Notes

Standard Oils. Two Manhattan specialists on Standard Oil stocks-- Carl H. Pforzheimer and Jenks, Gwynne & Co.--have been separately figuring the probable dividends of the companies which constitute this group. Last week their collated, estimates showed that, for the six months ending June 30, the score and more constituent companies would disburse $91,594,211 in dividends, far more than the $77,244,753 for the same period last year. The dividends for only April, May and June of this year-- $50,792,688--will aggregate almost as much as for all of 1912. Deaths. The American Road Builders' Association announced that 30,400 people were slain last year throughout the world by automobiles. Of the fatalities over 80% took place in the U. S. However, the U. S. owns 80% (TIME, Feb. 22) of the world's automobiles.

Wallpaper. The landlord who let his tenant select her own wallpaper, the homeowner who fidgeted while his white-overalled paperhanger butted the paper like a crazy-quilt, the rural housewife who hung her own -they spent $40,000,000 last year, bought 350,000,000 rolls, kept more than 40 U. S. wallpaper manufactories busy. The Wallpaper Manufacturers of America last week noted that this was more than the 323,000,000 rolls of $34,755,000 value of 1924.

Temptation. Silk stockings at $10 a pair, lingerie at $25 to $75 a suit--Roumania's prohibitive tariff on de luxe articles forces these prices--tempt smugglers to squirm under boundary fences, elude border guards. In Bucharest complaints were loud last week.