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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-05
WIDE ENDORSEMENT
GIVEN M 'ADOO PLAN
Bankers Pleased at Prospect
for Crop Money
BREAKS PRECEDENT
Pleasing Feature Is That Prime Com
merce Paper Is to Be Accepted
as Security for These
La0ns
BREAKS PRECEDENT
ny q. e. STEWART.

Washington, August 4.-(SpeciaL)
Secretary of the Treasury MeAdoo is
receiving wide Endorsement of his plan
TO distribute from s25,O00,0O0 TO $5O,-
100000 among the banks of the south,
west and southwest for crop moving
purposes. Bankers from all over the
country are indorsing the proposition,
and in it they see an amelioration of
the stringency which has regularly pre-
vailed during the harvesting season
each year
Democrats in Congress are pleased;
II is another demonstration, they de-
clare, of the power of the government
to come directly to the aid of the peo-
pie, and is practical application of
the democratic principle that the gov
ernment really belongs to the people
and its powers should be exerted at
all times for their direct benefit.
1t has been pointed out that former
administrations. tied hand and foot by
precedents. have placed the treasury re-
serves at the disposal of the financial
Institutions in the banking centers, but
have not distributed the available
moneys in the immediate localities
where they are really needed. The con-
sequence. they say. has been that farm
ers have been called upon to pay ex-
horbitant rates of interest for the
money necessary to market their crops.
The benefit of the governments aid
has gone to the big bankers-and the
farmers and small dealers to whom the
government was protesting to extend
its help, as usual paid the freight.
A feature that particularly appeals
to the country bankers. as well as TO
the people, is the declaration that prime
commercial paper will be accepted on
similar footing with federal, state,
municipal and county bonds and obli-
cations. Past administrations have con-
fined their encouragement to similar
circulation to the monetary centers;
never before has a proposal been sub
mitted where small agricultural cen
ters have been permitted to take adj
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-05
Lauder Laughed at This

Harry Lauder, the popular Scottish
comedian, has made highly successful
first appearance in the ordinary "bill at
the Palace theatre.
A good many stories have been told OF
what the Scots call 'nearness," and
other people something else, in Mr. Lau-
der So it was surprising the other day
to see him photographed in the act OF
giving sixpence to a baby.
The other evening the was laughing
over a story that had just ben told him
Here 1t is:
A certain duke was going to town one
morning and the taxi driver took him
a long way round.
why did you take the longest route?'
asked his grace. why didn't you drive
through Hyde park?'
Cause Hyde parks closed" said the
driver.
CLOSED? Why?"
"'Cause Harry Lauder dropped six.
pencve there last night, and the park Is
closed till he finds it,"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-05

the names of Gov. John NJ. Slaton of
Georgia and Gov Earl Brewer of Mis-
sissippl. both of whom had requested
Governor o'Neal to sign their names to
the Invitation,
The invitation of the three govern
ors win be followed up by q delegations
from Mobile, Montgomery, Btrmingham
and other Alabama cities, which left
for Washington Monday evening to
personally urge the President to attend
the Mobile meeting. President Wilson
will be asked to deliver an address to
the delegates,
The meeting of the Southern Corn,
mercial congress premises to be the
most Important that association has
ever held, and delegates from many
of the Latin American countries viii DO
in attendance, Governor O'Neal will de-
liver the address of welcome, the tn
vitation to take part ON the pro-
gramme having been extended to hfm
by Dr. Clarence J, Owens, managing
director of the Southern Commercial
congress-.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-05
Was Led by a Spirit

Kennedy said that his wife had written
him that she was ill. asking him to come
home. The prison officials declined to al
low him to leave, and he tried not to do
so, he declares, because they had been
good to him. "rhen something told me
that l would never see them again un-
less l went at once" he said, and he
could not resist the teiepathic appeal
''It was just like a spirit leading me, and
had to come. l feel that 1 am not
much longer for this world, and [ was
ready to die 10 minutes after l had held
INF loved ones in my arms once more.
Il never thought of trying to hide from
the officers said the old man. II knew
they would come after me and take me
back to Wetumpka, and | would have
gone by myself in few days, for l want
to do whatever the law says | must do
1t makes little difference to me now [
have seen my wife and baby and | will
bear as patiently as I can the rest of
my life. which cannot be long. The last
year has broken me down, with the worry
of separation and the longing for home'
Talks of Fued
Throughout the viclssitudes of the trials
of the various defendants in the Pearce-
Kennedy feud cases. the old man main
tanned an iron nerve and the silence of a
Stole. In the last trial he slept while the
lawyers were dickering over his fate.
Monday. however, he wept as he protested
his innocence of the killing of his son.
Shelf Kennedy for which DR. John e.
Pearce is serving life sentence.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-05
STILL DESTROYED
BY ALABAMA GIRL
IN JACKSON COUNTY
Noticing Hands" Had Ii
quor, Miss Annie Higgins
Follows Them and
Destroys Tank

from Soottsboro. Ala. says Miss Annie
Higgins. daughter OF a prominent farm
er of jackson county, near Larkins-
vile, single handed captured and de-
stroyed large wildcat" disttllery and
a lot of Illicit liquor found TN wooded
swamp near her fathers farm
The young lady had noticed that the
farm hands came in from work in an
intoxicated condition and she set to
work to find the source of their liquor
supply,
Miss Higgins secretly followed n
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-05

vantage of federal relief of the nature
which is now held forth.
One argument that has been advanced
against the proposition made by the
Secretary of the Treasury is that past
experience has caused the banks and
financial institutions who were favored
with government aid to look forward
to this help during the crop moving
period as an assured thing Consequent
ly, 1T is said, many of these institutions
have made no effort whatever to con-
serve their resources to meet the usual
stringency, but have placed their re-
sources elsewhere, reckoning. that they
would have Uncle Sam to fall back upon
in the time of need. Naturally there
fore. from such sources there comes a
wall of protest, but the inauguration
of any new movement brings a wall of
protest from someone, which does not
necessarily condemn the movement.
With the government distributing
funds directly to the cropmoving CEN
not be compelled to draw as heavily
upon their correspondents in the none
tary centers, the only difference being
that the small banks will get the ad-
vantage of lower rate of interest and
can give that advantage to their GUS
toners.
In the meantime the Secretary is GO
ing right ahead with his plan collecting
information as to the relative needs of
each section. and preparing to place the
money in the banks in time for the
prompt handling of the crops
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-05
W|KLE WOULD WORK
THE AUTOMOBILES
Admission Mayor Believes
They Should Help I'm
prove Roads

Admission, August 4.-(Special.) AL
though he himself is a user of gasoline
in the honking of a horseless machine,
Mayor ]. L. WllSle of Admission Will ask
the automob.ists of this city to work
the public streets and roads during the
state good roads days, August Ia. 10
and 16, or else go down In their pockets
and contribute toward the good cause.
The building of a cement bridge 10
the south, is the one thing necessary
to the completion of the Admission
"Appian Way" or model road leading
from the northern to the southern lim-
it's of the city, and every man in An
niston subject to road duty is asked
to contribute at least 81 toward this
and other projects in the improvement
of the city streets.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-05
AMATEURS ENTER
DADEVILLE STORE
Thieves Fail to Procure Money or
Anything of Value From R. V.
Salmon & Sons

Dadeville, August 4-(Special. Thieves
entered the store of r. v Salmon & Sons
Saturday night, priced open one money till
and finding no booty, bodily carried Off a
cigar case containing another money
drawer to the back alley a block away.
They did much damage to the show case,
but failed to get into the cash drawer,
evidently ching frightened off. or arriving
at the conclusion that it was empty. Mr..
Salmon ha sno clue to the perpetrators,
but it was evidently the work of anna
teurs.
The Tallapoosa County Sunday school
convention will convene in Dadeville Tues
day for a two day session. The meetings
will be held in the Baptist church. Joint
committees from the local Methodist and
Baptist Sunday schools have been ap-
pointed to meet the delegates as theysar-
rive.
Tallapoosa County Teachers institute
will be held at the High school building
here. beginning August IL, and continuing
one week. The institute will be conducted
by Prof l.. M. Stevenson of Roanoke.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-05
IA Often naes

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer
True story about d schoolboy in a
Cleveland public school. This hoy brought
home his report card last Friday. His
parents looked 1t over and noticed a blank
in the place where the mark for "deport-
ment should have been
How is this?" asked the father. "Ioa
have no mark for department.
OH answered the child, brightly. we
don't take that subject this year. That
comes in next years course"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-05
BULL MOOSE TO BE ADDED
TO THE WASHINGTON ZOO
BY c. e. STEWART

Washington, August Especial III the
plans of the management of the big zoo
IN Washington succeed in recent nego-
tiations visitors to the capital will be able
to see two genuine moose when they visit
Rock Creek park. where the great zoo
is located. Efforts are now being made to
add a baby moose to the animal collection.
There are enough bull mooses in Wash
ington not to excite more than ordinary
curiosity when the tourist is shown one,
but the real. genuine moose in captivity
is rare.
The particular animal that they are now
after has rather curious history. 1t is
a well developed moose calf that wan
dered into the streets of Duluth, Mimi,
last week.
The baby moose took a stroll along the
streets avoiding those where there were
car tracks. He was attending strictly to
his own business of seeing the sights, and
several persons who saw him thought that
he was merely calf that had gotten
loose. Finally he was recognized by "A
citizen as something out of the regular
calf line, and after a chase in a buggy
he slipped the pavement, not being
used to paved streets and was captured.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-05
Taken Out Too Soon
From Judge

FrO1n Judge ~
Mrs. Newlywed- hen eggs seem
Very small this morning.
Farmer-Can't help 1t. lady.
Mrs. Newlywed-Weli, let my next ones
stay in the nests a little longer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-05
PRESIDENT WILSON
INVITED TO MOBILE
Governors O'Neal, Brewer
and Slaton Extend Invita-
tion to Attend Congress

Montgomery August Especially
The governors Of the states Of Alabama.
Georgia and Mississippi have made a
Joint request of President Wilson to
attend the annual meeting of the South
ern Commercial congress, which will be
held in Mobile october 81, rs and %
The invitation was teiegraphed to tho
President today by Governor o'Neal,
and bore, in addition to his signature
workman and found the stil1 in full
operation. When the operators saw her
approaching on horseback they fled. The
girl at once destroyed the tanks and
worms She poured out the liquor on
hand and then notified the revenue Of
ficers who went to the place and con-
frmed the statement tlht she made
good work in destroying the still.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-05
Great Attraction

From Tit-Bits.
More Attractive-"Tremendous crowd up
at our church last night"
New Minister
mo, it was burned down."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-05
KENNEDY FOUND At
HOME WITH LITTLE
SON UPON HIS KNEE
Aged Murderer and Feudist
Who Escaped From
the Penitentiary
Located

Admission. August .-(SpeciaL)-W. F.
Kennedy. the aged Confederate veteran
and convicted feudist, now in his 18th
year, who was arrested at his home near
Peek's Hill. this county. Sunday after
noon with his baby boy on his knee and
his young wife by his side, will be taken
back to the state penitentiary at We
tumpka and henceforth confined within
prison walls, but he will not be punished
for effecting his escape from the prison,
according to l.. F. Greer, associate state
convict inspector, who is now at his home
in this city.
Big tears streamed down the old man s
checks into his flowing beard as he re-
lated the story of his escape from the
prison, where he was employed as a
trusty, in his cell at the Calhoun county
jail Monday. 1t was a pitiful story and
brought tears to the eyes of those who
heard it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-05
REPORT FAVORAbLY
ON CROW CREEK DAM
Scottsboro May Use Power
in Connection With the
Electric Plant

Scottsboro, August 4.-(Special.) 1.-The
site of the Crow creek dam in this county
to be constructed by the government
across the Tennessee river about five
miles out from Scottsboro has been re-
ported favorably by the government en-
gineers of the district. This means a
great deal for Scottsboro and surrounding
country. Power from this dam will in
all probability be used in connection with
the electric plant that is to be installed
here at an early date.
Deputy Sheriff John Hackworth has re-
turned from Arkansas with Horton Bry-
ant who was wanted by the authorities
in this county serious charge. 1t is
also reported that Bryant has confessed
TO his wife whom he married after going
to Arkansas, to starting the fire which
came so near wiping the little town of
Stevenson, this county, off the map in
May, 1911. Bryant was placed in Jail
here last night to await the action of
the grand jury.
Prof. Ben Hill and Miss Millie LYDIA
of Bridgeport, this county. were united
in marriage Sunday afternoon at the
home of the bride near Bridgeport, the
Rev. L. W. Young officiating. They are
both teachers in the city schools of
Bridgeport. Immediately after the cere-
mony they left for Asheville, N c., and
will be at home in Bridgeport after Au-
gust.
All the road overseers of Jackson county
have been sent proclamations of the Good
Roads days. August 14-15-16, by the coun-
ty commissioners and urged to have every
citizen in their respective road districts
to turn out on thse days and put In good
shape one piece of road. Field instruc-
tions have been sent by the judge of
probate.
Imperial Valley press., 1913-09-20

Pianos for rent. R. L. Harrell
Advertisement. #
Imperial Valley press., 1913-09-20

up even if they do it with interest
ing regularity. Out of the AZ saloon
keepers (from 1880 to 1919, though
we knew but one teetotaler, we found
only ID who drank heavily enough TO
be counted alcoholic.
There is, of course, no satisfactory
standard for classification; but we
have included in our count all who
drank immoderately and chronically.
This included, probably, those cases
in which the alcoholism was extreme
enough to affect the health and sta
bility of posterity.
1--WE shall not draw the curtain
from the beastlike brawls of thirty
three years in thirteen village saloons,
nor from the brutalities Of the
drunken fathers toward children and
mothers Of children, because these
noisy scenes, however distressing, are
only incidental to the silent drama If
human reproduction, upon which the
eugenics of the village depends
Imperial Valley press., 1913-09-20
MAINLY PERSONAL.

F. G. Havens returned this morn
ing from Los Angeles.
Dave Williams of Holtville, return
ed from the coast today.
Mrs. c. E. Coggins returned yestec-
day evening from a three months va
cation at Long eBach.
Among the valleys autumn colon
lists are J. w. Delaney, wife and
daughter ,Juanita, from San Jose.
William Kelly returned yesterday
evening from Los Angeles where he
had enjoyed three weeks vacation.
Mrs. Van Mcconnell returned yester-
day from Los Angeles, where she had
taken two months summer vacation.
Glenn, Theodore and Truman
Thompson and Howard DeArmond re-
turned today from a weeks vacation
on the coast.
w. E. Wilsie and Ed NJ. Gueydal,
of the Imperial Valley Cotton Ex-
change, returned yesterday from a
business trip to Los Angeles.
District Attorney Phil D. Swing left
for Long Beach yesterday evening to
join his wife and daughter, Margaret,
who are moving today from Long
Beach to Pasadena.
Roy Rumsey, proprietor of Rum
sey's Department Store, left by auto
mobile for San Diego this morning
for a few days visit with his family,
who will return with him. They have
been spending summer vacation at
that place.
Imperial Valley press., 1913-09-20

render "The Trail Of the Lonesome
Pine tonight at the Theatre Tulane
The photoplay program will consist
Of "The Battle Of Bloody Ford" two
reel feature, two comedies, "Bobbie
Buys an Auto" and the "Beaut from
Butte" and the Pathe weekly.
* X X
l.. & S. Theatre.-Tonight's pro-
gram at the L. &S. contains "A Regi-
ment of Two," Ia two reel comedy
feature), His Fathers Deputy
and Pathe Weekly. The two-reel
feature tonight is an out of the Or
dinary comedy, the story of two hus-
bands who "enlist" in the army to
be sure of a night off, and the fol-
lowing complications.
Imperial Valley press., 1913-09-20
MANY DRINK BECAUSE
THEY ARE MINDED

In the October American Magazine
Arnold L. Gesell writes remarkable
article entitled THE Village of
Thousand Souls" in which he presents
the results Of an investigation of 22O
families in a small town in the mid
die west. On the subject Of alcohol
ism in this village, he writes:
''The examination of our map shows
Is saloons. 1t is not surprising that
Gus census should therefore reveal 36
families in which there is alcoholism.
This is a proportion Of 16 per cent.
These alcoholics are in nearly every
case the fathers-from whose lions.
as the Scriptures tell us, spring child
ren. For a generation there has not
appeared in this village woman who
could be considered alcoholic. This
latter fact, no doubt, has been
eugenic advantages to the population,
because alcohol can poison the embryo
through the maternal circulation if
in no other way. But we must re-
member that every newborn babe
is the product of the germinal pro-
tOplasm of the father as well as of
the mother, and that alcohol may IN
dermine his germ plasm to such an
extent that an inferior child will be
born.
"The heredity effects Of alcohol are
many; and they are never on the
right side Our village map shows it
in clear association with feeble-mind-
edness and insanity in thirteen cases
at least. We may feel sure that alco-
hol operates as contributing, if not
as an initiating, cause in the produc-
ton of defects and deficiency Of the
nervous system. In men it has been
estimated that "a per cent of the
mental diseases are due to alcohol,
which with syphilis, accounts for al
most one-half of all the cases of in
sanity committed to institutions.
"1n feeble -mindedness, alcoholism
may often be regarded as effect rather
than cause. 1t has been found that in
homes for inebriates as high as so per
cent Of the inmates are mentally de-
fective. They drink because they are
feeble minded. In spite of the large
number Of saloons in our village
(there once were as many as III
there have been only few dipsoman-
iacs, so extreme that they were hope
lessly and helplessly given to drink.
In fact none of our alcoholics indi-
Gated on the map were also found to
be feeble minded. Many became vic
tins Of drink, but none, apparently,
from sheer or mere mental deficiency.
We have not reckoned those as alco-
holics who drink intermittently; that
is, those who go on sprees and sober
Imperial Valley press., 1913-09-20

the people of Imperial that it is "a
rocky road to Dublin" Meanwhile.
the Press continues to serve all the
people with real news.
X x <
PackwOOd Convicted.-S. L.. Pack
wood was convicted by jury before
Justice Philo Jones at Brawley Thurs
day Of the illegal sale of liquor. Pack
wood was the owner of the building in
which c. A. Nichols and William Step
pin had conducted blind pig. Mich
OILS and Steppin had previously been
convicted.
X X K
At the Tulane Tonight.-Mr. Beam
er will accede to many requests and
Imperial Valley press., 1913-09-20
VALLEY Lumber Co.
Building Material
EL CENTRIC CALExICO
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
Q12326.

Department of the Interior. U. s.
Land Office at Los Angeles, Cal, Aug
16, 1918.
Notice is hereby given that Thomas
j.. Harrison of Dixieland, Cal, who, on
June IL, 1911, made Homestead Entry
Township is s.. Range 10 r. S. b Mer
idian, has filed notice of intention to
make Final Commutation Proof, 10 es-
tablish claim to the land above de-
scribed, before the Clerk of the super
ior Court of Imperial County. Califor-
MIA, at Ell Centric, Cal. on the third day
of October. 1913, at 900 o'clock p. m.
Claimant names as witnesses:
J. r. Butler. Robert Brewster, all of
Dixieland. Cal.
FRANK BUREN, Register.
(non-coal Ell Centro Press Oct 1S)
Imperial Valley press., 1913-09-20
Fair Division.

Harper's Magazine: She was max
ing the usual futile search for her
purse when the conductor came to
collect fares.
Her companion meditated silently
for a moment, then addressing the
other, said: Let US divide this, Babel;
you tumble and I'll pay"
Imperial Valley press., 1913-09-20
OlO40g
NOTICE FOR PUBLIC ALTON.

Department Of the Interior. Q. :.
Land Office at Los Angeles, CAL
August 26, 1918.
Notice is hereby given that Albert
E. Jeffray, of DiXieland, Cal, who, on
IS, 1910. made Homestead
Entry. No. O10449, for So NEA. NE
NEA, Section 10, Township 16 5,
Range IL E., s. B. Meridian. has filed
notice of intention to make Final three
year Proof, to establish claim to the
land above described, before the Clerk
of the Superior Court of Imperial
California. at Ell Centric. Cal,
on the nth day of October. 1913, at
9 90 o'clock a. m.
Claimant names as with eSscS: Anton
Gerdes, Lee Jernigan, James l.. Jerni-
gan. Ralph Mayfield. all of Dixielend,
Cal.
FRANK BUREN,. Register
mon coal, Ell Centre Pressl Sept 29
Imperial Valley press., 1913-09-20
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Imperial Valley press., 1913-09-20
CITY AND VALLEY.

Theatre TuIane-Entire change Of
program tonight.
= = -
May Mean a Change-With mer-
curry at 102 this afternoon there comes
the weather bureau prediction of
showers on the coast, which may i'm
ply the change from summer to fall
for which the valley is ready and
which is now due.
THE Only Daily" With fifteen
columns daily of boiler plate "the only
newspaper ever published in Imperial
valley" is giving ample testimony to
Imperial Valley press., 1913-09-20

Pianos for rent. R. L. Harrell.
Advertisement. If
Imperial Valley press., 1913-09-20

We move pianos ana houses. Bc
Royce Transfer.-Adv. II