New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 27, 1923, Page 12

LAR N ORIENT Billion « Mooth Shipped to Far Bt Last Pisal Yo Twelve billien American ecigaretics, A8 average of a billion a month, pass. o4 out of the ports of the United Btates in the fiseal year just ended Curlously, 1an, saps the Trade Record of the National City Hank of New York, nearly all of them went to the | Orient whieh produces haif the to. bacco of the world and has ample supplies of labor with which te turn t fm form for use, While the whele world made the acquaintanee of the Ameriean cigarette during the war| period, it was in the Orient that its use ripened into & “habit” while the | Buropean habit of the war years proy ed only temporary, Of the 12 billion elgarettes passing out of our papts i the fisoal year 1923 nearly 9 hillion went to China alone, approximately 1| billlon to the Straits Settlements and Duteh East Indles, and another bil- lion to Siam, Hong Kong, Japan and the Philippine Islands, while Europe, which took § billien in the year fol- lowing the war, took less than one. quarter of a billion in 1923 Curiously, adds the Trade Record, this American cigarette habit has de. reloped in a section of the world which Is itself & very large producer of tobacco, sinece out of a world pro- duction of 4 billion pounds a year In- dia produces 1 billion, China a ha!f billlon and the other Orlental coun- tries another half billion, indicating that hailf of the world's tobacco crop is grown in the Orient, which has de- apite that fact so enormously Increas- ed f{ts takings of our cigarettes, until nine-tenths of our cigarette exports now go to the Orient, This big increase in our exports of cigarettes to the Orient as u whole oc- curs chiefly in the shipments to China which totaled in number 641,000,000 in 1918, 6,792,000,000 in 1918, 507, 000,000 in 1920, and §,780,000,000 in the fiscal year 1923, The number to the Straits Settlements In 1923 was 989,000,000, Hong Kong 284,000,000, Siam 259,000,000, Philippine Islands, 164,000,000, India 100,000,000, The tremendous fall off in European de- mand for the cigarette is found in the fact that while England took nearly 2,000,000,000 in 1919, Belgium 3 bil- lion, Italy 1 billion, Nétherlands 1,- 200,000, and France 665 m#lilion, the . total to Europe in 1923 is so “negli- .+ gible” that the department of com- merce Includes the shipments to all Europe in its single item of ‘“other countries 727,764," this total to “other countries” also including the ship- ments to all parts of the world except the 7 Oriental countries above enu- merated. This exportation of cigarettes which tas grown from 2 billion in 1913 to 12 billlon in 1923 apparently repre- sents about one-fAifth of the total num- ber of cigarettes manufactured in the United States, since official records at ‘Washington put the total number of cigarettes manufactured in the United | the distriet by the French States in 1913 at 15 1-2 billion, and 81 1+4 billien, while the very advices from Washington put the total eutiure of the manufacture of July at 5,885,000,000, suggesting that the telal for the 12 months of the fscal year 1923 about 65 billien, of which we export od 12 billign, while the other 58 3| liom were presumably consumed by the peepie of the United States as against 13 1.2 billlen in the year pre- ceding the war. Thus the demestio consumplion is apparentiy, about four Himes a8 many as in the year pre eeding the war and the exports abeut § times as muoh | | RURR MINERS ON STRIKE AGAINST GOVERNNENT NOVE, Follow w=Ohject to End of Passive Pully 6,000 Quit and More (o Hesistance Associated Press Duesseldorf, Rept, 27.—~The miners in the Gelsenkireheh, Necklinghausen nd Wanne districts, the heart of the By The | Ruhr mine felds declared a general strikie today as the first action in pro- | test against the Berlin government's | decision to give up passive resistance | and also against the exploitation of | 1t in es. | timated that 6,000 miners had quit! work up to noon, with thousands of others expected to follow, The report on the miners' action | received at French headquarters here | caused some alarm, as it was feared | the strike might be followed by gen- | eral rioting, necessitating severe re. | pressive measures. The French report | says the movement was prompted | purely by the communist | which have mustered an large following. Aside from this movement of the miners the population of the oceu- pied territory is apparently calm tak- | ing the Berlin decision philosophically | As evidence of this there is cited an offer by the director of the Duessel. dorf branch of the Reichsbank today to ‘furnish for the expenses of the army of occupation a sufficient num-. ber of marks to equal 15,000 francs daily. The French also announce the resumption of the telegraph and tele- phone services at Mayence, FRISCO'S OPERA GOMPANY GIVES ITS FIRST OFFERING San Francisco, Sept. 27.—With the improvised theater in the great civic auditorium crowded from orchestra circle to rafters, S8an Francisco greet- ed its own long heralded opera com- pany for the first time last night, La Boheme being the vehicle. The stars were obtained from the Metropolitan and Chicago Opera companies. Tne operas will be given during the season. Alfred Gandolfi made his first American appearance in the cast, which included Giovanni Martinelli, Adamo Didur, Louis §'Angelo, Paolo Ananian, Giordano Paltrinier and Queena Mario. factions, unusually A new gunpowder has been in- vented which not only is smokeless, was .lolobu. i but also flashless and waterproof. REMARKABLE RANGE {oUuLDN'T you like a fine big range in your house with 4 coal cooking holes—4 gas cooking covers—a coal oven— 2 gas ovens and a gas broiler that you could use if the oc- \ casion required all at one time?—or that you could use any part of it anytime? RUTHLESS OUTLAWS GET RICH HARVEST Robber Bands Along Brazilian Border Hold Up Tralic | Rio De Janeire, Sept, 27.—Frontier activities that bring 1o mind the stir. ring times of Danicl Boone are bheing reported in the lecal press from Uhe Hrazilian regions whieh der on Venesuela and the Guiana Accord- | Ing to these stories, and to reports that have been made from the tron | Ble zanes to the government, contra- | band runners, clandestine gold miners, and various kinds of desperados have been erossing the frontiers inio Brasil In increasing numbers and have boen leaving tralls of bleed and ruin The vast regions of the Amazon valley, which are but sparscly inhab- ited, contain many forms of wealth that are within reach of ruthiess out laws who act in small groups, as well as in bhig and powerful organizations It is reported that fortunes in gold and precious stones ahve heen ed from the gavels of the northern streams of Brazil by outlaw miners; that rosewood, mahogany, ehony and other precions stones have been stolen from Brazilan forests, that catlls have been run off the poorly protected ranches, and the erops of outlaying | ttlement farms boldly pilfered = by raiders, The reports add that these | outlaw activities have resulted in| many bloody clashes between local in- | habitants and bands of fronticr run- ners, The fact that boundary lines run through trackless wilderness mukes it almost impossible to establish effec- tive police protection, The few mili- tary posts of the Brazilian government and her neighbors are lost in the | vastness of the zones they are wup- posed to patrol. The outlaws are escaped conviets from the pennl colony in i“rench Guina, negroes from Barbados, Mar- tinlque and Trinidad, riff-ral English and Dutch Guina, venturers from Venczuela, English, Dutch, Spanish, Portug: and Indian dialec's are mixed into a | general regional language, The si of the outlaw organizations is gov- erned by the kind of outlawry in which they are engaged. The gold mining and smuggling gangs, for in- stance, are said to be large and pow- erful, with headquarters in coast towns. As a means of taming the frontier | zones, the Brazilian ministry of agri- culture, commerce and industry s planning to fill up a considerable strip of ,and along the boundary lines with Indian reservations and agricul- | tural colonies. The Brazilian Indians | are hardy and warlike, and it is b lieved that they would soon rid those reglons of foreign invaders il they were given property to deiend. oth the Indian service and interior settiement departments of the minis- | try of agriculture are engaged iu the | enactment of these pacification plans. gold han- for men on fad Eyeglasses mounted dles are becoming the {of the ferer itself through lessening of the "¢ | gtaft from the sophomore class, points | and in Europe. 6URN on the gas and push a button to light it. You’ll never be satisfied until you have a Magee New Republic in your kitchen. IT works just as good as it looks—is made in Pearl Gray Porcela or Ebony Black, nickel trimmed, one of the many good ones in the big Magee line. MAGEE FURNACE COMPANY, Boston, Mass. JOHN A. ANDREWS & CO. | friendship. ¥ - — =) iy ,»"“ W”Mfl'llmllllll|lflmVHIIMHll!Ibll!llllllllllllllj GASwm=COAL=WOOD | CAN BE USED SEPARATELY ADMITS RESISTANCE WAS | POSITIVELY A FAILURE| German Oficisl Saps that Plan De. moralised Oountry and Did Nt ‘ Hurt Allies J Berlin, Sepl. 27.—Passive resistanee | in its latest stages fully failed to exert | noral pressure on Prance and Rel. | glum and beeame so weak that it had | shriveled to a shadow of its| former self,” said an ofticial of the German geverfiment in discussing the psychologieal phases of the Ruhbr situation The enforced idiencss of hundreds of thousands of Ruhr workers en- gendered a state of demeralization which this official helieved would promptiy assert itself when werk was resumed, He gquestioned whether the individual capacity of the average Huhr kmen would again attain its previous standard of eficieney, As for finances this official asserted that new levies of tases Lo support the Ruhr fight were wholly eut of the question inasmuch as Davaria was als ready officially protesting againat this government's existing tax program whieh did not provide forthe Ruhr subsidies, thing short of drastie confiscation of private fortunes would have heen to continue the poliey of in the opinion of necessary passive resistance this officlal, YALE NEWS PROTESTS COLLEGE PUNISHMENT Objects (o0 Many Men Being Barred From Sports—Thinks Pledge Is Suficient New Haven, Sept, 27.~Uncertainty as to the extent in period of time penalties inflicted upon under- class men as the result of the riotous disturbances of the Yale freshman class in June is partly cleared up to- by the Yale News, which as a suf- number of candidates for places on Its out that the penalties range from half W term to the entir hese penal- ties fall upon 19 6 and 1926 8. The News sa) “Whether egged on or not (in the several outbreaks in the spring) by the upper classmen in classes of 1925 and 1926 must be held responsible and suffer for their misdeeds. Tradi- tion or no tradition, classes to come must be impressed with the serious- ness of interfering with the property and citizens of New Haven. The ques- tion of debate is only the fairness and effectiveness of the penalty imposed.” The News discusses the penalties ks i1 disqualification from sports is "quite fair to the men or to the activities when so many men, presum- ably in good standing scholastically are thus punished?" y The News does not believe that the penalties are just and thinks a pledge of the student hody to enforce good future hehavior is the more effective way of increasing town and gown aa OR BOTH AT ONE TIME =~ " NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1023, ° Only 38 Homes in NEW BRITAIN HERE 18 a shortage of heating equipment this Fall, in spite of the record production of our plants, In fairness to our customers, we have allotted the entire available supply of ArcoLa outfits (an outfit consists of ArcoLa and an Ameri- can Radiator for each room) to cities and towns in proportion to their population, This sign in your Heating Contractor's window is the mark of the Merchant who sells ArcoLa, ArcoLawarms the room in which it stands and sends its hot-water warmth through pipes to American Radiatorsinevery other room, This means very few ArcoLa outfits for this city, While they last, these outfits will be sold at regu- lar low prices (see the dealer reproduced below), Next week is Arcora weex. 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