Show P SILVER if I 1 had loose capital to invest today I 1 v would to uld buy silver the metal Is selling no now w at the lowest price in history measured mear r by the gold standard in the money markets ot of the world last week it was under twenty nine cents an ounce the average price of silver lor for the past fifty years has been well above sixty cents an 0 ounce during and just a alter the war it touched silver is certain to come back the pre president aident ot of mexico has L sued issued a decree restoring silver to its old position as money one ot of the causes ot of the unrest ot of india has been the de ot of silver and economists think that silver will be restored to its old position there anybody who buys silver now stands a good chance ot of doubling his money within t three or fourbears four years possibly sooner and it if tie he needs cash in the meantime silver Is a commodity on which an extremely high percentage ot of its market value can always be borrowed DAVIS keep an eye on norman H davis the gentleman who has just been appointed the american member ot of the finance committee of the league ot of nations mr davis has the confidence ot of financial leaders and of statesmen on both sides ot of the atlantic to a degree approached by lew few other americans A x native in tive ot of tennessee mr davis was one ot of president wilsons Wil sons chief financial advisers in the peace negotiations then he came back to america first as assistant alsista at secretary of the treasury then as under secretary of state and for a time was acting head ot of the state department his new job la Is to guide the nations of europe in financial matters mr davis has never run for elective office but it if the democrats elect a president de n t next year or in 1936 1 I venture now th the a prediction that norman H davis will hold a high position in the cabinet or the diplomatic service BAKER another democrat worth keeping an e eye ye on Is newton D baker lots of democrats wo would u id like to see him president but I 1 do dont t t think hink he will be the bartys nominee in 1932 he will be heard beard irom from in the C campaign however and will figure large in any democratic administration lu in his lifetime mr baker bak r Is I 1 believe the most effective tive and convincing orator in american public life today MS his address last week before the institute of politics in wll wil Ilams liams town mass was the clearest exposition ot of the present political economic condition of the world that I 1 have read CHICAGO I 1 met anton cermak the mayor of chicago the other day he talk or act like a professional politician but like the business man which he be ix 1 he has au all the newspapers of chicago behind him in his effort to clean up that troubled city and that Is something which no mayor has had in many years and he Is cleaning things up mayor cermak Is enthusiastic in his bis boosting of the worlds fair which Is to be held in chicago in 1933 commemorating the anniversary of the founding of the city chicago itself is an exhibit which ought to draw millions of visitors no city in histon history ever accomplished so much or developed so attractively ay iy in 2 its first hundred years as chicago has done I 1 know of no great city where the common people have halt as good a time as they do in chicago or ae get t so much out of the public parks playgrounds and waterfront I 1 know of no other or ner great city which has as proud a c ivic civic spirit among all of its people nobody can possibly know america until he knows chicago TELEPHONE the radio telephone system across the atlantic Is working so well that the american telephone telegraph company announces that it will soon begin tel telephone ephone service across the pacific that will b be another of war without W 1 th 0 ut the transatlantic trans atlantic telephone president hoovers program of international co cc operation cooperation to relieve germanys germanas Germ anys economic distress could not have been carried out it enabled the president to talk as freely to secretaries mellon and stimson when they were in paris and london as it if they had been in washington the rhe difference between telephoning and cabling in a case like this one ot of the presidents close friends explained to me Is that even when hen a cable message Is put in secret code there is a record or of it somewhere and diplomacy makes it impossible to express beliefs and opinions freely or to tell the actual complete comp ete facts in all cases since ethere there Is always the chance that the record will some day be unearthed and made public but over the telephone everybody could say exactly what they thought and there were no long ion waits for an aar answer aler it if we had had telephone facilities in 1914 as we have now one statesman sax said I 1 1 recently discussing this episode the european E r war could have been averted |