Here you get from January, 1920, to August, 1921, when these value assassinations culminated, a corn debacle of 92 cents a bushel and a cotton debacle of 28 cents a pound. If you had known that this value assassination was en route and had "gone short" 1,000,000 bushels of corn you could have robbed the corn growers of this land of $920,000, couldn't you? And some "high financiers" did that very thing. If you had known that cotton was going to shrink at least 28 cents a pound and had "gone short" 10,000 bales (500 pounds to the bale) you could have robbed the cotton growers of this land of $1,400,000, couldn't you? And some high financiers did. Take a look at some more value murders. Wheat No. 2 Red Winter Wool 1920 Chicago Ohio Grades January 2.63 1.23 May 2.97 1.16 June 2.89 1.00 July 2.80 .90 August 2.47 .87 September 2.40 .83 October 2.20 .72 November 2.05 .69 December 2.01 .54 1921 January 1.96 .54 February 1.91 .54 March 1.67 .52 April 1.38 .52 May 1.56 .50 June 1.43 .49 July 1.22 .49 August 1.23 .49 A destruction of $1.40 a bushel on wheat and of 74 cents a pound on wool ought to satisfy the most murderous destructionist of values, oughtn't it? You can make your own computations as to the millions coteries of "bears" could make--and doubtless did make--out of these value assassinations. Have some more views of values on the toboggan. Penn. 1920 Steers at Chicago Crude Oil January 15.93 5.06 May 12.60 6.10 June 15.03 6.10 July 15.38 6.10 August 15.35 6.10 September 15.25 6.10 October 14.68 6.10 November 14.57 6.10 December 12.09 6.10 1921 January 9.84 5.79 February 9.31 4.18 March 9.56 3.00 April 8.71 3.18 May 8.42 3.35 June 8.09 2.65 July 8.40 2.25 August 8.77 2.25 When you grease the toboggan with $2.81 a barrel on oil and $7.16 a hundred on steers you can slide a good many millions of dollars into the maws of foresighted "short sellers," can't you?