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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-30

militia are on duty. The company re- fuses to arbitrate.
 The railroad workers on the Cata- lonian railroad in Spain struck. Fol lowing which general strike of rail- way workers throughout the world was called.
 And so it has been throughout the past year. Beginning with the strike on the Hartman and Illinois Central lines last fall there are a score of great strikes, national in importance, that stand out in bold relief. There were countless smaller disturbances which were merely local in character. The number of men involved in strikes during the past year is well over the million mark in the United States alone, while as many more might be counted in Europe.
 It is not proposed to deal with the merits of industrial strikes or to con- slider the conflict" between capital and labor, but to ask this question of capital and labor alike: Does it pay? Is there not better way of settling differences than the calling of strike? Is there not less expensive way, both to operator and operative? :?
 The engineers and firemen of the railroads east of the Mississippi river and north of the Ohio, the trainmen of the Southern road, and the employees of the Norfolk and Western have found one.
 In the north higher wages were re- quested. Railroad officials failed to agree. The ultimatum had gone forth for a strike when through the media ton of Judge Knapp of the commerce count and Commissioner Neil an arbi- tration board was appointed. The board heard both sides of the question and will announce their decision short ly. Both sides have pledged them selves to abide by the decision. Un- der no circumstances will there be strike.
 There will be no rioting. No lives will be lost. The several states will not be put to untold expense to pre- serve order Business will not be dis turbed. The operatives will not lose money through lack of work. The operators will not lose money through inferior service, delayed transporta- tion, or difficulty in securing labor.
 There will be less bitterness, less discontent under the arbitration plan than had a strike been called and the matter fought out.
 It sometimes happens that there is nothing to arbitrate. But usually there is. The contrast between the settling of labor differences by strikes and by arbitration is sharp and inn pressive.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-30
SHOPPING IN CHINA

Nan Peacock in Leslie's.
 The start out in the morning from the
 hotel on Shameen, the foreign concession,
 is an experience in itself The sedan
 chair has to be hired and packed with a lunch fer many of the stores are in has no restaurants where tourists could safely get Iefreshment. Then the three bearers for each chair will have to be en-
 ga ged and bargained with, but the guide
 will do this, and he will also act as in | terpreter in the stores, arranging a squeeze" or discount for himself with the proprietor at the same time.
 | Tn Canton there are no factories and
 no middlenen. Everything is made on the premises, which serve as store. ware house, factory and residence combined; i; | thus production is astonishingly cheap.
 The owner of the store supervises, if he does not assist in, the making of every thing he sells, except, of course, in the few places where imported goods are scld.
 It is this factor which makes shopping in Canton so fascinating. To see in the
 making the articles one buys, to be able
 to purchase piece of embroidery after
 one has watched the delft fingers of the quite small boy the last dainty stitches to a bunch of cherry blossoms, or to be-
 come the possessor of lacquered box the gold on which is hardly dry, lends an
 individuality to. ones purchases lucy
 would not otherwise possess.
 There are no factory laws, nor Is edu-
 cation compulsory among the Chinese
 and in every store one sees the children
 becoming adopts in the same handicratt
 in which the parents are skilled, for the
 Chinese are a conservative race and sons
 follow in the footsteps of their fathers as part of the natural order of things.
 In Canton each trade is confined to one quarter of the city. and practically to one street In course of time the street
 has taken the name of the industry, and thus we find such streets as Ty Sing Kai
 or Jade Stone street, and Sai Lo Cho TT,
 the Street of Blackwood Furniture. A Cantonese storekeeper scorns to
 press his goods on a foreigner. In fact,
 he gives so little encouragement to buy
 that it seems as though he would almos, pIelcT HOI lO sell duy ylihIB Just then. It
 takes time to get accustomed to this n-
 difference, especially if one is newly
 from the persuasive persstency of The
 Indian or Arab trader. However Chinaman will show anything he has in
 his store, and admiration of his wares
 is sure way to his greater friendlness. Of course to think of Canton from the feminine point of view is to think silks and embroideries Cantonese silks are the most beautiful and durable in the
 world, and the marvel is that so much beauty can be evolved amid such sordid surroundings. Imagine a narrow, alley like street, unclean and malodorous On either side, through the open doorways, one peers into dim and dusty interiors al-
 most filled with the clumsy wooden hand looms and here the family lives also, and the babies distort themselves on the ill-kept floors. But the silks do not sp- pear to suffer from the general dinginess, and, though the range of eyes is compar-
 atively few, the eolors are unequaled fer richness and beauty.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-30

that the reading capacity of man has lIro- itations. Each 10 pages of reading mai ter In The Times contain about as much as an ordinary standard novel, or from so,0oO to 100000 words. The average. copy or The Times of 20 pages, there fore, which Is issued on every week-day In the year. has type space which Is equal to that of two ordinary novels; and 36-page paper has the equivalent Of three and a half. When all the sun plements and special numbers are added. the total type space in the printed col umns of The Times last year was eouiv- aient to that in over 700 novels. Even with all the advertisements and similar impedimenta deducted there remained | some 47o novels worth, so to speak. of good news or reading matter That sub scrlber must be a glutton indeed who demands or can digest the equivalent of novel and a haH a day for every working day in the year.
 There was, of course, an idvlljc lime when an editor wrote the whole of his paper Even in those days, not so long ago, when In the emphatic, big-voiced, alWays influential and often strongly un- reasonable Times" as Gin adjectives whish delightfully."- fit himselD Carlyle phrasea It, Sterling 'thundered, to the shaking or spheres; the world was so small t.,e sources of news were SO few, that one man could reasonably survey the whole held and stand as the interpreter of all Knowledge to his constituents Today the number of writers on The Times is close upon 2o00; that is to say that during tho last F months 1924 persons have been paid Tor contributing to it's columns Nor does this approximately represent the number of brains that go to the making of the paper Besides the writing and costribu tlng stair, there are in the offices ;u Printing House square some 29o persons under salary who (though some of them are editors) originate no written mat ter for the columns, besides over $50 in the mechanical department and connected With the actual production of the jour nal. Nor In these 250o personsl among whom, of course, are not included any outside agents distributors, or circula- tors, or others who form the channels by which the paper reaches its readers) have we yet arrived at the. total num- Der of those who assist in furnishing ITO Times subscribers each morning with their news.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-30
.AR be ii from me to refer sneering- ly or in light and facetious vein

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 ly or in light and facetious vein A so important a body as the sena- torial investigating committee head ed by that prince of T take myself seriously statesman Sena- tor Clapp. which proposes to find out tho very last word concerning predatory wealtfs unholy alliance with all the cam paign committees four and eight years ago.
 Of course, an investigating committee Is a good thing. They have certain func- tions to perform; chiefly they give pub- licity to certain notable men who don't need it, but usually everybody else in the country knows more about what the committee is trying to learn than the com mittee itself ever learns.
 An Investigating committee has lost it's terrors for our great financiers Any one of them who used to quail at the very mention of an investigation or publicity of any sort, can now walk right up and shake committee by its hand and in- quire about the wife and children and never whimper. The answer is very sim pie. All in the world one has to do-in order to lead a life that will permit him to always look an Investigating committee souarely in the eye without a blush--is to forget everything that one has done that one does not want to remember. Some folks naturally wonder how this is done so do l. All I know Is that it is part of the system. These fellows that can remember perfectly about making you loan in 1870 of 800 bucks which they had great difficulty in collecting, can forget all about giving hundred thousand bones to the treasurer of the national campaign committee in 1908
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-30
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Much Pleased win Roosevelt

T heard Roosevelt speak in New Or leans and liked him very much; there was remarkable demonstration in his honor" said J. R. Ryan, sales manager of the Corona Coal and Iron com pany.
 Having spent much time in New Or leans during the past 25 years l nat urally have many acquaintances there both business and social, and think am safe in saying that Roosevelt will get large vote in Louisiana. on account of the sugar interests many prominent men who have been demo- crats in the state elections have been voting the republican ticket in national elections Roosevelt Is making spe- cial effort to break the solid south and 1t would not surprise me if he carried Louisiana"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-30
Goodbye to Summer

q see the turn of the season mark edly in the fields, for although the wet weather has kept vegetation green CT than usual some two or three weeks late, yet the signs of autumn are all about" said lover of nature.
 Autumn Is waving her banners in the golden rod which now makes the darkening rank growth of weeds beau tiful. The pawpaw bush Is dropping its full ripe fruit. The wild or fox grape is hanging in dark clusters amid with erng foliage. You can hear an occa- sional muscadine fall In the woodland thickets or along the banks of streams. The cut worm is dropping few nick ory nuts for foxes and coons to crack. The squirrels are cutting nuts or stor- ing them for the coming winter. The grasshoppers in great numbers have put on their dark gray coats for the green of earlier summer, their shrouds before they fall into their winter sleep. Flocks of quail are feeding in the corn field on pea patches and when dis turbed whir away on strong wing. have not heard the katydid but the jar fly has been singing his rasping re- quiem for autumn. The corn Is ripe; the millet is in the ripe, and verify the sere and yellow blade. but the trees have not been in haste to drop red dish leaves except the fruit bearing ones.
 And so it's goodbye to summer; for in few days at best we shall be paying tribute to the coal man and Jack Frost will have spread his white mantle over all things out of doors.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-30
Value of Good Roads

The economic value of good roads cannot be overestimated. A county that is without macadamized high ways is in poor way to invite home seekers to come and settle.
 Ten years ago little attention had been paid to good road building in the south outside of the limestone sections, but in the very recent past, thanks to an intelligent Magitation, thousands
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-30
The stock Market situation

Henry Clews in his Saturday review says in part:
 We have had another week .of im- proved undertone in the stock market. Prices for active shares now show a satisfactory advance compared with pre- vious low prices, and the reaction which began Wednesday though induced by tenn porary stringency in call money, was no surprise. The money market is now an important factor in stock market opera tions. Mercantile demands are becoming more and more insistent. Earlier prog nosticatons as to an active fall trade are now being fuldlls<$ In all parts of the country business ns becoming daily more and more active. The railroads are over taxed in bringing present crops to mar ket, and 1t will be some weeks before present congestion is overcome. The al- rivals of grain at some of the interior points are beyond all precedent. As yet cotton and corn have hardly begun to move, these crops being the last to ripen. Thus far there has been little in- jury of consequence to either of these crops, which of course means heavy movement. later on. One of the most eE-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-30
The Prevalence of Strikes

his year has witnessed much un- and some turbulence in the labor d. Hardly has the public com d itself after one great strike be- another is declared.
 The trouble has not been confined to United States. England, France, :, end Austria have felt the un- And for violence and malice, the es abroad are not to be compared disturbances of like nature in United States.
 In progress now are three strikes national importance, one of import o the whole south, and another in- ternational in scope.
 The mill workers of Lawrence, fired V their taste of power last winter, re out in large numbers in sym )athetic strike to force the release of two labor leaders. Ettor and Giovan- hitti, who are charged with being ac- \ essories to the murder of Anna opizzo in the rioting attendant on mer strike. A general strike is
 ned.
 copper miners of Utah, declin-
 accept arbitration, laid down
 ,ols and walked out. The out
 copper ore of the United States
 ,rially affected. Further ad-
 to the strikers ranks are
 
 ,oal miners of West Virginia
 king for recognition and high
 $. They have been out near
 onth and the state has been
 lntold expense. Several lives |, en lost and the output of the
 rginia mines is practically nil. t car men of Augusta, Ga., re- ed higher wages and when re- ed walked out. The situation as lmed an ominous aspect and state pops were requested. One business Fan of the city has been killed and 9 others have been wounded, one lily. Four companies of state
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-30

couraging features is the satisfactory increases in gross earnings reported TOT August by many prominent systems September and October returns are sure to be even more satisfactory Our great industrial establishments are running on full time, particularly the steel indus try. and many of these concerns are likely to close the calendar year with much better balance sheets than year ago.
 "The prospects are ultimately for more active and higher marketr Unfav- orable political developments may or course precipitate a reaction, but should the election prove satisfactory to busi- ness interests it will have a decidedly stimulating offect. There is no occasion for anxiety in the money market."s
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-30
The Luxury of Rubber Heels

T wonder if all nervous people know of the luxury and comfort of rub Der heels,' said a man who takes much physical exercise particularly long ram bles.
 T believe that the cushion of rub Der on the heels of mems shoes is the greatest of protection to the whole nervous system from the constant jar on hard pavements, particularly stone and concrete. Brick has a certain amount of yielding to the step. but not so the stone sidewalks. Immediately I put on q pair of shoes with ordinary heels feel the jar and concussion clear up the spinal column, so that after 8 busy day l am unusually Jagged and nervous. And I call the attention of some who do not stop to study the cause of things, that where the heels of shoes become worn the strain on the muscles of the legs under the knees becomes greater and an unusual tired feeling comes after day of standing and walking"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-30
The Marvel of the south

Charles IT. Zehnder of 1 40 Cedar street, New York, writes most interestingly to the Baltimore Manufacturers Rec ord about his recent trip through the south. Mir Zehnder at one time had large interests in Virginia. He had travelled extensively in the south few years ago but his recent trip caused him agreeable surprise at the general improvement. He was pleased with Vir- ginia, Tennessee and Alabama; said the south had a most cheerful future.
 q know of no section in the coun- try.n he writes in the Manufacturers Record, that offers better opportuni- ties for capital investment. The south has certainly had a great awakening and the energy displayed is commend able"
 Mr. zehnder spoke better of southern roads than some writers. He found many of them in good condition. All along the line the counties seemed to be improving the roads.
 While did not use the highways very much" writes MT. Zehnder, where had opportunity to do so I found them in excellent condition, and all along the line townships and counties seemed to be improving them very greatly
 The marvel of it all, however, I found in the city of Birmingham The main thoroughfares were about as crowded as one finds Broadway at the busy time of the day; people were &C., tive and alert; stores were most att tractive, and the lines of communica- tion (street railways and automobile service) were practically as good as any northern city. The suburban sec- ton of Birmingham, in my judgment is equal to any of our most enter prising cities. The homes were most attractive, and many of them costly In design and construction. The streets are well lighted, and there is an abundant supply of water. Then the climax of it all seemed to be in the tremendous iron and steel works that had been constructed since my last trip to Birmingham. I do not today think of any more inviting place to live or do business, from almost any standpoint, than the city of Birming ham. They are now getting what they need very badly; that is, good hotel accommodation I am told that they will have two within year that will be of the, very highest standard"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-30
THEN SHE cor OUT AND WALKED

I iUIII tIIt -StW I Ofk w UTIU.
 Gigantic Lady to Tiny Elevator Boy You are rather small to be running tffs elevator, my boy"
 The Elevator Boy: ''Yes'm. but you see they gave me the job because the cable broke so often with heavier boys
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-30
The Vaudeville situation

According to one who claims to be well informed about the vaudeville sit uation in this city the merger of in- terests between Jake. Wells and Karl Hoblitzelle means the closing of the Ma jestic theatre at an early date as vau- deville houN," said theatre goer yes- terday.
 Tn competition both the orpheum ard the Majestic were probably losing money, or just about breaking even. Their ex- penses were large as each management tried to outdo the other in presenting at fractions that would surpass his competi- tor. The present amalgamation of rival interests was made so as to cut this ex- tra expense to a minimum.
 Ut can be readily understood that the new managers will enlarge the orpheum. The plan will be to practically double the capacity of the Orpheum and change the vaudebille bills twice weeb-Mon- day and Thursday-and maintain the same prices now prevailing
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-30

How many of you Alabama democrats have not contributed to the presidential campaign fund? Two thousand or more should forward s5 to National Committee- man Jelks or direct to national democrat ic headquarters.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-30

In May, with the rain falling, the Ala bama cotton farmer thought he had no chance to make a crop. It is now believed that Alabama's total cotton production this year will be 1,loo,oO0 bales or there- abouts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-30

The microbes on dollar bill are not at all dangerous to a newspaper man. They don't even have time to hop off while 1t is passing through his hands,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-30

When we finally succeed in making eggs from the air, we trust that the air from these eggs will not be tainted.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-30

It is no exaggeration to say that busi- ness houses in Birmingham are springng up like mushrooms almost in a night The building boom is here to stay
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-30

Woodrow Wilson went shopping in New York the other day, but he is not the sort of person to indulge in loud socks and fancy ties.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-30

It seems like a long time since we have heard the calliope play, but it is due to wake the echoes in Birmingham this week
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-30

If Chairman Gary of the United States Steel corporation would still further popu- larize himself in the Birmingham district, let him give the word for starting up work at the wire mill.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-30

It is possible to have ones stockings painted on by an expert. but sensible girls will continue to pull theirs on.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-30

The successful gunman is a well dressed fellow. Why shouldn't he be? He is a fairly we'll paid murder specialist
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-30

We presume that members of the Ana nias club signal to one another with the thumb to the nose.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-30

T. R. Is paying his respects mostly to Woodrow Wilson. He evidently does not think dear Will' worth botherng about.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-30

An Ohio women claims to have a per- feet husband. Probably hasn't had him long.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-30

western editor wants to know what is the feminine of boss. Pshawi That's easy. It's wife"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-30

This is Birmingham's State Fair week, and, weather permitting. the attendance will be great.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1912-05-31
CITY NEWS.

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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1912-05-31
TO ENJOIN
RAILROAD
CHANGES

An injunction suit was filed this
this morning in circuit court by the
Chas. X. Spaulding Logging Co. against
the Portland, Eugene & Eastern Rail
way Co., in which the plaintiff asks
for injunction against taking up the
track of the defendant at the corner Of
Front and Ferry streets, so that it
may be laid with a broader curve,
and thus bring the railway track with
in the curb line at that corner. The
property affected is lot 5, block Al Of
Salem, being at the northeast corner
of Ferry and Front streets. This
property is used for residence and
wood yard purposes and it is alleged
that by making the change contem-
plated by the railway company that
it will greatly reduce the value Of the
lot and greatly increase the danger
from accident to persons having bust
ness or living on the property, A tenn
porary injunction was issued by Coun-
ty Judge Bushey, in the absence of
Judge Galloway,