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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-10-28
TRADE STIMULATED
 BY COLDER WEATHER
Sidney Griffin Says Busi- ness Yesterday Double
 That of Monday

With the first hint of winter local mer- chants immediately began to look more pleasant and many were the expressions of optimism heard yesterday. As pre- cicted by Sol Caheen, Max Blach, A. w. B. Johnson and others, business imme- oiately showed Improvement upon the advent of the cold. and good business was enjoyed yesterday by the merchants.
 The stores in the shopping district were crowded during the morning and in the afternoon the streets and stores both were crowded with women and chill dren. High shoes, coat suits and over coats were largely purchased.
 ''The cold weather was all We needed said Sidney Griffin of Griffins store yes- terday. "Our business today is more than double what it was yesterday and think it will continue to show improvement If the cold continues.
 Now, really, the cotton situation hasn't got thing to do with the business of merchants in Birmingham. Of course, we might have lost a few of our out-of- town customers because of 1t, but that trade In my store is so infnitesimal as not tO Dt HOtiCeu' JuuSS We hdu dH average of 90 customers week from rural districts before the present situation ob- tained. These have dwindled to about five now, but 1t does not affect us. The great bulk of our trade comes from Birming- ham people and as long as the industrial plants here are kept in full blast local merchants will have no cause to worry.
 If the cold weather continues the mer- chants here will soon recover from the temporary depression that was caused by unreasonable warm weather and business will assume normal shape"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-10-28

compliment you have paid us in asking us to award the prizes offered for the best advertisement in The Age Herald of Monday. october e26. It was q real pleasure to study so many and so eX- cellent samples of an art so important and highly developed as the advextis- ing art has become in Birmingham. l. Is worth mentioning that one Of the committee had different choice for the prize advertisements, and the awards were made by a vote of two to one in each case.
 sThe first prize we awarded to the Perfection Mattress company, the mem Der of the committee interested in that company voting for the First National bank.
 The second prize was awarded to James H. Hard, on the strength of the exceeding excellence of the matter contained.
 MRS. c. P. ORR. ''H. M. EDMONDS,
 'CHAPPELL CORY"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-10-28
COTTON FOR PRODUCT
Detroit Steel Products Co. Will Accept
 One Bale on Each $500 Order

In line with the ''buy-a-bale'' movement to assist the south in marketing it's cot ton, the Detroit Steel Products company, Detroit, Mich., has instructed all It's southern offices. that one bale of cotton will be accepted as part payment on all orders for Fenestra solid steel windows. amounting to $500 or over.
 While a number of northern corpor- ations have interested themselves in the "buy-a-bale movement, the Detroit Steel Products company is one of the first con cerns to express it's confidence in the south by accepting cotton as part pay IT. ent for it's product.
 The south and the cotton industry has strong claim for consideration, in this instance. however. for Fenestra window walls have been installed in many of the southern textile mills, among others in the Dan River Cotton Mills at Dan- vile, Va, and in the mammoth new building of the Postex Cotton Mills al Post. Tex.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-10-28
GARY TO RETURN TO
 EAST SATURDAY
Will Leave Birmingham Immediately After Close of Institute Much to
 Regret of Friends

Following the adjournment of the American Iron and Steel institute meet ing Saturday Judge Robert H. Gary and Mrs. Gary will immediately start east. Information was conveyed to Birming- ham yesterday that much to the regret of both Judge and Mrs. Gary they would meeting on Saturday afternoon. His early departure will be regretted here. where both he and Mrs. Gary have many warm friends.
 He will attend the annual institute ban quet at the TuswiIer, will attend tho bar becue at Bayview and go on the excur- sions. and will also be guest at the Newspaper club gridiron dinner.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-10-28
Real Estate Transfers

The following real estate transfers were recorded yesterday in the office of the probate judge:
 s105O-South Corey Land company tc George and Sam Metropoulas. lots 5. { and ' in block 1, survey of South Co., rey.
 sls3s-P. A. Johnson to F. B. Yielding part of lot Il in block 27.
 Birmingham Realty company to Jemima F. Riddle, part of block Ss5, sur vcy of Islyton Land company
 sl000-Lular M. Barnard to Lila C.. Law ton, lot fl in block 30. survey of West End, known as Tharpe Place.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-10-28
Charley Cole Brought Back

Charley Cole, alias George Burns, a negro, was placed in the city jail yes terday morning by Detective Frank c. Macke on charge of robbery. The ne- gro had been brought back from Tampa Fla. It is alleged by the detectives and in a confession by Benny Ward, the con- victed negro, who will die on the gallows Friday, that he was companion oi Benny Ward and Wash Gray the night the two storekeepers were robbed and shot several months ago.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-10-28
lStill Believed Governor Must
 See Relief in Sight Be fore Taking Action
EXPENSE WOULD BE
 HEAVY FOR STATE
Conservative Estimates Place Cost of Extra Session at This Time Between s4O.000 and
 S50,000

The majority of answers from future
 members of the legislature in reply to
 questions of o. P. Ford president of the Farmers union of this state. indicate that the farmers desire an extra session of the legislature
 A number of tho answers bear strings" Practically all of the members, it is in- dicated. would be willing to meet were some practical plan evolved. A number are apparently willing to get together. al- though certain that no practical scheme has as yet been devised A considerable number decline to bind themselves to acs only in regard to cotton. 1t is known that if an extra session is called, at least one of the members will introduce a stste- wide prohibition bill and resolution call- ing for investigation of several depart- nlents of the state government.
 The general concensus of opinion in Bir-
 rningham is that, the governor will not 1 call an extra session. It is generally be- lieved here that he holds the Bankhead plan impracticable. and that he believes the lawmakers of Alabama would, prove no more competent to extricate the farmer than were the lawmakers of Texas who were convened and dismissed with out accomplishment.
 Hoping for Moratorium IL WAS learned yesterday from unofficial gossip that many farmers of the state
 have been told to press the legislators ot
 their counties into consenting to an extra
 session because of hope which has been extended to them that tho legislature may declare moratorium in their behalt that is, grant by law an extension of their indebtedness for six months or a year on the payment of interest.
 This hope is said to be without founda- tion because of constitutional inhibition. A moratorium, 1t k said, cannot be de- clared by a state legislature because it would have effect on holding companies of other states. and it Is contended that even were moratorium declared in Ala bsma 1t would result in the transferrence of mortgages held in this state to banks of adjoining states and thus would be ren- dered absolutely ineffective.
 Business men, merchants and bankers
 are hopeful that the governor will not convene tho legislature. In the first placc, they are convinced that nothing can ba accomplised for the relief of the farmer. that the state cannot even Issue bonds with which to retire the crop without firsr submitting a constitutional amendment to tho people. In he second place. they de- tCoutfnued on Page Eleven)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-10-28

pany. w. Latimer Jones, vice president Jones-Loughlin; Thomas W. Kennedy, president Adrian Furnace company, and Mrs. Kennedy, Willis l.. King vice pres ident Jones-Loughlin; C. K. Leet, secre- tary to Judge Ebert II. Gary: H. D. Ise- vain, b. W. Nudge, chairman board of directors Phillips Steel and Tin Plate company; Charles Major American Bridge company, and Mrs. Major, w B. Farley, assistant to president United States Steel corporations F. w. Pargny, president American Sheet and Tin Plate company; Beryl Preston. Robert Radford. Standard Steel Works company, and Mrs. Bedford: James w. Smith, the Wyman Gordon company; W. l.. Smith, w. T. shannon, American Sheet and Tin Plate company; Allen Strole. E. T. Weir, La Belle Iron works; W. F. Seibert, assist ant general sales manager Carnegie Steel company; H. D. Westfall, Charles Zehn- der. Alleghany Ore and Iron company
 Arrivals Yesterday
 The arrivals yesterday included c. E. Foust, F.. c. Fuller, O. M. Reise, George J. Long. D. P. Thompson John w. Reise. The opinion of the members that ing opening tomorrow would be of un- usual interest, and would be of far reaching importance to Birmingham.
 The programme for tomorrow morning includes the annual address of Judge Gary, president of the institute, and sev- eral papers from various members of the institute on technical topics. On the pro- gramme have been placed several local men. It wasf indicated that the pro- gramme had been arranged 30 that the visitors would be told by local experts what Birmingham had and this will, 1t Is believed, be of popular interest. The business sessions will be very brief. The inspection of the district will be of ab- sorbing interest to the steel and iron men who are anxious to see what Birmingham really has to offer in an industrial way.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-10-28
Negro Suceumbs. to Wounds

Joe Bennett, negro, who was brought 'to the Hillman hospital a few days ago suffering from a gunshot wound in the
 spine, died yesterday morning at the in- firmary. The police investigation re- vealed that the negro had been shot at
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-10-28
JUDGES ANNOUNCE
 PRIZE WINNERS IN AGE-HERALD CONTEST
Award First Prize Perfection Mattress Company and Sec ond to Jas H. Hard-Judges State It Was Real Pleas to Study Examples of Advertising Art In
 Last Mondays Age-Herald

The judges in The AgeHerad's advertising contest ducted in Monday mornings issue yesterday the prize winners
 First prize awarded to the Perfection Mattress company
 Second prize awarded to James H. Hard
 The contest the unique ever conducted and was participated in by than hundred of Birmingham business and business concerns
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-10-28

Each advertisement in the contest was two columns wlle and five inches deep and the contestants were allow ed full latitude in using their space as they saw fit to produce the most attractive and effective advertise ment
 The judges were Mrs. c. P. Orr, Dr. H. NJ. Edmonds and Chappell Cory. In making their award they stated that 1t was a real pleasure to read and study so many excellent examples of the advertising art.
 The formal letter making the awards reads as follows:
 "Mr. F. W. Barrett, Editor Age Herald
 Dear Sir-We thank you for the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-10-28

lness men and business concerns.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-10-28
Marriage Licenses

The following marriage licenses were yesterday recorded in the office of the probate judge:
 A. M. Dorsett, Birmingham, to Miss Minnie Bratton.
 l.. c. Leadbeater. Birmingham. to Miss Dovie Fillmore s0weil
New-York tribune., 1914-10-25
MARCHING RECORDS.

British infantry have the reputation aeeoTu'"t
to "Tit-Bts" Of excellng the infantry ol al O'H'
armies in the rate Of marching and staying pO"e,-
SO marked has been the improvement since w,
South African war that the standards OF time Sn'
distance set forth in the manuals are noN res',O
ed in many quarters minima. Fifteen miles uas
was regarded a few years ago as good a'e''s
for large column; twenty-five tor smah OV''
of seasoned men.
In the grand autumn maneuvres oi l9Vs'
a test was made Of British marching aDhit!' ~
lst Infantry Brigade covered thirty miles 10 O-'
day and the 2d and Sd Infantry brigades, "s.
pered by artillery, twenty-three miles ips
and 9Th Infantry brigades covered tnlr'!'S~ S~.
miles; the 1st Devonshire Regiment thlrN
miles; the 1st Grenadier Guards thirty-hye m''''
New-York tribune., 1914-10-25

Japanese part ownership both of these coun-
tries, who control to-day between them most of
the coastal shipping of Chinese trade, have been
trying for some years past to get foothod in
the native company which has been their chief
rival The China Merchants Steamship Com
pany, though not strictly government owned, is
considered as vital national possession, and its
loss, which now seems contingency almost in
evitable in the present crisis will bring with it
humiliation which the Chinese can be counted on
to fight most bitterly.
But bankruptcy in China doesn't merely
mean the failure Of individual traders, even
the collapse Of banks or industries. 1t has been
for years the ever-present bugbear of the Chi
nese government itself which has lived practically
since the Boxer indemnity by borrowing continual
fresh capital to pay off seemingly perpetual old
debts.
The huge national fine of $3.50 1000 which the
Powers imposed in 1900 deliberately set Chinese
progress back by generation. With one hand
they placed upon her shoulders enormous bur
den which only strong central authority could
ever pay Off, and with the other they made that
strong central authority impossible by forbiddng
China to charge customs duties of more than
New-York tribune., 1914-10-25
TSING-TAO, GATEWAY TO 4 RAILWAY AND
COMMERCIAL EMPIRE.

Tsng-Tao is the lateway to a railway and COM
mercal empire which the Germans have been
building up for the past sixteen years, foot
hold in which the railway connections alone
capitalized at more than $75OOO,OOO. In the great
block of hinterland thus Germanized Japan has
no commercial footing whatsoever; her permea-
ton has been entirely confined to Manchuria, on
the one hand, and her lesser known sphere of in
huence in the South Yangtse provinces of
Kangs and Fukien the other. There is,
therefore, some justification in saying that
Japan's centres of industrial sef-prOmotion in
China quite out of focus with any designs
toward natural absorption of the Tsing-Tao area
But this comforting conclusion leaves out one
factor-the military factor If Japan captures
Tsng-rao, the Yellow Sea will become for the time
at least a Japanese lake With a Port Arthur
projecting into it from Liatung Peninsula on the
north, and Tsing-Tao covering it from the Shan
tung Peninsula the south, a single alien
power will be able to menace the gateway to Pc
king as never before in the history of China
This is no mere contingency of the imagination;
ITS feasibility is being discussed at the present
time in the Japanese press.
The current Japan Chronicle" of Kobe. one of
the most influential British newspapers in Japan,
New-York tribune., 1914-10-25
6ov- GENERAL MEYER Won wNLDEcN COMMANDING THE
DEFENCE TSlNG TAU
Trade Extremity of the Land of FLOWERS, a
Close Student of Affairs There Be-
Hepes, Offers to the United States
Wonderful Chance

mentions several suggestions Of this nature fr,u
some Of the semi-inspired vernaculsr newspspen
of the government. And it adds editorslly on Il,
own account, in grim irony: with the Russsr
Dalny converted to Dairen and the German Kiao.
Chau duly renamed in turn, the prospect opens
for the Yellow Sea and the Gulf of Pechihl 70
become a mare clausum for Japan, an event which
naturally will promote still more free and
friendly intercourse between Japan and China
This should not be taken, and it is far from
being meant, as an anti-Japanese conclusion. Bui
to any one interested in following the develop
ment of the dramatic Real-poltik which is playing
itself out round China it certainly fOreshsdoEs
an undeniable contingency OF the situation. h
their international undertakings, signsy 50 dur.
ing the Russo-Japanese War, the japanese have
maintained standard Of integrity and fair deal
ing quite on par with any chapter in the dipo-
macy of European nations. Their expansion IN
Eastern Asia is checked and criticised by p0p
lace which has radically recovered from the js
goism Immediately following the stirring victories
at Mukden and along the Yalu. But on csrai
limited policy Of natural expansion on the 0-
nese mainland all parties in Japan are subsz,-
TALLY agreed, just as all parties in Russia, lbsn
as well as autocratic, assent to the vital economic
Importance to Russia of a warm port.
NECESSITY THAT MAKES A NATION STREICH
OUT THE LONG ARM OF AGGRESSION.
1t is the urge economic, not for sggrsndlzs-
ment alone, but to guarantee that the rice patches
the sugar plantations and the cotton fields in
mediately subject to a roughly responsible
japanese ZollvereiD shall be sufficient to provide
a growing nation with the staple necessities Of
life
The solution Of the problem is, then, not sus'
pcion of Japan, but sympathy and assistance 70
China. No other country in the world is N 'as
position to give that assistance that this country
s and no country in the world could give II
with more practical hope that 1t would estsD'
lsh a firm and workable foundation for peace 10
the Far East. strong China would not be an
aggressive China; but it is not strong Chn''
but a secure China, which the enlightened dp0'
macy of this country now has the opportunity "
bid for among the nations. American bankers can
float the loan which will make China solvent On
honorable terms, American diplomacy may agan
defend China's interests with the chiyalrous per
tinacity of Boxer days, and American generosV
may relieve China of her financial obligations
US in the same spirit that returned for edue''
tional purposes Sll,OOO,OOO Of the Boxer indem'
nifty fund. Certainly China expects us to be he'
friend, and there is nothing in our record 10 us
past to make her suspect that we shall not rise
our opportunity now.
New-York tribune., 1914-10-25

per cent, thus cutting of from her the one just
and obvious national fund which would make that
authority financially independent of the practi-
cally autonomous provinces. The climax Of this
ironic situation last year when, her provin-
cal sources having been entirely broken down,
China had to borrow s125,0O0,0O0 from con-
sortium of bankers (happily our own bankers had
the decency to get out of it, who straightway got
more than half of their loan back in the shape
of overdue instalments of the Boxer indemnity.
This state of official bankruptcy cannot go on
forever, for the simple that every loan
made to China is heavily secured by handsome
assets in the infinitely potential material
sources of the Chinese nation. So the danger
toward which the present crisis is shaping is the
actual foreclosure of these glt-edged mortgages.
They cover, it is needless to say, almost every
asset of value in modern China, every important
tax service, provincial and national, every rail-
way, every important mining right even the great
steel foundry at Hanyang, which is heavily mort
gagged to the Japanese. As opportunities for an
always possible foreign foothold in China they
make mockeres of the international guarantees
Of Chinese integrity which diplomatic
short of absolute restitution ever make
right with the Chinese people.
New-York tribune., 1914-10-25
IMPULSE TOWARD ALTRUISM; WAR Is
DECLARED AND ALTRUISM DIES.

But for the war certain amount of restitu-
tion might have been made. The British cam
paign against opium, Russias removal Of
her soldiers from Peking, the campaign which was
coming to be seriously reckoned with in Europe
of following Americas example and renting
proportions of the Boxer indemnity itself, all
we're making for belated but genuine Euro
Dean sympathy with Chinas uphill struggle tow
ard progress. But to-day this new spirit Of al
truism has ebbed more completely than ever.
Every means by which China may be made to pay
her loans and indemnities will be enforced to the
letter OF the one-sided treaties which sanctioned
them. And China, high and dry on her stranded
trade, simply cannot pay few days after the
war, the Waichiapu, her foreign Office gave formal
notice that she must default the instaments of
a number Of small loans which ell due on Sep
tember l. That is the beginning. With the sub
stantial rise in the price of gold, which has al
ready sharply begun, China's unweldy silver
standard still further contracts the she
is casting about to summon, More and more bor-
New-York tribune., 1914-10-25
THE GREAT OPPORTUNITY: AMERICA HAS
A CHANCE TO BE GENEROUS.

With an administration in power priding itself
on honorable even chivalrous, dealings abroad,
America has a unique opportunity to restate for
China the courageous policy Of John Hay for the
Open Door and the integrity of the Chinese nation.
She can restate it as never before in such terms
as will remind the rest of the world that we
alone are prepared TO maintain and enforce that
policy and all it means in relations with the
China Of the future. For the same crisis which so
acutely threatens China gives TO America the
strategic prestige once more Of coming with gen
erous sympathy to her assistance.
So much for Americas opportunity. Now for
China's extremity which makes that opportunity
pressing China's stake in the world-war is first
and most obviously trade stake. China is
country where immense commercial boom is
in course of preparation, the steadness of whose
trade conditions depends for the present entirely
upon the foreign market and upon representa-
tves of that market who control at the treaty
ports the fiscal and commercial life of the coun-
try. 1t is true that from the standpoint of her
New-York tribune., 1914-10-25

rowing. on progressively humilisting terms, is
the only practical solution, and with that candid
object China is once more in the worlds market
for a loan The irony of it is staggering-that a
country filled to the brim with the most valua-
BILE and desirable assets of nature should be so
harassed and placed at disadvantage by the
financial iugglers Of Europe. But is grimly and
obviously true, and each time we look the game
mas gained new developments.
NOT A HEAVENLY PROSPECT FOR THE
LAND OF THE CELESTIALS.
In the political as well as in the economic
sphere the same steady process of making China
the scapegOat is in evidence The last batch OF
papers from China have confirmed the two latest
acts Of aggression the part of Germany and
Japan. Germany has put it squary up to China
in her note of September that if she loses
Kiao-Chau she will demand compensation from
China to the full extent of her loss-fOr allowing
Japanese troops to land neutral territory.
Considering that Germany has been busily en-
gagged since 1898 in erecting forts both within
and without the "eased' strip she seized around
Kiao-Chau Bay, this claim certainly lacks humor,
if not consistency.
But then Japan her part has promised to
protect" China. She has protected Korea, For
mosa and Manchura in her time, and her pro-
lection and restitution Of Tsing-Tao, although
Americans still Japan the benefit of the
doubt are not widely credited by the immediate
benefciares in this transaction, the Chinese. The
Asia Jih Pao" of Peking, of the ablest gov
ernment journals in China, puts it quite bluntly
that Japan has left too many loopholes in her
promise for it to carry conviction in China"
She can do one Of three things, the 9Th Pao"
points out: She can take Tsng-Tao over as one of
the spoils Of war, most indelicate and bungling
procedure; she merely continue the German
lease, subject to the same paper sovereignty of
China acknowledged by Germany, perhaps modi-
flying that lease to satisfy Chinese pride "a most
temptngly plausible procedure); or, finally, she
may hand it over absolutely with clear title to
the Chinese government. ave do not believe"
concludes the "Jh Pao," bluntly, that any such
miracle as the last contingency will come to
pass"