Show r Public Returning t to Market I By Ira C. C Tichenor HAT T the general investing public the public the smaller traders but 1 I whose combined business exerts a tremendous influence upon S I tile investment business generally generally is is reentering the market is clearly indicated by the increasing number of transactions in odd lots II This kind of oC buying Invariably Is t the o first Indication of or the returning Interest int Interest rest of tho general public in lii tho the inv investment market It It is In f fact ct to the tho market what tho the first robin Is to spring spring spring-a a harbinger as It were of or brighter days as a's in the entire business world orld k O. to reports from Wall Vall street odd lot buying for investment z has lias las assumed really realy important proportions It I is said to have gathered im- im petua as the market t was declining and although will wi not be visible m n th th the trend of prices for some somo time it is this kind of ot buying which Increases increases In- In creases rases tho the scarcity of stocks when shorts horts turn buyers and values once more assert themselves I According to these reports there is sc ely a house in Wall Wal street which does not report large quantities es of orders for odd lot investment One smal email brokerage hou a showed showed dozens of ot sheets of ot buying orders In every 1 Si cl c class s ss of ot stocks lots from five to seventy five seventy shares shares share with wih a total value of ot moro thap than and all al done during three recent bu business iness days It It is declared that if every ever evidence of ot this is true transfer offices es never S were busier and that the tho odd lot buying is coming from every ever section of the theS country ou n tr In n some somo of th the big corporations corporations' files fes this odd lot bu buying ing is said to be bo easily seen One Ono Instance given is that of the American Telegraph und und and Telephone company which has increased its is stockholders' stockholders list by nearly OOOO In the last Jat eleven cleven months and the greater portion porton of ot the tho Increases within the tho past pat few weeks Tho The new shar shareholders holders are in nc nearly ri every ever instance in- in stance holders of small smal amounts of stock an and every s tate ate In the tho Union has Q 6 larger list of or shareholders than in 1919 Reports of other leading corporations corpora corpora- tIona ions indicate a similar condition v I 5 What is truo true of the big biS Eastern Easter trading center also Is true to lo some extent ex extent ex- ex tent of ot tho the local market Brokers generally report a material Increase in inthe the tle number of ot Inquiries concerning investment t and speculative Issues and andal fall al agree that tat tho the outlook Is bright for a a goodly goodly increase in business with wIh th the tho opening opening of f the tho new year rear r |