Meanwhile the miscellaneous revenue is reported
as just topping a billion dollars from July 1 to
March 3, last, as contrasted with $503,000,000 for
ihe same period a year ago. Better business and
freer popular spending are reflected. And National
Treasury finances are thereby benefitted.
HEN SMITH IN LIMELIGHT.
Bernard iBen) M. Smith, New York broker who
is reputed to have made a killing in Alaska Juneau
stock a few years ago by buying it when he was
leading the bear raids on other stocks on the
New York Exchange, is not averse to picking up
a little pocket money from his friends by continuing
to be a bull on A-J, as is evidenced by a recent
c mment in the Boston News Bureau. Apparently
he hasn't lost any faith in the great local mine
in which he is, or was at one time, one of the
largest individual stockholders.
The News Bureau, under the caption, "Calling
the Turn on Gold,” recently said:
* Here in America it was a big speculator,
rather than a well-known economist, who
first attempted to sell to a puzzled Wall
Street the romance of gold-mining shares
in the declining stages of the big bull
market. The individual was Bernard F.
