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THE READING TIMES, READING, FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 1 8, 1 9 2 4 Four OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN READING Published continuously since 1858. Absorbed The Reading News in 1914'. A John H. Terry Newspaper. JOHN H.

PERRY, ABE HURWITZ, Owner and Publisher. Editor TELEPHONES Bell ....2900 3 Published every morning except Sunday. Entered as Second Class matter at the Reading Post Office. Member of The Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatched credited to it or not credited in this paper and also the local hews published therein. The Times Is the only morning newspaper in Reading which publishes Associated Press news.

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C), the Dunn and Bradstreet of the newspaper world for GUARANTEED PAID Circulation. FRIDAY, JULY 18, 1924 BE GOOD SPORTSMAN A 20 pound muskellunge was hooked by a fisherman in Sparrow Lake, Ontario, Canada. He landed it in his rowboat. Now, a 20 pound "lunge" in a rowboat is about as genial and active as a wildcat. This fisherman, Bill Sparling, was alone in his boat no one to advise Also, he was a "city feller," had never before caught anything a fourth as big.

Nothing in his rowboat to kill the lunge by a whack behind the eyes. But he happened to have a loaded shotgun. So he blew off its head also blew a big hole, in the bottom of his boat. An Oiibway Indian rescued him before he drowned among the weeds. Fishing is an exciting game when they're striking.

That's why hun dreds of thousands of Americans are vacationing with rod and line: Fishing and hunting are the most ancient industries of man. They existed long before agriculture. When a man fishes, he answers the call of the wild inherited from barbaric ancestors. No real sportsman ever catches and kills more fish than will be eaten. To do so is vandalism.

All anglers know that, the streams and lakes of our continent are gradually being "fished out." Restocking is unable to keep up with catches. Accordingly, good sports will make use of this fact: When you catch a fish too small to keep, always handle him with wet hands. A dry hand is almost certain to kill the fish, for it ruins the oily protective film over the scales. Another thing: An angler, enraged because the fish isn't large, often hurls it viciously far from the boat. This is apt to kill the fish within a few days.

A fish isn't made of iron. And water is hard, as you know if you ever hit it flat with your stomach in diving. Play the game fairly. Be a good sport. Help conserve our vanishing fish resources.

WHY? A reader writes: "A friend of mine died recently in this city. He was in his fifties, an active man, filled with zest for life, a man of family, a good citizen. "On my way to work I drive past the almshouse. There I see doddering old men of little use to society or themselves. Doubtless, some of them would rather be dead.

My active, useful friend dies; they live on. "Why? The man died in accord with some "natural law" imposed by the Creator of All for the Good of All. This explanation must be accepted, or it must be admitted that the little dot in time called human life is merely a tremendous and most brutal joke. What law was violated is entirely another question, a question that is being more and more understood through the progress of science. We have learned, for instance, why yellow fever carried off thousands of the able bodied, and often left the weak and debilitated.

Life is full of the mysteries with which His wonders are performed and human progress will be at a standstill when we cease to study and discover the why of them and adapt ourselves to the that is in them. The difference between a man dead in his fifties and a has been in an infirmary may lie in what they two had at birth and how they lived, and no single instance of seeming unwisdom or injustice impeaches the Great Purpose. We are a long wawy from qualification as a jury of peers for trial of Omniscience. GOOD THING TO PUSH The first trip eastward of the air mail service planes yielded a profit of 30 per cent above operation cost, $2304.48 being the revenue on the 8000 pieces of mail carried. The profit to the parties doing the mailing cannot be calculated, but it was, undoubtedly, large.

When you have an enterprise that is profitable to both buyer and seller, you have got a mighty good thing, and the business axiom reads, "Push it for all you're worth." If the air mail service is profitable as between San Francisco and New! York, there is no reason why it shouldn't be so as between Vancouver and San Diego, Chicago and New Orleans, and New York and Atlanta. Spo I kane SeaUlc Tacoma Portland Sacramento San Francisco Los Angeles and San Diego would be a small jog for relays of fliers compared to the San' Francisco New York service, and the Chicago New Orleans and New York i Atlanta service would be still smaller. The first air mail enterprise has been initiated on a congressional appropriation or less than $3,000,000. For less than the cost of one first class battleship all of the services suggested above could be established, and they would pay from their profits their inintial cost and upkeep. Moreover, the men trained to fly would, in case of war, be worth more than a dozen battleships.

RANDOM THOUGHTS TAXPAYERS who have to pay levies at every turn, can be glad they didn't live in Russia a couple of centuries ago. Peter the Great taxed beards. This was more because he hated whiskers than to raise money for his treasury. Pete was wise. The result of his beard tax was to make most of the people shave Taxation curbs the use of things.

It paralyzes. It even extinguishes, kills carried to extremes. NATURE doesn't want us to be too healthy. Her purpose is to kill us off after we've blundered along awhile, to make room for newcomers. Science is getting fevers, diabetes and tuberculosis under control.

Nerve and glandular maladies correspondingly increase. Like an individual medicine frequently "cures" one organ of the body by wrecking another. So wilh economics and politics. In solving one problem we almost invariably create several new ones. "I PERSONALLY killed 30.000 head of buffalo during old hunting days on the Kansas prairie," reminisces George W.

Brown, pioneer, known as "Hoo doo" Brown. The killing was for the hides, $2 to $3 apiece. "Of course, I didn't get the money," Brown explains. "I was working for others," Nine tenths of the population will nod understanding. HINANCE By B.

C. ORBES Editor Forbes Magazine; Noted Financial Authority INFLOW OF GOLD LARGE EXPORTS AMERICA'S DANGER INSURING PROSPERITY When you find that you are getting in more money than you are ononiino is there not a temptation to go in for a few more luxuries? The United States is getting more money for Its sales of goods to foreign countries than it has to pay for its purchases from foreign countries. Not only so, but we are today by far the richest nation in the world. Will we as a nation act dust as most individuals act and start indulging In more luxuries and delicacies which other parts of the world and other peoples produce? In the twelve irrmnths ended June, 1921, we sold to other countries almost twice as much as we bought from them, our balance of sales being not far from three thousand millions. In the following year our sales took a much heavier drop than our purchases, with the result that our excess of imports was nearer one thousand million.

By 1923 we were indulging freely in the purchase of thing3 from the rest of the world. But our sales meanwhile increased very little. The net result was that our balance of exports over imports was only $175, 000,000. For the twelve months just ended, what do the records show? As everyone knows, business here hasn't been so very lively. This led lots of people to go slower in the purchase of foreign products.

At the same time foreign nations increased their purchases hehre at the rate of a million dollars a day. The final upshot for the twelve imonths ended June 30 was that we sold to foreigners some $755,000,000 more htan we bought from them. Our foreign customers have had a hard struggle to pay us. Unable to sell us goods to square accounts, they have had to hustle around for gold and have also had to raise loans here through the flotation of bond issues. The inflow of gold has been extraordinary.

In the last three years the rest of the world has sent us a balance of well over a thousand million dollars worth of gold. But the world cannot continue this performance, for the good reason that it is running dry of gold. Perhaps Britain will continue to ship us much of the new supplies of the yellow metal she wins from the ground in, South Africa, especially as she has to pay us $160,000,000 a year in connection with our government wartime loans to her. Looking ahead, what course is our international commerce likely to follow? Accepting as a fact that the world will not be able in the next few years to send us anything like another thousand millions in gold, then? One important 'movement is morally certain. Another is likely.

First, it can be taken for granted that as European countries get back on their feet financially, industrially and agriculturally, they will export larger amounts to the United States and to world markets. This will tend to make it harder for us to increase or maintain our sales in foreign markets. Prosperity proverbially brings about its own downfall. Having become so rich, and having so much money coming to us from our foreign debtors, are we not likely to succumb to the temptation to indulge in more luxuries and perhaps less strenuosity than heretofore? Not having the spur of necessity, will we not be inclined to take life more comfortably and go in for nrtore self indulgence? If we do, the logical consequence would be a falling off in our balance of exports over our imports. Indeed, we may before so very long witness an excess of purchases over sales to other peoples.

A good deal depends upon how our wage earners act. Remember that wages are higher in the United States than in any other country in the world, a fact of which every right minded citizen Is justifiably proud. But many of our foreign competitors are being prodded by dire necessity to work harder than ever before and to live more frugally. If we are to hold our place in the markets of the world, our wage earners will find themselves compelled, regardless of what employers would like to do, either to accept lower wages or to increase outpupt per worker and per machine. Our mountains of gold cannot insure the continuance of national prosperity.

Only hard, intelligently directed work and sensible spending can do that. (Copyright, 1924, by B. C. Forbes.) Did You Know? Bethel township was settled by Moravians during 1730. They started a mission at the headwaters of Swatara Creek.

Called It Hethel a Hebrew word meaning "House of God." More people were killed in the neighborhood by Indians during the French and Indian War than in any other part of Berks county. Many nrst settlers married Indian' women, borne Heading descendants are proud of the strain of Indian blood. "Size up Kitty 'frinstance!" A Daily Thought 1 Ha that is slow to wrath is of great understanding) but ha that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly. Prov. 11 29.

Temperate anger well becomes the wise. Philemon. HOLINESS CAMPTO OPEN AT KRICKTOWN Reading Holiness Association will open its 24th annual campmeeting Friday, July 18, in Leininger's grove, neur Kricktown. it will continue until Sunday, July 27. Rev.

C. N. Wolfe, of this city, is Included in the list of speakers. Am Am Am Am WALL STREET REVIEW By The Associated Press NEW YORK, July 17. Strength and activity of the low priced western railroad shares was the outstanding feature of today's Irregular stock market.

Industrials showed the effects of profit taking and bear selling in I the early trading, out developed a firmer tone during the latter part of the session. Total sales, 1,126,000 shares. Rails bounded upward under the leadershiD of the Rock Island issues, the common closing 2hi points higher at 33 after havine crossed 34, the fi percent preferred snowing a net gain of nearly a point at 75 and the 7 percent preferred climbing 1 to 87, all at new high prices for the year. Other strong spots in the railroad prouD included Kansas City Southern. Wheeling and Lake Erie preferred.

Western Maryland second preferred. Peoria and Eastern, Chicago and Northwestern preferred and the "Katy" and Missouri Pacific issues. Fresh selling developed in the steel shares on the publication of a relatively poor quarterly earnings report by Republic, but ah made moderate recovery and net losses were limited to fractions. Bethlehem Steel touched a new 1924 low at 41.S on unfavorable dividend rumors, but snapped back later to 42. Oils were scheduled to further pressure on the extension of price cuts for crude and refined products, but they Am Tel Am Drug Am La France.

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If an American closed more than a point higher and Atlantic Refining also mada. good recovery, showing a net gain of three points at 83. Call money continued to rule at I percent. Foreign exchange rates were reactionary. Strength of traction Issues and further recovery of Brazilian obligations marked today's bond trading, which was colorless but firm.

Prices slowly forged ahead, although the advance was lacking in vigor. Total sales, par value, $14,848,000. WEST CO. REVIEW Stl Corp Utah Cop Utah Securities. Vanadium Stl, Wabash com' do.

pref. West Md AV estlnghouse West Union Wheel Erie do pref. White Motors Willys Over do. pref. Aftr Aariv weakness the market showed its abll Ky to Ibsorb Profit taking an dv prices mproved during the last hour We sUU believe that it will prove profitable to wait for recessions to buy as the market should be irregular for the nresent due to absence of public par HHnatinn The coppers are beginning show more activity and look attractive for the long pull.

NEW YORK AND PHILADELPHIA STOCK LIST QUOTATIONS NEW YORK STOCK LIST Quotations furnished bywest 54 N. Fifth st Reading, member New York and Philadelphia Kxchange. Stocks Open High Low Close At Top Fe. 104 104 104 Aiax Rubber All Chem Dye Am Beet Am Ship Com Am Woolen Intl Agricul Tobacco Sumatra 100 71 29 21 15 45 10 West Pac 21 62 109 12 23 56 Worthing Pump 25 100 71 29 21 15 45 10 23 62 109 12 24 56 67 6' 99 71 '29 21 15 44 10 21 62 109 11 23 55 7 67 25 99 71 29 21 15 45 10 22 62 109 12 24 65 7 67 25 PHILADELPHIA MARKETS PHILADELPHIA, July 17. FLOUR Soft winter straight, western, $5.

60a 5.90; nearby, 65. HAY Timothv No. l.nominal: No. 2, 25a26; No. 3, sample clover, light mixed No.

1. $24aJ25; No. 2. medium mixed No. 1, $22a $23; Nov 2, heavy mixed No.

1, WHEAT Nominal. CORN Local carlots, No. 2, yellow, No. 3, yellow. OATS No.

2, white, 66a67e; No. 3, white. 65a66c. BUTTER Solid packed creamery fancy, high coring 42a45, the latter for small lots: extras 41; extra first 40: firsts 37a39. EGGS Nearby extra firsts 30: firsts 27; Western extra firsts 30; firsts 28.

CHEESE Single daisies, fresh, 20a 20c. LIVE POULTRY White leghorns, 19a21c; broiling chickens, white leghorns. 25a31c. PRESSED POULTRY Fowls, fresh killed, dry picked, in boxes 22a30; In barrels, five pounds or over, dry picked and dry packed 28a29; teed 20a28; broiling chickens 37a41; old roosters, dry picked. Western larce 18a20; medium 16al7.

POTATOES Southern, No. 1. Jersey, bushel basket. No. 2.

35a 45c. Other articles unchanged. BUFFALO LIVESTOCK EAST BUFFALO, N. July 17. CATTLE Fairly active and steady.

CALVES Active and steady; prices unchanged. HOGS Active, 15 to 25c higher; heavy mixed and yorkers, light, yorkers, pigs, roughs, stags, SHEKP and LAMBS Slow and N. Y. BUTTER AND EGGS NEW YORK, July 17. BUTTER Steady: creamery extras, 40a4Oc.

EGGS Steady; nenrby and nearby western hennery whites, firsts to extras, 33a39c. CHEESE Steady. FLOI7R Strong; spring patents, $7.60 a8: soft winter straights, hard winter straights, HAY Unchansred, LIBERTY BONDS NEW YORK, July 17. U. S.

government bonds closing: Liberty 3s. 101.12; first 4s, 101.23 bid; second 4s, 101.6 bid; first 4s, 101.30: second 4s. 101.14: third 4s, 102.3: fourth 4s, 102.3; treasury 4s, 104.22. CREDIT BALANCES OIL CITY, July 17. Credit balance, $3.

Runs, 68.237; average runs. 49,857. Shipments, average shipments, 52.867. Medicinal Plants of Berks County By Dr. Walker L.

Stephen ELDER The ancients amused themselves with various wind Instruments termed "sambuca" among; which was one made from hollow elder branches. And so we sort of honor "fled'r blumen'' (butterfly flower) now courting the pilgrim's attention along old lanes and woodland edges, throughout the county by designating the bush "sambucus canadensis." The latter term indicates that Canada boasts of unusually hardy specimens. Years ago the pith was scalded with water thereby making an excellent lotion for sore eyes. The bark steeped in warm water constituted a valuable remedy for nervousness. (Jrandma's elder berry jelly, rarely was absent from the family table.

Also was a generous portion stirred in hot water and sipped at bedtime to break colds and fevers. The flower clusters boiled with molasses, vinegar and lemon juice was one of her resorts for stubborn coughs. She employed the juice of the ripe berries todye cotton and homespun a beautiful red. In an emergency she masticated the root to promote a regular bowel action. Her hubby turned the berries Into a delicious wine of tonic value, and fed pigs with the dregs when their kidneys failed to function.

Other names for this member of the honeysuckle clan are: flute bush, dye berry, blow pipe, wine berry, eye heal and "hollunder bletta," another Pennsylvania German designation denoting supposedly had its origin in Holland. Some of the finest specimens found in Alsace township along1 the eastern slope of Peer Path Hill. WIDOW AND DAUGHTER INHERIT AMES ESTATE letters of administration were issued to John H. Jacobs in the es tate of the late J. Howard Ames, of i Caernarvon township, A widow, Florence Ames, and daughter, Dorothy May, are heirs to the $3,000 estate.

Be that as it may, Frank Bugle married Birdie Cornett at Newport, Ky, There ought to be harmony in that family. TODAY'S POME By the Bard of Buttonwood St. In the good old summertime, The censor roams the beaches; What a swell job is his Once overing bathing peaches "What is your favorite cigarette?" "Huh?" "Yeah. Other people's." Leap Year is more than half over, and many a maid is beginning to wonder if she'll ever bring her mother a son in law. Scientists says the sun is growing colder.

Proably trying tokeep cool with Coolidge. Love and porous plasters, son, Are very much alike It's simple getting into one. But getting out good night. Wyomisslng folk promise 55 acre park for museum site. But where In heck is there 55 acres without a gasoline station on it? Old Silas Grump, the sage of Sinking Spring, says in the good old days girls learned to cook.

They didn't have any mayonnaise dressing under which to hide their ignorance. You'd think the man who comes to upholster the big living room chair would make some reduction in his charges on account of the dimes and quarters he finds when he removes the cushions, but he doesn't. There is only one test of love. She loves you if she doesn't go out with another fellow while your car is laid up for repairs. Husband in Altoona Is suing for divorce because wife hit him with a roasted chicken.

That's what we'd call a tough morsel for any spouse to swallow. Campaign is on to stop the slaughter of crows. Sure! Must have a few for the politicians. Little boys live a hard life. One tells us his big sister borrows his bathing suit.

One drawback to living at home is you can't throw your cigar ashes on the floor in the lobby. Some people hate to have company. Others like it because company keeps the folks from fighting. The good die young. Just as soon as homemade wine begins to get good its owner kills it.

PROGRESS OF CIVILIZATION Ping Pong. Tiddledy Winks. Crokinole. Parchesl. Pit Ouija Board Diablo.

Pogo Stick. Mail Jongg. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR I The Times welcomes letters from its readers. It merely i insists that personalities shall not be involved and that letters shall not be over 300 words in i length. All letters must bs 5 signed and address of writer given.

These will be withheld from publication if desired. THE MUSEUM SITE Editor. The Times: The action of a tare majority of the school board in accepting the Wyomissing site for the new museum reminds us of the story about the Quaker, the Bull, and the Railroad Train! The new road was completed through the rural district, the first train came thundering along, the bull was quietly grazing, seeing the approaching train, planted himself squarely on the track, head toward the on coming train, no doubt with a thought that it was a foreign invasion of his territory. The train thundered by, but it was disastrous to Mr. Hull, The Quaker farmer came upon the scene, viewing the remains of the bull, remarked: "Bully I admire your pluck, but damn your judgment." The citizens of Heading should view the decision of the school board in the same light, and take immediate steps to impress the fact that public office is a public trust, that they are elected by the people to serve the people, and not to servo private interests by enhancing the value of the property of private interests whose interests are paramount to all others'.

Citizens, arouse yourselves; give your support to the members of school board who have your best interests at heart. A mistake has been made In selecting the site for the new high school; it is up to you to see that another blunder is not made, In selecting a site for the museum, otherwise, you will be confronted with the same as the question of the Lion and Jack ass. The Lion devoured the Jack ass, andfrj the question arose as to whether i the Lion became Jack ass, or thejj ajss Lion: both helnir relative size. A CITIZEN. POLICE CHIEFS WANT UNIFORM TRAFFIC LAWj" MONTREAL, July 17.

Uniform automobile and traffic laws of the entire North American continent a cam "Have your teetli looked over thoroughly, and at once," advised the Mann family doctor when Mrs. Mann was anticipating motherhood. "One of the oldest and shop worn fallacies is that women should have no dentistry work done while pregnant. That is a silly and thoroughly wrong idea. "On the contrary, a woman should go to hpr dentist at once and have her teeth attended to.

This is a FESTIVAL WITH DRAMA PRESENTATION An ice cream, cake and candy festival will be held at the Pendora playground The festival Is being conducted by the Neighborhood Association for the development of dramatic work at Pendora. The first dramatic production will be rendered by the playground children. I paign oi euucauon io eraaicate inem speed maniac and severe laws that would enable the police to seize the car of the man who brake them were measures advocated here today at a special session of the convention of the International Association of Chiefs of Police. DISABLED VETERAN GETS LICENSE TO PEDDLE A disabled veteran's peddler's license was Issued to John 1'awlowskl, of 845 S. 6th yesterday.

i The world is not perfectly round. actually being flatter at the north and 1 i. euuui pines. on AROUND THE TOWN With RVSS SYMONTOWNE Times readers are Invited to express their views In Symon towne's column. He'll acknowledge letters on any subject of general interest.

Just writ to Symontowne, Reading Times. A i rEAR MR. SYMONTOWNE: You seem to be able to start things moving and I wish you would 'start' this proposition and keep it moving. "A short time ago when the parking law went into effect, I heard that autoists were to be told to slow up at crossings and not to blow their horns unless absolutely necessary. "I notice that a few are obeying the regulation but we still have a large number including truck drivers who are transgressing.

Now, I'm told that this order was to prevent motorists crossing at high speed, but there is another side to it. "In many large cities, including Chicago, there is a society for the suppression of unnecessary noise. Cannot we have one here? I live on Franklin street at an intersection and trucks run through, starting their sirens in the middle of one block and shrieking through to the next block. Why should a truck be allowed a siren any more than a private auto? Does a siren possessed, carry with it the right to split nervous systems in twain? Why can these trucks do on Franklin street what they would not be allowed to do on Penn street? HI notice that the cars that slow up, seldom touch their horns. There 1 is no need.

Haven't we people who must live downtown any rights at all? The vibration we must bear, but why the unnecessary noise? I know I am not a 'crank' because so many cities are recognizing the fact that these noises are shortening the life of many a person. These cities are stopping much noises by law. Please do something and many will rise up and bless you, I know. "Sincerely, INTERESTED." DEAR "Interested'': I. won't staiYt the Reading Society for the Suppression of Unnecessary Noises, but I'll sure join as a charter member! I don't make enough noise to entitle me to the honor of founding the society and, anyway, I'm afraid that founding societies is a bit out of a newspaperman's "regular line." But, if this society is formed, I want to move at the first meeting for the suppression of the voices of the second lieutenants who drill troops at the Armory.

I don't mind the cries of prize fight spectators at the Armory, for noise at a prize fight is, as everyone knows, absolutely necessary. But the noises of second lieutenants should be suppressed. In fact, on second thought, it might be simpler just to suppress the entire lieutenant. I know several doughboys who will undertake this suppression free of charge. i i DOCTOR comes back from New York excited about things he saw at aclinic at Bellevue Hospital.

He saw, says he, and mostly he's a truthful man, a physician preform a serious surgical operation with a "radio knife" which draws no blood and causes the patient no pain. Never mind the details. The thing is more complicated than an income tax blank. But think of it! Yesterday celebrated the start of Sherman's march to sea in 1864. Soldiers in his army had their legs amputated without of anesthetics.

Ether was unkown in Civil War days sixty years ago. The discovery of anesthesia has been rated as one of the five greatest discoveries of mankind. Now, in sixty years, we seem ready to give up the practice of drugging a sufferer to insensibility to perform an operation. We seem, so my doctor says, about to discard anesthetics, cut deeply and better than before to make the sick well, using a "knife" that draws no blood and causes no pain. Oh this old world, how she do move how she do move FABLES ON HEALTH OVERHAUL THE TEETH time when most women have trouble with their teeth and a milk of magnesia solution can be taken to counteract the action of acid that gathers on the enamel of the teeth.

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