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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-08
Reduced to Minimum

In an economic democracy,
such cases ought to be reduced
to a minimum. Is this what we
are doing?
One gets the impression that,
while there is little sign of any
desire to prevent a general rise
In prices-at least, il it be
gradual-there Is some tendency
10 adopt price-control policies
which would have TO be very
general in effect. These policies
are of three sorts.
Obviously. taxation can have
only a very general effect upon
prices. The idea would be TO
prevent us from spending. and
TO fc-ce US 10 save. The heavier
taxes would mop up any in
crease in the money incomes we
get. so that we could not buy
so much. Thus the demand for
goods would be reduced. This
would be about as likely to
affect one goods as another.
Much the same conclusion ap-
plies to the various credit and
monetary schemes 10 control
prices. Some may still think
that the reserve banks might
keep prices down by selling
bonds. seeking TO mop up our
swollen bank deposits by forcing
them 10 carry government debt.
Others would try to "sterilize"
gold. by increasing the public
debt in proportion to gold i'm
ports. Still others propose TO
offset excess reserves" by rails
ing the reserve requirements,
thus limiting the lending power
of the banks.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-08
Detroit Produce

hffLEs- Michigan bu. crates u 3. No
I, ~ ~ IN: Bsldwins 7sa ssc; Delicious.
l.oo; Jonathans. az in. ST.
BEANs-Florida bu. hampers Bountifuls
,sr quality, $50; Black Valentines.
ARTIcHoKEs-caIIfornis box.. uo
AvocADos-cslifornia flats, iss 3os.
81. 40dleo
BEETs-Texas II crates. 3-doz.. si.2,
BRUSSELS sPRoUTs-cslifornI. n
BRoccoLI-Crates. 1880 bchs.. Ari.
50 IS: California. 81 soa31o.
cARRoTs-Los Angeles crates. g don.
eehs, Arizona. $2s5a3.1s; California,
s2,soa323: Texas. s doz.. 81 4o13.
cABBAGE-I.os Angeles crates, Cali
fornls ordinary quality. So; Texas, s225
y. so: half crates. $40.
cAULIFLowER-cai pony crates,
LIS and larger. Sf.40N1.50.
cELERY-Cslifornia * crates. washed.
"a do.. Pascal type. $3.50: SIS doz.,
81. s5n1.7s; Florida wirebound crates.
trimmed tops. 4 doz. 81. Is; SIS doz., 81. 50
n2.73: 10 dor. 81 soT275.
COLLARDs-Georgia crates. sf2s; Viz
ginia bu. baskets. 75c
Recommendations Hothouse crates,
i7s sf.25nI.s5
GRAPEFRUIT-r.xss standard boxes
50 2sd275.
GRAPES - California Jugs Empe#essl
81 5on zs5
LEAF LETTucE-ohio Hothouse lob
baskets. sI.25ni3s
LETTUCE-Los Angeles crates 1cebers
type. Arizona Is. 50 5oh }; California. IS,
81. 1om3t0: IS. S3n3 so.
DNIONS-5o-lb sacks u. q. No 1 Sweet
Spanish. in. and larger. Colorado. 81. 20
T1.35: Idaho. 81 IS: Michigan yeilows
1880 per cent. in. and larger. 100 Use
Whites 81: 10Th. sacks Fellows, isd Ice
PARsLEy-Texas hair crates. S1.25.
PEAS-Mexco bu. hampers. t2.7S.
Kings Choice, s37on4: Mexico Californis
Wonders. 1913.
FoTAToEs-1oo-Ih. sacks U. 3. No. I
Idaho Russets. s1.7s11.sn: a. g. No. 2
si.2S6135: u s. No. I Maine vsriou,
varieties 81 todi45: Michigan Greer
Mountains. 81 3od1.35: chippewas, $3.50
Cohhlers. rs.
RADIsHEs-Texss crates. 5000 bchs.
s21 225
RUTAsAGAs Canada So-Tb. sacks
waxed. son sSc.
RHUBARB Michigan Hothouse sn-rh
crstes. Fancy. s2.75d37s; Choice. SITS
n225
sHALLors - Louisiana bbIs.. 30 dor.
bchs saHi0
srFhwBERRrEs-FIo 3s-pint crates
50 5o1sTS
TANGERINEs FLORIDA half crates
SWEET porAroEs-Bu crates. Porto
Ricans louisiana u. 8. No 1. si.soa
as; T.xs. U. 9. Nc. 2, h;tsd $50.
TOMATOES = Repscks. io-ib. crates
81 40
TuRNIPs-Louisiana bu. baskets. 81. is.
TURNIP GREENS Georgia crates
81. Is: Texas bu. baskets. 81.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-08
Def. Gray Iron
Earns 12e Share

Detroit Gray Iron Foundry
Company for the year ended De-
cember 81 shows a net profit of
$50, 952, after depreciation, federal
taxes. etc. equal to II cents q
share on 100000 shares of common
stock.
This compares with the 1899 net
profit Of S79,995, or l6 cents a
share.
Current assets at December 81,
including S173,5So cash and S45,-
ITO marketable securities. totaled
S33S.sl5 and current liabilities
were $63,672, compared with cash
S61. 389, marketable securities
S1s7 .624. current assets 1856. 304
and current liabilities S3s, 693 at
the end OF 1899.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-08

After the war, II the United
States makes herself strong. she
will unquestionably be the most
attractive place In the world for
human migration.
In the circumstances. II will
be desirable to review the whole
philosophy of selective i'm
migration.
Unquestionably, II will be
more necessary than ever to re-
late immigration quotas to the
needs of the home economy. but
this Is not tantamount to saying
that the ports of entry need to
be closed.
In a balanced and dynamic
economic society. human workers
constitute an asset, not a liza
bility.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-08
Retail
Volume
Improves

Retail distribution this week
advanced a few percentage points
over the previous seven-day period
on the average. although in few
instances slight decreases were
noted. Dun & Bradstreet, Inc.
reported today.
Compared with the same week
last year. increases this week
ranged from 3 per cent TO Is per
cent, with the average at 3 per
cent. Shoe sales were particularly
good.
Price increases are being put
into effect on an ever increasing
number OF items. but demand is
holding up as the result of in.
creased consum purchasing
power. In fact. merchants report
a pronounced trend on the part OF
the consumer to buy better quality
merchandise.
Retailers are OF the opinion that
inability to get prompt delivery on
orders in the coming year will be
more OF hindrance TO their bust.
ness than customer resistance 10
price advances.
Wholesale activity advanced
over the level OF the preceding
week and remained al about 5 per
cent above last year. Advance
orders are still coming in in con-
siderable quantity and orders for
fill-ins OF Winter merchandise
have been more numerous this
week.
Collections continue slightly
above last year.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-08
u. S. Aides View
An income tax official

An income tax Official.
"I am convinced that, instead
of encouraging saving In the
United States. we should dis
courage II. II we could increase
the demand for consumers
goods, we would automa tically
Increase the demand for capital
goods and for labor. Result:
Prosperity.
ION the other hand. IL we de-
crease the demand for consumers
goods by further saving. we
automatically decrease even
further the demand for capital
goods and the demand for labor.
Result: Depression.
81 have been wondering
whether II would not be bene-
ficial to impose a tax on idle
funds"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-08
Poor Widow

List to these responses to a
recent olumn extoling the
worthwhileness of saving:
Faithful Reader:
my husbands aim In life
after marriage Of 80 years was
to provide for me In my old age,
so 1 would not he compelled to
go out to work. ] am now IS. He
bought stock gIowingly described
as infailibly safe. We were al
ways thrifty-never bought an
article without cash Now 1
have received no dividends for
over three years. What Is the
use Of saving: ! sit here and
starve. On account Of this dead
stock I cannot receive old-age
pension"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-08
Presidents Words

Shades Of my mother. grand
mother. and other Scottish an
cestors,
Franklin y. Roosevelt was on
sounder financial ground when
he originally campaigned for the
presidency. He was then all for
governmental economy. bitterly
against high taxes. vehemently
warning that taxes are paid in
the sweat of every man who
labors."
Are our ideas about money
going haywire
Copyright, 1e4i. by B c. Forbes
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-08
Favor Higher Prices

This last procedure. resorting
to devices that affect the actual
supply or demand in particular
cases. has been effective in part.
The price Of steel scrap has been
reduced a little below the peak.
The bulk Of the copper has been
sold at II cents. Several other
commodities. after having ad-
vsnced considerably, have been
stabilized or held to present
levels.
But these are mere particular
cases. The government seems to
have no general policy. since it
does not try to hold farm prices
or wages down. My impression
Is that it actually fsvors higher
prices for many farm products
and for labor.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-08
Flexible Policy

The late Jane Adams once re-
marked that the wheat surplus
was largely the effect OF the
failure under the new immigra-
ton policy to import 1,000, 900
new bread eaters year.
1t seems to me that the best
interests of the United States
are served by a flexible immigra-
ton policy. This would entail
sharply reducing immigration
quotas in periods of depression
and unemployment. and rapid
expansion of the quotas in times
OF labor scarcity and increasing
national prosperity.
Much Of the long-term pes
simism concerning the economic
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-08
Stocks Display
Steady Tone
BY LESLIE GOULD
Interna tionaI News Service Wire


NEW YORK. Feb. 8.-The stock
market displayed firm tone to-
day but trading was very quiet.
A helpful factor was a steadier
performance ofFailShares in the
face of rail labor's demands for
vacations with pay. q
Steel shares were little better
than steady. United States Steel
moved in a narrow range around
the previous close. Bethlehem
edged forward.
There was some demand for
bodybuilding shares in response 10
the big earnings shown by Bath
Iron Works. Motor shares moved
up, Chrysler gaining a sizeable
fraction.
Great Northern, Pennsylvania
and Atchison were firm in the
railroad group.
Loft added to recent gains.
American Telephone was better.
Utilities were dull and inclined TO
sag. Aviations were a little better.
General Electric was moderately
higher.
international News Service Wire
GO, Feb. s.-Wheat
opened nc to &c higher today
corn unchanged and oats &c off.
Wheat-May. S2% q S22c; July,
TIC; September. 77Lc
Corn-May. 617sc; July. 6l7sc.
Oats-May. 357s a 36c.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-08
Relates immigration Quotas
to Needs of Home Economy

II there should be a postwar
intensification of economic ma
tionalism. which results in clos
ing up some of our export mar
kets. we always have the alter
native of trying TO dispose of
surplus production through inn
porting additional population.
Our capacity to do this advan-
tsgeously will depend on bal
ancing our own internal
economy.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-08
EARNINGS

| Peoples Gas, Light ana Cske CampmS
and subsidiaries for the year ended De-
q ssd mot q
federal income taxes. ETC.. equal to $40
share. This compares with Z revised ~
income in 1899 OF -. 7o7.e7l. or S4.13 :
share.
Consotidated Cigar Cerporatisa sn1 sub-
| salaries in the quarter ended December u
shows a net profit OF $3.50. foi. equal arm
cent D stoet: e as eonnc
share. against 1904. $40. or ~ cents eoGn-
mon share In the December quarter -
1899 and SIT aoi, or 81 cents :, so| ~,
Allegheny LudIum Steel CsFpsfne1sasn
preliminary report for year ended Decome
be. 81 .S.r: net Sssss Of ~
state income taxes and excess PROFITS tan
Above net prodt 10 equal after the pr
cent preferred dividend requirsments e
81 s a share on 1.755.o0o shares q
shawiniGan water and rswes Csmpesy
for the year 1870 net proat va: g. - 81
I equal to 95 cents q share. against -, NJ
s2s or slos share in 1889. .
Harblson-waiksr Refrsetories Cempaav
preliminary report for the year ended d.
after d.precistion' deposition. state ana fsSs
erai taxe, including excess profits tax
equal after allowance for preferred dfvfp
d.cS to n ,o ,n:rs on s q: g
proximately $4,000 resulting from -
sales Of property. less taxes thsrsoa 81
%n s:i pr.f, 81 81 s q.
common share In 1889.
Southern Colorado rowev Csmpany = -
IL months ended December 81 shows .
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-08
Scratches
international News Service Wire

International News Service Wire
At HIALEAH PARK
Weather. clear: traek. SLOW
second kare-Ssvttar. Fashion Lady,
Nerake~. Fore Isus.
Third Rs~e-kinE's niue,
sixth Rs~~-Maemantt
seventh Raee-stckIebtn
Eishth Raee-Landiubber. Two-O- Two,
At HAVANA
Weather. clear; track. heavy.
FIRST Raee-spciied Boy. Balanced
budfet. MudsiIi. DR.. Meneder, shan
time, step Aside
second Rare-Marjorie L., Quest A. or,
Niss Waid, Biondsure. Hcicphsne,
spirited.
Third Rare-Earie r., wesgot. Hide
rard. Msad Name. Rcmsunt. Epical.
Fthh Raee-Ehonhead, Must Go,
Sixth Rare-soidieretts, Wise shine.
Seventh Raee-Heln,or
Eisbth Rsee-Hupp,, Chimney Top,
Aunt Carol. Mekong.
Ninth kaee-Decisred on.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-08
M. S. RukeySer:
Economic Commentator

future OF the United States has,
come from worry by theorists
over the fact that there has
beena retardation in the national
rate of population growth.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-08

Van Raalte Company, Inc, de-
clared dividend of so cents on
the common. payable March !, TO
stock of record February II.
SyIvania Industrial Corporation
declared the regular quarterly
dividend of Is cents. payable Feb
ruary 25. to stock of record Feb
ruary II.
Ludlow Manufacturing Associ-
ates declared dividend OF 81. pay
able March Is, TO stock of record
March 10. In 1910 the company
paid three dividends of 50 each on
March l. June l and September 3
and a dividend OF S4 on Deem
Der 2.
HazeItine Corporation declared
the regular quarterly dividend of
Is cents on the common. payable
March Is, to stock of record
March l.
Otis Steel Company declared a
dividend of S275 on the converti-
BILE first preferred. which is in
arrears, payable March Is, TO
stock of record February %
Previous payment was S1.37I7
quarterly June Is. 1888.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-08
international New. servic. Wire
Dividends

Pittsburgh Coke and Iron Com
pany declared the regular quar-
terly dividend of SIPS on the
preferred. payable March l, to
stock of record February Is.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-08

American Mazie-Products Com
pany declared a dividend of %
cents on the common. payable
March 81, TO stock of record
March "a.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-08
Detroit Poultry

Market. hens weak. balance about
steady No quotations svailsbl. SATURDAY
ECGs-hsrket steady. Current receipts,
15Ae; undsrgrades, Neithe.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-08
New York Cotton

Dow-Jones Bonds
40 Bonds 90.99. OF 0.0l
10 LIST grade rails 1853, unch.
10 End grade rails 51.40. on 0.00
10 Public utilities 109.5S. on 0.o0
10 Industrials 1878. unch
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-08

otis steel Company repssts sss ~ -
001. equal to eS.32 q share on ~. ~
shares OF s. 50 cumulative convertible peo-
ferred. against S21<. e65 or S1.6o . anAF0
on the preferred stock In 1879.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-08
Detroit Stocks
1904 Range

Total sales. including odd lots. A.
s-Psid or payable IN 1851. b-Psrtiy EXTRA. g
or eash. con account 81 Accommodations. o
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-19
CHURCH SUPPER
 WELL ATTENDED
Congregational Delegates to Young Peoples Con.
 ferences Named

The annual strawberry and chicken supper to help defray ex- penses of delegates to the Con- gregational Young Peoples con- ferences was well attended last evening atthe First Congregations church.
 Mrs. Victor Hedberg, Jrr ant Mrs. Aubrey Greenlaw were CO., chairmen of the arrangements com. mittee.
 Delegates to the Storrs confer ence to be held at the University of Connecticut June 20 to 27 for young people who will be juniors and seniors in high school next fall are: Mabel A. Burns, Catherine H. Hedberg, Barbara Maker, Gwen Petitjean, Charles Greenlaw and Myron Wheeler.
 Delegates to the Washington con- ference to be held at the Gunnery school June 25 to July 2, for young people who will be freshmen and sophomores in high school next fall are: Virginia Harrison and Eldred Randall.
 Delegates to the Greenwich con. ference to be held at Rosemary hall, June 25 to July 2, for young people who will be sophomores ant Juniors in high school next fall are; Carolyn Slater and John Velte.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-19
IN The Local
 TheatevS
STATE

The most hilarious frolic of love and laughter the screen has seen in years and years Is the Columbia hit "She Knew All The Answers" which arrived at Warmers State theater yesterday being greeted by capacity attenodance at all performances.
 Co-starring Joan Bennett and Frachot Tone She Knew All The Answers" Is one picture to be seen by everyone who enjoys hilarious screen fare.
 Miss Bennett appears as Q night club star, who wants to marry @ millionaire playboy. Tone, the boys guardian, is a stiff-necked, ultra conservative financier who ab- solutely forbids the marriage, even though he doesn't know the girl at all. Determined to win his approval, she talks him into giving her c job in his office.
 Completely strange to office routine, she manages, during the course of her efforts to impress her boss, to lose and win minor for tune for him, to upset not only his equanimity but the equanimity of the Stock Exchange itself, to reduce his dignity to @ more human level and generally to make him very definitely aware of her existecne. In the process of so doing, Miss Ben- nett,s antics, and those of her CO., star, make her hectic, hilarious nnYanAv If hi0i nrder
 Richard Wallace directed the comedy, which rates raves not alone for Its ingenious complications and scintillant dialogue but also for the thoroughly delightful antics of the cast, with especial applause going to the co-stars. John Hubbard is delightful as the playboy, and Eve Arden, as loans wise- cracking room -mate, and young William Tracy, as the love-sfitten ofilce boy, are equally fine.
 On the same big show Is "Naval Academy" with Freddie Bartholo- mey, Jimmy Lydon and Billy Cook in featured roles.
 Coming to the State on Sunday is another double smash show which will be headlined by the picture you've been waiting for Million Dollar Baby" with Priscilla Lane, Jeffrey Lynn and Ronald Began in starring roles and feasuring May Robson, Lee Patrick and other favorites. A new thriller "Man-Made Monster with Lon Chaney, Jr., will be the second big hit.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-19

are all there.
 The great new Ringing Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus of 1941 presents 800 internationally re- nowned artists and multitude of refreshingly new and sensational innovations on It's gigantic program
 The performances, featuring the surpassingly magnificent fairyland fantasy, "Old King Cole and Moth- CT Goose" will begin at 2:l5 and 8:15 P. M.
 The doors will open at and p. m. for the public inspection of the vast, redesigned menagerie where MT. and Mrs. Gargantua the Great, famous giant gorillas and more than @ thousand other rare animals will be displayed in color. full surroundings resembling thei, natural habitats.
 Tn the great new horse fair tent which will be open to circus pa. irons before the main performances commence, hundreds of purebred equine aristocrats will invite in. ] spection.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-19
MOUieS Playing
 Today
PoLrS

Mirth and music, with . dash e mystery, are the features of TEA Big store," new Marx Brothers conn edy production, which arrives 9 Loew's Poll on Saturday. |
 The new Metro-G Goldwyn -MayM film supplies Groucho, Harpo and Chico with an appropriate loca1 for their screwball antics. Playing e trio of private detectives, theE chase desperate killers all around @ giant department store. Beside hunting criminals, they act as foocA walkers, salesTnen and blonde -chaNG CTS.
 "The Big Store" is liberally spriY1a kled with songs. Harpo offers @ harp solo. Chico shoots the piano" with the aid of e quartet of youngsters. Tony Martin, who recently scored in "ziegfeld Girl" has several num- bers, among them "Sing While You Sell" Virginia O'Brien, dead-pau songstress from the Broadway stage hit, Meet the People," and popular negro tenor, Charles Holland, help out on the musical side.
 Martin doubles at romance in the new filro, playing opposite attractive Virginia Grey. Margaret Dumont, the well-upholstered matron, who has been perennial foil for Grolcho's mad wooSag, returns to the Marx fold as proprietreSs of "The Big Store"
 Situations and dialogue are in the screwiest Marx tradition. The office of Detective Wolf J. Flywheel" and his assistant-played by Groucho and Harpo--is also their home. Upon entrance of a potential client, the Kitchen equipment Is converted like shot into respectable business furniture, but the boiling coffee and the frying eggs keep popping out at amazing timesl
 On tn. same program Is another smash hit, "A Very Young Lady" with Jane Withers, Nancy Kelly and John Sutton.
 Attractions current at Loews poN are "The Getaway" with Robert Sterling and Dan Daley, Jr., and "Mutiny in the Arctic" with Richard Arlen and Andy Devine.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-19

EaoofcA part of the field like the buck privates and had learned lot about the terrain.
 GAVE PRECEDENCE
 TO STOvE-PIPES
 He is given to doing things like that. Last winter National Guard manGuvers were being held in New York State. At 8 neaorby airport some officers were waiting to receive McNair. An army plane landed and e young lieutenant stepped out.
 "Where's the General2"
 "What General2"
 'sATcNair, of courSe!"
 T haven't got any General on this plane. It's loaded with stove pipes"
 They had been flown up on an emergency cali for stoves and stovespipes to heat some barracks. McNair arrived later by ordinary train. He figured stove-pipes were more important right then,
 The sub-boss of the army was born in Verndale, Minn., May 25 1883, and graduated from West Point in 1904. He was with the punitive expedition to Vera Cruz Mexico, under General Funston and the later expedition in 1917
 He saw active service in the World War, going to France as a Major and returning as a Briga. dier General. He first served with the famous First Division and then with General Headquar- ters of the American Expedition ary Force at Chaumont and Paris He won the Distinguished Service Medal, General Pershing himself pinning the coveted trophy on his coat. The French made him a member of the Legion of Honor.
 After the armistice, he went tc Germany with the First Division Upon his return to America in 1919 he served for two years on the faculty of the General Service Schools at Fort Leavenworth Kansas. For a period then he went to Hawaii on the general staff. Re- turning to the United States, he was with various artillery commands and | in 1889 was Commandant of the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-19

High in the dome of the new, brilliant blue, air-conditioned big top, amidst a barrage Of spotlights, swirls the all-girl aerial ballet of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, coming to Water bury, Monday, June 30.
 Lovely girls are seen in thrilling flights and feats as color wheels play upon them.
 The electric plants of The Big Show, increased to nine, are busy units this year, for the matinees are lighted just as the the night shows, thanks to the blue canvas of the worlds largest big top.
 Everywhere the new Norman Bel Geddes restyling arrests the eye, for there are drapes and miracles of decor to take away the breath of the circus goer. Even Merle Evans, the musical director, leads his band from e high shell on which spot lights play throughout the perform ance.
 A new art form has invaded the big top, but the circus is still the circus, and the traditional essences