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Morris tribune., 1915-07-16

A. P. Norby came over from Star
buck the first of the week for visit
at the nome of his brother, l.. P.
Norbv.
Miss Inez Brown is here from her
home at Millrown. Wis. for short
visit with Alberta friends. While
here she will be guest at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. F. L. Spauld:ng.
The Schultz and Andert families
were guests at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Louis Foley in the town of Syn
mes last Sunday. They also witnessed
the ball game between rival Synnes
teams at the Staples pasture.
The Great Northern sidewalk crew
finished their labors here this week
and have gone to Tintan to do bridge
work. They left fine string of cinder
walk to the depot constructed at the
expense of the Great Northern +. z.
Miss Milrded Gulbranson is the
champion library book reader in AL
berta. She was awarded first prize
last week. Her sister. Miss Viola, is
close rival and was given second
prize. The girls are in the third and
fourth grades respectively.
A. H. Helsper, Alber.a's popular
barber, spent Sunday With relatives
and friends at Choklo. He returned
late in the evening when ne sat up
to watch the progress Of angry storm
clouds which passed without any
serious disturbance. Mr.. Helsper says
the night looked threatening.
Alberta base ball players had day
off last Sunday and basked in the SUM-
shine. All efforts to get game for
the day failed and Manager Schultz
decided all the neighboring teams
have a full-grown hunch it is best to
leave US alone. Alberta has skinned
verythine it has tackled this year.
denry Lemmerman returned from
Litchfield last week with a fine i'm
ported Belgian stallion which arrived
here Tuesday. A couple of weeks
ago Zimmerman lost his valuable Per
cheron and the horse dealers allowed
him a handsome concession on the
purchase of another animal which, he
says. is better than the first.
F. l.. SpauIdlng returned last Sat
urday from an extended visit through
Illinois and Iowa. He spent scme
time with relatives and friends at the
old home at PIainfeld, ILL.,. which he
had not seen for period of seven.
teen years. One week was spent al
Madrid, la. He says small grains
in that section lcok dne. and fal
wheat was almost ready for tht
sickle. Corn was very backward,
according to- Mr. Spaulding, bu
farmers were hopeful and expect tt
realize a full crcp.
Rev. and Mrs. Thornell came ovel
from Morris Sunday afternoon wher
Rev. Thornell preached his first ser
mon in Alberta and was greeted by F.:
large audience. After the sermon
Rev. and Mrs. ThornelI met many
people in Alberta who extended {
hearty welcome. Rev. Pilgrim will
be here again next week to make fna
arrangements whereby he will retire
from the local field in order to give
more time and attention to his Other
charges. Alberta has no church build,
ing at present and all religious ser
vices are held at the high school audi.
tocium. 1t is very likely that some
move will be started soon for the
erection of church which could be
used for union services. The village
is growing and many new people are
arriving right along.
Morris tribune., 1915-07-16

raincoat and cap which are resting on
the bottom Of the lake today.
The scene of the accident is about
eighty rods from the ill-fated spot
where two young man lost their lives
about three years ago.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-24

is considerable to commend the coat less, collarless provision for men. But really, MT. Pastor, do the women of Tucumcari always contrive to look comfortable as well as stylish? Last winter, it may be recalled womankind sallied forth in the cold est weather in low shoes, her ankles protected only by the sheerest silken hose. Throat and chest were barred to the winter blast-fashion decreed this the correct apparel.
 Now that the summer sun raises blisters on the asphalt, however, this same autocrat-fashion- that women are not correctly clad for the street unless they wear coat, their necks must be swathed and their shoes must be at least eight inches highl
 Taking all things into consideration, if the good pastor is right, and real, old fashioned comfort in dress takes precedent over prevailing fashion decrees, why not advertise Tucumcari as a summer resort? Verify, it has more to recommend it than many an- other place featured by alluring ad- vertising literature.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-24
"MOTHERw

From the New York Mail.
 Men still die for their country, and die as gladly now as they did in Rome or in the land of Canaan But it is not always of the fatherland that they think when the death summons comes.
 Here is a striking passage from a story of the battlefield which was lately given to Mrs. Philip Snowden. wife of the Eng fish labor leader in Parliament by an officer at the front:
 Tt is not always the shrieks of the of the dead as they lie there, but it Is the cry of the wounded boys calling for their mothers. and there is no one to do anything for them. They are the boys of 16 and 17, and even younger. They may say Mother or 'Mutter' but in their agony all those boys call for the one who has given them the greatest care in theil lives"
 The greatest thing in the world comes to the front in death. The mother country is the country of the mother and it is the motherland because it is her land. And at her fireside the mother is calling for the dying boy as desper- ately as the boy calls for her Yet women have no part in war. we are told. The men bear all that burden. Is 1t true? What an aggregate of heart break between the mother and the son, the wife and the husband. the sister and the brother, this gigantic massacre in Flu rope Is infiicting upon the world!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-24

terprise. This trough is intended fi people who have no home facilities fd washing their linen. The scene is quaint. picturesque, and the hard working litti Japanese women accomplish a prodigiot amount of washing and it's invariable al compartment the world over-gossipng,
 Let us now visit Manila, the capital [ the Philippine Islands, and see how t} washing Is done there.
 In this locality the river serves a doub purpose, for the Filipino girls are able . wash their clothes and take bath at Il same time-a great saving of time all energy. When the clothes are washs they are placed in the tub which Is set floating in the midst of the bathers, al afterward dried on the banks and bushe
 At Jalapa, Mexico, there is one of ii most curious buildings of it's kind in tf world. the public wash font, the interi of which is next shown. This institutid is maintained by the municipality in o der that the women of the lower class may have every facility for washing the clothes The building, which is open {. the sides is full of little troughs, and [ nearly always occupied by industrio women, all busy washing. At times \ many as 50 or more are present. It , not usually known, but the poorer class in our own country use similar pubh wash houses-rather more up-to-date. | course. in their equipment.
 The Indian dhobies. or washerme work in the rivers. India is one of 1T few parts of the world where the laund : work is done by men; usually this is Il garded as essentially a female occupt ton. The mems washboards are set H on the edge of the water all along tH bank. and you will notice the emerged. way in which the garments spread upt them are being whacked and pounde The washerman does not coax the di. out; he beats 1t out by main force. Laub dry work is cheap in India; the men ont ask a trffiing fee for their services. bN naturally fine linens, embroidery, or la t soon become transformed into rags undl ll this vigorous treatment, and renewal < material costs as much as careful hanN linz
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-24
War and Barbed Wire

1 A newspaper correspondent who has made a study of modern Qualifications in Europe says that forts usually fall, sooner or later, before infantry at tacks, but never to bombardment alone. In order to delay the infantry attacks as long as possible elaborate outlying defences have been devised, of which the most efficient factor is barbed wire. Little did the inventor of this wire ever dream that it would play an important part in the greatest war in history. Barbed wire is believed to have been used first by the Spanish army in Cuba. The Romans used stakes driven into holes and trees laid with their tops toward the enemy. Pointed steel fences have also been found effective and all these forms of defense are at present being used in Europe.
 A wall of wire is first put around the circumference of all the forts, fencing in the outlying units as well as the central fort. In addition each fort has it's individual entanglements disposed to the best advantage for re- polling attacks. There is barbed wire outside each moat and on the exposed side of the embankments. No matter how small the work may be, they are all protected by wire.
 Inside the outer wall there are nu- merous defenses of plated wire de- signed to trap and confuse the enemy after he has once broken through the first ring of forts and to make him an easy victim to machine guns. Open- ings are placed at convenient inter- yals, through which the defenders in- fantry can maneuver, the idea being wherever possible to herd the enemy into corners and now them down, However, the main defense of such Qualifications takes place from 1000 to 2000 yards beyond the front wall. where infantry must stay as long as possible.
 The war has taxed the ingenuity of European scientists, but they have hit upon nothing more dependable and more generally useful than barbed wire, which was never intended for anything of the sort.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-24
A Question of Clothes

The veXing question of clothes is one that is always with us-that is nearly always. In order to be correct ly clad upon every occasion, one must studiously read the fashion edicts, for what was entirely proper last year is entirely wrong this year, and what the next year will bring forth staggers imagination.
 In Tucumcari, N. M., however, the question seems to be solved by the pastor of the Christian church of that place, who publishes in the newspa- per of Tucumcari church announce ment which very briefly refers to the time of service and then continues:
 "The men who attend will be in style without coats, collars or neck ties, in either Sunday or working clothes. The women know how at all times to appear comfortable, even though beautiful"
 After pondering on that paragraph the reader is undecided as to whethe, the pastor is born diplomat-or was merely sarcastic. When the thermome. ter soars into the high figures, there
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-24
Summer Homes of Presidents

"1t used to be suggested that the government should purchase a summer residence for the President somewhere in the Virginia mountains, within a lew hours travel of the capital but l have not heard a suggestion of that kind recently" said A. W. Morris of Washington.
 Each President has his own ideas about where he would like to have the summer White House; and in receEr years most of them have preferred New England. The mountains of Virginia are cool compared with the District of Columbia, but the New England climate is particularly bracing. Cleveland had his summer residence in Massachus- etts on Buzzard's bay, President Taft made Beverly, Mass, his summer home, and President Wilson has an ideal sum- mer White House at Cornish, in the state of Vermont.
 The fact is that a complete change or scene is what hard working Presi- dent needs at this time of the year. Virginia is not far enough away from Washington"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-24
4 Birmingham Writer

'It is perhaps strange, but never
 theless true, that few people know
 much of the authors who write stories
 for the modern magazine or newspa- per,' remarked Leopold Speigler of Birmingham.
 Tn fact, a man may live within a
 block of an author of reputation and never know that he exists. Of course.
 there are a great many writers of pop
 ular stories in these days of prolific
 magazine work; but great skill and technique is nevertheless required to gair standing with editors of period ical publications. The man who makes good in this line is worthy of some recognition at the hands of friends and neighbors.
 Let me say in this connection that Birmingham man. Octavius Ray Cohen. has within the past three or four years met with marked success
 In the magazine field. Indeed. have
 noted five stories of MT Cohens in the latest issues of magazines on the racks at the Athletic club. MT. Cohen has quite a reputation as a writer of
 baseball stories and other interesting accounts of American life of today. In The Adventure magazine I recent ly noted editorial comment to the ef- feet that Mir. Cohens work ranked l next to that of Jack London in depict ing life and nature in the rough Among publications carrying Mir | Cohen's articles this month are the Rlue Book the Red Book Munsey s and others. It was only about three 1 years ago that Roy Cohen was sport | nE editor for newspaper of Bir- | mlngham. Many fellows will recall hin, | and his dope"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-24
Suit Case To Be "Tabooedv

Since the exit of sbooze' from Bir- nlngham grip or suit case is to le tabooed' by the man who wishes to pass without attracting much attenti n from people on the streets-not to men- ton the good natured jibes of friends" said Irwin Taylor.
 "A new suit case is especially objected to by the timid pedestrian who would avoid the staring multitude. No one seems to be able ito forget the whisky sales which occurred just be- fore the saloons closed about three weeks ago In several instances I un- derstand that suit cases, were given away free, by dealers who wished to sell each customer all he could con veniently carry Incidentally. there is much speculation as to what disposal has been made of the contents of these hand cases"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-24
Preparing Note to Great Britain

The state department has prepared note of protest to Great Britain which will be dispatched shortly re- garding the situation which has arisen over the interference with American commerce by the allies. This is in response on the part of the ad- ministration to representations made in behalf of various business interests, notably meat and cotton.
 The blockade has caused loss of millions of dollars to the packers, and southern senators and representatives have pointed out with emphasis Bri- tain's violation of international law in it's recent order in council placing an embargo on the south's great staple. President Wilson and Secretary of State Lansing have, it may be as- sumed, practically accepted the views
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-24
INCREDIBLE
om the Houston Post.

From the Houston Post.
 A Milwaukee man. believed to ha been murdered last August, and ideni fled in the morgue by relatives as the tried. convicted and sentenced to 25 yeai Imprisonment. startled his family Mond, by walking into their presence in re flesh and blood. Attorneys and offlcia say that his return will make no diffe ence in the sentence of the man co victed of killing him. If the law of tn state so holds, it is a queer law--it mu have been progressively inspired.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-24
EDUCATION AND pRopAGANp1sM

From the Minneapolis Journal
 Perhaps the gravest mistakes made by the American university as an institution have been it's tolerance of theoretical propagandism among its professors and theis official departures from the well defined field of legitimate education Sen sational projection of novel theories in government, sociology, finance and re- ligion are not among the functions or priv ileges of those men whose profession and whose duty require them to diffuse knowl- edge
 A few of our greatest and best univer- sities have avoided these institutional bunders, but many powerful and popu- lous seats of learning are already culture beds of class hatred. visionary altruism and impractical socialism. There is no need to question either the learning or the sincerity of these proponents of new, untried and revolutionary teachings.
 The point is that their special lines of activity outside of the textbooks and the laboratory are obtrusive, impertinent, and, very probably, malefic The so-called
 free thinkers have. we may well ad- init, perfect right to their own thoughts, their own personal adventures, and their own individual affiliations. but they have no right to inject their notions into the classroom nor to thrust their speculative vagaries into lectures delivered to student bodies. Political economy as study probably includes a review of anarchstic theories just as the study of psychology involves much reference to hyphosis. But 1t would be as great an educational crime for uni versailles to promote anarchy as a doc Urine as to teach hypnotism. Such top les are wholly outside of the scope of legitimate education
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-24
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Decided Improvement

There has been very decided im- provement In Birmingham recently and there is more real optimism here now than has been the case for year or more past said A. R. Dearborn.
 There was much talk of improvement last spring, but not everyone felt dis posed to take a bright view of the sit uation, so long as the war was in prog ress But it Is different today. Nearly every body has something to say about the unmistalsable signs of returning pros perity."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-24

At one time the beaver was thought to De nearing extinction. but an experiment made by New York state authorities shows him to have remarkable recupera- tive powers. A few years ago some cap tive beavers were bought and few wild ones were brought from Canada and re- leased in the Adirondacks, near South Inlet There were formerly millions of beavers in the mountains of New York, but at this time all had disappeared Repropagaton was so rapid in the case of the protected colony that an appeal has been made to the state conservation com mission to check their further increase in certain parts of the Adirondacks. The commission made an investigation and found 2 beaver dams in the streams run. hing into Moose lake that are from 20 to ls0 feet long and from three to four feet high. There are nine dams, indicating as many fiourishing colonies, in the neigh borhood of the original colony. The re- sort keepers of the Adirondacks protest against any interference with the beavers, as they say the little animals are a great attraction to tourists who take snapshots of them while at work It is also claimed that trout fishing.in Adirondacks streams has been greatlySimproved by the re-es- tablishment of beaver pools.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-24
Waning of Villa

one of the salient features of the Mexican muddle to the south of us is the waning of Pancho Villa" said K. V. Harrison. "The bandit leader is not near the figure that he was year ago. Carranza is not so big a figure either as he was when Huerta yielded to pressure and fled to Spain, but the shrinkage in Villa has been incompar- ably greater than that of the first chief of the constitutionalists The lat ter is figure of consequence no long, CT
 Tt, would be interesting to know the cause of what has come over Villa since the constitutionalist cause got the ascendency. He has made no not able successes in the field, has shown little native wit in the council and has even lost the force of his brutality. Most of the fine hopes that were based on him at Washington as the savior
 of his people and especially the lead ing of the peon to the light and law have about dissipated and it is estab- lished that he will never have a big place in Mexican history.
 PerhapssVilla's prowess was always | mythical and that Huerta had his measure right when he said of him | They say that I fear Villa No man
 fears coward Villa Is a coward a traitor and an outlaw. Do I not know
 Did he not actually crawl into my prl-
 vate car at Jiminez and beg with sobs | of abject self-pity for me to save him
 from the firing squad which was about
 % carry out the just edict of a regular
 court-martial with which I had noth- | ing to do and which I had dismissed
 from my mind? Men do not associate with thieves and bandits and neither | does Victoriano Huerta fear Francisco | Villa"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-24
For the City's Relief

Birmingham is to have the oppor- tunity of increasing it's tax rate, but the question cannot be submitted tc the voters of the city until October 1916.
 The tax amendment bill, pending in the legislature, had been strongly op- posed by Representative John B 'Weakley on the ground that his equalization measure would so increase the city's revenues as to make an ad. ditional tax unnecessary.
 At yesterdays hearing before the committee on municipal organization to which had been referred the tax amendment bill, the matter of Bir. mingham's needed financial relief was fully discussed by Sydney J Bowie and other citizens favorinp the bill, and MT. Weakley in opposi. tion to it.
 It had been expected that with the passage of the amendment bill ano it's perfunctory ratification by thu people of the state the qualified cleo tors of the city would be called upol soon thereafter to decide by theiI votes whether or not the tax shoulc be increased. But when Mir. Weakle, asked if the advocates of the bil would accept provision that tn, tax proposition should not be sub mitted to the people of Birmingham until October, 1916, the response wa heartily in the affirmative. It was happy compromise, and everybody ex pressed satisfaction. The date fixet for the local election is far enougl off to give MT. Weakley an oppor tunity of seeing the equalization sys tenn tested; but it is not so far in tn, future as to make any material diff ference in the administration of tn, city's affairs.
 When a committee of one hundred representative citizens, all of then taxpayers, recommended for Bir mingham's temporary relief $1 ,25O, 900 bond issue, the bonds were readil, voted. The same committee recon mended for the city's permanent re lief an increase in the tax rate, ant when the time comes to vote on tn, proposition there will be a decisiv, majority in favor of it.
 Birmingham is entering upon { period of drastic retrenchment, but now that relief is virtually assured in due course all citizens who have ths upbuilding spirit will gladly make tn, best of the present situation and look forward with a feeling of optimism to the day when the municipal gov arnment will have sufficient incom. for doing the things that should bt Anpo
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-24

of those who have asked the admins tration to insist upon a modification of England's blockade, for it is under stood that the forthcoming note will be as vigorous as it will be frank.
 The cotton situation is improving. but it will be far better if the Wash ington governments protest to London results in the desired change in Great Britain's policy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-24
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
AN OUTLET.

1 AN OUTLET. When angry passions vex the world And sanity is seldom met And nations rushing on to war | The lessons of the past forget, 1 The least that sober men can do
 Is not to feed the growing flame, But use their surplus energy 1 In roofing at a baseball game.
 ON THE WAITING LIST. Now that young spatsworth has in ished college, what does he expect t do?"
 He tells me that he hasn't decided ye what he will go into, but 1t will probabl be some line of manufacturing''
 "Yes?"
 You see, he has notified the president of several large firms that he will cor slder offers of managerial positions an has promised not to make move unt he hears from them.'' | DUH VEhSlONS WANTED.
 Any news from the war today?"
 Lots of it. The Germans have won al other tremendous victory and the Russian are in flight.
 Now, you've told me the news froi Berlin. What's the latest from Petre grad?"
 THE AGGRIEvED PEDESTRIAN. |
 "Confound Chugson! The stiff-necke upstart!'' why. he bowed politely to you whe he passed just now in his motor car" Sure! Bowed and then put on spec before I could ask him for lift"