Evening star., 1937-06-27

Secretary Roper Regards Current Strikes as
Good Business Index; Feels Conference
Method of Settlement Will Prevail.

manager Of the Controllers Congress,
H. I. Kleinhaus, stated: The revival
OF interest In things for the home was
stimulated by the financial assistance
rendered by Federal agencies toward
the purchase and renovation OF homes
and the purchase Of home equipment.
Thus. in 1894 stores in the field
showed an increase OF 10 to II per
cent in furniture sales. followed by an
increase OF II per cent in 1885 and 81
per cent in 1896. Sales gains in other
home furnishings are comparable"
So far as travelling is concerned.
American travellers this year are
credited with putting the steamship
companies once more in the black,
according to onicials Of the Cunard
White Star and other lines. Cunard
White Stars profit In 1886 amounted
to more than s2,5oo 900, "a pleasant
change from the 1885 deficit Of more
than 100000"
IAN Europe" remarks one editorial
"is beginning to be aware OF the
resumption Of travel on . big scale.
The thousands OF tourists no longer
concentrate on a few favored foreign
areas. but now spread themselves over
nearly every country on the map,
great or small
Mrs. Ruth shipley, chief Of the
passport division of the State Depart
ment, informed this writer that this
wear, for the first time since she has
been in charge-and that is since 1928
she has had to ask for q deficiency
appropriation to take care Of printing
the unprecedented number Of pass
ports requested for foreign travel and
to take care of operation Of the
division because OF this increased
activity
Industrial :, employment. post ofnce
receipts, utilities. petroleum and rail-
roads all show big gains.
D REPRESENTATIVE w. D. McFAR-
~ LANE Of Texas. In speech made
in February, 1887, presented some in
teresting figures rejecting the up
trend. The information was provided
by the National Emergency Council
First, with respect to internal revenue
collections for the United States, these
figures show an 81 per cent increase
in 1886 over 1888. There was a 1913
per cent increase in passenger car
registrations in 1885 over 1888. Sta
tistics also show. comparing the 1888
with the 1896 period, an increase Of
IS per cent In bank deposits In 1896.
a IL per cent increase in postal re-
ceipts, exclusive Of money orders. and
q Is per cent increase in money orders
issued in this country.
The Biennial Census Of Manufac-
turers, taken by the United States
Bureau Of the Census, indicates in the
lstest one available, covering 1888
and 1885, big. increases In all lines Of
manufacture. OF particular interest
and signifance are the figures for the
cigarette industry. These indicate 4
gain Of ~ per cent In the number Of
establishments; Of 0.4 In the number
of wage earners; OF 32.4 per cent in
the amount Of wages earned; Of 27.4
per cent in costs OF materials, con-
tainers, fuels and purchased electric
energy; of 26.5 per cent in the value
of products.
The clothing industry enjoyed big
increases, rs well as groceries, meat
packing industries, chemical indus
tries, automobile industries, printing
and publishing, steel works and
rolling mill products. hotels, amuse-
ments and practically every line OF
human endeavor involving the buying
and selling Of commodities.
On the first Of this month Senator
Joseph r. Nohinson delivered q speech