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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-13
AMAZING FIGURES
ON GROWING USE OF
PRODUCTS ABROAD
Only Big Corporations Can
Have Facilities to Develop
This Business
REDFIELD PROUD
OF SHOWING MADE
Expects Our Exports of Manufactured
Products Will Soon Show an
Annual Value of Billion
and a Half
BY HOLLAND

New York, September 12-(Special.) Sec
retary Redfeld, through the department
of commerce. has begun the publication
of statistics which are both puzzling and
record making. His subordinates report,
for instnace, that the United States car
ried on with all foreign countries in the
II months which ended June 30 last trade
of the aggregate money value of 81, ,275,0oO,
600 round numbers. He furthermore re-
ports that this aggregate exceeds the one
reported year ago by $421 100000.
These are not only record figures to
which. in one of his addresses which he
delivered soon after he entered President
Wilson'S administration Secretary Redfeld
referred with pride and enthusiasm, but
they were also made possible in a year
commonly supposed to be one of consid-
cradle business sluggishness. certainly a
year in which a good deal of unrest was
observable throughout the United States.
In one of his early addresses Secretary
Redfield spoke with something like amaze
ment of the recent increase in the ex-
portations of manufactured products, and
especially those of our iron and steel man.
ufactories. He could foresee within a year
or two a record of at least 81 SOC, 900 900.
Secretary Redfield meant that in his view
our expectation of manufactured prod
ucts ready for consumption or for further
use in manufacturing would be of the
money value of $1500, 100000.
If foodstuffs be included in the statis-
tics which report the expectation of part
ly or wholly manufactured products for
the latest fiscal year then that fiscal year
makes record of a trifle over 81, 800 600, =
600 in expectation from the United States
of manufactured products of all kinds
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-13

The demand for houses in Albertville
was never greater
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-13
ALL RECORDS BROKEN
AT ALBERTVILLE
265 Students Enroll at Seventh Dis
trict School-Cotton Outlook
Splendid

Albertville. September 12.-tSpecial)
The Seventh District Agricultural school
has now broken all previous attendance
for the first two weeks the enrolment
now reaching go.
With the price of cotton above 10 cents,
and a splendid crop on Sand mountain.
the Albertvllle merchants are expecting
an unusually heavy fall trade. The cot
ton is already beginning to move freely.
The three gins in Albertville, a well as
those in the country, have all started
operations, and are busy ginning the
fieecy staple.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-13

Leon McCord, associate member of the
Alabama railroad commission, spent sew
eral days here this week. When asked
whether or not be would oppose Congress-
man Burnett in the approaching election
he stated emphatically he would not.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-13
Show High Efficiency

Figures of this kind speak in silent pro-
test, according to the view of our busi-
ness men here, of the statement some
times made that American manufacturers
lack efficiency. Secretary Redfield him.
self clearly intimated that if the manu-
facturers of the United States found that
their business was impaired by reason,
as they thought, of the reduced schedules
in a new tariff law, the trouble would in
all probability be found in lack of suf-
ficient efficiency.
In the testimony given before Special
Master Henry Brown in the proceedings
brought by the government for the dis
solution of the United States Steel cor
/ poration, there were some statements
made by President James A. Farrell which
tended to show that the great increase
in the expectation of the various prod
ucts of this corporation was due to the
very high degree of efficiency both in the
manufacture and in the marketing in for
eign countries o. these commodities Two
years ago it was estimated that the total
money value of the expectations of two
of the largest corporations in the United
States whose commodities are chiefly iron
and steel products would aggregate about
Sl00,0o0,00O. That estimate was later found
to be correct and this great expectation
of commodities produced by these two
corporations, both of which are to be
tested so far as their legality of organiza-
ton and operation is concerned by the
United States, was due to very high de-
gree of efficiency.
1t is regarded here as inconceivable that
American manufacturers could have in
competition with the manufacturers of
Great Britain and the continent of Europe
gained market in foreign lands which
brought to this country last year, di-
rectly or indirectly, $500 100000, unless the
Americans had worked out to the high
est possible degree the laws by which
efficiency is secured.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-13
Another Feature

Another feature of the magnificent sta
tistics which the bureau of commerce has
just published is to be found in the fig
ures which show that while our manu-
factured products ready for consumption
and also manufactured products which are
to be used in foreign lands show a gain
over the year 1912 of $165, 100000, there was
but trifling gain in the money value
OF the foodstuffs partly or wholly manu-
factured which were exported in that
year
Were it not for cotton the Importance
of the United States so far as foreign
trade is concerned would almost wholly
depend upon our expectations of the COM
modities OF our manufactures. Cotton
saves the day for us. And yet the time
was only Il few years back, when the
United States was recognized the world
over as pre-eminent for it's expectations
of agricultural products. Nobody In Eu-
rope dreamed Is years ago that the man
ufacturers of the United States would
within short time export commodities
of much larger money value than that
received for agricultural products. Were
it. not for the expectation of cotton our
agricultural products would in money
value be not much over $5O0,0O0.Oo0.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-13

Work on the state aid highway from
here to Boaz is progressing nicely. The
road viii be constructed of sand-clay.
and engineers state it will be one of the
best in the state when completed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-13
The Question of Size

That the great increase in the exporta-
ton of manufactured products is conse-
quent upon the creation of corporations
which have very large capital and which
have been created through the purchase
or merger into one controlling interest
of many smaller and Independent cor
poratons these figures from the depart
ment Of commerce prove conclusively. 1t
requires very large capital to create and
maintain such sales departments as are
under the direction of the United States
Steel corporation, the international Har-
vester company and the Standard Oil COM
pany 1t may be that all of the adyan-
tages which this mammoth expansion of
our foreign trade in the past 10 years
due to the sale abroad of manufactured
products are far more than offset by the
danger of monopolistic control of branches
of trade by the great corporations.
But it seems to be beyond question that
we cannot maintain and steadily increase
our expectation of manufactured prod
ucts unless this business is facilitated
through the aid of very great capital, so
great that none but the big corporations
can possess it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-13

Jim F'isk's home on New Market pike
was burned last night Everything was
destroyed and the loss was about $1,000:
no insurance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-24

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The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1913-09-09

SCIENTIFIC DEDUCTION
BY HOMER HARPER.

Even dad says I'm the cleverest
little observer he ever saw" Nora re-
marked modestly. i've been study.
ing out the characteristics and occu-
pations Of people on street cars and
everywhere-just from their expires.
sions and wrinkles and clothes, you
know. Scientific deduction!
"The other night went to party
with Roger, where knew hardly .
single soul. Coming home I told him
loads about everybody there and he
said It was perfectly wonderful. OF
course. Roger does sometimes exag.
gerate about mel"
She wrote another sentence and
ended It with flourish. Felicity set
tied her small bonnet trihe closer.
you certainly are wonder" she
sighed, obviously ri never could
write a letter and carry on CONVEX
sation at the same time, much less
guess anybody's family tree at the
first glance. I've got to 60 home and
soothe Katy. This being wash day.
father just naturally telephoned that
he was bringing a new German bac-
teriologist home to lunch. Don't for.
get that you're coming tomorrow"
"One-thirty sharp" acquiesced Nora.
The door had just closed behind
Felicity and Nora was preparing to
tear up the sheet of paper on which
she had been writing so nonchalantly
when her attention was distracted by
q small mouse, which ran out from
under the bookcase.
Nora's businesslike manner dissolv.
ed in sudden fright Bouncing out Of
her chair, she perched upon the desk,
drawing her feet in carefully. A mo.
ment later the door opened and q pale
youth looked in absentmindedly as
II he had been sent to the office on an
errand, which he had unfortunately
forgotten at the threshold. It was OBJ.
vious that he did not take in the sit
uation at all
Very likely freshman or a sopho-
more. Nora deduced rapidly. One of
the utterly absorbed variety that
dreams OF autopsics
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1913-09-09

"kindy catch that mouse for me, "
she directed briskly, indicating the
bold little creature with a wave of her
hand.
oh" lie came back to earth with
q start Then he moved slowly and
carefully toward the mouse, which
lost its head and retreated to the 9th
er bookcase, which had no exit under
1t. Down on his hands and knees
dropped the youth lost in the chase
For few moments confusion reigned
underneath the bookcase. Then the
awkward young man rose, holding the
wriggling mouse in one hand
What are YOU going to do with it,"
inquired Nora In tone which implied
that he was stealing her little pet.
"Inoculate it with tuberculosis" he
said. dreamily.
"You shan't," Nora's tone was Arm.
He raised his eyebrows and looked
at her for the first time. you wish
me to put it back there?" he asked,
politely pointing to the bookcase.
Indeed not" said Nora, Disguised
by such stupidity. Take 1t out and
lose it, please
The youth bowed. VERY WE'LL" he
said and backed out, gently rubbing
the mouse with crooked forefinger.
1t was the next day that Felicity
shook her friend Nora by the shout
ders. WHAT'S the matter, Nora?
Have you lost your job?'
''If only | had" Nora sank into a
chair and famed herself vigorously
Felicity, | know absolutely nothing
about scientific deduction. | wish I'd
never played with it. ] cant tell
circus rider from well, q circuit
rider.
WELL" Felicity began, consolingly,
you couldn't be half as bad as the
object that took luncheon with us
yesterday. He had a mouse In bis
pocket and it made a gay getaway
while father was describing his pet
bacillus. II was the liveliest lunch
con we ever had"
Nora looked up and asked irrele-
vanity, WAS his face all marked"
Eyes. Student duels In Germany"
"And manners?"
$50 many he trips over them"
"The herr professor himself told
him to catch that mouse In my Office
yesterday after you left and he did
This morning when | went to the adj
vanced bacteriology class up rose my
little pied piper and lectured. AS you
probably know, he's the latest acouisi-
ton OF our medical school-hes from
Berlin.
"Oh, Felicity, henceforth I'm going
to be a simple little maiden who
thinks it's downright wicked to try
to BE- clever!"-Chicago Ddily News.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1913-09-09
LINES OF HIS HAND
BY BRUCE SHERMAN.

Mrs. ]. Arthur Smythe was easily
he leader of Huntingdon's Four Hun
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1913-09-09
Not Exactly.

"What a mobile countenance Jen-
ME has"
Its the real auto face"
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1913-09-09

dred. Her parties
were charming.
So delightful was
her tact and so
great her re-
sources that ev.
erybody was glad
to 60. Hence It
was that on, q Ger.
tain evening Rich
ard Sherry found
himself bowling
over the fair
nd In the
Smythe drawing
room.
"One is always
sure to be bright
ened up and have
ones wits sharp
ened here. Mrs.
Smythe." he said.
What Is 1t to be
tonight - theoso-
phey, q new art
list, q musical
prodigy, vaude-
vile or q literary
lion?"
"A poor guess"
she responded,
brightly. What
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-07-17
{ N PLO Y MEN I
WORK TO BE "
FEATURE

Arthur E. Larimer, who was recent.
" promoted from the educational de-.
-partment OF the 1oung Mems Chris
tan Association to the secretaryship
of the mems department and head OF
the employment work, this morning
commenced work upon a series Of
plans which are expected to result in
a complete reorganization OF the en-
pley1nent department OF. the associa-
ton.
This reorganization, in case it is
carried out under the proposed plans,
will establish the employment work
on a systematic basis which will tend
to make ii valuable community as
set. Tie associations on the Pacific
coast, as well as those in the larger
cities in the east have come to recog
nize the employment work as one OF
the most essential features. The plan
of this work as established in the
mainland associations and which will
eventually be undertaken locally is to
make the request of each applicant
for position that he take out mem.
bership in the association with the
guarantee that he will secure through
it a position within thirty days or.
his money will be refunded. Those
secretaries in charge of the local work
must secure the cooperation of the
employers in order that they may
know the large percentage Of the va
cancies existing in the various mer-
camille houses, shops, etc, throughout
the city from time to time. In a
city of the size of Honolulu, this is
believed to be comparatively easy.
The local Young Mems Christian
Association will ende1vor to cover the
higher grade positions, such as all
forms of office work nd the various
trades, cooperating with the other in
stitutions which are doing like work
in Honolulu with the idea of getting
men and boys into those positions
best suited for them. In yinstituting
this plan committee on employment
and vocational guidance will be APP
pointed by the board of directors of
the association. This committee will
be composed of men who will arrange
tc meet the applicants for positions on
certain evenings and study their in;
dividual qualities.
George S. Raymond, recently ap-
pointed inspector of schools for the
territory and who. will have a large
share in the development of vocation,
al training and guidance in the pub
lie schools during the coming year,
will cooperate with the Young Mems
Christian Association in working out
The new system. The board Of difec-
tors will take up and act upon the
matter at its next meeting.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-07-17
TARS WILLIACME
THE SINUOUS
HULA

Jack Tar, to the extent of several
hundred of him, will show Honolulans
that he is capable of doing things and
performing deeds other than main
tanning a watchful care over the fine
piece of fighting machinery in the
big new New Zealand, now preparing
to steam away to British Columbia.
The sailor lads will try conclusions
with the sinuous hulR, take . hand in
acrcbatic stunts, turn loose flood or
melody upon their unsuspecting ship
mates as well as the general public,
and in fact go through all manner OF
amusing stunts along amateur theat-
rical lines at special performance to
be given at Ye Liberty Theater this
evening.
It's a sailors competition that has
been arranged, and at which ship
load Of fun is promised to be dis
charged in record breaking time.
The program includes instrumental
numbers, vaudeville turns, black face
and slapstick comedy, series OF Sc
lections from quartettes, duos and So
loists, flashes of minstrelsy and in
fact ! wide variety of selections, in
which the sailor man prominently fig
ures.
A big time is promised and the men
from the New Zealand should be, out
in force this evening.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-07-17
HAS A
PUBLICITY Man
ON THE JOB

That Honolulu people are taking a
great interest in the See Hawaii
First" campaign started by the Hilo
Board of Trade and that il should be
a success is the opinion of John NJ.
Giles. of the Henry Warehouse Trust
Co, who is handling the work in Ho-
nolulu
Il have only been started a few
days." b, said. but | am more than
encouraged by what / have seen and
heard. Everyone | have so far come
in contact with is pleased with the
idea and | think that just as soon as
/ can get around to it there will be
steady stream of Oahu people to Ha-
wall
The advertisements written by Mr..
Thurston have been an eyeopener 10
most people for the prevailing idea of
Hawaii and Hilo was a place where
there was volcano and village OF
kickers who when they were not pur-
suing this pastime were chanting their
ancient yell OF Watch Hilo Grow
There is no place in these islands
so ideally suited for summer vaca-
ton as Hawaii. There is everything
that the advertisements have told
about and this is not hot air ] am
talking now, for have been there and
i know it. Hawaii is not made up of
Hilo and the Volcano There are hun
dreds Of places where the jaded bust
ness man can loll about in his oldest
clothes, where he can take his rod
and go fishing, where he can go riding
or shooting. There are mountains to
climb that are mountains. and some
thing to see when you get there.
There are ideal places for the wife
and kiddies to go where they viii be
out of the enervating summer heat
and where the cost will only be frac-
ton of the usual coast trip. What is
more than anything else 1t is real
holiday and one from which they come
back restored in health.
One CT the curious things [ have
run across, however, is that when you
put it up fairly and squarely to q
Honolulan, even the kamaainas, they
do not know that there are these
places to be found and year after year
send their families away to places
where dress means more than COM
fort.
ut Is impossible for me to get hold
of everyone and tell where they can
60. but have a telephone number,
1908. and I am always ready to give
information.
IF business men want to make a
business trip to any of the other isl
ands instead ofrsending the Office boy
down to book their tickets all they
have to do is to call my number and
| will make full arrangements for
them.
Somebody asked me the other day
|. what | was doing and ! told them. !
am the bell hop Of the territory"
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-07-17

The amateur golf championship OF
France was won by Lord Charles,
Hope Of England.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-07-17
PROSPECTING WORK
UNCOvERS DEPOSIT
[By Latest MALL

HOBART, i as, Aus. = Prospecting
work at Zeehan has disclosed a big
pyritic formation 80 feet wide on the
old Britannia property. now owned by
the British Zeehan Company.
The formation has been stripped for
a width of Ia feet en- the main vein,
but its assay value is not yet known
There is a good market for pyrites
carrying fair percentage OF sulphur,
the Mount Lyell Company being a
strong buyer, and as the value is In
the ore, the news discovery will be an
important one
The formation is now being
trenched for higher up the hill.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-07-17

William H. McElroy of Warwick,
y. Y, has resigned after having
taught school So consecutive years
For AZ years has has taught in the
saIre house.
Albert b. Ruggles, for many years
president OF the San Francisco Stock
Exchange, has just died at his home
in that city.
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HOLDINGS OF
FRANCE Large
IN SOUTH SEAS
CONTINUED from page onel

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between New Caledonia and the con-
stellations of French groups In the
Eastern Pacific that will be especially
valuable when the Panama canal is
opened and the Pacific becomes the
great commercial highway. Wallis
and Futuna were practically the last
of the 'protectorates, Tonga being
the only other one of importance. and
there are many who believe that
Britain delay in the annexation OF
this group may be dangerous, and that
the wisest policy is TO hoist the flag
at once. Every group and practically
every atoll on which a cocoanut palm
will grow, or rock on which seabirds
are accustomed to congregate, ands on
which deposits Of guano are therefore
to be found, has not been taken pos
session of by one or other of the great
powers
Hawaii, where the great navigator
Cook lost his life, was offered to
Great Britain times out of number.
Tahiti was ours till we abandoned it
to France, Samoa was lost through
vacillation and laundering, the whole
of the Bismarck archipelago was once
virtually british, as also were New
Caledonia and the dependent Loyalty
islands, although not annexed. In
deed, it has been said to be more a
matter of luck than good management
that any CT the islands remain British.
The British flag is. of course, para
mount In the South Pacific, but the
French possessions are considerably
larger than most people imagine.
france already has New Caledonia.
the Loyalty islands, Wallis and Flu
tuna islands the Society islands TIA
hitil. the extensive Tuamotu group,
the Tubuai or AustraI islands, Rapa
and Marquesas islands, while she ex-
ercises powerful influence in the
New Hebrides.
Germany owns the Bismarck archi,
pelago comprising New Britain and
other large and valuable islandsl, and
a large slice of New Guinea, the most
ncrtherly of the Solomon islands
tBuka and Bcugainville), the choicest
islands of the Samoan group, the Mar.
4 oAAoAA Ao10AhuC, uA0 Tic
relew group, and Ladrones, the three
last-named having been sold by Spain
to Germany after the Spanish-Ameri
can war for something like &c $50 900
Most Of Germany's island possessions
came into her hands between 1881
and 1899, but since 1884 Germany has
steadily promoted her interests, and
encouraged in every way their settle
! ment and trade
America has got Hawaii, Tutuila
! and other islands in the Samoan
group. Guam in the Ladrones, and va
rious scattered islands In the North
Pacific, as well. of>course, as the Phil
ippines. if they are not beyond the
Pacific littoral
| Wallis island is about 300 miles
! que west from Samoa, and until the
French missionaries arrived the ma
tlves were taught Christianity by the
London Missionary Society. Futuns
island, with its consort ,Alofi, lies
] about 126 miles southwest of Wallis
tutuna being eight miles long and
nve miles broad, and AIofi six miles
long and three broad.
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COckTOaChGS
SHOULD BE KILLED

At the first sign Of the repulsiye cock
roach or waterbury. get from your drug
gist box Of the genuine Stearns' Elec-
trio Rat and Reach Paste and use Il
according to directions; and in the
morning you can sweep up n painful Of
dead cockroaches. Ready for use; does
not blow into the food ike powders.
Stearns' Electric Paste is sold On
guarantee of money back II it fails 10
exterminate cockroaches, rats, mice. etc.
Sold by druggists. 25c and 500, or
sent direct, charges prepaid. on receipt
Of price.
ssearns' Electric Paste Co. Chicago. n.
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The engine of a Baltimore and
Ohio passenger train turned turtle
near North Vernon, Ind... when the
engineer suddenly applied the emery
ency brakes, and the fireman was
killed.