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CHICAGO LIVE STOCK.

CHICAGO. September 81 P,-(United
states Department of Agriculture Hogs
1000. including 800 direct: market un-
even, 200 pounds down. 1926 lower than
Mondays average, others and sows steady
TO % lower: top. 1245: bulk good and
choice 1g0-23O pounds, 122O-40: 24O-
300 pounds. 20 l2.35; 150-1S0 pounds
.60-l2 20: 310-350 pounds II 6n-12 90
good packins sows largely 10.75-1I.15: few
best | 20 early
Cattle: 5000: calves. 1000: strictly
grain-fed steers and yearlings very scarce.
hrm. selling at 1850 upward: top. 10 90:
several loads 1S.00-75 all sold on early
round medium to good grades slow. steady
10 weak; COWS and grass heifers steady:
warmed-up and short-fed yearlings and
Weighty heiferS very uneven, dull bulls
ana veaiers fully steady: best weighty sau-
sage bulls, 80: vealers up to 13 so: stock
er and feeders market fairly active.
Sneep 10000 including 300 direct:
Spring lambs mostly steady: native offer
ings largely 11.25 downward: top. III so.
tsiSing cs6;nng upward to 11.25 and 114O on
cnoice Montanas; sheep about steady:
native slaughter ewes, 35U-415. Strictly
choice light weights, 500.
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THE WEATHER

District of Columbia-Fair tonight
followed by increasing cloudiness; to-
morrow, slightly warmer; gentle vari-
able winds.
Maryland-Generally fair tonight
and tomorrow; slightly warmer.
Notwithstanding cloudiness and
slightly warmer in east portion TO-
night; tomorrow mostly cloudy and
somewhat warmer in the interior:
possible showers on the coast.
West Virginia-Generally fair to-
night and tomorrow; somewhat
warmer
River Report.
Potomac River very cloudy and
Shenandoah little muddy at Harper,s
Ferry; slightly muddy at Great Falls
today.
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FOREIGN MARKETS.

LONDON. September 81 dPl.---The stock
market was active and firm today as new
buying by bargain hunters checked the
liouidating movement. Rayon and to-
bacco shares led the upturn in the indus
trial section and international securities,
especially trans-Atlantics. we're in good
demand. Oil and mining issues exhibited
q steady tone and home rails sold higher.
Foreign bonds moved irregularly.
PARIS.-Electrical shares moved higher
and government bonds were in good de-
mand. Rentes finished with net gains Of
25 to 40 centimes and Royal Dutch ad-
vanced 145 francs. Suez Canal also
moved up S5 francs.
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GAIR DIVIDEND VOTED.

NEW YORK. September 81 (Spe-
ciaD "A dividend of rs cents share
upon the preferred stock of Robert
Gair Co., Inc, has been declared. The
dividend is payable September 30 to
preferred stockholders of record at
the close of business September ~,
without closing of transfer books.
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FAILURES TOTAL DOWN.

NEW YORK, September q tP).--
Business failures in the United States
fell to 139 for the week ended Sep
tember 16, lowest figure since October
1895, Dun & Bradstreet reported to-
day. In the five days preceding they
stood at 96 and year ago we're 1870.
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U. S. TREASURY POSITION.
By the Associated Press

The position of the Treasury septem-
Der is: Receipts, S63,413.4SS.50; ex-
penditures, $1S2 676.S2021; balance. 81
S13.405, 563 15;. customs receipts for the
month. 21.514.1 .19S.04.
Receipts for the. fiscal year (since July
~, $1,439. 975, 1859: expenditures. ST.
r24.O51, 9S0.SS, including S46S.357.-
092.66 of emergency expenditures; excess
of expenditures. S2S4, 076. S4399; gross
debt, 1856 $50, S62, 755 80, a decrease of
S14S667. .93610 under the previous day;
gold assets, $12,666. II 6.3S4.27. including
S1,135, 5,249.020.51 OF inactive gold.
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RUBBER FUTURES.

NEW YORK. September 81 p,-crude
rubber futures opened steady. 5 lower 70
D nlgher. September, 1S25b; December
Is.42-4L: March. 1S.5S-59. Bid.
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Mead Corp-Common share earn
ings, SO weeks ended September 4
were $2.19. against u cents.
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MONTREAL SILVER.

MONTREAL. September 21 (P.-Silver
futures opened steady and unchanged.
September. 44.4Ob; December, 44.15b;
March. 43.0Ob. Bid.
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Report for Last ~ Hours

Record for Last "a Hours
tFrom noon yesterday to noon today1
Highest. 20. 4:I5 pm. yesterday Year
ago. SO.
Lowest, A.. 5 am. today. Year ago, "a.
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest. 81. on August 90
Lowest. 10. on February 2S
Humidity for Last 24 Hours.
From noon yesterday to noon todayJ
Highest. 81 per cent, at 1:l5.am
Lowest, 80 per cent. at noon.
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NEW YORK BANK STOCKS

NEW YORK. September 81 lP,.-New
YORK Security Dealers Association:
Quotations as of . o'clock
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FEDERAL LAND BANKS

NEW YORK. September 2l OPj.-Fed-
eral Land Bank bonds.
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The Sun and Moon.
Precipitation.

Monthly precipitation in inches in the
Capital tcurrent month to date):
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INVESTING COMPANIES

NEW YORK September q fP.--New
York Security Dealers Association;
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Tide Tables,

Furnished by United States Coast and
Geodetic Survey
Evening star., 1937-02-26
Minskys to the Rescue.

Representative Dickstein's bill to pre-
vent foreign artists from appearing on
the American stage probably will pass.
Congress almost certainly must have
been tremendously Influenced by the tes-
timony Of such eminent supporters Of
the measure as the Brothers Minsky,
kings of burlesque. These valiant patriots
speak with convincing authority. Pro-
moters, If not inventors, Of that provoc-
ative form of entertainment known as
"strip-teasing," they have natural con-
Germ for the purity Of the theater in the
United States. Alien ladies, they insist.
ought not to be permitted to compete
with nativeborn beauties in public un-
dressing. The local girls, according to
their experience, are superior in the
technique of disrobing and wiggling; and
their rights should be guarded by appro-
pirate legislation.
But Mr.. Dickstein's plan is much more
comprehensive than the approval Of the
Minsky dynasty would suggest. Had it
been in effect in 1850, Jenny Lind, the
Swedish nightingale, could not have come
to Castle Garden. Her great contempo-
rary, Adelina Patti, native to Madrid, also
would have been barred In 1850. The
Evening star., 1937-02-26

President Roosevelt has Just disclosed
that he recently planted $4,000 young
trees at his Hyde Park estate. F. D. r.
couldn't possibly have imagined, when
he sprang his judiciary reform program
on February S. that he was planting
the seeds Of such trouble as has cropped
up for him during the intervening three
weeks. Despite opposition claims that
defeat already stares the President in
the face on the Supreme Court PROPOSE
ton. administrationists have by no
means thrown up the sponge. They re-
fleet abiding confidence that there are
enough Senate votes among non-com-
victory, though perhaps only by the mar
rowest squeak. Even New Dealers who
buoy themselves up with this hope
acknowledge the strong probability that
the White House will have to compro-
mise, to get any kind Of victory. Con-
cessions may take one Of three forms
acceptance OF fewer than six additional
justices, approval of higher retirement
age limit than 10, or a constitutional
amendment to be adopted by Congress
coincident with revamping Of the ju-
dietary. All these possibilities figure in
behind d-the-scenes negotiations now in
feverish progress at both ends Of Penn
sylvania avenue.
Never at any time during his four
years in the presidency has Mr.. Roose-
welt given a more vivid exhibition of
imperturbability than during the politi-
cal upheaval Of which he is the storm
center. His semi-weekly press confer
ence visitors and other callers at the
executive offices find him as invincibly
smiling and light-hearted as If he didn't
have a care in the world. He remains
as Of yore ready to join in hearty laugh
ter and engage in merry banter as often
as occasion arises. The President does
not volunteer any information as to the
course of the court controversy from
his standpoint, and has good-naturedly
but firmly declined to impart any inkling
of his missionary work with Senators
and other members of Congress sum-
moned to the White House for confer
ence. It would be a mistake from all
this to imagine that the President Is
nonchalantly letting things slide. with
out giving anxious thought to the situa-
tion's every angle and possibility. Pos
sessing plenty Of heavy artillery for both
attack and defense, Mr. Roosevelt Is
not expected to let shipwreck threaten
his program without resorting to every
resource at his command. All concerned
are aware that the New Deal faces its
sternest test, with nothing less than the
Democratic party's harmony and its fu-
ture fortunes at stake.
+ X
In these Washington days, when the
competence Of public ondcials Of ad-
vanced age has become q political issue,
special interest attaches to the circum-
stance that the Craftsmanship Of the all
powerful House Appropriations Commit
tee has just fallen to the oldest member
Of the lower branch Of Congress, Repre-
sentative Edward T. Taylor, Democrat, Of
Colorado. Mr.. Taylor will be 70 in June.
Another vital House Craftsmanship, that
Of ways and means, is also held by
Septuagenarian, Representative Robert
Evening star., 1937-02-26
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

into his left side, and then by the time
he gets about in the middle Of the
street he finds himself confronted by
cars which have made left-hand turn
into him.
This situation is disheartening, to say
the least, to the conscientious pedestrian
who understands motoring and Is anxious
to give the motorist every break" pos
sible.
What he would like is a break" for
himself!
If there were three lights used, as
there are but the middle, or amber one.
reserved solely for pedestrian movement
and made long enough to permit walkers
to get across, traffic might be slowed up
a bit, but crossing afoot would be much
safer, at least that Is the opinion Of
one harassed pedestrian.
n
Complication of lights upon lights
only serves to confuse everybody.
The result Of this total situation, in
which the motorist alone possesses the
power Of harming, Is that honest pedes-
trians now shrink from crossing at
corners.
It is an amazing thing in this world
how many persons are ready to attribute
bad, instead of decent, motives to others.
One Of these attributings, we fear, is
that the pedestrian is some sort Of
son-of-a-gun when he wants to cross
in the middle Of the block.
He is not!
He is just man using common sense.
In this category Of course, one would
not place the reckless Indifferent, the
stubborn, the plainly angry walker, who
has a chip on his shoulder There are,
alas, some of these, and 1t is these per-
sons the traf1c captain was appealing to,
Of course.
The great majority Of persons afoot,
however. including many car owners,
are plain folk who just want to live,
that is all.
The corner situation takes a great
toll Of nerve force.
Day after day the person choosing to
walk is confronted by situation not
only dangerous to life and limb. but
particularly enervating.
This constant threat at every inter
section
This power and might and strength in
the hands Of the motorists
And this very soft. very easily hurt,
mind and body of the pedestrian
The conflict is very unequal, not only
on a physical, but on psychological
basis.
The ego of man is hurt, too, that is
what hurts the most!
To think that years Of education, both
in schools and in life may be snuffed out
in second by some reckless fellow
without any real regard for his fellow
man. by some ignoramus without any
right to the handling of the motor
masterpiece he Is in, since he himself
would be wholly incapable of inventing
or making even the simplest part of it.
Well, it will all come out in the wash
some day, as the saying has it; it is
inconceivable that the master minds
which invented and now manufacture
better and better motor cars cannot
solve this threat to life and limb. 1t
will be mastered, as far as man can
master anything; in the meantime let
the master minds of traffic turn their
attention to the corner situation and
give the pedestrian a break" When
he gets break the motorist gets one,
too for ali men are pedestrians
Evening star., 1937-02-26
The Fight for Madrid.

International action in ringing Spain
by land and sea with sanitary Gordon"
to prevent foreign troops and munitions
from reaching the battlefronts has had
the effect Of plunging both loyalists and
insurgents into the most intense fighting
activities of the entire civil war. The
battle for possession Of Madrid, now
nearing the close Of its fourth month,
has been renewed with ferocity as
Frances troops concentrate their efforts
on cutting the highway to Valencia. the
Capitals vital and sole remaining direct
outlet to the sea. Strategic positions to
rebel artillery attack and correspond
ingly stubborn government defense. OBJ
servers describe hcstilities as the most
ferocious Of the entire campaign, due
to mutual realization that the issue will
be of almost decisive Importance. Ma
drid's fall, If the Valencia communica-
sar1ly end the war in Frances favor, but
1t would be moral disaster Of irrepar-
able magnitude and seriously under
mine the value Of the republicans hold
on that third of Spain, the easternmost
section, which remains in their posses
sion, including Catalonia and the sea-
port of Barcelona.
Despite these crucial conditions
Madrid considers that victory Is still
possible. Optimism is enhanced by the
establishment of unified defense COM
mand under General Miaja There Is
no serious lack OF food or munitions, and
both military and civilian morale has
risen with the insurgent pressure along
the Valencia road. Certain 1t is that
the defenders are performing deeds of
perishable glory when the siege of
Madrid passes into history.
Less favorable loyalist news comes
from the far northwest, where govern
ment troops attacking the isolated in
surgent garrison at Oviedo have been
routed in what rebel bulletins call "the
most crushing defeat of the war" These
report that recent assault resulted in
loyalist casualties of $500 dead and 10000
wounded, after two days of attacks and
counter attacks Government sources,
denying these claims, declare that the
loyalists are winning the Oviedo siege,
though at heavy cost.
In Italy, where sympathy for Franco
remains widespread, the view is now ex-
pressed that it may be Summertime
before he is finally victorious. Rome
military authorities think the loyalists
will make their last stand at Barcelona,
which is strongly armed and well Or
ganized. but do not believe the Galatians
will long be able to hold out against the
rest Of Spain brought under Fascist
control. Italians fix the end Of 1887
as the remotest date to which the repub-
licans' doom can be postponed. Mean
time, the only satisfaction the outside
world can derive from Spains protracted
tragedy is that danger Of general Eu-
ropean war as an outgrowth Of it has
been materially diminished, If not wholly
removed.
Evening star., 1937-02-26
Railroad Wage Demands.

A move BY railroad labor Tor general
wage advance has been anticipated ever
since the carriers began their climb out
Of the depths of the depression. Now
that it has been made, its size gives the
railroads something to think about.
Added to the twenty per cent increase
asked some time ago by the big -Four"
brotherhoods. the request of the remain
ing sixteen standard unions for q
blanket increase Of twenty cents an hour
would, II granted, increase the railroad
Evening star., 1937-02-26

Captain Of Q trafic squad in Midwest
city calls on pedestrians Ito use pre-
cautions and give the motorists break." I"
From this vantage point 1t seems as
If 1t is the pedestrian who needs
breakl
He at least will get a real break-of
his bones-if he fails to use precautions.
Where the man afoot needs a break"
is from the motorists at street corners.
There would be little jay-walking in
this or any other city If the pedestrian
we're not In imminent danger of his life
from cars rounding the corners.
He is supposed to be able to cross on
the green light, but this signal means
that cars are making right-hand turn
into him from one direction and a left
hand turn from another.
Very little has been said, and even
less done. about this feature Of the
trafdc problem, but 1t remains one OF
the great troubles at every corner for
the man afoot, who, Of course, Is every
man at some time or other.
The naive way In which mankind has
conspired to give all the breaks" in the
slang phraseology, to the man in the
car is an interesting study in psychology.
Since a car represents money, 1t Is
calmly assumed that the human IN one
is to receive the breaks"
The pedestrian may have money to
buy the largest car in town, or even may
have 1t, yet some brat in a SIS wreck
just able to wheeze around the streets is
able to make the other jump at every
intersection.
One of the biggest breaks" motorist
can give any pedestrian Is to permit him
to get across the street at the intersec-
ton without either hitting him or
soaring him half to death.
This thing Of being frightened for life
or limb every time one crosses at q
corner ought to stop.
Yet that is what happens to every
reasonably sensitive person at every
downtown corner when the green light
beckons him ahead
Then the stream Of cars making
turns from two directions often con-
tinues for such length OF time that
when 1t finally ceases the pedestrian Is
forced to return to the corner from
which he came in order to avoid being
caught squarely in front of the other
stream Of traflc when the lights change
again.
This Is an all-too-comm situation.
one known to every one, and one which
Is, no doubt responsible for much, If not
most. Of the typical "jay-walking" one
sees everywhere.
Often 1t Is easier-and Safer-for the
man or woman afoot to walk out
cautiously between parked cars in the
middle Of the block. or perhaps one
third the way along the block.
The cars are still turning the corner,
threatening poor pedestrians there.
Here the rush is over and often one
may cross in safety before more cars
get into the block.
Here, II one is forced to run for 1t,
one has much more room in which to
do ones impromptu sprinting. whereas
there at the corner there is very
limited area. most of 1t filled with
turning motor cars.
II the pedestrian is at the southeast
corner, for instance. and wishes to go
directly across to the northeast corner,
he finds himself running squarely into
cars making a short ripht hand ti,rn
Evening star., 1937-02-26

list of other geniuses Disseminated
against would have included: Sarah
Bernhardt, Sir Henry Irving. Richard
Mansfield, Sir Johnston Forbes Robert
son, Anna Pavlova, Enrico Caruso,
Eleonora Duse. Fyodor Chaliapin. Sir
Guy Standing, George Arliss and Noel
Coward. Banned. too, would have been
Fritz Kreisler, Max Reinhardt, Charlie
Chaplin, Mary Pickford, ALA Nazimova,
Bertha Kalich, Ignace Jan Paderewski,
Ernestine schumann-Hejnk. Rudolph
Valentino, the original Barrymores and
even the original Minskys
Consistency, however. is wanted. II
foreign players are to be forbidden, for
eign plays likewise should be verboten.
Shakespeare and Bernard Shaw, Moliere
and Rostand, Goethe and Schiller, Dante
and Verdi and Pirandello. Gogol and
Chekhov and Leonid Andreyev, Wagner
and Puccini, Franz Molnar and Arthur
Schnitzler, and-definitely-Gibert and
Sullivan ought to be blacklisted. And
with them, to be logical, should be brack-
eted the great philosophers-even Moses
and that Gentle Martyr who preached
Universal Brotherhood in needless Jeru-
salem. The very blood in the veins Of
Mr.. Dickstein's fellow countrymen is
flowing from foreign source. His doc
trine, therefore, does violence to nature.
But that fact does not bother the
Brothers Minsky. They have had
enough publicity for "strip-teasing" to
make them happy for years. Also 1t is
conceivable that they have impressed
the minds Of the peoples representatives
in Congress as they desired-in favor of
nationalism gone berserk.
Evening star., 1937-02-26

There is a certain advantage enjoyed
by the Judiciary over the Executive in
popular impression. Generous as presi-
dental hospitality may be, only a COM
parative few may hope to be invited to
breakfast at the White House. On the
other hand, In the course Of events,
almost any citizen is likely to be called
upon for one reason or another to say
Good morning. Judge"
Evening star., 1937-02-26

labor bill about $3e0, 100000 annually.
That is more than half the carriers net
operating revenues for 1886. It is about
three times the carriers returns from the
emergency freight rates, which expired
at the end Of last year.
While the railroads are sharing in re-
turning prosperity, about twenty-eight
per cent of the total rail mileage is in the
hands of receivers or trustees, while
almost half the class one railroads Of the
country failed to earn fixed charges dur
ing the first eight months of 1896, in
cluding receipts from the emergency
rates now repealed. Added to the de-
mands for increased wages there are
proposals in Congress now, such as the
six-hour day bill and the train limit"
bill (requiring assignment Of additional
trainmen as an employment measure)
which, If enacted into law, would require
outlays of close to billion dollars.
These and other facts. of course, are
well known both to the rail brotherhoods
and the other employees who have made
their demands for pay increases. And
In the give-and-take Of negotiations over
the new wage scales, 1t can be taken for
granted that settlement acceptable to
both sides will be reached without
benefit Of sit-downs or, other resorts to
force. Railroad management and labor
have learned the advantages Of the
conference method of adjusting their
differences.
Evening star., 1937-02-26

ries there q few years ago. But then
the La Toilette followers turned in and
voted for the Democratic candidate and
put him in office. Since then the La Fol-
lettes have left the Republican party and
set up Q Progressive party of their own.
How to get the Republicans and the
anti-La Toilette Democrats
Roosevelt has given his support to the
Ia Follettes in the last two elections
into combination Is Q difncult problem.
Evening star., 1937-02-26
A Rhyme at Twilight
By
Gertrude Brooke Hamilton
A Business Man.

He was determined that this year
She should not say reproachfully,
you've overlooked again, my dear.
Our wedding anniversary"
So to a florists shop he hied,
Purchased a box OF gorgeous flowers,
Bestowed it with kiss Of pride,
Saying, There Is no love like oursi"
A month went by; and one bright morn
Her face at breakfast was not gay.
''No special date?' he asked, forlorn.
She sighed, I'VE welded yesterday"
Evening star., 1937-02-26

There Is a spirit Of financial cheer
throughout the land as investors buy
our securities abroad and send over
affable takers to remind us that our
collegiate circles, toll as they may, will
probably never get their London accent
on straight.
Evening star., 1937-02-26

iniquity, with many colorful situations :
designed to glorify the virtues Of T. v. A. !.
In its various ramifications. Works Z
Progress Administrator Harry Hopkins,
who was q first-nighter, went backstage
after the performance, acclaimed 1t as !.
"a swell show" and voiced the wish
that he could take the piece across the
country during the next two weeks.
Copyright, 1879 -l-
Evening star., 1937-02-26

Abyssinia is at least permitted to be
grateful that its condition is not quite
50 cruel as that of Spain. The step
toward civilization measured by the kill
Ing of Ras Desta Demtu is problematical
If it leaves warning factions permanently
active. 1t was at least hoped that in its
local aspect Abyssinia might be the scene
Of "a war to end war"
Evening star., 1937-02-26
Shooting Stars.
Winter Song.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.

Winter Song.
Outside the window sings a bird.
Inside the room an empty cage
Hangs where his singing would be heard,
Our tenderest kindness to engage.
And yet he scorns the proffered ease
And waits beneath the sky so drear,
Lifting lay himself to please,
And confident that Spring draws near.
He waits to meet what time shall bring,
Reliant on himself alone,
And says, II only ask to sing
OF life and freedom, all my own"