The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-08-21
Y. w. c. A. ENDORSES EARLY
 CLOSING SATURDAY NIGHT
SOCIAL SERVICE DEPARTMENT By MRS. SIDNEY M. ULLMAN

The Young woman's Christian associa-
 ton at its regular meeting August 10,
 1915, passed a resolution indorsing the
 movement that the Suffrage association is carrying on to close the stores Satur- , day evenings at o'clock during the en- tire year
 The following resolution was passed: Resolved. That the Young Woman Christian association indorse the move
 ment to close the stores on Saturday even- ings at g o'clock or earlier
 | The work of early closing first began in the ranks of the Young Woman's Chris
 tian association some five years ago. bu;
 the committee has not been active for the last two years.
 The Thursday half-holday has become permanent thing among the Bir- ! mingham merchants now and the early Saturday night closing will be a step
 nearer the final goal Saturday half hoi-
 day and o'clock all the year round. The Indeterminate Sentence Much has been written and said of the | indeterminate sentence, but few people
 know the real meaning of 1t.
 | The national committee on prisons and prison labor has issued the following pamphlet through it's committee on edu- cation: "A person convicted of crime is penal ized by sentence under which he is de- prived of his liberty The old criminal la W attempted to make the penalty fit the crime; the new penal law attempts to cor | rect or cure the conditions in the indi-
 vidual which have caused the crime by
 placing around him prescribed environ
 ment under medical and other scientific | care and discipline. The release upon cure, as practiced universally in hospitals for physical and mental diseases, finds an
 analogy in the new prison method. "The machinery by which to adjudge the condition of the individual and his possible cure has been broadly referred to as the indeterminate sentence. It is .ha transfer of the power of fixing the dura- tion of the sentence which was formerly vested in the judge, to a board of experts which has custodial care of the individual and passes upon the question as to when
 his cure has been effected sufficiently to justify his release both for his own good and that of society.
 ITO determine whether or not a crime has been committed, there has been devel- oped an elaborate system of courts with 1900, the state harvested 92.000 bushels
 of wheat. The record for this year will
 be very much in excess of that, and all though the amount in the aggregate will be smaller than that in some oth
 CT states, nevertheless the increase in the cultivation of wheat for the past six or eight years in Montana is sure to compare favorably with the increase in the great wheat producing states. The reports that have come to this city say that the Montana farmers have greatly increased their acreage devoted to wheat and now that the wheat is ready for the reaper it is found to be of extraordinary good quality.
 If in all parts of the union it were possible to report conditions as favor able as those which Montana now ex- perences there would be no occasion to complain of business depression any where. The people of Montana have re- ceived excellent returns in the horse and live stock market. The wool clip was very heavy and the sheep farmers of Montana have been rejoiced to re- #ceive for 1t prices considerably in ex- cess of those they have received in other years. Supplementing its other products, dairy cattle. horse. sheep and wool, there Is now being harvested tue biggest crop ever tempted from the soil of Montana. These things will make 1t certain that there will come an un. usual degree of prosperity for the peo- pie of that state which is sure to be reflected throughout the northwest and from there to the east.
 Farmers Work Sunday
 Detailed reports which have today come from the northwest speak with enthusias sm of harvesting conditions which are now under way. A few weeks ago the appre- hension was considerable that weather conditions would be unfavorable. Now it Is certain that the farmers are going to get their crops into the stack without any damage. Rain poured in torrents and continuously in many parts of the north west when the grain was growing. The farmers were greatly worried, fearing that there would come late storms which would greatly impair, if not destroy, the crops before they were able to cut them. Yesterday these doubts were all dspeled.
 The farmers of the northwest have been for 10 days busily occupied in harvesting their grain. They had cut substantially the entire crop of oats, barley and rye. The weather had been very propitious. The farmers have not relaxed their ef- IOrtS. Iney nave been WOfkl1lS IrOIn udy- light to dark every day for the past 10 days and the fields were alive with them on Sunday of last week. This informa- ton is regarded here as of great impor- tance. for if there had been realization of the apprehension that the harvest of the northwest would be destroyed or impaired by rain, then it would not have been pos sible for the government statisticians at Washington to report estimates which give promise of record making harvest this year. In the financial district much account has been given to crop prospects. A partial failure of the crops of this sum- mer would have been especially unfortu rate this year. Now there is certainty of record-making crops, and instead of esti- mating the money value of the entire harvest at only $10,0 600, the presumption Is now strong that the money value may be considerably in excess of $10.Ooo, 600. all of 1t new wealth.
 One feature of the report which came to this city today that was regarded as especially gratifying refers to the quality of the crops of the northwest. Not only is the amount in the aggregate very