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7ht RURAL NEW-YORKER 
May 14, 1921 
Goodrich 
Reduced Tire 
Prices 
20 % 
Effective Monday, May 2nd 
The B. F. Goodrich Rubber Company 
makes this readjustment of tire prices 
to meet new conditions and to benefit 
all tire users. This reduction includes 
Goodrich Silvertown Cords 
Goodrich Fabric Tires 
Goodrich Inner Tubes 
You are given the full benefit of these 
new prices right at the time when you 
are ready to replace your old tires 
with new ones. Now is the time to 
buy them. 
Your Goodrich dealer will supply your 
needs and give you the advantage of 
these new prices on your purchase. 
The 
B. F. Goodrich Rubber Co. 
Akron, Ohio 
exchange anything for water and air, 
since anyone may have them gratis, but 
Adam Smith seemed to have erred when 
he said things like diamonds may have 
great value in exchange and little or no 
value in use. The exchange value of the 
diamond simply measured the degree of 
satisfaction which the purchaser expect¬ 
ed to derive from it. If it lacked that 
utility it would not have exchange value. 
The things we get free have value in use. 
but they have no value in exchange, and 
consequently are not under our definition 
of wealth. The value of wealth always 
means the same thing. It means the por¬ 
tion of one thing that will exchange for a 
portion of some other thing, both of which 
cost labor to maintain or produce. 
Is a general rise in all commodities pos¬ 
sible? 
A general rise of values is not possible. 
Value implies a comparison. We can 
compare one thing with one or rao^ 
things. We can compare wheat: with 
shoes or tea with sugar. If a variation in 
the value of anything is due to changes 
in the commodity with which we compare 
it. then the value is changed in respect to 
them only. If. however, the variation is 
due to changes in the value of the thing 
itself, then the value is changed in respect 
to all commodities. If a bushel of wheat 
exchanges for a pair of shoes or for a hat. 
and because of a reduction in the price of 
leather and the use of new machinery, the 
cost of making shoes is reduced one-half, 
then two pairs of shoes exchanged for a 
bushel of wheat, and wheat has increased 
in value relative to shoes, but remains as 
before compared to hats. If. however, the 
cost of producing wheat is reduced one- 
half. two bushels of wheat will exchange 
for one pair of shoes, and two bushels 
will also exchange for one hat; the same 
ratio will apply to the exchange, of all 
other commodities. Rut the value of 
wheat, shoes and hats could not rise. If 
one or more things rise in value, then 
some other one or several things must fall 
in value. There cannot then be a general 
rise in the value of all commodities. 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC.—The automobile fatality 
record in New York State for the four 
months ending April 30 was more than 
twice as great as that for the same period 
of 1020. according to figures given out by 
the National Highway Protective Society. 
The total deaths for the period just closed 
were 351, and for the same period last 
year 15S. The increase in deaths wus 
held by Edward S. Cornell, secretary of 
the society, to be due to the larger num¬ 
ber of vehicles in use and to the failure 
of the Legislature to apply severe re¬ 
strictive measures covering the licensing 
of persons to operate automobiles. In 
this city during April 01 persons were 
killed by automobiles, nine by trolley cars 
and seven by wagons. 
With the arrest of seven men at Chi¬ 
cago May 1 the police believed that a 
gang of interstate automobile thieves re¬ 
sponsible for the disappearance of $100,- 
000 worth of care had been broken up. 
A confession obtained from one of the 
prisoners involved "fences” in Illinois. 
Indiana. Wisconsin and Michigan. All 
of the men will be turned over to the 
Federal authorities and indictments asked 
for dealers who disposed of the stolen 
cars, and owners who paid to have their 
cars stolen so they could collect the in¬ 
surance. 
The five defendants in the auto theft 
conspiracy trial in the Federal court were 
found guilty at Detroit, Mich., May 3, 
and sentenced by Judge Tuttle to two 
years each in Leavenworth penitentiary. 
Three of the defendants—Earl Linn, 
Douglas Moore and Joseph Galbo—are 
Detroiters. They were charged with be¬ 
ing the Detroit members of the ring which 
stole cars in this city and transported 
them to the East for shipment overseas. 
James G. Burroughs, of Bridgeport, 
Conn., and Sven N.vquist, of New York, 
were the other defendants. Ten persons 
in all have been convicted as members of 
this ring, which, police estimate, shipped 
$1,000,000 worth of cars stolen in the 
United States to Norway and Sweden 
through a system which has puzzled De¬ 
partment of Justice agents and police of 
many cities. . 
Six persons were killed and 27 injured, 
nine seriously, at Bluefield, W. Va., May 
2 when a Norfolk & Western Railroad 
passenger train, backing up from Gary, 
W. Va., ran into an open switch and 
crashed into four loaded coal cars. 
Mrs. Beatrice Bullock, candidate for 
alderman, in the town election at Red 
Springs, N. C„ May 3, defeated her hus¬ 
band. G. T. Bullock, who was candidate 
on the opposition ticket, by a majority 
of four votes. 
The use of airplanes to smuggle drugs 
from incoming steamships on the Pacific 
coast, was charged by IT. II- Stevens of 
Vancouver, B. C., in the House of Com¬ 
mons at Ottawa, Canada, May 3. Con¬ 
federates aboard the ships, Mr. Stevens 
said, drop the drugs into the water where 
they are marked by the plane and later 
salvaged. The charge was made during 
a speech in which he urged more strin¬ 
gent measures against drug smugglers. 
Nineteen individuals and 13 corpora¬ 
tions, members of the Association of 
Dealers in Masons’ Building Materials, 
pleaded guilty May 3 before Justice Ver¬ 
non M. Davis in the Supreme Court, New 
York, to conspiracy to violate the State 
anti-trust law. 
Claims against the State for $17,938, 
filed by counsel for Jotham P. Allds, 
who resigned from the New York State 
Senate after a hearing on charges in 
1910, were dismissed by the Court of Ap¬ 
peals May 3. Lewis E. Carr, Danforth 
G. Ainsworth. Martin W. Littleton and 
Lewis E. Griffith, who defended Allds, 
were the claimants. 
WASHINGTON.—Coinage of a two 
and a half cent piece, bearing the like¬ 
ness of Theodore Roosevelt, with the date 
of his birth and death, is provided in a 
bill introduced April 27 by Representa¬ 
tive Appleby, Republican, of New Jersey. 
Its limit as legal tender would be 40 
cents, the coin to be big enough to dis¬ 
tinguish it easily from the one-eent piece. 
Telegraph, telephone and radio compan¬ 
ies would not he permitted to make con¬ 
tracts by the terms of which they are re¬ 
lieved from damages directly resulting 
from their own negligence, under a bill 
introduced April 27 by Representative 
Taylor, Republican. Tennessee. 
The rounding up of the country’s 100.- 
000 draft dodgers began May 5, when the 
War Department’s first official list was 
made public. 
Major-General Peter C. Harris, Adju¬ 
tant-General of the army, told a House 
investigating committee May 2 that he 
alone was responsible for the release un¬ 
der guard of G. C. Bergdoll, convicted 
draft dodger, to go out secretly and hunt 
for a pot of buried gold in the mountains 
of West Virginia. Bergdoll was per¬ 
mitted to start on the golden chase, but 
never returned, escaping at Philadelphia, 
where he had stopped over on his way 
from Fort Jay to the mountains, to visit, 
his mother, now awaiting sentence fo” 
conspiracy to aid him in evading the 
draft. It. was on the plea of Samuel T. 
Ansell. formerly acting adjutant-general 
of the army. General Harris testified, that 
the prisoner was let out. The General 
.said he had been assured by Mr. Ansell, 
attorney for Bergdoll. that the story of 
the hidden treasure was true, and that 
the slacker would be sent back to Fort 
Jay as soon as he had climbed the hills 
for his gold. 
The Knox peace resolution, passed 
April 30. came up for amendment Mav 7. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—Fox fur has 
come into such demand in this country 
that Agricultural Department officials 
have put up immigration bars against the 
importation of undesirable live foxes for 
breeding purposes. By regulations just 
issued foxes are classed with other live 
stock for quarantine against disease, and 
can enter the country only after inspec¬ 
tion and on permit, except when con¬ 
signed to zoological gardens. “Attractive 
prices” offered for fox fur had interested 
many people, the announcement said, and 
numerous fox farms had sprung up in 
Northern States which the department 
desired to encourage in development of 
the industry. 
Congressman Vestal, of Indiana, has 
reintroduced his bill “to fix standards for 
hampers, round stave baskets and splint 
baskets for fruits and vegetables.” It has 
been referred to the House Committee on 
Coinage. Weights and Measures. The 
bill provides that the standard hampers 
for fruits and vegetables shall be the one 
peck, half bushel, five-eighths bushel, 
bushel and 1% bushel. The standard one 
bushel hamper is to contain 2,150.42 
cubic inches, and the other hampers are 
to be in proportion. The quart standard 
dry measure would have a capacity of 
07.2 cubic inches. Section 2 provides 
that the standard round stave baskets for 
fruits and vegetables shall be one-half 
bushel, five-eighths bushel, one bushel. 
1 Vo bushel and two bushel baskets. The 
one bushel basket is to have 1,075.21 
cubic inches of space, the others being in 
proportion. The plain splint baskets are 
to be of four quarts, eight quarts, 12 
quarts, 10 quarts and 24 quarts capacity, 
dry measure. The Secretary of Agricul¬ 
ture would have authority to prescribe 
such tolerances as he may find necessary 
to allow in the capacities and specifica¬ 
tions. in order to provide for reasonable 
variations occurring in the course of 
manufacture and handling. Under the 
terms of the Vestal bill, if passed, it 
would be unlawful to manufacture for 
sale or ship in interstate commerce any 
hampers or baskets not conforming to 
the provisions referred to. and violations 
would be subject to fines of not exceeding 
$100. imprisonment not exceeding 00 
days, or both. The proposed law would 
not be applicable to exports, unless con¬ 
trary to the laws of the country of des¬ 
tination. 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings 
May 11—Annual meeting American 
Guernsey Cattle Club, New York City. 
May 19 — Washington County. Pa., 
Guernsey Field Day, Washington, Pa. 
Eggs, 40c per doz.; fowls. 40 to 45c 
per lb.; live broilers, 00 to 90c per lb., 
depending on color; Grade A milk, 12c 
per qt.; Grade B milk. 10c per qt.; bay, 
mixed Timothy, $30 to $35; potatoes, old. 
$1 per bu. There is not much ekse being 
sold at the present time. The prospects 
for peaches and apples look good at the 
present time, although the cherries were 
mostly all killed by the freeze. Labor 
conditions are not very good, the right 
kind of help being hard to get, and, in 
fact, any kind. I believe there will be 
less planting this year than last. F. J. 
Rockland Co., N. Y. 
