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Glacier County chief., 1939-05-05
Steel Worker Retires,
Turns to Crochet Work

CLEVELAND.-P steel
worker Leonard Murton has laid
aside the heavy iron bar with a
hook on one end which he used
when he was heater in the steel
mills and has turned to using anoth-
er type of hook-a crochet needle.
Looking about for an occupation,
the 7l-year-old retired worker be-
gan to observe how his wife GRO
cheted.
Il can do that" he said, and he
started to learn.
II think that it was easy for me
to learn how to crochet because I
used an iron hook SO many years
in the steel mills. 1t also came
easy to me because my sister
taught me how to knit when I was
in school," Murton said.
He now is an expert crocheter
and specializes in bedspreads of in
tricate designs.
Murton went to work in the steel
mills as a water boy when he was
10. Gradually he advanced to the
job Of heater. A year before the
mill in which he worked was dis
continued he was awarded a gold
medal for a haf-century of con-
tinuous employment. The district in
which he lives is called the Iron
ward"
Glacier County chief., 1939-05-05
Drivers Given Stiff
Sentence By lrate Judge

Los Angeles. Calif.-Six mo-
florists were handed from 20 to
% days to brood over the evils
Of mixing alcohol and gasoline.
They appeared in sunrise
court-got . tongue lsshing from
Municipal Judge Kaufman. were
packed off to the city Jail.
When you get behind q wheel
Of an automobile while YOU re
drinking you might as well lead
straight for the city jail" snap
ed the Judge.
Glacier County chief., 1939-05-05

Hitler and Mussolini are urging
their national married couples to
raise bigger and bigger families
But of course, when the two dicta-
tors go out campaigning they don't
have to kiss all the babies. But
they don't draw the line at the wo-
men according 10 the latest book
entitled The secret Loves of the
Dictators.'
Glacier County chief., 1939-05-05

Australia. the Shade:ess Land
Australia has been called the
shade,ess land because the leaves of
some Of its trees always present
their edges to the sky. Some Of the
trees have foliage composed merely
of needles. while others are entirely
lea6esS.
Glacier County chief., 1939-05-05

The SO million board feet of wood
consumed annually in the United
States would be sufficient to build
boardwalk one inch thick and forty
feet wide from the earth to the
moon, q government calculation
shows.
Glacier County chief., 1939-05-05

The trouble with motoring is
that the man who drives a 80 horse
power automobile doesn't always
have one-horse sense.
Glacier County chief., 1939-05-05
Mechanical Dentistry

Mechanical dentistry is the art
and science Of making artificial res
torations for the mouth. such as
crowns. bridges. inlays and plates
from impressions taken by dentists.
Glacier County chief., 1939-05-05

Helping the railroads seems to be
developing into as big political is
sue as helping the farmers.
Glacier County chief., 1939-05-05

Negroes have White Ancestors
Biologists believe that three out
of every four American-born Ne
groes have at least one white an
ceStor.
Glacier County chief., 1939-05-05
Dead as a Door Nail'

Dickens in his christmas Carol"
popularized the simile dead as q
door nail" The expression, how
ever, first appears in "Piers Pillow.
man." by William Langland (l362)
Glacier County chief., 1939-05-05

Trace Use of HierogIyphics
The use of hieroglyphics is be-
ieved to have begun during the
first Egyptian dynasty in 3400 B. c.
Evening star., 1939-04-24
Brazilian Pact Hailed
As Possible Means
To Release Gold
Use for Huge Hoard
Of U. S. Foreseen in
Trade Agreements
BY the Associated Pre6S.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 24.-Guaranty
Survey. monthly organ of Guaranty
Trust Co., in its current issue. out
today. praised the recent agree
ments between Brazil and the
United States as furnishing a pos
sible means of redistributing the
present huge monetary gold stock
Of the United States, about $l5,-
COS ,000, 900. or about So per cent of
the worlds total known supply.
Under the agreements mentioned,
said the publication, Brazil pro-
poses, among other things, to re-
move ofncial restrictions on ex-
change operations, to create
central reserve bank, to resume
payments on external dollar obli-
cations, and to guarantee to United
States investors equality of treat
ment with its own citizens.
The United States agrees to pro-
vide financial aid to Brazil. includ-
ing loan up to the sum of $50
100000 in gold for the use of the
proposed central bank, repayment
to be made from Brazil's production
Of the metal, which amounts to
approximately $5,O0O,000 a year."
The magazine said:
Extension of this general prin-
ciple over a wider field would seem
to offer promising possibilities for
reaching constructive solution of
the gold problem. BY this plan the
gold would be used to promote
financial rehabilitation abroad, per-
mitting the gradual removal of ex-
cessive trade barriers and exchange
restrictions, with resulting benefits,
indirectly, to international COM
merce as whole.
For the use of the gold, the
United States would receive not
only direct pecuniary return, but
also specific trade and financial con-
cessions for the benefit of its traders
and investors.
incidentally, but perhaps even
more significantly in the long run,
such a policy would mark a new
departure in the promotion of inter-
national cooperation and good
will"
Evening star., 1939-04-24
Cotton Futures Turn
Firmer After Steady
Downward Trend
Old Crop Deliveries
Up 19 to Il Points
In Lost Week
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 24.-Cotton fu-
lures prices turned firmer last week
after having shown practically q
steady downward trend since the
middle of March.
On the New York Cotton Ex-
change, old crop deliveries registered
net gains of 10 to 81 points, while
new crop deliveries were up 8 to IA
points. These gains compared with
net losses recorded during the pre-
vious week of to II points on old
crop contracts, and to 10 points
on the new crop months.
The greater strength of the old
crop deliveries was due, in the case
Of the May contract, to active short
covering in advance Of first notice
day, which is Tuesday of this week.
While buying of May and selling
Of new crop months during the
greater part of the week strength
ened the spot month and tended to
weaken the distants, the picture was
somewhat different in the closing
trading sessions. Toward the end Of
Evening star., 1939-04-24
Commercial Credit
Earns S1,716,704
In First Quarter
Net Contrasts With
$2,863,458 Recorded
In 1888 Period
BIZ the Associated Press.

b the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 24.-Com-
mercial Credit Co., Nation wide
financing organization. reported to-
day net profit of $1,7l6,704. or Sc
cents common share, in the
March quarter, compared with ST.
1868 3458, or SLAB a share, in the like
quarter of 1898.
Hercules Powder Co.
Hercules Powder Co.. with plants
widely scattered through the United
States. reported net profit for the
March quarter of S1,087 1922, or 70
cents common share compared
with s656,O27, or 40 cents share,
In the like quarter of 1888.
1nterchemical Corp. and wholly
owned subsidiaries, manufacturers
OF chemical products throughout
the country, reported net profit for
the March quarter of S318,714, or rs
cents a common share, compared
with S1l,795, or 18 cents on the 6
per cent preferred stock, in the like
1888 quarter.
Consolidated Edison.
Consolidated Edison Co. of New
York and subsidiaries reported con-
solldated net income for the March
quarter of $l5,26l, $50, or slO8 a
common share, compared with SIS
357, 7,155, or $l.10 a share, in the like
1888 quarter.
Pennsylvania Salt.
Pennsylvania Salt Mfg. Co.,
makers of industrial chemicals, re-
ported net income for the u
months ended March 81 of $l.ll3,-
9l8, equal to S743 a share on capital
stock, compared with $l245,O81, or
$3.50 capital share, in the preced-
ing IL months. Plants are in Penn
sylvanla and Michigan.
Atlas Powder Co.
Atlas Powder Co. reported con-
eolldated net profit for the March
quarter OF $220,707, equal to 81 cents
share on common stock, compared
with S2l6506, or 50 cents a common
share, in the first quarter last year.
Evening star., 1939-04-24
Chicago Produce
CHICAGO, April

., CHICAGO. April "a 1P,.-Poultry live,
2a trucks; easy Hens. over, 5 pounds,
l6; pounds and under. IN; LeRhorn
hens 8; broilers. :.t pounds and under,
R2ek Re- ndnd, 1s Lesh0rn % sadl.a D5Sl.5s spsinsf
Rock %: White Rock, 81; fryers. over
Pa pounds colored, is; Plymouth Rock.
1910: ROSTERS IL; Leghorn roosters
II. Ducks, AZ pounds UP. colored 13:
white, u; small. coiored. II; white. II:
Butter. s3s5sI; ' WEAKER. s: 'c creamery Mrer m %
score, 2la.: a2, 2Ii.: al. 21i.; 30 21I.;
80, 20,-; So. 2OA: 30. centralized car
Esss. 443.7oe: steady. Fresh graded.
extra frsts, local. 1871: cars, Il: flrsts.
local. 1914: cars. 16a4: current receipts.
l5H; storage packed extras, l7s.:
ffsorAroIs, 1s7; on track. ass; total
IS. Old stock sliehtiy weaker; supplies
moderate. demand slow. Sacked per cwt.
Idaho Russet Burbanks. U. s. No. J.,
few sales l.!5-S5: Wisconsin Round
North Dakota: Bliss T5,un.phs u S No, !.
Early Ohios: U: S. No, /. $50: Minnesot
Red River Valley section Cobblers. s. TO
80 per cent U. S. No. /, few sales |. 30.
New stock weak and unsettled: supplies
liberal demand slow. Texas Bliss Tr-
nHa nmpnS; .. u s No. l. 541pounG sacks
so and 1oo-pound sacks. U. S. No: !,
size A. 3,4o-5o; u. S. No; ]: 1la-inch
| California White Rose. U S No, i.
/ 5o-pound sacks. very few sales. l,75.
Evening star., 1939-04-24

the week, the May contract sagged
slightly on pre-notice day hquida-
ton of Bombay straddies and foreign
selling, while new crop positions
turned frmer on trade and commits
sion house buying.
Mill price fixing was also a factor
in the strength of the May delivery.
Although mill activity continues at
about the same rate as in recent
weeks, untitled orders on books are
being reduced, due to the insistence
Of cloth buyers for quick delivery,
and untitled stocks at mills are tend
ing to increase.
While forwardings of American
cotton to world mills again showed
favorable comparisons last week, as
compared with the same week last
year, export statistics continued un-
favorable.
Forwardings of the domestic sta
pie to spinners of the world aggre-
gated 10000 bales last week, as
compared with $4,000 in the cor
responding week last year. Exports,
Evening star., 1939-04-24
New York Produce

NEW YORK. April "a dP,.-Butter. s0O,.
366; easier. Creamery. higher than extra
23t2-24A; extra Ca2 score,, 23L; first.
oSS-9D. 22-23; seconds (s4-s), 20la.
2ll2.
Cheese. 1a1 .14o; quiet State, whole
milk fats. held. 1887, 2o-23; held. 1898
Eggs. 22.1Ol: irregular Mixed colors
extra fancy selection. 1921, standards
lS'4: firstS. 11l2ls: seconds 1911; me.
diums. 1534-l6; dirties. No /. 1915.
average checks, 15-15A. Storage-packee
flrSts. 1S-lS14.
Whites: Resale of premium marks, o.
.5i2. Nearby. premium marks 2l-22l ,
Nearby and Midwestern. exchange specials
2O12; exchange standards 19L4-12. Resale
OF nearby heavier mediums. 1921 "a
dlumS. 11i2.
Browns: Nearby. extra fancy. 2O-2o
Nearby and MidWestern, exchange specials
l9l4-l2: exchange standards. 1884. Nearby
exchange mediums l6-1612
Duck eggs: 2O-23
Evening star., 1939-04-24
Federal Land Banks
Steel Quototions

NEW YORK. April "a lP-steel prices
per 100 pounds fob Pittsburgh. Hot
rolled sheets. base price. 2lj; galvanized
sheets. $50. steel bars 225
Evening star., 1939-04-24
Chicago Livestock

CHICAGO. April "a Up (U. S. Dept. of
Agriculture el;--Salable hogs, 10000: fairly
active: mostly steady with Fridays average;
spots, $40 lower; usually on weights $40
pounds up; top, 7.l5: bulk, good and choice
i60-240 pounds: .00-l5: 250-210 pounds
6.12-l 90; 290-35O pounds. largely 65O-75;
good; 3oo-500 pounds. packing sows. 500
30: lighter weights 635-5O
Salable cattle. 900: salable calves,
LOO: .yearlings and light steers and heifers
ana mixed yearlings firm: instances. 10-15
hlgher on meager run fed heiferS; medium
weight and weighty. steers slow: but water
mis- liberal and market mostly SLOW; steady;
surety cholee of1erlnss absent: best 1880;
several loads ll.o512 90: mostly 9o5-
ll:25 market; best fed heifers, 1850 early:
put strictly choice kinds held considerably
nlener' COWS very scarce. firm: bulls fully
steady at 7.35 down; vealers 25 lower al
93O down; with light offerings 80 to $50
Salaole sheep. $4,000: fat lambs open
ing slow; early indications fully 25 lower;
iniflal bids rather sharply of, buyers now
taking around l0.O0-25; choice lambs
frequently held 10 $3.50 and better; sheep
weak to unevenly lower.
Evening star., 1939-04-24
Crude Oil Prices

TULSA, April "a LP).-Base crude oil
prices: Midcontinent area, Oklahoma :
Kansas. gravity scale. 60 to 10: North.
North Central and West Central Texas,
gravity scale. II to 1.03.
East Texas. 10: West Texas. gravity
scale, SO to 95: North Louisiana Arkansas.
gravity scale. 73 to LOB; Rocky Mountain
40.
Eastern area. Pennsylvania grade Brad
Southwest PENNSYLVANIA lines, 65: same
grade in Eureka lines 1.59; same grade in
6uckeye lines, .55; Corning 1,O2
Evening star., 1939-04-24
U. S. Treasury Position
By the Associated Press

The position of the Treasury April 21
Receipts, S1O,429.059. 13: expenditures
5os.43. including SO 444. 7317aI 70 work.
ing balance; customs receipts for tn,
month 1S.S35,10Sa1
Receipts for the fiscal year (since Jul,
u, 81. 57s.01 1854 ,02; expenditures. 81.
372,565,570.ss. including $2,519.67S..
Of expenditures. S2.7a4 .55O2O6S6: gros!
debt. S4n:036, ,6s7 7.964.75 an increase Of
S1,426075 75.35 above the previous day
gold assets, S15,647. .491,1SO.31.
Evening star., 1939-04-24
Index of Auto SuIes
Drops During March

By the Associated Press.
The Department of Commerce
preliminary adjusted index figure
Of the value of retail sales of new
passenger automobiles declined from
February to March. The index.
which makes allowance for the
number Of days as we'll as for sea-
sonal movements, dropped to SO in
March compared with 96 in Febru-
ary and 81 in January.
Evening star., 1939-04-24
Investing Companies

NEW YORK. April "a (P,.-Investment
Bankers Conference. Inc:
Moon quotations
Evening star., 1939-04-24

however, totaled only $4,000, as
against 10000.
During the last four weeks, for
wardings have totaled 772,O0O bales,
as against 725, 100 in the comparable
period of last season, but exports
have totaled only $4,000, as COM
pared with 358, 900.
Evening star., 1939-04-24
Insurance Stocks
BILLIONS o.
MOWAu HOURS

NEW YORK. April "a (P.-Investment
Bankers Conference Inc:
Evening star., 1939-04-24
Dividend Is Ordered

BOSTON, April "a (SpeciaD A
dividend of 20 per cent, payable on
all policies expiring during the
period June to June 30, 1899, has
been declared by the American
Mutual Liability Insurance Co.
Evening star., 1939-04-24
BONDS
PUBLIC UTILITY
MISCELLANEOUS
STOCKS

Chevy Chase Club 1st 4As l04
Col Country Club Is. 4iAs l03
Ter Rel g. VIII Corp Ist 4As l03
Evening star., 1939-04-24
E$5,293,885 Net
Is Reported by
1Union Carbide
By the Associated Press.

BY the ASSOCIATED Press.
NEW YORK, April 24.-Union
Carbide g. Carbon Corp. reported
net income for the first quarter Of
IS ,293, 1886. equal to So cents share
on common stock, compared with
S4,209, 1882, or AZ cents common
share, in the first quarter of 1898.
Evening star., 1939-04-24
Washington Exchange
SALES-AFTER CALL,

Capital Traction 5s-$2,000 at 90l1
Washington Gas Light pfd.-15 at
1852.
Capitol Traction $500 at 80.
Peoples Drug Stores pfd-30 at
1l3.
Capital Transit Co.'s at IA, S at
14is
The Omaha guide., 1939-08-19

address in which he commented on the
short sightedness of those who pro-
pose punitive legislation and taxation
to destroy cain stores. He said those
responsible for such prey psals "are
likely before long to discover several
reasons for being sorry. Have they
heard of consumer ~cooperatives and
their possibilities for rapid growth if
the public should grow tired of seeing
the squabbles and the consequent
wastes in the present systems of dis
tribution? Do they know that the ma
tional government may at any time
become an important factor in the dis
tribution of goods? Are they ready
for publicly controlled prices?
Most wholesalers and Individual
retailers are probably smart enough to
recognize that worse things than
chains can happen to them, if nsu
ers should decide hat way, these worse
things are apparently not far away.
Using legislation and the help of
politicians to crush competitors who
are themselves engaged in legitimate
methods of doing business is at any
time dangerous. 1t is doubly dangerous
now, not only for its possible kick back
on those who attempt it, but also as
an additional argument that will be
used by those who urge that business
cannot conduct itself properly without
governmental regulation and control
1t is perfectly obvious that the
destruction of honest competition in
retailing will inevitably result in high
err prices. 1t is equally obvious that an
intelligent public will not accept arti-
ficially-induced higher prices, quietly.
Those who ask government to penal
lie the other fellow turn loose an all
destroying boomerang.
The Omaha guide., 1939-08-19
ROAD TO PROSPERITY

"A return to normal and reasonably
permanent prosperity is inevitable if
the people are permitted once to
transact their affairs in accordance
with proven principles of progress" in
the opinion of w. T. Grant, President
of the American Life Convention.
Those who are connected with the
life insurance industry are fully &C
quainted with the kind of progress that
follows free play of individual enter
prise. This industry, under sound reg
u~lation, has become one of the finest
examples of industrial probity, solven-
cy and progress. The men who make
the nations laws would do we'll to think
this over when new and restrictive Eek
perimental" legislation is proposed.
The Omaha guide., 1939-08-19

ruptcy. We have been told that the in
dustrial expansion we all hope for ne
cessarily waits upon our chaotic fiscal
policy. We have found out from hard
experience that capital goes into hid
ing and stays there in the face of tax
laws that take the bulk of the profit out
of commercil undertakings, and regu-
lations that so hamstring industry that
it is no longer its own master. We
knoiX the sad truth THAT badgered,
sweated industry can offer 10 jobs for
the millions on relief.
We know all this-and yet we go on
spending at the emergency rate.
That emergency" has lasted a good
many years now, has cost us tens of
billions, and has placed us high on the
list of the d%ebtridden nations of the
world. Isn't it about time to actually
put into effect those policies of thrift
and economy which the politicians
preach when seeking votes?
The Omaha guide., 1939-08-19
SMALL POTATOES

What has happened to the much
ballyhooed economy drive" that was
supposed to be gaining momentum in
Congress a month or two ago? Late
news from Washington indicates that
the urge to spend is still dominant
and that the urge to retrench and e.
Intimate some of the waste in govern
ment is pretty small potatoes right
now.
Worst of all is the apparent public
Indifference toward spending. 1t was
not so long ago that the nation was
genuinely aghast when a congress APP
propriated two billion dollars. Now
Congresses appropriate eight or ten
billion, blandly oblivious of where the
money is to come from, and we take
it TO ~rgranted. Spending is like the
narcotic habit the more it is in
dulged in, the more the habit gets.
However, the American people won't
be able to continue this indifference in
definitely. The problem of financing
the deficit becomes steadily more diff
ficult. So much of our money has gone
into government bonds, that the ordi
nary sources of productive capital
have steadily dried up. More money
for government means that there is
less and less money for industry and
commerce. And industrial paralysis is
the inevitable result.
We have been told time and again,
by men of unquestioned authority,
that we r surely on the road to bank
The Omaha guide., 1939-08-19
NO CAPITAL STRIKE = JUST
FEAR

According to reports from Washing
ton, a group of NOR or less left wing
government officials is advocating a
decisive governmental attack on what
they term the Strike" of capital. Part
of the attack would be centered against
the banks, on the grounds that they
are boarding money.
This program might turn out to be
a rabble rouser among the uniformed,
but that is all that can be said for it.
Banks are cautious with their deposits
not only is a matter of duty to deposi-
tors, but because government regula-
tions require it, and because, under
chaotic conditions today, avenues of
safe investment are steadily closing.
Any banker in his right mind wants to
make as many sound and profitable
loans as he can-it's not his fault that
comparatively few can be found.
Stable governmental policies which
would do everything possible to as
sure business a profitable future,
would do more than anything else to
break the so-called Strike of capital,
which is nothing more or less than the
fear on the part of millions of citizens
to invest their savings, in the face of
political trends that tend more and
more to reduce the chance for profit,
and safety for private capital. Attack
ing business which is doing everything
it can, under the most adverse condi-
tions, to serve America, will produce
more fear, more uncertainty, more de-
pression-not less. 1t will be a national
tragedy if a group of politicians, blind
to the lessons of the past, is permitted
to go in for more destructive business
batting.
The Omaha guide., 1939-08-19
The Root of All Evil

Much misquoted is the tenth verse
sixth chapter of the First Epistle to
Timothy. Correctly it reads that "the
love of money is the root of all evil"
Not money, but the love of money. 1t
was written nineteen centuries ago
and the opinion has now been APPROX
ed and affirmed by the Public Affairs
Committee, Inc, whose spokesman is
Winthrop D. Lane.
His pamphlet, just published by
the committee asserts that "as a people
we attach too much Importance to
money" and this misguided sense OF
values is a major cause of crime In
America. The urge to make money
blurs the dividing line between right
and wrong. Probably Mr.. Lane speaks
painful truths, but Horace said it first
Money, make money, by honest means
if you can. If not by any e make
money" Alexander Pope, the poet, also
said it. Get money, money still, and
then let virtue follow, if she will
There is more novelty, though no
less truth in Mr.. Lanes opinion that
'the line between some business prac-
tees and such crimes as theft, robbery
and burglary is very r and diff
ficult to see." Many well meaning busl-
ness men have pondered the same prob
lem. Some accepted standards and
practices of the business world could
never serve the needs of an honest pri-
vate life. A man may be compelled to
a%nesthetize his personal conscience
while he earns his living.
Now and then comes to light a dra-
matte contrast between a decent and
honorable private life and outrageous
dishonesty in business. Sometimes
somebody goes to Jail for stealing and
~swindling whose private life had been
scrupulously respectable. The love OF
money did it, says Mr.. Lane. But Hor-
ace and Paul of Tarsus said it first.
The Omaha guide., 1939-08-19
BODYGUARD

An authority on insurance recently
said: Life insurance is sending money
on ahead-so it will be there when you
get therep'
That puts the case in a nutshell. Ev-
cry life insurance policy, as Calvin
Coolidge one phrased it, lis a decla-
ration of independence" 1t is the indi-
viduars economic bodyguard against
The Omaha guide., 1939-08-19
LAUNCHING A BOOMERANG

He who seeks to destroy others by
government regulation, is himself like
ty to be destroyed by government reg
ulation. That eminently sound conclu-
sion was reached by DR.. Paul H. Ny
strom, Professor of Marketing at
Columbia University, in a recent