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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-18
Confer on Recess

Washington, December 17.-Democratic
leaders in Congress conferred today re-
garding a recess over the Christmas holi-
days. The plan hinges on the final dispo-
sition of the currency bill in the Senate.
If the bill is agreed upon in conference,
and finally disposed of by the House be-
fore Christmas, recess will be taken un-
til about January 10 or II.
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men should have been responsible for the
operation of trains for periods in excess
of those prescribed by law" says the
report, these figures may appear abnor-
mall but when cognizance is taken Of the
train service alone during the year, in
addition to the vast number OF telegraph
ers; and of the number of trains operated
in order to provide employment for SO
many men, one almost marvels that the
volume of traffic could have been trans
ported with such small proportion of ex-
cess service."A
On July /, 1918. in various judicial dis
tricts of the United States, 216 cases in
volving an aggregate of 2477 separate yio-
lations of the hours of service act were
pending, while 25S counts were pending
on appeal.
Up to November l. 1918, the total penal
ties collected from the railroads because
of violations of this law amounted to
s156 562. a. of which $14,500 has been as
sessed because Of failure of the carriers
to report specific instances Of excess SER
vice.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-18

rigging cut and her mast gone. Two OF
OF the ships small boats were gone. The
others swung on the davits.
Now comes word that the Loire picked
up the officers and crew and on Decem-
Der spoke to some unknown steamship
which flashed the news OF the rescue
broadcast
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-18

Another company reports business about
so per cent better. Many sales offices
throughout the country state that there
is a larger miscellaneous tonnage being
entered and that inquiry is much I'M
proved Low prices prevail and there
has been some further sagginE.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-18
NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNERS

NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNERS
RESOLVED, THAT FROM AND Az
TER JANUARY 1, 1914, PUBLIC I'M
pROVEMENT ASSESSMENTS ON
WHICH ORIGINAL 80 DAYS PERIOD
FOR PAYMENT BY INSTALLMENTs
t1O-YEAR PLAN) HAS EXPIRED,
MUST BE PAID IN CASH.
A. o. LANE,
JAMES WEATHERLY,
GEO. II. WARD,
COMMISSIONERS,
ABOVE RESOLUTION MEANS THAT
THE 1O-YEAR INSTALLMENT PLAN
WILL BN ALLOWED ONLY WHEN
APPLICATION FOR SUCH PLAN IS
MADE WITHIN 80 DAYS AFTER THE
ORDINANCE IS Assessed,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-18
FOrty-Tw0 Club Entertained

The Ensley Highlands Forty two
club was delightfully."- entertained yes
terday afternoon at the home of Mrs.
Jack Kelley, 16 Court, Ensley High
lands Forty-two was played and a
salad course, with hot coffee, was
served. The meeting was very we'll at
tended besides the members there were
several guest.
Those present were Mrs. w. I. Phil
lips, Mrs. Francis Phillips, Mrs. S. H.
Mann, Mrs. j. T. Kent Mrs. c. o. Bag
ley, Mrs. C. C. Mitchell Mrs Fred
Madloch, Mrs. r. L. Hassler Mrs.
Fletcher Swami, Mrs Roy Dimmitt.
The guest of the afternoon were Mrs.
w. 1. Burgin, Mrs. Mack Hughes, Mrs.
J. F. Evans of Birmingham and Mrs.
w. F. Wyatt of Pratt City.
The Washington times., 1913-06-16
! THINGS WE DO BETTER HERE.

Not because there was anything very wicked
about it. but merely because it was one of those IN
nocent transactions that people prefer shall not
become public, England is much amused over the
development that leaders of the liberal party In
vested lot of the party funds in certain oil shares,
expecting rise that would improve the parys
financial posture. -: -
Here, at length, is something political that we do
better here. Until somebody will show balance
sheet of some political partys campaign chest with
the totals written in something other than red, we
will feel pretty sure that our national chairmen and
political generals are not operating in stocks with
the party funds. -
Things have changed since the good old days
when party fund was a private speculation. =.
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What's on tie Program, IN
Washington Today

Meeting of Masonic organizations, night:
Potomac, No. 5; Pentalpha, No. .. and
Mt. Pleasant, No. g. d. A. A. NJ;
Washington Council No; 1 Royal and
Templar; Ruth Chapter. No. ]. East
ern Star Chapter.
Red Men, night: Usage Tribe. No. 6,
Fifth and g streets northwest
National Union: Potomac Council. Pyth-
ian Temple; Central Council. Perpet-
ual Building Association
Odd Fellows: Union. No. II; Covenant.
Is; Naomi. No. ]. and Ruth. No. 1
Rebekah Lodges.
Amaranth, ~. g, and Century. No.
30; monthly .eeting. Past Chiefs' As
sociation, Pythian Sisters.
Concert by United States Soldiers Home
Band. bandstand, to $50 p. m
Concert by United States Marine Band,
United States Marine Barracks. 4:3o
Concert by Fifteenth United States Cav
airy Band. Iowa Circle. 7:0 p. m
Fair by woodmen of the World organi-
cations. Cherrydale.
Weekly meeting of the Central Labor
Union, typographical Temple. i2s-ies
G street northwest, p. m.
Meeting Of Committee Of One Hundred
to consider elimination of slums. home
of Mrs. A. ]. Parsons. Eighteenth and
r streets, night
Annual general meeting. Central High
School Alumni Association. assembly
hall. 8 p. m.
Meeting Of Plasterers' Local. No. IS. l.
o. o. p, old Masonic Temple, Ninth
and F streets northwest. night
Commencement exercises, four-year
graduating class. Business High
School. s p. m
The Washington times., 1913-06-16
THE PRINcELY AMERICAN WAGE.

In a factory wage inquiry in Connecticut two
young women testified as to their wages. One had
been working about a year and a half, and never
got over ST so in week; sometimes less.
The other had got as high as So for full weeks
work.
The Illinois vice commissions revelations as to
wages started many good people debating whether
young woman could live comfortably and in safety
on Sc or less per week
Wage conditions in the cannery industry, the
factory towns and the sugar beet fields have lately
received attention in public way that brought
surprise to good many people who had heard about
the princely wages of the American producer
The things that are getting into print lately
make it easier to understand why one census COM
pilation shows that there are 280O0OO0 industrial
producers in the country-vastly the greatest share
of the entire earning population-whose wages
average S63l per year.
Down under that average figure, there must be
many millions to whom the average would look like
wealth. If that were not so, the average would be
higher.
Why not sort of royal commission to study
wages and labor conditions, such as they have in
Britain? We seem to need good deal of infor-
nation as to the "prncely wage" that the Sovereign
American workingman" also infants paid!
The Washington times., 1913-06-16
THE CHILD LABOR BILL

Congressman Copley of Illinois is introducing a
bill for the Federal control Of child labor, through
the national power to regulate interstate commerce.
The follows in general it is stated the lines
of the Beveridge measure of 1907.
We have come long way since Beverdge made
nuisance of himself-in the sight and mind of the
old Senate-by making long speeches on this SUBJ
ject Beveridge knew the Senate was not listening
to him; and it knew he was not talking TO it.. He
was talking over its head to the country; and the
country heard and believed. ....
Now, in six short years, the second political party
of the land is committed to a whole program
of just such legislation; and powerful is the SEN
tment in favor of that program that members of the
other parties are won't sneeringly to observe that
the progressive party reforms are just bundle of
stuff that nobody opposes" Yes; that nobody dares
oppose openly, but that the old tory aggregations
of interests oppose just vigorously ever though
by the insidious methods of indirection. The pro-
gressive measures that were so strikingly forced
upon public attention in 1912 will come, and before
long But there could be no more ,egregous mistake
than that they are coming because nobody opposes
them" They are coming because somebody is for
them; a very specific somebody, organized and
earnest and determined. The things that nobody
opposes" don't arrive.
The Washington times., 1913-06-16

which we were able. to convict in this
manner is especially interesting. The
man was believed to have slain a wom-
an. In the room where the woman was
found there was bird cage containing
canary. When the word bird was
given to him 1t Immediately called to
his mind the gruesome memory Of his
deed, and after a perceptible hesitation
he substituted the word sparrow
Il neglected to say that I and my
patient have little electric instruments
between our lips and every movement
Of speaking makes an electrical current
which passes through an electric clock
work whose index moves around a dial
ten times in every second. So the
length of time between every word and
every answer is carefully registered.
And in this case the electric clockwork
told the story Of the mans hesitancy.
This Is only one Of many points We
questions, though the questions would
be without value II 1t were not for the
electrical instrument.
''If this instrument becomes further
perfected with time. imagine the Joy of
the lover who hitherto has been driven
distracted Dy tne ncklenesS or MS sweet
heart, for he will be able to read her
mind and know exactly how he stands
in her good graces. 1t will also be
blessing to the girl who Is agonizing
because the man she loves does not
propose. and to the husband who Is GER
tain his wife no longer loves him, and
to the wife who Is convinced that her
husband is growing old. But Il will
spell only terror for those men who are
contemplating crime and those women
who are hiding dread secrets In their
souls. For some day they will wake
and find their secrets being shrieked at
them from the housetops."
The Washington times., 1913-06-16

reasons why skyscrapers should not be built. But
they keep on being built and there must be some
mighty good reasons on the other side; factors OF
economic determinism, that nobody has quite cal
culated
Doubtless for instance, the method OF assessing
property for taxation in great cities has much weight
Mr.. Flagg barely suggests this; somebody else ought
to analyze it with care and find out just to wnat
extent this is cause of some of the bad methods
in city building.
Not many years ago the perfection OF electric
rapid traction for cities brought prophecies that the
day of congestion was past. Cheap, quick, and COM
Portable transportation would draw the population
to the outlying sections flats sand tenements would
gradually disappear, and the city of the future would
be vastly different and better There would be no
need for congestion of values or of population.
Yet the skyscraper in its most ungracious forms
and most dangerous groupings came just about the
same time as really cheap traction. The tenements
packed together closer than ever; the pigeon-hoe
apartments became the standard residence modes OF
our cliff dwelling urbanites; the old-fashioned
home" all but disappeared from the city, and
is too fast becoming old-fashioned in communities
where there is no possible economic reason for 1t
to be classed as impracticable.
Human nature comes in here along with the
vague factors which we generallze as economic de-
terminism." People are gregarious, we say; but to
what extent are they gregarous because overshadow
ing economic conditions have forced them to be
It's easy to be certain that they live in tenements
because they like it. Doubtless they like it better
than they would the necessity of riding an hour on
suburban train in order to get to their work, and
another hour in order to get home at night But
that's another thing. The likes and dislikes of the
individual are dictated for him by the conditions
ii which he lives They are not really his, then, but
the product of circumstances that grip so fast he
must adapt himself to them.
1t is a good guess, one worth consideration and
investigation At least that if taxation and Transports
ton in cities we're readjusted to the purpose OF
loosing this grip Of hardandfast circumstances, the
problems alike of the skyscraper and the tenement
yes, and the triangle factories that disgrace
the land-woud be brought in the way of solution.
The Washington times., 1913-06-16
And Now There's a Machine
That Can Read Your Thoughts


vt won't be enough, In future, to set
a watch upon your lips" For there's
a machine coming that can read
= your thoughts as easily as you can
read these printed words.
When you say You're the only girl
I ever loved" the machine may put an
awkward reverse English on your vow.
As for the witnesses In the court
room-well, figure out that angle Of the
game for yourself. Here. according to
the Chicago Tribune. Is the main idea:
DIR. Hugo Munsterberg. the great
medical and physical research man. has
discovered a new brain probe with
which he claims to have succeeded re-
Gently in getting at the hidden secrets
of q criminals brain. He managed to
find the secret he sought and to read
It quite as plainly as II it were his own
instead of another's. So If he can do
II TO one he can do 1t to others. and
then In time other people will be able to
do II. too. DR.. Munsterberg thus ex-
plains his process:
"Of course we all know how memo
ries link themselves with impressions,
how a face reminds US of a name or a
sometimes will call, a whole train Of
words to our minds and bring up a
hundred different pictures in quick sue
cession.
YOUR mind when another word Is spoken
FOR a hundred times. That Is all that
we ask a man suspected of a crime to
do. The method Is the same for all
people. a II the man Is innocent he can
not possibly object to our attempting to
demonstrate his innocence, and IL he is
guilty he will not object to 1t. either,
as he might naturally think that his
refusal would betray him.
"Ope case Of suspected murderer
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NO HURRY ABOUT MEXICO!

The British cabinet seemed rather precipitate in
establishing relations with Huerta's government by
assassination in Mexico, at q time when II was
perfectly known that the United States was not
prepared to head or EVENT. follow in such course.
There was much sub-rosa comment diplomatic wise,
that London had slapped Washington in the face.
Perhaps London meant to do that; probably not. At
any rate, the course Of events seems to have vim
dicated Washington and left London in rather an
uncomfortable position.
Huerta's government is crumbling fast. The dis
patches even from Mexico City no longer attempt to
conceal that conditions are critical The federal dis,
trct is the only section in which the nominal
authority of the central government signifies any
thing The army has been deserving to the con-
sttutonalsts or to the bush. Durango cannot long
hold out against its besiegers; it is isolated and
almost hopeless From Mexico City comes renewal
of the daily promise that the government will in
augurate at once a vigorous campaign and crush
rebellion; but in truth there is no government
throughout most Of the country, and vigorous CAM
ragn is impossible. Huerta realized no ready cash
from his recent rearrangement of state and railway
loans, and is impotent to deal with the situation.
When the Huerta government goes down, and
the better element of Mexico resumes the reins and
the effort to carry out the humanitarian work of
Madero, then will be the right time for some vigor
on the part of the United States. There is every
reason for taking lead when that time shall come,
in holding up the hands of better regime, and in
couseling and aiding the real people of Mexico
in their effort to their country from exploitation
and anarchy. Europes attitude toward Huerta has
made very plain that only the United States can be
relied upon TO follow such a course.
The Washington times., 1913-06-16
Th' Lay Sermon
BY Eugene Geary

TINE hard road iv politics,
When all IL said an done.
II paved wid threachery an lies-
Steer clear " It. me sons.
At nrst, It's fun Of goolden lures
An promises galore,
But In the end, Sing Sing for yours
It's happened Oft before.
The rough road Of politics
Is fenced around wild graft,
'Tis throd by knaves an hypccrites
Who rake II fore an aft.
You reach. at length. the velvet spot,
An think yer fortunes clinched:
'Tis then. begob. al Ike a. not
Yer certain to get pinched. -
Tho dark road " politics II
u crooked every mile;
In all the lanes that lade to Il
There's not an honest stile.
For this IL Frauds canvayisnt mart
To reap the Tl-got ''kale,-
A council chambers at the start
The other ends a jail.
The bitther road iv politics
Wid Dead Sea fruit IL sthrewn:
II vance ye enther It. me son.
Yer sowl II not yer own.
Don't throw away yer golden youth.
Don't Join in plot or plan.
An In the glorious name iv Truth
Stand up. an honest man!
The Washington times., 1913-06-16
Conclusive,

HE looked like real old Southern
nanny. and when she appeared
before Judge Marsh. in the
Stapleton police court. over on
Staten island. as complainant in a
charge of assault and battery against
her liege lord and master. her speech
did not belle her appearance. A bottle
of gin had been the cause Of all the
trouble. she said. and added that her
husband was drunk most Of the time.
After listening patiently to a long tale
Of intemperance. Judge Marsh remarked
to the defendant:
"If what your wife says Is true. I
should imagine you to be a rather bibu-
lous person"
"Bfbulous!' snorted the old woman.
"Bibulous! All beg yo' pahdon, sub. hut
dat niggah doan know no mo- bout de
Bible Gan nah sistah's cats Italian
what's mo-. All amt got no sistahr'-
Lippincott's.
The Washington times., 1913-06-16
WHO'S THE PARTY, ANYHOW?

lust about the time when the mercury reached
the attic, there developed among Democrats IN
Washington q vigorous opposition to currency legis-
ation at the, present session. There seem 70 be
four grounds aa@ 8 s,ssesss S
Il. We want to get home. - . rs -
q We don't want anything else to distract atten-
ton from the tariff revision. ~ L
g. We doubt if the currency needs reforming
anyhow. - z-ge1 <3~ -
a. We don'sksoyzvhat to desto it if it does need
reforming. -
So we are assured that it will split the party
wide open and cause a great disaster if the Presi-
dent insists on currency legislation this session
is going to make lot of people awfully mad it
Congress stays here a day longer than necessary
to pass the tariff bill.
What people are going to be 50 offended
mot the~people who are; fully convinced that
currency reform is needed, and needed soon.
Not those who voted for the Democratic Ad-
ministration expecting to get it.
Seemingly the people who don't want reform
because if viii split the party" are chiefly the
gentlemen who don't want TO stay in Washington
during the heated term to attend to the business
It's little early for the majority party's rep
resentatives in Congress to accumulate the idea
that they are "the party" and that if they disagree
the party is ''hopelessIy split"
Precisely that notion, firmly planted in the minds
of its old leadership, smashed the Republican party
The Washington times., 1913-06-16
LIMITING THE TALL BUILDINGS.

Ernest Flagg, architect of the Singer building of
the Corcoran Gallery, and other notable structures,
is telling New York that it. and other cities as we'll,
must put limits on building heights He rehearses
the rather familiar arguments that high buildings
on narrow streets make for congestion increase the
fire hazard cut off light and air. unfairly concentrate
values, and so on. But these arguments have been
pressed from the beginning of the skyscraper era
in this country and have failed to arrest the upward
tendency in construction. Taking the country as
whole, there probably never was time when the
disposition to climb up into the air general
as now.
1t is easy enough to give lot Of unconvncins
The Washington times., 1913-06-16
The Poetic Argentine.

YOT long ago young man at
nj tached to the Argentine Lega-
tion at Washington was q guest
at certain afternoon affair.
when a young woman invited his at
tention to a couple In a corner who
were paying marked attention to each
other.
He is f1fty-one and she Is thirty
nine," said the young woman, ''and they
have been counting for twenty years" !"
The Argentine adjusted his monocIe
and glanced at the happy pair. "Ah, T"
said he, "a romance of the middle
ages, eh?"-Lippincott's Magazine.
The Washington times., 1913-06-16
Good Stories
Loves Torments.

n EIGHBOR-whats Mamie cryin'
nj about?
Mother-That fortune teller told
her that she's goin' to marry q
tall. handsome, dark nobleman.
Neighbor-Well. amt that q good for
tune?
Mother-Yer'd think SO: but now she's
broken-hearted at the thought Of givin'
up the ugly. little, sawed-ofY. sandy
haired bricklayer she's in love with
Judge.
The Washington times., 1913-06-16
Didn't Intend to Stop It.

- HE curly-haired little sprfte Of
the house came running to her
j father In the study. and. throw
ing her arms about his neck.
whispered confdentially in his ear:
"Oh. papa, it's raining!"
Papa was writing on q subject that
occupied his mind to the exclusion Of
matters aside. 30 he said. rather
sharply:
"well. let 1t rain"
Yes. papa: was going to-" was her
quick response.-Harpers Magazine.
The Washington times., 1913-06-16
New Man on the Beat.

POLICEMAN who was charged
~ with having lost his whistle
~ was asked to explain. says
Young's Magazine. He said:
You see, I went home last night and
put my whistle on the table. 1 turned
round and. bless me, one of my kids
was choking and nearly black In the
face. You see, Commissioner, he'd
swallowed the whistle"
rs he dead?" asked the sympathetic
commissioner.
No. sir" was the reply. He isn't
dead, but he's got the whooping cough,
whistle blows and the COP on post
comes a running
The Washington times., 1913-06-16
Amusements,

National-"Bohemian Girl" Sis D. m
Columbia-'The Prince and the Pauper."
S:lo o. m.
Polrs-"The Woman" Sis D. m.
Belasco-Antarctic Pictures. and $50
d. m
Glen Echo-An amusements.
Chevy Chase Lake-Dancing and con-
cert by Marine Band.
forty-mile moonlight trip down the Po-
tomac-Steamer leaves Seventh utreet
wharf At Z .. N.
The Washington times., 1913-06-16
THIS THAT
A FLYGHT OF FANCY.
Wnh Sometimes q Little oftAe otAe>

A FLYGHT OF FANCY.
Last night, overcome aud exhausted,
I fell on my bed IN heap; 5
Thought /, "AnyhoD, I'll get rested up
noto;;"
But just as I tumbled to sleep
A fly came upon me from nophere,
And cautiously circled the bed;
Looked oper the place for the Hkeliest
space, '---
Then started to buzz at my head
And all through the Stygian hours,
Without interruption or break,
That buss-buszino fly toent on bussing
on high
And carefully kept me dioake.
1t iooke me at three In the morning,
Again at three-thirty and four, =, /,
And then, when thought u perhdps
had forgot,
1t came back and yoke me some more
Pm therefore absorbed In q question
That's making me cogitate deep;
I'd like to find out beyond capA or doubt
When flies eper manage to sleep.
CLIFFORD T. MYNDoTT.
The Washington times., 1913-06-16
And Where Is MR.. HOSS7
CFrom the indianapolis News. :

From the Indianapolis 'News."D
The Fortnightly Club Of American
Authors will give a supper this evening
at the Page country place for Mrs
J. D. Hoss. who will sail June q with
Mr.. Demarchus C. Brown for a trip
to Europe.
The Washington times., 1913-06-16
Reflected 'Honors.

who that plain looking man spoke to SO
cordially just now?" -
That Why that's one Of leading citizens I've
forgotten name, his in the hopskip and
lump at Stockholm. cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Washington times., 1913-06-16

yacatonist-where does this 60 to?
s, Farmer Smarf-n haint budged inch In my umes
Tyanscr1pt
The Washington times., 1913-06-16
IMPORTER OF FOREIGN AND
DOMESTIC GROCERIES.

The great difference between man
and the animals. points out a writer
In the New York American" lies In
mans power to stick at one thing un-
til it's finished.
The Washington times., 1913-06-16

THE public" states the gentleman in
volved. 'is entitled to a statement ab-
solving Mrs. Duke" II 1t will help
things any. we'll be one Of a million to
waive our rights.