuff, either here IN
Congress. or at Neutrality-suspicious.
w. F. Stevenson Of South Carolina.
Y X X
Any opinion that entertain on
the subject Of Americas relationship
to the League of Nations must De
such as any private citizen IS entitled
to entertain.-Newton D. Baker.
X X X
The installment plan, I believe, Is
one of the main roots Of our eco
nomic disorder.-Jan Paderewski.
= y y
I get so restless.-Janet oaynor,
movie actress.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-02-12

awfully anxious to keep me from
falling in love. Isn't that one Of
the things that other girls do?"
She glanced innocently at her
sister.
"Oh. Ellen, it's not that and you
know it's mott" Myra protested
helplessly. half laughing. ITS only
Tom Shannenberger can't even
support himself. He has nothing
now and never will have anything.
He's just one Of those men,"
II know that. Still, II I loved
him don't believe I'd let 1t make
any difference" Ellen said Sc.
riously.
A LITTLE pucker marked her
"a low, broad forehead. Her eyes
were sweet and thoughtful.
II know money is important" she
conceded. lawfully important in
lots Of ways. But when you think
of love"-she flushed youthfully-
"why all at once it's just nothing.
Ellen" Myra spoke with des'
perate earnestness. money Is "a
important in love that without It
some money, I mean. not q lot
love itself is nothing"
II don't for q minute believe It"
look at me and you'll believe It,
Lack Of money has robbed me Of
nine years of my life. II there had
been any way under heaven fol-
Bert and me to marry when we
wanted to, by now I'd have had Z
home-children-all the things 4
woman wants. Instead"
She broke Of. appalled, at what
she had been about to put into
words. Not even to Ellen could she
admit that Of late Bert had seemed
oddly restless and changed. bored
at talk Of that far-away marriage
She laughed nervously. apologeti
cally.