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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-07

q mere plan of making money by bor- rowing from the people at one rate and lending at a higher rate, but it's real purpose is to still further encour- age the people to save their money; to educate them In the savings habit by stimulating their desire to make money; to build up the banking bus mess generally by coaXing money from its hiding places with the very high est inducement that sound banks can afford
 In the particular case of the Bir- mingham Trust and Savings company 1t does not altogether matter whether such change in rate shall show to the immediate advantage of the undi- yided profit account. It has always been the policy of the bank to share it's earnings with it's depositors and this 1t has done, limiting it's dividends to stockholders and building up a sur plus as security or guarantee for the safety of the peoples money. Now that this surplus has reached the same fig ure as the capital stock, it may well be the wiser policy to more directly share the earnings with the depositors by paying a higher rate to the boy and girl and the wage earner who save their money and thus lay the founda- tion for open accounts later on.
 Discussing the matter an official of
 
 state banks have entered on a new era We at last have a banking law that is better and more efficient than even the national bank law ever was or will be. We have sound rules and strict rules and we have three capable and earnest men whose whole time is given to our state banks This new hank law is stimulating to the banks and is operating to wonderfully strengthen the confidence of the peo- pie in our home banks. We have only to respond to this growth of public confidence We must do our part to show the people that all our ends are not selfish. but that we subserve a great and u.Sful purpose.
 "I know of no better way to prove this than by sharing with them to tho | limit of sound business principles the earnings of their own money.
 "So far as this bank IS concerned we are more than earning and will gladly pay the l per cent on aiI the savings the people may see it to con lide to our keeping sss
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-07
Metcalf Replies to Agee

In the absence of Sheriff w. K. Me- Adory who is out of town for a few days on a business matter, Waiter l.. Metcalf, chief deputy sheriff, when asked for an interview on tho statements made by Chairman Agee of the excise commission, said:
 ''I rather hesitate to make any state n.ent in reference to MT. Agee's charges. MT McAdory Is out of town and will not return for several days. am sure when he returns that he will answer them in full; that is, should be deem such var brings worthy an answer. However, that is up to him.
 T might say in reference to arrests for violation of the liquor laws that since the return of the saloon the sheriffs office has made nearly 1000 arrests for violations of the revenue law. These violators have been run down by the sheriff forces at l believe, far greater expense to him than the fees from the cases will amount to. The sheriff, as I understand it, has been actuated by desire to stop the Illicit sale of liquor at all hazards and has re- peatedly offered to cooperate with the excise commission with this end in view.
 From the day the saloons opened up to the present time the excise commission notwithstanding the fact that one of them stated that there were 600 blind tigers in this county) is on record in the sheriff s office of having filed one complaint, which was promptly attended to.
 T am sure that Sheriff McAdory will on his return to pay his proper respects to his critics"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-07
Foreaker in City

w. N Foreaker, general superintendent of the Southern Railway, stationed Tn Charlotte, was in Birmingham yesterday en route to Colorado Springs with lis family for a short vacation. He was formerly stationed here as superintendent and is well known in Birmingham. He arrived on the Southern Railway noon train and left on the Southeastern limit ed of the Frisco lines. Several old friends called upon MT. Foreaker while he was at the Terminal station for q few minutes MT. Foreaker is one of the best known officials on the Southern Railway and has many friends in the en- tire south.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-07
QUICK WORK BY FIREMEN
Small Fire at Residence of k. w.
 Barrett Early Last Night

A small fire broke out in the basement al the residence of E. w. Barrett. 2lS0 Highland avenue, shortly before o'clock last night. The damage was slight and was confined to one of the servants ooms.
 MT. Barrett was especially warm in his praise of the work of the fire department last night. "Captain Smith and his com rany from the Five Points station were there within three minutes" said Mir Barrett and Chief Bennett himself from the Central station downtown was on the scene in six minutes. It was the quick est fire alarm response l have ever seen |"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-07
GREENFIELD TO BE IN
 BIRMINGHAM SOON
Has Been Working Hard On Proposed Merger of Two We'll Known
 Corporations

Cecil Grenfell chairman of the board of directors of the Southern Steel and Iron company of London, is expected in the district shortly on trip of inspection.
 Since in Birmingham last MT. Grenfel and associates have been trying to merge the Alabama Consolidated Coal and Iron company with the Southern Iron and Steel company.
 MT. Grenfell, it Is understood, will have some information to give out in refer ence to the merger from the Southern Iron and Steel side of the proposed mer- ger
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-07
SLOSS CONTRACT
No Date Set for Resumption of Dis.
 cussion by Officials

That there is no date set for the re- sumption of the discussion between the officials of the state and the officials or the S1oss- Sheffield Coal and Iron company in reference to the contract held by the latter under the terms of which it employs the convicts of the state, was made known by Jones G. Moore last night
 The report was current to the effect that the Sloss officials would visit Montgomery today. Mir. Moore, who is superintendent of the mines of the Sloss company, stated last night that the report was untrue, and that he has no idea when Governor O'Neal will be ready again to discuss the problem of the contract.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-07
GETTING REPORTS READY
Chamber of Commerce Committees to
 Review the Years Work

The various standing committees. of the Chamber of Commerce are now busy pre- pairing the reports of their work for the past F months to be read at the regular annual meeting of this body on February 23 The new administration, which will also mean the appointment of new stand ing committees. will go into office at this time, and the reviews of the achieve ments effected under the retiring of ficials is expected to be one of the most successful in the history of the organ ization.
 President Richard w. Massey, who is spending few weeks in Cuba, has writ Aten that he will arrive home on Feb truary 16, just a week previous to the day he will surrender the presidency of the Chamber of Commerce to the president elect, John ". Sibley
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-07
More Signs of Gas

Anniston. February G. Especially O. k. Gidley, who resides near OK ford, has reported what he considers further signs of natural gas near his home. II IS firmly believed by many that there are natural gas and oil de- posits in the Anniston district and those interested in the property affected are planning to have developments un- leri ls en.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-07
Fire Didn't Stop Clock

Anniston, February 6.-(SpeciaL)- Bremen who visited the scene of the fire which destroyed the dwelling house of Mrs. w. A. Smith, occupied by w. M. flames and J. w. Malone Tuesday morning several hours after the fire, foand a small mission clock buried be- acaih the debris.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-07
Hollinpsworth Paroled

Annfston, February 6.-(Special)- Emmett Hollingsworth, whose sentence to the penitentlary for violating the prohibition law was recently sustained by the supreme court, has been granted a short parole. but he will be taken to the mines in a few days, according to tho local officers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-07
THE LAx-FOs WAY

If you had a medicine that would strengthen the liver, the stomach. the Kidneys and the bowels. and at the -oame time make you strong with a sys- ttennic tonic don't you believe you gWould soon be well?
 rhat's The Lax-Fos way" x< Ke ask you to buy the first bottle d Ethe money back plan. and you will a your druggist to sell you the sec ,xl keeps your whole insides right. k here Is nothing else made like Lax
 kmember the name-LAX-FOS.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-07
Enter Commissioner Race

Anniston. February 6.-(Speeial)-- D. C. Wright and J. c. Chandler entered the race for the position of commits soner of the Second district Tuesday They are the first two persons to an- nounce from this district
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-07
LEE LONG RETURNS
Office May Be Maintained Here
 Throughout the Summer

]. Lee Long. chairman of the state tax commission, returned yesterday to Birmin gham after having made trip to his home in Greenville. MT. Long states that there is every indication that the local office of the commission will remain open for more than GO days, and that 1t is possible that Birmingham will be the headquarters of the com mission throughout the summer.
 "There is great deal of work to be accomplished by the board" stated he, flor we are not only attending to the taxable property in Jefferson coun- ty, but also in all surrounding coun- ties We do not intend to make un- easonable increases In the assess ments, although it is evident that some increases are needed"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-07

this important commission, and as there are only five places to be filled in such an election, any one running is liable
 to be elected, and a good man is liable
 to be defeated. My idea is that there
 should be formed 8 committee of 25
 or more representative business men
 who should get together and agree on
 suitable men for this board, make n
 slate as it were, and ask the people
 to support il. Get behind the ticket and elect it. Perhaps suitable men
 could be found among the candidates
 already offering, otherwise this com
 mittee representing the interests of
 the county regardless of any indiyid-
 ual person. save for his fitness for of flee should get out a sufficient num- Der of men and see to 1t that they are elected This policy should be pursued in the same manner with all other of- fees, and if the same policy is vigor- ously and fearlessly kept up the coun-
 ty can soon be cleaned up of incompe- tent and unreliable men in office, and Jefferson county would soon take her place with other counties in the state for the enforcement of law and order"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-22

Probably few conventions are better
known or more commonly used than the
down and-out echo, which shows that the
player can ruff the suit led on the third
round. In the old whist days this was
a signal to lead trumps In auction it
means to let the partner make his trumps
ruffing instead OF leading them.
The rule for this convention is usually
BADLY stated as playing the higher of
only two cards the first round. so that
the lower shall fall on the second round.
and show no more Of the suit. Some ALL
thorities advise the player to restrict its
use to the king lead. so that the leader
shall be in and able to lead third round
when the echo is completed. and every
one is supposed to know that it should be
used only on the partners suits.
But there Is a very important exception
to this rule which many beginners do not
grasp. This is that 1t is never neces-
sary to make the echo when the higher OF
the two cards is as good as a jack. To
echo down-and- out with an honor only
misleads the partner.
Suppose you hold queen and small only.
If Your partner leads king and then ace.
he must know you have no more il your
queen falls on the second round. II you
put IT on the first round. he will think
You had queen alone. So with jack and
small. When the jack falls you have the
best card OF the suit left for the next
round. the queen. or you can trump. IL
you play the jack first you should have
~ ~ illustration Of how expensive may
be tho mistake Of 0laT1u9 doWU-and-0ut
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-22
Age of Specialists.
From the Philadelphia Telegraph.

From the Philadelphia Telegraph.
There is much of great significance IN
the report by local experts that, side by
side with the inability of great many
men and women TO procure employment.
there is the inability of employers to get
workers to fill the places they have open
This statement reveals clearly that under
the complicated processes OF modern in
dustry mans willingness to work is far
from qualifying him for work waiting 10
be done The person wishing to be sure
Of employment must specialize in one or
more of the many classes of work for
which there seems always TO be a scar
city of la Dor. AS emphasized in the report
referred to. the person who relies upon
his ability TO perform unspecialiZed tasks
will find himself in constant competition
with the three or four like himself ia
quest of the one job open for them. The
very best advice that can be given a
Young man woman today is this:
Learn to do some one thing better thaG
most other persons can do ii. Specialize
and keep up To date i'm your specially
There is no end of work to he done IN
the world and not nearly enough people
who know how to do il
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-22
Simple Explanations of Electric Facts

modify he sells providing he sells II
promptly. Supposing he cannot sell 1t
promptly; he has to pay interest on the
capita invested in his stock. This cuts
down his net profits. The failure of the
pres sure tvoltsO To reach the motor at
the same time as the volume of current
(amperes) cut down the amount of power
delivered by the machine in precisely the
same way a : the slow sales cut down the
profits of the business man.
If the volts come a little bit later or
earlier than the amperes. 50 that - per
cent of the amperes are not accompanied
by volts, this reduction is 20 per cent and
the machine, or system is said To have
only 50 per cent power factor. Therefore
a generator with 80 per cent power factor
would have to be big enough to transmit
the current corresponding To twelve and
one-half horsepower in order to transform
all the power from a ten-horsepower en-
CINE. Twenty per cent of the twelve-and-
one half horsepower capacity, or two
and one-half horsepower. is idle capacity.
The remaining ten horsepower is trans
formed, and the generator, by being built
large enough TO transmit twelve and one
half horsepower, succeeds in TRANSMITTING
the full output of the engine running it
ten horsepower.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-22

"3HENEVER one asks an electrical
w engineer a question he seizes a
pad and draws a picture. This is
getting the cart before the horse. The
picture is graphic representation Of an
idea. One must comprehend the idea be-
fore being able to grasp the significance
of the picture.
Electricity is far more definite SCI
ence than that Of steam power. The pub
lie has learned from constant repetition
that about 80 per cent Of the energy lib
Grated by burning coal to run a steam en-
CINE is wasted. In an electrical machine
the waste is far less. and the amount Of
energy that is generated can be measured
far more accurately.
Electric generators are machines to
transform mechanical power into cleo
trical power. In other words, they gen.
crate electric current when driven by me-
chanical power. They are run by steam
engines. turbines, gas engines or some
other form of mechanical power called
prime movers The generator is con-
structed to transform the amount Of me-
chanical power that the prime mover run
ming it supplies. : A generator run by a
ten-hOrsepower engine, for instance, will
transform ten horsepower Of energy, less
a small percentage, about 10 per cent,
lost in the process
Electrical engineers don't usually say
that q generator transforms ten horse
power. Their measure Of energy, or
power is the ..ilowatt. which is equal to
one and a third horsepower. So they say
that the generator transforms seven and
"a half kilowatts, which is the equivalent
OF ten horsepower. Why should this
change in nomenclature be any more con-
fusing than to say that one inch is equal
to two and a half centimeters?
Mention the action Of electric current
to a neophyte. and he Immediately as
sumes a look of blank perplexity. Yet
the fundamental facts about electric cur
rent are extremely simple. An electric
current will not move unless it can move
in a complete circuit, and get back where
it came from. This is why 1t is safer
for a man handling an electric current
to work with one hand behind his back
He is then not likely to touch it in two
places and thus complete a circuit
through himself. Electric current may
be said to have exactly the same sort
OF intelligence as a child playing puss-
in-the-corner. The child will not leave
the corner it occupies until it sees
corner free for II to go to.
BY likening the electric circuit TO the
piping system which leads the water TO
a wash basin and away from 1t to the
sewer it is possible to grasp this idea
by noting the difference in the action OF
electric current and of the water. In
the case OF electricity. If you open the
faucet the electricity will flow only II
the discharge pipe is free all the way.
and il has the power of finding this out
instantly even If the obstruction in the
discharge pipe is very far r,1 away. c IN
physically like ono continuous piece OF
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-22
'HaE. AMERICAN boy Has 5000 Toys
PHOTOS @ HELLO

the dark Paris night (Which begins at
800 p.mD. spangled with billion lights.
amid whirlpool of vehicles. juggernaut
electric omnibuses. honking t-xis. a babel
of voices and crush of pedestrians. L
was still a world OF dear excitement
Mamma gets them home too late for
dinner. by the subway. papa s'old.ng.
all delightful and unusual. Christmas.
Christmas.
And my American boy in Paris. with
800 toys, rides home with his harGsonr
papa and elegant mamma In the auto
limousine, both petting him together.
never hurried. always gayly TRANQUIL.
When the new toys come they y
them after dinner
Ideal family evening round the lamp.
Lucky American boy in Paris. you say.
So say the French children, his friends
who come TO see him and his new toys
in the morning. How does this work."
Jimmy. show me this one And the
lucky American boy shows them. suave
and patient. like the salesman-yes. ex
actly like the salesman in the fairy gar
den.
The French children amuse themselves
a lot
The eXpatriated American boy-what
do you think? Perhaps less So.
He looks on them from heights they
know not. A proud melancholy settles on
his classic features. They are messing
with the bug. the dynamo, the squirting
fire engine.
Nonchalantly he pins up a target on the
wall, steps thirty PAGES and plugs bullet
after bullet in the bull's-eye with his
trusty air pistol
Il must keep up my shooting" he says.
against my trip to the ranch. It's full
Of bad men down there"
''Where?' ask the French children,
catching their breath.
New Mexico" he says, but you ri 8
wouldn't understand"
They don't even while they worship.
But l think his parents understand.
uneasy. questioning each other, with a
troubled glance, concerning new wine In
old bottles.
When the French children go away the
boy steals to his little room and dons his
cowboy suit.
He takes his lasso and he throws a
mustang-old moth-nipped hobbyhorse.
outgrown but cherished-it came from
America when he little. He rides
through the Black Hills hunting bear.
The bear is n bit moth-eaten, too. . TED
dy bear, behind the times that anne from
home. STERLING HEll-AG.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-22
A Land Where There Are No christmas Presents.

throughout the island. and the members
of these bedeck themselves In out andish
costumes, hire a band or form one from
their own number and parade about in
dsorganized lines, hurting confetti. blow
ing horns and ever and anon deserving
the line Of march to rush to the sidewalk
and exchange merry badinage with
some pretty girl One coterie of paraders
will be dressed as Cinnamon. another all
In brown tights and feathers VIII imi-
tate African savages. Following them
will come a group Of Spanish dons and
behind them a long string of wide boot
ed be-ruffled and be-laced French cava-
liers.
Practically every group will have it's
band. and this band. given the slightest
ENCOURAGEMENT. or. indeed. without any
encouragement at all. will stop before
group Of girls and begin a serenade..
And let one band find another serenad-
ing a group. and it will Immediately
start a rival serenade Of it's own. The
result is a wild jumbling of discordancy
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-22

material. such as hoop or an endless
chain. one part Of which will not move
unless the whole Of it moves.
X *
You cannot revolve one part of hoop
without revolving the whole hoop. You
cannot move one part Of an endless chain
without moving the whole chain. In tele-
graphing from New York to Chicago the
action of electric current is precisely sim
liar to what it would be If you had a
long chain reaching this distance and
back. and you pulled upon 1t intermit-
tently to make the dots and dashes. Only.
instead of pulling on the chain. You break
and close the electric circuit. This can be
done at any point along the line, and the
effect is apparent at any other place at
any number of places simultaneously.
Sometimes the return part Of the chain
is by q second electric wire and some
times the return is made through the
earth. When the circuit is broken at any
point on the line the current stops eve-y-
where, to start again when the break is
closed
But how does the current in New DIRK
know that the circuit is broken in Chi
cago? This brings US to one of the
really remarkable facts about electric
current. 1t travels at the rate of 100000
miles a second. and can. SO to speak.
'see ahead" this distance. which is long
err than any electric circuit that has ever
been used. So an electric current stops
in less than second If the circuit is
broken anywhere within aUO.oOO miles OF
where the current is generated.
An electric generator OF ten horse
power capacity run by ten-horsepo"efr
engine will transform ten horsepower OF
mechanical energy into ten horsepower,
or seven and half kilowatts. OF cleo
tricity with practically no loss. This is
true of a direct current generator out IN
an alternating current generator larger
carving capacity is required for the fol-
lowing rea son: Electric power Is the prod
uct of the volume of current-amperes
and the pressure at which 1t flows
volts-just as the energy with which water
flows out Of a pipe is the result of the
volume Of water and the pressure at
which 1t is flowing. The product OF the
amperes and volts is called watts. When
the product is 1,OOO-lOO voltsx10 am
peres, or 10 voltsx100 amperes, for in
stance-it is called one kilowatt.
X =
In an alternating current machine the
amperes and volts reverse their direction
with marvellous rapidity. but not always
at the same instant. The amperes may
arrive at a motor which Is being run BY
the generator slightly before the volts or
pressure. In that case the amperes with
no voltage behind them are idle and do
not produce any power. But the genera
tor. the motors and the transmission
lines, in fact. all parts Of the system
have to be made large enough to carry
all the amperes. whether they are &C
By volts and therefore pro-
1uce power or not.
The idea can be best expressed by a
smile. Imagine q man in business on
borrowed capital. who expects to make a
certain percentage q year on the COM