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The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-06
Southern Commercial Congress

Birmingham should be well repre- sented at the sixth annual meeting of 1 the Southern Commercial congress, which will convene in Charleston, $.
 C., week from today.
 ', This is an era of organization and
 of organizations. All branches of trade and ndustry-mercantile man. ufacturing and agricultural-are rep resented by associations formed for the purpose of interchange of ideas among those engaged in the same line of endeavor and for the promotion of their common interests. All of them are helpful, but no organization, per- haps, has such wide appeal to the upbuilders of the south as the South ern Commercial congress.
 This body is made up of thoroughly representative men, and the discus sions during the three or four days l 1t is in session are at once stimulat- ing and practical. Noted authorities in the various departments of indus trial and commercial activity read papers and there is no phase of south ern development that is not touched. The first congress was held in At lanta and it marked a great awaken ing for the south. The invited guests from the north who attended realized as they had never realized before the wonderful potentialities of this sec tion. The south, from every point of view, was revelation to them.
 The fourth annual congress was held in Mobile and feature of the occasion was speech by the Presi- dent of the United States, Woodrow Wilson. That meeting was of benefit to the whole south and Alabama in particular.
 IL lS JilS dColIC OI CllC C<NSSQtiNS committee to distribute the meetings in such way as to afford in due time every important southern city the opportunity of being host.
 It may be that the meeting place for 1916 has been virtually agreed upon, but the Chamber of Commerce. should extend pressing invitation for the congress to meet here not later than 1917. The attendance at the first meeting was large and It has grown larger each year. But Birmingham is exceptionally well prepared to entertain the congress, no matter how large the gathering, so far as hotel accommodations are con- cerned, and in two years from now this city will have, it is hoped, a spacious auditorium as an additional attraction.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-06
ANOTHER TRIUMPH

Yesterdays Ageerad another demonstration this handling Richard Harding Hugh w. Roberts had fine Washington which will hereafter other member of The Ageerad there
  which every Sunday morning Incidentally there e21 ing space o inches.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-06
CONGRESS AND RAILROADS

of unreasoning prejudice and ulterior m tive, have produced the conditions tn now threaten serious injury to the bu, . ness structure of the country. Investois s, observing with growing fear the inces- sant attacks on these essential proper ties and informed of the shaclxles that ig- norance forged to constrain their growth. refused their support to new projects and the rehabilitation of old properties. Alarmed by the increasing interference with natural growth, the prohibition of natural alliances and the condemnation of intelligent plans for improvements, they have withheld their capital and ven- tured it in enterprises not subject to the limitations of federal management and the exigencies of short-sighted or corrupt politicians.
 The heart of the pernicious code that has been built up is In the enactments by which the right to make, suspend and reduce rates is taken from those to whom it properly belongs and intrusted to a body which cannot possess the informa- ton and interest necessary to its proper exercise By those provisions the finan- cial management of costly enterprises is transferred from their owners and put beyond the field of their control The answer of prudent men to this sextraor- dinary diversion of power is tho. with drawal of their investments, and to hhat withdrawal is due the crippled and in- adequate condition Of the transportation facilities today in the face of rising pros- perity and tremendous demands on their capacity. With what they have the rail- roads are doing the utmost that can be done; had they been unfettered in prepa- ration to meet the growth of the coun- trys business they would have been com pletely equipped for the situation they now cannot meet.
 Into the statutory enactments and their consequences by which this menacing condition has been produced it is the duty or congress to inquire with the deter mination to correct the evils, of which all sections of the nation now have knowl- edge. That the disposition of the repre- sentatives and senators is to adopt this policy MT. Underwood's announcement that if it is required, he will introduce the appropriate resolution is one index. Another encourag ging sign is his opinion that such action by him may not be re- quired, because of the consensus among his fellows in the capitol that federal reg uation has proved unsuccessful, that the laws must be modified and that the time has come to amend them. In this they should have the hearty co-operation Of the President for no man has pointed out with clearer vision the dangers inher- ent in the abuse Of government authority by interference with industry than has Woodrow Wilson.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-06
Sunday Paper a Necessity

The Missouri supreme court recent ly upheld in decision the validity of contracts for advertising in Sunday newspapers. The case at issue was that of the Pulitzer Publishing com pany, publishers of the St. Louis Dispatch, against one of it's ad- vertisers for part payment on his contract. The defense alleged that the publication of newspaper on Sunday is violation of the Missouri labor law.
 The opinion of the supreme court is in part as follows:
 The only question presented for
 determination is whether the publi-
 cation of the great daily papers of
 the country on Sunday is a work of
 necessity. The great service the
 press is rendering humanity is per formed on Sunday as well as upon
 Monday or upon any other day of
 the week, and it's beneficence is
 more potent on the former than on
 the latter, for the simple reason
 that the toiling masses have more
 time to read the papers on Sunday
 and, therefore, acquire greater
 knowledge and information from
 them on that day than upon any
 other day of the week.
 The allegation made against the Dispatch appears to have been simply an attempt to avoid payment by making use of a supposed legal technicality. The tireless reformers who busy themselves with upholding the sanctity of the Sabbath have not yet made an assault on Sunday news papers, or if they have done so, it has escaped general notice.
 It would be a manifest injustice to prevent citizen from receiving his mail on Sunday, if he desires to visit the postoffice for that purpose, since it may concern not only the most pressing business affairs, but matters of life and death. The newspaper is second in importance only to the let ter in conveying to it's readers news of vital import. We have become SC dependent on the Sunday newspaper that our national life would be seri- ously interfered with if it were pro- hibited. A great many people, as brought out in the court opinion printed above, who have to work harc all the week, depend chiefly on the Sunday newspaper to give them the news of the world and keep them abreast of the times.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-06
From the New York Sun.

From the NeW 1OIk Sufl.
 NY far the most encoura ging news that has come out of Washington 1~ in all that has been written of the proposed programme of the SiXty-fourth Congress is that which represents the leg islative department as considering the ad- visibility of inquiring soberly into the processes and effects or railroad regula- tion through the interstate commerce commission under the authority now re- posed in it. No subject more urgently requires attention; no government under taking has more adversely affected the development of business and the opera tions of commerce; no exercise of sover- eign power has more malignly influenced the course of industrial and mercantile adventure.
 Since 1887 the Congress, through the in terstate commerce commission, has sought the regulation of the railroads. The commission, at first an investigat- ing body with it's recommendations en- forceable by judicial action only, has un- dergone a remarkable course of az grandizement. By the legislation of 1908 and 1910 the commission acquired that au- thority by which it could suspend rates, make rates, and otherwise exercise the function of ownership, and compel obed- fence to it's orders. Originally it was a legitimate instrument for the detection, registration and exposure of evils; from 1906 it has dominated the common car riers, dictating the minutest details of their procedure, revising their schedules supervising their operations and general ly replacing in the conduct of their busi- ness the individuals to whom the welfare of the roads and their properties was in trusted by their owners.
 It is not alleged that the commission has been dishonest lacking ill diligence, or influenced by unworthy motives Its failure has sprung from the fact that the Congresses which have imposed duties on it from time to time have set for It task impossible of accomplishment. The disastrous effects that are attributable to its activities are not the result Of weakness of personnel but flow from the untenable economic theory which the statutes embody and the wrong political principles that inspired them.
 The result of the incidence of these dis turbng laws is expressed today in the financial situation of the railroads The hampering effects of restraints imposed without clear recognition of the needs of the nation and the necessities of trans portation lines, too frequently the fruit
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-06
"ORIGINAL AS SINv
the New York Telegram.

From the New York Telegram.
 Stevensons Treasure Island" has been chosen by Louis Rhead for this year s contribution to his illustrated edition of children's classics.
 All this recalls what Stevenson him. self thought of his famous story. 'It seemed to me-" he said, "as original as sin; it seemed to me like my right eye'
 He relates how he read it aloud to his own father, who Caught fire at once with all the romance and chidishness of his original nature.
 His stories that every night of his life he put himself to sleep with dealt per- petually with ships, roadside inns, rob- bers, old sailors and commercial trav- elers before the era of steam.
 "He never finished one of these TO- mances; the lucky man did not require to- But in Treasure Island he recog- nized something kindred to his own inn agination; it was his kind of picturesque' .
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-06

r TOIIl the N6W 1OIk IlTIeS.
 X/OU hear great talk of rum puncheons cutlass wounds and
 A headlights of pirates gold buried deep, and of some sweet craft flying the Jolly, Roger on far-off turquoise seas. You learn of men dropping silently from the lugger hiding in the fog-covered cove and you catch the forever ominous sound of Blind Pew's stick a-tap-tap-tapping on the frost-hardened ground at night. And you hear the men around the fire at the old Admiral Benbow roaring forth the song with that immortal but melancholy refrain:
 Fifteen men on dead mans chest,
 Yo-ho-ho and bottle O rum.
 For Treasure Island'' has been dra- matized The great story of adventure, written for one boy and now for many years beloved by boys unnumbered, has been done into stage version and done handsomely. The dramatization as pre- pared by Jules EclSert Goodman and pro- duced by Charles Hopkins, has it's weak spots even it's perceptibly bare ones. It is far better at the beginning than it is toward the end, but the whole endeavor has been made with something of that in- finite relish with which the story was conceived, and that is why the play is such excellent fun. If Robert Louis Stew enson could have attended the premiere at the Punch & Judy theatre last night he would have had the time of his life.
 This Treasure Island' is elaborately and painstakingly staged; it is for the most part-indeed, in all the important parts-admirably acted. Those weak spots of which something has been said, might as well be described and so dis posed of for the rest of the column. They begin to appear after the third act-there are four acts-is well under way. They come because Playwright Goodman has allowed the story of adventure to sprawl all over Treasure Island, from the His paniola adrift off shore to the skeleton 'cluttered peak of Spyglass mountain, from the cove where Ben Gum lurked to the stockade where the true men of the expedition stood to defend the Union Jack This means two acts broken into seven scenes. and that means that the attention and the dramatic interest is also broken again and again. Furthermore, the cozy and charming lunch & July is so cozy and so charming that this scen- ic unrest is too close for comfort. It is little like seeing a Drury Lane melo- drama in the Little theatre.
 And yet the Punch & Judy with its be- guiling old English interior is the perfect place to hear Stevenson's story told again from the stage. You may have read it under an electrolier in the presidential
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-06
Amazing Investment Record

We are passing through extraordinary experiences in the money market" says Henry Clews in his weekly financial re- view. Funds are exceptionally abundant and easy, notwithstanding an expansion of $l000,o0O,OO in loans of New York banks during the past F months We have loaned vast sums to Europe; invested in
 new bonds and loans at rapid rate and
 repurchased an enormous amount of se- curities held abroad; and yet our financial
 resources are far from exhausted and still seem to have great possibilities. Enter prise is reviving. Many new concerns are being launched and old ones refinanced at rate involving a heavy drain upon liquid capital In fact, the absorption of various forms of Investments during the last three months has been simply amaz- ing, and was only partially reflected in the daily stock exchange transactions in stocks and bonds There are many evil dences of widespread business revival. Among tine most convincing were the Oc- tober report of the Pennsylvania system. which showed an increase of S, 200, GOO in gross earnings and $3,50O000 in net. and the New York Central statement, which reported an increase of $2.50o,OOo gross and $2,300,000 net
 General trade continues to expand and bank clearings last week showed an in- crease from last year of nearly 57 per cent, in spite of diminished speculative activity. The steel industry continues on It's record breaking course the present rate of pig iron production exceeding all precedent. Prices are aggain advancing and in some instances have reached a point that restraints orders; but profits are 'arss ana this industry is now enjoying degree of prosperity which should com pensate for the lean period which had been endured for months"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-06

a party trouble maker. But let us hopo that he will "tone down."
 If the democrats in the Sixty fourth Congress keep themselves well in hand during the next few months another democratic triumph will be assured in November 1916. But never was party harmony more essential to victory.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-06
The soul of this man Is in his clothes
 -AIIs We'll That Ends Well.

BEGINNING THE DAY-O gracious God, bless those widowed souls that find themselves desolate and tired in the midst of the great, grey world. supply the place of the lost with Thy warm presence. Yea, in Thee and in Thy promises may they have their dead back again to enjoy with out fear, even now and fOrevermore. In Christ's name. Amen.--H. M. 10.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-06
A POOR COMPLIMENT

From the Youngstown Telegram
 Chicago clergyman says Pittsburg is ahead of Chicago morally. This isn't so much a boost for Pittsburg as an awful slap at Chicago.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-06
A BOOMERANG

From the Kansas City Star.
 Women are poor judges of literature, says Harry Leon Wilson, whose books have large sale among women.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-06

So long as American manufacturers continue to sell France paper-soled shoes we can hardly expect Frenchmen to cheer the Stars and Stripes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-06

An Illinois woman suing for divorce says her husband has been drunk 700 times in the last two years. She must own a jag meter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-06

Selma Times: The French general who said he had a right to be dead but no right to be ill., might have mentioned an- other right and that was to see as many Germans dead as possible.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-06

Postage stamps are being used for small change and tips in Paris. The hapless waiter who never writes letter may use them in lieu of wall paper.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-06

MT. Underwoods career in the Senate has been auspiciously begun. It may even surpass his notable record in the lower house.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-06

After soldier has been steamed until parboiled he has the satisfa ction of knowing that he can be shot and there will be little danger Of his wound becom- ing infected.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-06

Anniston Star: A New York woman had her nose bitten while trying to kiss her dog. We all get our just deserts sooner or later
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-06

Talladega Home: The citizens of Walk CT county are going to raise cattle and ticlSless cattle, as only $ votes were cast against tick eradication in an elec- ton held in that county last week.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-06

If conservative Britons scorn ''jaundiced prints why do they continue to read Lord Northcliffes papers with avidity?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-06
ALABAMA PRESS

Sheffield standsrd; Speaking of reduc- ing the high cost of living, the city fathers of Ozark have passed law pro- hbiting cooks from carrying food away from any home without the permission of their employers
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-06

Strong glasses will be put on monkeys in Baltimore to dstort their vision for the sake of science. but trying it on the dog will doubtless continue to be the among scientists.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-06

The French simply don't understand how nation can be too proud to fight, " and that's all there is to 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-06

A large staff of newspaper men carried aboard MT. Fords peace ship will help
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-06

There seems to be at least one ''archi- tectural monstrosity at every big fair. Even the Panama Pacific exposition had one.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-06

Colbert County Reporter: Our idea of sinecure: Lock-tender on the Panama canal."-Wall Street Journal. Ours is stoker on German liner.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-06

The agony will be over today for all those candidates who know how to ac- cept defeat gracefully.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-06

.'Daipn all neutrals," says MT. kipling, who ssems to have spoken in haste.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-06

Washington bureau, POT Hibbs build ing.
 European bureau, 6 Henrietta street, Covent Garden, London.
 Eastern business office, Rooms AS to so. inclusive, Tribune building, New York city; western business offlce' Tribune building, Chicago The 5. C.. Beckwith Special Agency, agents for eign advertising.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-06

Gadsden Journal: A jury of newspaper men has been selected to get the facts connected with the recent Pittsburg fac- tory fire. They'll do it, too
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-06

Roumania is meticuously practicing that old adase. Look before you ieap.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-06

L. D. Griffis and w. D. Brumbeloe are the only authorized travelling repre- sentatives of The Age -Herald in it's cir culation department.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-06

No communication will be published without it's authors name. Rejected manuscript will not be returned un- less stamps are enclosed for that pur- pose.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-06

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-06

Entered at the Birmingham. Ala, postoffice as second class matter un- der act of Congress March B. 1879.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-06

Remittances can be made at current rate of exchange. The Age Herald will not be responsible for money sent through the mails. Address,
 THE AGE-HERALD,
 Birmingham, Ala.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-06
From the New York Time.

From the New York Times. "OU hear great talk of rum
 puncheons, cutlass wounds and
 ~ headlights of pirates gold buried
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The daily Alaskan., 1915-10-05
wE WAN ArE EAyla
 FARMS or OUR OWN

Seward GatevRy. That an cs us here 3n Sewsrd may yet have nice ycuSt7v residences turroun5cd Nv rVolcv gardens s Indicated hy ghe rew brought over from Anchor .sre on the Ns-jross tc the c5fecs thst tne rove7nue7t hss SceuR plat eng five and tsA scrp SrNcts over theze sa enable Eil vhc Eo desire 60 seoEre lftt1C faruw cs thelr own. That tSe came plan wi0 be sdoPte3 near the oIgy ot SgvN~a, Ssg-oad the cTgy limits Ts also Indicated. A rc Herg rule ~ the government nlsscss U possible Tor Neo7le, bs EtstNa f'e- Tore, Co sesse tracts ia the Scvcrn- werI -see-vezs hul the plstting of the new tracts s Esi5 Co Ne toy tho purpose os giving opportunity Co people to buy sAe tracts outright al svc0oH,
The daily Alaskan., 1915-10-05
THE MEETING IF
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The daily Alaskan., 1915-10-05
EEGE-TOUSF TENDER
 UIACCyG NEW BUoUS

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