Show I iT Se DAY y IN D ii iiI I It I is easier to t borrow things these thes days days than it is to them therm away Poor Por Uncle Sam Sara is worn wor to a n fr frazzle by attempts attempt at philanthropy which get him hit exactly nowhere The Te old ok genteman gentleman must wonder what wll happen happen to 1 r Santa Claus on his nex next visit Will wm the populace shoot Saint Sain Nick or Just sic the tho dog on him I Iwas It I Ia was a Senator r Pittman maybe maYb who sold Uncle Sam the giving Riving idea idea The Tile senator said to t China Wont YOU yoi OU have lave a few million ounces of or silver sHyer from our treasury reserve Thank hank you kindly says China but we have so much silver now we cant can't buy anything with wih it it That Isone is isone I one of ot the things that Is i ailing us Use more of it yourselves and ad make maket It t valuable What you ou need the farm fa board breaks break in 11 is i a fleet fleet- fet load lod of good go I American wheat in place of rice Kindly Kindl let us Our rice is 1 pretty good John C C. C goo interrupts but do you YOl happen to have modern modem rifles rUes and a few milIon milon mil mil- mi- mi lion Ion lon rounds of cartridges you rou would like Ike to give nw away a o c o Former Senator Cannon tries rIes to give the Germ German n government a a liberal lib lib- Ib- Ib ral eral h helping of Uncle Sams Sam's silver As he comes conies away he meets meet the representative rep- rep e of the tile farm board going oln In n to t offer oter the bushels of wheat and some soma thousands o of f bales ble of cotton The wheat offer otter arouses the ire Jre of the German Geran farm farm- ers rs who hop to t sell sel their own crops In n the home market maket And when the wool wol rayon and flax fax interests are heard icard Irom the cotton coton offer ofer is 11 Ukel likely to o be rJ rejected summarily a Before Belore the Cl Chinese nese and the Germans Germas with wih Jack lack of or appreciation we ought to consider the tobacco situatIon sit sit- in i our own U. U S. S A. A President George W. W Hill Hu of ot the American Tobacco Tobacco To To- bacco company writes to his buyers buyer that a decided overproduction of to tobacco tobacco to- to bacco bac has ha caused the price t to sag to the low level for tor the year Theris There Ther is a surplus he says that that the ciga ret Industry Is utterly unable to t ab ab- ab One can cn fancy the enthusiasm m with which the tile American tobacco farmer would welcome elcome the gift git of a n million pounds of tobacco front from Turkey a 00 The axiom aiom It I I is i more blessed to to give than to receive is i no longer a spiritual paradox but but a statement of fact ot that that everybody can understand a f a a aThe The widespread belief due probably probably proba proba- bly to stock and bond salesmen salesmen that tha when a natural gas pipe line is laid and connected d up with wih an adequate underground flow fow all al Is over but the dividends Is attacked by the b business sll magazine Fortune in Its Is August Augu t Is issue uc The farther from home homo the tile natural gas gns travels the publication says the more Its It cost cot Increases and anc andIs its Is ts market maket narrows Tho Investment In 11 pipe line runs about about per pei pel I mile mUe or for 50 miles mUes The annual charges on such an nn Investment Investment investment invest Invest- ment including interest depreciation tion ton maintenance and amort amortization ton will wl total between and 5 making a substantial profit profil unlikely unless the greater part pat of the he lines line's capacity of cubic feet per nay flay is sold The success of ofa a pipe line Une Fortunes Fortune's contributor avers ers depends not on what it can cnn deliver delver but on what hat it can sell sel |