Show BUSINESS BETTER I SLUMP i PERIOD ENDS JOBS OFfERED OffERED t I J I Farming Mo More Hopeful Than Any Time Since Year 1920 RAILROADS BUS BUSY I Trade Perks Up as Agri- Agri Agricultural Agri Agricultural cultural Sections Com Corn ComI Commence Commence I mence Buying By 11 RDE DE COLF Special Correspondent of ot Th Thu I COLFI I Cop right 1924 by the tho Consoli Consoli- Consolidated dated Press Pres Association Association WASHINGTON June Juno Bul 21 21 Bust Bustness Busi Business J nes ness Is Ia better rive nyc months ot or o un unbroken broken price declines ended with within in the tl-e past fortnight Values alues are aro I creeping upward again Four months ot or o continuous reduction In hov have ended with Ith a ot o the libor market a astop astop stop to the talk about further wage age dec deceases ease and the first stirrings or of what may develop by fall tall Into a general re revival reIal h al of o Industrial activity It Il IlSo ity So are Interpreted the ad advices Ices re- re re received In Washington by the gov gov- gov- gov government government agencies which mirror t tom month to month the ebb and flow or of o American enterprise Re- Re Reports Reports ports He-ports ports however have not been un form I form Some Somo Industries report a picking up or of o business 11 th their lr lines Jines Others see seo but t little change Still others are on the Iho trend but even here In the th majority of or case cases the rate of or decline has appeared to lessen l r G Is more hopeful this J ear thin It has boon been at any time lime ince 1920 according to I recel ed from many sources by the department of or comme commence ce and the federal employment service The 1 big rise In wheat prices has I western farmers almost elec elec- elec electrically A bushel bushe ot of wheat heat heat now n ow owls Is ls selling for tor around 1 20 a full 20 per cent more than It fetched last winter Farmers aio alO talking or of 1 a 35 wheat by Christmas The hope that It 11 will ill III go even higher The bull market marlet of ot corn has hs carried It into new high igli price lev- lev level lev levels el els for tor the ear ea Cotton Colton stilt still fluctuating violently all awaits altS the governments government a report Jul July 1 Ith fO anticipations Prices then may swing violently upward They may decline almost as too but here expect c no such contingency a as that Th ThI Tt I G LOOKS tp LP For the first time In tour four the farmer Is smiling and begin begin- beginning beginning ning to sing Hl HI HIa state of or mind I II found the end of or the long Ian lana t that to have o no turning iI The change of or heart has rought rough f fa a effect reports Indicate upon business generally Tho The farm farm- farmer j er Is begin begin- beginning beginning ning to tap hi his credit more roo- roo rooI e ex I and trade In the tural tural lural sections actions Is looking up This I l shown by the tho business of or the m order houses houes whose volume or of sale sales Is to the point here It ma mav ma surpass the record hung up ui In 1923 ment officials state that the demand tor for farm labor just rio no swelling s to Its Ita iL highest point tor mr the year Is greater at the present time timo than for tor vears ear ears past r Throughout the and the noi thO th central states slates the de- de demand de demand mand cannot be met and a short short- shortage shortage age noll na n w which I Is expected 10 o become acute In spots its liS har- har har harvesting vesting resting proceeds Numerous no new temporary offices ha have hae e been boen open open- opened opened ed 4 to rush farm farm hands to the fIelds y uy this branch of or the federal gob gob- gov government N GOOD UL ESS The railroads are hauling moro more not not th tho record hey pulled In 1923 but more mOro than they hey have hate hauled In any other othor rune Juno with that solitary exception A million car week eel eek may come at atan atIn In an time tinte now This movement he leading executives believe augurs a g 1 sweep of or In n the tall fall S three months 8 LS they see gee It the loads oad will Ill ha have haveLa havas a La much freight to 10 cairy as the can an haul the In Intensive preparatory work they are ure now bussing bus Ing them them- themselves selves elves Coal I Is Iq being sold 1 In Increasing Quantities a aa as tho the nation nations s mill mills and work ork oft orr ot their huge hugo sue sue- sur surplus plu plus ius and I there here is no longeL longe talk talt or f low 10 cling 01 Ing the miners miner wage enies Advances ances have o their heir helpful tonic In tho coal mar mar- mar It ts President Lewis or of o the Mine has announced that thai there thero will vill bo ho no wage waKO reductions A month ago he was WI reported to hae oen een considering some sone is decreasing In hi the bi- bi bi bl bituminous fields AUTO Automobile gen gen- gen generally rally reel feet that they have the ho low lov point of or production tor for the ear ear-a a feeling that has been cx- cx ex expressed pressed In recent price ad anet's on n some somo models In that line ne Is at al about 20 O per cent ent below belo the level le of or Juno 19 1923 3 I Continued on Oil Pogo Page Seven SeTen i I PRICE SLUMP SLUMP SEEMS ENDED Continued J Irom Page One but bul unexpected Increases of sal sales alesIn In some districts In the farming sections hoe have put fresh Cresh heart hoat Into manufacturers ers era generally Lumber I still till continue continues In tOe dumps dump but nowhere In Ia the lh Stat States has there been any cleir Clu sIgn as yet of a sero re decline In building operations operation Plasterers Plasterer In inthis Inthis this city demand 14 Ii to for foi a do da dav s a sI sI I I work ork Elsewhere the wage wai-a scale are aro correspondingly high and afew tow a few fow artisans ans are reported on the Idle list Building contracts contract con con- con continue to but tho the volume volum or of bUilding continues almost at re ret ret- rec record ord figures ThIs tendency I Is at- at attributed at t attributed her here to several ev rl factors factor among them the clear Intention ot of 0 owner ners to figure figuro more closely Uh contractor before making coin coin- com commitments Howe However er a further easing cuing off In building Is 19 expected as the tho season wanes wants FIC O ON The United States Steel corpora corpora- tion lion corporation I Is reported to bo be booking or- or ordera or order dora dera der In Juno at a tate Jato of about 2000 ton tons a 0 day higher than Ma Independents Independent are aro ar reporting some somo somewhat what tome what better business Mill Nill production tion lion Is reported to be about 50 60 per por percent percent cent of oC capacity Last Lait oar ear It was as about bout 86 if To fo measure the th new n sentiment II wl wI h came cam but yester- yester yesterday yesterday day day to business ono one must turn to the stock exchange The e the tb bull movement of 19 ila H Is stIll till swInging value maluca luea upward up It ItIs itIs ItIs Is the he th tint first bull buil movement of the lear ear and It If the tho change runs run true tru to Wall Vall street form It presages a are re h hat at generally by Some lome Ch fise 0 or Six Ix lx month months Retail trade In the cities the government Is Informed continues to decline slowly lowly Iy In almost all 1111 eec eec- ec lions of the th Part of o this movement la Ii I attributed attributed to 10 a II gen gen- generally gen generally en late lats spring part to curtail curtail- curtailed curtailed ed d employ ment and nd put pert to the tho uncertainty which has hai prevailed for the tho th past fly flo h e months month The Tho value of advertising has boon been strIkingly shown ho however r by off off- saon season tales sales In great gr at quantities of silks and other oth r goods The Th pub pub- public lie lic has baa come corn promptly Into the market to buy real values FROM IROM CO The c leC stimulant has been none of ot these things so- so according ac according cording to 10 private privat advices here Business I is I picking up Ill I'll pil- pil pil manly because congress congre has ha ad- ad adjourned ad adjourned leadIng trade trad arc Informed With congress In Ine session e son the business bulnes world orld remain remain- remained remained ed d In a n state of doubt and uncertaInty uncertainty uncertainty It continually feared new Impediment and handicaps handicap to In- In Industry in industry Now that congress haa haton gone home horn the th business world ap- ap ap apparently I feel feels that congress cant can t th harm bum rm It for tor or five fhe month months more an- an howand ani Ii IiI I hO how and Is going ahead with its It I |