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SiebenbuÌˆrgisch-Amerikanisches Volksblatt. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1917-1971, 1939-08-24
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gaImoral, S6ottlano. Ser omer''
fauiihe ssinonaier $. g. Morgan, Der
lid, a,tr Saso auf @alobibner lam
aere 3eit in Ser benadbarten DanH'
ldp 2ooge oufbielt, lit tpesen Der
iuternotionalen Gage nod Sonoon
suriidgefebrt. sl,d bier lpuroen Cos
masren perteilt.
SiebenbuÌˆrgisch-Amerikanisches Volksblatt. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1917-1971, 1939-08-24
6OO,OOO Mtafttt ~ Hett
,Satttett eer,afeft

Garis, 6ranfreih berief Slrnoert'
tauienoe bon steierpiiten elm, I'M nit
Del;tihlanos StreitfrG item gleifen
Shritt su balten uno es bofft nun,
6ab bos giinbnis 9fublanos mil
Geutihlano nidt bon erniter 8eOelt'
tung lit. Se,,te 0onnerstag finbet Elm
@ab.nettsrat uno Nrdiioent Sebrun
ltatt.
SiebenbuÌˆrgisch-Amerikanisches Volksblatt. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1917-1971, 1939-08-24
Heuai,NS f,aitliniett
fteueit Dicnit eiit

s(rtIterbam. @eil bie meiiten ibre.
Yi(oten mobiliiiert tpuroen, bat Die
cffi;ieIle bollGnoiihe 2nftlinie Den
s}etrieb aui aIlen einbeimiiden uno
iieGen a,tsllnoiihen 9iouten einsp.
felt.
0ie bonGnoiihe Resierline bot aIlc
l1rlauber ser 2aftperteioieung al
cen aiiiten ;uriidbeoroert.
SiebenbuÌˆrgisch-Amerikanisches Volksblatt. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1917-1971, 1939-08-24
GcHar Peiftt

geginnenb 5reitag, Sen 25. sln'
quit, iiberiiebelt Senrp 9uiie, Der
Grfinoer bes rSbuffle &bptbmr unO
iein Srheiter, oas national beriibn,t
lit, fiir cine ISOLDE nod Geoar 8oinl.
Senrp 8uiie ipielt MIR biele @ohe,
mGbreno er in oieIeHt 8e5irf auf iei'
ner Heiie burd)s 2anb tpeilt.
SiebenbuÌˆrgisch-Amerikanisches Volksblatt. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1917-1971, 1939-08-24
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,,ensperea,aft" ~ iein

gofio. 8dbrenb iid bie iapaniihel
9aemten ieber Meuberung entbielten
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lpiiie Gntriiituns iiber ben oeutif
ruiiiid)en 9sidtansriffspaft 5utase
Wan borte Die 8emerfln,g, baB Sa
pan bon 9eutihlano uausperfalit'
tporoen lei.
SiebenbuÌˆrgisch-Amerikanisches Volksblatt. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1917-1971, 1939-08-24
9tppoorom
,@bcn Somorrpp Comes" beainut
Samstaa, ben 26. Mnanit.

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ssohr M StahI Ntit sroben Silmen
ipie rMaoniiicient Sbieiiion", I"
rSnlp Yeiterhap", Bad Street" TT
@erbinbune eebrotht iporben llno ieet
triumpbiert er in r@ben Somorron
Gor1es" bonn Sonnabeto ab i'm Sip.
pohrome. Mit linn ipielen 1T Saupt'
rotten nit Srene Dunn unb Gbar!.
goner. ol,beroem ip;rfen nitgarbara
S'9teill, gtella @alfer, Sris Selo,
@retn Mnner II. a.
GeriGltmen Sic niht bieien Slim
su feben.
SiebenbuÌˆrgisch-Amerikanisches Volksblatt. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1917-1971, 1939-08-24
Gibraltar, ,Spanieft'
Gren3e eeiperrt

Gibraltar Die anglo.ipaniid)e
@rense stpiiden Gibraltar itno Spa'
MEN ipar cine Stunoe lang 9eIperrt.
uuroe oann aber ipieber geoifnet.
SiebenbuÌˆrgisch-Amerikanisches Volksblatt. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1917-1971, 1939-08-24

gs tpiro nun bier ertpartet, bah
nod Mnii1t Der &egeIung Holens o,e
3e.4 fir NiuiioIini gefomnen 1T.
ieite sSoroerungen Sll itelIen.
SiebenbuÌˆrgisch-Amerikanisches Volksblatt. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1917-1971, 1939-08-24
13untes 2luerlei
Sabler 3citnns:

Sabler 3citnns:
.ssn gaerinsbuuien tpllroe eiltt
5rau. Die gum S6la6ten &C.
flibrt .peroen ioQte, pl0slih utlt
hno rannte bapon."
4ann man Ser Srau niht libel
nehlnen. s(ui iolh einem Weg muf
ia ser rrbieite Menid tpilo Deroer
SiebenbuÌˆrgisch-Amerikanisches Volksblatt. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1917-1971, 1939-08-24
Ger Gittas:

Seine slngen blidten tribe rns
,ausorufslos, ltnb obne 8rile fonn.
te ct feline 2eile mebr leien. Das
Bebib seigte bieielben sllters.
erihein:tngen."
ga. bas @ebib mar iogar nidt mol
mehr in ser Gage, nj t 8riIe 81
Ielen!
~ 9itte unterItiisen sic bie in,
goIfsbIott anaeigenoen @eindfte.
SiebenbuÌˆrgisch-Amerikanisches Volksblatt. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1917-1971, 1939-08-24

= SSn Merifo itarb Teneral gu.
lalip 8utierre3, ser 1915 ieds Gage
lang Yrditoent geipeien ipar.
SiebenbuÌˆrgisch-Amerikanisches Volksblatt. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1917-1971, 1939-08-24

Fine sch0ne Gruppe Won 81 Zoll breiten Wolfe
und Rayon und wollene Fabrikate in lieblichen
passenden, Kleider und Mantel schwer. Auch
sind eingeschlossen cine sch0ne Auswahl Won
Plaid Kombinationen in allen neuesten Herbst
Plaids. Jetzt nur ~ $1.oo die yard.
SiebenbuÌˆrgisch-Amerikanisches Volksblatt. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1917-1971, 1939-08-24
3H bi. 4 Yard Loenqen

Diese Fabrikate fndet man gewohnlich i
Kleidern, die so viel ais $1,000 kosten, mache
Sic sich dieses zum Vorteil, nur $1es jed
Kleiderlange.
Plaids Faille crepes Messy Waeves
Gewebte Matelasses Satin.Bac Crepe
Gesponnen Rayon und Acetate Novelties
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-09-23

S. and shoes from $1.62 Is to $2.25
a pair A box coat" cost $40.
Believe 1t or not, the book shows
that one customer on June q, 1895,
purchased a pint Of whisky for 81
cents and on Dec. IS of the same year
another customer paid Is cents for a
half gallon of whisky.
Clothing generally was costly and
most food commodities cheap. Fish
were sold at from S to cents each,
not by the pound.
Many of the accounts, the book re-
vealS, were paid by the customers de-
livering grain, millings, barrels and
other commodities to the merchant.
AS much as $110 a bushel was paid
for wheat in 1886, while the price Of
flour was So a hundred, or 81 more
than a year previous.
The intimate relationship between
the merchant and his customers Is
indicated by entries showing loans or
cash advances. Cash advanced by the
merchant ranged from a few cents to
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-09-23

Billings Gazette. He was managing edi-
tor of the Great Falls Tribune for II
years and its night editor for the last
five.
Among members of the staff of the
Standard at the time Snelson made
his debut as a newspaperman was
Dean A. L. Stone Of the University
of Montana school of journalism. There
was formed at that time a friend
ship between the two which has lasted
since
Early in the century Pete and Tom
Dillon, present managing editor Of the
Minneapolis Tribune were rival re-
porters on the same beat In Helena.
Later in Butte, Pete and Frank c..
Walker, prominent New York attor-
ney and former chairman of the ma
tional emergency council, were rival
In Denver, Snelson was associated
at various times with Damon Runyon,
noted screen and sports writer and
author; Gene Fowler, author Of Tim
berline" and other novels; George
Creel writer; William L. Chenery
present editor Of Golfers Weekly; Ed
ward Heating, present editor of Labor,
national publication of the rail broth
erhoods and Edward G. Day, now man
aging editor of the Denver Post.
1t was for Chenery, when the latter
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-09-23

A 40-car train carrying some
of the choicest dairy cattle in the
United States will stop at Billings
for hours on Oct. q giving Mon
tana dairymen an opportunity to
see what virtually amounts to the
cream of the stock that will be
shown at the national dairy show
to be held this year in connection
with the Golden Gate International
exposition at San Francisco, says
| ]. o. TretSven, extension dairy
specialist.
Coming from the major fairs Of the
middle west and east, from the East
ern States exposition at Springfield,
Mass, and from the dairy cattle con-
gress at Waterloo, Ia, the train Is en-
cattle will be entered in the Pacific
International livestock exposition.
From Portland the animals viii be
taken to San Francisco for the ma
tional dairy show.
The stop which the train will make
at Billings will be the only one be-
tween Waterloo, Ia, and Portland,
lreLSVen SalQ, and the program Delng
arranged for that day offers dairymen
an unique opportunity to see top
flight animals of the six breeds in
cluded in the herds on the train.
Billings is holding open house for
the occasion and it is expected that
not only dairymen but others from
all parts of Montana who are inter-
ested in fine cattle will see the stock
when it is shown at the Midland EN-
pire fairgrounds, Tretsven said.
The special train will arrive at Bill
lings about 8 o'clock the morning of
Oct and the cattle VIII be taken
Immediately to the fairgrounds where
they will be placed on display. In the
afternoon they will be brought before
the grandstand and an educational
program will be held. Taking part will
be herd owners, prominent herd man
ayers and breed representatives who
are travelling with the special train.
This exhibit Of top ranking dairy
cattle stock will not only give dairy
men fine chance to study the fine
points of their respective breeds, but
1t will also give the farmer who Is
thinking of dairying an opportunity
to study the various breeds, talk with
breed representatives and make up his
mind on his selection. Tretsven added.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-09-23
Home Specialist GiUes
Some Valuable AdUice
On the Care of Floors

Floor care at regular intervals is
one Of the heavier tasks confronting
| the homemaker. Shellac and varnish
finishes are the most common kinds,
and, II well waxed, the floors so fin
ished viii be easy to keep clean with
a dry mop. Unless the wax coating is
kept very thin, however, such floors
will be slippery. warns Mrs. Margaret
Tuller, extension home management
specialist at Montana State college.
There is a new kind Of finish known
as floor seal" which keeps floors well
protected at all times and with a
minimum of slipperineSs, Mrs. fuller
said. 1t gives a moderately lustrous
finish and requires little maintenance
except at house cleaning time. With
floor seals it is possible to clean and
patch worn spots without the trouble
Of moving all furniture out of the room
and keeping the room out of service
for day or more.
Floor seals are thin varniShes or
bodied drying oils used in place OF lin
seed or other Embodied oils. An I'M
bodied oil such as raw or refined lin
seed, Soybean, tung, or perilla oil is
one that has not been heated or treat
The floor seals penetrate less deeply
than the embodied oils but more deep
ly than ordinary floor vaTnisheS. They
saturate the surface layer Of the floor
and are embedded IN the wood rather
than coated over it.
The floors in very old houses, Mrs.
fuller goes on, were commonly fin
ished with repeated applications Of hot
linSeed oil. Each application was
buffed by hand. When the surface
was saturated with oil it was Waxed
and maintained by waxing This labor
ious finish was durable, did not show
scratches, and could be patched at
places of maximum wear. But it fell
into diSrepute as floor oils were IN
creasingly adulterated with nondrying
mineral oils VarnisheS and shellac
finishes then became more popular
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-09-23

Trees 100 feet high are found north
of the Arctic circle.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-09-23
ACCOUNT BOOK
100 YEARS OLD
REVEALS WHISKY SOLD FOR 81
CENTS PINT IN WEST
VIRGINIA
Volume in Possession of Great Falls
Man Indicates Difference in Cost
of Commodities Now and in '3O's of
Last Century.

An account book kept more
than 100 years ago by a pioneer
West Virginia merchant is in the
possession of Earl Talbot of
Great Falls. Entries in this aged
volume reveal that a century ago
some now costly commodities were
cheap and others now command
ing small prices were expensive.
Who the merchant was that kept
the book Is not known but it was
brought west by the father of w. H.
(BtD Yarnall. The latter gave the book
to Talbot, well known as a collector
of relics.
Entries in the book date back as
far as Feb. 3, 1885. examination Of the
entries shows the owner was not only
a merchant but a money lender, mill
er, banker, liquor vender and adjuSter
of family difficulties.
In 1885, this old account book shows,
flour was selling for 50 a hundred
pounds, bacon for cents a pound,
tobacco for 18A cents a pound, po-
tatoes for Is cents a buShel, salt was
2 cents pound, beef cents a pound,
muslin 16 cents yard, ''pantaloons"
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-09-23

was editor of the Rocky Mountain
News, in Denver, that Snelson did his
first editorial writing. In Helena at
one time Snelson and Friedrich Bech-
dolt. later a widely known writer for
the pulp magazines and the Saturday
Evening Post, worked together on the
old Montana Daily Record, and roomed
together.
E. c. Leipheimer, present editor of
the Montana Standard, and Snelson
were rival reporters in Butte in the
early days of the century, Leipheimer
as member of the staff Of the old
Butte Evening News, owned by F..
Augustus Heinze, and SnelSon with the
Butte Intermountain.
While a member of the Intermoun-
tain staff at one time it fell to Smell
son to break in" as a fellow reporter
a young collegian from Wisconsin,
whose first job was on the Butte paper
1t was Berton Braley He started writ
ing poetry while in Butte and has
made a living at it ever since, being
now a regular contributor to the Sat
urday Evening Post and other maya
zines of national circulation.
In 1922, Snelson, who has a wide
acquaintance among newspaper men of
the state, served as president of the
Montana State Press association.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-09-23
Former OpheiEs Girl
Is Among SURVIVORS
of TOrDedOed Vessel

A former Valley county girl and
Montana school teacher, Mrs. james
G. Davis, with her husband, Is among
the survivors Of the tOrpedoed liner
Athena" according to q cablegram
received by her mother, Mrs. Nora
Amundson Of Opheim.
The cablegram announced that the
Davises were safe In Scotland. Their
home Is IN New York City, where Mr.
Davis represents a school book publish
ing concern. They had been making
q summer tour Of Europe. The cable
gram gave no details Of their expert
ences.
Mrs. Davis is the former Eve Amund-
son. She attended Opheim schools,
worked in Glasgow and later taught
in the Scobey schools. She met Mr..
Davis while attending the University
of Pittsburgh and they have lived IN
New York City since 1887.
---<S~-
HAVRE-Dr. Irwin Douglass of the
chemistry department Of Northern
Montana college is the author Of an
article, Some Chemical Features OF
Yellowstone National Park" which ap-
pears in the September issue of the
journal of Chemical Education.
Read the Classified Advertisements
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-09-23

The main function Of q fish's fins Is
to balance the fish's body and 10 steady
Its course.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-09-23

Read the Classified AdvertisemenAsl
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-09-23
Drug Clerk Who Wanted to Be Stockman
Quits Newspaper to Become Postmaster
By E. M. WHITE

When Pete SnelsOn resigned re-
Gently as night editor of the Great
Falls Tribune to become postmast-
er at Great Falls, there was ended
the newspaper career of nearly 40
years of an Iowa drug clerk who
came to Montana in 1899 to go
into the livestock business. Pete's
ambition to become a stockman,
sidetracked from time to time by
unforeseen circumstances, was never
realized. The nearest he came to
it was to homestead in the Salt
creek country of the lower Judith
river, where he and John H. Reilly,
present office manager of the Little
Ben Mining Co. at Landusky, and the
late Harold @. Nicholas, a San Fran
cisco newspaper man, between 1910
and 1914, proved up on three adjoin-
ing claims which became collectively
known as the Balky Horse ranch.
Mr. SnelSOn was indicted into the
newspaper game as a reporter on the
old Anaconda Standard through the
efforts of John G. DerkS, present sports (
editor of the Salt Lake City Tribune /
who was at the time Sitting in" at the /
desk of City Editor Ashmun N. Brown, I
later to become private secretary of .
Secretary of the Interior Ballinger
and who is now and has been for
many years past, the Washington cor
respondent Of the Providence CR. ID
Journal.
Derks induced j. H. Durston then
editor of the Standard, to hire Snelson
as a reporter at 500 week. C1e had
been getting SIS a month as a drug
clerk. In the meantime Brown re-
turned to his post the first week that
SnelSon worked Mr. Durston, making
out the payroll, asked Brown how
much he was paying his new reporter.
Brown didn't know and Mr.. DurSton
said that he had made an arrange
ment with the young man, but had
forgotten what it was, but thought
1t was $25 week" II
Pete worked for less afterward, but
that was what he started at. Aside
from q year on the road for Armour
& Co., four years on the homestead
and a year and half as secretary of
the old Montana State fair, he con-
tinued in the newspaper business until
he took over the Great Falls post ]
office on Sept IL. 1t led him over a {
trail from coast to coast. He has
worked as far east as Philadelphia and
and as far west as Spo- /
kane. Five different times he worked Y
on the old Butte Intermountain when I
the late w. w Chiefly was its gen. {
eral manager and Charles T. Shearer,
now of Los Angeles, its managing edi-
tor. For three years he was editor Of
the Montana Record Herald at Hell
ena, four years he was editor OF the
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-09-23

many dollars and most accounts were
paid In fun.
The unknown merchant Was me
thodical and exact, prices being figured
to the eighth of q cent. He stated
the purpose OF cash loans, one Gus
toner being given 81 zone evening 70
go 10 town" another was advanced
81 l-3 cents to go to the circus" and
others were allowed small amounts TO
buy shoes for the children.
Little was paid for labor and the
record reveals that one customers boy
received q cents a day for working
and that from 50 Is cents to 81 a
day was paid for harvesting.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-09-23

Residents of Helena and Butte
recently may have seen a lively
little woman poking around in
slightly decrepit parts of those
cities-neighborhoods not in keep
ing with this little woman's smart
appearance. If they had stopped
to talk with this STRANGER" they
would have learned she knew the
early day history of both cities as
we'll and perhaps much better than
present day residents.
For the visitor was Mrs. John Bar
ton, wife Of the star of the touring
Tobacco Road" company which played
in several Montana cities early in Sep
TENDER. AS Annie Ashley, Mrs. Barton
played nightly with the Holmes Grover
variety company IN Helena and in the
old Comique at Butte.
What do remember about Butte
and Helena?" Mrs. Barton said, re-
peating the interviewer's question.
Well most of my memories center
seven nights week and sometimes a
matinee on special occasions The
nightly performance began at 8
o'clock. The opening number, with the
entire cast on the stage, usually lasted
about half an hour. Next came the
olio, in which each performer did his
particular speciality. Then there were
little afterpieces. If business was good,
the performance would continue until
2 a. m. Then, after removing makeup
and dressing for the street, we would
gather in a restaurant, and 1t fire.
Quently was 5 or o'clock before we
would get to bed. BY the time we arose,
it would be time to think about getting
dressed for work again"
1t was a hard school of the theater,
Mrs. Barton declared, but out Of this
difficult school came some Of the lead
ing theatrical figures of later day
For example, while playing at the
Comique in Butte, Mrs. Barton and
her partner, Nellie Howard played on
the same bill with Eddie Foy and JIM
ME Thompson. Foy, as every student
Of the theater knows, later rose to
Stardom and was the hero of the Iri-
quois theater fire IN Chicago early in
this century.
others whom Mrs. Barton remem-
Oers from the Butte and Helena days
we're Jimmy Holly and Lola Cory,
Maggie LeClaire, John w. Brace, IA
nous blackface comedian; Frank Mes
layer, Lovey Ragsdale, LOttie ellison,
who was known from coast to coast
Tor her rendition of the song, 1.-THE
Did Turnkey" and John Herbert Mack,
low the king of burlesque producers in
he east
Mrs. Barton recalls that Lafayette,
he property man at the Comique, later
became famous in England as a ma
rician.
Mrs. Barton said she was enjoying
Ter visit to Montana to the utmost.
after leaving Montana As years ago,
he married John Barton, whose faith
r operated variety theaterS at Norfolk
nd Newport News, Va. The Bartons
played in vaudeville in England and
he United States for many years, ap-
,earing for IA years in one comedy
ketch called Canal Boat Sal"
Many years ago they purchased prop
rty at st. James, Long Island, near
song Island sound, and here John |
Sarton works in his garden and goes !
ishing when not on tour. Mrs. Barton !
eft the stage a number of years ago. |
AS for Butte and Helena, Mrs. Bar |
On said: MY, how they have
hanged"
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-09-23
Trunlpeter SUGEs
Shouting Increase

Hopes that Americas almost extinct
trI1mpeter swan may increase to the
point where It's preservation wiz be
swan census.
Supt Edmund B. Rogers of Yellow
stone park said rangers counted 20 Of
the graceful white birds this year, the
highest ever known In the park, as
compared with 40 last year.
Rogers said the most hopeful sign
was that SO were adult birds, indicat-
ing that cygnets are reaching matur-
ity. The previous high count Of adults
was 40.
Rogers said there are only about 400
OF the birds in the United States.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-09-23

HELENA-Two Helena boys, Ber-
nard Dunn and Edward c. Bauch, now
serving their second enlistmentS in
the United States navy, are eligible
for the new China service medal, ac-
cording to word received here by E. K.
Beam, navy recruiting officer The
medal will be awarded to personnel of
all units stationed ashore in China,
and of all vessels which have operated
on the China coast or rivers since July
z, 1897.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-09-23
PIONEER ACTRESS
REVISITS STATE
MRS. JOHN BARTON, WHOSE HUs.
BAND PLAYS ~JEETER," TELLS
OF OLD TINES

As Annie Ashley, ATrs. Barton Played
Western Variety Halls From COmlque
At Butte to TOmbstOne's Famous
Birdcage Varieties.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-09-23
DAIRY CATTLE
WILL BE SHOWN
FORTY-CAR SPECIAL TO STAY AT
BILLINGS EIGHT HOURS
ON OCT. 4

Animals EnrOute to National Dairy
Show at San Francisco viii Be Ex-
hibited in Montana; All Are Prize
Winners.
Evening star., 1939-10-07

continues. Mr.. Thorpe predicted,
large e-scale purchases from the
United States of materials and sup
plies by belligerents may reach
$4,000 0,0OO,0 900 within the next two
years, no matter what happens to
the Neutrality Act. Complete re-
peal of the act would account, he
said, for only $2OO,000000 or $780,
100000 additional purchases because
buying of munitions will be small
compared to the demand of other
goods legally obtainable here under
the present neutrality measure.
TOO much lip service is being
given the horrors of profiteering,'"
the Washington editor asserted.
Businessmen know there is nothing
so demoralizing as trying to conduct
q business under war conditions. If
they need to be reminded they
should look in the national grave
yard of 1920 and count the tomb
stones of hundreds of businesses that
passed out after expanding for
large-scale war production.
The natural causes of supply and
demand will bring fluctuations in
price and give manifestations of un-
warranted profits, but regardless of
such flurries, businessmen know war
is unsound in the long run"
Romney Takes New Auto Post.
George w. Romney, who has re-
sided in Washington for several
years as representative of the Alum
mum Wares Association, has been