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Evening star., 1934-09-02
Chicago Grain

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, September 1.-Grain
prices fiuctuated within a narrow
range today, the market being re-
stricted by apparent hesitancy of all
interests. Early fractional losses
were erased near the close, however,
and some wheat deliveries showed
slight net gains, Influenced largely
by late strength in corn.
After weakening early, corn ad-
vanced to level fraction higher
than yesterdays finish, following an
nouncement Of a private crop eSti-
mate placing 1884 production of corn
in the United States at $4,000, 900
bushels below the average of four
other predictions announced yester-
day. The grand average of all crop
authorities forecasts for corn was
reduced to ], ,446, 900 900 bushels, COM
pared with last years harvest of
2,344 100000. Some buying of corn
also was influenced by a statement
that all the current estimates prob
ably will be subject to severe scaling
down.
Routine news was largely ignored
although good rains were reported in
many sections of the grain belt and
additional moisture was forecast.
Much of the days business consisted
of shifts between deliveries and even
ing-up operations prior to the holi-
day. Railroad reports indicated frost
had occurred in Northern Alberta.
Wheat closed "a down to "a up,
September deliveries showing the
greatest strength on the rally. Sep
temoer new finished at 1.02ha5a,
December new at 1.O31ka3s and May
at 1.047sa1.05.
Corn was unchanged to % up, De-
cember contracts, old and new, at
% to S0% cents. Oats were u lower
10 Is higher, rye was "a of to IA
up and barley was unchanged to IL
lower. Provisions were about steady
Evening star., 1934-09-02
BOND SUMMARY FOR THE WEEK
FOR WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER /, 1884
u s GOVERNMENT BONDS.

-l93z-
High Low.
1017 81 q
102 "a SO II
101 7 81 2t
101 2s 81 2e
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MORE STEEL FURNACES
TO BE IN OPERATION
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio. September
l.-More open hearth furnaces will
be making steel in the Youngstown
district next week, but production is
not likely to rise above 20 per cent of
capacity. plant schedules indicated
today.
Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. will
put five furnaces on the active list
next Wednesday. Carnegie Steel Co.
will add one open hearth unit, but
will work only four days of the week.
and Republic Steel Corp. is to resume
probably Tuesday with three furnaces
here and three in Warren.
Evening star., 1934-09-02
FOREIGN EXCHANGES,

NEW YORK. September / 0P,-Foreign
exchange irregular Great Britain in dol
mand. 49SL: cables. 4gS1a; 60-day bills,
4.97i3. France. demand. 6.6al9; cables
6.6915. Italy demand. $40; cables. $40.
80 80: Holland. 6S75: Norway. 25.OS;
Sweden. 2574; Denmark. 22.29; Finland.
Portugal. 4.56; Greece. .96h: Poland.
10 90; Czechoslovakia. 422; Yugoslavia
"a; Austria. 19.1Sn: Hungary. 30.20n;
Rumania. 1.02h2: Argentina. 1927; Brazil
.54; Toxic. 90: SHANGHAI $3.50;
Hongkong. 393s: Mexico City (silver peso)
2795; Montreal in New York. 102.1SA;
New York in Montreal. 97.s7h.
Nominal.
Evening star., 1934-09-02
Chicago Cotton

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, September 1.-The cot
ton market weakened here today after
a fairly steady opening and prices
slid of to points in rather list
less trading.
Operators showed q hesitancy
largely because of the pending textile
workers strike, and it was generally
believed adjustment to a private esti-
mate of a crop of 8,604,00 bales,
compared with 1892 900 q month
ago had been accomplished at least
for the time being.
Evening star., 1934-09-02
Mid-Kansas Oil
Acquires Business
OF Marathon Co.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
TULSA, Okla, September 1.-The
Mid-Kansas Oil & Gas Co., a West
Virginia corporation, yesterday sue
ceeded to the property and business
of the Marathon OIL Co., a Delaware
corporation now non existent, through
purchase OF It's trade mark and in
corporated under the laws OF New
Jersey as the Marathon Oil Co.
All Of the mid-continent producing,
refining and marketing subsidiaries
of the Ohio Oil Co., parent company
of the Mid-Kansas and Marathon
companies, will be operated as the
Marathon Oil Co.
Evening star., 1934-09-02
BANK TO OBSERVE
125TH ANNIVERSARY
HERE ON TUESDAY

CONTINUED From First Page.)
Evening star., 1934-09-02

Cash Grain Market.
Wheat, No. hard, 1.os; No. 3
hard, 1.0a1s; No. mixed, 103A
Corn, No. 2 mixed, s01a; No. l yel-
low, 8012; No. 2, yellow, 801k; !;
No. white, 821za83A. Oats.
No. 2 white, 54A; No. 8 white.
52A; rye, no sales; barley, 75a1.3o;
timothy seed, 17.50a19.00 cwt.; clover
seed, 1425a1875 cwt.
Evening star., 1934-09-02
U. S. TREASURY NOTES.

NEW YORK, September l R.-Prices
quoted in dollars and thirty-seconds:
Evening star., 1934-09-02
Commodity Price
Changes for Week.
BY H. N. McGILL,

Editor, McGill Commodity Service, Inc,
Auburndale. Mass.
AUBURNDALE, Mass, September
1.-Commodity prices during the final
week of August again bounded up
ward, reaching new high in the
index. Ordinarily increases or de-
creases in the price level are due to
a series of changes, but during the
past week one group was primarily
responsible for the upswing, namely
live stock. All other groups recorded
only fractional changes and review
shows that out of IA individual
groups 6 declined, advanced, while
3 remained unchanged.
Industrial prices moved downward
for the fourth consecutive week. In
duStrial activity, in keeping with sea-
sonal characteristics, is now theoreti-
cally at low ebb. Confidence is lack
ing, however, as a result of wide
spread strike prospects.
Farm Prices Steady.
Agricultural prices during the week
failed to portray any definite trend,
the price level being the same as the
previous week. The index now stands
rs per cent over the extreme low,
which compared with an increase Of
46 per cent for the industrial group.
There were as many declines In the
agricultural group as there were ad-
vances. Moderately lower quotations
were recorded for wheat, rye, cotton,
fiaxseed and butter as compared with
a week ago, while prices for corn,
oats, barley, eggs and beans were
somewhat higher.
Live stock prices represent the out
standing feature Of the week. Sub
normal receipts at primary markets
resulted in sensational advances that
established both cattle and hogs at
the highest level since 1881. is'7
Non-ferrous metals ruled slightly
lower for the week, rejecting frac-
tional price weakness in tin and
silver.
Ferrous metals also declined frac-
tionally, due to reduction IN the
price of steel scrap.
Paint materials were also lower for
the week, under the leadership Of
lower quotations for linseed oil and
rurpentine.
Fine Textiles Ease.
Fine textiles failed to gain. the in
dex being slightly lower than the
previous weeks figure. Only two
price changes Of importance were re-
corded during the week, namely, a
decline in the price of cotton and
worSted yarns.
Coarse textiles successfully ad-
vanced as hemp and tute ruled
higher.
Most important price changes in
the McGill weekly index Q926 equal
ling 1000 were as follows:
Evening star., 1934-09-02
GRAY GOODS INACTIVE.

NEW YORK, September R).-
Trading in the gray goods market
has turned dull, with few second
hand goods making their appearance
at prices lie of a cent under mill
levels.
Evening star., 1934-09-02
INVESTMENT TRUSTS

NEW YORK September l OP.-New York
Security Dealers ASsociatinn. -
The Washington times., 1934-01-13

Side by side in the same
newspaper advertising column
we find the following widely di.
vergent appeals to something or
other in human nature:
ARE YOU THE OBJECT
OF CURIOUS SCRUTINY"
100 NEW WAYS TO BAF-
FILE YOUR FRIENDS"
These cover quite a wide
range, but I can't quite make
out which one is directed at my
particular type.
certainly don't want to be
the object of curious scrutiny, I
know that. And yet neither do
I want to BATTLE my friends in
a hundred new ways. They
haven't caught onto some of my
old ways yet, so why should I
put out money for new equip
ment?
think that. on the whole, I
would rather BATTLE my friends
in a hundred new ways than be
the object of curious scrutiny,
although ! suppose that I would
have to expect q certain
The Washington times., 1934-01-13
CURIOUS SCRUTINY = = By Robert Benchley
By T. E. Powers

Of the way!" And, for no
reason that I can think of at
the moment, I put out my arm.
This was a mistake.
In a second, I found myself
walking very fast toward the
curb with my wrist hurting
badly. I didn't stop to look
back, but proceeded, half walk
ing, half running, across the
street in front of traffic, as II
that had been what I intended
doing all the time.
I knew that the two guards
were standing watching me.
probably with guns drawn, and
I thought that I heard the muir
muring of a crowd crazed with
the lust for blood. If I had
been arrested at that moment
I should have confessed every
thing.
So I think that I shall stick
to battling my friends in a
hundred new ways. I am not
at my best as the object Of Gu
rious scrutiny.
Copyright, 1884 King Features
Syndicate. InS.)
The Washington times., 1934-01-13

hundreds of employees would be added to the Govern
ment pay roll.
EACH AND EVERY ONE OF THOSE EMPLOYEES
WOULD BE SUBJECT TO THE SHIFTING WINDS
OF POLITICAL FORTUNE
EACH AND EVERY ONE OF THOSE employees
WOULD BE SUBJECT TO THE WHIMS OF POL
ITICIANS, THEIR SECURITY OF POSITION BE-
ING DEPENDENT ENTIRELY UPON THE INFLU
ENCE OF POLITICIANS OVER WHOM THE PEG
PIE OF THE VOTELESS DISTRICT WOULD HAVE
NO MEASURE OF CONTROL.
Political hangerson from all sections of the country
would be placed in the saddle THEY WOULD RIDE
THE LIQUOR BUSINESS AND THE DECENT CITI-
ZENS OF THE DISTRICT TO DEATH.
In contrast to this politically dominated and politically
controlled sale of liquor the licensing bill as passed by
the House would place the liquor business where it be-
longs-in the hands of HONEST CITIZENS AND
BUSINESS MEN WHO ARE ANXIOUS FOR THE
PRESERVATION OF THE GOOD NAME AND
GOOD REPUTE OF THEIR COMMUNITY.
is recognized by both vets and dys that the primary
evil of the old days the alliance between the crooked
politician and the liquor traffic.
The establishment of a dspensary system would not
only encourage revival of that niqutous alance-IT
WOULD INSIST UPON IT.
WE WANT NO POLITICIAN SITTING BEHIND
THE COUNTER OF A DISPENSARY AS HE FOR
MERLY SAT IN THE BACK ROOM OF THE SA-
The Washington times., 1934-01-13

No system of selling liquor and wine rise above
the character of those engaged in the business.
No greater safeguard can be thrown around the dis
trbution of such beverages than the nsstence that all
engaged in the traffic be of good moral character and
of good repute
With the sale of whisky and wine confined to those
whose past reputation and whose present circumstances
are above reproach the District Of Columbia any other
community can be assured that the business will be
honorably and satisfactorily conducted
The alcoholic beverage control bill now before the
Senate lays the greatest stress upon the character OF
those to whom licenses for engaging in the business
may be granted
It is for this reason that the commends itself
to those who take reasonable view Of the handling OF
liquor.
It is for this reason that the should receive
the prompt approval of the Senate and the ready sigma
ture of the President
The satisfactory results which be envsaged from
enactment of law calling for the licensing of reputable
individuals could not be foreseen through altering the
bill by substituting dispensary measure.
The experience of communities which have expert
mented with the dspensary system is sufficient to dis
credit any attempt to install such method in the Ma
tional Capital
If the Government were to be placed in the liquor
business as it would be under the dispensary SYSTEM
The Washington times., 1934-01-13

except that we were on the
same sidewalk. And, so help
me Heaven, I had no intention
Of holding them up.
But the minute I realized
what they were and that I was
within range of possible Sus-
picion, I began to act like a
bank-robber. Not a very good
bank -robber, it is true. but one
that ought to be put away.
I stopped short in my tracks
right in front of the first armed
guard, thereby cutting off his
progress toward the bank. We
executed a few minuet steps
back and forth, my expression
becoming more and more evil
and my hand reaching closer
and closer to the pocket where
I had no gun.
The second guard had, by
this time, Joined the dance, and
the three of us lodged and
ducked back and forth, with
the advantage now on my side
and now on theirs. The Sec
ond guard put out his arm to-
ward me and snarled: "Get out
The Washington times., 1934-01-13

amount of Scrutinizing during
my battling.
Curious scrutiny always gets
me down. I can be absolutely
innocent of any wrongdoing Cat
the particular moment), but If
some official looks at me sus-
piciously I am practically ready
to give myself up to the police
on the. spot and save all that
grilling. I get red in the face
and my eyes take on a Shifty
look, and make vague passes
with my hands as if I were
reaching for a gun. It is the
officials obvious duty to have
me arrested.
The other day I happened to
encounter two armed guards who
were carrying money bags from
an armored car into a bank.
There was really no need for it
to have been an encounter, but
that is what it proved to be. I
was merely walking along the
sidewalk, day-dreaming, and the
two guards were crossing the
sidewalk in front Of me. We
really had nothing in common
The Washington times., 1934-01-13

his Administration. He said
to his biographer, the late Jo-
seph B. Bishop:
"This denomination Of com-
bined courtesy and strength no.
where received a he0rtier re-
sponse than in Japan, Which is
both strong and courteous. I
regard the Pacific as home sOat-
ers just as much as the Allan
tic, and regard it as essential
to find out in time of peace
wEaether or not the fleet could
be kept there bodily. / deter
mined on the mOOe Without
consulting the Cabinet. =. A
council of wGr neVer fights,
and, in crisis, the duty of a
leader is to lead and not take
refuge behind the generally
timid wisdOm of a multitude Of
counselors.
There was tremendous op-
position in Congress against
the fleet going to the Pacific
at that time. In fact the
chairman of the Senate Com
mittee on Naval Affairs, served
notice that it could not 60 be-
cause Congress would refuse
to appropriate the money. The
reply of Roosevelt to this chal-
lenge of authority as Com
mander-in-C Chief was the an
nouncement that he had
enough money to send the fleet
as far as the Pacific and that
it would remain there and not
return to the Atlantic unless
Congress appropriated enough
money for the return trip.
That ended all further oppo-
sition in Congress.
Convincing Sight
More than one European
government expected that ia
pan would attack our battle
fleet while it was on it's way
around the world. President
Roosevelt did not expect such
an attack but he thought it
possible. Afterwards he said
that his point of view at the
time the fleet sailed was that
if the Japanese attacked it, it
was a certain sign that they
intended to attack us at the
first favorable opportunity"
The real reason Roosevelt
sent the fleet around the world
is told in one of his letters
in which he said:
81 had been doing my best to
be polite to the Japanese, and
finally had become uncOmfort-
ably conscious of a Oery, Oery
slight undertOne of yelled truc-
uIence in their communication
in connection with things that
happened on the Pacific slope;
and ! finally made up my mind
that they thought I was afraid
of then."
The Japanese did not labor
under this hallucination after
the American battle fleet Wis
tied Japan on it's way around
the world. They saw with their
own eyes that the American
navy was Gin good shape"
Copyright. 1894, The Washington Times)
The Washington times., 1934-01-13
Roosevelt Japanese-U. S.
History Repeating Itself
Bu James T. Williams, Jr.

History in Japan today is re-
peating itself, the history of
Japanese American relations
during the Presidency of Theo-
dore Roosevelt. Now, as then,
o Japanese war party was incit-
ing the people of Japan against
the people of the United States.
Throughout the year 1907 a
controversy was in progress over
the question of Japanese immi-
grafton and the treatment Of
japanese children in the public
schools of California.
r. RS Plan
Writing from Oyster Bay to
Secl etary Root on July 13 Of
that year, President Roosevelt
told in these words of his plan
to send a battle fleet Of the
Navy around the world:
81 am more concerned OUer
the Japanese situation than al
most any other. Thank heaven,
We h0Ue the naUy in good
shape. IL is high time, how-
eOer, that it should go on a
cruise around the world. In
the first place, think it will
h0Oe a pacific effect to shOW
that it can be done. Second,
and in the next place, after
talking thoroughly oUer the
situation with the Naval Board,
! became convinced that it is
absolutely necessary for us to
try in time of peace to see
just whGt we could do in the
s0ay of putting a big battle
fleet in the Pacific, and not
make the experiment in time
Of W0r."
About that time, a japanese
admiral visited Mr.. Roosevelt
at Oyster Bay, and, of their
talk through an interpreter, the
President afterward wrote:
."He (the GdmirGlD kept in
sisting that the japanese must
not be kept out saUe as we
keep out Europeans. ! kept
explaining to him that sUhat We
had to do wGs to face facts;
that if American ldboring men
came in and cut dOtOn the
sUGSes of Japanese I0boring
men, they WouEd be shut out
Of Japan in one moment; and
chat japanese laborers must be
excluded from the United
States on economic grounds.
/ pointed out that under
Ohr present treaty Ue had ex-
pIicitly reserUed the right to
exclude Japanese l0borers. I
talked freely of the intended
trip of the bGttleship fleet
through the Pacific, mention
ing that it tUould return Uery
shortly after it had been sent
out there; at least, in all prob
0bility. How much i'm
preston made upon him 1
cannot say.
After the battle fleet had
completed its triumphant trip
around the world, Roosevelt
was no longer in doubt that
this was the most important
service to peace rendered by
The Washington times., 1934-01-13
The Human Side of the News
By EdlUin C.. Hill

The wheel of History spins
round again. We are back in
a lottery frenzy not unlike the
one which swept Europe and
our own 13 colonies in the
middle of the Eighteenth Gen.
tury. France returned to a
state lottery this year, with
successful results so far as
revenue is concerned-also as
far as a coal peddler Of Avig-
non is concerned, for he took
the latest grand prize of $685.
900. A clever swindler came in
for another 100000 by forging
a ticket.
France finds now that her
government has been violating
one of its own laws, passed in
1886, and the powers that be
are working out a way to keep
the lottery in spite of the law.
Only recently, in England,
the Duke of Atholl paid a fine
of $132 in London police
court for conducting a lottery
by subterfuge. Seeking money
for English charities, and see
ing most of the loose money
flowing to Ireland. to the Irish
Sweepstakes and the hospitals
that colossal lottery supports,
the Duke invited subscriptions
to a charitable gamble invented
by himself. But the stern
British law stepped in with a
curt reminder that the Duke
was featuring a statute framed
in 1920.
Barred in u. S.
Lotteries are barred in the
United States ever since the
great Louisiana Lottery was
put out of commission. It
took in $28,OO0,OOO a year. Dis
tinguished men, ex-generals of
the Confederacy, turned the
wheel. But it came to grief be-
cause of the small return in
prizes, graft and shady stuff
generally.
Harvard, Yale, Brown and
Dartmouth used to raise funds
through lotteries, and the old
city of Albany once financed
the Indian wars by this in
triguing game of chance.
According to DR.. James S.
Taylor, mathematician of the
University of Pittsburgh, "even
when the odds are fair the lot
terry player pits himself against
the resources of the world"
We might add to that: "Not
only the world, but his wife. !"
Consider the case of the French
man, Charazin, a government
clerk. In this years lottery he
said to Madam Charazin: IT
have never taken chance in
my life, but now I am going to
before I die" He invested Sc
III smart. OuG POppCu AIo
number for $4,000 prize.
Stopping only long enough to
drink to his good luck in bub-
bling champagne, he dashed
home with the good news. only
to find that his frugal wife had
sold the ticket to the green
grocer for SO!
From the Roof of the World,
from the SUBMITS of the high
Himalayas, the Dalai Lama
passes to Nirvana at the age of
81. Three nations Great Brit
ain, Russia and China-immedi-
ately take alarm, for the Dalai
Lama, the most remarkable
ruler of the times, half king,
half god to his followers, mil
lions of Buddhists, was to all
Tibet the high justice, the mid
die and the low, ruling a coun-
try which has been a buffer
The Washington times., 1934-01-13
onest Men, Not Political Hangers-On Should Sell Liquo
LOOM MANIPULATING THE LIQUOR BUSINESS
FOR HIS SELFISH AND PERSONAL AIMS.

LOOM MANIPULATING THE LIQUOR BUSINESS
FOR HIS SELFISH AND PERSONAL AIMS.
The people of Washington want the liquor business
openly and honestly conducted by and honorable
Washingtonians
The pending bill provides just that
It limits sales by the drink to bona fde hotels restau
rants and clubs prescrbes that the owners of those
establishments before they obtain license must
prove that they of good moral character and have
never been convicted of felony
The bill provides for licenses to individuals, partner
ships and corporations with the character safe
guards) to sell liquor in sealed containers.
That that the good merchant the substantial
business man. the man who has contributed to the up
building and growth of his community shall be allowed
to add wine and liquor department to his store.
Does anyone doubt that it better to place the liquor
business in the hands of such these than to place
it in the hands of political hangers on?
The people of Washington, unable to express their
preferences local problems at the polls exercise
their right of petition of the few rights they still
have and beseech the United States Senate not to fot
upon them POLITICALLY DOMINATED AND CON-
TROLLED DISPENSARY SYSTEM
They ask the United States Senate to provide them
with decent system of liquor distribution HANDLED
BY THE DECENT MEN OF THEIR COMMUNITY
IN DECENT AND HONORABLE MANNER.