| Show prom from our correspondent at washington D ca G the panama statistics covering the operation of the panama canal show that dining the fiscal bear 1920 cargoes passed through it amounting to long tons outdid t those hose of 1920 1020 by tho the tolls collected in ili 1921 were a gain of over 1920 thus the trend is continuously upward the principal commodities sent through the canal until recently were nitrates coal oil iron steel and grain but the use ot ol shil S has added a new feature laige shipments of apples ani and citrus fruits front alo west to the east cast coasts of the united states have been made via the canal and have satisfactory from the point ot ol view both of time tim 0 and cost oranges and lemons wore earned carried from california to now new york at a rate of 70 cents per pound 3 as compared w ith the railroad rate of 0 candy Ch chaing cing gum auni and cosmetics it cost the nation less to nil fill its sweet tooth during the past 11 fiscal bear ear than in the previous year according to preliminary annual statistics of the internal revenue bu leau beau being blent for candy in the country as compared with lit in 1920 it cost more however for chewing gum as aa the ahl for 1920 amounted to as against in the previous year facial decoration was less costly during tile the past ear the amount spent on oil paints cosmetics and perfumes amounting ato to as compared with during 1920 automobiles jewelry and art the internal revenue bureau reports that the total outlay on oil a automobiles tou the past ye year ar was 1675 1 as against 6 in ili 1920 and on jewelry 48 6 as against A in 1920 in the field of art the curtailment was heavy the amount spent for pianos and musical instruments dropping from 2735 iu in 1920 1020 to in 1921 and the national bill for sculpture paintings aud and statuary falling oft off from in 1920 to in 1921 telephones on farm preliminary f figures of tile the 1920 1020 census of cf agriculture show telephones reported on oil 2 farms or per cent ot of all farms in the united in 1920 more than one halt half of the farms lit in the following states reported telephones I 1 illinois I 1 iowa kansas nebraska indiana missouri ohio minnesota south dakota wisconsin vermont connecticut massachusetts and oregon the states reporting the largest number of farms with telephones in 1920 were as follows iowa illinois missouri tG ohio texas 4 and indiana ga gas and electric lights un oil farms farin gas or electric light was reported on oil farms or 7 per cent of all farms in the united states according to the census figures in seven states more than farms were reported as having gas or electric light as follows ohio iowa pennsylvania california new york 24 illinois and indiana hughes disarmament talk secretary hughes has called attention to the tact fact that the forthcoming international confer conference enco frequently is referred to as a disarmament conference tho the mistake is common said mr hughes among people and newspapers that ought to know better the proper and official term said he is the conference tor for the limitation of armaments an entirely different and distinct subject what the lie world ones Us here are the amounts of indebtedness ness due the government ot of the united states tho the f figures given including principal cipal or of loans and interest due and unpaid armenia austria belgium cuba caho czechoslovakia slovakia esthonia finland great britain 17 franco france greece hungary I 1 italy eta I 1 Y latvia atvin GG liberia lithuania poland 4 rumania russia 5 serbia 1958 00 tw the abilia N to pity pay in view of 0 the heavy indebtedness of 0 european governments to the united states it is interesting to know that the total national debt of the british empire is placed at slightly under and the national wealth is estimated at frances national debt is and tho the national w wealth is italis national debt is under 20 and the national wealth about discounting statistics the unemployment is not as great as statistics make it out ac chiding to mark sullivan a learned writer of washington mr sullivan says the department of labor figures say men aie out of work but a good deal or of what the statisticians seo see as unemployment is really in the shape of farmers sons gons who wont went into the factories during tho the war and are now being absorbed again by the farms without much discomfort for this and other reasons careful persons who temper statistics with personal observation and judgment say that the actual unemployment is nearer but whatever the figures continues mr sullivan the expected phenomenon of 0 postwar post war unemployment Is upon us and must be looked in tho the face it ignored it might rea readily dily have unpleasant social and political results atter after tho the civil war the workless discharged soldier was absorbed by tho the free land of 0 the west so far as the tha general public lic was vas concerned lie ho disappeared all and d was no problem now we no longer have the tree free land and for it we must substitute economic intelligence I 1 li gence kl askan el As a consequence of tile the establishment of the reindeer lein deer industry in ili alaska a few nears ears ago the number of reindeer now scattered through the territory is about and their value bet between Neen three and four million dollars |
