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AMERICA MUST
INVESTABROAD
In Order to Help Europe
Pay Up, Says Financial
Expert.
San Francisco, Cal., June 15. Amer
icans must make permanent invest
ments abroad to help foreign nations
pay their debts to the United States,
Henry M. Robinson, Los Angeles bank
er and recognized as one of the fore
most authorities in international finan
ces, declared in an address here today
at the convention of the National Asso
ciation of Credit Men.
"If we Invest our money abroad ana,
'with the investments, aid in building
up the productivity of the debtor na
tions, there will be no need for foreign
debt cancellations." Mr. Robinson said.
Investments should be made in actual
physical property or in the securities
of the other nations, he added.
"If we are the partners of other na
tions in their enterprises, through the
investment of our surplus gold abroad,
the suspicions of international bitter
ness will disappear, and in carrying out
this duty of enlightened selfishness,
we will create organizations and estab
lish a personnel that will act in ac
cordance with the attitude, practices,
traditions and prejudices of the nations
with which we deal," he continued.
"I do not have, to point out to credit
men there is a psychological feeling
on the part of a debtor to a creditor
which tends toward the development of
animosities and one of the results of
the transfer to us of the power that lies
in the hand of a creditor nation lias
created an animosity and a bitterness
toward us on the part of other nations
which is in excess of our just deserts,
even though we admit that, because of
our rigidity and inexperience we are
somewhat lacking in an ability to un
derstand the problems of other na
tionals. "It is therefore most desirable that
we so conduct' ourselves that we may
greatly modify this feeling of dislike
and animosity. This is partcularly
necessary if we are to continue in com
mercial relations with the rest of the
world."
Mr. Robinson pointed out that the
difficulties faced by the nations result
not from the want of production but
from lack of proper international dis
tribution of goods and the disorganiza
tion of exchange. He then told how
movements of war goods had made
America, for the first time, the out
standing creditor nation of the world.
"Economic conditions have forced us
into economic entanglements and since
political movements follow economic
movements, our cherished aloofness
from foreign entanglements is gone,"
he said. "This shirt m xne position 01
nations has placed us in a position
which at first appeared extraordinarily
advantageous, but we are most incon
sistent in our attitude toward the prob
lems with which our new position has
brought us face to face.
"We . are acquiring additional gold
from our less fortunate neighbors, we
are establishing, or endeavoring to es
tablish, protective tariffs and even em
bargoes against an influx of goods from
the nations in our debt; we are en
deavoring to maintain and even in
crease our exports and carry them in
our own ships. Is it not obvious that
HAYNES APPEALS
TO ALL PERSONS
To Band Together to Uphold
the Law as Set Forth in
Dry Amendment.
Washington, June 15. In his first for
mal statement, Roy A. Haynes, the
new Federal Prohibition Commissioner,
appealed Tuesday to the American pub
lic;, to' band together to uphold the law
as set forth in the prohibition amend
ment. ,
The watchword of the new prohibi
tion administration, he declared, is "ef
ficiency," adding that the laws would
be enforced as enacted.
"At the very outset of my adminis
tration of this office," Mr. Haynes Said.
"I want to preach the gospel of the
need of , law enforcement. ... To
wink at the breaking of one law and
preach the observance of another is un
patriotic and un-American. On that
basis, I believe former so-called liberals
will as vigorously aid in the enforce
ment of the dry laws as those who
have always been dry. Any other
policy toward law in general means
chaos; means bolshevism.
"I am a newspaper man by profes
sion. I have full knowledge of the
power of the press. I appeal especial
ly to the editorial and news writer, to
the cartoonist, to the reporter, to the
scenario writer, to the playwright, to
lend every aid to law enforcement. The
editorial, the cartoon, the news story,
the film or the legitimate play, which
has in it the direct statement or in
ferential suggestion that the dry pro
gram is easily violated, or should be
violated, that it is a joke is not only
harmful in the warping of sentiment
against the enforcement of this one
law, but obviously such influence leads
to a disregard of law in general.
. . I want the help of every good
citizen. I pledge, God helping me, every
ounce of vigor and ability there is in
me to tnis end.
"With comparatively few officials to
enforce the eighteenth amendment, it
cannot be effectively done without the
co-operation of a patriotic and helpful
citizenship." j
TWO NOMINATIONS CONFIR3IED.
Washington, June 5. Nominations
of Paul W. Kearn and Lemuel E. Old
ham to be United States district attor
neys for the eastern district of Vir
ginia and the northern district of Mis
sissippi, respectively, were confirmed
Tuesday by the Senate.
There are now over 200,000 lepers
in India. v
BURGLARS CANT
OPEN ODD SAFE
W. S. Allison Has Strange
Safe Which Baffles Them
All.
Weak, Thin, Nervous folks
Gain Weight and Strength
With New Phosphate Dis
covered by French Scien
tist.
The organic phosphate (discovered
by Pelouz, French Scientist) which is
known to druggists in this country as
Bitro-Phosphate, is now being highly
recommended by ipany physicians as a
. real strength builder and to increase
weight and to correct nervousness and
general run-down conditions.
Because of its power to help re-
vitalize the nerves, increase bodily
, weight and bring back energy and
; mental keenness. James P. Stowe &
r Company, and other leading druggists
, have a big demand for it. The genu
' ine Bitro-Phosphate is always sold un
; der a guarantee of satisfaction or
money refunded.
Caution: Although Bitro-Phosphate is
an excellent aid in relieving weak.
nervous conditions, its use is not ad
vised unless ienreased weight is desired.
all these thincs cannot he snrvpssfniiv
continued by one nation at one anJ
the same time?
"To maintain reasonable prosperity
we are most anxious to give employ
ment to our people and to use all our
facilities for production. Neither can
be done unless we can dispose of our
excess products for the nations with
whom we trade can pay for what they
get only by what we take from them
and the amount we take must at least
be equal to what we sell, or the
buying power of the debtor nation
stops. Even a continuance of an
equal exchange of goods makes no pro
vision for the payment of the loans
which we have already made."
Burglars may come and burglars
may go but. they .never tarry1-long in
the gun shop of . W. .S. Allison on West
Fourth street. For therein lies ! the
strangest of all safes, a safe which,'
acording to Mr. Allison, nothing Bhort
of a depth bomb would make an en
trance possible. "
There is no combination on the safe,
just a little knob and an odd looking
slit nearby. Inside of this small slit
can be seen numerous tiny holes. The
whole safe looks mysterious and un
usual. "But it isn't mysterious," explained
Mr. Allison. "Do you see this funny
looking thing in my-hand? It Is -a
piece of alumium - with six uneven
prongs on it. These prongs are in
dividually pointed and cut in a certain
way. Each one is entirely different
from the others. It would take a lock
smith days to even make a copy of this
odd littje thing. . Now watch me."
And with that he gently inserted the
piece of aluminum in the slit near the
safe knob. There was a slight click
as the springs disappeared from sight.
The entire key. or whatever it was,
fitted neatly into the slit. With a
sharp turn of the wrist he
twisted the Tnob to the right and the
door flew open. A great heavy iron
door it was, one that would take an
extra big "shot" of explosives to force
open. He then closed the door. As
he did so, the knob automatically turn
ed back in place and the tiny key was
impelled by some unseen force several
feet out upon the floor of the shop. And
the safe again presented that myste
rious aspect.
The safe was made long before the
invention of combinations. It dates
back years and years before the Civil
war. Across the door is engraced
the name of "Silas C. Herring's." On
its door is an iron picture of two safes.
One safe is open, and two strangely
clad burglars, rough boys of the early
days, are seen rifling the contents. The
other' safe represents the Silas C. Her
ring safe. Two burglars are seen leav
ing it intact; with looks of disappoint
ment on their faces.
"I know what I am talking about
when I say that lock cannot be picked,"
said Mr. Allison. "Last January burg
lars entered my shop and tackled it.
They bent the knob, battered the door
and tried many other means of forc
ing open the door. They were com
pletely baffled. From the imprints of
their tools, they were probably experts,
too. In the last ten years there have
been over five attempts on the part of
burglars to open the safe. Not the
slightest success has been met by any.
I wouldn't trade that safe for any on
the. market its size. Burglars do not
worry me."
Mr. Allison is of the opinion that the
reason this kind of safe is no longer
manufactured is because of the fact
that when the key is lost it- is practi
cally impossible to enter the safe.
There is one other something like it in
Charlotte, and when the owner lost his
key some time ago, it took Mr. Allison
several days to model a Key after his
own that would work in the slit.
Inside of the strange safe, Mr. Alli
son has another strange object. It is
a pistol which he declares is unlike
anything he has seen in his 20 years
as a gunsmith. The barrel is short
and is almost twice as large as a shot
gun. The pistol - was made by an
an English firm during the late World
war, but what it was intended to-be
used as, Mr. Allison is at a loss to say.
No shell he ever saw, he says, will fit
it. It is perfect in workmanship, and
loads like the ordinary shot gun. The
only clue to its identity is two small
wings engraved on one side, which may
signify that the pistol is some kind of
a signal gun for airplanes. The bar
rel is made of brass. .Mr. Allison ob
tained it from a man whq said he
bought it in Florida. It is unlike any
kind . of firearm ever seen in this sec
tion,. -declared Mr. Allison.
CONDUCT NO PROBE IN
MEXICAN OIL FIELDS
. Washington, June 14. (By The Asso
ciated Press.) Secretary Hughes inform
ed Chairman Porter, of the House for
eign affairs committee, Tuesday that
the government had undertaken no of
ficial - investigation of the condition of
Mexican oil fields and that it was not
advisable to make public such infor
mation as it possessed "which might
imply our official guarantee".
Responding to a request by resolution
for a report dealing especially with de
clining production and its causes, Mr.
Hughes transmitted a letter from Se
cretary Fall declaring that Interior De
partment information was not of the
authoritative nature requisite to the
formation "of a report to Congress and
to the public on a question as critical
as that of the prospective- output ?.f
oil in Mexico".
Although the State Department was
unable to inform the House regarding
the number of wells which had stone chy,
Rear Admiral Benson, as chairman of
the Shipping Board, forwarded i re
port by J. A. Phelan, a bo:irl expert,
declaring that, in the forty square
miles producing area, 63 of the 104
wells had ceased to produce- and. tha
salt water was rapidly filling those in
operation. Mr. Phelan stated that not
a new oil structure had been discovered
in rTirn oJncA 191S. mid the croven ter
ritory is in fact goinf? "into salt water.
KING SENDS ROTARY', MESSAGE.
Edinburgh, Scotland, June 15. The
King has sent a message to the Inter
national Association of Rotary Clubs in
session here expressing his thanks for
the greetings of the association and
also confidence that the deliberations
will prove of material benefit to- the.
countries represented. The French
delegates have inviter the American
delegates to visit Paris for the fourth
of July celebration.
Never read by firelight; the dancing
flames are most injurious to the sight.
lit
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