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The Detroit times., 1915-11-20
School Happenings

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The Eastern locating society held
its weekly meeting Wednesday af-
ternoon, and the following problem
was discussed: Resolved. That
the United States should increase
her army and navy" The aftirma-
tive WAS upheld by George kitson.
Saleem Metric and Herman Barcus.
while the negative was represented
by William Gregor. Francis Riley
and Macarthur Pipe. The vote Oh
the question was IL to 10 in favor
OF the negative. The organization
has decided to hold one debate each
week. Every member. It has been
decided, must speak at least once
every three weeks under the gen
eral discussion of the program of
the day. Miss Marsh, faculty ad-
visor. gave the members an inter
esting talk and pointed out minor
errors which, they had made.
AT the first meeting OF the grad
uating class OF the Thomas school.
the following officers were elected:
President. Charles Verschaeve:
vice-president Agnes Trainer sec
retary, Horace Dean; treasurer.
Grace Reich. The American Beauty
rose was chosen as the class flower.
while the class colors are maroon
and gold The motto OF the class
Is "Over the hills OF endeavor lies
the city of success"
The Thomas school soccer team
defeated the Harris school. 10 o..
Goals were kicked by Francis Niles.
Edward Roeseal and Charles Fus-
see The following players have
represented the Thomas school this
term: Ray Perkins. captain; Henry
Abbott. goal tender; william Seibs
Edward Kaufman, Francis Miles.
Arthur Perkins, John Bates and
Howard Theme.
Resolved, That letter postage
in the United States be reduced to
one cent was the subject OF the
first senior class debate In Highland
Park high school. The Affirmative
was upheld by Harold Turnboll and
Claire Spring, while the negative
was taken care of by Louis Klei and
Glen Reitzel. The Judges decided
In favor OF the negative debaters.
This being the first meeting OF the
semester, the assembly elected Of
fcers, Herman Deyarmond being
elected president, and Ruth. secre-
tary.
Frequent fire drills are being held
In Highland Park high school, and
the best time made thus far In emp
tying the school of its 1000 pupils
has been one minute and Is seconds
The A room students in Thomas
school debated Thursday on, RE
solved, That the United States
needs a national defense" The
speakers for the affirmative were
Harold Willard, captain; Agnes
Trainer. Horace Dean. Frances
Smith, Grace Ruch and Ethel Mil
lar. while the negative speakers
were Walter Klein, captain; How
ard Theme. Winona Karpp. victir
Cation, Ruth Corson and Alice SulIi-
van. The judges were Miss Howles
recitation room teacher, and the A
room students.
Nc M harn az H. ID arA 1
The Detroit times., 1915-11-20

Friday marked the closing OF the
gardening contest I'm Highland Park
high school. A general meeting was
held In the auditorium Of the school.
and Mr.. Locke and Mr. Parsons, who
had charge OF the work, spoke of
the increase in the interest this year
and also Of the fine showing made
by the amateur gardeners. Mr..
Seely. OF the Board of Education In
Highland Park. also spoke. The
prizes awarded for the best exhibits
were gardening tools and books
The contest will be renewed again
early merit spring.
The Goldberg school has won the
soccer championship OF league No
z. having won all four OF its CON
tests. 1t will compete now for the
city championship.
At the last meeting OF the East.
ern club In Eastern high school. Ell
mer Pleger and Otto Sielaff were
elected delegates to the annual state
conference OF high school organiza-
tons. to be held In Kalamazoo next
month.
The Washington school soccer
team played the Dufield school team
TO tie. to /. The game was
played on the Bishop school
grounds.
The football team OF Highland
Park high school showed that much
can be expected from II next term
when II defeated the alumni team.
90 TO o.
The Detroit times., 1915-11-20

Members OF the BIZ and A.12
English classes in Highland Park
high school are required to be pres
ent at all OF the meetings OF the de-
batting club in the school. and abb
sence from the club being counted
the same as an absence from Q
class.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-13
City's Drastic Retrenchment

| The demand for drastic retrench- ment in the city's running expenses is general and pronounced.
 The special committee on perma- nent municipal relief appointed from the committee of one hundred insists that Birmingham's expenses should not exceed it's annual revenue. In order, therefore, for the city to live within it's income cut of over $300,000 was necessary.
 In making up its new budget in conformity to the committees recom- mendations, the commission has further reduced the police department, the fire department has been reduced, the appropriation for the public schools has been reduced, street work, including garbage disposal, is to be minimized; all appropriations to charity institutions are to be discon- tinued, and several departments have been abolished.
 Before taking final action the com. mission should reconsider certain of it's items of saving. The safeguarding of health is more important than any thing else in city's economy; more important even than the schools. Il garbage is not removed systematically and in way to meet modern sanitar, requirements, then disease--possibl, a frightful epidemic-will follow.
 Retrenchment in the fire depart ment will probably mean higher rate of insurance, already high. In orde'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-13
Regarding Municipal Market

read with interest signed article which appeared Monday in The Age Herald urging that some decisive ster be taken toward providing a practical municipal system of marketing said Dr. Howell T. Hefiin. 4
 There is an immense demand for pro- duce in Birmingham and there are large farm resources in the Birmingham dis triet capable of supplying a good part of the provisions consumed here. All that Is needed is some practical method of distribution that will bring the con- sumer and producer into as close a rela- ton as may be, and yet give the honest dealer a square deal. One of the prime considerations of any undertaking which might be contemplated would be that of cleanliness and proper sanitary equip ment. If the people want a municipal market, and l am convinced that it would be a good thing, they should have one"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-13
ALABAMA'S WOMAN FARMER

l to do on this farm by the time the circus gets here I'm going to take all of you to the circus. If he has missed doing any thing the week he is told to do it, you won't get to see any circus
 The fleet was wonderful. The children in every lackadaisical household kept right after daddy every day to see that he was keeping up with the time card. He kept up with it. too, in every instance, and now when autumn comes l go to the | circus like the old woman who lived in a | shoe, with. so many children of all shades | of ccloring that I scarcely know what to do with them But I'm getting results on the farms.
 Tt is sometimes difficult to get man
 cut of the tenant class and into the farm owning class after he has made money. One man who had made good money on
 land he rented from spent it on such
 things as three bicycles, 80 organ, a
 rubber tired buggy, and a s60 cook stove, and kept on being a tenant.
 If the south had been in the condition | it is today in 1861 would have been licked in three months by being starved
 out" continued Mrs. Mathis in expatiat- | ing upon the evil of the one crop sys-
 tenn and arguing that the boil weevil ul-
 timately will prove a blessing by turning
 attention to diversificaton of crops.
 The job have on my hands is to make the Alabama farmers realize that they can raise the best meat in the world
 for 21e cents a pound, instead of sending up here for 1t and paying F cents pound. The first requirement of the farm lis to support the family that lives on it, yet some farmers will not even raise q | garden. One man told me he would have | a garden were it not that his wife would | not work it.
 "As high as $500 an acre can be made farming, for I've done it. We can multi ply the returns from the land by 10.
 Farming is the biggest business in the world, and anybody can make a good
 living at it.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-13
A Significant Conference

All followers of the war have been keenly interested in the reports of the conference held last week at Calais be- tween Earl Kitchener Premier As quith. General Joffre. M. Millerand, French minister of war; NJ Delcasse, French minister for foreign affairs, and other officials" said Harvey H. All good
 For sometime there have been per sistent reports that Kitchener and Sir John French, British commander on the continent, were at loggerheads and tha t Sir Johns eccentricities had estranged many of his most efficient officers
 Little attention was paid to these rumors until Gen. Sir Horace Smith Dorrien, whom Sir John termed the saviour of the British army at Mons. resigned his command and returned to London. Then the rumor factory started with renewed impetus
 If, there is dissentfon as reported between the chiefs one of them should go, in my mind, General French. would not be surprised if the confer ence at Calais were not for the pur- pose of deciding on the elimination of French and General Joffre. The general issimo of the allies has been growias g more restive under the inactivity of the British commander.
 With the largest army Britain ever put into the field he has been unable to advance, although holding only a short sector of the front Then. too, he has | da iahu dear. Among the known ones are his strategic mistake at Mons and the slaughter at Neuve Chappell There never has been any explanation of why the British should have lost 60,o0o men Tn little over three weeks, althoug h no big battle was reported"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-13
Factors in Business Improvement

The announcement yesterday that the United States Steel corporation's vast plant at Gary, Ind, is now oper- ating at full capacity for the first time since 1912 is one of many fac tors in the improvement of business conditions in this country. Throughout the industrial field activity has been increasing steadily for the past three months, and there is scarcely any branch of the metals trade that is not busy.
 Here in the Birmingham district increase in industrial operations in- cludes the resumption of several blast furnaces that had been long idle The steel mills are working at nearly normal capacity and the cast iron pipe plants have not only orders enough on their books to assure continued ac- tivity, but the best of it is the pipe companies are getting good prices for their products.
 During the early part of the year building operations in Birmingham, as they were in nearly all other cities, were at a standstill It is not so now. The building contractors here and else- where are busy. There will be more building in and around Birmingham during the next six months than in any similar period since the last wave of prosperity.
 No matter what the war situation may be, business in many sections will develop along solid lines until it reaches the boom stage.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-13

to affect a saving the parks are to be neglected, which may result in the loss of valuable shrubbery that could not be replaced except at a cost many times greater than would be the ex- pense of efficient parkkeepers. And the same rule would apply to the Avondale "zoo." The cost of main taining the animals is small com pared with the cost of collecting the animals.
 As Birmingham will some day be in a financial position to have all the things that prosperous communities are supposed to have, it would seem penny wise, etc., to cut out the "zoo, ' just as it would be penny wise to neglect the parks.
 In view of the city's embarrassed condition, which makes vigorous economy necessary, every good citi- zen should be ready to cooperate in any effort to induce the legislature to do it's part in affording Birming- ham the relief that the exigencies demand In the meanwhile the com mission is doing it's duty when it makes up a budget that will limit expenditures to income. But let it re- wise those items that would if put into effect prove not only a detriment to the city, but positive loss. Above all, let the city look out for the public health, no matter what other depart ments have to suffer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-13
The Hawaiian Islands

Senator Cummings of Iowa, who recently visited the Hawaiian islands with a congressional party, stated in newspaper interview that he was most impressed by the social and political condition of the population. The islands have total population of about 220, 0,000.-Of these 75,000 are Japanese who came to Hawaii before immigration had been restricted by the United States. They are not only strong numerically, but they are a factor of growing importance, and Senator Cummings predicts that in fifteen or twenty years, if not checked, they will absolutely control the islands.
 The Japanese do not intermarry with other races. Their picture brides" come from Japan and on ar rival are married according to the American law. Without immigration the number of Japanese is increasing rapidly. They are competent people, avail themselves eagerly of public
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-13
LUKE M'LUkE SAYS

From the Cincinnati Enquirer
 Nobody gets excited when a young man hoists his pants up to his knees and dis. plays his silk sox when he sits down in a street car. But 1t is different when a young woman does it.
 The only way a woman can learn to bs happy with a husband is to learn to be happy without him most of the time
 It doesn't take many months of mar ried life to turn a candy kid into a lemon drop.
 They used to wear clothes on the street to attract the mens Now they go without clothes on the street to attract the men.
 A man can look dignified all he pleases. But that doesn't help him any when there is a bedbug crawling around the back of his coat collar
 After he gets one a man often wonders why he ever imagined that he needed a wife
 If a man took an old fruit basket and broke the handle off and tied a lot oi colored rags around the basket and fas. tened some red onions and a tomato and a stalk of celery on the basket, and ther put it on his head and wore it down towr he would be arrested by the first cop tc spy him. But a woman can do. it and no only get away with r, put also succeed IT making the other women jealous.
 Us coarse brutes haven't any sense w stand In front of bars and drink beer ant talk baseball and war and waste oul time. But the prohibitionists will save us They will soon have us sitting in, cand, parlors slipping lovers kisses and passion ate sundaes and gushing over Charle, Chaplin and Lottie Pickford.
 A woman isn't afraid that a burglar will steal anything. She Is afraid that he will see her raggedy union suit hanging ove the back of a chair in her bedroom. Of course this will make them mad but it Is a fact Most of the swell looking silk stockings they are wearing have hole in the toes where you can't see them. we never practice what we preach. 4 married man will walk right out of safety first convention and smile at tn first pretty girl he sees. A female baritone has right to live 1 But why is a male. soprano? A motion to adjourn is now in order The ayes have it! Luke is going to res up for two weeks and fish.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-13
The South's Present Peril

The cotton situation is again very grave and it behooves the people of the south to act together and act promptly to the end that Great Brit aims embargo on our staple be re- moved.
 In an interview in today's Age Herald, W. H. Kettig, who represents Birmingham on the board of direc- tors of the Atlanta federal reserve bank, discusses vigorously and con- structively the cotton problem There is nothing of such vital concern to the south as this question of the cotton market, and as MT. Kettig points out, unless something is done and done at once to enable the south to get fair price for it's chief product this sec tion will face bankruptcy.
 New England and old England, as MT. Kettig shows, are allies in keep ing down the price of cotton. Great Britain's blockade policy has already added millions to the wealth of the spinners of New England; and this has been done at the expense of the south
 In the northern steel centers, where munitions are being produced on a scale of great magnitude for the allies fighting the Teutons, business is booming. It is booming in New Eng land where the cotton manufacturers are making excessive profits on their output. But in the cotton belt and in the cities where cotton is the main stay, depression is much in evidence, and the situation will grow rapidly worse unless the Washington govern ment takes the matter up and says to Great Britain that her blockade must be modified and modified at once, so as to restore to the south the conti- mental outlet for it's cotton. Presi- dent Wilson could easily bring about the desired change in the situation. As MT. Kettig remarks, this is no time for the southern people to be pro- English or pro-German. In the pending crisis MT. Kettig declares himself pro-south and that is what we all should be.
 Let the south make itself felt touch | ing this cotton situation. And in order that it may be felt civic bodies and individuals should, by mail or wire, urge the President to give the mat ter his immediate attention. Especial ly should southern members of Con- gress advise the administration on this all important matter, as Con- gressman Heflin has already done. II Mir. Wilson is made acquainted with threatened conditions he will be ready it is believed, to respond to the south just and earnest cry.
 | Let the people hasten to give def mite form to a movement such as Mr Kettig suggests.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-13

school facilities and other American institutions, but they remain Jap. anese, and Senator Cummings predicts that they will eventually present a serious race problem, as the white people of the islands are averse to Japanese domination.
 The Chinese are numerous and well liked. They are rapidly assimilated, intermarrying with Hawaiians and Portuguese. They furnish much of the lower class of labor and, as usual wherever they are found, are shop keepers. Chinese immigration, it ap- pears, would be welcomed in the islands, although the Japanese are not so highly esteemed. It is rather curi- ous to observe that no matter where they go, Chinese are better liked than Japanese. This is due in part to Chi nese amiability and willingness to be subservient, whereas the Japs are clannish and highly independent.
 The native Hawaiians, a delightful people, are rapidly passing away. The islands now have polyglot population, topped by Americans who are the richest class and have the highest so- cial standing. The Japs are, however, working out their destiny and there can be little doubt but that they look forward to ultimate domination.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-13
Celebration of the Fourth

T was very much impressed with an incident which I noted on July and >" said Charles s. Grimes, who lives at Graymont. There is a considerable number of Germans in our neighbor hood and l was surprised to note the fervor with which they celebrated in- dependence day.
 There was a gathering of Some kind in nearly every German home in tn, neighborhood with patriotic demon strations. While none of the genuine Americans in the neighborhood had decorated their homes every house where lived a American dis played the stars and stripes and bunt- ing, of some kind
 "Of course, this might not mean much but to me it was highly significant
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-13
From the Chicago Tribune.

From the Chicago Tribune
 A PLEASANT, capable woman with "A a southern infection told more than 400 delegates and guests at
 the banker-f farmer conference in the Hotel La Sale yesterday how the apparently incongruous combination of an old-ttime circus with scientific meth ods of farming has operated in Alabama to transform debts into bank balances and to make wornout farms gardens of fertility.
 The exponent of the circus as stimu- lant to agriculture was Mrs. c. H. Mathis of Gadsden. Ala. woman farmer of such extraordinary capability ir plucking fortunes from virtually abandoned lands that the bankers of Alabama have hired her to travel over the state and tell hith- erto unsuccessful farmers how to do it.. Mrs, Mathis, in her talk to the banker farmers dwelt upon the fact that 1t is easy to tell the farmer how to proceed, but 1t is quite another matter to get him to practice the resolutions set before him. She addressed the banker-farmers as "neighbors.''
 The greatest difficulty is with the ten ant farmers, both white and black" ex- plained Mrs. Mathis With the black man. the difficulty I met with is to get him to observe the proper periods for per forming the respective farm operations necessary to make him succeed. "I posted time cards in the houses. tell ing precisely when to do things. If the tenant couldn't read, instructed the children of the household to read the cards for hiu. But the difficulty in get ting the cards read at the right time and acted on promptly was persistent.
 ''So I went to the children In each house. Children said. the circus is
 coming in the fall. and If your daddy had
 done each week what that card tells him
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-13
Kettig Impressed With Anniston

T was greatly impressed with An niston when the gueest few days ago of NJ. B. Wellborn of that city at a barbecue" said W. H. kettig yester- day.
 MT. Wellborn. as you know. Is presi- dent of the board of directors of the federal reserve bank at Atlanta, and while returning from the recent meet ing of the board I stopped over day with him.
 "Anniston Is one of the coming towns of the state. l was greatly surprised and impressed, especially with the showing the city makes n the line of small industries. There is activity and oustle everywhere and 1t did me good to see it. It gives proof that there is body of business men in Anniston who are awake to their opportunities"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-13
From the Denver Poht.


 A CHARMED circle of children list "A ened to the first story of the 4 season, told on the Curtis street playground yesterday afternoon. Clouds of dust surrounded story teller and audience, and a strong wind blew the sand of the playground into their eyes and mouths. But Scheherezade never had listeners more entranced when she told the stories of the Arabian Nights to the Sultan Shahriyar.
 Miss Helen Ingersoll, of the public li- brary staff, was the story teller yester- day afternoon. Her first story was an Indian legend 'The Fire Brnger," The library workers plan to tell stories of the Indians and tales of the west to the children on the playgrounds this summer. arousing their interest in Colorado. Every Tuesday afternoon at O clock someone will tell a story on the Curtis street playground. Yesterday. before the storytelling began, library books were dealt out to the children. More books will be taken to them every week during the summer and to all playgrounds in the city.
 Not a sound but the whistling of the wind was heard as Miss Ingersoll began the tale of how the coyote helped bring fire to the shivering red man. The swings were deserted. bats and balls were thrown down. Every child on the play ground gathered under the pavilion to hear the story.
 "A long time ago." Miss lngersoll be- gan, there was no fire on the earth. The Indians talked with the beasts as if they were men. The coyote was the chief friend of the Indian. Indian men caught fish with their bare hands and the women dug the roots out of the ground with sharp sticks.
 But, when the snow came on the ground. the Indians couldn't keep warm. "sWhy are you so unhappy?' the coyote asked the Indian boy. Because my people are cold, the In- dian boy said.
 " I'm warm, the coyote answered.