The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-09

tories is 5s.o0O, and Athe capital employed s94 POO 900. As in many other manufacture ing products, there Is an indirect invest { ment which is closely allied to YehicA2 manufacture. This in4ludes such producN as tires, rims, lamps, speedometers. drop forgings, etc. Estimates show that there are 2S,000 employed in this indirect manu
 facture, with total capital employed of S36.700 900. Unlike many other manufac- tured products the sales end of the au- tomobile industry is Exceedingly expen- sive. At the close of the year 1907 there were 2151 sales and garag ge establishments, employing 21,5OO people, with capital of s075O00OO employed to do this business. This includes real estate. rentals, insur- ance, bond and interett on money in- vested. Not including 1.-the manufacture of motorcycles or the lsale of supplies and accessories, the total estimation is: Value of product sold $105 669, ,572. total capital employed, $l71, ,440,7 ,769 number of employees involved. 1OS,5O0.
 Does mince pie cause men to commit crime? Theodore Sutro, president of the New York branch of the National Ger man Alliance declares it does. He says:
 "In my opinion there has been almost as much crime committed from eating mnce pie and mixing ice water with ir
 
 should we not punish the man who sells mince pies, of which one man may eat moderately and heathfully, while another may eat of them immoderatey so that in the bangs of dyspepsia he loses self control and commits crimes of violence. The American people drink reservoirs of ice water. The habit is a dangerous one Tt is impossible to interdict traffic in mince pies and lee water and hundred other things person may commit an excess about. It is not only in the drink ing of alcoholic liquors that they com init excesses; many other things that cannot possibly be restrained are abused
 MT Sutro, it will be seen, is hitting at prohibition, which he characterizes as an ineffective remedy He says:
 T was in Europe last year six Sun days-only six weeks I passed one of those Sundays in Paris, four in Ger many and one in London. In every ons| , of those Sundays passed in Paris and Germany I did not SC drunkard Il could get all the wine and beer I wanted, and I saw all the people around me take all the wine and beer they wanted. Il went to London, and on Sunday found everything closed tight; not drink was to be had. l walked the street and Il saw more staggering on the streets there In London than I had ever seen in the streets of New York"
 Andrew Carnegie gave s1, ,6S1, ,6S0 for pub- lic and college libraries last year, ac- cording to figures just compiled. This brought his total gifts for libraries in all countries up to $49 6O5622.
 MT. Carnegie made original gifts tol 76 library buildings, including two branches in the United States. in 19O7 tho. total being sS93,100. To 21 libraries which. previously had received funds from him. he gave an additional s2ss, 700.
 In Canada nine libraries received orie-' inal gifts of s75,500 and one got an increa se of S4O00. In the United States and Canada together Mir. Carnegie gave S90s, 600 for 85 new municipal library buildings. and gave supplementary s2s7,7 zoo to 30 mum icipal libraries.
 In the United Kingdom he gave S201, 900 for 13 new libraries and S25,1S0 for 12 libraries previously contributed to- His original gifts in England and Wales amounted to e35,255, which provided for eight buildings Increases were provided for nine libraries, the total being f4334.
 His total gifts to libraries in Scotland were 93127. In Ireland the ironmaster provided two buildings at cost of a2sO0. Here are some of the items in the miscel- laneous column, indicating the wide range. of MT. Carnegies library gifts
 Halswell, New Zealand ..... ........ a1. .500 Gore, New Zealand ....... POGO. Seychelles Islands ................... 1,750 Harrlsmith, Orange River Colony
 South Africa .......,...e-.,.....-.... 2,00O Suva, Fiji . .... ............... 1,5O0 All these were for private libraries or libraries connected with schools. In ad- dition MT. Carnegie gave two municipal library buildings in New Zealand at a cost of s17,5Oo. one in the Seychelles Islands, ss750: one in South Africa, $1O,0d0, and one in Fiji $7500.
 The total of Mir. Carnegie's gifts for mu- nicipal libraries in 1907 was $1,154,250 for 103 new buildings. and s322.S00 in supple mentary gifts to 42 libraries. His original gifts to colleges, five in the United States and one in South Africa, amounted to s135, ,oO0 Increases were made to the funds of six colleges, all in this country.
 The grand total for the year, I,6S1. $50, looks small as compared with the grand total for 1906, which was $3,06S,925-
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