Sound Principles for Allied Debts and the Dawes Plan
Charles Mitchell of National City Bank argues the Dawes plan offers applicable principles for settling Allied debts to the United States. He warns against forcing full repayment beyond a debtor nation's generation and urges balanced taxation, limited payments, and avoidance of harming international trade.
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Dawes
United States
Charles
Mitchell
National City Bank of New York
American Bankers Association Journal
France
Belgium
Italy
General Dawes
Store Credit Costs 758 Per Cent Across North Carolina Farms
A survey of 800 farms by the North Carolina Experiment Station shows over 40 percent of total farmer credit data goes to short term loans from stores or landlords, with store credit charging more than 26 percent interest while banks hover around six percent. Merchants favor cash payments. remedy lies in increased production and better banker farmer relations to educate on bank credit.
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North Carolina
The Power Behind The Savings Dollar
A Savings Bank Division compilation shows six year deposits rising from 11.6 billion to 21.0 billion, with about 38.2 million depositors. Savings are viewed as capital for industrial growth, enhancing wealth and living standards, signaling sound personal financial habits and a strong business outlook.
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Savings Bank Division
American Bankers Association
Forcing Lower Taxes Says Treasury Official
Gerard B. Winston of the Treasury argues taxes should be lightened. He cites per capita federal taxes rising from 32 in 1918 to 54 in 1920 and then declining to about 27 for the next year. He warns death taxes may erode revenues if overbearing, noting that excessive taxation can deter wealth creation and reduce after death transfers.
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Gerard B. Winston
Treasury
American Bankers Association Journal
Gotham Lawyer Held for Threat to Houghton
Nathan B. Chadsey a New York lawyer and ex secretary to Governor Sulzer was arrested for disorderly conduct in the office of Ambassador Alanson B Houghton after demanding to see him He threatened to go to newspapers and “knock them cold” if denied. Houghton did not know Chadsey and dismissed the incident.
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New York
Nathan B. Chadsey
Sulzer
Alanson B Houghton
United States
Germany
Court of St. James
Chadsey
Houghton
Mr. Proughton
Adversity Boosts a Louisiana Farmer’s Profits
Dean Dodson recounts how a Louisiana farmer nearly broke even growing cotton until a family hospital bill of 2200 spurred bold cost cuts and new income ideas. He milked cows for cream, sold surplus garden produce, fed unsold crops to livestock, expanded poultry, mined idle land for grain and hay, and trimmed fuel use. By year end the debt was paid and farming proved sound.
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Dean Dodson
Louisiana
Supreme Court Invalidates Kansas Industrial Relations Court
The U S Supreme Court voids the Kansas Court of Industrial Relations in two Wolff Packing Co cases, ruling the act unconstitutional under the fourteenth amendment and denouncing compulsory arbitration. The Kansas decision is reversed, impacting wage regulation and state agency powers in labor disputes. The decision also addresses tax priorities in bankruptcy and California inheritance tax rules.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Kansas Court of Industrial Relations
Charles Wolff Packing Company
Kansas Tribunal
Inso
van Deventer
Industrial Relations Court
Supreme Court of Kansas
Kansas Supreme Court
van Devanter
State of
Kansas
West Coast Rubber Corporation
San Francisco
California
Agriculture’s Natural Laws Bring Renewed Hope
A banker speaker declares prosperity cannot be legislated, noting agriculture behaves like any business under immutable natural laws. P B Doty of the Agricultural Commission of the American Bankers Association emphasizes enduring, self-operating factors shaping farming.
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P. B. Doty
Agricultural Commission
American Bankers Association
Slayer of 26 Persons Is Severely Harmed in Germany
Hanover Germany February report states Fritz Haarmann a Hanover butcher who killed 26 men and boys was severely harmed. He had been sentenced last December for the murders and allegedly admitted to luring victims to his lodgings before disposing of the remains in the river.
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Germany
Hanover
Fritz Waarmann
Waarmann
Haarmann
Has Another Meaning Shifts in Roadster Romance Gossip
A playful-era phrase about a resourceful young girl shifts in meaning as gossip links her to handling suitors for a handsome roadster. The local notice frames the old expression as social rumor rather than sympathy, reflecting changing attitudes toward independence and romance.
Mild insult sparks schoolyard crisis in Brooklyn classroom
In a Brooklyn school the youngest teacher faces a crisis when six year old Bobby calls five year old Mary a dumbbell. The class divides and discipline breaks down until Bobby is sent to the principal and returns apologetic, admitting he used the word slob instead.
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Brooklyn
Bobby
Mary
Vinegar Makers Live Long
The London Tit-Bits notes striking longevity among vinegar makers and related workers. It cites workers with 60 to 70 years in service, department heads averaging seventy, and multiple generations at a single distillery. A birthday dinner reportedly totals 835 combined years for four guests, the oldest around ninety and the youngest about seventy.
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London
Rarity of truly bad people noted in Francis Howe quote
In the Atchison Globe collection, E. W. Howe remarks that despite warnings of bad men and women he has met few truly bad people. He states he is seventy, has traveled far, and has little distance left to travel, declaring a completely bad person a rare rarity.
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E. W. Howe
Atchison Globe
Col- Mer’s
Weather and health linked by new climatology study
Doctors note that sunshine rain cold and heat influence the human body. The relationship between weather and health is becoming a new science called climatology.
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