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About The Hermiston herald. (Hermiston, Or.) 19??-1984 | View Entire Issue (June 3, 1921)
Egypt Weathers Cotton Crisis Despite Many Big Failures, Busi ness Men Hope the Worst Is Past. GAINS FOR AMERICAN TRADE Low-Priced Automobiles Have Effected a Conquest—So Has American Chewing Gum—Patent Food Products Also Popular. thing to do. They rarely invest their money In cotton before the selling sea son opens, when the goods come from the field. As the drop In cotton prices began almost at the beginning of this sea son, the big brokers were thus not caught with a greut umount of stock on hand. The merchandise dealers, on the eontrury, continued their buy ing right up to November and are even now being loaded up with stock, If paid for before shipment, or with obligations If shipped uguinst docu ments. This Is spelling ruin for some of the largest houses. Many serious failures have occurred, and In Cairo alone three department stores have gone Into bankruptcy. It Is the gen eral opinion thnt the worst period has passed. Those who have gone through the crisis, either honorably or dishon orably, will. It Is believed, live to see another period of fuir business Weather. It Is common talk here that in busi ness morality Egypt does not compare very fuvorably with any other big colonial market. Apologists for the country point to the large number of races engaged In commerce. Syrians and Armenians, Jews from Spain, Rus sia, Germany, Greece, Smyrna and Palestine; Arabs, Greeks, British, Americans, French and Italians all go to make up the commercial life of the place. It Is a five-language coun try In business. First and most Im portant, of course, Is Arabic; then come French, Italian, Greek and Eng lish. Growth of American Trade. American trade with Egypt has made wonderful progress, considering the fact that before the war tills mar ket rarely knew Amerlcnn goods. The bulk of the shipments arriving from home, however. In 1920 consisted of coal from Newport News and flour from the North. American automo biles have captured the market, but Cairo.—Business men In Egypt, es pecially foreigners, pay very little at tention to the political situutlon. They admit, of course, that the unsettled conditions of a year ago, as well as the general lack cf knowledge of what the future holds for Egypt, Is a deter rent to free commercial Intercourse. The chief cause for business worry at this writing Is the decline In cot ton prices plus the general Interna tional slump In trade. The two events coming at the same time work more than ordlnury hardship to the business life of Egypt. One business man remarked thnt people In Egypt realized that the trade of the world was In u bod state; that prices were falling the whole world over, and thnt there was a gen eral stagnation In buying. But, he continued, “other countries have usually more than one Industry upon which to exist. Here In Egypt we must live or die nt the whim of King Cotton. This whim Is not left In our power to coutrol. We grow the cot ton, and Lancashire and Manchester, as well as your big tire fabric centers at home, manipulate the buying price. Of course, every one in Egypt with a grain of common sense, realizes that the law of supply and demand rules; but, depending ns It does upon one Industry, the business life of the community Is more or less left opeji to unusual perils when that one In dustry falls.” Bulk of Business Life. This business mnn was engnged In the wholesale supply of sundries and novelties. His point of view may be accepted ns thnt of such traders In general—those who buy In Europe, America or Japan and Import the goods to Egypt for local consumption. This work constitutes the bulk of the Lloyd's Register Reports Total business life of the community. It is of 7,086,766 Ship Tons not tlie greatest In point of wealth, how'ever, when one figures the Im in Yards of World. mense amounts Involved In the col lecting, ginning and exportation of raw cotton. Egypt's normal cotton crop Is handled by about n dozen large British and Levantine firms, with headqi/irters In Alexandria. These latter have been the biggest Total Building Here, 1,102,000 Tons, sufferers, but only from luck of some- is Only About 40 Per Cent of Record Year Ago— Japan Shows Small Gain. Meteor Shower to Mark Earth’s Race With Comet New Type Big Gun for the American Army Berkeley, Cal.—For a mouth this summer the earth will en gage in a race with the periodic comet Pone-WInnecke, and be cause It will have no chance to win It will endeavor, through astral Influences, to “trip up” Its gaseous rival, according to a re port made public by the observa tory of the University of Califor nia. On June 27 the comet will flip Its tall so hard against Its ter restrial rival that the Impact will send out sparks. These will go down Into the records as a meteoric shower. At tlie greatest brilliancy ob servable from the earth the comet will be of the eighth or ninth magnitude. Nothing great er than the sixth magnitude can be observed by the naked eye, so the world at large will see nothing of the visitor except at the tall-flipping episode on June 27. -f This Is the new 16-Inch gun, the first of Its type, now b elng built at the Watertown, Mass., arsenal for the United no high-priced American cars are In evidence. It Is explained that the States army. This gun will shoot at an elevation of 65 degrees and at all angles. The rifle ls'68 feet, 9 luches long cheaper to middle-priced American car and weighs 189 tons. It Is of the non-disappearing type. Is a more attractive purchase to the Egyptian and Levantine than similar ly priced cars made in England or on American Flyers Given the continent. Prompt deliveries, of course, were largely responsible for 40-Acre Polish Farms the American conquest of this field. When vessels from New York or Bos Warsaw. — Nine American ton were arriving weekly with con members of the Koscluszko air signments of automobiles, only one or squudrbn, all soldiers of fortune, two cars a month were coming In from recently were awarded 40 acres Europe. of land each near the Polish- American sundries and patent food Number of Immigrants Will Be house to be careful of their pocket Russian frontier, as outlined by books and passports, as the Neapolitan products have made marked progress. the Riga peace treaty. Limited by the Capacity purse snatchers are famous In police On every hnnd one sees America’s AH officers and soldiers of the circles all over Europe for the dex favorite breakfast dishes advertised of Liners. Polish forces are being provided terity of their fingers. The police and displayed. American chewing with tracts along Poland’s east were notified of the loss of the pass gum lias become the craze of the na ern boundary, under a system ports belonging to the two Americans, tives. worked out by the government, but they were not recovered. provided they take up cultiva All Intending Immigrants seeking tion of the land upon leaving the There are about 40,000 square American risks have to produce their military service. By this plan miles of virgin forest and about 20,- permits to leave the country, military Thieves at Naples Get High Prices Poland hopes to have trained 000 square miles of second-growth papers (If they are males), vaccina for American Passports— Keen men settled permanently where timber In the Philippines. tion certificate and the dossier from Competition for Foreign Ships they would be handy for service the chief of police of their district to — Maintain Clots Inspection. In case the country is ever at show whether any criminal charges tacked again from the east. have ever been preferred against Naples.—The number of Immigrants them. The Amerlcnn authorities hnve 0--0” 0“ 0 " 0 - o -e --« to the United States this year will not Interfered with the Inspection at only be limited by the capacity of the the dock before embarkation, ns they steamships, according to United States left that to the officials of the steam spaghetti, yellow beans and onions, Consul Homer W. Boylngton, who has ship companies. The Navigation Gen- with a slice of meat on Sundays. Suburbs of Nuples like Porticl and been here for 15 years and has a good erale, the White Star and other lines knowledge of the situation. The Ital sailing from Italian ports have organ Resina—which Is built over ruins of Herculaneum, 50 feet below under ian companies lost a good many Interfered with the fitting out of a steamships during the war and have ized their own sanitary plants where lava and ashes—swarm with children the Immigrants are put through a number of large liners and other ves not yet been able to replace them, thorough examination before they are who, for number, can only be com sels,” the report continues. “Taking while the foreign vessels calling at permitted to go on board the ships. pared to those of Delhi, Agra and oth this total of 847,OX) tons Into consid Naples and Genoa for Immigrants The Inspection Is done by the Italian er cities In the East Indies. The aver eration, therefore, the total of new have dwindled since the war to an al doctors from the steamships and the age family consists of ten to twelve ships on which work Is proceeding In children, and persons who have fewer most negligible number. doctor of the port. British shipyards Is 2,951,593 tons, or than eight little ones are regarded The consul said thnt the Italian gov First, a Bath. about 20 per cent less than the total ernment had consented to permit sur The first thing tlie immigrant has with suspicion as being Jacking In pa at the beginning of the year. geons In the United States public to do Is to take a bath and if neces triotism. The sanitary conditions are “Additional Indications of the condi health service to be present at the In sary to have a shave and a haircut. so bad In the side streets of these an tions in the British shipbuilding are spection of the Immigrants before em Whiskers and beards are barred un cient towns thnt the masses are germ furnished by the returns of launch barkation. so that they will be able der this ruling and only a mustache Is proof and epidemics pass them by as ings and new work begun during the hopeless, unless the disease becomes to sign the bills of health and stop allowed. first quarter of this year. New keels the detention of the steamships on While they are undergoing the exceptionally uggresslve and tries for represented only 391,OX) gross tons, In their arrival at the quarantine station cleansing process the clothing of the a record. comparison with 503,OX) for the Inst In New York. There have only been The workingman earned 3 lire a New York.—More than 7,000,000 Sweet Tooth? Hear What immigrants Is Inspected and thorough quarter of 1920, and 701,000 for the two cases of typhus In this port nnd day before the war and was able to gross tons of merchant vessels are re ly disinfected. They are vaccinated Yanks Ate in France ported ns being In the shipyards of the quarter ended April 1, 1920. Launch they were Greeks from Piraeus. In ngaln, to make sure that the opera support his family comfortably upon world, says a statement by Lloyd's ings during the quarter Just ended consequence of this the government tion hns been properly done, and are that sum. Today he earns from 25 to Coblenz. — American soldiers, Register. Compared with the total on represented 431,000 tons, as against has put a tight ring around Italy and then permitted to embark for the 30 lire a day, but cannot keep his fam whose predilection for sweets January 1, the 7,086,706 tons, to be 570,000 tons for the last three months no alien immigrants are permitted to United States. It Is not the fault of ily as well as he could before, because has often caused Frenchmen to exnct, represents u decline of less than of 1920. Even with the delays due to pass the frontier. The steamships the .tallan officials or the steamship rent has Increased 600 per cent, and gasp with amazement, are still strikes and other causes, therefore, leaving Italian ports for the United 100,000 tons, nearly 1*4 per cent. companies If the Immigrants are not food and clothing from 500 to 800 per world champions In tills respect, work Is being completed more rapidly States now only carry Italians, and cent. Building Is going on all over The nctual decline In shipbuilding clean when they leave Naples. It Is shown by figures compiled than new work Is coming on.” Naples, especially by the banks, which, activity lias been much sharper In the Poles, Czechs, Croats, Greeks, Ukran- If the surplus population of Italy nt the Cafeteria, the largest res* during the war, made huge fortunes Decline In America. past three months than appears on the lans, Roumanians nnd other nationali does not go to the United States It tnurnnt In Coblenz, under the In exchange nnd are now erecting surface, says the statement. The total ties will have to sail from some oth will ge to Brazil or Argentina or Returns from American shipyards management of tlie Y. M. C. A. reported for Great Brltnln, 3,798,503 show that the decline which has been er ports like Danzig, Bremen or Ham some other country In South America, handsome offices. The municipality Is During the last year American gross tons, Is a gain of 89,000 tons In effect more than a year continues, burg. because the people must emigrate, as also having the entire city repaved. doughboys ate at that restaurant The staff at the consulate consists over the January 1 record, but there there are too many to earn a living In The work employs hundreds of men Lloyd's says. The total construction alone 233,138 puddings, 475,843 of 25 clerks, stenographers nnd Inter has been marked reduction In the vol their own country. There are so many who sit down and smoke their pipes reported under way on April 1 is tarts and cakes, 310,874 cookies ume of tonnage on which work is 1,102,000 tons, only sllghty more than preters, etc., who are chiefly employed young men walking about Naples now comfortably while they chip the cor and doughnuts, 63,151 cream actually proceeding, Lloyd’s Register 40 per cent of the American total a In handling the hundreds of Immi that It Is difficult to believe that Italy ners off the big flat stones, and look puffs and eclairs. 624.906 dishes finds. year ago. The aggregate for all other grants who throng the bureau on the has Just emerged from a long war. ns If they would be on the Job for of lee cream, 366,351 chocolate countries except the United States, Via Santa Lucia all day long. Wom The reason for this, according to the years. Work Suspended. sundaes, 61,378 pies, 223,787 ap The air Is full of dust and the small Great Brltnln and Germany (for the en with babies In their arms have government officials. Is that- the birth ples and other fruit, 282,741 "Included in the total In the hnnds precedence over all other applicants rate increases by leaps and bounds one-horse cabs bump the riders about last-named no official returns are avail glasses of lemonade and 43,792 of British shipyards are 497,000 gross by orders of the consul. Under nor each year and the children grow ipore from side to side ns they struggle oranges. tons of vessels on which work has able) shows a gain of about 25,(XX) tons mal conditions the immigrants get rapidly Into manhood than they do In through the streets. The horses are over the January total, Lloyd's esti Eggs were also "played across been suspended, and an additional 350,- away within three months of the date colder climes. With the new countries still upon war rations. mates. the board," the total number con 000 tons, the completion of which has “The apparent world decrease In of their vises on the passports, but recently taken by Italy after the war sumed being 211,195, been postponed, chiefly owing to the on account of the holding up of the the population Is reckoned nt 40,000,- Jail for Life Saving. strike of the sblpjolners, which has shipbuilding activity during the last liners In New York through the typhus Omaha, Neb.—Saving a man from 000. quarter, therefore, has been not fur Swarm With Children. death In a water-filled hole beneath a from a million tons, a decline of about senre, they ore now fully six months behind, according to the officials. The stranger walking through a city burning Shanty at the Dietz club here 12% per cent," the statement says. Passports Closely Scrutinized. like Naples can enslly realize the the other day may result In a prison “In some directions, however, gains The greatest care Is exercised at problem the government has to do term for C. M. Wallace, who was ar are shown In the volume of construc tion under way. These are most the consulate to see that no more get with. The side streets, which have rested by the police, charged with au marked In the case of France, which by with false passports or counter frightful flights of steep steps lending tomobile theft after they had read of now stands next to the United King feit vises. The Immigration authori to six-story houses built of stone more his heroic deed in the papers. Wal dom and the United States as a ship ties are also notified at New York to than a century ago, are literally lace escaped the police recently and building nation, having distanced Hol look out for the private marks on the swarming with children, who sprawl had been in hiding. When summoned land during the last quarter. A year passports, which will be changed from In the paved roadw'ay and on the side by the screams of a woman culling ago France, with only 240,000 tons un time to time In case they get known walks. They look dirty and happy. for help froih a manhole he ran to the der way, was led by Japan, Italy and to the Italian crooks who are making It must be the sunny climate, ns the rescue. Two hours later he was in Holland, and was constructing only a fat living by fabricating passports food Is chiefly an inferior grade of Jail. 9,(XX) tons more than the British do and vises for Immigrants who may minions. Today, with 427,000 tons have some charges against their char building, she has nearly two and a half acter which would prevent their ob times the total for the British domin taining a vise on their passports at ions, and leads Japan and Italy by the American consulate. Two Americans who arrived from I 133,000 tons and 75,000 tons, respect New York by the Canopic had their ively. “Japan shows a small gain In the passports stolen nnd hnd to proceed total under construction, as ccmpnred to Rome to obtain emergency pnpers with the previous quarter, and Italy, nt the United States legation after Holland and the British dominions getting Identification certificates at the consulate here. These stolen pass slight decreases." ports, the officials say, are sent to An cona or to Cosenza, which Is near Andes Crossed by Autoiats. Naples, and the seals and vises are Santiago. Chi'.!.—Severn! Argentine taken off and used for other passports. nutomohlllsts have arrived here from A well-executed false passport Is Bahia Blanca, after having crossed worth 1,400 lire, about $56 to $60 j the Andes by the southern pass, the United States currency, according to distance covered by the party being the rate of exchange, which fluctuates The big Japanese freighter Erie Maru was raided by federal prohibition about 1,100 miles. The Journey was dally. At the consulate It was said enforcement agents at Jacksonville, Fla., and libel papers have been served taken for the purpose of encouraging that these two stolen passports would on It. It la charged thnt the vessel brought 26 cases of Intoxtcatlng liquor motor communication between the At net the pickpockets who took them The United States Shipping Board’s new $8,000,000 passenger carrier from Cardiff. Wales, which were not reported In the manifest. The photograph lantic and Pacific coasts of South about 1,000 lire. Passengers are Wenatchee leaving Brooklyn on her maiden trip. She has been allocated t<J shows the Erie Maru at dock In Jacksonville. America. warned on landing In the custom the Pacific Steamship ccmpany and will run between Seattle and the Orient. Italians Flock Here in Droves 1 STRICT CONTROL IN ITALY Shows Decline in Shipbuilding « r Japanese Freighter Is Libeled Shipping Board’s New Wenatchee -t f
