Evening Star Newspaper, January 11, 1927, Page 14

Y134 TRADE IN POULTRY | BRISK AT MARKE Chicken Prices Advance on | Increased Demand—Few . Other Price Changes. poultry up a fe wholesal A brisk fow! and points in Btands to ¥ in et live, advanced from 26a nd dressed chic grom 30a31 to 33a35 cents a With the close of the after meason choice capons dropped s for the dressed variet a46 instead of 47ad. price at the end of ing other | fines. Meats continued briskly in the sharp we yemuined at the same P week. Tod; Butter— s Wholesale Prices. pound pri stove packed, 38. selected, 43ad4; receipts, sh current 40a4 B hery, storag Poultry, Ens, 3 Towls, young, £0a60; old. 5 capons, 40242 alive—Turkeys, 40; chic White Leghorns, 2 45a4 Kkeat . No. fancy, heavy, chicken Today's market report on wegetahles compiled by the B News reau of Agricultura Economic Apples Yight, few sales Xet steady 1. Grim Virginia, siderable Northwestern extra fancy Staymans, Cabbage—Suppligs moder mand light, few salts account weathe old stocl hundredweig! Danish 2.00; new sto npers deman inch cor scalded, medium to lary e s type and round types. —Supplies mode market firm; medium si deman liforn mostl, 5.7 e: « around ze, § Lettuce—-Supplies liber light; few sales account we: ket P crates, type, 4-5 dozen, Onions- her, ma Iceber stead, chigan, Yellows, U. S. No. 1, large Ohio, 100-pound sacl ;1 e size 100-pound_sac sacks, 8523.0 s, Yellow mostly 3.0 mand light accoun ather, market steady: M et 3 Russet Rur: ains, U, Spinach—Supplies mand light; few weather, market dull; Savoy type, on, 75. 1, moder: ales Tex: 1.00a1.15 Sweet potatoes—Supplies moderate; | PUvers. Brighter colors, better taste acconnt | inside and out, more graceful lines, demand light; few weather, market dull; cloth-top stave barrel 1, 2.50a3.00. String bean: mand sales light; slightl green, best, 6.00a7.0: 4.00a5.00; poor condition, lqw as Strawberries—Supplies moderate; d mand very light; very few sales count weather, market weake: mostly around 60. ATCHISON ORDERS. NEW YORK, January 11 (#). ‘Atchison, Topeka and § 00 car: American Tank C 8teel Car each got 500 box cars, Pul man 500 refrigérators and America Car and Foundr refrigerators. POTATOES ABOUT STEADY. CHICAGO, y toes—Receipt s total U. S. shipments, mand and trading slow steady; Wisconsin whites, 2 0: bulk, 3 2.7543.00. sacked mostly 2.30a: GOLD TRANSFEB;ED. SW YORK, Jan other shipment of $2, count on the Ca change tran; ceived by t tions, > Bank o ¥ been Montreal, — . COAL OUTPUT UP. NEW YORK, 1) Island Creek Coal Co. produced 6 931 tons of coal in 1 6,025,715 in 1925 and 4,951,403 in 192 January BUTTER HIGHER. CHICAGO, January 11 (). 11.983 tubs andards, firsts, 45a46; higher; receipt. i or g8 refrige frigerator firs COMMODITY NEWS WIRED STAR FROM ENTIRE COUNTRY LANSING, Mich Oldsmobile factory shut .down during December, is now here, which 1 t back on a he Oakland plal at capacity. w County, which calls it expect: stone peaches 1 planting seasc will be CLEVELAND-—Consider: ity is expected to continu industry in Ohio. J. L. tary of the Ohio Coal mates 15,000,000 tons W this territory in WARE, M QCompany has its northern plant place, it is working on a plan for ducing the wage scale of its loyes in order to hold down man uring costs. CHICAGO—Packing ch bow the end of the 19: About 1,000 vear acr le act in the cc Good, Bur will Febru; be min “Although the away from house with beef moving better high prices aml nark going well at ste val Ueovign trade is taking wore life, at brought hen boxes, pointe demand | demand 100-pound | up a little stronger than did 1926, but Yel- | public will not want and need, be able de: higan, orth Carolina, | No. | de- r Flor- ida, pony refrigerators, M isionarys,‘ ‘The nta Fe has | Standard | §0 sondolas and 500 market about round | ry 11 (#).—An- 00,000 in gold from Canada, coincident with the dis- wdian dollar in ex re- . against nuary 11.—The full to have 100,000 acres of cling. | determined not to move | this 1,500 trade has picked up during the last week, MEN AND MONEY By M. S. Rukeyser. (Copyright, 1927.) I Optimism springs eternal in the breasts of automobile manufacturers, and the remarkable fact is that the achievements of the industry have regularly exceeded the roseate prophe- cie: Leaders of the industry, who have assembled in New York for the twenty-seventh annual show week, are hopeful that the record-breaking pace of 1926 can be continued. They have brought out a whole new bag of tricks in the form of new and im- proved models to heighten the allure- ment of the automobile. aking for the fine car manufac- . Forbes, president of | the Pierce-Arrow Motor Car Co., in reply to my questions, said: “The automobile sales volume is so upon our natior uto- tion Be- in W le ly dependent erity that any prediction of ies in reality is a pred of our prosperity during 1 cause 1 believe that conditions Ameri e fundamentally sound and that! our present industrial activity will not undergo serious fluctuation during the coming yvear, I believe that the total automobile sales in 1927 will compare favorably with those of 1926. prosy mobile Second Car Market. sing ‘number of { | who use more than one car naturally :lis an important sales factor, because s so-called second car market is a considerable one. We do not anticipate during 1927 | drastic change in automobile “The incre |any | style. “I think we can look for a continual but gradual improvement from a Y mechanical standpoint, just we have had during the past years. None of these, however, could be termed sensational or revolutionary, hecause the automobile v has { high stage of perfection. Asked whether he agreed with | Henry Ford that the sale of cars on | credit had been overdone, Mr. Forbes 1id: “It is true that credit can be used. The time-payment phase of | automobile selling, however, has | passed through its infancy stage, and | T think that in the future the vast | majority of buyers can be relied upon | to ‘use ‘sound judgment as to the | extent to which they can afford to use this credit. | "Queried concerning curtent prob- | lems of the industry, the manufac- | turer said: ““To educate buyers to the + | fundamental economy of buying on | the of value and not price is - | nec and desirable, This would jlead to a longer period of usage and | 't would partially cure thé practice of discarding an automobile before its | usefulness was outlived. | Harry M. Jewett, chairman, board d | of directors Paige-Detroit Motor Car 4| Co., similarly expressed high hopes. | Expects Good Sales, “I believe,” he told me, r- | automobile sales in 1927 will be at ' | least as good as in 1926, which, as | every one knows, was a record-break- ing year. It may be that 1927 will start off a little slower and finish al d n- that the e, | 1 can see no reason why the American 0; s, 0; to buy and pay for more motar trans- portation in 1927 than they have used ! in_any previous year. { As the American public learns | more fully to appreciate the useful- ness of motor cars for personal tran portition, more individuals use c more frequently, which, of course, | means more cars per family. Two | s per family is now commonplace mong those of Moderate means, and s, of course, an important sales factor ‘to continue in the growth of automobile business. | The important changes that are | being made in automobile style are | dictated by woman users and “‘Woman nt | more comfortable automobiles are the | style tendencies. “I believe that the most important mechanical improvements in the cur- rent year will be the new type four- | speed transmission, providing in ef- fect two high gears—one similar to the present high for giving accelera- tion and fast hill climbing—the sec- ond, an overspeed to enable the driver to take advantage of the long stretches of fine road that now exist, to maintain high road speed with slower engine speed, with the result- ing greatly increased smoothness and economy.” Limit on Installments. ncerning the oft-criticized install- ment selling of cars, Mr. Jewett sai “Begause the automobile is personal transportation and a necessity, it is altogether desirable that it should be | possible for users to pay for it out { of income. Tt is bad business for the manufacturer, dealer and the public to carry this to extremes. “We believe and always have be- lieved that one-third down and the Da in 12 months is the proper limit. 1In so far as cert ain manufac- turers and dealers have fostered longer terms than these in the past, I do think that the sale of cars on credit has been overdone. I know | the general tendency is to return to a ner position in this matter.” Concerning foreign trade prospects, Mr. Jewett prophesied: “Export sales of automobiles will steadily and rap- | idly increase. The world is steadily becoming more prosperous, and is just ! beginning to learn what America al- | ready knows, that the value of the| automobile 1s personal transporta- | tion.” I n THE BUSINESS OF GETTIN AHEAD. Indifference Bar to Success. The multitudes who succeed in the | world for which they are fitted are | not all touched with a spark of gen- ius. | They stand out from the failures primarily because they are interested in their work and avoid the common errors of those who are conspicuous- ly careless or indifferent. Some individuals stubbornly block their own road to progress. They get {into a frame of mind in which they |interest themselves in almost every- thing except their own work. For example, who has not had the ex- perience’ of asking waiters to tell what certain extravagantly named dishes contain and of having the pur- veyors of food, without the slightest ame, confess they do not know? Such ignorance is a business | erime. = It is repeated by roufine clerks be- hind the counter who do not know the elementary facts about the. stock ings, neckties or white goods which | have been chosen to sell incompetent _individuals are ted only because it is difficult to ice them at the same wage. Pro- | motion is hopeless while they adhere s [to_such policie | Indifferent individuals, who are | not expert in their special fields, are iv- | out of tune with the spirit of modern 1| business, which is b iza- - |tion. Instead of % tempting to cover the whole range of ed | human knowledge, each selects | special niche and undertakes to act is the guide to the rest of us at limited field is conc icians, engineers, school teachers, writers, plumbers and house- wives g0 to a shoe store they expect the shoe clerk to know more about shoes than they do, and to guide them. It the clerk knows little or nothing about leather or styles, he is a misfit, |and necessarily breeds mistrust. Ie her | creates a feeling of dissatisfaction in Ay.| the mind of a custome; 4. as of nt re- nu- his | i i on| The alert, cntcrprising and ambi Itious person will regard any work 8§ THE EVENING STAR, WASI-fII\'GTON. 1 D. C, TUESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1927. A T sufficiently dignified to merit being understood. He will not neglect his duties as office boy while dreaming of the presidency. Mastery of Work. The certain way to promotion is through mastery of the work at hand —not through sneering at it and as- suming an attitude of superiority. Many a store clerk chatters endlessly gbout the movies, about base ball scandals and about activities of Eu- ropean royalty and y s no attention whatsoever to the political economy of ribbons, which is the field out of which he is trying to make a living. | A real student of business condi- | tions can approach the subject from any angle, ¢ from the angle which imping: own work. The subordinate who studies at first hand the trend of consumer and who observes through the and the trade press the underlying factors in business is on the road to progre Interest in your own career and in yvour own work is necessary to give you the energy to dig into fundamen- tals. Indifference is one of the major barriers to business | 197 BULDING S NS oM Boom Is Over, but Outlook s for the Year Is Good in |¢ Most Sections. n BY J. C. ROYLE, Special Dispatch to The Star NEW YORK, period of hectic in the United period of st nd_ stabi struction is in full swing likely to continue outlined by contracto financiers and labor le o he | ting | peculative ites is over, architect | £ bring a ¥ The Hub, Seventh & D Sts. N.W. January Clearance 3-Piece Bed-Davenport Suite With a suite of this type in your living room, you're never at a loss as to where your overnight guests are going to sleep. The davenport with the coflcealed bed takes care of that. As pictured. $ ot Bed-davenport, Armchair and . D Wing Chair, seats. Tight spring-filled $1.50 a Week at The Hub January Clearance Lane Cedar Chests Special January Sale of 44-inch $18 Lane Chests—decorated or copper trimmed. Reduced to e 4-Piece Walnut-Finished Bedroom Suite Four \l - chest of S-piece Unfinished Breakfast Suite 11 Consists of a Drop-leaf Table and four Chairs, Special..... 50c a Week Electric Heater $1.49 Copper reflector type —complete with cord and socket. Oak Buffet $19.75 Well made with cup- board space, roomy draw- ers ‘and plate mirror. 50c a Week the enormous total of 1 building. | buildings resulting from su | building is in response to normal re quirements doubtedly |is an unsatisfied demand fo gumwood, finished in American walnut. January Clearance Sale price +..co00vye. to make up for the inactivity which extended from 1914 to 1918. It is conservatively estimated that the annual growth of population of the United States requires construc tion of 450,000 new buildings. Replac ing and romodeling of structures an- nually requires billions of dollars. The loss to housing facilities from fire wind and flood y amounts to $450,000,000, while® depreciation and obsolescence accotint n annual s of $4.061 400, ording to a v just completed. ates from private sources ace the amount necessary to meet normal needs in 1927 at between 10,000,000 and £7,000,000,000. There tnly will be more activity in some classes of construction than in others. Industrial, public works and public utility building seems destined to inc while residential construc tion prot will decline. Many pub- lic buildings were delayed until re- | cently by labor shortage and higl costs. The Federal Government has | indicated it will go ahead with its 1 be judged from the | §165,000,000 public building program. 1ct that it required more than s \:»n} In the last fivi 7,000,000 peo- wrs of abnormal building activity ple have come the country to Only a serious ess depression, of which no signs have ared, is likely to prevent another reat year of construction activity, nd even if there is a recession from , it is not imount to more than would put 1 on . when well expended for xpected it will per cent. This n even footing with 192 ver $6,000,000,000 Requirements Are Normal. There is no longer any shortage of spension of | To onstruction during the war. Some localities are un bl huilt in some kinds of In other territory there housing dlemand is enor- ov onstruction. te al replacement from The Hub, Seventh & Wl i g f Sliding-Top ; Kitchen Cabinet $27£ Golden oak cabinet with sliding nickeloid top. A modern cabinet, unusually low priced. 50c a Week 31-Piece Dinner Set FREE Kitchen GREAT NORTHERN BUDGET NE 5 11 P —The 1] 1927 budget of t Northern from the city to the suburbs. In the | Railroad “calls for expenditure of suburban districts the lack is not con. | about $12.000.000 for new work, iy fined to dwellings, but includes stores, | cluding §5,000,000 for cquipment ac schools, garages, churches, clubhouses | ditions. Capital _improvements - to and municipal buildings. Rentals in | roadway involve about $6.000.000. 1, some cities have fallen. The drop cluding a new ore dock at Allqu taken place to a great extent in dis. | costing $1,000.000. The road will buy tricts where the buildings are old and | 2,000 steel underframes, 500 I getting out of date. While the drop {230 sonde M DEaYY, DA will affect landlords tempors it | mines, 4 tric locomotives so will stimulate improve | oil-electric cars. reconstruction. | Wages are high and promise to re-| main so in the building trades. The country-wide average rate for skilled labor in the building t now is 55 cents an hour. There |little indication wages will be lower. but material eosts are down cent compared with a year ag further declines are antic some statisticians. the cities and they are stlil coming. That necessitates a definite number of urban dwelling: | There is an equally definite tren STEEL FIRMS BARGAIN. NEW YORK, January il (@) London dispatches received in V | Street say British steel makers have indicated willingness to enter the Con tinental Association if given a quota of 9500,000 tons, which w their average output before the st | and about 75 per cent of their capa sociation replied with 500,000 tons, but further . The nearest perfect green-grass dia mond is displayed in a Dresden mu seum. is expected to result in s D Sts. NNW. The Hub, Seventh & D Sts. N.W.|| Lt WA I X 3-Piece Overstuffed Living Room Suite This Decorated Dinnerware = Set of 31 pieces is giv- Cabinet, pieces — dresser, bow-end bed, drawers and semi-vanity — of $1.00 a Week at The Hub Electrio Iron Complete Folding Card Table $1.49 - =l —— Washington’s Greatest Furniture Store Cash or Credit This unusually fine Overstuffed Suite offers all that could be de- sired—COMPARE! Settee, Arm- chair and Wing Chair to match— velour covered loose-cushion seats to match. $87.50 $1.50 a Week at The Hub 2.inch Continuous Post Bed With 1-inch fillers Metal Bed Outfit 17 Two-inch Contin Post, One-inch I Bed, link spring reversible mattress S0 Aquarium $2.98 Complete with Metal Stand Davenport Table . $9.75 Regular price, $12.75. Mahogany finish; turned leg supports. Dresser $12.95 Three drawers and mirror plate. 50c a Week