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DEATH OF GOMPERS
ME« CRISIS FOG
AMERICAN LABOR
BY DAVID LAWRENCE
(Special Leased Wire to The Journal—Copy
right, 1924.)
WASHINGTON, Dec. 16.—Will the
policies of Sximuel Gompers live after
him? i
labor’s answer to that
question does not. depend so much on
who Is chosen *as "president of the
American Federation, but upon the
circumstances both political and eco
nomic which in the last four years
weighed so heavily on the veteran
leader who is lying in state in Wash
ington today.
Few people know the inside poli
tics of the American Federation of
Labor, its clash of viewpoints be
tween moderates and extremists, and
few people know that it was by sheer
force of personality that Samuel
Gompers restrained his own lieuten
ants. Ever since the war the Gom
pers policy has been one of preven
tion, and when the federation in
dorsed La Follette, it was Gompers
who thought that very act would find
its own remedy. He was against the
organization of a labor party in poli
tics, though he was being constantly
pressed from within to join with the
railroad brotherhoods in an effort to
wield the maximum political influ
ence. „ ;
In recent years, Mr. Gompers
found the brotherhoods a powerful
ally, but a somewhat vexatious one,
because the policii s of the two
groups frequently were opposite.
Samuel Gompers, however, felt more
the need of presenting a united front
for labor than to reconcile even fun
damental differences between the
> brotherhoods, and the Amei ’an Fed
eration of Labor.
The problem that now comes up
may affect the entire labor situation
for years to come. Will this cohe
sive power be held together or, will
the labor groups be divided and even
work against each other? Capital
would profit by such a situation even
as labor would lose. Yet the cur
rents of dissension are strong, and
only a Gompers can keep labor
united. Even a Gompers, however,
has to have a favorable atmosphere.
The last year saw the Gompers
policy of harmony tried to the ut
most. For the sake of harmony in
side the ranks, he agreed to permit
the American Federation of Labor to
indorse the La Follette candidacy.
He had the cunning of a practical
politician, and even those who bit
terly criticized his occasional waver
‘ ings and even reversals knew that
with Gompers the end justified the
means and that he usually was vin
dicated.
For many years as Gompers has
been advancing toward the end of
his career, the leaders of the labor
movement have been discussing
what would happen when he left. It
has not been unlike the discussion
of twenty years ago as to what
would happen to the loosely con
structed Austro-Hungarian mon
archy when Franz Joseph died. Pre
dictions have been made that the
American Federation of Labor would
split off into two groups—the con
servatives and radicals. There is no
doubt that within the federation
there is already such a sharp di
vision, hut it was the Gompers policy
to yield a point here and there to
the radicals and thus keep labor's
power unimpaired.
Will nls successor he able to do
it even if he follows the same
policy?
Test Not Imminent
The fest may not come at once,
for just now' there is no extraordi
nary period of prosperity or infla
| tion. Unemployment is not alto
gether removed as a factor and im
migration restriction is not yet ac
i complishing all that labor set out to
achieve. The real troubles usually
occur in a time of inflation anil
shortage of labor when higher and
' higher wages are demanded?
Politically, Samuel Gompers lean
ed toward the Democratic party.
He was a powerful influence in the
Wilson administrations, an expe
rience, however, which tended to
> make him even more conservative,
than before, for he was often given
the responsibility for the settling of
troublesome situation, something
that put him on the defensive. But
Samuel Gompers was not able to de
liver the labor vote in elections
xalliantly as he tried. His was a rule
over labor leaders and not the rank
and file, though he had thousands
of admirers in the local unions from
coast to coast.
k He had a. knack with the loaders.
He showed them often how’ they
.could retain power. He taught them
labor politics. It was to his inter
est to do so. The longer the chief
tains stayed on the job, the stronger
was the p litical organization work
ing for Gompers inside the American
Federtaion of Labor.
Critical Point for Labor
They were proud, too, of the posi-
I tion he won in the public eye, the
lotcefulness of his public statements
and his keen understanding of the
< hanging currents of public opinion.
When some of thd employes of the
Washington navy yards, for ex
ample, implored him to act in their
behalf and keep labor from mixing
up in the movement to reduce arma
* ments, Gompers was not dissuaded,
but gave his hearty support to the
proposals of President Harding, and
even agreed to sit as a member of
tha advisory commission. He felt
that labor which had always argued
lor world peace could not be incon
sistent, and that in the long run la
bor would benefit through the ex
l panded commerce and shipping of
peace time prosperity. Questions
like these conflicts between adminis
tration policy and labor’s objectives
frequently happen, there.is always a
straining at the leash on the part
of the radicals.
Gompers has gone. Will his phi
losophy and policy be adopted by la
bor leaders, or will they begin the
inevitable quarreling which charac
terizes minority groups? The death
‘ of Gompers is not merely the pass
ing of an individual. It is a critical
point in the labor history of America
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and Daughter Now Living
in Marion
' MARION, Ohio, Dec. I“,— This is .
the story of the drcam tuat never i
came true.
It is the dream of two little young- I
sters about the day they would go
to visit their grandmother in the |
White House.
Two years and a half Mrs. Florence
Kling Harding reigned as its mis
tress —but never once while she was
“first lady” did her grandchildren
enter the sacred precincts of the
great old mansion where Lincoln,
McKinley and Roosevelt all lived.
Often they asked to be taken
there. But always they' were told
they were too young. Tn a little
while —yes, when they were older,
they could go.
And so George Neely De Wolfe and
his sister, Jeanne, began building
their aircastles, as all children do.
They would sit long hours at a
stretch talking of the fun they would
have when they went down to Wash
ington to see their grandmother who
lived irt the White House.
Never Saw ‘‘Laddie Boy”
They would picture themselves or
dering the butlers and serving maids j
about in the big dining room, or |
shouting commands to - the police
men at the doors.
They would see themselves out in I
the, yard plucking pretty White I
House flowers and romping about I
with Laddie Boy on the rolling green ;
lawn.
And what fun it would be to:
play tag up and down the great wide j
staircases on rainy days; to explore ,
the rooms and the closets upstairs; ’
to scamper, at will, into the execu '
tive offices to sit at the president’s
own desk!
But their dreams, like so many ;
other childhood dreams, never were I
fulfilled. Some day, perhaps, they
would have been, but—
President Warren G. Harding, the
only grandfather they eyer knew,
died when his term of office was only
a little more than half through, and
their grandmother came back to
Marion again.
They did not. see much of her,
though, for her health was poor, and
she was confined to a sanitarium
most of the time. And then they
were saddened by the news Os her
death. She, like their grandfather,
was gone.
But even on her deathbed Mrs.
Harding, who used to send them toys,
nice clothes and candies from the
White House, remembered them.
She made a will leaving thejn the
bulk of her estate.
Receive Half a Million
Now George, at 12, and Jeanne, 15,
find ithemselves very wealth. They
will share equally in a fortune esti
mated at half a. million dollars, at
least —the last bequest from their
grandmother. ,
The thought of all the money,
though, hasn’t affected either of the
children one bit.
George still has his paper route.
He is starting out in the newspaper
game just as his father years ago.
delivering the Marion Star, the news-!
paper his stepgrandfather, with
Mrs. Harding's help, made national
ly famous.
And while he is delivering his pa
pers. Jeanne is at home helping her
mother with the housework. She is
learning, as all girls should, how to
manage a home.
“I’m going to keep on carrying pa
pers,” says George, “while I’m going
to school. I haven’t quite decided
what I shall do after that, but you
can be sure I intend finishing high
school and college.
“And money isn’t going to spoil
me, either. I don’t ever intend to
take life easy.”
Jeanne, too, is determined to ob
tain all the education she can. And
beside what she will learn in school,
she wants to learn to keep house
neatly, cook well and sew well.
Harding Fond of Them
And their step-father, Roscoe D.
Mezger, city salesman for a local
grocery house, also will assure you
that the children's new wealth will
make no difference, in their lives—
for the present, anyway.
School every day until they are
through high school and college.
After that, they may map out their
own careers.
The bequest is to be held in trust
until they are 28. At. 21, they will
begin to receive its net earnings in
equal shares annually. In the event
one dies, the entire estate will go to
the surviving child.
The Mezgers live in a comfort
able brick home—large and good
looking—in the south end of town.
lOn the front porch are a sled and a
bicycle that let you know there is
I someone else besides grown folks re
! siding there.
To the world at large, it was news
I tha: Mrs. Harding was a grand
mother. Few knew she had a son.
Marshall Eugene De Wolfe. by a
former marriage. H° died in Denver
years ago, leaving two children.
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HARDING ESTATE will go
to these two children. Uppei
est, George Neely de Wolte. 12.
Upper right, his sister, Jeanne.
Below, an early picture of Mrs
Harding, showing the remark
able resemblance between her
and her grandchildren.
LEASE OF SHOALS
PROPERTY FAVORED
BY SENATE VOTE
(Continued from Page 1)
the south wive their senators to
vote against the bill. “You will see
where the motive for the editorial
came from,” Senator Underwood re-
I marked.
I The Alabama senator declared that
i assuming the farmers know what
they want he desired to introduce
into the record a letter from the
American Grange, which favors the
lease of Muscle Shoals and the Farm,
ers’ Bureau Federation, which favors
■ the Underwood bill.
: The sub-committee of the senate
judiciary committee to investigate
I the Washington Herald editorial was
I announced late 'Tuesday by Chairman
i Cummins as follows: Senators Spen
! cer, Republican, Missouri, chairman;
i Sterling, South Dakota; Butler,
I Mass., Republicansr Overman, North
Carolina, and Caraway, Arkansas,
Democrats.
For a moment after the vote it
appeared an immediate vote would
, be had on the Underwood bill itself.
I but Senator Norris, Republican, Ne
‘ braska, called attention that amend
ments to his bill would be out of
[order if the Alabama senator’s sub
stitute prevailed, and there was a
chorus of demand for recognition by
proponents of furthe rchanges.
How They Voted
[ Those voting for the amendment
i were:
Democrats— -Copeland, Dill, Har-
I ris, Jones of New Mexico, Ken
idrick, McKellar. Mayfield, Neely,
j Overman, Pittman, Ralston, Rans-
I dell, Sheppard, Simmons, Smith
[ Swanson. Trammell, Walsh of Mas
sachusetts, Walsh of Montana, and
j Wheeler.
I Republicans —Borah, Brookhart
Couzens, Frazier, Gooding, Harreld,
Howell. Johnson of California, Nor-
I beck, Norris.
Fa r mer- Labor—Shi pst ea d.
Those who opposed the amend-
i me nt were:
Democrats —Bayard, Broussard,
Bruce, Caraway, Dial, Edwards,
Sherris, Fletcher. George Harrison.
I Heflin. King, Reed of Missouri.
I Stanley, Underwood.
Republicans—Ball. Bursum, But
ler, Capper, Cummins. Curtis, Dale
Edge. Elkins. Ernst. Fernaid
Greene, Hale, Jones of Washington,
Keyes, Ladd, McKinley, McNary
Means, Metcalf. Moses. Oddie, Pep
per, Phipps, Reed of Pennsylvania.
Shortridge. Smoot. Spencer. Stan
field. Sterling. Wadsworth. Warren.
’ Watson and Willis.
Opening debate on the Smith
! amendment, Senator Harris, Demo-
I cat, Georgia said there was some
I difference of opinion in the senate
on what disposition should be mace
i of the property when not needed for
j national defense.
He declared he objected to the
Underwood bill because it would not
permit the secretary of agriculture
to control the sale of fertilizer.
“Instead of the Underwood bill
being a benefit to the farmers I be
lieve it would prove a curse,” Sen
ator Harris said. There was noth
ing in the Underwood bill to prevent
the fertilizer trust from getting con
trol of the property, he said.
Senator Dial. Democrat, South
Carolina, said the Underwood bin
was the “best and most practical
proposition” the senate can get
through.
Senator McKellar, Democrat. Ten
nessee. declared he favored the Smith
i amendment and again attar’ ’ the
Underwood bill.
Senator Heflin. Democrat, Ala
i bama, told the senate that if the
Smith amendment was adopted, it
"would kill the Muscle Shoals move
ment.” He criticized the Democrats
opposing the Underwood bill with
“breaking ay-ay” just as they are
about to obtain what they had fought
for three years.
After a visit to the White House
today. Senator Watson. Republican
Indiana, declared he favored re
. (erring the whole Muscle Shoals
8 PEBISII IN Fft
VETEBINS' HOME IS
SWEPT Iff FUMES
NEW YORK, Dec. 16.—Six persons
lott their lives, nine others were in
jtr ed and. hundreds were driven
from their homes early today in a
series of fires in apartment houses,
tenements .and one hotel in Manhat
tan and Brooklyn. Today’s blazes
brought the number during the cold
spell since Sunday to more than 100,
making hundreds homeless and caus
ing heavy property losses.
’’’ive women and a man lost their
lives in a fire which swept through
a five-story apartment house on East
Ninty-eighth. street, near Fisth yave
vue. Five other persons were burned
in escaping from the blazing build
mg and scores of families living in
the neighborhood were driven to the
streets from their homes.
The fire occurred but two blocks
from Mount Sinai hospital and the
attendant noise and confusion awak
ened patients, who found the sky
about the institution a quivering red.
Doctors and n’ures patroled the
wards, pulling down blinds and as
suring their patients that there was
no danger.
Five of the dead are women
: who were trapped on the up-
I per floors of the house. Al
j though firemen made heroic efforts
to rescue them, the flames swept
| through the building with such speed
that the victims were scarcely able
I ‘.o leap from their beds.
The bravery of a 19-year-old youth,
Fred Nugent, saved an entire family.
Awakened by smoke, he ran into the
room of his mother, Mrs. Anna
I Nugent, and carried her to the street,
i Entering the building he dragged
I his sisters, Barbara and Antoinette,
I to safety and then for the second
time plunged into the flaming house,
j This time he was driven back by the
; flames as he attempted to enter the
room of his uncle, Edward Russell,
I who had been weakened by a long
( illness.
I Meanwhile, firemen, who also
| sought to rescue Russell, had dropped
a rope to him at the window of his
room, from a higher floor on an ad
joining building. The aged man
clutched the hope, but his grip gave
| way and he fell five stories to his
death.
Four persons, including two chil-
I dren, were severely burned in a fire
which broke out about the same time
in a four-story dwelling on Sixty
sixth street, Brooklyn. The blaze
spread to an adjoining dwelling
house, driving twelve families from
i their homes in both buildings.
Guests in an Eighth avenue hotel,
patronized largely by actors, were
I routed from their beds by a fire
I which starte a few hours after the
Ninety-eighth street blaze. Many of
I the guests were forced to make their
. escape byway of the hotel roof.
IWO VETERANS DIE, TWO
INJURED WHEN HOME BURNS
BEAUVOIR, Miss., Dec. 16.—Two
Confederate veterans were burned
to death and two were injured when
fire destroyed a dormitory of the
Jefferson Davis Soldiers’ home at
2:34 a. m., today.
The dead: F. J. Sharpe, 78, Co
lumbus, Miss., and J. P. Hunter, 80,
Laurel, Miss..
The injured: Joe Sanders, Lauder
dale, Miss., feet burned: Clement
Cox, Harrison county, feet and
hands burned.
Twenty were asleep in the one
story frame building when the
structure was discovered in flames.
Volunteers fought their way through
[ the smoke, and carried the veterans
ito safety. Sharpe and Hunter could
I not be reached, and their charred
| bodies were found in bed later. Some
jof the veterans went back into the
| building for their possessions, and
iit was only with difficulty that
some were rescued the second time.
The dormitory adjoined the old hos
pital, occupied by 25 women, aged
from 80 to 100 years. The hospital
was emptied by volunteers.
I The origin of the fire has not
been determined, but it was believed
due to an open fireplace. The loss
was estimated at SIB,OOO.
The fire was the second tragedy
to visit the old soldiers this month
An epidemic of dystentery, believed
[to have been caused by infected
I milk, took the lives of six veterans.
,and sent about 36 more to the hos
! pital fop treatment.
[ question to a commissio nfor settle
■ ment.
He declared he favored the Un
derwood bill over the Norris bill,
but since many senators had told
; him they did not feel they were suf
i ficiently informed on the subject.
■ be would favor turning the question
■ over to a commission.
| Two proposals to refer Muscle
Shoals to a committee are before
the senate. Senator Wadsworth.
New York, who has indorsed the
Hooker-White Atterbury profit
sharing proposal. has offered an
amendment to the house Muscle
Sboals' measure now before the sen
ate to leave the settlement of the
mnblem tn a commission, which
! would he empowered to make a final
decision.
I
BODY OF GOMPERS
■ES IN cmi;
ISEENOOUSK
WASHINGTON, Dec. 16.—The fu
neral train bearing the body of Sam
uel Gompers reached Washington at
,3:15 p. m. ..today.
After being viewed by thousands
as it lay in state in the federation of
labor hall, for six hours, the body
I was to be taken to New York Tues
■ day night, at 10 o’clock, for inter-
I ment in its last resting place at
l Sleepy Hollow -cemetery at Tarry
| town, N. Y.
Through the mountains and val
i leys of West Virginia and Maryland,
the train pushed its way today, halt
ing frequently to permit thousands
to see the face of the dead leader.
Many thousands had t.o be turned
away because of lack of time. The
train arrived at Cumberland at 11:30
a. m.. about 30 minutes late.
A few miles outside of Piedmont,
,V. Va., the locomotive pulled the
coupling that attaches it to the train
and rushed on down the track, leav
ing the coaches to come to a stop
on a down grade under action of the
automatic airbrakes. The cars stop
ped gently and it was not known
what had happened until the brake
man stepped off to discover that the
train was without an engine. In a
few minutes a shrill blast from the
locomotive announced that the en
ginemen had discovered they were
without a train.
At Keyser, W. Va., a town of 6,000
population, more than 1,000 assem
bled to see the bier, but only a part
could be accommodated. All the
mountain towns paid a similar trib
ute and where the train did not stop,
workmen ceased their labors for a
moment to bare their heads as the
funeral cortege passed.
Thousands See Body
Thousands of his neighbors in
Washington and his co-workers in
the ranks of organized labor passed
by the body as it lay in state Tues
day in the federation building here.
A brief period after arrival of the
funeral train this afternoon was set
aside for the gathering of members
of the immediate family of Mr.
Gompers for a few last minutes
alone beside his bier, and nearly all
the time remaining before departure
of the train late at night was given
over to the general public.
Although the federal government,
through its high officials, took
no part in the obsequies here, a
military guard of honor, comprising
a sergeant and ten men was ordered
to accompany the body through the
streets of the capital.
“In recognition of his conspicuous
war service, and at the request of
officers of the American Federation
of Labor,” said a statement by the
war department, “the war depart
ment has detailed a sergeant an ten
men to guard the remains of the
late Samuel Gompers from the Union
station to the headquarters of the
American Federation of Labor, of
which he was president, and on the
return to the station.”
The order, issued by Secretarj’
Weeks, was a recognition of Mr.
Gompers’ leadership of labor during
the war, when he worked for co
operation of employes in munition
plants, shipyards ami industrial es
tablishments.
Body Rests in Federation Hall
The familiar corridors • of the
American Federation of Labor head
quarters, silenced utterly of all ac
tivity since the hour of his death,
had seemed to sense the meaning of
it even before the body of the dead
labor chieftain was borne thjre for
a last brief stay. It remained only
for the quiet tread of his host of
friends and associates in the nation
al capital, seeking their last sight
of him as the casket luay there in
state, to make the meaning wholly
clear.
Reaching in mid-afternoon the end
of his long journey here from San
Antonio, Texas, the body from
thence was claimed the special
charge of Mr. Gompers’ closest as
sociates here in arrangements for
i the funeral procession from Union
station to the headquarters build
ing in northwest Washirfgton. Borne
through the president’s room in the
station, the spacious plaza fronting
it was the forming point for the pro
cession. includin" members of the
federation's executive council and
other labor chiefs and associates ar
riving on the train with the body.
John B. Colpoys. Washington pub
lisher, was named marshal of the
nrocession. with six labor heads
designated as active pallbearers.
WHOT E NATION WILL HONOR
GOMPERS AT N. Y. FUNERAL
NEW YORK, Dec. 16. —The en
tire nation, officially and through
representatives of finance, business,
industry and professions, will sljpre
with labor in honoring its dead
chieftain, Samuel Gompers, at his
funeral here Thursday morning, it
was indicated in completed arrange
ments announced today by Hugti
Frayne, national organizer of the
American Federation of
Several thousand union represen
tatives from more than forty-five in
dividual lal>or groups as far west as
Chicago and St. Louis will attend
the services. In addition, there will
be several hundred men of promi
nence representing the national,
state and city governments, the
army and navy, the national guard,
banking and other circles.
Invitations have been issued to
Secretary Hughes and Chief Justice .
Taft to act as honorary pallbearers.
Governor Smith, with his military |
staff, and Mayor Hylan will be pres- I
ent as representatives of the state i
and city.
Masonic services at the grave In
Sieepy Hollow cemetery, at Tarry
town, will be conducted by the I
Very Rev. Oscar F. R. Treder, chap- I
lain of the grand lodge of the state i
of New York and dean of the pro- ,
cathedral at Garden City. St. Cecile I
lodge. No. 568. the actors’ and news j
papermen's lodge, of this city, is in j
charge of the services, which will
follow the Jewish service and the I
Elks’ ritual.
MEXICO WILT. HALT WORK
AS TRIBUTE TO GOMPERS
MEXICO CITY. Dec. 16.—The;
workers throughout Mexico have j
been called upon by the Regional |
Federation of Labor to lay down i
their tools for one hour during- th<> |
funeral of Samuel Gompers, whose I
journey to* Mexico City tn attend i
the Pan-American labor congress I
proved to he his last one.
Ihe senate and chamber of depu-|
ties have authorized the sending of |
messages of condolence to the widow '
and the American Federation of I
Fits—Stop the Ailacks
| It you Crave atfacks of Fits nr Fpilepsv. I
’ I :: tell you how to se ire a FREE
‘'trial ot a home treatment wb < h has coin-i
I pletely stopped attacks in hundreds :
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| kee, Wis.—(Arhertieement.)
THURSDAY, DECEMBER IS, I»3L
GROWERS OF HOGS
DUMPING PIGS TO
■ ■ FEED COSTS
BY J. C. RO YLE
(Special {.eased Wire to The Journal—Copy
right, 1921.)
NEW YORK, Dec. 16.—“ Eat and
grow thin” has become the motto of
the American hog, accoufiing to the '
farmers of the country, and many
of the raisers are getting rid of their
animals as fast as possible in conse
quence. All previous records for
receipts of hogs at Chicago were
b-oken this month, 382,000 being mar-:
keted in the week of December 6, j
and 122,000 being .disposed of Mon
day. j
The determination to get rid of ■
their hogs, which would be held and
fattened under normal circumstances, 1
has been brought about by the high ;
pf’ce of corn. The supply of old :
corn is beginning to run out while
much of the new crop is soft, in- 1
ferior quality and of little value in
fattening. While quality and weight
of animals now coming to the pack-:
ers’ pens is better than a month ago,
they are still under normal.
These heavy stocks are being
thrown on the market with replace
ments not in sight. The number of
sows kept for breeding purposes last
year was 20 per cent under the 10
year average. Owing to cold weath
er last spring a smaller number of
pigs from its litters reached matur
ity. Farrowings this fall -were 10 to
15 per cent under last year. These
conditions point strongly toward
higher prices for meat products for
every American breakfast table and
dinner pail.
Swift Explains Situation
In commenting on this situation
today, Louis F. Swift, president of
Swift & ( Co., packers, said:
“Although corn and hog produc
tion combined have brought fairly
good returns to producers this year,
the relation between corn and bog
prices has for some time been un
favorable for the raising of hogs.
As a result of this and the small
1924 corn crop, indications for 1925
point rather definitely to a consid
erable decrease in the marketing of
hogs.
“More or less liquidation has been
going on in the range cattle coun
try, and it is generally thought that
reduced marketings of cattle are in
prospect.
“The short year and poor quality
of the corn have lowered quality and
finish of hogs and cattle coming to
the market and there is a general
feeling that there will be higher
prices for hogs and cattle, especially
for well finished animals.
“Nineteen twenty-four has been a
fairly good year in the meat packing
Industry. During most of the year
basic conditions were satisfactory for
good financial returns. Production
of cattle and hogs was above prewar
level. Hog marketings will just
about equal the record run of 1923
which were 18 per cent above those
of the previous record year of 1918.
Heavy marketing of calves continued
throughout the year and are an in
dication of liquidation in the cattle
business.
“The demand for meat products
has been satisfactory during most
of the year The domestic market
has absorbed large meat supplies at
fairly good prices. Total exports for
the year will probably be about 10
per cent less than last year.
Prices Higher During Year
“Hog prices during the year were
about '( per cent higher than for
1923. Lamb prices average 5 per
cent above those for the previous
year and cattle prices were about the
same level as in the previous period.
With the exception of lambs, live
stock prices are not yet in line with
the prices of all commodities. Im
provement has taken place the past
year in this respect, but indications
point to still further advances in
'live stock prices.
“It is true that hog prices have
been considerably out of line with
the general level of prices du ing
the past year but the total income
from the sale of hogs has been great
ly in excess of pre-war years on ac
count of the increase in number
marketed. This increase has been
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Inflation Is Ended for
Germans, Banker Says
BERLIN, Dec. 16.—Speaking at a.
banquet of the German Bankers’
association last evening, Dr. Hjal
mar Schacht,' president of the
reichsbank, war,ned against specu
lating on the instability of German
currency, and said no management
of the reichsbank would ftermit
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The reichsbank’s aim, he con
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foreign currency as possible, and at
the present moment it held a total
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DF CIOLI SOILS
WASHINGTON, Dec. 16.—As a
whole the soils of Carroll County,
Georgia, are deficient in organic
matter and lime, says the United
' States department of agriculture in
I its soil survey of the county just
I published. Deeper plowing, the ap
: plication of manure, and the plow-
I ing under of cover crops are recom
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There are seven soil series in the
county, represented by sixteen types
and three phases. In additiori, there
is one mixed soil classed as meadow.
The Madison series includes the most
extensive soils in the county. Four
| types and two phases o t this series ,
I are mapped, ranging in texture from
a gravelly sandy loam to sandy clay
i loam. Cotton, corn, and oats are
the principal crops. These are ex
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conditions.
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the Cecil series, covering about 12
per cent of the county. The Cecil
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subsoil, are considered good for gen
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