Newspaper Page Text
7
SUNDAY* AMERICAN, ATLANTA, GA„ SUNDAY, AUGUST 3, 1913.
11 D
What Uncle Sam Is Doing to
Fight Boll Weevil in Georgia
Corn Clubs, Girls’ Clubs, Farm Demonstrating Agents
and Other Educative Agencies, Operating Through
Agricultural College, Are Used—Will Take Agents
to Boll Weevil Territory to Study Insects.
CHARLES A. WHITTLE.
$2,826,817* CLOTHIERS TRY
REVENUE FOR TO REGULATE
ALL RAILROADS
<
CROPS ARE HELPED BY RAINS
Export Trade Large and Easing
Money Should Be Reflected
in Early Expansion.
CHICAGO, Aug. 2.—Clearing: finan
cial skies, although not yet free of
clouds and mist, presage the deliver
ance of investors from a continuance
of the dullness which has fettered
financial operations during the last
year. There was during that period
a decline of about 20 points in lead
ing industrial and railroad shares,
which marked the approach of a slow
panic, as a result of the enormous
shrinkage in values, approached only
in 1907.
Comparisons with that year, taking
into consideration the large Increase
in the volume of securities in six
years, probably display a decline in
value of nearly $6,000,000,000. but tho
current month’s betterment has re
duced the loss by about $1,250,000,000.
Business conditions in the United
States are sound and promising, but
a great deal depends upon the crops,
which have been improved by recent
rains. The July Government report
did not fully indicate the damage sus
tained by drouth, but the August fig
ures, if existing conditions are sus
tained, will not show the betterment
which has come since showers re
lieved the winter wheat belts.
The cashing operations in the win
ter wheat country are facilitated by
clear weather, and the movement of
grain from first hands to the seaboard
and consuming points means the re
lease of large amounts of money,
which otherwise would be tied up if
•■bankers were not insistent that ac
cumulations must not hamper the
progress of the country.
Railroads to Start Buying.
Railroads, which are enormous con-
...-Ejimers of industrial products, lack
credit with which to facilitate their
purchases, and they have been com
pelled to economize. There is a be
lief. however, that the return of con
fidence with easing money conditions
will effect the extension of credito,
■which will enable railroad corpora
tions to enter t th? market for sup
plies and inaugurate a period of pros
perity which will compare favorably
with that of 1906.
The public is aware that this is the
season w’hen the business world slo\vs
down, even in normal periods. This
year the tendency is increased by
restricted credit, recent high levels
which money rates attained and the
pending tariff and currency changes.
Yet it should be remembered that
the world, and particularly this coun
try, is not overproducing, but is op
erating only as necessity requires.
Bankers have been urging their cli
ents to make progress slowly in or
der to lessen the call for accommoda
tion.
Confidence Reviving.
After this waiting period—waiting
for the crops to mature, for currency
Teform to be completed on a souni
basis which will make for elasticity
and substantiality and for the clear
ing of Europe’s skies—confidence
should develop in every section of the
country.
There is a great deal of encourage
ment to be derived from this coun
try’s foreign trade. June exports ex
ceeded anything in the history of
the United States, while the Imports
were smaller. Measuring the volurri3
of trade, diverse contractions can not
bp given precedence over the amplift
cations.
Steel foundries and mills have been
doing a large business and their un
filled orders are in liberal volume-.
The textile industry is making ample
profits, and in the leather trade big
gains have been established. While
collections have been less satisfac
tory, stocks of merchandise have like
wise displayed a corresponding re
cession.
Money Is Eeasier.
The key to whatever improvement
there may be in the situation lies in
a relaxation of monetary tension.
Last week money was firm and loan
ing as high as 7 per cent. Now,
there is a supply of idle funds avail
able at 6 per cent when collateral of
unimpeachable quality is tendered,
and commercial -'aper rates do not
rise above the 6 1-2 per cent rate.
The position taken everywhere by
bankers to compel liquidation brought
relief, and there is less opportunity
for a crisis to develop next fall,
when crop and trade requirements
will increase, than has existed for
four years. In this country this is a
fact.
In Europe, however, the struggle
under the load of militarism is gi
gantic. A war chest of enormous size
was prepared by Germany, and
Prance emulated her rival. Out of
the gold sent abroad, $60,000,000 was
not based upon a legitimate exchange
proposition, but was a special move
ment. Paris paid a premium to in
crease its goid holdings. Germany
contested England’s claim to the new
supply of gold coming every week
from South Africa, but this competi
tion has ceased and recent develop
ments suggest normal requirements
and a more satisfactory situation.
Stock market positions were bet
tered by liquidation and LaSalle
Street believes adverse factors have
fully discounted. There is a
shadow cast upon prosperity bv Mex
ico. where the possibilities of friction
with European powers should not bo
minimized, but railroad and building
strikes are being adjusted; large
ields of grain, cu ton and other farm
products are in smlit to add wealth
to the nation, and hyster'a has been
. ssuaged.
Uncle Sam is preparing to meet the
approach of the boll weevil in Georgia
with all the force and wisdom at his
command. The funds which have
been allotted to Georgia for this pur
pose are to be supplemented this year
by an addition of about $15,000, bring
ing the allowance up to $60,000, this
increase being contingent upon proper
co-operation of State authorities.
This means (1) more money for
boys’ corn clubs and girls’ canning
club?; (2) more money for farm dem
onstration agents’ work; (3) more
dissemination of information among
the farmers concerning what to do
when the weevil arrives.
The big sum of money which is an
nually spent in corn clubs, farm dem
onstration work, etc., In the South by
the Bureau of Agriculture was voted
by Congress to meet boll weevil con
ditions.
The Best Safeguard.
The biggest thing to do in meeting
the boll Weevil Is to diversify crops.
Of course, it Is not necessary tb await
the coming of the weevil before teach
ing farmers how to grow oth£r crops
than Cotton. So Federal authorities
co-operating with State authorities
have been quite busy and quite suc
cessful in the State of Georgia during
the past few years teaching Georgians
how to grow crops that the boll weevil
can not live upon and how to grow
them successfully. The corn clubs,
the girls’ clubs, the co-operative dem
onstration work with farmers, under
the direction of farm demonstration
agents, has been the work of one hand
of the Bureau of Agriculture, while
the other has been engaged in study
ing the weevil, combatting it and in
every way trying to check it on the
ground which the weevil has claimed.
The Southern States have attempt
ed very little on their own initiative,
electing rather to co-operate with the
Government forces that had been in
the fight from the beginning of the
invasion of the enemy, depending
rather upon the accumulated results
of the Government rather than to
Initiate separately a new campaign
and perhaps undertake work which
one force could do better than two
operating to ?ome extent in conflict.
Corn Clubs Are Anti-Weevil Clubs.
The boll weevil can find no food in
a corn field. If it can get no cotton it
dies. The Federal authorities rightly
considered that the South could best
be induced to grow corn than any
other anti-weevil crop. How to en
courage the growing of corn and how
to grow it in a way that would en
courage Its widest and quickest use.
was a problem which the Government
faced and solved in the very best way
that anybody could have conceived.
The solution Is the corn club. Get the
boys to raising corn, vleing with each
other; lead them to adopt modern
scientific method? of soil preparation,
seed selection and plant cultivation.
Reach the boys through the schools.
It was a great constructive genius
who brought the boys’ corn club into
realization—the Hon. Seaman Knapp
It is his son. the Hon. Bradford
Knapp, that the South knows as its
inspiring leader In corn clubs and co
operative farm demonstration work.
In corn clubs Georgia has a “big
stick” for meeting the weevil. No
State in the South has had better suc
cess in organizing corn clubs. No
where has there been greater progress
in corn raising, especially In getting a
greater amount of corn from the acre
The organizing and operation of the
corn clubs and the girls’ clubs has
been conducted in co-operation with
the Georgia State College of Agri
culture at Athens. The college is
headquarters and directing center so
Georgia State CoM«ge of Agriculture.
far as Georgia work is concerned,
while, of course, the general head
quarters of all the corn club work
which the Government is doing in
the South is at Washington.
Co-operative Work With Farmers.
Nothing has accomplished more for
preparing the farmers of Georgia for
boll weevil conditions, and, for that
matter, for more successful farming,
than that which Uncle Sam is doing
in close co-operation with the farm
ers themselves through tarm
demonstration agents. Briefly de
scribed, the farm demonstration
agent is a disciple of modern fanning
with information to carry to the far
mer about how he can diversify his
crops and what he must do to get
the best results.
More than 60 counties in Georgia
have obtained farm demonstration
agents and many others are asking
for them and planning to have them.
Remarkable results have been ob
tained from some of the counties
where the farm demonstration agents
have been at work longest. Counties
that formerly bought from the West
much of what they fed to themselves
and their cattle have now diverted
the outgo to an inside circulation.
Dealers in food-stuffs have made
statements in some of these counties
that they have ceased buying in the-
West and the only feed-stuffs which
they ore now handling at all are
bought from home-growers. No won
der the farm demonstration work has
taken such strong hold of Georgia
farmers!
Work Centers in College.
The farm demonstration work also
centers at the State College of Ag
riculture, where the State agent is in
charge, and to which place the agents
go at stated intervals during the
year to study conditions and out
line plans of campaign for the bet
terment of the farmer. All agents
are required to take the agricultural
short course and also to specialize
in given lines in which their respec
tive counties are most interested.
* Once the purpose of the farm dem
onstration agent is clearly under
stood there is no difficulty met in
finding all the farmers they can take
care of. to carry on demonstration
work. In agreeing to carry on co
operative demonstration work the
farmer accepts the terms of the
demonstration agent, prepares his
seed bed according to instructions,
fertilizes according to formulas rec
ommended, cultivates according to
well established modern methods.
Not only does the demonstration
agent teach how to diversify crops,
but urges modem machinery, cattle
raising, silo erection and all econom
ical and successful farm means and
methods.
Bear in mind that this is all being
done with boll weevil^ money. No
one would say it is not well spent and
spent in a way calculated, to help
the farmer to meet boll weevil condi
tions mpst successfully.
The Educative Side Popular.
All the work which has been men
tioned is supplemented with addi
tional educative methods, such as is
afforded through the medium of farm
ers’ institutes. In those sections of
the State where the boll weevil will
appear first, of course, the greatest
interest is being manifested by farm
ers in learning what things they must
do to combat the weevil. Hence it
has been the policy of those direct
ing the co-operative Federal and
State fight against the weevil to
carry information through the me
dium of the farmers’ institutes to
these farmers. More of this will, of
course, be done as the immediate ne
cessity requires.
It is the policy of the Bureau of
Agriculture at Washington to -co-op-
orate with the educative branches of
the various States to reach the farm
er with boll weevil information, espe
cially with information as to what
the farmer must do. The researc h
work is carried on by the bureau on
its own account and not in co-opera
tion with educational institutions.
Hence the entire educative work
that has been done and is planned
for, has been organized into and in
co-operation with the State colleges
of agriculture in the respective States.
Some Educative Work.
In Georgia some educative work has
been done by the State Entomologist.
Mr. Worsham, who has conducted
some institutes in southwestern Geor
gia. His particular work has been
studying blackroot or wilt, but in
working on that line he found what
he claims is a variety that resists
blackroot and wilt, and being an
early maturing variety is therefore
well adapted to boll weevil conditions.
Hence the State Entomologist has
entered to some extent into the boll
weevil problem In Georgia.
The Director of the Georgia Ex
periment Station, Prof. R. J. H. De-
Loach, while developing a strain of
cotton that is resistant to athrac-
nose, another disastrous disease of
cotton, not only developed a variety
that is highly resistant to the dis
ease, but by reason of its early ma
turing and physical characteristics is
recommended by him as suitable to
boll weevil conditions. This work
Professor DeLoach did through sev
eral years of experiments at the State
College of Agriculture.
These contributions of varieties re
puted to be well adapted to boll
weevil conditions is Georgia’s contri-
Interstate Commerce Commission
Issues Report Covering 1912
Fiscal Year’s Operations.
The Interstate Commerce Commis
sion report? that the operating reve
nue of the country’s railroads reach
ed $2,826,917,967 !n the year ended
June 30, 1912, against $2,772,733,828
in the previous year. Operating ex
penses were $1,957,963,431, against $1,-
901,399.475. while net operating reve
nue was $867,954,536.
The report covers 240,238 miles of
line operated. The total mileage of
tracks was 360,714, an increase of
8,925 miles.
Employees numbered 1,699,218. an
increase of 45,987. There were 63.558
enginemen, 66,408 firemen, 49,051 con
ductors, 135,959 other trainmen and
39,530 switch tenders, crossing tend
ers and watchmen. Wages and sal
aries reached $1,243,113,172.
Par value of the amount of railway
capital outstanding was $19,533,750,-
802. This amount includes capital
held by the railway companies con
cerned, as well as by the public. Stock
totaled $8,469,560,687, of which $6,-
882,813,008 was common and $1,586,-
747,679 preferred; the remaining part,
$11,064,190,115, representing funded
debt, consisted of mortgage bonds,
$8,019,700,886; collateral trust bonds,
$1,279,128,266; plain bond? deben
tures and notes, $1,967,567,350; income
bonds. $263,441,054; miscellaneous
funded obligations. $116,170,300, and
equipment trust obligations, $318,-
182,259.
Of the total capital stock outstand
ing. $2,909,693,873. or 34.35 per cent,
paid no dividends. Dividends reach
ed $400,432,752, equivalent to 7.20 per
cent on dividend-paving stock. The
average rate of dividends paid on all
stocks outstanding pertaining to the
roads under consideration was 4.73
per cent. No Interest was paid on
$808,464,701. or 7.52 per cent, of the
bution to the sum of knowledge con- total amount of funded debt out-
cerning the weevil. As has been standing (other than equipment, trust
1 obligations.)
As has
stated, most of the research work
which has been done respecting the
weevil and the cotton varieties
adapted to it has been done by the
Federal experts
Will Study Weevil at Home
In order that the farm demonstra
tion agents may become familiar with
the w'eevil. its habits and the best
methods of combating it, the De
partment of Agriculture has planned
to take a number of the agents from
that section of the State first to be
invaded on a trip through Alabama,
Mississippi and Louisiana, where the
weevil is at work and to those points
where the fight has been waged most
successfully through proper co-op
eration of agents and farmers
At the head of this party will be
Hon. Bradford Knapp. Phil Campbell,
State agent of Georgia, will, of
course, be in direct charge of the
Georgia agents, while others will ac
company the weevil “scouting party”
Among these will be the State Agri
cultural Commissioner, Mr Price, and
his assistant, Mr. Hughes, the State
entomologist, Mr. Worsham.
If the boll weevil does not meet a
stubborn resistance when he flings
his line of battle across the Georgia
border, it will be no fault of Geor
gia's. Georgia has responded to the
call to corn clubs, to girls’ clubs, to
co-operative farm demonstration
work, to every appeal which has
seemed material to the defense of the
cotton farms.
Of course the ignorant tenant who
never knows is going to be the covert
of the weevil, but enough of the in
telligent farmers have been aroused
in every county of the State, who, if
they will preach the gospel they have
been taught, can make formidable
defense against the weevil.
Forty-two Concerns
Increase Dividends
Only One Railroad In the Number,
but Twenty-five Are Public Utility
Corporations.
NEW YORK. Aug. 2.—Of forty-two
companies to increase their dividend
rate thus far into 1913 25 have been
public utility concerns, according to
the record kept by one of the Wall
street new’s agencies.
In the corresponding period of last
year 39 dividend increases were re
corded. fewer than in the current
year, but of greater significance be
cause six railroads and several im
portant copper companies were in
cluded in the list.
Since January 1 the Nickel Plate is
the single railroad to advance its re
turn to stockholders, and these cop
per mining concerns reduced former
rates, instead of increasing* them:
Calumet and Hecla, Quincy, Osceola,
Ahmeek, and Mohawk. On the whole,
dividend reductions in 1913 have been
of more moment than inc reases. The
Boston and Maine. and Western
Maryland (preferred) payments were
passed, and the New Haven and
Bangor and Aroostook’s were low
ered. American Beet Sugar. Pacific
Gas and Electric, International Steam
Pump preferred, Prairie Oil and Gas,
Rumley. Pennsylvania Steel, and B
F. Goodrich Company were some of
the industrial companies to omit dis
bursements entirely.
In the way of extra cash dividends
these stand forth prominently;
American Can, 24 per $ent; Colorado
Fuel and Iron. 35 percent on pre
ferred stocks; Standard Oil of Nev
York, $40; American Tobacco, 15 per
cent; Standard Oil of Indiana. 11 per
cent; Eastman Kodak. 15 per cent;
Mahoning Coal. $25: Anglo-American
Oil. $1°. and Gulf Oil, 100 per cent.
Chino Copper and Ray Consolidated
declared initial dividends and Beth
lehem Steel resumed payments on the
preferred issue at the rate of 5 per
cent.
NEWS FOR
INVESTORS
Among i ew listings on the New
York Stock Exchange are $4,500,000
Atlanta, Knoxville and Cincinnati
Division 4 per cent bond? by appli
cation of the Louisville and Nash
ville Railroad; $6,000,000 Nashville.
Chattanooga and St. Louis Railroad
common; $5,961,000 Bankers’ Trust
Company certificates of deposit for
the St. Louis and San Francisco gen
eral lien 5*
• • *
Grand Trunk Railway Company
will issue $7,500,000 5 per cent five-
year equipment notes to provide for
new' rolling stock.
• • *
A Consolidated Stock Echange
seat was sold yesterday for *1,200.
a higher price than the average for
the year.
PLAN TO SELL‘BABY BONDS’
IN STORES IS DISLIKED
Car Repairs Urged
Earlier in Season
Railroads Implored Not To Be
Caught In Harvest Rush With
“Bad Order” Cars.
The number of passengers carried
was 994,158,591, an increase of 6,-
447,594.
Freight carried aggregated 1,818,-
2,32,193 tons, the increase being 65,-
042,254 tons.
The dividend payment? of 400,308,-
609 are apt to be misleading, as they
include payments from one rpad to
another, thus entailing duplications.
The income account shows;
Rail operations—
Op. revenues...$2,826.917,967
Op. expenses... 1,958.963,431
Net operating revenue....
Outside net revenue
**67,954,536
1,037,459
Total net revenue $868,991,995
Taxes accrued 113,122,609
Operating income $755,869,486
Other income , 255,611,495
Gross income
Rents, interest, etc
$1,011,480,981
609,661,490
Net corporate income.... $401,819,491
Deduct—
Dividends from
current, income. $246,371,011
Additions and bet
terments 37,186,102
New lines and
extensions 77,082
Other reserves... 5,463.269
Total $289.u98,464
Balance $112,721,027
Carolina Forests
Subject of Study
Eastern Piedmont 8ection Will Be
Surveyed by Federal and State
Authorities Together.
Illegitimate Returning of Mer
chandise by Retailers Grows To
Be Really Serious Evil.
NEW YORK, Aug. 2.—A strong
effort Is being made by the National
Association of Clothiers to minimize
and regulate the cancellation of or
ders and illegitimate returning of
merchandise. While, according to
William Goldman, president of the as
sociation, most retailers do not can
cel at all and are seldom guilty of
the return evil, the practice has grown
so rapidly that It Is not a rare thing
to have the cancellations and returns
together equal more than 10 per cent
of the gross business done. A well-
defined plan is being worked out by
an association committee, and Presi
dent Goldman is confident that in the
course of a few years one of the
most necessary trade reforms will b»
satisfactorily accomplished. Describ
ing the association plan, he said:
“The association has had a com
mittee analyzing the question of can
cellations and returns for some time,
and it has been settled definitely that
the first point In controlling the evil
is to install a uniform record in all
houses showing a retail firm’s can
cellation record for a period of years.
8ome Keep Records.
“Some members of the association
have kept private records of the re
turns and cancellations of their ac
counts In the past, but othersjtaave
not. After this record is obtain^ th'
association will establish a system of
cancellation reports along the same
line as the present system of credit
reports.
“When association members make
application for a report on any re
tailer. the association will send to
all members interested in that firm
to get his cancellation record. This
will, of course, be taken from the card
system Installed under tho association
agreement. A condensed record will
then be made up, which w'ill show
how that particular retailer handles
cancellations generally. This will as
sist materially in giving manufac
turers Information needed when new
accounts are taken on. If the man
ufacturer finds that a retailer Is a
moderate canceller generally, he will
know that he is not to process any
thing until orders have been revised
or confirmed. If, on the other hand,
the retailer is found to be an abusive
canceller, the manufacturer can re
fuse to take on the account.
An Important Point.
“In short, the handling of the can
cellation question by the retailer will
be made as important a point in the
acceptance or refusal of accounts by
the clothiers as his financial rating.
This, we believe, will in time make re
tailers as jealous of their record on
cancellations as they are of their
financial standing.
“Cancellations can In may cases be
traced to enthusiastic work by sales
men. so in addition to reports to
members steps to correct the evil at
its source by uniform instructions to
salesmen will be undertaken. The
association has authorized the estab
lishment of Joint committees of
clothiers and representatives of sales
men’s organizations to confer on the
matter. Steps have been taken also
to establish joint committees of retail
ers and manufacturers through the
retail associations that have been
formed in several States, and which,
it is expected, will soon consolidate
into a national retail association.
"With these committees and the
association record at work, there will
be small reason to doubt a solution
of the cancellation problem that will
be satisfactory to all concerned. The
question of returns, whether legiti
mate or Illegitimate, will be settled in
the same general way.”
Department Store
Has Branch Library
Many Dealers Do Not Think Well
of the Plan, Fearing Drop
in Book Sales.
A large department store in Ta
coma. Wash., has made space for a
branch of the city’s public library, and
customers can now’ turn in library
books and take out new' ones without
visiting the library building itself.
About 300 or 400 volumes of the most-
in-demand literature are kept at the
store. If a shopper turns in a book
at 10 o’clock In the morning and re
quests another book which does not
happen to bo in the store, a boy is
sent to the library and has the re
quired volume waiting when the cus
tomer is ready to leave.
The buyers for the book department
of one of the department stores in
this city said yesterday: “While a
branch of the public library w'ould at
tract the public to a store, it would!
decrease the sales of the book depart
ment. Such a step would not meet
with my approval.” This same buyer
estimated that if a branch were
placed in the store, the sales of books
would probably drop about 15 or 20
per cent. The book department chief
of another store seemed to think w'ell
of the branch library idea, as a means
of attracting customers, but ventured
the guess that the Tacoma store had
no book department of Its own.
KELP LEAD IN
New Companies Being Organized
Which Will Fill Completely
the Gap the "Trust” Left.
Want No Coupons in
Goods From Factory
Dry Goods Retailers Meeting With
Success in Efforts to Stop
the Practice.
NEW YORK. Aug. 2.—The National
Retail Dry Goods Association Is meet
ing with continued success in its cam
paign against the practice of *ome
manufacturers in giving coupons with
their merc handise.
In a letter Just sent to member? of
the association, its manager, F. Col
burn Pinkham, says that one concern,
which had been informed of the oppo
sition to coupon-giving, has promised
SAVANNAH. QA., Aug. 2.—Savan
nah will not lose ground as the prin
cipal naval stores market of the world
because of the suspension of the
American Naval Stores Company.
It is admitted that the suspension of
the American ha? demoralized the
market. The present outlook, never
theless, Is bright. Several new com
panies already have been organized as
a result of the liquidation of the
American, and it is practically certain
that more will be formed in the near
future. The combined power of these
will easily equal the American, and
there is no doubt they will be able to
handle the business.
An official of the Columbia Naval
Stores Company, which was organized
la?t week in Brunswick, says that
when the American Naval Stores
Company i? liquidated and all of the
new companies which are to be
formed from the American are organ
ized there will be plenty of buying
power. The Columbia is made up of
former officials and employees of the
American.
It is the belief that Savannah should
continue to be the primary na\’al
stores market of the world. The Co
lumbia company alone, capitalized at
a million dollars, should be able to
handle a good share of the American's
business.
Savannah has been known to the
world for years as the chief naval
to discontinue packing coupons’ with j stores port
A proposition was made by the
Mayor of Cleveland to induce de
partment store managers to Sell mu
nicipal bonds, in denominations of $5,
$10 and $25, to their customers.
Reports have it that the plan has
already met with considerable favor
in that city. At one of the New
York stores it was said that it would
hardly pay customers to purchase
bonds of such denominations, but it
was admitted that the matter would
depend to some extent upon the rate
of interest. It was thought that no
investment in bonds paying 4 1-2 per
cent or less would be attractive un
less the total investment amounted to
at least $500.
An especially strong objection to
the plan wa? raised on the ground
that the small Investors would de
sire to withdraw their money before
the bonds had run their time. A
savings bank was considered more
practical for investments of such
amounts, as the commissions neces
sarily paid for buying or selling the
• bonds were eliminated.
Railroad managers are being cau
tioned not to accept the present lack
of demand for a large share of their
equipment as an index of conditions
which will prevail through the fall.
The latest idle car statement show
ed practically no change in the num
ber of cars out of use. and the surplus
may be increased in coming weeks,
but railroad men know from the Gov
ernment’s crop figures that the same
old shortage of rolling stock may be
looked for in October.
For this reason some of the car
riers are being urged to reduce the
number of bad order cars on their
lines by having repairs made now
when the shops are not rushed. Last
year the beginning of work on cars in
preparation for the crop movement
was not ftarted in time, and a» a re
sult there was a larger percentage of
cars in shops in October and Novem
ber than there need have been.
Had work been started a little ear
lier it would have been possible to
add 8,000 more cars to service when
they were so badly needed in the late
fall.
NEW WAY OF TREATING
WOOD PROVES VALUABLE
A special treatment of native woods
for use in the better grade? of furni
ture has been tried with success in
Germany. Freshly cut birch, oak, elm
or spruce is buried in earth mixed
with lime and oth^r materials, and
left for from three to five months.
A remarkably fine color Is imparted
to the wood thus treated, so that it
can be used without painting or stain
ing. and after such treatment it has
practically no tendency to shrink or
swell.
WASHINGTON, July 26.—The Secre
tary of Agriculture has just signed an
agreement with the State of North
Carolina for a co-operative study of for
est conditions in the eastern Piedmont
region. The work will be carried on by
the forest service and by the State
Geological and Economic Survey with
one-half of the cost paid by each.
The study will determine the distri
bution and proportion of forest lands,
and the relative value of lands for tim
ber and for agriculture. It will take
into account the present status of lum
bering, the causes and effects of forest
fires, and will recommend a system of
fire protection and of forest planting.
The study Just arranged supplements
two already completed In the more
mountainous regions of the State. The
first, a study of forest conditions in the
Appalachians, has b^en published as a
State report. A study of the forests of
the western Piedmont region was com
pleted recently and the results are being
prepared for publication. When the
study of the eastern Piedmont region Is
finished It is planned to proceed to a
similar study of the coastal plain re
gion, so that eventually the entire State
will have been covered by a forest sur
vey.
DRESS AND WAIST MAKERS
WIN FIGHT ON DUTY
Elliott Seems To Be
Nemesis of Mellen
Acquaintances Recall How New Head
of New Haven Has Dogged
Predecessor’s Footateps.
it.* goods after October 15. Two other
irmniifnctirors who still make use of
this method of increasing sales are
mentioned in Mr. Pinkham’s letter,
with th" suggestion that the retail
merchants use their persuasive pow
er? upon them.
"We are confident,” says Mr. Pink-
ham. “that the manufacturers in
question desire to please their custo
mers, and that if they become con
vinced that the majority of the trade
considers the giving of coupons an
evil they will take the same action a?
the manufacturer above mentioned.”
At this time the market is in an ex-
tremelv bad condition. There is very
little demand for tho product, while
the factors are forced to carry the
burden of operations, which now are
in full swing. An attempt has been
made to curtail production In an ef
fort to help the market, but up to this
time this effort ha? not been success
ful.
There are now' something like 150.-
000 barrel? of turpentine and rosins
on the Savannah terminals, and it is
estimated that there is still another
100,000 remaining in the woods. These
big receipts are being handled and
financed by the factors.
Jap Silk Market Is _ . _ .
Active and Strong Stationery Business
Above Last Year s
Prices Give Promise of Advancing
According to Authorities in
the Trade.
NEW YORK. Aug. 2.—In their spe
cial report on the raw silk situation in
the leading world markets, A. P. Villa
& Bros, say:
“The market at Yokohama has be
come active and firm again, and prices
give promise of advancing. There i? a
good demand in evidence, both from
Europe and America. Canton silks
continue in good demand, and prices
in that market continue very firm. At
Shanghai prices are softening some
what. as the high prices quoted by the
reelers restricted bu?*ness here. There
has been no important change in the
situation at Milan.
“The local market i? rather quiet, so
far as actual business is concerned.
Inquiries for silk are numerous, but
the manufacturers prefef to hold off.
as they have large quantities of
thrown silks on hand. The settle
ment of the Paterson silk strike
should materially aid business in this
market.”
Gain in Volume Averages More Than
Twenty Per Cent—New Tariff
of No Effect.
Dyed Wolverine Is
Popular New Fur
Many Buyers Think It Prettier Than
Original Fisher Which
It Imitates.
The Dress and Waist Manufac
turers’ Association has won an im
portant point in its fight to get model
gowns into this country for its mem
bers without paying the duty that (s
required under the present tariff
In sub-section 4, paragraph J, sec
tion 5 of the tariff bill, as reported
by Senator Simmons of the Senate
Finance Committee, the following line
has been inserted among the articles
that may he admitted without pay
ment of duty under bond for their
exportation within six months from
the date of importation: Models of
women’s wearing apparel imported by
manufacturers for use as models in
their own establishments. There is
said to he little fear of the amend
ment failing to be enacted into the
law. The original attempt of the as
soclation was to obtain a drawback
allowance on model gowns when re
exported or surrendered to the Treas
ury Department for destruction, but
under the bonding arrangement the
1 per cent duty required by the« u ^u'-
NEW YORK, August 2.—Acquaint
ances of the president and president
elect of the New York, New Haven
and Hartford are smiling at Mr. Mel-
len’s request that he be excused “from
answering any questions affecting his
own personal movements after Sep
tember.”
To one who does not inquire close
ly into the situation it might appear
from the accounts of the two men's
careers that Mr. Elliott had been Mr.
Mellen’s Nemesis?* The latter got out
of the Northern Pacific presidency
after friction between himself and
J. J. Hill, and was succeeded by Mr.
Elliott. Now he ha? stepped out of
the New England transportation sit
uation to be succeeded again by Mr.
Elliott
What his future plans are he In
tends to keep to himself, lest a big
shouldered, fresh eomplexioned gen
tleman from the Northwest antici
pate them. If E. N. Brown's resig
nation from the National Railways of
Mexico should he accepted Mr. Mel
len might become accustomed to
working in a peaceful community I
gradually by spending a few months j
in the revolutionary zone.
After the experience of recent
months in the hands of L D. Bran-
dels, the stockholders’ committee, va
rious public service commissions, the
Interstate Commerce Board, the
Stamford Coroner, the grand jury and
others retirement to peaceful Stock-
bridge might prove too great a change
to be entered into at once.
A fur that has recently come to the
front abroad, .and which will he fea
tured by local manufacturers during
the coming season, is c alled dyed fish
er-color wolverine. It is said that
many buyers consider this dyed fur
much prettier than the original fisher.
The fur is made up in scarfs and
muff?, and will also be used for coats
and trimmings A new style in fur
sets is a scarf about two and one-
quarter yards long, draped at both
ends, and a draped muff, heart-
shaped, about nineteen inches wide
and eighteen inches deep. It is
thought that this style will be taken
up extensively by smarter dre?sers.
NOVEL TEST FOR LEATHERS.
Shoe manufacturers and dealers
will doubtless be interested in the
tests of 50 variously treated kinds of
leather which have been made up into
sandals for as many Boy Scouts of
Washington, D. C The boys will keep
a daily record of the wear to which
the sandals are subjected, and will
report as to the condition of the foot
wear every two weeks. Cards have
been provided which will show, for
each pair of sandals, the number of
hours worn each day, how much >f
this time was spent out of doors and
under what weather conditions, as
well as the distance covered over
ground or payment in the case of
any long "hike.”
NEW YORK. Aug. 2.—The whole
sale stationery business is heavier
than last year, the gain averaging
more than 20 per cent. The new tar
iff will have practical 1 ” no effect, as
foreign goods, especially pencils, can'
not undersell the domestic product.
Imported stationery is moving fairly
well and some slight advances are
noted in bone goods.
There have been no price changes
in staple goods, however, and exis -
ing prices are firmer than in several
years. City ordering is heavy, esne-
cially in school supplies for August
and September delivery. The holiday
trade is also opening well, and West
ern buyers have ordered freely in the
local market.
To A tlanta is avail
able to the mer
chant who buys an
adequate bill from
the members of the
Merchants’ Asso
ciation.
Write to
H. T. Moore
SECRETARY.
Rhodes Building,
Atlanta.
JAPS TO FURNISH U. S. ARMY COAL
WASHINGTON. July 19—Considera
ble interest is shown herp in the
awarding by the United States Gov
ernment for use by the army of the
Philippines of a contract for 80,000 tons
of coal, valued at $600,000, to a Japanese
firm. Mitsui, Bussan, Kaisha The bid
was $6.20 a ton and was male in com-
. , ... . , . « petition with Australian and Chinese
back allowance will be donearrl- wag ibsjt.bis is taken to show friendly re-
with.
iter. 1 her of valt 1 ' J »P an -
Stop That Whooping Cough
WITH THE McFAUL
Whooping Cough Powders
Instant Relisf In Use Over SO Years
For young babies, children or adults. Contains no dangerous or
habit-forming drugs. When given to children under two years of age
It Is almost a specific, rendering the disease so mild that the whoop Is
not heard.
Prepared by a physician for physicians and physicians prescribe
and recommend It.
By Mail 25 Cents, or at Druggists,
The McFauI Medicine Company
431 Merlette Street Atlanta, Qc«r(lt