Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 45, Number 15, 27 November 1919 — Page 14

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM. THURSDAY, NOV. 27, 1919.

HUGE PROFIT MADE BY OPERATORS OF SOFT GOAL FIELDS

WASHINGTON, Not. 27 Bituminous coal mines east of the Mississippi River fn 1917 made "what might be termed fabulous profits," the general average being from 100 to 150 per cent In 'nvested capital, according to a etrteme.it Issued last night by Secretary Qlas, based on data supplied bv exnerts of the Internal Revenue

Bureau. 8c l0-I parsley, 15c bunch; green man ual operators generally in the es, 5c each; garlic. 75c lb.; . summer United 6tates in the years 1914 and'laa8n' c lb.; cucumbers. 25c;. cab1915 lost money, when normal deple-jbae' 8c lb.; egg plant 25c lb.; home tion and depreciation are taken into ! Zw celery, 5c bunch; cranberries, consideration," the statement said. "c for 2?' e beBn" fc25c -What is meant by this la that a pro- "!' domestic endive. 25c lb.; radishes, per item in fixing costs Is deprecia- 5c bunch; .spinach, 20c lb.; Colorado

tlon of nlant and denlnllnn frf th enut : or value of the coal in the ground. "In the latter part of 1910 all coal companies in the United States, save those In the extreme West, began making money, with the result that the operations for the year 1916 generally show a profit of from 10 to 25 per cent on capital Invested. 1817 Profit "Fabulous" "In 1917 all bituminous coal mines east of the Mississippi River made what might be termed fabulous profits, the general average being from 100 to 150 per cent on invested capital, the range being from 15 to 800 per cent. "In 1918 conditions were not so good In the Appalachian and central competitive districts, profits generally being reduced 25 to 30 per cent less than for the preceding year, the range being from 15 to 300 per cent on invested capital. In the West conditions In 1918 were better than in 1917, the profits in the Rocky mountain districts ranging as high as 4400 per cent on invested capital. "Unofficial figures for 1919, incomplete of course, Indicate that profits of the operators are less than for 1918. some of the operators claiming to have actually lost money:" Miners Called Loafer Higher wagee to bituminous coal miners would mean rewarding men "who prefer to loaf rather than produce coal," was the assertion of the executive committee of the operators in central territory in a statement issued last night. Excerpts from a typical mine "payroll" are quoted to show that, out of 175 men offered an opportunity to work twenty-two days in a month, only forty-six presented themselves. "On every occasion that the mine wage scale has been advanced during the last few years, the number of these idlers has increased, because they were able to earn all they required in a few odd numbers of days," the statement said. Names of fifteen miners, taken from payrolls, were listed in the statement, showing daily earnings from $8.10 to $13.05. "Thousands of others showing similar earnings could be added to this last," it was stated. British Parliament Will Consider New Home Rule BUI in Next Two Weeks (By Associated Press) LONDON, Nov. 27. A new home rule bill Betting up two parliaments in Ireland with a council or senate of forty to be chosen by the two, probably will be Introduced in parliament within the next 2 weeks. Daily sessions are being held by the cabinet committee in charge of the measure, the subject under dis cussion at present being finance, which is in charge of a sub-committee under the chairmanship of J. Austen Chamberlain, chancellor of the exchequer. Control of customs has always been a point of sharpest differonce when other home rules have been debated and was one of the rocks upon which the Irish convention was shipwrecked. Control of police is another knotty point It is the supposition that there has hpon an unrirstntwifn;r nn tho main noints before the rnmmittpn and that in fact there was a tacit agreement before the committee was named. The final word however, does not rest with parliament but with the Sinn Fein party. If that organization pursues its policy of refusing recognition of any British law this British planned Irish Parliament may come to nothing since the Sinn Fein polled a majority of the Irish voters at the last election. Moderates, however, believe the Sinn Fein leaders may not be able to keep the mass of their followers in line against an offer of home rule which promises to satisfy most of the timbltlons of the old nationalist party. The other alternative remains that the Sinn Fein may capture the new Southern parliament and promptly declare Ireland an independent re - public. It would be possible in such case to carry on the work of the par - liament without recognizing any imperial overlordship. BRAZIL STARTS MOVE TO CONTROL MEAT PRICE (By Associated Press) RIO JANEIRO. Nov. 27. Measures looking to the securing of a regular meat supply for this city are announced by the Brazilian government. Supplies have been irregular in the recent past. Wartime food control is being maintained by the government in spite of a court decision that supervisory powers lapsed when the peace treaty with Germany was ratified. Congress will be asked to pass laws controlling exnorts and to take other steps which will prevent higher cost of necessities and foodstuffs. Stringent measures against profiteers are also contemplated. MAYORS TO MEET AND CONSIDER STREET RAILWAYS (By Associated Press) DETROIT, Mich.. Nov. 27. Mayor James Couzens, a supporter of municipal ownership of street railways today requested mayors of the prntclpal cities of the middle west to meet in conference at Toledo next week to discuss the street railway problems confronting several of the cities. "The reports of the federal electric railway commission' tho mayor's communication stated "are a menace to the municipal ownership Idea. The street railway companies through the federal commission have attempted to crystal ize and nationalize their side of the question. The municipalities should make an effort to unify the pec!o's side ct the question."

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toOtaARKETS TODAY. Because of the national holiday, no markets were received Thursday by the Palladium. FRUIT & VEGETABLES (Furnished By Eggemeyer's) LOCAL PRODUCE Hot house tomatoes, 25c lb., beets, 10c bunch: leaf lettuce, 25c lb.; head lettuce trimmed, 40c lb.; dry onions, ' Eggs, 78c per dozen; creamery but ter, 87c lb.; country butter 75c lb. Produce, Buying. Country butter. 65c lb.; eggs, 65c dozen; old chickens, 20c lb.; frying chickens, 20c. Fruits. Bananas, 12c lb.; lemons, 40c doz.; apples. 10c to 15c lb., Tokay grapes, 25 cents pound; Chestnuts, 50c lb; fresh Cocoanut, 20c; fancy Delicious Apples, 3 for 25c; winter Banana Apples, 3 for 25c. LOCAL QUOTATIONS (Furnished by Whelan) BUYING Oats, 70c; rye, $1.25; straw, per ton, $7.00; new corn, $1.25 per bushel. SELLING Cottonseed Meal, per ton. 585.00; per swt., $4.35; Oil Meal, per ton, $87.00; cwt., $4.50; Tankage. 50, per ton, $93; per cwt., $4.75; 60 per cent. $108 per ton; cwt., $5.50; Quaker Dairy Feed, per ton, $55.00; per cwt., $2.85. Salt, per bbl., $2.75. Wheat PRODUCE MARKET The following are the Jobbing prices on produce in Richmond today: Creamery butter, 72 cents. Eggs Per dozen, 65 cents. Old chickens, per lb., 20c; frying chickens, lb.. 19c. LOCAL GRAIN MARKET Richmond flour mills are paving $2.16 for No. 1 red wheat; $2.13 for No. 2; $2.10 for No. S; No. 4, $2.09; No. 5. $2.06. TOBACCO DECREASES IN CINCINNATI WAREHOUSES CINCINNATI, O., Nov. 27. The quantity of imported leaf tobacco remaining in storage in government , bonded warehouses at the close of August, 1919, was considerably lighter! than it was one year previous, wrap-1 per grades showing a decline of 1,630,169 pounds, or 25 per cent, and other grades a decrease of 5,983,738 pounds, or 16 per cent. The total value of all leaf tobacco in storage the current year at the close of the summer period was $10,429,996 less than the corresponding date last year, a decrease of 29 per cent. Of the manufactured products, cigars and cheroots, decreased 9,885 poundsor 49 per cent; cigarettes increased 22,882 pounds, and all other manufactures increased 55,436 pounds, or 3.261 per cent. The total value of all manufactured productions show a decrease of $11,249, or seven per cent, while the grand total of all leaf and its products in storage August 31, 1919, increased $10,418,747, or 29 per cent, compared with the value one year ago. Insects No Longer Models of Industry; Laziness of Bee and Ant are Exposed (From the Philadelphia Record.) For centuries every man whose system craved a day off has been confronted by the example of the busy bee, and he has been put to shame, and, what Is worse, put to worlr. there i by. Every man who would loat ana ! invite his soul" has been sternly ad monished to "go to the ant, thou sluggard, consider her ways and be wise." Both insects are frauds. They have been exposed. It is useless to exhort the beneficiary of "otium cum dlgnltate" to elevate his part of humanity to the dizzy altitude of the insects. They have been found out. Aesop and Solomon were Imposed upon. They were not scientiflcal'y trained observers. They thought ths bee and the ant set laborious examples that human beings ought to rise to. The insects kept up this humbug for a great while, but they can do so no longer. We know all about them. From Hampden county, Mass., come a demand for a ton and a half of sucar "to feed starving bees." Didn't the flowers blossom last summer? Cer'tainly they did. Then why did not the bees provide honey tor the coming 1 wlnterT Because tney are noi Dusy bees. They loafed, instead oi gatnerIns honey all tne nay rrom uie nowers of the field, they idled away tneir time around pans of sugar sugar extracted by machinery from Cuban cane and refined by the sugar trust. They laid up nothing for the winter because they expected those pans of sugar to be set before them daily. And what did they produce? Honey? Nothing of the sort. They Just transferred sugar from the pans to their hives and rave it a little flower flavoring to enable unprincipaled farmers to practice commercial fraud upon the public. This "busy bee" does nothing tha. he or she, or probably it, can get out of. It is necessary to supply this monumental humbug with a comb, with the heagonal cells stamped upon It by machines. And then It Is necessary to supply It with Imported sugar to put into its combs. Even the most rest-loving man could do as much as that. The ant has been studied and his true character exposed hy Lord Avebury and Henri Fabre. We know what his habits are. An example for the sluggard, is he? He is as Industrious as a blanket Indian who allows his sauaw or his captive to labor for him while he reserves his energies for the gentlemanly sport of warfare. The industrious ants are the slaves who work, because they will be killed f they dent; and even a man will work under those conditions. The ant goes to war, takes captives and compels them to labor for him. Some of them serve him as milch cows. 11 the ant does is to milk his cows and kill his captives if they don't dig holes and carry lood for him.

STILL PREACHING AT 100 YEARS, THIS MENNONITE PASTOR

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Rev. Christian Reeser. Rev. Christian Reeser, at one hundred years of age. is still preaching regularly to his parish at the Mennonite Apostolic church near Eureka, I1L Indiana Leads Midwest States in Healthy Men WASHINGTON, Nov. 27. Western states furnished the highest percentage of healthy men to the army in the war, according to war department figures. Illinois with 78.8 per cent stands twenty-third on the list of physically fit among those registered for the draft. The department estimates that 18,798,600, or 78.6 per cent of the 23.908,576 men registered, were physically fit. The following table shows the percentage of physically fit: Wyoming. 87.2; Nebraska, 86.5; Kansas, 85.3; Arizona, 87.4; District of Columbia, 87.3; Montana, 83.7; Arkansas, 83.6; North Dakota, 83.3; Texas, 82.4; West Virginia, 82.2; Alabama, 82.0; Idaho, 82.0; Indiana, 81.7; Oklahoma, 81.5: Nevada, 81.4; South Dakota, 81.2; Ohio, 81.2; Minnesota, 81.0; Delaware, 80.2; Mississippi, 80.0; Florida, 80.0; Wisconsin, 80.0; Illinois, 79.8; New Hampshire. 79.7 ; Iowa, 79.6; New Mexico, 79.3; Missouri, 79.3; Kentucky, 79 3; New Jersey, 79.2; Pennsylvania, 79.1; North Carolina, 78.7; Colorado, 78.7; Utah, 78.1; Oregon, 78.0; South Carolina, 77.8; Georgia, 77.5; Connecticut, 77.3; Michigan, 76.7; Louisiana, 776.1; New York, 76.0; Maryland, 75.6; Virginia, 75.4; Washington, 73.7; California, 73.5; Massachusetts, 73.3; Maine, 65.4; Vermont, 64.6; Rhode Island, 57.6. MOVEMENT OF FREIGHT CARS. The world's record for car movement Is claimed by Columbia. Pa., where 9531 cars passed in a single day. In one month 250,000 freight cars passed Columbia, or an average of six cars per minute. Forage Necessary for Economical Pork Production By P. G. HOLDEN. i HE Illinois Agricultural Ex periment Station has recently conducted a series of experi ments in the feeding of young pigs and the results demonstrate that the greatest economy in the production of pork follows the use of pasture or other forage in connection with a grain ration. The following five important facts were shown by the experiments: 1. From 375 to 425 pounds of feed, fed with pasture, can produce 100 pounds of pork. The same amount of feed fed without pasture can produce the same amount of pork, provided from one-third to one-half Hogs Grown on a Grain and Forage Ration Fatten Most Economically. more protein supplement is used. 2. A full grain ration on pasture will require the smallest amount of feed to produce a hog of marketable weight. It is pointed out, however, that this may not always be the most economical method. 3. When a medium grain ration on pasture Is fed, the least amount of protein supplement Is necessary to produce a 225-pound hog. A medium grain ration on pasture will also produce a pig of the desired weight (from 100 to 150 pounds) for handling the new corn crop. 4. Economical pork production does not so much depend upon the kind of forage used as It does upon furnishing forage throughout the whole crop-growing season. 5. The most rapid gains in all of the experiments were obtained by feeding corn, tankage and either middlings or ground oats In the selffeeder, but corn and tankage produced economical results.

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"ROLL EM BONES" IS

CRY OF SOLDIERS (Kansas City Star) The tables were being cleared in a Kansas City hotel after the first annual reunion banquet of an overseas company Armistice night. "Who's got the gallopers?" someone called. The remark seemed familiar to everyone present, although the men did not belong to a cavalry unit. A handsome pair of "galloping domi noes" was produced, wun the effi ciency said to have been a mark of the A. E. F., a group formed quickly in the center of the room, the men crouching in close formation like "doughboys" preparing to go over the top. The room where business men meet often to promote important civic projects, soon echoed such strange calls as "Jimmy needs a new pair of shoes. Come 7!" There seemed nothing strange to the group in the procedure. One man re marked, "It's just like old times again." But there was a difference. No one was worried because the captain sat at a table watching. As he approached there was no scramble to get the money out of sight. Even Sam, who had been exceptionally nervous after the captain had court-martialed him for "shooting craps" did not look up. The captain, who, they had often said, was "hard boiled," Joined tho group and shouted a sharp command. It was "Come seven! and It was addressed to the "dominoes." "Shoot right out, captain," said Sam, grimly. "You're faded." Ten minutes later Sam emerged from the group triumphant. In his fist was a wad of bills. "I knocked the old boy in the creek for ten smacks." he yelled. Peace had come into one heart at least. REGAL-SPLENtoORTMARKS SHAH'S WELCOME IN ENGLAND (By Associated Press) LONDON, Nov. 37. The state banquet given by King George and Queen Mary at Buckingham Palace In honor of the young Shah of Persia on the night of the arrival of the eastern monarch in England was an occasion of regal splendor. The dinner was served in the great ballroom, the "U" shaped table being set for about 120 guests. The walls were decorated with old tapestries, and yoemen of the Guards stood at intervals about the apartment. The Shah, wearing a diamond adorn ed fez, sat between the King and Queen. Princess Mary, Prince Arthur of Connaught. and many other nota bles were in the company. The orange was originally a pearshaped fruit about the size of the common wild cherry. mi Phone

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National Crop Improvement Barvte, RAISING RABBITS FOR PLEASURE AND PROFIT (By Marcellua W. Meek, Secretary, National Fancy Rabbit CluBL

T IS Just as cruel to handle a rabbit by the ears as it was for your teacher to get yon by the ear when you were a kid and yank yon out in front of of the class. It Is not generally known that rabbits in order to thrive the best, must be handled gently, never startled, and allowed to live in peace and comfort. Perhaps we are not suffering from high prices as modi as we think. We are in the habit of baying the best cuts of meat which can be quickly prepared, and In consequence our meat bills are something scandalous. When we are really hungry we will eat rabbits and be glad that we were hungry. Rabbit meat or "venison" is all white and Juicy, and is, in fact superior to any chicken, however prepared. Rabbits can be fed more cheaply than any other anlxnaL A pound of rabbit meat can be raised at a food cost of but 6 cents. The cost of rais ing other meat is set as follows by the bureau of animal Industry: Frying chickens, 11.5 cents; eteer beef, 9.4 cents ; pork, 13.6 cents ; matton, range fed, 8 cents. Rabbits also exceed any other animal In rapidity of development. They will breed at seven to eight months old in 31 days, while the period of gestation for cattle Is 285 days, sheep 150 days, swine 112 days. A rabbit mother will produce and nourish four or five young rabbits, and under proper circumstances will repeat four times per year. A mature rabbit will eat eight ounces of grain for breakfast and about 12 ounces of alfalfa and greens for 6upper. Alfalfa is an Ideal green 1 lanni

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BUSINESS FAILURES SHOW BIG DECREASE FROM 1918 TOTALS

(Cincinnati Enquirer) Continuing the remarkably favorable exhibit of preceding months this year, commercial failure in the United States during October, as reported to R G. Dun and company, numbered only 463 and Involved 16.871.96 of liabilities. Excepting the 452 defaults of last July, the October insolvencies are the smallest in number of any month of which there Is record, and the indebtedness, although larger than in August and July of the present year, is less than In any October back to 1905. Comparing with the 660 business re verses for $13,980,306 of October. 1918. the numerical reduction is 29.8 percent and the falling off In amount 50.8 percent while from the 1.686 failures for $29,702,178 of October. 1914 the high point for the period decreases or 72.5 and 76.9 percent appear. For the 10 elapsed months or this year, moreover, defaults nave oeen 39.1 percent fewer in number than in the corresponding months of 1918. with a contraction of 30 percent in liabilities. If insolvencies should con tinue at their recent low rate in the next two months, ths total tor the year would be under 6,300, or much the best showing since 1881. When the October statement Is ex amined according to occupation. 121 failures for $2,303,855 appear in manu facturing lines. 305 among traders for $2,846,047. and 37, with an indebtedness of $1,722,034, in the class embracing agents, brokers, and other concerns not properly In either of the two leading divisions. The October manufacturing reverses contrast with 137 in September, this year, and 19a In October, 1918, and are actually the smallest In number of any month of which there is record; and the llabil-' ltles, moreover, are close to $1,000,000 under those of September of the pres ent year and $4,400,000 below those of October, 1918, and are. In point or fact, the lightest for October in many years, wun tne 305 insolvencies tor $62,846,047, the trading class discloses some increase over the figure of Sep tember, this year, when only 295 such defaults for $2,373,589 were reported, but reductions are shown from the 405 trading failures for $3,538,926 of Octo ber, 1918, and In no preceding October has the number been so moderate. JUGO-SLAVS DECIDE NOT TO SIGN THE TREATY (By Associated Press) PARIS, Nov. 27. Contrary to expectations, the plenipotentiaries of Jugo-Slavia did not sign the Austrian peace treaty, giving the reason, they found they did not have the requisite power to sign the different annexes. m

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