AMERICA DAY BY DAY

Evening Star, Issue 16469, 6 July 1917, Page 6

AMERICA DAY BY DAY

[Fnosi Qua San Francisco Correspondent.] SPRING WOOL PRICE DOUBLES. Fortunes are being made in America in wool gambling owing to the enormous demand for the material throughout the States, The Californian spring clip of wool has jumped in price .over 100 per cent, as compared with the May sales of 1916. Mr A. W. Foster, capitalist, farmer, and cattleman, lias just sold his spring clip for ‘‘over 60 cents a pound, as compared with 31 cents a year ago.” Foster sold on invited bids, and that is why he prefers the purchaser to make the price public. With much of the Pacific Coast States’ spring clip of wool finished, there is any amount of comment in both banking and wool warehouse circles of the high prices Foster and other Californians are receiving, and how the big “ wool corner,” started last winter by the Mof-fatt-Humphrey Syndicate of Reno and San Francisco, is going to faro. It is believed this coterie ot slirewd sheepmen and wool buyers is going to clean up a profit of 600,000 dollars in six months of operations. Last winter this syndicate began Iniying the 1917 spring clip of wcol from many sheepmen in Nevada, California, Arizona, and Montana. It is believed they paid an average price of 50 cents a pound at that time, figuring a total of throe million pounds now. Tho most conservative comment on the purchases of the Molfatt and' Humphrey people is that they paid 30 cents a pound for a clip that is now vielding two million pounds, or a total of ‘600,000 dollars. It is believed they now can sell at 60 cents, or a total of 1,£00,C00 dollars, thus making a £IO,OOO profit. Some of the members of the syndicate, however, declare they can sell at an average of 62 cents, in spite of prospective large imports from Australia this summer, because they figure the American yield this year at 285.000.000 pounds, a little below normal, whereas tho United .States is now consumin'* at the rate of 600,000,0001b, with very little help from foreign countries. They estimate a decline of five million sheep in the United States during the past 10 years. The manufacture of clothing for the new American army is bound tcT further increase the demand for wool, with a consequent boosting of prices. FARMING MACHINES SCARCE.

Members of the special committee appointed by the National Implement .and Vehicle Association of America to cooperate with_ the United States Federal Government in the movement to increase -America’s food production assembled in Chicago, and issued a statement callinrrattention to the fact that the success of the campaign ■would be seriously jeopardised because of the shortage of farm implements and to the inability of the implement manufacturers to obtain but 75 per cent, of the sheet metal needed to supply the normal demand of the farmers. .Attention was called to the fact that the farm implement manufacturers had practically no stock on hand, and that thousands of farmers in recent years had allowed their equipment to deteriorate to such an extent that many implements could not bo used tliis year without re naira. The implement manufacturers declared that they were compelled to appeal to the Federal Government recently in order to obtain io per cent, of their normal annual supply. The statement added “ Reports show that a great shortage in farm implements prevails. Ail factories making tractor ploughs are unable to meet the requirements of their trade. The corn acreage has been decreased by the shortage of listers, th? tool necessary to plant” corn in autumn wheat fields.' A shortage of regular corn planters is also imminent, this occasioned by inability to secure raw material, particularly iron'and steel products. The production of implements'has been, less than normal since 1913. Tools in the hands of fanners are more, nearly worn out than over before. Dealers and manufacturers’ stocks are reduced. The increased food requirements mean increased acreage, and‘more than the normal supply of implements is necessary if the situation is met. This condition is accentuated by a shortage of labor on the farms and necessity for increasing the proportion done with machinery. Implement manufacturers arc makin-r every endeavor to increase their production, but are actually faced with a* decreased' production because of their inability to cot material. There are manufactured and sold to farmers in America vrarlv anproximately 100.CCO harvesters ' arid binders. A harvester and binder averages to cut SO acres of wheat, and the decreased nreduction would result in lessening the farmers’ harvesting ability 1.250.0C0 acres Allowing for the'’acreage production in dicated by the Government in 1915 crop analysis of 16.9 bushels per acre we wen'd have a loss of 21,125.000 bushels.”

GRIM REAPER BUSY AT FUVERAL. Somethin'; approaching a cataclysm has occurred coincident -with a funeral in St. Loris. At flio moment when the lx>dv of Mrs Kate W. Riley, of 3.810 Wuidsor place, was beincr lowered into a, grave in Calvary Cemetery, her son, Augustus M. Riley* died at the Windsor home from grief and a broken heart. An hour after the funeral Mrs J. B. Brock, a dan 'liter, collapsed at the news of the second death, and was carried away to a ho-mitnl in firing condition. Another son, Rickard .1. Ililov, fainted when he was told of his brother's death, and was placed under a. doctor's caro in a. state of coma. Mrs Riley, connected In- marriage with the old French and Bono Ist families in Jit. Loris, died from heart trouble. Her death was not expected, as she had been ill only a few day?. She was 66 years old, and was bom in St. Louis. Hereon, Augustin, was taken ill with pneumonia, when ho hurried from liLs work without an overcoat on receiving a telephone message that, his mother was ill. The attending physician, however, said that grief, caused by Ins mother's death, was the causo of his death. Relatives left the Riley homo on Windsor place- to attend the funeral without knowledge that the ill man's condition was critical. At 10.45 o’clock, the exact time fixed by the relatives when the mother's body was being lowered into the grave, the son awoke Ho asked the doctor ; “Have they taken mother aivjv'j" The doctor answered him that Ins mother s funeral was probably over, and that the cortege was most likely at the cemetery. “Doctor,” Riley said, ■•mother and I have been inseparably devoted ever since father died—22 years ago. We have never been parted more than 10 horn's at a time since then. I can't live .without mother and

well, i guess 1 am going wun nci. ne closed his ores and breathed more slowly, and within a few minutes the physician nodded to tho nurse that ho was d ad. When tho relatives returned to tins home from tho funeral they were nut by the doctor leaving tho house. •‘When Hi chard Riley was told that his brother also was dead, lie faulted in the arms of Morris Engel, a friend of the family. Mrs Brock, the sister, also collapsed when she heard the news of the second death, and her condition was so serious that an ambulance was called, and die was taken to a hospital. CHOICE LANGUAGE FOR EVANGELIST. Tho ordinary calm of the big Sunday school convention in the Municipal Auditorium in Oakland, California, was disturbed by a Chicago evangelist. Rev. diaries Reign Seovills. who in the opinion of tho convention, will cause Billy Sunday to look to hio laurels as a fighting evangelist of tho most pronounced American type. Rov. Mr Scovillo was on the programme to give a quiet, conventional address in the Auditorium on ‘ Teachers’ Opportunities,’ and these are some of the things he said to his startled hearers: Cut out weeping over lost souls and save a few. You sour-faced preachers who cry over the ungodly and teach the same oldtime prayers and wear the same hat at the same angle as you did 40 years ago, get out and put some “ pep ” in religion • and a little “ punch ” in ,‘rayer. Then you will get results. You are all way back in tlio Middle Ages. Where are the newspaper reporters? If you wem’t a bunch of mossbaeks you would have a Press table and gel on the job. Get cut and care for the dying and stop singing about it in Sunday sduool»-. .

You women who buy your complexion at 75 cents a bos do not liave to look virtuous when somebody tells you about it. Some of these old deacons had better take the flatirons out of their coat tails and work up a little speed. Thc.bip; men of Oakland who run the city six days a week and >t it go to hell on Sunday are damnable traitors. At the conclusion of his remarks “ Rev.” Mr Ecoville said that he was going to take the next toin for Sacramento (the capital of California), which he was ping to “dean up.” Tli 6 men of o akZf’ ° ther estem «ties, spend then Sabbaths principally motoring around the country or else they are lavrslilv entertaining tl.em fnends after attending the theatres on the, Sunday afternoons. This is evidently why Mr Scovillo referred to

AMERICAN SUGAR PRODUCTION As a result, of the war the United States ii-as taken first rank among the -svorld’fi beet sugar producers. The announcement in New \ork that 10,000,000d0l worth of new factories are under construction in the beet sugar- area, cfhieflv went to tho Missouri River, calls attention to the rapid growth in the commodity’s production as illustrated by figures compiled bv the National City Bank of New York. The figures show that the quantity of m tho United States grew fro m 5,000,0001b in 1890 to 165,000,0001b in 1910. and 1,642,444,000,0001b in 1916. In 1906 the production was only 620,000,0001b and formed but 10 per cent, of the consumption of the United States. *l n 1916 it was 1,642 J 000,{XX)1b, or nearly 20 per cent, of tho consumption. The present reports as (o the number of factories likely to be available in the coming season suggest a still further increase in the percentage _ which America’s domestic beet fields wiO supply of the sugar consumption of Uncle Sam's residents. BROKE MONTE CAR]A) BANK.

The original man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo is in New York llafc broke, but cheerful, despite his 70 odd yocu’s. He has been broke many times since he broke the bank at Monte Carlo 50 years ago, and lias supremo confidence in his abiaty to ‘"come back.” Edwin Stanton won 500,C00,000d0l in one sitting at Monte Carlo in 1857, and dosed the Casino temporarily. Since that time he has wandered all oyer the world, sometimes weathy, sain climes “on his uppers.” Ho has been living recently in Albany, -and boarded the Hudson River Navigation Company steamboat Berkshire there with a. deck passage ticket for Now York. A faded slouch hat. a shiny frock coat, and an oldfashioned black stock were features of his attire thaty made him conspicuous. He slept all night sitting in a chair in the saloon, and when he tried to get up as the boat was approaching the city he fell to tho floor. “ Tiie chief trouble with me."’ ho whispered, when lie was picked up and earned to a couch, “ is that I haven't eaten for throe days. ’ Tim boat’s doctor directed the serving of a, breakfast for Stanton, who then established his identity by producing a great bundle of newspaper clippings and Jotters. Passengers took up a collection for the old man. He refused to accept a cent. WOMAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE DEAD. Mrs Bclva A. B. Lockwood, the first woman admitted to practise before tho Supreme Court of America, a pioneer in the woman suffrage movement, and the only woman who ever was a candidate for President of tho United States, died in New Y’ork on May 19 after a long illness, aged 86 years. Mrs Lockwood had herself told the anecdote of how she became one of the first women in America to fight for equal rights. A widow at 24 years of age, with a child, she was a school teacher in her native town of Royuiton, Now York Stale, at a salarv of only 3dol a week. Men teachers doing the same work wore getting twice as much or more. “ I kicked to the school trustees,” she said. “ I went to the wife of the Methodist minister. The answer I got opened my eyes and raised my dander. Mie said : ‘ 1 can’t help you; you cannot help yourself, for it is the wav of the v.-orld.’ ” The then apparent hopelessness of woman’s cause so aroused her that she fought for more tlian 50 years against the exclusion of women from rights which men enjoyed. She fortified herself with a collegiate education at Genossee College in the days when higher education v.’cis rare innonpj women, and for successive periods was preceptress of seminaries at Lack part, Gninsvillc. and Oswego, in the Mate of New York. She was married again, to Rev. Ezekiel Lockwood, a Baptist minister in "Washington, but ho died nine years later, in 1877. Her first husband had been Uriah 11. M'Nall, a young farmer in Royalton. boon after her second marriage she began study at tho National University of Law, and upon graduation, after spirited controversy, was admitted to practice before the Supremo Court of the* district of Columbia. “ I never stooped fighting,” she said. ‘‘My cause was the cause"of thousands of women. I drew up a Bill admitting women to practice at "the Bar of the United States Supreme Court, and iii passed.’ 1 Sho won several notaole battles, including the case of tho Eastern Clierokccs v. the United Mates, in which she secured a settlement of 5.C(>2-000dol for the Indians. Tho mo..i striking incident of her career then came, in 1384, with her nomination bv ll>" Equal Bights party of tho Pacific 'Slope as a candidate for the Presidency of the United States. Tho nomination"was xen a wed by the same party, meeting in lowa four years later. Li 1889 she was a delegate of the Universal Peace Congress in London.

PEACE SPEECHES START RIOTING. YVhit-Sunday was a turbulent dav in some c: the Eastern cities of tho United States owing to a series of meetings advocating peace. The two chief getherm,"S were in Chicago and Cleveland! Two peace resolutions were passed at (lie k“!cag°_ mass meeting, which filled the Auditorium Theatre, and which was called hj. _ the Permanent Peace Commission of Chicago. Tho first resolution called unou the Government of tho United Stales to make a definite statement of tin terms of peace proposed by tho United States and bv its European allies: the second was that the Chicago City Council should he asked to invite tho Russian official commissjonera, now in America to present Russia s peace terms, to visit Chicago r.nd make_ public explanation of the aims of the Russian Government. Six men and thiee young women were arrested as a result of tho free-for-all fighting at two overflow from tho auditorium. Squads of police, in response to riot calls, dispersed the crowds. Protests at criticisms of the Government, the nolice said, caused tho outbreaks.

Police attempting to prevent anti-war speeches by Socialists in the public square in Cleveland were attacked by a crowd of about 300 late on YVhit-Suudav, and a pitched battle ensued. Just previous to tile trouble the recruiting station erected on the public square registered 211 recruits. The police dragged one of tho socialist orators off the stone rostrum, and the crowd attacked them. Reserves rushed to tho scene, clubbed the crowd back, and a half dozen men were arrested. The crowd followed the police and prisoners to the police station, where another battle took place and more arrests were made. Mounted police and more reserves, 100 police in all, charged the crowd and cleared the streets, after sticks and stones had been thrown at the police station, breaking several windows. The police guard was doubled at the public square later at night, as more Socialist demonstrations were feared. San Francisco, -May 28.