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“SOlTXD AX I) SATISFACTORY”
An interesting review and forecast incident to
the beginning of the new year is contained in a state
ment issued by James B. Clews on current financial
conditions. Mr. Clews makes the significant state
ment that in 1024 about 235,000,000 shares of stock
changed hands, and bond transfers amounted to
about $4,000,000,000, while “the favorable outlook
is due to a combination of encouraging conditions
rarely realied.”
Important from a business standpoint is the tact
that the political skies have been cleared “to an ex
tent that would not have been thought possible six
months ago;” that the European aspect likewise has
assumed a settled form and “gives every evidence
of steady progress” toward a “perfect condition,”
raid that domestic business lias “come back” in a
proportion and with a strength that few had ex
pected. Steel, which is taken as an example, is run
ning on an S5 or 90 per cent basis, and even in
branches of business which are unsettled and “spot
ty,” such as textiles, “there are signs of definite im
provement.”
Financially, the country is strong, as might be
expected with so satisfactory a background of busi
ness. Improvement is shown in railroad revenues,
and consolidations which arc planned by some of the
lines adds a strong element of value to shares gen
erally. The condition of the copper market also is
cited in support of the statements regarding the fi
nancial outlook.
But of equal or greater importance than the
technical aspect of prosperity is the “unexpectedly
good position” of the general consuming and in
vestment community. According to the depart
ment of agriculture, the farmers realized about
$750,000,000 more on their crops in 1924 than they
did in 1923. The year is started without the han
dicap of excessive “hold over” loans. The per
centage of employment in most branches of indus
try is high. Savings bank deposits and time de
posits in commercial banks are at a high point.
Money continues to be moderate in cost and ample in
quantity, notwithstanding the great expansion in
financial transactions. “Sound and satisfactory con
ditions all through the money market, with ample
resources and rates which, while they are not as low
as they have been, are not likely to go to any exorbi
tant figure,” is the conclusion.
A WORLD OF BELIEVERS.
The world’s inhabitants are being converted into
believers. A few days ago Chicago surgeons lift
ed a human heart from its position, extracted a nail
that had pierced the walls of the vital organ, and
shortly after declared that the owner’s chances for
recovery were excellent. Incidentally, the news
story of the incident stated that the specialists had
to stop the heart’s pulsations temporarily.
Few persons will discredit the story. A ma
jority will read the few lines indifferently. Some
will make mental note of the incident for the pur
pose of seeing whether the man lives. And in the
minds of a few will be stimulated thought of the
great advances made in medical sciences in the past
few centuries.
But a short time ago, as time goes, doctors did
not know enough to use sterilized and warm instru
ments during their operations. We will have
“medicine men” and enough fools to make possi
ble their existence. We shall have them for years
to come. But the average intelligence of humanity
is fast being raised. The best evidence of this per
haps is the gradual passing of disbelief of every
thing our fathers did not believe in. Instead of
the frank old “I don’t-believe-a-word-of-it” phrase,
we know have “That's wonderful. What won’t
they be doing within the next hundred years?”
‘‘It has taken endless ages to create in men the
courage that will accept truth simply because it is
the truth,” said President Coolidge last week in an
address before the American Association for the Ad
vancement of Science. ‘‘Ours is a generation of
pioneers in this regard.”
So it is, the world’s inhabitants are being con
verted into believers.
NO VACCINATION AGAINST POLITICAL
JOB HUNTERS
Job hunters who have been cannonading the
govenor-elect and his secretary have been formally
advised at Olympia that the selection of employes
in state departments will be left entirely to the
heads of departments, and personal applications to
the governor-elect and his secretary will have no
effect. ‘‘Colonel Hartley and myself have been
swamped with thousands of requests from present
officeholders and would-be officeholders and their
friends, asking that special consideration be given
their qualification as such," says A. K. Gardner,
secretary to Col. Hartley. ‘‘Every day brings its
share. We are approached every day in person.”
That, of course, is one of the penalties of being
clothed with the power to bestow largess in the form
of appointments. There have been many inventions
of late years, but none has been devised that will
reverse the ancient saying that multitude is called
but few bring home the bacon.
WITHOUT A COUNTRY.
“Big Bill” Haywood, like his companion in
anarchism and bolshevism, Emma Goldman, has re
canted. Big Bill, like Emma, has one great am
bition. It is to set foot on soil over which floats
the Stars and Stripes. In that respect, both have
undergone a change of heart that has its dramatic
if not historic, aspect.
At present Bill Haywood is somewhere in the
Near East. He has reached that destination on his
way back to Leavenworth prison, whence he ascaped
a few years ago. When he made his way out of the
gates of the federal prison, where he was serving a
twenty-year sentence for violation of American laws,
he saw one bright star in the firmament—the rising
star of soviet Russia, where Emma Goldman, high
priestess of anarchy had been sent by the l nited
States government in search of a haven consonant
with her ideals.
Kill went across. lie was welcomed with open
arms bv the reds. For some time he was in charge
of a soviet undertaking in Siberia, but the bolshevik
star lost some of its brightness in his eyes as he
found that things were not what they seemed. He
was paid a pitance by the Communistic interna*
tionale for, some time to act in an advisory capacity
Jto the soviet propaganda section. Finally, about a
j year ago, he was commanded by the soviet chieftains
to return to the United States in disguise and fo
ment a revolutionary movement among the colored
population of the South. Apparently he was either
too wise to undertake this impossible task, for to
have accepted the commission would have meant
punishment greater than that he received at Leaven
worth. That was the end of Big Bill so far as the
red oligarchs of Moscow were concerned. Like
Emma Goldman, he became a fugitive, disillusioned,
hating all things bolshevistic.
A few days ago Big Bill, resembling ragged
tramp and wearing a famished and haunted look,
begged for food and shelter in the Near East relief
orphanage at Alexandropol, Armenia. He had beg
ged his way from Moscow to Constantinople. He
admitted that he was cured of communism and
whimpered his regret that he had fled from the
federal prison at Leavenworth. \\ hile Emma Gold
man, another exile, was making her way from Rus
sia to London, through Germany, denouncing the
red leaders and declaring that she would prefer
an American prison to freedom in the soviet repub
lie of the proletariat, Haywood was also yearning
for the land which gave him protection and oppor
tunity that he did not appreciate.
These are historic examples of a man and a wo
man without a country—not fiction, but fact. The
significant thing about theme is that both, like the
tragic figure in Edw-ard Everett Hale’s great story,
now seek sanctuary in the land that they cursed and
reviled.
“CONGRESS shall have the power to limit,
regulate and prohibit the labor of persons under
18 years of age,” says the first clause of the pro
posed child labor amendment to the Federal con
stitution. Why not amend it to read: “Congress
shall have the powder to compel persons under 18
years of age to labor?” That would help some of
us dads wrho Jiave to fill our own wood boxes.
The ban has been put on Ban Johnson. My
Landis!
Liberty Theatre
TONIGHT, ONE SHOW, 8:00 SHARP
GERTRUDE ATHERTON’S
From the famous book of the same title. A
splendid feature, way above the average.
IN EIGHT REELS
CORINNE GRIFFITHS AND
CONWAY TEARLE
A powerful story of the wonderful effects of
glandular treatment on a woman. A
startling revelation of the secret of youth
and beauty. A most fascinating picture
from the fascinating book, with a large and
able supporting cast.
ALSO A PATHE NEWS
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PRINTERS REFORM AND
PRISON PAPER PASSES
SALEM, Ore., Jan. 28.—“Lend A
Hand,” the newspaper published for
20 years at the Oregon penitentiary
has had to suspend publication be
cause no printers are incarcerated
there.
JAPANESE BARON DEAD
TOKIO, Jan. 28.—General Baron
Satoru Nakamura, 71, a member of
the supreme war council died today.
MAY WHEAT JUMPS TO
RECORD PRICE IN EXCHANGE
WINXIPSG, Jan. 28.—May wheat
reached $2.27% in one of the wildest
sessions in the history of the Winni
peg grain exchange. The price at
closing time was $2.19 7-8.
STARR SAILS MONDAY
The steamship Starr will sail foi
the westward Monday, February 2
Considerable freight and a number of
passengers are already booked.
Yes! no autos
today!
But you auto see our shipment of fresh
Goods that auto satisfy the most auto
cratic appetite in Seward.
EAT YEAST FOR HEALTH
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