Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 92, Number 231, 28 September 1922 — Page 6

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Certain Americans have been vociferously denouncing the new tariff law because, they claim, it will interfere with the development, of our greater participation in foreign trade. This . prediction probably is well founded. The question of the disinterestedness of these anti or lowtariff Americans is, however, another matter, j Most of them happen to be interested in the importing and exporting business, in such banks as i are large dealers in international exchange, and in the trans-oceanic shipping business. Their i profits ebb and flow with the shrinkage or inJ creases in our exports to and. imports from foreign countries. Now, foreign trade is just what its name iml plies. American goods and products arc traded or exchanged for foreign goods and products. Such trade is healthy and valuable to American I industry so long as the imports hither consist of ; goods and products we cannot ourselves produce, or can produce in insufficient volume to supply . the total American demand. It is unhealthy, I however, when foreign goods and products are allowed to compete on unfair terms in the Ameri- ; can market with domestic goods and products. 5 Such competition, as past experience always i has shown and as logical reasoning always can prove, results in lower domestic prices and wages, I a condition of reduced and unbalanced purchasj ing power that is bound to end in nation-wide business depression and deprivation among all J- classes of people. i A good tariff law prevents this condition by ; the imposition of a tax on imported goods and products of the competitive kinds, that compels J selling them at approximately the same price at which similar American good3 and products are selling. This is what the new tariff law aims to do. Naturally, if it is effective, there will not be ; much foreign trade in competitive articles and the importing and exporting interests will be con

Facts About Official Signatures President of U. S. Required to Sign His Name 20,000 a Year on Official Documents.

r By FREDERICK J. HASKI.V WASHINGTON, D. C, Sept. 28. Americans are sometimes inclined to make fun of foreign princes who sign their documents merely with one ' name. The King of England, for instance, signs "George R.". the R standing for Rex, Latin for King. If those who scoff at this system had the jobs would look at the matter in a differ- ; ent light. For the man, whether he be a king or the ocupant of some other i important executive position, who has to sign his name frequently, eoon disrovers that the shorter the signature, the lighter the task. In the old monarchies, members of reigning families have held high positions for generations and have formed the habit of using single names or otherwise abbreviated signatures. In our republic where the great offices are held by men often having no ad- ' vance experience, the lesson has not ? been learned. I The president of the United States Is required to eign ' his name on a n ' average of 20,000 times a year, or nearly 58 times a day. If Sundays and holidays are excluded he must sign at I the rate of more than '66 times a day ' to keep up with his woork. As a matl ter of fact presidents frequently spend I holidays, when other business is light. ? in catching up on accumulated papers i requiring signature. ! The initials "T. R." will always 6tand for the name of a great man in the annals of the United States.. Tha -popularity of those initials arose in part from this burden of presidential -a long name. The president who bora that name was an unusually busy one. - Consequently, whenever posible, he used tho initials T. R. instead of the name, with the result that they be came well known throughout the codntry. There are many papers, however, which no president may sign with his initials. They must be signed formally and with the full signature. Take for instance the commissions of postmasters. Five thousand of these a year must be signed by the president, or 20,000 during an administration. There is an average of 230 executive orders a year to be signed by the president and from 45 to 50 proclamations. The public acts of congress must bear the president's signature and each pear produces about 200 of these. Pardons are written on a form which requires two presidential signatures. The conimisions of all notaries public in the District of Columbia must be signed by the president and these number some 300 a pear. Commissions of officers in the army and navy must be signed by the president and also . retirements. Whenever an officer is promoted, he receives a new commis sion so there is a constant now oi tnis work. ' - When President Wilson was ill during the last portion of his administra tion, there were periods in which he was unable to sign his name. A great amount of important business accumulated, especially army and navy commissions. Many Letters To be Signed. In addition to these formal papers, the president signs an average of 50 letters a day. There are many informal notes and memoranda which he initials or signs in addition. Many a schoolboy who cherishes the hope of being president may perhaps feel he is being imposed on if he is kept in after school and required to write his name or some other exercise a hundred times. Not at all; it is the bfst practice in ths world for the -job. The biggest ' signature writing job

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fined within the limits of the nationally healthy non-competitive type of foreign trade. " A very effective statement of one result that would follow if our anti or low-tariff friends, the importing and exporting interests, could have their way, was contained in Mr. Beveridge's address at Evansville. He said: "To open American markets to foreign-made goods and attempt the capture of European markets by American-made goods means that we will give our markets to European producers and not

get European markets for American producers.

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bdne he had by trying to seize its reflection in the water." In this case the bone is our domestic trade, which amounts to 92 per cent of our total trade. The reflection is our foreign trade, which only

amounts to 8 per cent of our annual national turnover. Being a sensible and practical people, we make use of the tariff to protect our most

vital and substantial trade, knowing that the re mainder will take care of itself in a natural man ner in due time.

The detailed expenditures of

that a deficit was incurred. The general interest of the farming community was responsible

for a display far the committee,

money had to be spent to accommodate the exhibits. The committee might have met this additional expense by granting concessions to

questionable amusements and recreational features, but it wisely and courageously decided to

keep the fair clean. In this it has the warm praise of the entire community. The fair was a success not only because more than 25,000 persons daily attended

it, but also because it was produced on a plane

far higher than ty fair.

who did not have an opportunity to contribute to financing the enterprise will be glad to help meet the deficit and that contributors will increase their subscriptions so that the deficit can be wiped out. The campaign which is now under way has for its purpose the meeting of a deficit, incurred in presenting a high-class fair. The committee should receive the whole-hearted support of the community in its effort to raise the amount.

which the president has he delegates in a curious manner. Forgery is a serious crime and the statutes provide severe penalties for those who imitate the signatures of others. A conspicuous exception is made in the case of the president's signature for a special purpose. Under the law, the president is required to sign land patents. The job is too big for him, so by executive order he specifically appoints a substitute who is authorized to sign his name to land patents. The appointee studies the presidential signature and learns to copy it exactly. The signature placed on the patents is a perfect legalized forgery. There are about 55;000 of these land patents to be signed each year. Mrs. Viola Pugh of Washington is the person now authorized to affix the presidential signature. She has been doing so during the present administration. The president's signature writing job is not the biggest in the government by any means. The man who signs the most checks in William A. Holmes, disbursing officer of the Veteran's Bureau. Last July, the bureau sent 631.780 checks or nearly 25,000 a day. This would be more than 7.500,000 a year. Mr. Holmes has two assistants who help him ut he does most of the signing himself. As it would be a physical imposiblility to sign 25,000 checks a day every working day, a machine is used. It is called a signopraph. It consists of a light frame which holds usually 10 fountain pens. The checks which are to be signed r.re placed beneath the frams. The signer grasps the pen at the lower left hand corner of the frame and writes his signature in the proner place. The frame is so constructed in; relation to the uniform size of the papers to be signed that each of the other pens writes the exact duplicate of what the signer writes, in nine other places. These machines are used in all government departments where many checks have to be signed by hand. Treasurer Is Busy Signer. Tha post office department has some 500,000 checks a year to sign and the pension office 600,000 checks. The treasurer of the United States is one of the busiest signers. Treasnrer Frank White and his chief deputy Frank J. F. Thiel, sign away more money than probably any of the others as their checks frequently are for very large amounts. The regular treasury warrants which they sign number about 250,000 a year, while miscellaneous checks number another 150,000. Disbursing officers of all the government departments, boards, bureaus and commissions must be included in this group og busy signature writers. All of those whose signing runs Into the thousands employ the signing ma chine where it is posible. The limita tion of the machine is that it can sign in duplicate only where the papers to be signed are uniform in size ani 6hape and where the signature is to be placed in precisely the same position on each paper. This limitation prevents the use of the machine for signCOUGHS DISTURB SCHOOL WORK School teachers should grive the same advice to- children who have coughs as this Florida teacher. "I recommended Foley's Honey and Tar to the children in my school who had the 'flu' and good results came whenever it was used," writes Mrs. L. Armstrong-, Okeechobee, Florida. Foley's Honey and Tar contains no opiates ingredients printed on the Wrapper. Stood the test of time serving three generations. Quickly relieves colds, coughs and croup, throat, chest and bronchial trouble. A. G. Luken Drug Co., 626-628 Main St. Advertisement.

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the fable of the dog that lost the The Fair Deficit statement of the receipts and the Wayne county fair shows exceeding the expectations of and consequently additional that found at the ordinary coun

The committee believes that many persons

After Dinner Trick No. 293 Turning Over the Card A playing card Is laid on the floor and Is covered with a hat. The performer demonstrates that he can turn over the card without touching it. As he removes the hat, the card turns over. The feat is accomplished by removing the hat with a quick rub along the carpet. A straw hat should be used. Give it a short, fast sweep and quickly lift the hat. The wind thus created will cause the card to turn over. CovyrittM, lBtt. by Public ledger Cmpcn ing the general run of papers and correspondence. Outside of the government but in "a manner connected with it are the sign ers of the national currency. Read ers will recall that all national bank notes bear the signatures of the presi dent and cashier of the issuing bank. In recent years some of these officers have used rubber stamps, but by no means all. Many of them, probably most of them, sign the notes with pen and ink. The annual total cannot be precise ly arrived at because there are new is sues and unrenewed retirements, but it has been estimated that about 75,000,000 notes are issued each year by the national banks. There are nearly 8,000 national banks so a division would give each bank nearly 9,500 notes a year to sign, or about 30 1 day.. In times of inflation when larg ex sums are issued, this number in creases materially. The banks have urged congress tc permit them to have their officers' signatures engraved on the notes but congress never has given this permis sion. On United States currency the names of the treasurer of tfie United States and of the secretary of treasury are engraved. If they were not those officials could scarcely find time to do anything but sign money, so nu merous are the notes. It is nothing for the writing of official signtures to be regarded as 1 a burdensome duty by persons in high office. It is an historical fact that Carinus, one of the emperors of Rome about the Second Century, either was too lazy or too busy to sign his name He made inquiry in the prisons to find out who was the most dexterous and skillful forger in custody and had him freed and promoted to the post of sec retary where his sole duty consisted in imitating the emperor's signature and affixing it to documents of state GETTING TOO FAT? TRY THIS REDUCE People who don't grow too fat are the fortunate exception, isut ir you find the fat accumulating or already cumbersome, you will be wise to follow this suggestion, which is endorsed by thousands of people who know. Ask your druggist for Marmola Prescription Tablets and follow directions. One dollar is the price the world over. Get direct from your own druggist or send price direct to Marmola Co., 4612 Wood ward Ave., Detroit, Mich. By doing this you win be sare irom narmtul drugs and be able to reduce steadily and easily, without starvation diet or tiresome exercise. Advertisement.

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AN ARTIST OF WORDS There are writers who make me not only see what they have written about but feel the flesh and blood of their characters. Few masters, outside of Shakespeare, have surpassed Stevenson as an artist of words. "Through no art beside the art of words," says Stevenson, "can the kindness of a man's affections be expressed." The right words, aptly uttered at the right time who is there who can resist their appeal? The "please" of the child, the "goodbye" of a mother, the "thank you" of a friend, the "I love you" of one beloved, the "you can" to him in whom you believe how words reach into the very depths of our emotions and stir us to heights of happiness and great inspiration! ' Take the simple words of Lincoln's Gettysburg Speech or his letter to Mrs. Bixby, what beauty of thought, what sympathy, what a negation of self in the expression of great feeling. Who has not lived over again the great hours of the battle of Waterloo as he has read its matchless description in the words of Hugo in his great work, "Les Miserables"? And who wouldn't be a boy again, if he could be a boy with "Huckleberry Finn"? But the greatest artist in words is he who has learned how to make people happy by uttering words that have no sting or cut to them words which warm and ennoble, 4.hat encourage and uplift. For better no words at all than those which come wit hhurt upon their wings. , We take and assume great responsibility just the moment we form words into expressions and send them out into the world. And these words shall live or die wholly upon the purpose for which they have been uttered. For people would easily forget mere words but the heart that forms them touches them with an aroma of immortality. And so they live! Jesus was the greatest artist of words who ever lived. And the greatest word He ever uttered was that of service greater even than that of love, for love is meaningless unless it is made to live in service. It is well to think twice before you speak your words. And then it is well to be definite and honest in what you say not forgetting to make your words to walk out into the light filled with kindness.

Answers to Questions (Any reader can get the answer to any question by writing The Palladium information Bureau, ITeaeriCK J. ns.sin. director, Washington, D. C This offer applies strictlv to information. The bureau does not give advice on legal, medical and financial matters. It does not attempt to settle domestic troubles. nor to undertake exhaustive researcn on any subject. Write your question plainly and 'briefly. Give full name and address and enclose two cents in stamps tor return postage. All replies are sent direct to the inquirer. Q. Why did the coal srtike in crease the price of coal? A. J. A. There was no increase in the cost of producing coal as a result of the -strike or suspension of mining, either in the bituminous or anthracite field. On that basis, therefore, therewas no reason why an increase of coal prices should be attributed to the strike. The miners have returned to work at exactly the same wage scale that was paid prior to April 1. On the other hand, the freight on coal has been reduced 10 per cent, and ordinarily it would have been expected that the price of coal to the concumer would have been reduced in proportion to the change in railroad rates. Some coal operators have stated frankly that they expect to recoup their losses on coal which was not mined and sold during the strike period. Others claim that their overhead expenses went on during the strike and that it is a matter of business to cover them on prices now asked for coal. This added overhead expense, however, wouli not account for all the increase mat hes been made in coal prices. The explanation most generally accepted is that responsive to the law or supply amKdemand, prices are moving toward the maximum which the public can and will pay. The action of the law of supply and demand has been accelerated by the bidding for coal by consumers. q. How many different kinds of coins are used as money? H. S. A. About 600 coins are recognized CURED HER RHEUMATISM Knowing from terrible experience the suffering caused by rheumatism, Mrs. J. E. Hurst, who lives at 508 E. Olive St., B125, Bloomington, 111.. Is so thankful at having cured herself that out of pure gratitude she is anxious to tell all other sufferers just how to get rid of their torture by a simple way at home. Mrs. Hurst has nothing to sell. Merely cut out this notice, mail it to her with vour own name and address, and she will gladly send you this valuable information entirely free. Write her at once before you forget. Advertisement. ' " - The Bank for ALL the People Second National Bank

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