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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-24
JOHN K. SHIELDS
ELECTED TO SENATE
Political Deadlock in Ten
nessee Legislature Is
Finally Broken

Nashville. January 23.-The legisla-
ture today elected Chief Justice John
K Shields of the state supreme court
United states senator for the term be-
ginning March 4.
John Knight Shields is a native of
Granger county. Tennessee, and 55
years old. He was admitted to the bar
in 1879, being associated in practice
with his father. tine partnership con-
tinuing until 1890. when the father
retired and the son became associated
with r. e. L. Mountcast1e. now dem
ocratic national committeeman. He
served as chancellor 1892 to 1894, was
elected assistant justice of the state
supreme court in 1902. and reelected in
1910, the last contest being one of
the notable campaigns of the state.
At that time Judge Shields led the
ticket known as 1.-The independent ju-
dietary" against the so-called the reg
ular democratic" ticket. subsequently
he was elected chief justice. Judge
Shields was married December l. last,
In New York to Mrs. Jeannette Cowan.
The senator is democrat.
The election of Judge Shields occa-
His friends were confidently claiming
that he would get IL votes when ball
loting time arrived. He received 50
votes. Necessary to choice was 90.
1t was a Knoxville field day" in the
deadlock. In hope of changing the
aspect of the contest the fusionists
entered Attorney General Charles T.
Hates, Jr., like Judge Shields, Knox
vile man in the race, and for years
one of Judge Shields closest friends.
When the joint convention began the
galleries We're filed and the interest
was intense A number of women were
present. The deadlock was broken on
the anniversary of the end of the 1911
deadlock when Senator Luke Lea was
elected. Judge Shields vote was made
up of 81 democrats. nine independent
democrats and eight republicans and
one Shelby county partisan. General
Kates received 81 votes.
The election of Judge Shields as SEN
ator will create vacancy in the state
supreme court, which Governor Hoop
er will fill by appointment. The court
will choose the chief justice The vote
on the short term senatorship was;
M. T. Bryan, democrat, 54; w. r. Webb,
independent democrat, 32 j. Fl. Under
wood, republican, 80; rest scattering.
SiXty-six necessary to elect.
In his race for the Senate Judge
Shields was backed by the so-called
regular democrats Prior to this he
had been more identified with the in
dependent democratic faction than with
the regulars, though not active either
way. General Kates, his opponent to-
day. was much in the same position
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-24
.PRES|DENT-ELECT TO
VISIT PANAMA AFTER
CONGRESSADJ0URNS
Plans to Spend Some Time
at the Canal After
the Coming Extra
Session

Trenton. n. j., January 2S.-President-
elect Wilson intends to visit the Panama
canal Immediately after the extra session
of Congress adjourns. He told delega-
tion from Asheville, N. c., who came
today to offer him a summer home there,
that he was not making plans for next
summer because he hoped to spend a
part of it in the canal zone, and could
not guess at how long Congress would be
in session.
The North Carolina callers were head
ed by National Committeeman Josephus
Daniels, who brought photographs of the
house which citizens of Asheville offer
the governor and his family. 1t was in
this house that Mr.. and Mrs. Wilson
spent their honeymoon days. The dele
cation also visited Princeton and showed
Mrs. Wilson the plans and photographs.
The governor said he would consider the
suggestion.
Mr.. Daniels talked politics with Mr..
Wilson for some time. Mr.. Daniels fire.
quently has been mentioned for a cabi-
net portfolio, but the governor said to-
days conference concerned chiefly the
situation in states now deadlocked over
the election of United States senator's.
National Chairman William F. Nc
Combs also took up the senatorial situ-
alton in various states with the governor
and talked over appointments, out no
details of the conference were made
known.
The visit of Representative William
Kent of California attracted attention
because Mr.. Kent was the first progress
sive republican to confer with the Presi-
dent-elect.
Congressman Kent came to discuss
chiefly conservation" explained the gov
ernor afterwards Practically our whole
conference was devoted to that. We
talked about policies, not persons
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-24
JOHN MITCHELL ON
LABOR CONDITIONS
Says They Are Far From
Satisfactory in Alabama
at This Time

John Mitchell, the well known labor
King of Birmingham, correcting an i'm
preston which might have been created
at the time Mr. Mitchell spoke in Bir-
nlingham last >week. In his letter Mr..
Mitchell says in part:
Yesterday morning before leaving Biz
mingham my attention was called to the
statement published in The Age-Herald
in which l am reported to have said that
found labor conditions in Alabama
quite satisfactory, and further, that had
stated that the miners were not seen on
the streets, but were working and their
families spent their money with the mer-
chants of Birmingham.
.'If a representative of the paper had
been present 1 am quite sure that moth
ing ] said would have justified a pnbli-
cation of the statement that conditions
of labor were satisfactory in Alabama or
that the earnings of the miners were
spent with the merchants of Birmingham.
AS a matter of fact as / stated in my
lecture, conditions of labor in Alabama
are far from satisfactory, and the miners
of Alabama do not spend their earnings
with the merchants of Birmingham or
with the independent merchants of any
of the outlying cities The miners would
spend their earnings with the merchants
of. Birmingham were it not for the fact
that they are not permitted by the COM
panies to become members of the miners
union; they are virtually compelled by
the company TO spend their earnings in
the companies stores, and this fact
stated in no uncertain language in the
address delivered Friday night.
ut is to be regretted that the condi-
tions of labor are not more satisfactory
in the state of Alabama. If the miners
were permitted by their employers to or
ganize; if they were permitted to spend
their earnings with these independent
merchants; if the infamous convict labor
system were abolished; If young children
were not employed in the mills and the
factories, then one might say with truth
that the conditions among these workers.
at any rate, were satisfactory in Ala
bama."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-24
TENNESSEE COMPANY
is IN BANKRUPTCY

New York. January 3.-An involuntary
petition in bankruptcy was fled this aft
ernoon against the Tennessee Construc-
ton company, Missouri corporation. by
the American Surety company, the CONT
mental and Commercial National bank of
Chicago and William Hayes as trustee
of the estate Of Jesse Spauding of Chi
cago. The claims of the petitioners aS-
gregate $4,000. They say that the total
liza abilities of the company exceed s1,Vo0.oo0
but don't state the assets.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-24
BIRMINGHAM CITY
COURT AFFIRMED


Mont gomery, January 2S.-tSpeciaD
The supreme court today affirmed the
Judgment of the Birmingham city
court in awarding $1,000 damages to
Rosa Boyer, a white girl, in slander
proceedings instituted against Lizzie N
Mclaughlin.
In the case of the Louisville and
Nashville Railroad company VS.. A. c.
Norris. administrator of the estate OF
Henry Readus, the supreme court af-
frmed the Jefferson circuit court In
awarding $500 damages for the death
of Readus, who was killed while in the
employ of the company.
The court also affirmed the Birming-
ham city court in rendering Judgment
for $500 damages to j. Frederick Wat
son, who was injured while in the en-
rloyment of the Caldwell-Watson
Foundry and Machine company.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-24
TEMPERANCE DAY IN
SCHOOLS FEB. 21

Montgomery, January 23-(Special.)--
Superintendent Wdllingham has issued
the following:
ITO the Teachers of Alabama:
In compliance with an act of the Leg
slature approved August 10, 1909, l here
by designate Friday, February q, as
Temperance day in the public schools of
Ala abama.
"All teachers in the public schools of
this state are requested to set apart some
portion of that day for a suitable OBJ
servance of this laws requirement to the
end that children may have brought to
their attention the evils of intemperance.
Local school authorities should be cof-
suited by the teachers when in doubt IS
to the nature of the exercises. the
period of time to be devoted. / am in
formed that suggestive programmes for
the day will be furnished free on request
by Mrs. F. NJ. jackson, Birmingham.
without serious interference with the
regular work of that day, an interesting
and helpful programme should be pre-
pared and rendered in every public school,
Very truly yours,
HENRY J. WILLINGHAM,
Superintendent of Education.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-24
AnneaI Dismissed

Washington, January 23.-The final
scene in the Kansas election case,
which embraced bitter contest over
the placing of Roosevelt electors on
the republican ticket last fall, was en-
acted today when the supreme court
upon request of Representative Arm
stead of counsel for the Taft faction,
dismissed their appeal from the ad-
verse decision of his clients in the KAN
sas courts
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-24
Mrs. Swanson Withdraws

Washington, January 23.-1n the inter-
ests of friendship and harmony, as she
expressed it, Mrs. Claude A. Swanson,
wife of the senator from Virginia, today
withdrew as a candidate for the pr.ssl-
dency of the Congressional club. Tnis
leaves the field clear for Mrs. Duncan U.
Fletcher, wife of the senator from Flor
ida who yesterday was nominated, with
Mrs. Swanson for president of the club.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-24
Trap Shooting Tourney

Pinehurst, N. c.. January 2S.-B. NJ
Higginson. New York Athletic club. pres
ent national amateur champion. led the
field in today's two hundred target con-
test in the sixth annual midwinter handi-
cap trap shooting tournament. Higgin-
sons score was 19l breaks. Henry Pow
ers. Atlantic City, scored 100, and $. w.
Putnam, Fitchburg, and F. G. Fuller,
Mukwonago, tied for third place with
1SS
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-24
Another Arrest Made

New York, January 2s.-Detectives ar
rested this afternoon Richard Fredericks,
a stamp dealer. and Irving Sevel, a
keeper of a newsstand, on charges of hav-
ing received stolen stamps. Other ar
rests, the detective said, would follow
soon.
OFFICE BOYS in the Wall street section
pilfering the stamps from their employees
have done thriving trade the past few
months, the detectives say. Fredericks
and Sevel are alleged to have received
stamps thus stolen.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-24

year. Thanks are also due Mr.. w. G..
oliver for his annual Christmas dona-
ton.
"For the many good things that have
been showered on us during the past
year. we make due acknowledgment
to Him who has ever been an inspir-
alton and guide to us in our feeble
efforts of endeavor. Respectfully sub
mitted, d. NJ WEAKLEY,
superintendent"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-24
Release of YdntS to Pelicdns
Set Aside By Commission

player Is claimed by the club from which
he was drafted or any other club in the
rational association, the secretary of that
association will notify the club which
GRATED the player, the league from which
ne was drafted and the commission with
In 10 days after he has received notice,
providing II is after February 5. This is
ave days after the time national associa-
ton clubs are permitted to file claims
toi drafted major league players When
national association club claims the
player check for him must be forth
coming to the national association within
flve days.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-24
Two Killed in Fire

Garfield, Ohio, January 23.-Flames
that destroyed farm house near here
today caused the death of Curtis Sha-
fer and his daughter, Effie, and fatally
burned Mrs Shafer and another daugh-
ter son, 10 years old, escaped. Hs
was unable to explain the cause of the
fire.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-24
Jas. II. Tinder

Fills occulists' prescriptions for eye
glasses right He puts finish on his
eyeglasses that many opticians find
it difficult to equal-the touch of the
|artist. S06 N. Nineteenth Street.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-24

Cincinnati. January 2S-The national
Baseball commission today set aside the
release of Player Yantz by the Chicago
National League club to the New orleans
club. holding 1t to be illegal. Yantz was
drafted from Birmingham.
The commission also issued a notice
which says that when a major league club
desires to release a drafted player on
whom 1t has obtained interleague waivers
1t must notify only the secretary of the
national association, the president of the
league from which the player was draft
ed and the national commission. II the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-24
APPROPRIATION MADE FOR
GREENVILJ.c POSTOFFICE

Washington. January 23.-(Spe-
cial)~Senator Johnston's bill APP
propriating $4,000 for the purpose
of buying a site and erecting
postoffice building at Greenville
passed the Senate today.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-24
ATHLETICS SELECT
TRAINING QUARTERS

Philadelphia, January 8.-The
Philadelphia National league base
ball club will train at Southern
Pines, n. C. The squad will leave
here February "a, the same day
the Philadelphia Americans depart
for San Antonio, Texas.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-24

"As before stated, all departments have
been quite busy adding their quota to the
general improvements.
'The sewing room has made several
hundred pairs of pants and shirts. be-
sides leggins for the uniforms; also table
cloths. napkins. sheets, towels, pillow
cases, window curtains. besides repairs
all the clothing.
the shoes The boys have done so well
in this department we have not bought
any shoes. They have also kept up all
the repair work, which is a large item.
THE manual training shop boys have
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-09-22
Editorial Comment
Stubs Quits the Game.

| (kansas City Journal)
| II there are any lingering doubt'
among the people of Kansas thai
| the Bull Moose movement is on it.
| last legs they will find conclusive
proof in the announcement which
| comes from Topeka that Walter Ros-
| come Stubbs has decided not to be :
candidate for anything in the neal
| future. TO be sure, the former gov
ernor is quoted as saying that "nev
the statute of limitations may run
against that decision. A somewha
more distinguished Bull Moose than
Stubs made rash promises in rela
ton to running for office which he
found il convenient to disregard, and
it would be asking entirely too much
of the Lawrence statesman to make
the grand remuneration. Interest al
this time centers in the fact that he
is not going to be candidate for
anything soon.
Mr.. Stubbs is forced by circum-
stances to renounce all hope of get :
ting an elective office in Kansas. .for
awhile at least. 1t will be necessary
for him and all the other radical
Bun Moose leaders in the state 20
rest for time. They are face to
face with the alternative of either
going back TO the Republican party
which they have been industriousiy
abusing for a year or more or Of
joining the Democrats. The path
back to the Republican party is
streWn with difficulties in their case.
but il is open. Mr.. Stubs can come
back if he does so in the right spirit.
But he must serve a period of pro-
baton before he runs for anything
in Kansas as a Republican. 1t will
be a long time before Stubs and
White and Allen and the rest of the
Moose bosses will he invited to TAX
places at the Republican council
table. If Stubbs should go over to
the Democratic party he would b.
still further removed from the chance
of elective office. The Democrats
gain an election in Kansas only at
long intervals when the Republicans
are divided. As the Republicans are
now getting back into lighting form
and as the present Democratic ad-
is rapidly proving itself
a failure by multiplying its mistakes
and blunders, Mr.. Stubhs would be
compelled to stand and wait for years
before he would have even the chance
of trying for a Democratic job.
Therefore it is not hard to believe
that Walter Roscoe has decided To
withdraw from further efforts to get
office in Kansas. There is no Other
course open to him.
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Editor S able
History of Belfast.

Alfred Johnson has completed and
edited the second volume of the His
tory Of Belfast which Judge Joseph
Williamson did not live to finish.
During the decade following Judge
Williamson's death in 1902 several al
temps We're made to complete and pub
lish the records he had spent So many
years in collecting. Among these the
most important took place in 1870
when, as a result of the inter est
shown by the late George Prentice
Field, DIR. James Clark White, Charles
A. Pillsbury, editor CT the Republican
Journal, James Clinton Durham, AL
bert Wooster Thompson, and others, in
conjunction with Judge Williamson $
children. who offered free use OF the
manuscript, a paper Was drawn up
and signed by a score of persons, who
thereby subscribed to a guarantee fund
to meet such deficit as the publication
of the volume might involve. Although
the subscriptions at the time We're lib
eral, sufficient money was not pledged
to warrant publication, and the mat
ter was not further considered serious
ly until the summer of 1912, when sub
scriptions We're again solicited, and the
number of signers of the paper was
gradually increased from 20 to 113. The
names of these subscribers are printed
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Marketing and Distribution.

With a view To organizing all apple
shipping associations, independent
shippers and growers of Washington.
Oregon, Idaho and Montana into a big
protective organization similar to the
Citrus Protective League of Cali
fornia, meeting of several hundred
of those concerned will be held in
Spokane, Thursday, Nov. 20, in con
nection with the national apple show
So called fruit politics and all matter
affecting marketing methods will be
eliminated at this conference, which
will deal with matters in which all
northwestern fruit growers and ship
pers have common interest such as
transportation, legislation, standards
cation of grading, packing and pack
age, and questions of control and
elimination of fruit pests and diseases.
The determination to hold the con-
ference was reached at a meeting OF
representative shippers and organiza =
ton men, called by K. III. Pennington,
president of the International Appla
Shippers association. j. H. Robbins,
general manager of a large coopera-
tive marketing agency having head
quarters in Spokane, who is chairman
of the committee arranging the con-
ference, states:
We recognize the divergence of
marketing policies at this time and
realize that no one marketing organi-
cation could achieve what we shall
map out. Our idea is to perfect 4
| thorough organization under manage
| ment of high class and capable man.
| who will devote his efforts to the
general upift of the deciduous fruit
industry in the Pacific Northwest. He
could more than earn his salary from
| the increased returns of one years
crop if he could get the growers to
| use care in picking 50 that the frm.
| would not be bruised. This ia only
| one of numerous things that must be
done for the fruit business
Marketing and distribution are
problems of producers that rise above
the insect pests and seasonal difficult
! ties. Until they are solved the cror
raisers will continue to do the heavy
lifting. the public the heavy granting
and the middle man get away with tn,
heavy profits.
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Girl From Arizona.

This is the best book vet written by
Nina Rhoades. excellent and success
full rs are all the others. Marjorie
Graham. the girl has grown te he
Il without knowing more of the world
ihan can lee seen from a lonely Arizona
ranch, although she has Al Nigeron
body. god mind. and refined parents.
So when IN uncle takes her for 2
winter in New York. ta be with her
cousin of the same age at a fashi9na-
bic apartment hotel and have a VIM
ters schooling. it is like going into a
new WORLD, and her honest natural
ness at times rebels against the artifi-
ciafity she finds. Good friends de not
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Injury for life. They will not be al
gymnasium work will be more alone
systematic lines of study"
| Non-competitive gymnasium work
in which all girls may participate rath.
er than a few who are athletically in
clined will he substituted for basket
ball. The new ruling has caused some
disappointment on the part of many OF
the girls and will arouse condemnation
in many places. But the tact remains
that Americans are a people of tremen-
deus enthusiasms and that they are
always inclined to overdo things
When convinced of an error they are
likely to so as far the other way.
We are also a nation of moods and
impulses. booming here and denouncins
there with equal fervor. our new no.
tons are as numerous as the flies in
the ointment ana are as quickly for
gotten. Here is another new school
idea:
A "homecraft" course has been intro
duced into one of New York's high
schools for girls, which is calculated 10
qualify the young women to spend
their Husbands incomes to the very
best advantage. This course was sus-
gestcd to the principal by the reicc-
ton that this vocation is most imp1r
tant. Accordingly. the graduate of
this school will be able, not only to
converse intellieently on literature, an
cient history and the newest develop
ments III woman suffrage, to appreciate
music and art, and be more or less
familiar with Franch and German--as
might be fexpected-hut alsd to cook a
furnish her home comfortably,
and economically, keep II
free from germs. trim her own hats,
make her own clothes, keep an ac
count book that will come out straight
at the end of the month, and play her
part in social service.
This strictly practical couise in
cludes domestic science. domestic art,
biology, hygiene, applied physics,
household chemistry. household arith-
metc physical training and the gen
eral management of home. 1t rang
es from millinery to the fundamentals |
IS per cent. to make their hv-
ing as up-to-date housekeepers for
which the demand is greater than the |
then some.
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China GRANGE.

China Grange met in regular session,
Wednesday evening, Sept. II, with p
menhers present. Worthy Master Max
well presiding. Three applications for
membership We're received. All business
disposed Of. the Grange was placed
in the hands of the lecturer, who pre-
sented the following program: Music !;
oues;ion, Which Is the Most Profit
able. Raising Sweet Corn at $50 per
100 or Potatoes at 81 a Bushe1." Har-
voy Mosher was for the affirmative and
Martin Weber, negative, followed by
several others. 1t was decided in ia
vor of potatoes. Question box, Fanny
Maxwell; music, trombone, Ernest
Wchber; piano, Annabel Jones; stories
Kendall Maxwell. Willis Jones and
Hadley. Chadwick. East Kennebec Po-
mona will meet with China Grange
Tuesday. Sept. %. Jenny Thompson
Fanny Maxwell and Annabel Jone.
Were chosen entertaining committee.
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School Notions.

Out in tine North Pacific coast states
they are scrntinizing the strenuous ex-
ercise for girls with care and. in some
Instances, are abolishing sports thai
cause severe physical strain. Declar-
ing that basket BAH is an injurious
form Of exercise for girls, Miss Fannie
Buckley has decreed that the game
must not be INDUCED in by the girls
under her charge in the physical de-
partment Of the North Central Ugh
school in Spokane. Wash. Basket ball
for girls is very bad form of exer-
cise,~ observed Miss Buckley. Here
after shall not allow il al all / viii
not allow any form of competitive
games, for many girls are strained n
this manner and often do themselves