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Bradstreet Indicates All Business'
Less Tihan Average of
' Year Agp
BANK RETURNS, MAIL ORDERS,
tGNERAL SALES, SHOW DEICLINE
New York, April 7.-Trade and in-
dustry, according to Bradstreet's,
taljen as a whole, average only about
fair, and several measures of move-
ment for March confirm the earlier
reports in these columns of a tapering
off from a year ago. This is borne out
by bank clearings returns, by mail-
order sales, by pig iron and automo-
bile outputs, and by late weeks' car
loadings, all of which have fallen be-
hind February or March a year ago.
There was, however, a thread ,of im-
provement running through the re-
ports from the Southwest as to retail
trade.
411 reports seem to be slightly dis-.
,'couraging. Better weather found
little reflecion in enlarged retail or
jobbing trade, except at some south-
ern and southwestern points, and this+
was practically offset by a sag in .re-
ports from the Pacific coast, which
had been fairly good throughout the
yiste r .
1/ost activity -is still manifest in the
constructive lines, 'but steel buying
has;lessened, while building materials
bae ishown a slight increase in ac-
tivity, C oaIl, so coal especially, has
Sbeen. depressed, with prices about at
theirloWst, .although''the olening of
t nRiavigation has steadied things a
trifle where prospects of expansion
from this cause exist. Failure to
agree on wvage scales in the south-
western coal fields may render 40,000
en idle.
Vtarch sales on the stock exchange
totaled 18,206,114 shares, a decrease of
11 percent from February and of 29
percent from March a year ago. Bond
sales for the month totaled $282,490,-
889, a gain of 20 percent over Febru-
ary and of 5 percent over March last
year. Production in pig iron for three
months, 9,554,000 tons, is 2 per cent
below .that of the similar period last
year.
Automobile output for the first
quarter will be 1,040,000, as against
875,503, a gain of 18 percent over the
1923 output for the same quarter.
Wheat exports dropped from. 344,275,-
22 bushels to 305,467,365 bushels for
the 40 weeks ending April 3. Bank
clearings at leading cities of tlie
United States for the week ending
April 3, as reported to Bradstreet's
otirnal, aggregatdd a gain of 5.3 per-
cent over last week and of 7:5, percent
over this:week last year. Detroit re-
ports a gain of 26.3 percent over last
year. Bank debits gained 4.2 percent
over the, like week a year ago.
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Cleveland's week of Metropolitan
Opera, which begins on April 28, of-
fers a repertoire of seven operas,
which includes such favorites as
"Aida" (opening night), "Carmen,"
"Rigoletto," "Faust," "Romeo et
Juliette," '1 Trovatore"-all of theml
popular works which most musicI
lovers have heard dozens of times.
The last reports from Dreher's ticketI
office in Cleveland quote an advance
sale of over $60,000.
The one opera included in the rep-
ertoire which is not so widely known
is the Russian masterpiece of MVous-
sorgsky, "Boris Godunoff." It was
selected because of the magnificent
opportunitiy which it gives Feodor
Chaliapin in the title role. As the
false Tsar of the Russias, Chaliapin'si
impersonation is said to be superb,
aud with the assistance of a cast
which includes Kathleen Howard,?
Ellen Dalossy, Marion Telva, Hen-
riette Wakefield, Bada, Picco, Mar-
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Feodor Chalialdn
dones, Reschliglian, Tokatyan, Anan- s,
ian, Audlsio, Palrnieri and other 1 dones, Louis D 'Angelo, Rosina Galli,
well-known singers, the performancer premier danseuse of the Metropolitan
will 'be one to delrht the "moderns" Opera company, will give incidental
In opera. The seat sale for this per- danres with the famous Corps de Bal-
in torma.ThonFrsday nsght fOsper- let. Roberto Moranzoni will conduct.
formance-on Friday night of Oper: Tuesday evening brings "Carmen,"
week-is one of the heaviest of the with Florence Easton, Queena Mario,
entire season. gEdward Johnson, Jose Mardones and
Chaliapin will sing th oe O}other favorite singer s~ na i o G gi
Mephistopheles in Gounod's "Faust" oten aitsnght ers. inoGi
on the preceding night, Thursday, xensa ihBnavn il
with Edward Johnson in the title and Lucrezia Bori will give "Rigo-
role, Frances Alda as the lovely Mar- letto" with Guiseppe De Luca, Marion
guerite. Dalossy, Howard, Tibbett Telva, Adamo Didur and other sing -
and D'Angelo contributing. Those ers assisting.
who heard Chaliapin in Boito's opera, Thursday evening, "Faust," with
"Mefistofele" during the recent De- Chaliapin and Edward Johnson,
troit engagement of the Chicago Frances Alda and Lawrence Tibbett
Operatcompany will notsmiss aother and others.
opportunity to enjoy his magnificent' "Boris Godunoff" will be sung on.
singing, his artistic interpretation, Friday night, with the cast already
the inspiration which the appearance given.
of this great actor always brings. Saturday matinee will be particu-
Cleveland's new Public Auditorium larly popular-"Romeo et Juilette,"
is being made over for the appear- wt il n oi oLcAai
ances of the Metropolitan Opera com- an, Didur and other fine artists.
pany. A horseshoe of forty boxes has The season will close on Saturday
been built, which encloses a dress, night, with "Il Trovatore," with Rosa
circle of 600 seats, behind which rises Ponselle and Martinelli, Telva and
the parquet, row upon row, until the Anthony and other singers.,!
final row downstairs is over six feet ~-"- - -
from the floor level. Every occupant Short Exam Found
of every seat downstairs will be able
to see the stage perfectly. The bal- Equally Accurate
cony of the Auditorium needs no i With Longer One
recommendation to those who have
sat there for musical events. And the ~~
perfect acoustics of the Auditorium New Haven, Conn., April 10.-Short
are nationally famous. Because of its and snappy exams are just as accn-
huge capacity of over 10,000, a price rate in testing college students as
range for the Metropolitan Opera of those four times as long, Dr. Donald
$1 to $7 is made possible: and as any A. Laird, national research fellow in
profits which accrue are to be given Yale university, has announced.
to the Cleveland Music School settle- I He examined 67 psychology stu-
ment, there is no tax: Especial at- dents with 80 questions which could
tention is being given to orders re- be answered by a single word or
ceived from out-of-town music- short phrase in an hour and a half.
lovers; checks should be made to the Scoring the first 20 questions on the
Cleveland Concert company, and or- percentage of correct replies and cor-
ders sent to Dreher's ticket office, j relating these figures with those ob-R
1226 Huron road, Cleveland. tained on the basis of the full test of
Elizabeth Rethberg, with Giovanni 80 questions lie found there was only
Martinelli, will sing "Aida" on the a slight difference. IHe also scored
opening night, with a distinguished the first 40 and the first 60 questions
cast which includes Karin Branzell, as if these sections had been the full
Giordano Paltrinieri, Nanette Guild- test and found that the correlation
ford, Giuseppe Danise, Jose Mar- increased but slightly.
A NNUAL AUMNI MEETING
TO BE HELDAT SAGINAW
Saginaw alumni will entertain the
first district meeting of the Associ-
ated Michiganealumni clubs ofsthe
ninth district on April 17, as was ap-
proved by the board of directors of
the association at the meeting held
here recently.
The ninth district includes the
southeastern part of Michigan and all
of Ontario, Canada. Detroit with its
4,000 alumni has the largest club in
this district and probably will send a
large delegation to the district cele-
bration.
A big feature of the meeting will be
the annual Sprout, originally the
spring vacation stunt party of the
Saginaw club of the University, but
this year to be held jointly by the
alumni and the undergraduates. Dean
Mortimer Cooley of the engineering
college will be the principal speaker
of the program.
The ninth district meeting of Asso-
ciated Michigan clubs will be the sec-
ond under the reorganization scheme
of the general alumni association.
The initial meeting was the one held
in Cleveland last January for the
third district. Others will follow the
Saginaw meeting, most of them being
scheduled for May.
WOMEN NOW ENROLING
FOR LAKEGUEEV CAMP
Summer vacations are still some-
what a thing of the future, but plans
are already being made for the dele-
gation of women which will go to the,
college camp at ake Geneva, Wis.,
during the latter part of the summer..
Women interested in attending the
camp, or in learning more about it,
are urged to sign up immediately at
the office of the University Y. t. C.
A., in Newberry hall.
Any woman on the campus is elig-
ible to attend the camp, which will be
open to college women for ten days
during the latter part of the summer.
The delegation last year consisted of
I fourteen women, including two from
the nurse's Y. W. C. A. This year it
is hoped that double this number from
the University may attend the camp.
CEMENTS IBRARYl, LOW
1CLUB SHOWNAT EXHlBITI"
Clements library and the new Uni-
versity Law club were given unsual
prominence at the thirty-ninth annual
exhibit of the architecural league in
New York City recently. One of the
exhibit rooms for the Fine Arts build-
ings contained a University of Michi-
gan special exhibition with numerous
architects' plans, photographs and
enlarged drawings, as well as artists' I
sketches of the Law club and the
library.
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Deaths Increase
But Births Drop,
Shown By Reports
For the first nine months of the
ayer 1923, the death rate for the
United States shows a slight increase
over that of the same period of 1922,
while the birth rate has decreased
slightly. This fact is brought out in
a recent report of the Departmentof
Commerce. The death rates of the
various states, which are provisional
owing to racial differences and deaths
of non-residents, give to Maryland the
highest rate, 14.9 per 1,000 popula-
tion, while Montana has the lowest,
8.8 per 1,000. These state rates have
been adjusted as far as possible to
.make allowance for the differences in
the age and sex composition of the
populations in the different states.
The rate of the total states is 12.6 per
1,000, as compared with 11.8 for the
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On the other hand, the birth rate of
the total states for the first nine
months of 1923, 'was 22.8 per 1,000, as
compared with 23.1 for the same
period in 1922. Here North Carolina
leads with 30.2 per 1,000, while Mon-
tana is lowest with 17.5. Michigan
shows a slight increase in birth rates,
23.7 per 1,000 as against 23.6 for 1922.
Transcripts of Michigan deaths have
not yet been received for the quarter.
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omplex that has been so apparent in
sght circles, has spread to the harness
iorses, and Michigan is stepping out
i !ront with record purses for 1924
)vents.
The $25,000 pacing derby that is the
)ig spot on the Kalamazoo Grand
"ircuit program this year, has set the
ace for other high stake events in
he state, Mt. Clemens and Saginaw
innpuncing the biggest programs
ever given by half-mile tracks for
their June meetings.
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advertised in the Spit-
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2. The St. Lawrence River Route. Three days on this picturesque
and historic irver, by "The Shortest Route to Europe" with four days
only of open sea.
3. The Shakespearean Country by auto.
4. Delightful London program, including -British Empire Expo-
sition.
5. The great Battle Field Front.
6. "Paris at its best" with excursion to Versailles.
7. The Olympic Contests at their crisis.
8. Liberal arrangement for individual plans and sight seeing trips.
9. Choice companionshIp such as ankes a journey delightful.
10. The best of chaperones and eaders ip by well known college
n and "women in charge.
11. Small and congenial groups formed from college and neighbor.
hood circles.
12. The special entertainment and amusement arrangements.
13. The educational opportunities afforded not by lectures, but eby
contact with the great places visited where are can be seen, where
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