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The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-25
Criticizes Sanitary Department


 To the Editor of The Age-Herald.
 Hanging in the street cars is this sign, Death or Injury Awaits the Person Who Heeds not the Warning of Approaching Danger" Some years ago a great fear came upon the people of Birmingham on account of yellow fever somewhere south of us. At this time I had occasion to leave the city and was somewhat aston ished to find our so-called health depart ment installed in the Louisville and Nash vile station, where apparently under the protection of the city health @ certif- cates were forced upon the people for the small sum of s1. 1 refused to pay and after some bluffing, on their part was allowed to proceed.
 That, to my mind. was a warning of approaching danger. Once the political doctors gain through legislative action and otherwise the power to fasten upon the people their narrow and conflicting ideas of health, away goes a good slice of our liberties
 Birmingham has a department of health and a department of almost everything else. unless it be common sense and con sistency. Our health department con sist mostly of nice uniforms and inconsis- tencies It should be abolished and have the police enforce the sanitary laws.
 Citizens of Birmingham, if you think am too hard on them, lay your paper aside and visit the fruit stands. see how the screen ordinance is evaded. Watch the filthy fly crawl over the cherries and the plums, and the peaches. and lots of other things that are usually eaten just as they are without washing or peeling After you see this. ask yourself the ques- tion. which is of most importance, getting weeds cut or protecting our food? If the latter, get busy, write letters to the pa- pers and the legislators and demand the right of self government.
 Woodlawn, June 23, 1915.
 M. D. ALEXANDER.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-25
CONFIDENT BANK WILL BE REORGANIZED

Montgomery, June 24-tSpecial. .)-Alex Walker. superintendent of the state bank ing department. returned yesterday from Birmingham. where he transacted some business in connection with the assets of the Jefferson County Savings bank. MT. Walker expressed confidence that this bank will be reorganized shortly and that basis
 Snowden McGaughey of Gadsden, one of the ablest bankers In the state, will head the new institution and it will be backed by some of the most prominent capitalists in Alabama. according to Mir Walker.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-25

Will they get money to build houses?'
 Sell the property and buildings of the county jails. and use the money to im- prove the land the county now owns; and if more land should be needed, now is a good time to buy. l believe if men up to 3o could be treated like human beings, and given chance (for in most persons there is more good than bad) there would be fewer criminals, therefore less of crime. likeness and laziness are largely the root of all evil
 "As an humble plea for the more unfor- tunate, let me beg. for the sake of hu- manity, that some plan be adopted where by these young men may be given some considerations where they can at least be clean in person, have the privilege of sun shine and pure air, and be made to work. -
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-25
BANK REPORTS

Washington. June 24.-A.oans and dis counts for the 6704 national banks re- porting to the comptroller of the cur fehey at the close of business May 1 amounted to $6.643, Ss7. .95l, an increase oveA. March 1, 1915, of $l43, ,923, 346 and over June So, 1914 of nearly s214,000,0c0
 Total resources of the reporting banks amounted to s11S42, ,354 995, an increase over June, 1914, of more than $3se, ,0Oo 600.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-25
Kansas Bankers Meet

Topeka, Kan, June 24.-Officers of the Kansas State Bankers associaticn, meeting here today, expressed opposi- ton to participation by state banks in the federal reserve system. It also was asserted that the reserve law was unjust to state bankers and 1t was announced letters would be sent out to all Kansas state bankers urging them not to enter the system.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-25

To the Editor of The Age-Herald
 think it high time for the dispersal of the halo that has been slowly gathering about the head of the telephone girl, by a few direct sun-rays of plain and honest speaking from the party of the other part" the subscriber, through whom the girl indirectly is paid.
 As q matter of fact and personally, I have no experience of the low-voiced syren so deftly pictured as the poor lit tie telephone girl in our daily papers, by repeated letters from tender-hearted sub scrhers.
 She of the great serenity, the gentle culture, the wonderful consideration has kept, I grieve to say, far from me and my telephone.
 The rather do l know an mperious and pert person who condescends from time to time to give me such numbers in such a length of time, and in such a voice as behooves the giver of good gifts to one unworthy her least effort.
 The telephone girl, I know picturfng her as she sounds, is one much given to consideration of her personal charms i; to frequent and delft pattings of pompa- dour curl and poorly covered switch and the general adjustment of those personal adornments that fill so vital place in her young mind.
 The telephone girl l know says, Which exchange?" invariably, and as a matter of course completely ignoring ones humble and earnest endeavor 10 ac- quaint oneself of the implied accusation of not complying with the rules of the company Superimposed upon this pert question comes the sharp threat-for threat it is-"Tll give you my supervisor" thus at one fell swoop deferrng your numoer and consigning you to an endless waiting .1 |, t,t@l e1.. Iaxr ,f.N., ously, I'm ringln'."
 Oh I could prolong this counter-evi- dence and weary the long suffering editor (who, being a subscriber, has woes of his own) indefinitely but all who read know the truth, that as rule, telephone girls
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-25

We are told that he was taught by his parents first; later, he gained his educa tion. After he was 30 we have the most of hs record.
 162 Under 30 Years
 About seven weeks ago by friend and l went to the jail to see poor man. While we were waiting in the lobby, an officer came in with seven prsoners-all under 30 years of age Because of their young faces. it occurred to me to ask the sheriff for list of those in Jail who were under 30 years of age. In week s time he kindly gave me the information 1t was as follows: 113 negro men, 27 white men, 15 negro women, and white women all of them under 30 Does that not seem appalling? To think that most-yes prac- ticalv all-of those human beings will be worse when they have served a sentence. Why? Because no sunshine is permitted to fall on them: no constructive work no character building, is given them.
 circumstances are not always easily controlled or mastered. Every man or woman will steal under certain conditions, every man or woman will kill under cer- tain conditions. every man or woman will lie under certain conditions. and because you or l don't commit those crimes. we deserve no credit: the circumstances have not forced us to do that Circumstance is a powerful master.
 Sets Out Plan 'I have a plan which I wish to submit for your better judgment: Suppose these young men-these young men, up to 3c years-be sent to county farms, there to be placed on probation. on their honor, and to be given a chance. for they have no chance. except an evil one, in jails. | Let the farms be training scchools, where | they could be taught the value of the | soil to raise cattle and fowls, as well as vegetation; where they could be kept at work. and have the fresh air and sun- 1 shine.
 "I do not believe that one big farm 1 could be managed as successfully as smaller farms. It would be like having one big class at school: they could not get the individual uplft that could be given on smaller farms. Let them live Tn 1 comfortable farm houses. supervised by | kind but firm officers. There could be one big mess hall, where all could go to ] meals
 After mana man under 30-has been ] tried reasonable time, and has made
 good permit him to go home without
 court trial l do not believe In allowing | these young men to associate with, nor pt
 placed with, the older prisoners because
 the association with older criminals would
 ruin an otherwise good man.
 Whence the Money
 Someone said to me: This is bis
 thing you wish the state to do. Where
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-25
THE WEATHER
Weather Forecast

Washington, June 24.-Forecast for Alabama and Mississippi: Scattered showers northwest; Saturday, showers.
 Georgia: Partly cloudy Friday, prob ably showers northwest; Saturday, showers.
 Tennessee Showers Friday; Saturday fair west, showers east.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-25
Local Data
Weather Conditions

Summary of observations made at United States weather bureau stations during the "A hours ending D. m. 18th meridian time, June 24, 1915:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-25

Stations and Weather at s p. m.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-25
From the Subscribers Point of View

sawyerville. Ala. June 2s, 1915.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-25

,. c. HORTON, Local Forecaster.
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1915-11-19
ITALIAN STEAMER
/. SUNK BY AUSTR|ANS
5Ix PASSENGERS AND FIFTEEN
MEMBERS OF CREW OF ILL
FATED VESSEL DROWNED.
Vessel Was Forty Miles of Egyptian
Coast When Attacked by subma-
rlne, No Warning Being Given
Those on Board.

Rome. The Italian steamer
Firenze, 1878 tons, has been sunk by
submarine. Twenty-seven passen
gers and ninety-six members of the
crew were saved Six passengers and
fifteen of the crew are missing.
There were no Americans aboard
the Firenze, so far as could be learned
as a result of inquiries made at the
steamship Offices.
The F'irenze was sent to the bottom
by means of shell fire off the Egyp-
tian coast.
The Firenze, which was the best
and most modern steamer belonging
to the Compagnia Martina and cost
81 100000. left Syracuse on Tuesday
for Alexandria. Forty miles off the
Egyptian coast. according to the ac'
counts received at Rome, she was
bombarded by an Austrian submarine
and was obliged to halt, when a shot
struck her rudder.
Five boats were lowered In which
to save the passengers and crew
while the submarine. 1t is declared
continued to lombard the Firenze un
til she sank.
The passengers comprised nineteen
Italians. eleven Egyptians, two Swiss
and one French.
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1915-11-19
VILLA WOULD SHAVE
GENERAL CARRANZA
SHoRN OF HIS WHISPERS, FIRST
CHIEF WOULD LOSE FALSE
FRONT, SAYS VILLA.
Lays Claim to An Army Of Seventeen
Thousand Men and Declares That
He Can Easily Get Ammuni-
ton and Provisions.

Douglas, Ariz.-General Francisco
villa has given out written state
ment in which he says:
you ask me to tell you my strength.
] will not lie to you, for never lie AL
together l have 1900 armed men who
are still loyal to my cause. Five thou.
sand are with me now. Three thou
sand are in the garrison at Juarez,
1000 in Chihuahua and vicinity and
$500 in Jiminez to hold back the ad-
vance of the Carransistas. The bal
ance of the troops are scattered as
small garrisons in less important
towns.
THE American government may be-
lieve itself very smart. but 1t has not
been able to stop me from getting all
the ammunition and provisions | want.
The materials for war have been paid
for out of my own money and have
crossed the border under the noses of
American soldiers.
THE fact that l am spending my
own money to buy ammunition and
provisions should satisfy the people of
the world that | am standing by my
men and that l have no immediate in
tention of quitting in my fight for the
liberty of my people.
SHOULD have Carranza in my pow
er, instead of killing him would
shave him. This would do him greater
harm, beca Use then he would be shorn
of that false front, which to the ignor-
ant indicates intelligence.
"Carranza cannot be president. AL
varo Obregon, however, is of another
type. He is strong and admire strong
men. And he admires me. But since
he has cast in his lot with Carranza
shall continue to fight him until either
he or | has been swept off OF Next
can soil Were Carranza out of the
way. General Obregon and | could soon
come to peace terms and we would
work together to build up my. coun'
| try"
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1915-11-19
JAPANESE EMPEROR eNTHRoNsp
AS He Bows Before Ancestral Goddess
Sun Breaks Through Clouds.

Kioto, Japan.--In this, the ancient
capital of Japan, Yoshihito was con-
secrated emperor on Wednesday, No
vember 10.
For days the weather had been wet
and gloomy. At the moment Yoshi-
hito bowed down before the ancestral
sun goddess, the rays of the sun flash
ed over the mountain, dissipating the
clouds. According to legend, the sun
goddess in prehistoric ages emerged
from her rocky cave and filled the
whole universe with glory. The APP
pearance of the sun is Interpreted by
the people of Japan as a good omen
of ar suspicious regn of Yoshihito,
and of the destiny of the empire.
The first part of the principal cere-
monies consisted OF ritual service
of ancestor worship, which struck a
note of religious mysticism. In the
afternoon Yoshihito was enthroned.
The morning ceremony was address
ed to the gods. it seemed, and the
ether to the people.
The emperor issued an imperial re-
script, in which he declared he will
continue the work of his father, who
conceived the great policy of open
ing the country to foreign inter
course" in the building up of the
empire and the strengthening OF
friendships with other nations.
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1915-11-19
TEUTONS SLOWLY
DRIVING SERB|ANS
DEFENDERS FALLING BACK BE-
FORE AuSTRo-GERMANs, BUT
HOLDING BuLGARlANS.
Russians Take Offensive In East
Against Won Hndenbury, But With
Indifferent Success, owing
to Marshy Ground.

London--The Serbians are failing
back from mountain range to noun
tain range before the advance OF the
Austro-German forces, whose official
reports enumerate the capture or n
thousand or more prisoners daily, a
few guns and quantities Of stores. The
Serbians are fghting continuously,
however, and are inilicting consider
able losses on their pursuers
Along the eastern front, the Ser.
bans appear 10 be holding their own
against the Bulgarians and are max.
ing stand on the western river bank.
So stubborn has been their resistance
the Bulgarians have had to call for as
sistance from the Austro-German ar
tillery in their effort to drive the de.
tenders out OF Katchanik pass. Thus
far they have been unsuccessful.
The British and French troops,
which are receiving reinforcements,
are meeting with some success, and
besides repulsing the Bulgarian at.
tacks, have undertaken small offensive
movements with good results. The
Austro Germans and Bulgarians, how
ever, made such progress from the
beginning of the campaign that II will
now take serious work to check them.
For the moment, the political situa-
ton is graver than the military situa.
ton. The central powers have again
protested to Greece against the land.
ing OF allied troops at Saloniki. King
Constantine is reported to have replied
that as Saloniki is an open port, there
has been no infringement of Greek
rights in the landing, and that Greece
will remain neutral until one of the
belligerents has transgressed against
these rights. Italy has now joined her
allies by sending warship to Salon
Xxi, which on Friday bombarded the
railway station at Dedeaghatch, Bull
garia.
The Russians have definitely re.
PEELED Field Marshal Won linden
burg's drive toward Riga and Dvinsk
and along the Dvina river and have
themselves taken the offensive, but ap-
parently, owing to the state OF the
ground. have been able to make only
slow progress in the marsh region
west of Riga.
Along the Styr river, in the south
the Austro-Germans, by counter
stroke, have pierced the Russian lines
and captured 1900 prisoners, accord
ing to the Berlin official statement
These strokes are about all that can
be expected on the eastern front
while the soft weather continues.
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1915-11-19

VTAVE you counted your blessings
III and are you truly thankful?
Or are you one of the army OF
women who each year declare they
have nothing to be thankful for?'
There isn't woman living, or man,
who has nothing to be thankful for
Those who protest against fate, who
say theirs is a hard life, void Of all
beauty, comfort, cheer or anything
whatsoever to give thanks for, are
wrong with the world. Something is
the matter; they need readjustment
and different point Of view.
The peevish, dissatisfied woman who
allows herself to be unhappy because
she does not possess as much of this
worlds goods as her neighbor, and
then says she has nothing to be thank
full for, has only to go into a city hos
pital and there she will see many rea-
sons for her own thanksgiving.
You mothers who have healthy chill
dren, strong of body and straight OF
limb, may be thankful that your little
ones are not compelled to inhabit a.
home for incurable cripples.
You fathers who have kind, gentle
wives and well-bred children may be
thankful that you are not married to
shrew, a woman who neglects her
home, her children, and makes her
husbands life unbearable.
Every one of you can be thankful for
the sunshine, the rain, the beauty of
the hills and fields, the fruits of the
earth that will appease your hunger.
the clothing that keeps you warm, and,
| above ALL for the roof that covers you.
Many there are, you know, that have
not these blessings. The blind cannot
see the sunshine or the beauties OF ma
ture; the poverty-stricken cannot en-
| Joy the fruits of the earth and warm
clothing; the homeless have no roof.
tree to shelter them and the cripples
cannot feel the softly falling rain.
Are you, then, making the world
about you more livable and lcvable for
some poor disheartened mortal? Are
you tightening his burden? Or are you
In your selfshness making the world
bleak and cold and inhospitable for
those about you?
/
unfortunate ones to be thankful. Per-
haps you cannot give a beautifully
supplied basket of provisions to your
poor neighbor, but you can send her
plate Of biscuits, or call upon her
and cheer her up bit. You can write
cheerful letter to shut-in or take
her a bright bunch Of posies or a
basket of fruit. Flowers and fruit are
always welcomed at the hospitals; but
If you take them there yourself. add
ing the brightness of your presence,
they will be doubly welcome.
Do not let the day pass without per-
forming some act of Kindness or char
ity, tightening some burden or making
the heart of some sad friend sing a
| joyful melody.
Be truly thankful for your own bless.
ings and dispense blessing wherever
you may.
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1915-11-19
ALLIES DEMAND
GREEKS DECISION
THRONE OF GREEK KING MAY BE
LOST AS RESULT OF ATTl-
tube OF GREEKS.
King Constantine viii be Reminded
That His Retention OF Throne
Depends Upon Continuance Of
Friendly Neutrality.

London.-The intimation of the
Greek government that any entente
allied troops seeking refuge in Greek
trritory will be disarmed has been
the cause of considerable anxiety to
the entente powers, and consequently
Field Marshal Earl Kitchener's near
east visit gains added Importance.
According to belated dispatches re-
ceived from Athens, Greece bases her
decision on international law, while
the entente ministers contend that
the right accorded troops to enter the
country through Saloniki permits
them to retire by the same route,
should 1t become necessary for them
to do so.
The ministers are demanding that
Greece unequivocally define the atti-
tude she will observe should such an
ventuality present itself.
Besides the claim to hospitality
which the entente allies declare they
have on Greece, in view of Premier
Venizelos' invitation to them to send
a force to Saloniki to enable Greece to
fulfill her treaty obligations to Serbia,
which, however, Greece repudiated,
Earl Kitchener and the entente min
listers are likely to draw the attention
of King Constantine and his govern
ment to the fact that the constitu-
tionalism of Greece was guaranteed
by France, Russia and Great Britain
and that it was only obtained after
Great Britain had coded the Ionian ISL
ands to the country and the three
| powers had agreed to contribute
$4,000 (s20,OOO) yearly for the per
sonal use of the king.
This, It is contended, binds the
| Greek people to the entente allies,
and should King Constantine overrule
| the constitution, which the followers
Of NJ. Venizelos insist he did when he
dissolved the chamber, it is suggested
in some quarters that King Constan-
tine would be reminded that his re-
tention of the throne of Greece de-
ponds on the continuance of friendly
neutrality toward the entente powers.
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1915-11-19
BOOKER 7. WASHINGTON DEAD
Noted Leader Of Negro Race Suffers
Nervous Breakdown.

1uskegee, Ala.--Booker T. Wash
ington. foremost teacher and leader
of the negro race, died early Sunday
at his home here, near the Tuskegee
institute. of which he was founder
and president. Hardening of the ar
teries following nervous breakdown
caused death four hours after Dr.
Washington arrived from New York
Doctor Washington was born in
slavery near Halesford, Va, in 1857
or 1858. After the emancipation of
his race, he moved with his family to
West Virginia When he was able to
scrape together sufficient money to
pay his stage coach fare TO Hampton,
Va, he entered General Armstrong;
school for negroes and worked his
way through an academic course
graduating in 1875.
Later he became a teacher in the
Hampton institute, where he remained
until 1881. when he organized the In
dustrial School for Negroes at Tuske-
gee, TO which he devoted most of his
attention during the remaining years
OF his life.
The institute started in rented
shanty church. Today 1t owns $500
acres of land in Alabama and has
nearly 100 buildings valued at $780,
600.
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1915-11-19
NEUTRALS WORKING
ON PEACE PLAN
EXPECT TO HAVE MEETING TO
FORMULATE PROPOSALS
BEFORE CHRISTMAS.
Believed That the Administration OF
Foreign Policies Of Nations at
War Would Welcome Action .
Of Neutral Agency.

Washington David Starr Jordan
chancellor of the Leland Stanford uni
versity and head of the International
Peace congress, recently held in San
Francisco, told President Wilson on
Friday that a quasi-official meeting
of neutral nations probably will be
held some time before Christmas
either at The Hague, Berne or Copen
hagen, to attempt to bring about
peace in Europe.
DR. Jordan conveyed to the presi'
dent a resolution from the peace con
gress urging him to cooperate with
other ntutrals in calling such a con
ference.
In statement laid before the pres.
dent by DR.. Jordan, 1t was declared
that as result of recent missions to
the governments of the warning ma
lions II cou o be stated that while
the nations at war were not willing
themselves to begin negotiations fol-
peace, there is nevertheless abund'
ant evid.snce that those charged with
the administration of the foreign pol
icies of these nations would welcome
or at least not oppose, affirmative
action by a neutral agency to bring
about peace based on international
Justice"
DR.. Jordan said that while no of
fetal information was available
peace advocates had learned from un
official sources in Holland, Sweden
Switzerland, Denmark and Spain thai
those countries would be glad to take
part in any movement to further the
cause of peace