Evening Star Newspaper, April 2, 1929, Page 12

Trading Is Reduced, but List Shows Rallying Power. Oils Lead. BY HARRY H. BECKER. ipecial Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK, April 2.—Pressure was from the curb market today and me semblance of order returned, al- hough traders were still more or less n edge over possible develpoments in e money and credit situations. Rallying power was in evidence, but t was modest in its proportions and vas accompanied by a further sharp re- uction in activity. The one bright spot in the proceed- gs was the almost uniform streng f oil shares, which came in for greater ttention as a result of the. decrease in ast week’s domestic production. res. Stocks which bore the brunt of the revious break naturally stood out on he improvement. among hese were Checker Cab, Westvaco ‘hlorine, Saf-T-Stat, Grigsby Grunow, ‘Several of the aviation favorites and a few of the fast-moving speciaities. However, metal and mining issues did not share much in the upturn and here and there specific developments of |n unfavorable nature retarded special Bssues. Fajardo Sugar broke into new low i und following the action of direc- igors in omitting the $2.50 quarterly |dividend, due at this time. Newmont l ining displayed heaviness most of he time, due to the depreciated market \Nalue of the securities it owns. No- Fanda was also weak. | _ International Telephone & Telegraph, following its break of the previous day, yallied across 90, against 885 at the close Monday. Many other utilities also came back strongly, especially Electric Bond & Share. Electric Investors, on the other hand, lost further ground before the trend turned. United Gas Improvement, the American Superpow- er Shares, American Light & Traction and Consolidated Gas of Baltimore ghowed practically no change. In the motor section Ford of Can- Bda rallied in its accustomed manner, while Auburn, Ford Co., Ltd, and most of the others steadied materially. Niles-Bement-Pond was_active among the aviation issues, but elsewhere trading quieted down. ‘ l Baltimore Markets @pecial Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, Md., April 2—Po- tatoes, white, 100 pounds, 75a1.25; yams, barrel, 2.50a4.50; sweet potatoes, bar- rel, 1.50a3.50; asparagus, dozen, 2.50a ; beets, crate, 2.50a2.75; beans, 1.50a3.50; cabbages, hamper, 1.00a1.40; carrots, bushel, 1.50a1.75; celery, crate, 2.0023.00; caulifiower, crate, 2.00a2.50; eggplant, crate, 2.00a 4.00; kale, bushel, 65a75; lettuce, hamper, 75a1.75; lima beans, bushel, 4.0025.00; onions, 100 pounds, 3.50a5.00; oyster plants, 100, 8.00a10.00; parsnips, basket, 60a75; peas, bushel, 2.00a2.75; geppers, cra te, 1.50a3.50; radishes, ushel, 1.00a2.00; squash, crate, 1.50a 3.50; spinach, bushel, 50a85; tomatoes, crate, 1.00a5.00; turnips, basket, 50a65; apples, bushel, 75a2.00; grapefruit, box, 2.00a3.25; tangerines, half box, 1.25a 3.00; oranges, box, 2.25a4.00; strawber- ries, quart, 177225214, Dairy Market. Poultry, alive—Spring chickens, und, 46a48; young chickens, 40: hin and poor, 25a28; old hens, 31a33; Leghorns, 30a32; ducks, 20a32; guinea t:;:l.s, each, 50a1.10; pigeons, pair, 35 & Eggs—Receipts, 2,017 cases; native and nearby firsts, free cases, dozen, 26 926%; current receipts, 21a23. Butter—Good to fancy creamery, pound, 45a50; prints, 51a52; blocks, 49 a51; ladles, 34a38; store packed, 30a31; rolls, 30a32; dairy prints, 30a32; proc- ess butter, 41a42. Hay and Grain Prices. Wheat—No. 2 red Winter, garlicky, spot, 1.26,; April delivery, 1.2615. Corn—No. 2_export, April delivery, no quotation; No. 2 yellow, domestic, spot, 1.07a1.08; cob corn, 5.00a5.25. Oats—No. 2 white, domestic, spot, 57a58; No, 3 white, domestic, spot, 56a5615. Rye—Nearby, 1.10a1.15. Hay—Receipts, none. While hay is arriving here in limited quantities only, it is more than ample for the demand, which is being supplied mostly by truck from nearby points, a few carloads be ing received. There is not enough busi- ness passing to establish prices on the various kind on merit at a range of g.oons.oo per ton of timothy or clover Siraw—No. 1 wheat, 12.001250 per ton; No. 1 oat, 12.50213.00 per ton. DEVELOPS NEW LIGHT. General Electric Builds Water- Cooled Bulb, SCHENECTADY, N. Y. (®)- candescent light with a bulb the size of a large watermelon and a water- cooled radiator is under development in the General Electric Co.’s laboratories here. The big bulb uses about three times the power of the largest commercial in- candescent lamp and yields 60,000 can- The object of the experi- Miles. i 108 ANGELES, Calif. (f).—A physi- | elan’s stethoscope designed to be heard medical ear 1,000 miles or more the patient has been perfected “transmits by wire or by radio and such other vibrations led in energy. I ftd ot DAL > gisi og £ R 52,8, gessaes! RS F SESNEES IF ot 58 WS F S ew ReEs ata S8 2ZatEsun 8 augs FEEETE SR SRR 2% 2 Foltis_Fisher 4 Ford Mot Co 30 Ford Mot Lt 37 Fox Theatres ‘A’ 25 Freshman Chas Parr . 3 Haygart Cor} 1Insur Co N A. 3 Insur_Secu arstadt 2 Kimberly Cia 7 Kolster-Bran 1Lake Super 2Long Isl Lt. % Long Tsl Lt pid. 2 Manning Bow 8 Marconi Intl M 3 Marc Wire Lond 2 Marion Steam Shov 8 Memphis Natl Ga: 3 Mercantile St........ I 2Mid WU 6% pf nobi 203 A 2% st i 07 Sv, Fion s g Uni Sl W ales A K x6—Ex dividend. ‘wi—When issued. n—New. Ww—With warrants. GREECE EXPANSION UNDER QUEER BAN Unity Prohibited by Localized Patriotism and City- State Pride. BY RALPH V. D. MAGOFFIN. Ph. D, LL. D: Professor and Head, Department of Classics, New York University. Imagine, if you will, a hundred or more towns with from 1,000 to 20,000 population each, the majority being the conquered ancient inhabitants with a glorious past, with fine traditions of the social rights and privileges of wom- en, the minority being the recent con- querors who held their women as only the best and most productive of their chattels. Imagine also that many of the older inhabitants worshiped a goddess as their chief deity, and the newcqmers a god. One party from lack of strength, the other from lack of numbers, realizing that amalgamation was the only means of self-preservation, intermarried both their deities and themselves. Now imagine farther all these hundred or more towns situated from 3 to 10 miles apart, all enemies, each one fight- ing for its individual life, the citizens of each one losing every right of citi- zenship in every other, and you have the beginning of an understanding why there developed in Greece such a nar- row city-state patriotism, and why na- tionality, although approached at the time of the Persian wars, was never understood or became of first impor- tance. Boy's Arrival Celebrated. ‘When a boy was born a laurel wreath was hung upon the door, the city-state and therefore the family was lucky be- cause in due time he would grow to be a fighter; when a girl was born a tuft of wool ‘'was put upon the door; it was unlucky. The little gril grew up with her brothers under their mother's care, but she saw her brothers go into the service of the state at 7 years of age. A boy went to school and got the small learnings of the time; his plays were martial exercises, his sports were 6‘ % |to fure him to the hardships of war. 1 3N Y Investmeni Xd 10 Niles Bem P 2 Noma Elec . 1Nor Sta P A... 5 Qliver Fr Ea pr of 3 Qliver Fr Eq conv pt rp 1 pfd... 31 u CE B pf Southw Strs .. panish & Gen terling Sec pid allot 0 Swift Intl . Swift 4 Wright Aeron 2 Yellow Taxi. Salesin MINING STOCKS. t M % New Jersey Zinc. N J Zinc 10 Noranda CHECK PRO Os O non 11 Venezuelan Pet 2 Woodley Pet . Sales STANDARD )IL 1SS in units. MER S TARI 17% = = Cont Oil . 11500 Humble O #0010 PR 108 Ohio_ o h Pel .. SREE22SIATTERG G e a pugaEss oS ot Sg22 5 Sieitaseggsna ERESE, S Sozse: FEFSR sElsnsEssnsaseatad SR izgsmessSesnesiaietinnsssasn ;F - 288823 & F WER & s ’li A girl stayed at home, she carried water from the spring or fountain, she played with her dolls; she sang and danced, she played ‘“jacks” with knucklebones, she helped her mother at the loom, and learned to make linen and woolen cloth. The little girl learned from her mother and nurse the fireside tales of family history and the religious reasons % | why the family had to be preserved, but she never learned to think. She knew that at 15 or 16 she would be married to some man «f 28 or 30, whom she had probably never seen, and that she would do about as she had seen her own mother do. That was one of the things that made the lot of the Greek woman such a sad one. She had to assume the responsibilities of family and therefore city-state duties too early. She was never long enough a girl, and, to para- phrase, “it is a great thing to have been a girl, no real woman ever gets entirely over it.” Goodby to Childhood. Let us read the translation of an an- ‘cinet epigram from the Greek Anthol- 2.2 |ogy entitled, goodby to childhood: “Her tambouriries’ ahd pretty ball, and the 4 4 | net that confined her hair, and her dolls and dolls’ dresses, Timareta dedicates before her marriage to Artemis the god- dess—a maiden to a maiden, as is fit; do thou, daughter of Leto, laying thine hand over the girl Timareta, preserve her purely in her purity.” Grecian Home Was Cloistered. Hitherto, the Greek girl had seen the city streets but seldom, several times & year only, when she, with the other girls, marched in some procession to dedicate a gift at the altar of some goddess. Hereafter, as a married woman, custom kept her only a little less bound to the house in which she was mistress. The common phrase was “Better for a woman to be in the house than out, and better for a man to be out of the house than in.” Such was custom, that con- servative code of action that lags usually too far behind the times. We can appreciate the shock that Herodotus, the Greek traveler and his- torian, felt when in Egypt he saw women shopping and men weaving. He thought the world was upside down. There is everything in the point of view, as the Persian King showed the Greeks, when_ he confronted them with people from his dominions, some of whom thought it sacrilegious to bury the dead, others to burn them, while still others thought it terrible to do either, for their custom was to eat them. MISED ON WHEAT RUST Sulphur Dust Expected to Double Bread Grain Yield Per Acre. Y. (#)—Doubling the per acre in America redicted by H. H, i Whetzel, professor of plant pathology at Cornell University. ‘This will L 2 ] b i Lt BREATHING-SECR BY SUPERSALESMAN Increase in Intensity of Rhythm Factor Which Moves Crowds. By the Associated Press. ANN ARBOR, Mich, March 25— When human beings listen to speaking their breathing synchronizes with that of the ker. Experiments at the University of Michigan, which revealed this reaction, show that it is involuntary, and that it may explain some of the romantic re- sponses associated in history with spoken appeals, Dr. John H. Muyskens, assist-) ant professor of phonetics, who con- ducted some of the experiments, says: “Experiments in the speech laboratory here have demonstrated the rhythm be- tween speaker and audience. A number of individuals pneumograph, an instrument that makes records of breathing. While all is still, the breathing ‘graph’ records many- dif- ferences, sometimes as many as there are people in the experiment, Some one begins to speak, and soon all in the experiment are breathing with the same short intake and the long exhalation that is the usual breath record of a per- son making an address. Increase in Rhythm. “T am under the impression that it is the increase in the intensity of this rhythm that moves crowds to a high pitch of emotion when listening to & great orator or to great music; that it is the intensification of this rhythm the supersalesman unconsciously works for as he presents the pen for the signature on the dotted lin2; that it may be this deepener or intensified rhythm that is the basis of hypnotism; all a matter of working the reflexes that have been ‘conditioned’ by many similar experi- ences.” Explaining this reference to the re- flexes, Dr. Muyskens says that a child says “wawa” for water and “tookie” for cookie because the lip movements in “wawa” and similar words are the first of the sucking reflexes, and once having worked easily, work again because of a residue of irritation in the nerve center. Difficult to Change. “A child” he says, “does not say mamma with great facility because of its association of the word with its mother, but because the reflexes in such a word lie nearest to the fundamental reflector. Reflexes that produce speech are formed rapidly following the wawa and the tookie days; less rapidly as the years advance. “Efforts to change speech in late years is difficult, but we have come to realize that what we once called speech defects, provincialisms or German-English or other combinations of brogue are not defects at all, but are the ‘other condi- tioning’ of a very efficient machine. “Because I had such views I hold it to be peculiarly cruel that a wrong identification of convention speakers re- cently caused me to be quoted as saying have been linked to a|ports that ~development of talking pictures would standardize the speech of the United States in 25 years. The child has his speech reflexes largely fixed be- fore he sees a picture or hears the ma- chine-produced talks.” COTTON IS STEADY IN OPENING SALES Covering and Commission House Buying Offcet Early Selling Pressure. §0 Vi, By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, April 2—Cotton opened steady today at a decline of 2 to 7 points, with active months showing net losses of about 10 to 13 points by the end of the first hour under further liquidation combined with some Mem- phis and Wall Street selling. The easier ruling of the later cables from Liver- pool and & more favorable view of the weathey seemed responsible for part of the pressure which sent the price of May contracts off to 2047 and the new October contract to 19.87. Trading was comparatively quiet, however, and there was enough cover- ing or commission house buying to steady the market at the decline. Private cables said there had been some buying in Liverpool against 3,000 bales of cotton involved in a warehouse fire, with prices later easing on better menther reports and continental sell- 8. L S A WEEK IN CALENDAR VARIES IN DURATION In Parts of World Three Days, in Others Ten Constitute the Period. A noted* lecturer on etymology re- cently said there are few words used oftener than week. Frequent reference is made to what happens in a week’s time, it was stated, but no one ever stops to think what a week really is. If the quetsion should be asked, every one would naturally reply that a week is a group of seven days, but that will not do. In some parts of the world it is a group of three days and in others a week consists of 10 days. During the French Revolution - there was an at- tempt to reform the calendar and go back in the days of ancient Greece, counting 30 days to every month and making every month contain three weeks, but this was not a success. The word week comes from the Ger- man Wikon, meaning change or succes- sion, and the length of this succession week, the ibchas have a four-day ‘The African week varies from WHEAT PRICES SAG IN EARLY TRADING Higher Liverpool Quotations Fail to Offset Favorable Crop Outlook. By the Assoclated Press. 4 CHICAGO, April 2.—Reports of satis- factory. progress being made by the growing crop of domestic Winter wheat led to early fresh downturns in wheat values today. Liverpool wheat quota- tions higher than due failed to act as a counter balance, Opening % to off, Chicago wheat rallied a little, but then dropped lower than before. Corn and oats were also weak, with corn starting at % to % decline, and subse- quently undergoing a further setback. Provisions showed firmness. Wheat traders here leaned to the selling side of the market much of the time today, and found buying support lacking as a rule, except on declines in price or from previous sellers, who were in a position to collect a profit. Absence of domestic crop damage re- gave incentive for selling, as did 2,048,000 bushels increase in amount of wheat on ocean passage. Meanwhile, relative strength of Liverpol wheat market was ascribed to lack of pressure by wheat offerings from Argentina, where port labor troubles appeared to be extending. A new unofficial crop summary today by a leading authority here estimated the condition of domestic Winter wheat at 82.5 per cent, with abandoned acre- age placed around 7.1 per cent of the area seeded last Fall The indicated yield was figured at 580,000,000 bushels against last year’s final total of 579,- 000,000 bushels. GROCERY CHAIN MERGER. NEW YORK, April 2 (#).—Plans for a new Western grocery chain con- solidation were disclosed today with announcement that the Mac Marr, Stores, Inc, had been organized to finance the association of 15 inde- pendent grocery chains. Companies in the group. operating 402 stores in California, Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana, include International Sales & Produce Co., Marr’s, Stone’s Cash Store, inc.,, Con- solidated Stores, Inc., Western Piggly Wiggly Co, La Grange Grocery Co., MacLean Brothers, Inc, Eagle Stores, Marr’s, Stone's Cash Store, Inc, Con- Joaquin Valley. Additions to the group are expected to give the system about 800 units by July 1. L e s President Faunce of Boston Univer- sity was the chief speaker to a congre- gation of Jews, Protestants and Cath- olics in a Providence synagogue. %% |Alabama has turned to agriculture for ALABANA ENPLOYS CONVITS N FARM 8,000 to 9,000 Acres to Be Cultivated by State Prisoners. By the Assoclated Press, MONTGOMERY, Ala, March 25.— solution of its convict labor problem. A gigantic farm project, designed to sup- ply work for at least 1,000 prisoners, calls for the early, planting of from 8,000 to 9,000 acres of cotton, corn and other crops on land at four major pris- ons. Abolishment of the convict leasing system under Gov. Bibb Graves brought more than 4,000 prisoners out of the mines and ended a labor that had be- come traditional in Alabama, At the same time it confronted the State board of administration with the serious task of finding employment for the convicts. For a time they were transferred from the mining settlements to “road camps,” where they were put to work on the ex- tensive road-building program that also had been a part of Gov. Graves' cam- paign platform. The program slackened, and while, the legislators are advocating a special session of the State Assembly to author- ize a road bond issue the prison man- power has been turned into agricul- tural channels. In accord with the plans of Alabama growers to enlarge the State’s straw- berry industry, the prison department will devote a large acreage on the At~ more Prison Farm to berry production. It coincides with the State department of agriculture’s desire to make Alabama a leading strawberry State, following in- auguration. of State-Federal inspection service and the Interstate Commerce Commissions’ granting of express re- frigerator car service for Alabama strawberries. A canning factery, to supply all State prisons with vegetables, is to be erected on one of the penitentiary farms. John Gannaway, 74, Dies. LYNCHBURG, Va., April 2 (Special). —John E. Gannaway, 74, hardware mer- chant here, died at his home, 500 Wash- ington street, Sunday. He was a native of Buckingham County and came here in 1875. He was a member of the First Presbyterian Church and the Order of Elks. He was also a_director of the Lynchburg National Bank & ‘Trust Co. WOMEN SEEK JURY DUTY. | i Voters’ League in. Massachusetts ‘Wants Standard Raised. BOSTON, Mass. (#).—The Massachu- setts League of Woman Voters is push- making women liable to jury e. After eight years of peue”fru:hml- tioning the league has adopted meth- ods of old suffrsge days, with Alice Stone Blackwell, who saw yeoman serv- ice in getting women the vote, in charge ' Germ: ing a militant campaign for legislation | bo: of the campaign. Mrs. Blackwell is honorary president of the league. 'An- other leader is Mrs. George A.-Slo- eor_lqg‘ of Worcester. 1 women contend that the of Massachusetts juries needs qt“:na raised, and that men of experience and u;;nln; seldom are found in the jury . Brazilian Synod of German Lutheran Church—321 congregations, 87 pastors, 145,000 members—has become & mem- ber o(‘nthe State Church Federation ef y. ADVERTISENENTS B RECEIVED HERE Brace’s Pharmacy—30th & M Sts. N.W. Is a Star Branch Office The greater distance you are from the Main Office the more convenient the service which The Star Branch Of- fices offer when you have ad- vertisements for the Classified Section. Copy left at any of the Star Branches will be forwarded to THE ABOVE SIGN s DISPLAYED BY AUTHORIZED STAR BRANCH OFFICES the Main Office immediately; ‘appearing in the first possible issue. There’s a Star Branch Of- fice in practically every neigh- borhood in and around Wash- ington, rendering its service without fee; only regular rates are charged. The Star prints such an over- whelmingly greater volume of Classified ~ Advertising day than any other Washing- ton paper that there can be no question as to which will give every you the best results. “Around the Corner” is a Star Branch Office NOW~A BIG DROP IN COAL PRICES Prices are much lower this month This year the Mining Companies and dealers are mak- ing it well worth your while to order coal in summer. Phone your dealer. See how much you’ll save. * * SAFETY-—-a matter of first importance You can go away and forget a hard coal fire burn- ing in your furnace. You know for certain that the house won’t catch fire.- Safety is one of the cardinal advantages of hard coal. Ask any fireman if he ever heard of a house set afire by hard coal. And in addition to this safety factor is the ease of handling Anthracite. When you have filled the fire box with good old hard coal you have a fire bed that will stay where it belongs and keeps going for hours. No need to rush home for fear the fire may go out. For an all-around fuel you can’t beat Anthracite. SAFE—LONG LASTING—CLEAN BURNING— WORKS PERFECTLY WITH AUTOMATIC.\‘ CONTROL—ECONOMICAL. - thracite highest standards. So they call their coal Carti:fide Anthracite. (Payne Penneylvania Coal Co. and Hillside Coal & Trom Co. Price.Pancoast Coal Co. snd West End Coal Co. (Dickson & Eddy) Racket Brook Coal Co. Collieries Co. and .-“-.(‘II'I.A. 4L Buck Ran Coal Co. and (Thorne, Neale Coxe Bros, & Co., Ine. Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Coal Cou Haddock Co. (Mocker & Co, Inc.) Jeddo-Highland Coal Co. Hasle Brook Coal Co. Coal Co. ) (General Coal Co.) Lehigh and Wilkes-Barre Coal Co. Coal and Co. Lebigh Valley Coal Con m":'-’:;n, Hilt & Co. Co. and St. Clair Coal Cov Co., Ine.) Scranton Coal Co. l.;fil Coal Co ‘Weston Dodson & Co., Ine. HARD L COAL fuel