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BALTIMORE PRODUCE

Colards-Market dull. Virginia, Nor
folk section. bushel baskets, 3Oq 35c.
Eggplant-Market dull. Florida. half
bushel crates, L. s. is, S2q2.25; U. S.
IS, $l.25 lp1.5O.
Lettuce - Market dull. California,
crates. Iceberg. dozen best s2.5O@S;
poorer. s1,5OQ225. Idaho, crates, Ice
berg, dozen. $3Q3.25.
Lima Beans-Market unsettled. Bushel
crates California, S3.25 So
Mushrooms - Market dull. Maryland
and Pennsylvania, 4-quart baskets 40
q soc. few higher.
Onions-Market dull. Truck, Massa-
chusetts, 5O-pound sacks, yellow globes,
ungraded, 75c. New Jersey, 5O-pound
sacks. yellow globes, L. 5. Is, medium
size. S0NS5c; wasty, 500 65c. Rail: New
York, 5o-pound sacks, yellow globes, U. 5.
Is, medium TO large size, S5m Csc; small
to medium size. 75a soc. Minnesota. so
pound sacks. yellow globes, L. s. 1s,
S5q 90c. Michigan, 5O-pound sacks. vel
low globes. L. ;. Is. 81 1.o5 5O-pound
minimum. Colorado, $1.15q 1.2O; Idaho,
S115Gl25
Peas (GreenD - Market dull. Bushe
hampers, telephones, California, $2.25
Q25O.
Potatoes - Market very dull. Truck:
U. $. Is, s1q1.05. New York, 1OO-pound
sacks Round Whites, U. S. Is, 81. Mary
land. Pennsylvania, 1O0-pound sacks
Round Whites, U. 8. Is, 90c4$1, few
higher; ungraded, 759S5c; 1OO-pound
sacks, Long Reds, U. S. Is, 90c@S1
Rail: Idaho. lOO-pound sacks, Russet
Burbanks U. S. Is, $1.S5@2; Maine
100-pound sacks, Green Mountains, U. S
Is, s1.15@1.25.
Peppers-Market dull. Florida. IA
bushel crates. L. S. Is, s2Q225; RUBY
Kings and World Bcaters. 75c 6$1.25
Nearby, 1a-bushel hampers, $50 Csc.
Spinach-Market dull. Nearby, bushe
basket, Savoy, 22a q 45c; half-bushe
hamper. 25W3oc.
Squash-Market about steady. Florida
bushel hampers, white. wrapped. small
Size. s125d2 90.
Sweet Potatoes-Market steady Ea st
ern Shore Virginia, barrels Jerseys un
graded, S1,25d1.5O; bushel baskets, 81
q 75c; Eastern Shore Maryland, bushe
baskets Goldens, U. s. Is. $191.25, few
higher: Jerseys, U. S. Is, 90cg$1, few
U. S. Is Is q 90c, few higher; nearby "a
bushel hampers, Goldens and Jerseys
40 q soc.
Tomatoes-Market steady: California
lugs, green and turning, wrapped, U. S
around S1.75: wasty. $125@1.6O.
Turnips-Market dull. Nearby b-bu
hampers, purple tops, washed, 10000
EGG MARKET
BALTIMORE, Nov Egg market
Eggs steady. Nearby ungraded eggs
whites, large size, $50 sic; medium size
% n SOC Mixed colors, % 30c. Receipt
Butter, ISL tubs. Eggs, 140S cases
Prices include commission.
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fruit and DAIRY
PRICES DEPEND.
ON TRADE GAINS.
Federal Bureau Sees
Increase in Cows

1.N.S) Increased prices fol
fruits and dairy products depends
on further recovery in business
and the rise in the general leveI
of prices, the Bureau of Agricul
ture Economics, reported today.
The price situation was forecast
as the bureau predicted increases
in fruit crops, and dairy products
According to the bureau, the de
cline in milk-cow production has
been checked, and IAN increase
in numbers is in prospect"
SEE cow INCREASE
1T apepars probable" the
bureau added, that culling will
decline further. and that farm
erS are preparing to increase
rapidly the number of milk cows
and other cattle. Such an in
crease in cattle number will
tend to lower cattle prices"
The incraese in citrus fruits "is
likely to continue during the next
several years." the bureau said.
Orange production, it said, has in
creased from 30,000,000 to 58,000,-
900 during the last 10 years.
LOW PRICES SEEN
Low prices were forecast for the
1888 crops, although it was pointed
out that purchases by the Surplus
Commodities Credit Corporation,
for distribution to relief families.
might stabilize the market some
what.
Other fruit production is on
the upward trend, the bureau said.
"The average production of all
fruits during the next five years
probably will be larger than in
the past" it added.
At the same time increasing"
competition from foreign fruit-pro-
ducing countries was expected,
with the price situation in doubt.
PEACH EXPANSION
The bureau said there was dan
ger of over-expansion" in the
peach districts, and forecast an
average production for the next
five years of over 51,000,000
bushels.
A reduction in apple production
was forecast by the bureau. In the
Pacific Coast and Rocky Mountain
States peak production has been
reached and "the general trend is
expected to be downward"
In the central States, the bureau
reported, increasing production
from young orchards probably will
offset decreasing production from
old orchards for several years.
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strict industry and employment
that the dominating desire now
is for the return of confidence
cooperation. prosperity, full-time
employment.
REDUCE SPENDING
There seems to be growing
recognition that governmental
over spending cannot go on and
on without bringing dire results.
The world has had tragic ex-
amples abroad. A nation is not
different from an individual or
family that constantly goes
deeper and deeper into debt. A
day of reckoning finally arrives.
Franklin D. Roosevelt knew and
proclaimed this before he won his
way to the White House. Nobody
could have been more vociferous
than he was in condemning gov
ernmental deficits.
But, alas, nobody in all history
ever sponsored spending match
ing that of his Administration,
no governmental head ever was
responsible for piling up deficits
and debts remotely approaching
those spawned by the New Deal
After the elections, the sad
state of the our Federal finance
will inevitably receive more atten-
ton, more criticism. Almost every
national rebellion has sprung
from discomfort ever crushing
taxation. Thus far, the Ameri-
can people have been extraordi-
narily patient, docile. submissive
largely because ordinary folks
and families have been indirectly
rather than directly taxed.
NEW DEAL COST
But not even a majority of the
people can be fooled all of the
time. The terrific costliness of
the New Deal cannot be much
longer kept from the man in the
street and his wife, charged with
the responsibility of making ends
meet.
I am rash enough to venture
the prediction that Wednesday
will not plunge business, industry,
finance into pessimism.
I am rash enough to predict
that, if the returns are reasonably
acceptable to responsible citizens,
an aggressive upward movement
will set in, first, in securities,
later, in business and employment.
And that it will go far.
Copyright, 1885, by B. c. Forbes)
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BY the Z. y. bureau OI
Economics
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Washington
Eggs Market steady. Government
graded and dated eggs: Whites, U. s..
extras, large, 42c: U. S. extras, mediums
29c; U. S. Standards. large. 35hc; U. s..
standards. mediums. 26ac; U. 8. trades.
261ac; pllets 24c. Nearby ungraded
eggs: Current receipts, whites $40 :;
mixed colors. 26@27c.
Live Poultry-Market steady Fowl:
Colored. all Sizes 15917c: No. Is II
@13c: Leghorns. 12@1Sc; roosters. 100
lie. Chickens: Virginia Rocks: Broilers
and fryers, all sizes, 17@1Sc; No. Is,
12G14c Delaware Rocks and Crosses:
Broilers and fryers, all sizes, 17@1sc;
No. IS 12914c.o Mixed coiored fryers'
broilers all sizes, 14015c. Capons: I
to pounds, 23@25c: slips, 1Sc. Tur-
keys: Young hens, 10 to II pounds, 22c;
young toms Is pounds and up, 21c; No.
2s. 15916c; old hens 1Sc; old toms, SC.
Guineas, 2 pounds and over, soc a pair !;
under pounds, 40c a pair.
SALES TO 500 A. NJ.
l.. C. l.. express receipts at Washing.
ton. D. c., Monday, November I. 1888.
Florida-29 lugs avocados, 10 32-quart
crates kumQuats. 81 bushel baskets okra
kets cucumbers. 80 bushel crates egg
plant, 43 SO-lb. crates tomatoes.
California-44 12-lb. boxes figs.
Pennsylvania-4S BIB. baskets mush-
rooms.
Virginia-5 barrels watercress
Georgia-12 50-lb sacks pecans.
North Carolina-24 bushel baskets
beans
South Carolina-62 bushel baskets
beans.
Unknown origin-27 crates mixed veg
etables.
Broccoli-Market wear. No carlot ar
rivals; no cars on track. Pennsylvania,
crates, 81.
Lima Beans-One California arrived
unbroken car on track. Market steady.
Truck receipts light. Eastern Shore,
Maryland bushel hampers, fair quality,
$3.50: Calyifornia. 3O-lb. crates. $3.50.
Snap Beans-Market dull. Truck re-
ceipts liberad. Florida. bushel hampers.
green, flat type, 75c@$l; round strong
less, $1@1.25; South Carolina fair quail
ity, bushel hampers, round stringless,
75c9$1.
Brussels Sprouts-Market steady. No
carlot arrivals; no cars on track. Cali
fornia, 25-pound drums, $202.25
Carrots--Market steady. One Califor-
mia arrived: 2 broken and l unbroken
cars on track. California, Western
crates, punched, $S93.25; Pennsylvania,
bushel baskets topped. washed 75c.
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F. B. F61IdS
UDt0Va'1O Here

A bright picture OF buSt-
ness and industrial improve
ment throughout the country
was painted today by the
Federal Reserve Board.
Industrial production, the
board found in a survey, has
been gaining steadily for the
past five months and In
October stood at IS per cent
of the 1923-25 level, the
highest point it has reached
since last October, when 1t
stood at 1O2.
Since spring, when the pro-
ductiOn index was down to
76, more than 100000 per
sons have gone back to work,
the board estimated.
Stocks, from March to
October, recovered 45 per
cent of their losses in the
preceding year.
On a seasonal basis, con-
structiOn contracts reached
the highest level since 1929.
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$17,981,OO0 Surplus
Farm COMMODITIES
Purchased for Relief

G.N.SD-The Department of
Agriculture reported today that the
Federal Surplus Commodities
Corporation bought approximately
$5.105,O0O worth o. surplus agri-
cultural products in "a States dur
ing the five weeks ended Nov. Q.
The purchases were for relief
purposes.
The Department said total pur-
chases by the corporation since
July l through the same date
amounted to approximately ST.
981, 900.
The purchases included more
than $4,000 bushels Of apples
bought in the New England area
which was swept by hurricane
early in September, the Depart
ment said.
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I
Auto executives are tremendously
cheered by the volume of orders
received from dealers for new
models, and it is encouraging to
learn that the demand for high
priced cars is rising.
LEAVING PWA
The flow of workers from WPA
relief rolls to private jobs is broad
ening.
Above and beyond all this, my
contacts in different parts OF the
country during recent travels re-
veal that hopefulness is mounting,
at least moderately, in nearly all
business and industrial circles. 1t
is based partly on the actual i'm
provement already experienced,
partly on signs that the political
winds are now blowing favorably
to business.
AWAIT ELECTION
The hesitancy manifested in the
last week or more can be at
tributed to desire to await elec'
ton returns. Men of affairs are
counting upon the election to Con-
gress of an increased number OF
lawmakers not bl1ndly committed
to dotting President Roosevelt's S
is and crossing his t'S.
Should the counting of the bal
lots substantiate such eXpecta-
tions, my guess is that better times
will promptly be ushered in and
that prosperity will go farther
than generally expected.
What 1 have found is that the
majority of people, humble as well
as high up, have become tired Of
political policies tending to re-
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ACACIA MUTUAL
ASSETSLARGEST.
in ITS HISTORY
Total Business Volume
$393,OOO,OOO
BY RICHARD r. BAKER

William Montgomery, president
of Acacia Mutual Life Insurance
Company, today reported to his
board of directors that business Of
the company for the third quarter
shows a continued improvement
and there is substantial reason
to believe that the upward trend
will continue with steadily grow,
ing force"
Assets of Acacia, Mr.. Mont
gomery said, stood at $77,500, 900
when the quarter ended, the
largest in the history of the COM
pany. At the same time, he said,
there has been a constant for
ward movement in the volume of
business, which now totals more
than $393, 100000.
CONVENTION SPEAKERS
Seven local leaders in finance
and Government will dot the pro-
gram of speakers at the forty
sixth annual convention Of the
United States Building and Loan
League in Chicago, November
1918. Those from this city who
have been asked to address the
conclave are:
Leo T. crowley. chairman of the
Federal Deposit Insurance Cor
poration; John H. Fahey, chair
man of the Home Loan Bank
Board; E. C. Baltz, secretary, and
Arthur G. Bishop, chairman of the
board of the Perpetual Building
and Loan Association; Nugent
Fallon, general manager of the
Federal Savings and Loan InSur-
ance Corporation; Oscar KreutZ,
Mr.. Fallon'S first deputy; and
John w. Ballard, Chief of the
Examining Division of the Home
Loan Bank Board.
BALTZ TO PRESIDE
It is expected that more than
1000 building and loan executives
will attend the convention, over
which Mr.. Baltz. president of the
League, will preside.
He will also preside at the ban
quet on the night of November II
when Governor Clyde R. Hoey,
of North Carolina, will be the prin-
cipal speaker.
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filed by the
University o I
Pittsburgh un.
usually trust
worthy. 1t has
climbed to a
new peak for
the year.
Steel opera
tions, now ST
per cent of ca
p a c t y, ar e
mounting. Rail.
W a y carload,
ings are on the
upgrade. So is
electric power
c on S U mption.
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Pullman Co. Profits
Are Greatly Reduced

NEW YORK, Nov. 7 G.NSD.
Pullman Co., sleeping car COM
pany subsidiary of Pullman, Inc.
today reported profit for the first
nine months of 1888 at $534,7 ,725
against $3,590,717 in the like 1887
period.
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business fore.
casting t h a t
stocks gener.
a lily decline
after a quick
run-up in cop
per price S.
What causes
the decline?"
Answer: l t
has always been
true in the past
that at about
the height of
booms, copper
prices advance
rapidly. T h / S
ha die To
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"The Girl From Rotterdam" Another
painting by Henry Give in which he
catches a quaint beauty from Holland
in a charming pose. Reproduced In full
color with an appropriate verse by
Carolyn Wells. the well.knOwn author
and pOetess, in The American Weekly,
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speculation in the metal. Then,
as people come to realize that
credit has been overeXtended and
that a period of liquidation is re-
quired, the copper market breaks
3 or 4 cents.
Then, when the stock market
finally crashes, and business de-
preston begins, copper prices fall
with other commodities until they
go below cost of production.
All this is explained by the fact
that copper is basic raw material
which has a sensitive market and
is affected by speculation.
INITIATION IN SIGHT
Dubois, Pa. asks:
Can we have initiation with
out the Government raising the
price of gold? Just how is it
brought about, and how can we
recognize it?"
Answer: Yes, we can and per.
haps will have initiation without
any further rise in the Govern
ment's price of gold. So-called de
valuation" means raising the price
of gold. Thus, the devaluation of
Al per cent Roosevelt made in 1884
was the same as raising the price
Of gold 10 per cent.
He has never allowed thi S
change to take full effect in the
prices of other commodities. The
fact that commodity prices have
not risen as much as the price of
gold Cor the liberalization" of the
gold dollar) causes a tendency
toward higher prices. Eventually,
in his attempt to get reelected in
1910, Mr.. Roosevelt will let a boom
develop and allow prices to 60 up.
INITIATION SIGNS
You can tell initiation by ID
rising stock prices while bond
prices barely hold or decline, (2)
rising wholesale prices while inter.
est rates are low and not rising
and 90 total bank loans and in
vestmentS rising faster than total
bank deposits.
Jackson Heights, N. Y, asks:
"AS am contemplating buying
an annuity for $4,000, payments
to start in Is years, won't you
please advise if this is a sound
way Of protecting my money for
later years in life?"
Answer: I do not think so. You
may be sure to get a given NUM-
Der of dollars, but how much will
each dollar buy Is years from
now? Maybe, only the equivalent
OF so cents now. THAT is the sad
situation we face as a result of
the New DealD
HOLD TO ASSETS
Pittsburgh asks:
In view of initiation prospects,
should I manage somehow to
raise funds by selling what as
sets I own to keep up premiums
to get larger dividends from in
Surance policies?"
Answer: I certainly would not
dispose of valuable tangible as
sets for the sake of getting a fixed
dollar income in the future. The
best hedge against initiation is a
title to earning assets which will
show rising earnings as initiation
grows. This is why common stocks
in many industrial corporations
may be good; since they give you
an equity in net earnings which
are likely to grow as prices rise.
If had money invested in pro-
ductive business property, or in
well-located real estate, or in good
stocks or commodities, I would
keep it right there.
In view of the numerous letters
I receive on initiation, which I will
say that I don't believe anyone
can say just WHEN our inflated
money and credit structure will
become effective in rising prices
and boom conditions. All I can
say Is that 1t does not seem likely
to happen before next spring, anc
possibly not until 1910.
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Markets ApUOif
Ballot Results
of Securities, Commodities
Laid to Unrest Over Election
BY B. G. FORBES

Hestant That describes security and commodity markets
Retail trade reports also only Thrdquarter coopera
on reports make poor comparisons with ago. when
activity the toboggan.
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COPPER PRICES
FORETELL NEXT
PROSPERITY ERA
Metal Stocks Are Also
Slump Barometer
BY LEWIS HANEY
Professor of Economics, New
York University

NEW YORK. Nov. T. Bronx,
N. Y, asks:
You also say in your book on
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corded in important directions.
I have found the business index
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Washington Produce

BY the T. 9. Bureau of Agricultural
Economics
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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1938-11-10

TWENTY YEARS OF PEACE--for America. May we
have MANY more twenty-year periods of Peace. There
is no tribute that can recomense lost for what
they have contributed. But can manifest to them
today that they are not forgotten They died for Peace
not War. We must keep the faith. We must dedicate
to them everlasting thought and energy to insure
for their posterty the goal they sought and the sacrifice
they made TWENTY years ago.
Evening star., 1938-12-30
(Ilex opaca)
BY LILLIAN COX ATKEY.

Holly branches trees and wreaths
MI windows Of stores, are piled high
at the market places and make gay
the doors and windows OF residences
ut this season. Why are we so par
tial to holly? The bright, evergreen
leaves, the beautiful crimson ber-
ries, and the meaning, above all else,
set this tree apart for us.
OF recent years we are realizing
the value OF the tree for its beauty
at all seasons. The fact that it grows
slowly and finally towers above
Vmany Of its neighbors, that it lives
to be old and beautiful, that its
fruit feeds its bird friends, and that
our own property is enhanced in
value by its presence are sufficient
reasons why we appreciate this tree
Many Of us are longing to preserve
hollies rather than cut down the
lovely trees or turn them into
wreaths that will last but for short
time to make the place gay.
A holly tree, growing in a pot or
tub, makes living gift that will
be reminder of the giver for many
years to come. 1t does not mean
that we may not have holly branches
for decoration, but the trimming
should be done by experts, so that
year after year the holly may serve
us through the seasons. The ruth
less cutting down of beautiful berry,
laden mother holly trees is receiving
more and more attention from in
.dividual States, for the economic
value of holly trees in landscape is
now recognized.
George Washington loved these
trees. His diary indicates that 13
were planted by him at Mount Ver-
non. Today in some of these spots
can be found handsome hollies of
great size.
Male and female holly trees may
be easily recognized by novice in
botany. The berry laden one is the
mother tree. The flowers are to be
found in early spring. They are in
conspicuous -petaled white bios
SONS, nestled in small clusters in
Che axis of the young leaves or
Evening star., 1938-12-30
Natures Children
Holly Tree
(Ilex opaca)

scattered along the shoots Of the
years growth. Those found on che
father tree have the pollen, and
those on the mother tree receive
this pollen through the agency Of
the wind or insects. AS soon as she
receives this vital powder she begins
at once to develop her seed chill
dren. She coats them in a crimson
jacket that has delicious appeal to
sight and taste of her other agents,
the birds. They feast upon the
covering of the seed child, and there
are four hard nutlets with ribs on
their exterior hidden beneath the
gay little cloak. The seeds are cast
away by the birds as they fly back
and forth on their journey North
and South and many Of the seeds,
finding themselves in a place where
leaves shelter them and soft moist
soil can be entered by slender roots,
Evening star., 1938-12-30

begin their life work. This is why
you will find hollies in such out-of-
the-way places.
Holly berries. picked up from the
Christmas harvest or anywhere
they may be found, planted in beds
of heavy mulch and soil, will poke
their wee green leaves above their
blanket during the spring of their
second year, when the seed will
germinate. Or you may take cut
tings from two-year wood with two
or four leaves during the months
of August to December and plant
these cuttings in pots, placed in a
greenhouse, watered and watched
for five years before you will know
which are the girl trees and which
boy trees. It is far wiser to 60 to
a nurseryman and purchase from
him gay little tree. already grow
ing with bright red berries.
(Copyrisht, 1881
Evening star., 1938-12-30
Three Marine Officers
Are Promoted

The Navy Department today an
nounced the promotion of three
Marine Corps officers, subject to
confirmation, all to rank from about
July last. These officers, with their
new grades, are Col. Harry K.
Pickett, Maj. Lucian c. Whitaker
and Capt. Robert S. Brown.
At the same time it was announced
that the detail of Col. Calvin B. Mat
thews. U, S. M. c., to duty as as
sistant adjutant and inspector of
the Marine Corps has been revoked.
Evening star., 1938-12-30
Medical Society Sets
Date for Assembly

The annual scientific assembly Of
the Medical Society Of the District
Of Columbia will be held April IS,
rs and n at the Mayflower Hotel,
it was announced last night. The
increased number Of exhibits has oc-
casioned the change In location from
the society's headquarters, 171S M
street NV.
DR.. James A. Cannon has been
appointed general chairman of the
committee in charge Of the assembly.
Evening star., 1938-12-30
Council Sets Heurinu
BY a Stan Correspondent Of The

By Staff Correspondent Of The Star.
ALEXANDRIA, Va, Dec. 30.-The
City Council today announced public
hearings for January 10 on the re-
quest Of the Relief Truck and En-.
gine Co., No. /, to install a siren at
its station,