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ThVoilEGON STATESS1AN, Salem; Oregon, Sunday Bioraing, April 27, 1930 PAGE EIGHT i if.' I: t; I5 3 i Y1 GE IN IK 1 E Tobacco Consumption Shows Gradual But Steady Rise Despite Taxes By WADE WERNER (Associated Press Staff Writer) BERLIN (AP) Statistically speaking, Germany is going up in smoke. Her consumption of ci gars, cigarettes and cat tobacco in the past five years has shown an upward tendency characterised by the aommissloner of controlled revenues operating nnder the Dawes plan, as "general and re markable." Fourteen per cent more cut to bacco ts being smoked than in 1924, the consumption of cigars has increased by 33 per cent, and irarettea are 44 ner cent more popular than they were half a decade ago. Not only are Germans smoking more cigarettes: they are smok inr better ones at least more expensive brands. In 1924. for instance, the commissioner's an nual report shows, 28.5 per cent of all the cigarettes smoked in Germany cost three pfennigs apiece. In 1929 the three-pfennig brands accounted for less than 2 per cent of the cigarette ash spilled on German carpets, while the five-pfennig brands were get ting more than 66 per cent of the public's cigarette money. The tremendous per capita in crease in cigarette consumption since pre-war years (from 200 in 1913 to fiOO in 1929) Is at least partly accounted for by the growth of habitual smoking among women. Per capita con sumption of cigars, on the oth er band, despite a big Increase since the war, has not yet caught up with the pre-war figure of 120 per annum for each inhabi tant. Due to the rise in retail prices, which in turn grew out of increas es in the taxes on various forms of tobacco, the amount spent by German smokers has increased even more rapidly than the quan tity consumption figures wduld indicate. Within five years the total retail value of tobacco taxed in Germany jumped from 1,759, 000 marks to $2,806,000 marks (8678,440), an Increase of 60 per cent. The growing popularity of ci garettes has been maintained in the face of heavy tax-discrimination, cigarettes yield more than 70 per eent of the total tobacco tax. Sprint; and summer time it tra vel time, make application for The Statesman Travel and Traf fic Accident policy. One dollar per year to Statesman subscrib ers and members of their family. O- I o- AERIAL FLAGSHIP FLIES OVER GOTHAM -o I 1; I : - ' - 4 74f ,1' t K. HBIS eie 100 IRK Uona Smith, pretty New Yorker, Is pictured as the christened the F-82, giant passenger plane f the Western Airlines, which will fly between Lee Angeles and San Francisco. Above is th 1 giant air Uaer ba action Hudson River and took towering skyscrapers of 1 she flew over the aerial view of the OLD ODDER PISSES HBU MB MEXICO CITY (AP) The Mexican government has been partially won over to the theory that "an army travels 'on its stomach" and has taken tenta tive steps to do away with the time-honored system of allowing the soldiers on campaign to for age and feed on their own, The custom of "soldaderas," or soldiers' women, following their men to war to rustle and cook their food promises to disappear under the new scheme of things. Mexico's army, some 65,000 to 80,000 strong, has never had a commissary department. Soldiers on the march have lived off the country and have taken their women to war with them to pre pare their food. Now, however, General Joa quin Amaro who has almost com pletely reorganized Mexico's tat tered army into well-disciplined, efficient troops in his few years as Secretary of War, has ordered field kitchens, mess kits and oth er paraphernalia for two regi ments, about 1000 men. It installation of "mess" for these two regiments works out well, the entire army will gradu ally be supplied with the equip ment. Endless confusion has been caused in former campaigns by the custom of women following their men to war. Sometimes an unlucky "soldadera" would go to war with her chosen mate only to lose him in battle. Following custom she would serve another soldier until his demise. Grief stricken by her fortunes of war which robbed her of her men as rapidly as she acquired them the women would Join the battle line and without fear would lead the troops in attacks that often turn ed the tide of battle. . The expense, however, of moT lng an army doubled in numbers by women, has added consider ably to the costs of campaigns, in addition to reducing speed and efficiency. GERMANS LOSE OUT I IN I COMPETITION By GEORGE HALADJIAN (Associated Press Correspondent) LISBON (AP) France haa beaten Germany In a fight for an air concession by which Brazil will be brought fifteen days near er Portugal this falL A IB-year contract has been awarded the "Aero Postale" and the "Gnome and Rhone" motor works the companies to furnish and operate planes from Lisbon to Africa and thence across the Atlantic to Pernambuco and Rio Janeiro. The flights are to be made via the Cape Verde islands where a landing and fueling sta tions Is to be constructed, 320 miles out in the Atlantic. The Junker company, which is operating the Berlin-Canary Is lands .route, with boat connec tions to South America at Las Palmas or Santa Cruz de Tenerife, fought tooth and nail for the monopoly. It even persuaded the German government to lodge a strong protest against the ces sion to the French. Germany was the more disap pointed because the Junkers al ready held a concession from Por tugal for passenger and mal ser vice from Lisbon to Madrid. The Portuguese government argued that this concession, which was for oneyear, .had lapsed because service between the two capitals was Interrupted for the winter. The French company Is capital ised at 81,000,000. It is the first time that Portugal will be equip ped with air lines connecting it not only with distant countries and Its African colonies but with lntra-national lines extending throughout the entire country. ' V 5T The New. Batteries 'ARE NOTHING SHORT . OF. REMARKABLE Come in AND HAVE YOUR BRAKES TESTED COMPLEIE OIME-GITOP SERVICE FREE DAT THE COWDREY. DYNAMIC BRAKE TESTER Tune in on the Voice of Firestone, 9:00 P.M. Every Monday Evening - Slop . I Service ! J iariie'tJa to Your Next Elowonl ' . t Phone m By SUB ICcNAMARA (Associated Press SUff Writer) S1LVEL 8PRINGS, Md. (AP) Encompassed by a peace and serenity denied her in the long years she has been fighting for labor causes "Mother" Jones will celebrate her 100th birthday on May 1. A frail shell, her once fierce eyes faded to mild blue. "Mother" Jones' voice is still miraculously strong and Tibrant. As she lies among her pillows at the country home of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Burgess near Silrer Springs, Md., that amazing to ice leaps out, eloquent and cutting, to lash what she terms the "foes" of labor. The word "tyrants" still comes with force from a mouth tired and sunken from almost 80 years of fighting on the platform and in the field. "Mother" Jones is not sick. She is Just "wearing out" according to medical explanation. She has but one wish now to live until her 100th birthday. Celebrations are to be held by the American Federation of Labor in a number of leading cities In honor of it. Mother Jones will not be able to attend any of them though the Chicago federation has offered to provide a private car for her to come there. The determined will which has taken her through coal strikes and Jails all over the country fighting for "her boys" may en able her to reach the downstairs sitting room of the Burgess home on the day she passes the century mark. There she will receive her friends and the strong voice In the feeble body will send a last message via radio to her fellow laborers all over the country. Bands will play, noted men and women will come to see her. And "Mother" Jones has warned Mrs. Burgess that they must be sure and have "plenty to eat." The centenarian laborite re ceives mail from all over the country. In her sunlit upstairs room from where she can see the pine forests and crows circling she has it all read to her and dic tates replies. G. Smith, president of the National Council ot American shipbuilders. Before the wax few vessels fly ing the American flag were en gaged in carrying trade between the United States and these ports and In some cases there were none, Mr. Smith points out. Comparing the number of American ships operating in It 14 and now with the development in that period of foreign trade, Mr. Smith says It is obvious that the services established by American vessels have made an Important contribution to the expansion. At the outbreak of the world war only five American vessels were carrying trade between South America and the United States when the total trade amounted to $350,000,000. In 1928 the number of vessels had grown to 89 and the trade had increased nearly 300 per cent to pass the billion mark. Similarly only one line of American ships operated between Pacific ports and Asia when tie business amounted to 8380,000, 000. Now there are 110 ships and the cargo is valued at $2,00, 000,000. Before the war not one Amer ican ship was operating between this country and Africa. Foreign ships carried the $47,000,000 worth of commerce. Now 20 are in service carrying a good share ot the $200,000,600 worth of trade between the two countries. EIGHTS and SIXES o value Anywhere like the 11 BUSINESS no NEW YORK (AP) America is proving the truth of the old say ing that foreign trade follows the flag. So say Americans who have watched the development of the United States merchant marine and foreign commerce since the world war. As proof of this contention, the growth, ot trade In South Amer- ca, Africa and Asia is cited by h. The Nash owner is as proud of die greater value of his investment as he is of it beauty and performance. He is reassured by die knowledge that a higher price could not buy any better design, or finer engineer ing, or greater certainty of long life. Men who formerly paid more are now appreciating the wisdom of buying two Nash models instead of one high-priced car. 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