New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 6, 1915, Page 5

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EMMA STEVI;NS LEADS POPULARITY CONTEST Emma Stevens, the primadonna comedienne, who is now playing at the local Fox theater, has been in- formed through one of the represen- tatives of the New York Telegraph that she now holds the lead in the popularity contest that paper is con- ducting to find the most popular stage stars in America. Her nearest rival is Marjorie Bentley premiere dancer of the New York Hippodrome who has 6,500 votes less *han Miss Stevens, Today ushers in ‘“Mortmain,” the six act detective drama with Robert Edeson in the title role which will “Mortmain”’ is a drama written with trenchant power and runs the gamut of human life and love with just enough of the | weird side of the crook play to make interesting. “Neal. Of The proclaimed by all who have it very the most remantic serial story yet re- leased will also be shown. The story of “Neal Of The Navy,” is so dif- ferent from the usual run of this kind of photo-plays blending as it does, life in the U. S. Navy with enough romance and thrills thrown in to suffice the lovers of both these clements. A Chaplin comedy and several other single reels of sterling quality round out two hours of clean entertainment. Miss Stevens will be heard in a | complete new arrangement of popular songs today and tomorrow. Menu for Tomorrow Breakfast Stewed Peaches Cereal and Cream Baked Veal Hash Potatoes au Gratin Milk Toast Coffee Lunch Cheese Pudding Crackers Albert Cake Olives Marmalade Tea Dinner Steak with Onions Buttered Beens Escalloped Potatoes Tomato Pecan Salad oin the Magee Range Clul Now Open at JOHN A. ANDREWS & CO. NEW BRITAIN’S GREAT FURNITURE STORE DEMONSTRATIONS ALL THIS WEEK We Buy Your Old Range and Credit onthe New Une $1 a Week Dues Until ({1 wlRE” I. W. W. apostles who can bawl OVER THE ‘When national banks chartered by the government disappoint and de- prive toil of its just reward, and stimulate resentment, we have pre- pared and fertilized the soil for a fearful crop of disaster. 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Sable was used for a high choker collar which extended down the front like a lapel The skirt was smocked around the hips and ended in a heavily corded hem Really it's well .worth while to go just to see the gowns, and besides that the show is good. See you to- morrow, dear. . Good-bye. WILLIAMS ATTACKS INTEREST ON LOANS Tells How Bank Charged Washer- woman 2,400 Per Cent. Frankfort, Ky., Oct, 6.—John Skel- ton Williams, Comptroller of the Currency, defended today before the Kentucky Bankers' association his efforts to force national banks to re- | duce their interest charges to bor- rowers during the days of stress in | the financial and business world which followed the outbreak of lhre. European war. Of the 7,615 national banks in the | counfry, Mr. Williams declared, 1,- 020 have sent in detailed reports | showing that they have received an average of ten per cent. or more on loans. He cited, without giving names instances in which the rate ran up to forty, sixty, one thousand per cent. In one case—that of a woman who borrowed $3.50 for six days-—he said the bank charged one dollar, or 2,400 per cent. “These banks said Mr. Williams, “are authorized by the government. To an extent at least, they have be- hind them the sanction, the pres- tige and the protection of the great American nation—and lending $3.50 for six days to a washerwoman or a laborer’s or a farmer’'s wife, at 2,- 400 per cent. Larcency From Person: “As somebody once said of drug- | CLARKE H Gray gists' profit on powdered chalk, it gets out of the range of percentagc into larcency from the person. Three hundred per cent. will make anar- chists silently, faster than all the banks. I do not intend to stand for them if I can help it. The coun- try will not stand for them.” Mr, Williams said he invited Senate investigation of his actions or the conduct of his office. Protection Against Rapacity. A majority of the national banks “are now conducting their business on a high and honorable plan and are charging fair and reasonable rates on loans,” Mr. Williams said He predicted that a well-thought out, carefully constructed, conservative system of rural credits for the de- velopments of agriculture would come presently and said that in the meantime he expected to do all pos- sible to protect borrowers of all grades against rapacity. He asked the co-operation of all banks further to improve conditions. The figures he quoted, Mr. Willlams said, were taken from the reports of national banks, *“not pawn-brokers or recognized money sharks.” Rates Are Disreputable. “These banks know” he said, “and I know, that such rates are disre- putable and without excuse, what- ever the security for the loans may be. The bank that lends at such rates is destroying its constituency and is at the same times committing slow but sure suicide. Some reports from the south and west, the north- west and the southwest, especially in the wheat and cotton sections of the southwest, are blood-curling. They are like stories from darkest Russia, of the oppressions inflicted upon the peasantry. The reports received at the comptroller's office show indis- putably that in some states and sec- —_— MOTHER OF SCHOOL GIRL { Tells How Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound Re- stored Her Daugh- ter’'s Health. Plover, Iowa.—““From a small child my 13 year old daughter had female q weakness. I spoke i to three doctors 4 about it and they did not help her any. Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com- pound had been of great benefit to me, so I decided to have her give it a trial. She has taken five bottles of the Vege- table Compound ac- cording to directions on the bottle and she is cured of this trouble. She was all run down when she started taking | the Compound and her periods did not come right. She was so poorly and weak that I often had to help her dress herself, but now she is regular and is growing strong and healthy.’’ — Mrs. MARTIN HELVIG, Plover, Iowa. Hundreds of such letters expressing gratitude for the good Lydia E. Pink- ham’s Vegetable Compound has accom- plished are constantly being received, proving the reliability of this grand old remedy. If you are ill do not drag along and continue to suffer day in and day out but at once take Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vege- table Compound, a woman’s remedy for woman’s ills. If you wanvy special advice write to Lydia E.Pinkham Medicine Co. (confi~ dential) Lynn, Mass. Your letter will be opened, read and answered by a woman and held in strict confldences, tions, borrowers and especially small borrowers, have been and are being subjected to extortions and exactions which the average man would con- sider impossible in this enlightened age. Mr. Willlams devoted much of his time to answering criticisms of his action in regard to lower interest rates by Senator Wgeks, of Massa- chusetts, in a recent spoe before Michigan bankers. He deciared Sen- ator Weeks, had said that the banker himself was the man to determine in terest rates, and in reply read a list of banks which showed an average rate of more than ten per cent. It included two banks in Illinois, six in Minnesota, two in Missouri; twen- ty-three in Georgia; six in Florida; | twenty-one in Alabama; two in Louis- | ianna; three hundred and fifteen in Texas; seventeen in Arkasas; three | in Tennessee; ninety in North Da- kota; eighteen in Nebraska; five sas; thirty-eight in Montana; in Kan- orado; ‘twenty-five in New three hundred in Oklahoma; twelve in Washington; ten in Oregon; thir- teen in California; two in Utah; onc Charge Maximum Rates. In one southwestern states, <aid Mr- Williams, 131 banks reported they charged a maximum rate of interest of from 15 to 24 per cent. sixety-seven banks a maximum between twenty- | five and 60 per cent. twenty-two banks a maximum between 60 per { cent, and 100 per cent; eighteen be- tween 100 and 200 per cent. and | eight between 200 and 2,000 per cent. “Most of these disgraceful rates,” said the comptroller, “were for com | paratively small loans.” The legal | rate in the state, he pointed out, was six per cent. and the maximum au- | thorized by special contract, ten per | cent. Reviews Financial Situation. Mr. Williams reviewed the financial situation through the first year of the European war. He sald that this country had not only avoided fin- ancial crash but had wiped out the | floating debt of $350,000,000 due to Burope January 1st, 1915, and ab- sorbed between 750 and 1,000 millions of dollars of American securities that were held abroad and now is in con- dition to help flnance the whole world at the conclusion of the war. He presented as a fact that the United States was now in position to buy back the American securities Leld in foreign lands, if they should | be offered, but that “Europe has come to realize that America j« tha, most stable country on earth” and that investors there cling to Amcri- can securities likely to be the best real values “as the American dol- lar has become the world's standard of value because it commands the world’s faith.” Giving figures to substantiate this assurance, the comptroller said “the | estimated gold supply of the United States in gold coin and bullion is more than two billion dollars, of which state and national banks hoid one billion and the Federal Reserve banks and the treasury 640 millions, leaving more than four hundred mil- milons in the pockets of the people. At no time in recorded history have the banks of any country held such resources as the' banks of this coun- try hold toda Deposits of all the banks in the United States, including Trust companies, had, in the past fif- teen years, increased at the average rate of about a billion dollars a yer, he said twenty-five in South Dakota: | four- | ‘teen in Wyoming; thirty-seven in oCl- Mexico; | in Nevada and thirty-three in Idaho. | The income of the people of the United States over the expenses of | living and available for development | and investment amounts to 5,000 mil- | lions of dollars per annum. Mr. Wil- liams said and he placed the total at 30,000 millions a year. He said the total wealth of the United States is now estimated at 210 billions as com- pared with 76 billions as the total wealth of Germany in 1911; 55 bil- lions, the total wealth of France In 1908; and 108 billions, the wealth of the whole British empire, including the United Kingdom, Canada, Aus- tralia, India and South Africa, by the latest available computation, that of 1903, Williams Cautions Hearers, Mr. Williams cautioned his hearers that the time may be near when this nation will need its resources and “when even our unprecedented and Paid For a home crowded with gold with our doors wide open | even a gun on the premises. ualled strength will be At the close of this great war he sald “it will be our task to fin- ance the world. We may be the one | have to take care of oursely affluent power. The strain on us | of countries, governmenmnts and will be enormous. We may have to |abroad. 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