Evening Star Newspaper, April 4, 1921, Page 20

. N reported to The Btar direct | Semboard Air Line ad). 5. 31 e gener SAVINGS BANKS, Youshouldhacveseen LABOR, SAYS CHICAGO REPOR T | . s oo viee o ot o 0o | atners frcibe tot e 4 B s e e 2 ?fi . o ::’.: ::':m:::’n. g | s Ealivar e, 4 fi* u%‘m‘::'&#" T0°a% 119 -'.‘xolfl:u‘»‘:c." i n a restaurant. . - . e &e Bid and Asked Prices .‘.‘E a ’ Evident Desire on All Sides to Push|f S T : ‘:'EE BONDS Washington MecBasics' El 92 89 PAY CERTIFICATE THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, MUCH BUILDING WAITING ON TODAY’S BOND PRI u U. K. of G. B. and Ireland APRIL 4, 1921 CES. Washington Stock Exchange SALES. e PUBLIC UTILITIES. United States Steel 8. F. Washiogton Loan ‘and “Trust FIRE INSURANCE. . .. Bigs 1929 His knifeand forkmust be = l C U. K. of G. B. and Ireland 52- 1867. e e sl 73ce 1083, 8348 Loy rpey o N spotlessly clean. “‘Can't tell | Treasury, at Holder’s Option, Business Also Declared on- Aot 0o, S FieoEoe g & =ies By 908 | Germee Amer T3 i d erman Ame . who! ised oy befae ®ile &, A e e SHORT-TERM SECURITIES, - et £ 50 | Nadonai Caion " % OREy Is Ready to Settle d],tlons Elsewhere, Atiantic Refining Co. 6%+ 1981 (Reported by Redmond & Co.) Chesapeake and Potomac Tel. 55, 87 ol e . RANCE. would e'xplnn. Baltimore and Ohio conv. 43 Bid. Offer. | Capit: ction R, R. Se. st Real Estate Title 8 Baltimory and Ohio 6e. American Tel. & Tel. 6s 1 97%, | City and Suburban 5 £ Now—Notes. Baitimore and Ofio 6. Te o8t R 22 MISCELLAN fidence, and with the conviction that 1000 o Colombia_Graphopbone pra.-.. e Y ¢ You should have seen him MY LA WLENING. the worst ‘has puated. The cost o | (eatml Facite s 1060, . 100% = B: & Faper .'E" e S s Income tax payments March 15 were ving has hesaieake and Onlo gem. & Amada Ga 1629 ft Merchants: Transfer and Storage 100 125 at hisoffice. His desk must |,, much in excess of expectations that I Al oAl & mumber o e Qibey I 4o AR RS b T i B =ty | i be free from dust. . s » is reported from all districts. Raw Bethlehem Stecl 78 1923. wy. and simply a health precaution, ing April 15, will be redeemed at any |§ e materials are plentiful and physical Canadian Paciic 66 1924 MISCELLAS be would tell time, at the option of the holders of transportation conditions are good. Central Argentine 6a 1921 Rigys Reaity Bs (short) ~ - tell you. the certificates By A. D. WELTON. The crop outlook is satisfactory. There el . Tacincios 02 3 i March income tax receipts were have been no business failures of ' STOCKS Yet be and his office force | Itz ot lkely th 2t holders of 4he|and the rurther development of the|, “What the survey discloses should A o™ & common drinking (Prepayment offer, as the rate of the |Inclination to accept decreases IN|warq with confidence, ISlitojesitor, ;d—. Strangers whocame in ' used it, too. Wfi]:‘lhthnni- tary? Was that * th pre- caution?” If ke only knew! ‘the Lily Cup—it’s a Lily “It's the Treasury now announces that Treas- ury certificates, series E, 1921, matur- $700.000,000, or $125,000,000 in excess of the March 15 maturities. certificates offers good employment for the funds. Moreover, much of the cash going into certificates is replaced in other issues after maturity. Clearing House to Meet. ‘The Washington Clearing House As- sociation will meet this afternoon for gle‘ plllrposfe IT‘ rescinding the action en last fall with regard to uniform banking hours. There is little or no opposition to the rescinding, members recognizing the fact that it is impossible to settle on regular hours with the peculiar conditions prevailing in Washington; so many clvic centers where a large part of the business of the day is transacted after business hours and where early closing seems to have so few supporters. appointed to frame a measure, which the District attorney has prepared and Special Dispatch to The Star CHICAGO, April 4—Slow yielding| wages are marked features of the present business situation. In the building field particularly, there is much work waiting to be done as soon as labor will accept the wages that can be paid. The decreaseds wages offered mark only the begin- ning of the readjustment according to the belief of those who have studied production costs. During the war wag vanced and wage Scales and labor agreements were adjusted many times. In the reverse of the process the same method will doubtless be followed until the proportion of labor cost in any product has reached a final level. es were ad- moment. with recklessness.” Berlin 4s. increase. Greater productivity of labor per mas Confldence in business cir- cles is slowly spreading. NEW YORK, April 4.—Retail jew- elers continue to report a steady in- crease of sales, sales are being taken care of out of stock in hand. As a result, the whole- salers are not mand and orders placed with them during the last few days have been comparatively manufacturers are not receiving fu- ture orders from the wholesalers, but the whole structure of the jewelry trade is but thus far these yet feeling the de- small. In turn the expected to benefit shortly. —_— FOREIGN BONDS. Quotations furnished by W. B. Hibbs & Ce. Prices when the labor problem is solyed and | g, the movement of goods will thereby be encouraged. Business men find 8t. Lon 8t Louis and San Franei; Seaboard Alr Line refdg. Solar Refining Co. Bouthern Pipe Line Co.. South Penn. Oil Oo. nd_Quincy Jt d &t. Paul e OIL STOCKS. Quotations furnished by W. B. Hibbs & Ce. it da. Armour & Co. Ts_1980 T 1d. 4/ Bothlehem Steel 7u 1922 99! ington Rwy. and Elec Wa Wash. PUBLIC_UTILITIES. American Tel. and Tel, American . Columbia . Commerc! Distriet Farmers Federal Liberty Lincoln Company earned a net cording to its report 3 Wentinghouse E. & M. 7s 1961.. sco nc. Be. 3 g Western Blectric 78 1925. pares with and 7.54 in 191 American_ Becurity and Trus Continental Trust. 8s Standard 01l Co. Ohio. h Co. T E Bid. Asked. —_—————— Mrs. Millicent Garrett Fawcett, for many years president of the National age of “Epsonade Salts,” which is Warning? real epsom salts combined with iy CEERE GBI o come of $4,111,385 on a property vestment of $325,648,135 in 1920, ac- N. & W. EARNINGS. The Norfolk and Western Railway operating in- in- This is 1.25 per cent on the investment. and com- 50 in 1919, 5.5¢ in 1918 bilious, headachy or constipated. Don’t merely ask for festure that adds to the |iig District Commissioners have ap- Union of Women's Suffrage Socleties of “tasteless epsom salts” or you may & proved. much in a survey of general condl ) , . ntind has issued a decree that Great Britain %8 % |frui ivatives, giving it thi Toaitats 5. A = e , and whose name is a |fruit dcrl\fl.‘l\(!. giving it the taste et a soda imitation. plessure of drinking. Loeal Securities. tions that is encouraging, but aiways:|,, ‘export duties additional to those Ol Co. Tadiana % 2% |household word wherever the cause of b3 eyl ‘There wasn't enough doing on the local stock market today to call for be met before business can go on. a: exported cereals, provided ssessed monthly will be imposed on that the 8 Standard Oil Co. Kentucky. Btandard Ofl Co. Nebraska. of sparkling lemonade. You get all for “Epsonade Salts” the splendid physic-action of a dose ‘woman suffrage is a live issue, is mak- ing a trip to Palestine at the age of g5 and look for the name, American Epsom Associ- A | B . erman gov. 3%s 13% ican Of1 Co. (new).. 16% 17% Approve “Blue Sky” Measure. here is evident on all sides a de-|Greater Beriin 4 crman gov. 4 Anglo Amacien Bankers generally approve the draft ire et an business. Optimism is the | Bremes sy . s rman gov. 5a.. inf] | Atiantic Refiniag Co S e LOW DUMPINGS OF COAL. > of the Commissioners’ “Blue sky” bill, | rule, even under pressure of condi-|(oblens 4 82 3 NORFOLK, Va., April 4—The three . which it is hoped will become a law | tions that call for depression. In)JoReee fS 190 20 | Hampton roads coal plers dumped &t the coming session of Congress.|this respect the situation in this coun- | pirnf 1 1T 12 | 963914 tons of coal in March, the The enactment of a measure by the|try is in marked contrast to that infhresden 4x. x ok 12 3} |lowest dumping figure for two years. Ak 4 ho know the | M2r7iand iegisiature, after which the | England, where {he coal miners are|bresdce 4}s Bank 45, 173 r 36 | In February all piers dumped a total 3 wi W Lhe | Commissioners’ bill is patterned, has {apparently striking to have the gov- {_‘nvtldnrl {!;rllner Bank 4s 17% o“ 48 | of 1,024,903 tons, the low mark since dangers of disesse, prohibit driven many fake stock salesmen over | ernment use the taxing power to|Rme dn ., Ve 4 b+ $8 97 (1919 up to that time. Dumpings for the border into the District. make up the deficit that maintenance [ Frankfurt 4. 4 % 175 178 | March, 1920 reached a total of 1,762,- hmm S It is expected that the District Bank- | of wage scales would cause. A simi- % . ; g* 231 tons. e Virginia railway plers 3 7 = ers’ Association at its next reguar |jar situation here is so far removed Matiosal| Tenaiss0 125% | 2T% .at Sewell's Point dumped 255,790 ton; - lj’ —Mlmthey meeting will get back of the measure | from what is_expected that it is not French P e pipe 17 A the Chesapeake and Ohio plers af [ s busi w;:h hnne':‘t eflo‘:l rflar‘nlu enactment. | to be seriously entertained. l?r"lfi"-";i;‘-u:- Ohlo Ol 275 Nawpbn: N;wll zm‘msz l'onl. and the -se. USINESS sense. was through the joint action of =3 3 Pennsylvania- 30 Lambert’s Point piers of the Norfolk - = 2 the association and the Washington General Survey Encouraging. Yo loen bk Prairie Ofl and Gy 465 and Western 486,172 ton: : Notice the lip-shaped rim of | stock Exchange that committees were| High freight rates will be modified ; Prairie Pipe Line iss A few cents buys a handy pack- |taste and nausea. Try it when 102 230 68 298 L. [ 408 485 325 ‘ s Y Ppurity Specialties Co. | Cmaries L. Huf, Owner and Mgr. i much comment. Mergenthaler was active in a small way from 120 to 119% and a little Railway preferred brought 59. The Sales Tax Agitation. The exhaustive survey of the Fidel- ity and Deposit Company of Baltimore indicated very plainiy that sentiment is largely in favor of the so-called sales tax, with a moderate income tax, as a remedy from the admitted evils of the excess-profits taxes. A league to advance the sales tax has been formed with Hazen J. Bur- ton of Minneapolis as president In outlining its program H. J. Bu *\hough four billigns of = our of revenue from taxes is now i%’:;oal-ry each year for government operations, this r- On Tuesday evening the promoters of the one-hundred-million-dollar for- eign trade financing corporation will have an opportunity to present their plans to Chicago business men. Wil- liam C. Redfield and Francis Sisson of New York will be the speakers. Re- port has it that the plan may be changed so that a beginning can be made with a greatly reduced capitali- zation. Business Notes. BALTIMORE, April 4—A second survey of business conditions through o8t the nation by the Fidelity and D posit Company of this city has drawn trom David F. Houston, former Secre- tary of the Treasury, the following conclusions: “The survey indicates that the business world is still feeling its way, but with increasing con- exporters furnish certain proof. ) Standard ONl Co, New York. of £ soventy-four. epsom salts without the awful {ation. in itself need not cripple business or s:ifle initiative provided the method of levying and collecting this amount is improved. At present we pay taxes under a process which {s unneces- sarily bunglesome, burdensome, in- equitable and. since the war, inade- the advantages of a general sales tax are: “1. It will undoubtedly produce all the revenue meeded. N“Z, Under it the flow of revenue will FINANCE AND TRADE NOTES. Announcement is made by the ke & Ohio railroad that its shop work will be resumed next Mon- day. The announcement affects ap- proximately 1,500 employes who have been idle since March 19. ‘The sale in one block of 9,100 shares of General Motors common at 12% per share, with a quarter of 2 point off the low of the year, attracted considera- ble attention this week. On her first visit to Baltimore the British steamship Vasconia of the Cunard Steamship Company is ex- pected to arrive about April 14 from London to load' cargo for the return voyage to that port. She is scheduled to sail from Baltimore April 16. The Sears, Roebuck Company re- ports sales for March at $20,105,904, a decrease of $7.372,042, or 26.83 per cent, as compared with March last year. . Completing the first vovage of the all-American service of Oriole lines of the Export Transportation Com- pany from Baltimore to London, the American steamship Capulin arrived st the latter port Thursday with a general cargo. This steamer left Bal- timore March 16. A New York Cotton Exchange mem- bership has been sold for $15.500, a drop of $750 from the last previous sale of a membership in that ex- change. “4. It is simple in operation and will be promptly, completely and eco- nomically collected without burden- ing any one. “5. When supplemented by a mod- erate income tax it will rest equita- bly on all. “6. It will abolish the present harmful method of class taxation and business will promptly get back on its feet and prosperity return. “7. It will reduce the high cost of Hving without reducing the profits of the producer.” Officers of the league are: Hazen J. Burton of Minneapolis, presidens John Williams of w York, vice president; Maj. Henry G. Opdycke of| New York. executive vice president; Jules 8. Bache of New York, treas. urer, and Judge Lebbeus R. Wilfley of New York, former attorney gen eral of the Philippines, chairman of Lh; u::l:lve committee. n ivisory committee has been formed, consisting of about _forty prominent business men from all sec- tions of the country. all of whom will take an active part in the work laid + PANHANDLE STATE, Apr. 19, May 34 4 NORTH STATE, May 3, June 7 " NEW YORK—BOSTON—NAPLES ‘ Cabia and Third Class ° NEW ROCHELLE, Apr. .May 3, June 18 out. 45 BROADWAY, N. Y. Wall Street Notes. Western Union earnings for the year 0 showed i B a surplus for dividends of ! AMERICAN LINE—New York-Hamburg (via Cherbourg commencing May 26) ;m-n- (viaVigo) Apr.14 | Mongolla (oo Manchuste. innekahda (New), Tripie Screw, 17,220 Tons. ... e.. .. (3r@Clase-Only) May 12 | INTERNATIONAL MERCANTILE MARINE COMPANY 3208 F 8L NW. R Hikn, Passmgeriapagess . Apr. 85 May 28 u ————————— CURB STOCKS. QuotalPus furnisbed by W. B. Hibbs & Ce. NEW ORLEANS PITTSBURGH DETROIT CINCINNATI ST. PAUL KANBAS CITY PBORIA share as compared with $10.65 Y P rive & Share in 191. Bid. 1o favor A. R. Erskine, the prescont oo | Ausatic Petroleus 3% 0 B t M ! “Lenign Valey Tor Femao: shows as 1% r a n a assage operating deficit of $512,895, a decresse 6 | J I1a Joist Service with - nfiif.,‘}‘;::,'.‘.‘. 25 compared with the 1118 | [Pty Avestenn Lue | SrD R T o . e Fog > > n + . . . . —_— 12 5 invigorating sensation of o B. & 0. STOCKHOLDERS GROW. :"';u, evmpyrerer— - vig 'g s = On Junuary’1 Inat thors were ouoid A strengthening to his little legs, arms and back. I , as compared o 2 : : 3 itn .f.'.fi‘f-:f’,‘i e same dace :,‘p;"g'i‘,’, Non-Slip It has all th‘e antiseptic ptop'erhes of on the skin that medicated alcohol has. | 470 rport. 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