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The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-26

sometimes threatening to the legislature.
 lie endeavored to have the body do bus mess in practical way. He did stop some proposed acts which would have been unfortunate. to the state, but was powerless to prevent others.
 think Governor Henderson was a bit too active in the convict problem. espe- cially as he had been indirectly interested But such action on his part was human and natural and during his term as gov ernor he will probably be able to solve this problem and give the people the necessary convicts needed on the roads.
 Governor Henderson has certainly been straightforward, manly and conscientious in his work. What he has done has been in the open-in written and published ad- vice. He has not attempted to cut cor ners or do things beneath the surface; as the average politician Is prone to do.
 I rather thought before he went into office that he was merely an easy-going business man of ordinary ability. He has, however, proven strong minded, firm, earnest and active, and from the present outlook he will make one of the best and most practical governors Alabama has had
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-26
BEGINNING THE DAY-ThOu art

BEGINNING THE DAY-ThOu art my winter God. Thou art God for me all the year round and in all times and places. Thou art my God, near and dear. when joy goes skip ping over the hills, and Thou art my God, warm and close, when heaviness leads mef to the garden. Amen.-H. NJ. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-26
Improvement in Business General

A lew months ago when the 1nduS- trial plants in the Birmingham district were resuming active operation trade in general was still backward and it looked as if business recovery would be slow'' said B. F. Moore of Moore & Handley. but the tide has turned and conditions throughout this section are now greatly improved.
 The large pay rolls here and the high price of cotton account for the marked change for the better. Until recently collection in our line of business were very poor, but they are now improving, and the outlook for permanent prosperity is good indeed. The coal mining indus try is at last showing signs of improve ment and when 1t becomes normal then the district will witness a maximum of prosperity.
 "Eleven-cent cotton means a great deal to the south; a great deal to Birmingham The farmer used to be considered we'll paid when he got cents for his staple. The cost of a blow is less now than it was in years past, and the cost of picking is no greater than it was in other days Any price above cents. therefore, should yield a fine profit. The October price for cotton will probably rule Strong around He. and l believe before Christ mas the price will go to 12c. After all, then the autumn of 1915 should turn out to be a bountiful season, alike for farm CTS, merchants, manufa acturers and wage workers"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-26

The commission form of government in Birmingham has not been that great suc- cess which was predicted for it.
 Somehow, we see the chosen commits
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-26
Ae.5t3,ueQ-
ADRIFT WITH THE TIrlES

near philosopher. "sull, there ar, plenty of failures who can put up sucf, a good imitation of success they neve, have any trouble in persuading othei people to invest"
 REALLY DOESN'T MATTER , q see you at the theatre quite ofteri with MT. Dubson. Do you enjoy his so I ciety, my dear?" "Oh," replied the debutante, frankly5 when I'm absorbed in play I would as soon be sitting beside Mir Dubsort as anybody else"
 NOW AND THEN You now and then will meet a man
 Who says just what he thinks. Without the impetus that lies
 In six or seven drinks.
 THE TIMoRoUs KIND "Biffkins doesn't seem to have muchl pluck" Certainly not" "Nor' Hes the kind of man who gets on3 the other side of table to have an argument with his wife," h
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-26
FAILURE.

 'Tis all a part of the price he paid The wistful eye and the hollow
 cheek, The look of one who seems afraid And the tongue that Is too slow to
 speak, The shoulders bent beneath the weight Of care, the head sunk on his breast, The stumbling step and the toll worn
 gait
 Of one who follows a hopeless quest. Iris all part of the price he paid. Who once was young and brave and
 strong, And mighty the tasks his hands es-
 saved
 And his dreams were high as he But the bitter years have sapped his
 strength And failures stamped upon his brow. The road still trails it's weary length, But the goal he sought Is vanished
 now.
 WHY HE QUIT You say that fellow in khaki turned down a large war order?" Yes"
 'What sort of business is he in?" "He was formerly in the newspaper business. A managing editor told him to go to Europe and write from per
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-26

Standing out conspicuously in opposition to all the radical legislation, extravagant expenditures and failure to handle the revenue question properly has been Gov ernor Henderson.
 Although a new man in office Governor Henderson has been actively advising and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-26

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., 1915-09-26
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Daily and Sunday Age-H Herald. year $500 Daily without Sunday. ay...,........ 400 Daily and Sunday, per month. .oO
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Entered at the Birmingham, Ala, pestoffiee as second class matter un- der act of Congress March 3, 1873
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-26

Alexander City News: Some of the newspapers are of the opinion that this generation will never want another legls- lature.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-26
NOW AND THEN

You now and then will meet a man Who says Just what he thinks, Without the impetus that lies In six or seven drinks
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-26

Dothan Eagle: With the steel mills run ming on full time and prosperity in full swing Birmingham should bubble.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-26

Troy Messenger: Birmingham has 53 schools with an attendance of about 30,- coo. She goes ahead of Troy.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-05-14

Cooperation Is in all things the
law of life; competition is in all things
the law of death. "-Ruskin.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-05-14
WILL NOT CAUSE WAR

The destruction of the Lusitania,
involving the death of over hundred
Americans, affords no just grounds
for a declaration Of war on Germany.
Americans who defiantly, or damfool-
ishly, take passage on ships flying
the. British flag, bound for ports
within the war zone, thereby show
themselves unfit to survive. For our
selves, we should strenuously object
to taking up arms against Germany
because, forsooth, his Kaisership neg
lected to suspend hostilities while
bunch of American tourists invaded
the field OF hostilities.
The same principle is involved in
the Mexican situation American eX-
ploiters of Mexican laborers, and
other parasites who invaded that un-
happy country with the gold that cor
rupts public officials, are inhabitants
of, or visitors to, that despoiled coun-
try on their own responsibility. And
they are not there for any good pur-
pose. Why should the working class
of the United States bother their
heads about these worthless? We are
quite willing, however, to see the edi-
tor of the Morning Tribune rush,
sword in hand, to their defence. We
suspect that he regards the pen as
safer, if not mightier, than the sword.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-05-14
MAY REPUDIATE WAR DEBTS.

Theodore H. Price, the we'll known
financial writer, says in The Outlook
that Europe may repudiate the gi-
gantic debts which this war is piling
up. He states that "the public debt
of the belligerents will be about $44,-
600,000,000 by July 81, and that the
taxation necessary to support and
amortize this obligation, together with
the pensions and other financial bur-
dens of the struggle will be laid upon
population that found subsistence
difficult enough on s57 per capita be-
fore the war and will be terribly i'm
poverished at Its close"
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-05-14
HANDWRITING ON THE WALL

British workmen have been taking
advantage Of conditions by laying
down on the job. The British gov
eminent has had to make a pathetic
appeal latter threats failed to the
workers to perform the work essential
to the carrying on of the war A
telegram signed by % representatives
of labor unions and sent to the prime
minister after the appeal was made
reads: You may tell Lord Kitchener
that we shall deliver the goods" The
workers are not yet conscious of their
true position in human society but
when they send a message like the
above we cannot fail to see that giant
Labor is beginning to feel the power
that is In its hands.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-05-14
POLYGAMY THE ONLY WAY.

Polygamy-Open, legally recognized
polygamy-is the only means by
which Europe can be repopulated at
the end of the war. Millions of super
fluous women will have to do their
duty by the depieted races of Europe,
and the only way in which this can
be accomplished is by recourse to
plural marriage. This may sound very
immoral, but l am used to taking
the larger scientific view of life.-Mrs
Mary French Sheldon.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-05-14

EDITORS NoTE.-Neither the Gen.
trail Trades Council nor the editor is
responsible for any utterances pub
ished under this caption, the idea
being to make THE OPEN FORUM a
permanent department, devoted to the
free discussion of timely topics by our
readers. No anonymous Istters or ar
ticIes will appear in these columns
Make your articles brief and to the
point, avoiding personalities as far as
possible. Use paper cut to 6x9 size
and by so doing will expedite the ap-
pearance of contribution.-M. S.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-05-14
TRADES
COUNCIL
NOTES

The Wednesday evening meeting of
the Everett Trades Council was a
most interesting one and was well at
tended.
Credentials were received for three
delegates to represent the Lathers'
Uniun No. II. The names, Fred Henry
Michel, Grover Garrison and J. H.
Michel, were presented and approved
as delegates,
From the Building Trades Council
Brother j. w. Smith, ]. Edo and j.
Ballew were admitted as delegates to
represent that body in the Everett
Trades Council.
Upon motion Brothers R. T ALI
man, G. E. Moore and R. H. Mills We're
elected as fraternal delegates from the
Everett Trades Council to the Build
ing Trades Council.
The delegate for the Typographical
union reported each of its members
had just paid for years subscription
to the Labor Journal.
Longshoremen reported the pur-
chase of $500 of stock in the Labor
Journal
Trustees OF the Labor journal re
ported that the books Of the paper had
been audited and found satisfactory.
Upon being read the report was ap-
proved and filed.
A committee was appointed to wait
upon the city commissioners with a
request that the city registration
books be kept open evenings for the
week of May IS to p.
The Rev. Flint, fraternaI delegate
from the Ministerial association, gave
the council a most encouraging report
Of the recent convention of Congrega-
tional ministers at Granite Falls Dele
gate Flint's address on "The Relation
of the Labor Movement to the King
dom of Cod brought out the largest
Attendance of two GAYS proceedings,
and expr assions of sympathy and Co
operative spirit were heard on every
hand. 1T was very apparent that the
ministersp resent were on the right
side OF this labor question" said Mr.
Flint, which is labors side"
Upon request OF the Ministerial as
ISOLATION OF Everett. a delegate from .
the Everett Trades Council was elect
ed to represent this body in this asso-
citation, to the end that real fratern-
al relationship be established between
the two bodies. Jay Olinger was
elected for this purpose.
The matter or the appointment ex-
clusively of non-union deputies by
Sheriff McRea was brought up and a |
was named to wait upon |
this official and see why Pete thinner
man. an employee Of the state land
commission. should have been appoint
ed to serve as deputy In Everett while
drawing pay at Olympia as deputy
and commissioner. Pete Zimmerman
was at one time sheriff of this county
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-05-14
PARASITES.

The drones of the community-they
feed
On the mechanics labor; the starved
hind
For them compels the stubborn glebe
to yield
It's unshared harvests; and yon squalid
form
Leaner than fleshless misery, that
wastes
A sunless life in the unwholesome
mine,
Drags out in labor a protracted
death,
To glut their grandure; many faint
and toll
That few may know the cares and
woes of wealth.
Whence, think'st thou, kings and
parasites arose?
Whence that unnatural line of drones
who heap
Toll and unvanquished penury
On these who build their palaces and
bring
Their daily bread?
Commerce has set the mark of self
ishness
The signet of its all enslaving power
Upon a shining ore, and calling it
gold;
Before it's image bow the vulgar great,
The vainly rich, the miserable proud.
even as slaves by force or famine
driven
3eneath a vulgar master, to perform
\ task of cold and brutal drudgery-
Hardened to hope. insensible to fear,
Mere wheels of work and articles of
trade,
That grace the proud and noisy pomp
of wealth.
From Shelley's Queen Nab"
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-05-14

Patronlzs YOUR Advertisers
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-05-14
GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP

The railroad employees on all the
government roads in Canada have
threatened a walk-out unless the gov
eminent keeps it's agreement with the
employees which to date they have
failed to do. The general manager
says that the government would not
accede to the demands of the men and
that the Dominion railroads will be
run by the army if the strike is car
ried out"
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-05-14
MANY WORKERS IDLE.

Reports from the southwest indi-
cate that there is more unemployment
there than in any other part of the
country.
Kansas alone, where there are gen.
orally about $4,000 miners employed,
reports upward of 1000 men idle,
while those employed are on very
short time and oyercrowded
Oklahoma also reports much unem
ployment.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-05-14
A SOUND MONEY SYSTEM
By THEODORE TEEPE.

Money is means of facilitating ex-
change. A railroad is means of ia
cilitating the actual, physical ex-
change of goods. Money is used not
for the physical exchange of goods,
but for the exchange of ownership
or potential ownership of goods.
A money system is as much a con-
| crete thing as is railroad system,
but since it is little harder to see
the deepest mystery has been at
tached to it. In the minds of many
people money is placed in the same
category with ghosts, hobgoblins and
fairies. They think that by some
mysterious power money kings ooze
money from the pores of their skin
or produce it by some such super
natural power as causes a halo or
miracle. Our present money system
is about 25 per cent. good, rs per cent.
humbug and so per cent. superstition.
If money system is as much a
thing as railroad, and can be mono
polized as easily, we should find out
just what that thing is and how it
should function.
Money is simply system of book
keeping. Ordinarily it takes three
factors to make money system
namely, two traders and a banker.
A, who owns only a horse, wishes
to exchange part of his wealth for
a sack of flour owned by B, the
grocer A takes a horse to c, the
banker who accepts temporary owner
ship of it at it's ready and certain
commercial value. He enters this
amount on his books and issues GER
tificate to A up to that amount This
credit is used on slips Of paper rep
resenting, we shall say, one dollar
each. A pays the banker for the ac-
tual service of making the loan. The
pay is of the same nature as is the
pay of any other worker and the
amount would be a mere trifle on the
average loan.
A takes his money to B, the grocer,
and pays one dollar for a sack of
flour. B accepts the money because
he believes C's bank to be sound. B
knows that for every dollar issued by
G, the banker, there is a good con-
servative dollars worth of wealth be-
hind it.
In sound money system, the man
receiving the money in exchange
knows the value of the money is not
in the slip of paper, but in the assets
which that paper represents. Conf
dence in the sound judgment and in
tegrity of the bookkeeper, or security
holder, or banker, is the very essence
of good money system.
Money should be merely a slip of
paper which is really deed to prop
erty held in trust by the banker. That
money must be made of gold or silver
is one of the superstitions that is
holding the world in bondage and is
the keystone of the money monopoly.
Stated briefly, sound money sys-
tenn consists of trader who de-
posits some assets of commercial
value with a banker. The banker is
sues to the trader pieces of paper
which are called dollars but could
just as we'll be called deeds. The
trader then issues these deeds or
dollars to any one who wishes to do
hucinocc with him Tho cvctpm would
practically abolish interest.
Another important feature of sound
money will be discussed in the next
article.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-05-14
RESIST WAGE REDUCTION.

SAN FRANCISCO, May 3.-The
Bottle Gamers union is successfully
resisting a wage reduction of 20 per
cent. One company has already
agreed to restore the old rate. These
workers have been on strike nearly
two months.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-05-14
REAL SOURCE OF RICHES.

Success (by law of competition)
signifies always so much victory over
your neighbor as to obtain the direc-
ton of his work and take the profits
Of II. This is the real source of all
great riches.-Ruskin.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-05-14

At the general election In Japan
1,5Oo persons were arrested for brib-
cry. Indiana papers please copy
Pittsburg Gazette-Times.
Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1915-10-21
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bonn ~. Sftober torpeoiert.
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ntlden &plonie 8amerun ieit @pnaten
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&anpf genommen. Die 8elabune
entfam. tpirb ieoo6 perfolst.
Gnglanb erflart gnlsarien &ries.
@nalanb bat am 10. Sfto5er Bull
9arien ben aries erfldrt.
Sr;tiihe gerluite auf G~aIippli.
Sie britiideu @erluite allf @aaipoli
betra9fn bis gum 8. Oftober 96,S99
Wsann. barunter 1887 Sobte.
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grinii6en @ren3e, perlcet ,pprben, ipie
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Der 8egeno bon &umanoipo unb
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8ulgaren bon bieier Seite aus in Den
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berbeieileuoen aliierten Sruppen a6e
idneiben ipoIen. Sic piirben iih
bann burf bas Ioratuas Sbal riorbs
ndrts fpenoen, I'M Iilf 5l erreihen.
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notbpenbi9. Sic Hesierrng. Die
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ride Torbut a%ngegriffen rnb oie
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iest Die Sabnlinie 0 Hiih naf Saz
loniti III ibren 9dnben.
9entid,e sauhboute i'm .MitteImeer.
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rtd)ten i'm @ittelmccr % aliiertc
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in Den lesten 5lpci @od)en perienft
ipltrbcn.
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lponoent Der Serliner nHatiouals 3eiz
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SerlpenDun9 81 ftrlpcn.
Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1915-10-21
aaiierte 5iebem 9ruppen pur 8aaipuli
5mriif.
enslans sibt ,paaren irei.

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Waaren I'M 8ertbe pieler Wiaionell
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