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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-08
ORPHANS BOARD OF
RED MEN IN SESSION
To Ask Donations From 100 Red Men
for Benefit of Needy Children of
Deceased Red Men

The state orphans board of Alabama
of the Improved Order of Red Men met
Yesterday morning i'm the room of the
secretary at the Morris hotel. The board
is composed of Jacob Burger, chairman.
Birmingham; NJ. NJ Marsh, vice chair
man, Mobile and r. r. l.. Neil, secre-
tary Selma, all being past great sachems
OF the order.
At the meeting of the great council OF
tine United States held in Charleston, S
c.. last September the care of the or
phans of the order was taken from the
great council of the United States and
placed in the hands of each state great
council. The new order went into eff
feet the first day OF last January
and the first quarterly allowance for
the needy children of deceased Red Men
was due on April |, hence the meeting
here to order the payment of the APP
preparation.
Fourteen orphans are being cared for
at this time. being paid something like
$500 per quarter from the special tax
levied by the great council and about q
third of that amount by the individual
tribes having jurisdiction over them. The
order of Red Men has no orphans home
or founding asylum. 1t has a motto
Not a single orphans home but a home
for every orphan and the unfortunate
little ones are cared for in the family
Of the nearest of kin, the expenses be-
ing provided for by the order of Red
Men.
In an effort to supplement the fund
which is entirely separate from other
funds of the great council, it was de-
cided to issue letter to 100 Red Men
in Alabama asking for dona tons in sums
from $40 to 500 and the great chief OF
records of the order Is sending out this
appeal today.
At the meeting held yesterday Great
Sachem Address of Birmingham and
Great Chief of Records William Smilee
Smith of Montgomery were present and
participated in the meeting.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-08
AT THE HOTELS

j. G. Williamson of Ragland. o. w
Pryor Of Mobile and +. 3. Neeley OF
Montgomery are at the Metropolitan
p. G. Watts of Montgomery, NJ W.
Wright of Mobile and Marshall Davie
cf West Blocton are registered at the
Morris.
c. n. Wiley of Ragland, w. p Grlley
of Marion and NJ. j Jones of Jack
sonvile are at the Florence.
{. e. Prater of Henderson, f. b. Ken
derson OF Mobile and e. T. Shipp of
Boston are at the Birmingham.
l.. Renish of Selma. Percy b. Dixon OF
Mobile and James Spencer OF Tuscaloosa
are at the Hillman.
j. 7. IIistle of Cullman, NJ. c. Clark
OF Jasper and H. Hunter of Jacksonville
are registered at the Empire
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-08
EXPECT MITCHELL
TO BE HERE SOON

Local officials of ,i.e .Alabama Power
companv expect James Mitchell of Lon
don. president of the COMPANY, to visit
birmingham during the next few days.
Coming So soon after The visit of severa.
Sperling g. Co. agents from i-ohooh' 'ne
visit is being anticipated with more than
usual interest. Mr.. Mitchell was In To-
ronto, Canada Yesterday and wired that
he will leave for Birmingham during the
next few days. Mr.. s-hitchel rs deeply IN
| teros, ed in not only hf companies here,
I, but ever, plant thai is helping to make
| J;irmin CHAM more important and prosper
Gus. lie will probably make tour Of in
| spection when he ges here In order 70
keep personally IN toach with the opera
uons in Brininchain
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-08
Splendid Spring Tonic
At Small Cost
From Martyrs Drug journal.


As millions of bottles of various blood
medicines and liver regulators are
taken yearly to tone up the blood, re-
store vitality ana healthy, conditions to
the body. it win not be aniiss for us to
repeat the formula OF an o1d-.i .ime rem
edy that has been used with msryelous
success.
Dissolve one ounce of kardine in one
half pint alcohol, then add one-hait
Icupful sugar and enough hot water u
make a quart. The ingredients can be
had at any drug store at small cost
one tablespoonful of this tonic taken
before each meal Will soon correct all
disorders OF the liver, make the blood
system most satisfactorily. For corr
Irecting sallow or pimply complexions
land giving one vigor and good health
Ee have never found remedy t
equal it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-08
Marriage Licenses

The following marriage licenses were
issued yesterday in the office of the pro-
bate clerk;
&. u. Derryberry Of East Lake and
Miss Florence Turner
John Martin Of sumpter and Miss JAMIE
Martin
Il. T.. wheeler Of BlossbUrs and Miss
elna Plyler.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-08
Building Permits

The following building permits were is
sued yesterday in the office of the build
ing inspector:
5000 Merchants and Mechanics Bank
and Trust company, 1905 Second avenue,
repairs.
sl2oo-Angln & White Sixteenth street
between Avenues II and l. one story frame
house.
$1200--J. A. Welton, Eleventh avenue
and Lawrence street, repairs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-08

Birmingham is to have a series OF
three or four symphony concerts by the
Cincinnati Symphony orchestra in May.
There will be two night performances
and one and possibly two matinees. The
dates are May 5th and 9Th and the con-
certs will be given at the Jefferson thea
tire under the local direction of Miss
Edgell Adams.
Mrs. Truman Aldrich, Jr will appear
as soloist in the Grieg concert ON the
onening night and Miss Christine Miller,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-08
CONCERTS TO
BE GIVEN HERE NEXT MONTH

one of the most captivating of America :
younger singers. will appear in two num-
bers on the second night
The Cincinnati orchestra ranks high
among symphony organizations. 1t has
been established for many years and II
has been winning laurels every season
The present season has been its mosi
brilliant
Miss Adams says that these symphony
concerts in May will constitute grand
orchestral festival and that the music
lovers of this part of the country have
a rare treat in store
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-08
TO Build Store Rooms

-Four storcrooms one story high will be
constructed by W. .. Ileedy & Co. cor
ner Alley B and Twentieth street. Work
on razing the shacks that have long oc-
cupied that site is now going on. The
stores to be constructed there will he
used. 1t is generally understood. for au-
tomobile salesrooms.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-08
Commission Meets Today

The commission VIII meet this afternoon
at 3 o'clock. Final action IS expected
en- the recently agita.ed vide commission,
although nothing slas been done in that
connection lately. rhe commissioners viii
have several matters OF innortance before
them including the probable election Of
some new officers and other matters.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-08
Petitions in Bankruptcy

A. l.. Ladd and S. l.. Gray. members of
the firm of l.add e. Gray. filed petition
IN bankruptcy YESTERDAY in the United
states court. The liabilities are placed
az s22So with no assets another voluntary
petition IN bankruptcy filed yesterday was
that OF ". G. Sheppard. whose liabilities
are placed at slz5s. .sss and assets at ssl5.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-08
ROYAL
Baking Powder

is the greatest of modern
time helps to perfect cake
and biscuit making. Makes
home baking pleasant and
profitable. 1t renders the
food more digestible and
guarantees it safe from
alum and all adulterants.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-06-12
NzII AGCNR0zY0 N91gWRzRF PINS
standardized, and codified

like to see discovered, standardized, and codified
in Washington
There is one, and only one best way for
cleaning Streets best way for arranging
school curricula; one best way for conserving
the public health. These best ways once they
are discovered and firmly established, just as
efficacious in one form of city government as they
in another
There is not, at the present time, one city in
this country which is Systematically finding and
using the best ways for conducting its various
municipal departments.
I'VE believe that the only reason for this scat
tered and disorganized state of things lies in the
inability OF our many cities to find a common
meeting ground which to thrash out the good
they have discovered from the bad they have not
known how to avoid.
"As things are at present, offer the distress
ing and unnecessary spectacle of a whole people
struggling with a universal problem in sporadic
patches, incoherent and unrelated; and of ma
tion which has failed to make common cause,
among its separate parts Of question which is,
more than almost any other, national one.
1--WE need cooperation. We need concentration.
We have failed to establish central reservoir for
the knowledge, independently come by of the
many cities solving their difficulties in their own
way: we have failed to provide central source
to which these cities, beset by problems they are
not able to solve, can come for help.
1.-THE arrangement involves foolish waste.
Here countless cities all over the country,
privately setting to work to make themselves
credit to their day and generation, which follow
an uncharted way to excellence in some one or
two particular branches Of government
"One city learns, well say, how to a fire
department with the minimum of waste and the
maximum of efficiency. Another turns up good
working solution of checking the spread of dis
ease Still another learns how to lay pavements
and another how to conduct its schools.
Each of these cities has discovered for itself
a fact of primary Importance to all cities; yet
they cannot give it even to their neighbors, be-
cause they have no official place of exchange!
"The situation is as absurd that which OBJ
tanned in the dawn of economic interrelations
when every man caught and cooked his own food
prepared the skins for his own clothing, and was
in every phase of his activities, sufficient unto
himself
Now what we want to do is precisely analogous
to the secondary economic period, when two men
divided their labors, and one caught and cooked
for nourishment for two, and the other per
formed like service In clothing the pair. Each
haved his effort, and doubled his result
1T Ii. IN fact, remarkable to me that this much
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-06-12

Cold Springs.-After an investiga-
ton at the request of the interior de-
partment, Henry D. Ferguson, asso-
ciate geologist of the United States
geological survey, has recently made a
report that there is positively no gold
in Oklahoma. In the face of this and
other like reports, there is under
course of construction by the Gold
Bells Mining and Milling company,
near Cold Springs, in the southwest
part Of the Wichita mountain region,
a $4,000 reduction mill, for extracting
the gold, silver and platinum it is
claimed are contained in the ore mined
in this vicinity. 1t is claimed that a
practical commercial method for treat
ing this ore has been discovered.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-06-12
Exchange For chickasha.

Chickasha.-A grain and cotton ex-
change has been organized by the
business men of Chickasha, and will
open for business at the commence
ment of the cotton season, September
1. The exchange will receive contin-
uous quotations on New Orleans and
New York cotton, New York cotton
oil and Chicago grain. The contin-
uous service will be the only contin-
uous service in the state. Oklahoma
City, Muskogee and Ardmore at pres
ent have only 15-minute quotations.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-06-12

needed cooperation among cities all striving to-
ward the same end has not been undertaken long
ago. Perhaps it is because heretofore the rank
and file have not realized how much power for
good does lie in city government, and how pos
sibe 1t is, by sane and rational use of this
power, to rid the world of countless burdens
1--WE have evolved, it seems to me, very prac
ticable and sensible plan. You will find, in the
report which we have sent to President Wilson,
that we ask first for a survey Of the city looking
to precise knowledge of just what 1t needs, and,
second, for the presidents influence to be put
upon the three commissioners of the District Of
Columbia to have put into practice there all the
valuable things discovered in all the American
cities.
by this means, we hope to produce a scheme
of government for Washington which will not only
meet ts own needs but will, by its adoption else
where. work a similar benefit.
"The importance of the preliminary survey
must not be overlooked. We do not want to go
down to Washington and construct an Ideal city
out of some mans head. We want to find, by
the most scrupulous and exhaustive search what
1t Is that Washington stands most In need OF;
and we propose to supply her lacks by means of
the information we have collected In other Cities.
THAT Is to say, we do not want to do 1t our
selves. Mr.. Bruere and myself have no ambition
to get the job, nor even the supervision of 1t.
We want merely that President Wilson will find
us reasonable enough-and promising enough-to
set out along the lines have suggested and
that when the need arises for expert service In
the execution Of the plan, he will be able to get
the best brains of the country to assist him.
"Will the project have outlined affect the
physical aspect Of cities? That is rather a diff
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-06-12
SNYDER HAS COUNTY RECORDS
Work Ruse On Swanson County Off
Gals and Get Possession.

Snyder.-The court records OF the
Snyder branch of the county court of
Kiowa county were returned to the
court room at Snyder, from which
place they were taken six weeks ago
by the emergency officers" of Swan
son county.
When Swanson was reorganized at
mass meeting at Mountain Park, one
of the first acts of the county judge,
elected at that convention, was to go
to Snyder and size all the books, files,
papers and furniture belonging to the
Snyder division of the county court
and take them to Mountain Park, the
county seat of Swanson county. Last
Thursday, E. A. Nash, special deputy
state examiner and inspector, who is
checking up the various offices of
this county, issued a subpoena duces
tecum against Judge c. R. Cook, COM
manding him to produce all the books,
files and papers of the Snyder division
OF the county court at Snyder the fol-
lowing Saturday that the same might
lie examined The order was COM
piled with.
The books were kept in vault in
one of the banks while they were be-
ing examined, but when the examina-
ton was concluded, R. M. Nash, also
special deputy state examiner who
did the work of checking the records,
assisted by Deputy Sheriff Frank
Kimbrough, quietly removed all of the
records, and carried them to the court
room from which they were taken, and
locked them in safe. He then pro-
ceeded to put new lock on the door
of the court room. This was done
in the name of the state and the rec
ords are now supposed to be in the
hands of the state, as the written no
tice which Nash posted on the door
would indicate. A charge of bad faith
is alleged by the Swanson county Off
cial since they delivered the boks to
Snyder for inspection and not for re-
tention The furniture is still at Noun
tain Park, no effort having been made
to recover it.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-06-12

tained community want. Some OF these wants
will best be supplied with the cooperation or pri'
vate enterprise Satisfaction of others necessarily
will be deferred until methods to meet them can
be evolved or additional sources obtained But
It should become the cltys business to have them
supplied either by public effort or private effort,
under terms and conditions that will adequately
protect the public interest
Granting these things, then-and they have
been pretty we'll established as fact by the work
of the bureau--it would seem that even IL city
government along constructive lines were difficult
to get 1t would be worth making fight for. But
we in this country are in the position OF standing
starving in the midst of plenty for lack OF the
enterprise to reach out and take what we need
Countless cities all over the country, even ham
pered as they are by want of codifed and acces
sible traditions and precedents, have contributed
out of their dearly-bought experience improved
and tested methods of conducting city. These
methods are In practice now in these several
cities. Many more would come In their turn II
sufficient interest aroused, but even without
waiting we have an embarrassment Of riches
fit to our hand.
"And yet in all the United States, there Is not
one governmental bureau Of information, not one
available source OF finding out these things under
either state federal government When man
goes into Office and iS ideallstic enough and en-
thuslastc enough to want to fill his Office well.
and with benefit to him and 1t, he must write to
the bureau of municipal research here, a private
agency. and ask what he may do. We are here
for that purpose, 1t is true, and we are working
with might and main to prepare ourselves for his
questions; but the fact remains that he should
be instructed under the authority of the govern
ment OF which he is part. and not by an indie
pendent and unofficial bureau.
Nov you will begin to see why we anx-
ious that President Wilson will agree to our sug-
gestions about Washington.
There, in city already under federal control
where local politics do not exist, and where ma
tional politics are not subject to yearly or BIZ
yearly upheavals-there is the finest kind of an
opportunity for putting theory to the test Of
practice.
There is the whole machinery Of federal gov
eminent to conduct a research for which we
would have to pay millions of dollars, and for
which they would not have to pay cent and to
conduct 1t under men trained to observe and to
coordinate significant and important facts"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-06-12
OKLAHOMA AT PANAMA SHOW
State to Have Elaborate Display at
San Francisco.

Plans are being made for a state
building at the Panama-Pacific exposi-
ton at San Francisco in 1915. The
legislature made no appropriation so
the necessary money will be raised by
subscription.
An Oklahoma brick manufacturer
has offered to donate $4,000 bricks,
each with the name of person
stamped on it. These are to be sold
at dollar each and then used to
erect a building on the capitol
grounds, for the state historic society,
the names of each contributor show
ing on the face of the bricks.
The $4,000 raised will be used to
erect suitable, building at the fair
and arrange the exhibits. The state
fair and the Muskogee county fair
for 1914 are expected to supply most
of the exhibits.
committee consisting of Walter
Ferguson, editor of the Cherokee Re-
publican, chairman; Mrs. Fred SUIT
ton of Oklahoma City, and E. G.. Bay
less of Claremore, has opened head
quarters in Oklahoma City with Roy
C. Cakes in charge, and will begin an
active campaign at once, to sell the
bricks.
The first movement in exposition
publicity will be a contest among the
editors for the best editorial endors-
ling the movement. The prize will be
free trip to the exposition, with all
expenses paid, for the editor ana his
family. Plans for the editorial and
details of the contest have been sent
to everyy editor in the State by Mr..
Ferguson.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-06-12
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cult question, at the present stage of our work;
but should say that 1t will.
I'VE are deeply interested in the laying out OF
cities. Much more depends on 1t than beauty
valuable as that is. Yes, think that If our plan
natures there will be no need for ugliness In
our cities-at least, not that ugness which comes
from ignorance"
I'VE need ideals of public service In municipal
governments. and we need ideals Of plain business
efficiency, When we get them we shall begin to
have some idea of how much city's government
controls it's whole social and political destiny,
said Mr. Bruere.
"As matter of fact, suppose do not need
to dwell at any length On the value of good mu-
nclpal administration l am not apt to find sny-
body who would dispute the fact with me- But
| think can allow myself to insist upon one fac
tor In it's value which do not find to be very
widely known
IF you say to the average man that the affairs
of the city should be conducted with as much
business sagacity and economy as the affairs OF
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-06-12
Assessor Looked Around.

stigler.-The sum OF 100000 was
added to the tax assessment of the
Sans Bots Coal company, by the coun-
ty assessor Of Haskell county. The
company filed it's valuation at less
than 100000 and the assessor upon
investigating its schedule filed in the
Office of the fede~. clerk at Mus
kogee, where the company is in the
hands of a receiver found that the
company's property is valued at nearly
. half million dollars.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-06-12
Bad Storm at purant.

Durant.-A severe wind and rain
storm swept this section. The Meth
odist church at Kenefick was badly
damaged, the Goodman school, west
of that place, demolished and several
farm houses were blown from their
foundations. No injuries have been
reported. Crops suffered damage, as
the straw of the ripening oats is I'M
usually short.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-06-12
MUM.

mollusk came to first parent to be
named.
"Er-oyster!" announced Adam, after consd-
ering a moment.
Now, divers other creatures having got theirs,
were lettering about to pick up what Of con-
ISOLATION they might, and a number OF these
burst out laughing hereupon
Gust think how mum you'll have to BET" they
jeered-Puck
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-06-12
Real Estate Values Less.

Hobart.-County Assessor T. P.
Shaddock has completed the assess
ment roll for Kiowa county and the
total assessed valuation of taxable
property is $1S,2S9,424, or near $780,.
900 less than last year.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-06-12
Holiness Revival.

Maysville.-A revival meeting is be-
ing conducted here by the Holiness
church. A number of families are
encamped in tents near the tabernacle
and the meetings are well attended.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-06-12
Twins Born In Oklahoma citv.

Oklahoma City.-Two sets of twins,
four bouncing boys, are included in
the seventy-four births recorded in
Oklahoma City in the month of MAY.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-06-12
QUITE REMARKABLE.

big production. that musical comedy"
yes; and remarkable thing is that the cast
of characters is even larger than the list Of
authors"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-06-12
caddo Normal eeolns work

Anadarko.-The twelfth annual Cad.
do county teachers normal started to
work with an enrolment OF I23.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-06-12

private Industries, ne Will
naturally say yes, OF
course;' but If you go fur
Their and suggest to him
that a sound municipal
regime can save him more
than money and time; that
it can lift the whole level
of his social community and
that 1t can help to conserve
everything about him, from
his business interests to his
health and his peace OF
mind, he Is apt to think
either that you are trifling
with him, or that you lean
toward 'paternalism' and
should be subdued.
"City government should
ana can be maze 10 mean
much more than clean
streets or a capable fire de-
partment. 1t means the es-
tablishment and preserva-
ton of healthy relationships
in every phase of the city's
existence.
1T has in its hands the
health, the intelligence, and
economic capacity of every
citizen. 1t can be so organ
lied that it will take leader
ship in filling every ascer-
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-06-12
Socialist Encampment.

An encampment of socialistic work
ers will be held in Oklahoma City
on June 81 and 30