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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1915-10-15
BRITISH TO QUIT
DARDANELLES?
Stubborn Turk Resistance Has
Discouraged Authorities
in England
AID NEEDED BY SERBIA

LONDON. Oct. t5.-Desplte
a suggestion In the house OF
lords that the Siege OF the Oar.
danelles may bo abandoned.
the allies were reported In die.
patches today 10 be lombard.
Inc the defenses more Hereby
than ever.
Whether this 10 merely . II.
nal effor, 10 erumble these
seemingly impregnsble prot.o.
lions. the public has no means
Of knowing.
Lord Miners inslstence on n
transfer OF operations from the Gal.
ilpoll peninsula elsewhere has
caused great dlscouragement In
England
Replying 20 Lord Miners idea.
Lord Lansdowne pointed out that
IL would be unpatriotic TO force the
government further 10 disclose ito
hand regarding present operations.
tho he suggested the situation ~
grave. and that there are several
factors confronting the allies. In.
ciudlng the failure Of Greece 10 de.
fine her attitude with certainty
II was believed here that II there
Is any withdrawal from the CALI.
poll operations. the troops will be
sent 20 aid the Serbianh.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1915-10-15

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-02
An Ancient battle-ground

While digging trenches in the forest of Champenoux, according to recent press dispatches, French sol diers found large quantities of old French coins that had in all proba- bility been buried early in the seven- teenth century when the French en- tered Lorraine under Louis XIII.
 So history repeats itself. The terri tory of Lorraine has passed back and forth on the chessboard of political geography, like pawn. Men have died by hundreds on it's beautiful fields in the taking or retaking of the land, fondly dreaming that that par ticular conflict would end for all time the question of its ownership. But fifty or hundred years passed and it's soil is again drnched in blood.
 There are many who believe that this battle-ground of centuries is see ing its last conflict-that there will never again be another world-war. Yet King Alphonso of Spain, keen observer and profound student of Eu- ropean politics, predicts that with the close of the present struggle, arma- ment of the nations will go on as never before.
 It may be pleasanter to believe there shall be no more war. Yet an hundred or two hundred years from now soldiers on this same battlefield may turn up, in their digging, coins of the year 1915. Who shall say?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-02
A Good Theatre Town

q am delighted to that Birming ha m is going to have some of the best at fractions at the theatres this winter that have been seen in this city in a long time" said W. o. Porter, well known pharmacist. Birmingham is one of the best theatrical centers in the south and anything that is good is always patron ized freely.
 There is nothing that entertans- so well as the theatre, and while moving pictures are popular I have particular liking for the living actors and actresses on the stage. I understand that some of the leading dramatic artists in the coun- try are coming to Birmingham this win ter, among them being Forbes Robertson, John Drew, Margaret Ellington, Blanche Walsh, Otis Skinner, Mrs. Patrick Camp bell and others equally as famous on the American stage. All of these theatrical folk will undoubtedly be received with much enthusiasm.
 Birmingham has ceased to be an ordi- nary town. It is now as modern and up- to-date a city as there is in the south more so than most of them-and this is evidenced by the fact that all the stars In the United States seek enga gements here"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-02
THE ORIGINAL MIR. SQUEERS

years until suddenly London unearthed a letter dated 1888, in which, consentins| to be drawn out regarding Squeers, Dick ems wrote: 'The identical scoundrel you| speak of I saw-curiously enough. His name is Shaw; the action was tried 4 believe) eight or 10 years since, and i4 I am not much mistaken another action| was brought against him by the parents of a miserable child, cancer in whoss| head he opened with an inky penknife. and sc caused his death.'' The effecd os the find was instantaneous. The news- papers published long accounts of it. with full reproduction of the letter, identified as in the genuine Dickens handwriting. Supplementary evidence was also offered to clinch the revelation 'So," ex- claimed Daily Telegraph. MT. Wackford| Soueers has been run to earth at last!| And yet, hardly had the great discovery| been announced before it was shown that the chosen home of the Dickens cult was suffering from a mere lapse of memory; that from the earliest days of Nicholas Nickleby.' literary London know the original of Squeers; and that the novelist made no secret either of the location of Dotheboys hall or of his study of its tyrant in the flesh.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-02
Regarding New Industries

At the national meeting of cham Der of commerce executives and sec
 retaries, held in St. Louis recently
 many matters relating to the upbuild-
 ing of cities were discussed in prac- tical and convincing way.
 One of the questions which received much consideration and upon which there was general agreement dealt | with the best means of securing new l industries for manufacturing centers. Some ambitious and progressive communities had tried to expand in dustrially by offering free sites; others by offering money bonuses. I Not few chambers of commerce had taken an active part in raising funds to be employed for the purpose of inducing prospective manufacturers to locate in their respective cities. But experience has taught that such methods are not profitable in the long run.
 The consensus of opinion as ex- pressed at the St. Louis meeting was that the industry of permanent value to any city was only one whose loca- tion was determined by advantages arising from proximity to the raw material to be used, together with transportation facilities.
 The industry that would flourish in a certain section of the country might not thrive in a certain other section. It was agreed by the cham Der of commerce officials that in fu- ture the energies of industrial com- mittees of civic bodies would be di- rected to the work of encouraging the manufacturers already established and setting forth the supposed natural ad- vantages offered newcomers.
 In the case of the Birmingham dis trict the advantages held out to the manufacturers in many lines of pro- duction are manifold. For many in- dustries Birmingham is an ideal loca- ton. Hundreds of industries are all ready established hereabouts, but more are wanted.
 The best way is to do whatever can be done legitimately to help the small manufacturer to prosper and by sys- tematic exploitation of the Birming- ham districts resources interest men with capital and experience in this question of building and operating new plants. Such methods will be sure to bring good results.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-02
Birmingham Most Optimistic

Ut is interesting and profitable to study the statistics of pig iron to reach an idea of just where we are at comparatively" says Matthew Addy & Co.'S Cincinnati report. Tn 1907 the great boom that started in 1889 col lapsed. The price of No iron at Bir- mingham in January. 1907. was $23. 50. Bessemer iron f. o. b. Pittsburg was $24.5O. No. ? f. O. b. Birmingham is now between $11.50 and SIP. Bessemer is s16. So it can be seen at a glance what great distance there is between the prices where iron left off. so to speak, and present prices.
 ''Today's prices have not yet reached the fair average. There is plenty of room for them to materially advance without doing finished materials the slightest injury. And there Is no doubt in the minds of pig iron producers that the market has only made good start, and that it is bound to go to considerably higher levels. That is the opinion of all ironmasters with whom we have discussed the question.
 "rhe week has demonstrated the in- creasing strength of the market There has been further heavy buying. bu. this has been of such general nature that 1t really lacks distinctive features Everything has been in demand that's all there is to 1t. Of course steel and steelmaking irons are in the lead. There Is such call for steel that the mills are tremendously rushed.
 Prices in some districts have ad- vanced. noticeably in Chicago. . The most optimistic place on the map is Birmingham. There they predict that iron will be $l5 by Christmas"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-02
TEN MILLION INCOME

From the Indianapolis News.
 British newspapers are filled with praises of the Gaekwar of Baroda. the greatest and wealthiest of the princes of India, who has made gift of f4O,OO0, about $200Oo0. to the government to pro- vide aeroplanes for use at the front. The Gaekwar is said to mean 'herdsman," what larger than Wales. speaks English fiuently, and is western in his ideas. He is not a polygamist, and holds that one wife Is enough. His annual income is said to exceed s10,0o0,0OO Among his jew els is the most remarkable necklace in the world. It is composed of 200 brilliants of wonderful purity. Another of his treasures is carpet, four yards square. into which a pattern is worked composed of diamonds, rubies and pearls. The name Gaekwar is said omean "herdsman." which was the calling of the founders of the princely line.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-02

poisonous gas to choke and torture our fellow men?
 All sympathy to those who suffer and die on the battlefield, all help that we can afford-let it be given freely
 But, for ourselves, we, the people, !" prefer to hoe our cabbages and rid our fields of natural pests. Others may watch for war clouds, but the American farmer keeps his weather eye peeled for that cloud which means fall rains and moisture reserve for the next cropping.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-02
THE x-RAY AND TUBERCULOSIS

From the Cincinnati Times-Star
 Before the American Association of Clinical Research. in session in Philadel- pEia last week. Dr. Jefferson D. Gibson of Denver declared that the X-ray, in con junction with fresh air treatment and diet, ''wll. finally bring about the emancipati tion of the race from the dreadful scourge of pulmonary tuberculosis"
 The physician in question related the history of his experiments Over a term or years he has treated 757 cases, using the X-ray and static electricity alter nately on succeeding days. Of all his pa- tients but Sl died of the disease. Of the balance 13O have died from diseases other than tuberculosis. leaving 566 who are free or the white plague. The 130 who died or various diseases were rid of tubercu- losis, and were added therefore to the total of what, inferentially at least are regarded as cures. Several very we'll known physicians who listened to the Derver physicians paper immediately rose and stated their approval of the method of treatment outlined.
 Hard experience has shown that if is well to go slow Tn accepting 'scures' for tuberculosis at face value. pr. Gibson.s claim. however, seems worthy of more than usually carefully consideration.
 Some day cure for the white plague will be found. It may even be found that the x-ray Is destined to play a large part in this cure, which would mean SO much to the human race
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-02
Film Piracy

The arrest in New York of Abra- ham George Levi, moving picture broker, has uncovered a gigantic moving picture fraud by which film pirates" are alleged to have made about half million dollars. Levi was arrested on the charge of violating the criminal section of the infringe ment law. The enormous popularity of Charley Chaplin, moving picture comedian, accounts for the profits of Levi and his associates who disposed of counterfeit duplicates of Chaplin pictures, chiefly to western houses. It is said that in three months Levi, op- erating as the Chaplin Film company, sold outright at least $50,0O0 worth of counterfeit films.
 The temptation in this new form of rascality lies in its simplicity and the enormous profit it offers. It costs the "pirates" about 31a cents foot to duplicate reels which cost the legitimate companies thousands of dollars, chiefly due to the big salary and the royalties paid Chaplin. The special charge against Levi is in- fringement of the copyright on "The Champion" film owned by the Es- sany company, which recently con- cluded highly successful motion pie ture contest for The Age-Herald This one film is said to bring the comedian over 5000 a week.
 It was no trouble, apparently, for the broker to procure bogus reels. His plan was to call at any film ex- change handling Charley Chaplin pie lures and ask that one of the latest films be sent to certain moving picture theatre for one days exhibi- tion. As soon as the film was deliv- cred it is alleged that Levi rushed away to a photographic printing es- tablishment and had what is known as a "dupe" negative made. The rest was easy.
 There is so much money to be made in moving pictures legitimately, that crookedness is hardly worth while. Yet, there is always some one willing to take a "short cut to riches," re- gardless of the consequences.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-02
Live and Learn

The ability to Tive and learn" is a strong characteristic of the Ameri- can. Frequently, also, he combines to remarkable degree this instinct with the ability to extract dollars from unpromising undertakings.
 While the world has been holding up its hand, in horror at the work of Europeans in fighting with chlorine gas, enterprising Texans, having had their attention called to it's deadly effect, have proceeded to coin the knowledge.
 In the vincinity of San Angelo, Tex, there is more or less trouble with prairie dogs on the ranges. The pests will soon be a thing of the past, however, for using large automobile generator, the ranchmen are forcing the chlorine gas into the prairie dog holes through a hose. The hole is then quickly covered, and whatever of animal life there may have been in the underground nest is quickly exterminated.
 Europeans have long shown con- tempt for the "extreme commercials ism" of this country and may no doubt resent the commercializing of . discovery which has cost so heavily in human life. But after all
 Isn't it better to apply such a dis covery to the extermination of a pest, to the betterment of the human ot, rather than to turn the fumes ofS a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-02
roNsoRIAL ART

From Tit-Bits.
 Barber. Poor Jim has been sent to . lunatic asylum
 Victim Gin chair): Who's Jim?"
 ''Jir is my twin brother. sir Jim has long been broodin' over the hard times. an suppose he finally got crazy"
 '.Is that so?"
 s'Yes, he and me has worked side by side for years, and we were so alike ws couldn't tell each other apart. We both brooded great deal. too. No money in this business now
 What's the reason?''
 Prices too low Unless customer takes a shampoo 1t doesn't pay to shave or haircut. Poor Jim. I caught him try ing to cut customer's throat because he refused shampoo % I had to have the poor fellow locked up. Makes me sad. Sometimes I feel sorry didn't let him slash all he wanted to. It might have saved his rcason. Shampoo. slr7''
 '.Yoer'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-02
pro.perour southern Cities

While the south is fast getting over the depression which prevailed very generally last fall Birmingham, more than any other southern city, suggests the ap- proach of boom times said w. J. Sin- ton of Philadelphia
 Tn fact Birmingham is to all appear ances enjoying a fuller measure of pros- perity than ever. About a year ago 1 made a short tour through the southeast. Birmingham was dull then and Atlanta was even more so. Today the Georgia capital is beginning to get in good shape again, but conditions In Birmingham seem 100 per cent better than conditions in At- .lanta are any other southern city with which I am in touch. It is safe to pre- dict that business here will be on real boom before Christmas. I am told that the iron and stee, industries in the dis trict have been booming for some months past"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-02
COMFORTING
From Tit

From I1t- B1tS
 The private had had pneumonia, and had been for sometime in the hospital, where they treated him so well that he was much averse to the prospect of being discharged as 'cured' One day the doctor was taking his temperature, his charge. He pulled the thermometer ill his mouth the doctor moved on and happened to turn his back. Tommy saw his charce. ell pulled the thermometer out of his mouth and popped it into cup of hot tea replacing it at the first sign of the medico's turning. When the worthy examined the thermometer he looked first at Tommy and then back to the thermometer and gasped;
 Well, my man, you're not dead, but you ought to be-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-02
TOO PAINFUL.

Did you visit vesuvius the last time you were in Italy?"
 ''No,' replied the traveied man.
 Not interested, eh?''
 That wasn't the reason. I knew that if I saw so much steam going to waste in Vesuvius, tfe memory of the trouble have every winter in persuading the janitor to heat my apartments sufficiently would make me bitter"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-02
NIGHT FELL

Florence Ripley Mastin in the New York
 Times.
 Night fell one week ago-like this. /. .. He had been writing steadily Among these dusky walls of books, How bright he looked intense as flannel Suddenly he paused. :. The f1relight in his hair, E And said: The time has come to go."
 took his hand. We watched the logs burn out The apple boushs fingered the window. Down the cool. spring night A slim. white moon leaned to the hill :. Tonight the trees are budded white, And the same pale moon sllps through
 the dusk. # Q little buds. tap-tapping on the pane, o white moon, 1 wonder if he sleeps in woocs Where there are leaves.
 Or If he lies in some black trench, His hands. his kind hands. kindling fame
 that kills, M
 Or if, or if-
 He is here now. to bid mo last soots
 4t --S -ssz $ '4z .s.sz 5<
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-02
HOTEL LOBRIES
Weather for the Fair

I am only plain, old-time weather prophet, but my forecasts, while unscien- tifie, have generally come out all right, U said F. W. Sanders of Blount county. T do not know what the weather bureau has in store in the way of forecast for next week, but I believe Birmingham will have and pleasant temperature every day of the State Fair. And speaking of the fair. hundreds of people from my county will be here"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-02
THE BARBER AS A HEALER
from the Youngstown Telegram.

From the Youngstown Telegram.
 Opponents of the new state law gov erning drugless healing declare this barber. If he applies a hot towel, if he rubs strange substances on ones head Tn the belief that it will halt approaching badness or applies various other concoc- tions with the assurance that they will stop headache, remove feverish soreness from the face or do certain other things he must pass an examination by the state medical board and pay license of s25 He doesn't need even to pretend to be a doctor as the old shioned barber with his cupping and leeching paraphernalla did
 Proba bly, this construction of the Piatt- Ellis act is overdrawn. If such an inter- pretation is correct some of the other objections to the law are strengthened. ducted by competent board is a sensible precaution but examinations at s25 each appear high priced. There's too much inclination anyway to assess everyone. A new nurses registration law requires a payment of $1O or more by each Ohio nurse It does not matter that the nurse may have undergone proper training and practiced for years What the money IS for nobody appears to know except that there was an opening to assess several thousand or more persons $1O each for a piece of paper.
 But assessing the barber is dangerous. He meets too many voters in day and ne will talk a lot of politics after $25 has been extracted from his pocketbook.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-02
FRANCES YOUNGEST OFFICER

Paris Correspondent New York Herald.
 The youngest officer in the French army Is not a youth of 19 as had been believed, but one of IS, according to the. Figaro. He is Second Lieutenant Henry and he halls from Oleron. He went to the front when the war broke out and in a short time had so distinguished himself that he was mentioned in the order of tho day. Soon he won the war medal then the military medal and now he ha. his commission.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-02
Crops and Business

There has been wonderful inn provement in the mercantile trade of Birmingham within the past few weeks" said F. L. Bivings, secretary treasurer of the Roden Wholesale Grocery company.
 "The big pay rolls in this district and the prosperity of the farmers as a result of crop diversification are now reflected in all business channels. have recently visited several counties of northern Alabama and everywhere 1 have found an unusual degree of buoyancy among the tillers of the soil and the merchants.
 "On my trip I met only one man with, a grouch. He said the weather had not been just right for all the crops in his neighborhood. Everybody else was rejoicing
 "Ala bama's corn crop is the largest ever produced in the history of the state and more hogs and cattle have been raised this year than ever be- fore. And of course the high price of cotton has added immensely to the wealth of the state. Yes, this is what I call a good year."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-02
FULL SPEED AHEAD
tian Register.

From the Christian Register
 He was the slowest boy on earth. and had been sacked at three places in tive weeks, so his parents had apprenticed him to a naturalist. But even he found him slow. It took him two hours to give tho canaries their seed, three to stick pin through a dead butterfly. and four to pick a ccnvolvulous. The only point about him was that he was willing.
 And what he asked, having spent a whole afternoon changing the goldfish 2 water. shall I do now. sir?"
 The naturalist ran his fingers through his locks
 Well Robert, he replied at length. T think you might now take the tortoise out fo. a run"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-02
DUMBA HAS MANY TRUNKS

Lenox (Mass) Cor. New York Times
 With 20 trunks packed at the Poplars and 50 trunks at the pier ready to be put on board a steamship, pr. Constantin T. Dumba, the Austro- Hungarian ambassa- dor awaits word from Washington ,r Vienna which will allow him to leave this country
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-02

BEGINNING THE DAY-Show me the mystery. Q Lord, of how I gain by giving. Teach me the lesson of the flowers and streams. which live in the riot of beauty and joy be- cause they give themselves away. Teach me the lesson of all this gfv- ing world and of Thy grent giving heart. In Christ's name. Amen.- H. M. k.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-02

The London papers as whole seem rather pleased at the success of the An- glo-French commissioners in borrowing $90o, ,ooo,0o0 in the United States. Rather pleased" describes their attitude as the British seldom permit themselves to ap- pear delighted.