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The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-14

oily appearance, and this oil keeps il from sticking to the mouth or hands When dry it does not crumble, and q few drops of water will soften it so that it can be rolled into any shape desired It is almost tasteless, but must possess some nourishment, as these people de- clare they can subsist upon 1t for days.
 "They place a small piece in the mouth and hold it there until it gradually dis solves and Is swallowed in small quanti- ties at time. The quantity eaten at one time varies from a lump as large as a pea, for child. as beginner. to a lump as large as a hens egg for those who have eaten 1t for years. The clay Is eaten with relish which would indicate that the eaters are fond of it. A pecu- liar fact is that they do not wish 1t gen- erslly known that they are clay eaters, and few will confess that they eat it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-14

hereby announce myself candidate for sheriff of Jefferson county, subject to democratic primary to be held on Aprll 1.
 TOM POUND.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-14
SENIOR JUDGE CRIMINAL COURT.

I hereby announce myself a canoluaes . for senior judge of the criminal court ot 1erferson counfy. subject to the action of the democratic primary.
 FRANK CATALAN.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-14

The Age-Herald is authorized to an nounce Judge Samuel Weaver as candl- date for Sheriff of Jefferson county, sub ject to action of democratic primary.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-14
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
Fon SHERIFF.

MADORY-I hereby announce as can hidate for sheriff of Jefferson county, sub 1ect to the action Of the democratic pri- mary April l. 1910.
 1-1S-tf WALTER K. MADORY.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-14

The graduates (of the institution num- Der $40 from the college courses with the degree of bachelor of arts. which the college is empowered by the state to give. The school owns five acres Of land in the city and on it's campus are Ave buildings, at present so overcrowded with students that many have to be turned away.
 The American International college is thus seen to be doing for the immigrant roces precisely what the New England college and Tuskegee are doing for the Anglo-Saxon and colored races; nor should 1t be forgotten that the immi- grant races come from lands of great antiquity, civilization and achievement, with a literature that is immortal. Here is at once a tremendous differentiation between them and the colored races which have no antecedent civilization and no literature. Eliminating great ra- cial and anthropological contrasts there nevertheless remains to us the awful and dishea artenng reflection that these immi- grant races coming to us by the million each year are 30 per cent illiterate in the annual deposit they make upon our shores, and more than that 4o and even 60 Ter cent in the lands from which they came. The American International col
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-14

(ENclusiVe Service The Survey Press
 Bureau)
 That immigration occupies first of rank among present day problems, and that il underlies all industrial. economic and social questions may be taken for granted. It will also be generally ad- nl:tted that the key to the existing situ- ation is education. The marvel is that with q solution so effective and plain neither church nor state have seen fit to possess themselves of this key in any earnest, concerted way. A recent maga- zine article contains carefully tabulated statistics concerning phases of the immi- grant question and the discussion of which these tables form a part, con- cludes by saying That in New York state no systematic education of the aliens has been attempted
 Twenty years ago the American In- ternational college was established to raise up among the immigrant races in America educated and trained inIni- grant leaders. Today this institution has 100 students from b different nationali- ties. mostly among the southern and southeastern states of Europe, Italy, Greece, Armenia. with sprinking from Russia, Poland, Bulgaria, Servia, AL banla, Assyria, France, Sweden and Aus tria. The motive in the establishment of the school was not America for the Americ8ns,' but American principles for tho world and everybody in this country true to those principles and ideals
 The aim is by an education, at once civic, industrial and special, as well as by regular academic and collegiate courses, and the whole under Christian dhough not sectariam auspices, to de- velor American citizenship and trained leadership among the immigrant races in the United States. The spirit of the work is broad and catholic, character above creed, humanity above nationallsm, and Christian brotherhood the best and big gest thing in the world
 The college is a helping hand to the immigrants, and the thumb of that hand is the Christian motive; the index finger the academic and collegiate courses; the third finger, the civic course of three years in the School of American Citizen ship connected with the college: the fourth finger. the special course in En- glish as a language and as literature for those who only want English, and the fifth. the course in industrial train Ing, printing, etc.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-14

We are 80 accustomed to hearing of the assembling of from 1000 to 5000 people in the interests of religious movements at the present time that the wonder of it all has ceased to impress us as 1t would have done barely year ago. Just think
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-14

H. Clay Prick, formerly of Pennsylva- mia, but now of New York, is sojourning in Augusta Ga., with flyer to New York in his private car az business calls him. AIr. Prick is following the cue os John D. Rockefeller and will spend sev- era weeks in Augusta every winter with his family. He is accompanied by his wife and daughter, Miss Helen. Chids Prick is in school
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-01

should be thanked. 1 understand that
he is to be the editor of this Press
Club edition. If this is so, it will be
exactly like him to run the blue pencil
through this whole paragraph to the
hilt, but 1 rely upon some honest as
sistant to stay his modest hand. 1t
needn't do him any harm if the truth
be known-e Because no better piece of
work for the general good Of the whole
tri-eity community was ever done than
the cementing of the closer bond of fell
lowship and sympathy among the boys
who handle its news and shape its
thought and sentiment.
where the Proceeds VIII Go.
Doubtless, true to its traditions. the
Club, which IS to say the individual
members thereof collectively consid-
cred, will HE it to the banquet hall
as soon as the business manager of this
special edition shall announce that
there is enough in the treasury Tor
three courses and cigars. Would that
might be there! I can't think OF COM
pany on the face of the earth where l
would as lovingly sit pigeon-toed that
might balance my fugitive plate
on my Incorporating knees. But l
cannot bring myself to leave this
summer sky for your repetitious and
fnconsiderate billiards.. Sitting at
my door look through vista of
nv orange trees. which are decently
loaded (and the fruit is bringing d
lovely price this year, and off through
Is miles of CALIFORNIA; lilac atmos-
phere to the snow on Mt. San An
tonic, which is as near as l care to
see II. No doubt that you would
crowd the plates little closer to-
gether, or, perhaps, give me a sew
ing table off to one side with some
good fellow from Rock Island or Mo-
line, in order to take me with you.
But boys, can't be there. The rail-
roads are still uncharitable, and the
walking Is some of the worst on
earth. But in thought, and wish,
and beautiful hopes for all of you,
and a great longing to see you all
again, and hear your voices, and get
you by the hand and squeeze hard.
you can count me in. And If you'll
permit me to presume upon my priv
ileges as an ex-president of your or
der, I will give you this toast:
The Tri-City Press Club: The tri-
pod upon which the common interest
of the tri-cities stands firm and I'M
shaken-may 1t remain the radiating
center of inspiration and energy of
the three best towns on earth grown
one and inseparable, the metropolis
of the heart of the nation.
j. E. CALKINS.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-01
The Press Club:
Democratic and Harmonious,
BY r. o. VAN CALDER.

Democratic, harmonious, wholesome.
This was my impression of the Tri-City
Press Club when became a member
10 years ago. This first impression has
remained.
The broad democracy Of good fellow
ship, with no class distinction between
proprietor and employee; the harmony
which made every note unanimous, and
the high character Of the monthly BAN
quets and annual entertainments. have
made the Tri-City Press Club.
My position in the Club, as editor of
a monthly periodical, has afforded op-
portunity for unbiased Judgment With
no thought OF financial gain or political
preferment through the affiliation, my
membership has been highly priced be-
cause of the privilege of association
with men of the character and calibre
of those comprising its membership.
There is personal pleasure, there is
mental uplift in every meeting.
May your numbers never grow less
and your good work continue.
Sincerely yours,
F. o. VAN CALDER,
Editor Modern Woodman.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-01
BY c. J. ZAISER,

COZ the Moline Mail and Journal)
The Tri-City Press Club is an or
ganization that fills an important
sphere in newspaperdom of the tn
cities and community and its useful
ness cannot be overlooked.
ct may be fascinating work, but
would never go into the newspaper
business with the expectation of max
ing much money out of it, said an
astute old merchant to the writer
when he first engaged in this work
and he was right; the work is fas-
cinating but it is also exacting while
the remuneration is not such that
many newspaper men can afford TO
take trips to the wilds of Africa for
mere pleasure.
Consider the work Of a newspaper
man when he commences the day.
The editor and reporter start to build
from nothing; they must first search
diligently for news. They are sup
posed not to get any news OF scandal
or anything yellow for some people
do not like that sort of news. Then
they are given news which some pro
moter does not care to release and
which the reporter must hold in strict
confidence until such time when the
story is released. Then there are his
friends who come and ask him to
withhold news that might not be
pleasant to them were 1t to be pub
lished, and still the editor is supposed
to make a newsy and Interesting
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-01
Press Club Original
Unifying Influence

fellows, for "reminiscences. Now, when
the. turn comes to me, am going to
overlook the covert implication that I
grow old, and turn back with you to
times that are now safely gone. / can
doubly afford to do this, because out
here nobody ever really grows old, you
know; and again, because, with all the
rest of you looking backward with me,
the company is so rarely good
Remembers the Eats.
Memories of the Tri-City Press Club,
proper, as far as can command the
view in retrospect, run largely to the
eats. Among a multitude of small
things, too trivial for mention in any
body's "reminiscences, the one feature
of the clubs convenings that fairly
glares at me is the fact that whenever
two or three dozen of its members
were gathered together there was
menu somewhere in their midst I am
sure the club did other things, but
know it was mighty regular at it's
meals. And as newspaper men are al
ways and proverbially hungry, have
no reason to suppose that it has grown
abstemious just because drifted away
from it. Blessed appetite! Only men
who are busy doing things know what
IL is at its hest II takes a clear cOn-
scious TO sit up to four meals a day,
as we used to do on those days the
Now I remember one of the annual
banquets of the Scott County Medical
society, and that five of the II mem
bers participating were i'll afterward in
consequence of the overload but
never heard tell of the time when the
Press Club failed to do full justice to
everything that was set before it, or
when any member of it failed to do
two mems work on the day thereafter.
But think of the price! 1 will not enter
into labored statistics, but a rough cal
culation of the cost of all this super
nUmerary reflection satisfies me that,
since the day Of its organization, the
Tri-City Press Club has consumed, in
sandwiches, salad, lady fingers, cof-
fee and cigars, not to mention larger
orders, a sum sufficient to create loan
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-01
THE MEN WHO MAKE A NEWSPAPER

The advertising man must go among
the merchants and induce them to ad-
vertise; it does not matter that the
merchant is not at the store: that his
goods have not arrived; that the
weather is unfavorable. These things
do not matter, the solicitors must
have the ad in the paper at night.
Those are the unpleasant features.
There are many pleasant features
which make the work fascinating. In
a spirit of friendly rivalry the aim is
to beat the man on the other paper;
to be. In touch with current events
and know what is happening; and,
as an eminent editor once said: ITO
know where hell is going to break
loose next and be there when It
breaks" These are the things that
make the newspaper workers voca-
ton an envied one. This training,
too. fits the man for any emergency
and he is best fitted to understand
and to interpret matters OF the world
successfully.
A newspaper man seldom wishes to
change work. he Is enthusiastic and
loves his work. Then when the paper
is gone to press and he can enjoy a
luncheon and a pleasant chat with his
friends and coworkers at the Tri-City
Press Club. He can then thank his
lucky stars that he is newspaper
man and therefore eligible to MEM
bership OF this Organization.
G. ]. ZAISER.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-01

ests, to render mutual service, to mu-
tually advance the general good, as the
Press Club did these things, there
would be. today, small talk of selfish
rivalry in your three cities. Instead
there would be such a downhill pull for
the community benefit as would make
your locality famous and prosperous
beyond any measure 1t has ever known.
OF tri-city progress in this respect in
the past three years I am poorly so.
vised. Perhaps the people in your
three towns have done better In this
regard than / know; better than they
used to do; but whatever they have
done. this fact remains-theT ri-City
Press Club was the first organic move
ment toward the unifying of the three
towns in sentiment, in ambition, and in
action. The first, and the most poten-
tial. It may be esteemed joke, this
calling a newspaper a moulder of
opinion, but such an estimate is an er-
ror. and he who falls therein is not
wise. Certainly it has needed no wise
man to discern and interpret the
change in the tone of the papers on
both sides of the river, which ensued
upon the organization of that club, and
It needs not that any man be overwise
to be able to point to the effect that
this increase of generous, neighborly,
tolerant helpfulness has had upon each
Of the towns.
Have Right to BE Personal.
AS a dispenser of reminiscent moral
izings 1 suppose have some right to
he personal, in this connection.
haven't a hard word for anybody, for
| have not carried away with me sim
gle harsh memory of any man of the
scores I used to greet at the Press
Club meetings, but at this safe distance
may venture to say more than might
feel safe in saying if were just across
the bridge! only wish to add that it
seems to- me that some recognition is
due to the man who was the moving
spirit in the organization Of the club,
as he has been the continuous motor
force in all its subsequent life and
works. He has a wealth of loyal sup
port; a world of kindly aid in his I'M
dertakings, and of kindly sympathy in
his tri-city ambitions. No one will be
50 fulsome as to claim that the TrtCity
Press Club has been a one-man
show, and that ne is the man,
for the clubs success has
arisen from the cooperation of
a large company of good. well-mean-
ing, Woodworking newspaper men, but,
ss know the case, the credit of bring
ing these men on both sides of the
river togther, to form of them united
central force for the undivided adj
of the three towns, belongs
to Harry P. Simpson, of the Rock Isl
and Argus. Whether he builded better
than he knew, or whether he had all
this in his prophetic eve, know not,
but the fact remains that he started
this particular leaven in these TIRES
measures or meal, and If it is to be
that this leaven shall work till the
whole be leavened, he is the man who
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-01

larity with the boys. Because not often
<cences except in a pronounced has
been; person who. however active he
may have been some day long past,
is now safely on the shelf; one who
has garnered observations, and exper-
fence, and once in a while, wisdom,
from long grinding at the mill, but
who is now, at least, established in his
little niche, past the quiet of which
the big world whirls its way, ever big
ger and buster. Again and again l
have pumped, with the rest of you
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-01
The Fighters of Yesterday

Cvvritten tor The Tr1-City Edition)
T HS he wind Sr S the the ees in p6 the
Down the long dim valleys that stretch away
dream of the fighters of yesterday,
And see the light of The watch fires glow
Where the rivers In their
hear wolf lonely hill
And the low, sweet song of the whippoo.win,
CLEAN the brink.
An is flaming the sky.
The gray calls with a loud tuwhoo
From the battered prov Of canoe.
CLEAN the brink,
Where the moose down in the night to drink
And far along by wooded shore
watch for the foe where he ufked of yore
heavenward. by one,
And the hills uplf to the rising
Down the long, dim valleys that once were mine,
The palefacc kneels at his altar shrine,
see the path that his skill has b1azed
the works the might of his has rased
His children where my people trod
their harvests spring from the boodsained sod,
AS the trail winds on over plain and steep
Through hallowed where the fighters sleep
What matters may rest;
It knife to knife, 1t was breast to breast
hear the twang o. the Bonded bow,
the mufled shot in the rocks below
Though the sceptre falls from the cheftain's hand
He his squaw and his native land,
For men were the prey,
And brave the fighters Of yesterday
ROBERT RExDALh
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-01


fund that would be ample to tide every
hard-pressed member over the occa-
siona1 shoals of impecuniosity, orsbuild
a club house that would make the Day
export Commercial club hide its di1nfn-
ished head, or give every bachelor
member parlor suite and years
rent whenever he found the girl. But
what of it, if the money Is, spent? Did
we not have the good of It as we went
along? And do we not have the mem
cries of it all now?. After all. about all
there remains of well spent life is
pleasant memories. They are the only
things we accumulate of which we can
not be deprived by hard luck. and they
are worth the price.
Is Larger Story.
But of the individual members Of the
club there runs larger tale. The Or
,ganization itself is impersonal, and so
not capable of that intimacy in which
we hold men as individuals. To. even
number all the pleasant things that
should be said OF the boys themselves
would keep me writing farlonger than
any of you would care to read. The
nndliness, the courtesy, the genial
helping hand, never knew any one of
them to lack. The rivalry, for news
scoops, for advertising, and for SUBJ
scribers, as far as my knowledge went,
was a friendly emulation that planted
no stings and left no enmities. And,
as far as the newspaper workers of the
tri-cities were manifest, none of that
unpleasant jealousy that now and then
cropped out among the three towns,
on the opposite sides of the river, can
be imputed to them: certainly there
was none of it that lay at the door
of any member of the Tri-City Press
Club Its very organization and exist
ence was based upon solid founda-
ton Of unity of which the corner stone
was fraternity. 1t doesn't lie in the
nature of any decent man to harbor
mean jealousies or say mean things
about another fellow, or the town he
lives in, when they two meet and greet
every month, and pass the loving cup.
To the Tri-City Press Club first and
foremost of all, if not altogether, be-
longs the honor of being the one organ
ization in the three cities that was at
work all the time for the whole triune
It's members laid aside
the petty spites that too often biased
the action of the business men and the
other residents of this town or that,
in order to pull for the general interest.
If the merchants of the three towns,
the manufacturers, the councilmen, me
generally, had but followed
in the wake of the Press Club, and got
together, first in one town and then in
another, to gain mutual acquaintance
ard esteem, to learn of mutual inter-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-01
BY }. z. cALklNs.

Lordsburg. California. To the Editor
of the Tri-City Press Club Special Edi-
tion-It strikes as new sensation
this being asked to contribute some
thing reminiscent to the Press Clubs
own paper 1t gently hints at advanc-
ing years. while it affects to lay the
emphasis upon ones large acquaint-
ance, and possibly, his one time popu-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-01

hydraulic system the largest hydraulic being of
tyfve hundred tons capacity For this immense factory,
total of forty overhead with capacity of five
hirtve TONS required In the operation of the great
magnets electricity is used great extent
while in rveng air and hydraulic press
exclusively To furnish the factory of this
size it is evident that power is demanded and
the stack of the house the taes between Chicago
and Omaha.
The products of the Bettendorf Steel Company
used by all of the great railway systems in the United States
On the lines of single railroad twenty thousand
operated with Bettendorf construction all the
United States hundreds thousands equip
ped with Bettendorf products.
Railways today and being equipped with
steel and the Bettendorf Company only factory
of Pittsburg manufacturing this product The
growth of the Bettendorf factory phenomenal
sales offices maintained in all the largest cities of
the United States.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-01
Steel Car Com

~ NE thing that visitors in the TrCities cannot afford
forego visiting is the immense plant of the Bet
~ tendorf Steel Car Company, which has grown in
recent years. The Bettendorf brothers. W. P Bet
tendorf Bettendorf the head of this instu
W. Bettendorf being president and J. W. Bettendorf
secretary Alter the death of W. P Bettendorf
the presidency of the company assumed by Mr. j. W.
Beendorf This the patenee OF inventions that
have revoluonized process railway manufacturing In six
years. from small shop covering about half
they built immense industry covering twenty
der roof Originally manufacturing only pressed steel
wagon of steel trucks,
rolled steel undeame holsters and complete steel for
railroads An average of about 20 carloads day
OF finished products shipped from the Bettendor works
and about foundres located in dit
ferent parts OF the United States.
The immense plant is modern and complete in every
spect The heavy work the factory is carried by the
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1910-08-02
BRYAN CONFIDENT OF
TAFTS DENOMINATION

Topeka. Aug 2.-'1 believe the
democrats have a good chance for a
majority in the house in the next ses-
sion of congress-. said W. J. Bryan
in an interview here last night. en-
route to Eureka. Kans.. to fill a chau-
tauqua date.
Il am fsm in my belief that VIII
Nam Howard Taft will be the next re-
publican candidate for president, but
who the democratic candidate will
be is hard to determine at present.
There is no dearth Of democratic tim
ber, but the choice of leader will
be determined largely BY the actions
lof the next congress. I will not at
tempt to name any democrats who
could be considered possibilities be-
cause thre are SO many Of them"