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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-12-26
TEST IRON CASTINGS
WITH PILE DRIVER
Man With the Sledge"
Gives Way to Machine
At Dodge Brothers

Shop practice at the ordinary foundry
provides for testing the strength of
iron castings by having brawny
sledge.
But his work is hardly uniform, as
some days he feels stronger than others
and also the same workman is not al
ways available for the job.
Then, too, there are castings that q
man with sledge is not able to break
Railway car wheels are in this class
and in the big car plants a modified
pile-driver is used. Each wheel, on the
strength of which may depend many
lives, is required to show a strength
much greater than it will ever be called
on to display in actual service
Dodge Brothers have applied this
pile-driver system to testing iron cast
ings used in the manufacture of motor
cars. Samples are taken from each
batch of castings to the physical lab
oratory. One is adjusted in Gig on
a solid base. hammer weighing so
pounds is lifted to a certain height
according to the strength of the blow
to be given, and dropped on the cast
Ing. 1t must stand a given number of
these blows If it skaters under the
attack and if the other samples break
the same way, it means that the batch
is not up to the standard demanded and
the junk pile is augmented accord
ingly.
A table of standards has been worked
out so that the laboratory experts
know just how much each casting must
stand. And, of course, the stress put
on them is far greater than they will
ever be called on to face in actual
service
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-12-26
JACKSON, MISS.

Jackson, Miss, December 25.--(Special.)
Governor Brewer will issue no Christmas
pardons'' this year, stating that those
already issued may be taken as SUCH 1t
has been customary with the governors
of Mississippi to have bunch of par
dons written up for delivery on Christ
mas Eve, but Governor Brewer, having
been rather liberal in that direction all
during the month, feels that he has
been very generous Santa Claus, and
very few. IL any, pardon petitions will
be granted during the remaining DAYS
of this year. In fact the governor stated
several days since that he would not
take up any new pardon papers before
the first Of the next year, his time being
fully occupied with other and more inn
portant matters in view of the early As
sembling of the legislature.
Secretary Conan of the penitentiary
board of trustees has received checks in
the way of returns on 1884 bales Of cotton
sold a few days since at Parchman,
amounting to s66.5817. This sum will be
turned into the state treasury just as
soon as it can be collected through the
banks and two or more of the trustees
can be gotten to jackson at the same
time.
Will s. Wells. sheriff-elect of Kinds
county. has moved his family from Boil
ton to Jackson. occupying the residence,
No. 1911 North State street. No family
could be more heartily welcomed. Mr..
Wells is one of the most successful farm
ers in Kinds county, having worked his
way from the ground up. through the
ground, and has served Bolton, one of
the livest little towns in the state. most
acceptably as mayor.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-12-26
WINTER HINTS BY
GOODYEARCOMP
r. S. Wilson, Service Man
ager, Tells How to Con-
troll Car On Streets

Now that the winter season is here
and motorists are feeling the usual
dread of slippery streets and the dan
gers of driving on snow-covered high
ways. few simple rules may be time
ly,' says r. S. Wilson, manager service
department, the Goodyear Tire and HUB
Der company, Akron, Ohio.
"Of greatest Importance are your
tires All Weather tread tires on your
wheels will insure against skidding.
1t is well to have non-skid tires on all
wheels, but by all means have them
on the rear wheels. For the average
amount of driving done. about one and
one-half sets of tires per year are suf-
ficient tire equipment In buying All
Weather tires and changing from rear
to front after worn smooth, YOU can
usually have new or nearly new nom
skids on the rear wheels. If the car
is run enough for these tires to wear
down smooth they can be changed to
the front and replaced with new non
skids. The smooth ones taken off front,
if still good, will be in good shape to
be used the following summer when
there is less danger of skidding.
TN stopping on a wet or snowy street
1T is better to drive at a speed which
wiz allow stopping by cutting down
the gas feed than to apply your brakes
and. break the constant contact of the
tire with the street The sudden APP
plication of the brake gives your tires
an excellent chance to skid, with the
ever-present danger of breaking a
wheel against the curb
GOODYEAR All Weather treads with
their flat-topped blocks of tough rub
Der. with careful driving, obviate large
ly the use of chains, but if you must
use them be sure to apply them loosely
If tire chains are too tight the metal
will gouge into the rubber and con-
tinuous pressure win soon ruin the tire.
Many tires have been ruined by badly
applied chains"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-12-26
SOME BIC BUSINESS
FOR PACKARD &c"
Sales Managers of Seven
Big Central Cities Are
Overjoyed

Unprecedented prosperity and indica-
tons of the biggest year in the history
of the motor truck industry" This is
the report made by motor truck sales
managers representing the seven prin-
cipal cities of the east and middle west
for the Packard Motor Car company,
when they assembled for two days
convention in Detroit this week.
The meeting was called to Introduce to
the men the first of the line of light
duty trucks the company has ready for
shipment. These one-ton and one-and-
one-half ton units are now coming
through the factory and arc being de-
iivered to customers as fast as shipping
facilities can be provided They supple
ment the well established Packard line
of heavy duty trucks
The truck sales managers who attend
ed the gathering included H. S. Norton
of Cleveland, Il. A. Jones of Chicago,
Hartley Howard, Jr., of Pittsburg. w.
+. Roth of Philadelphia, T. p. Myers of
New York. G. E. Pagett of st. Louis.
S. l.. Prime of Boston, and G. c. Spen-
Ger of Detroit
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-12-26
MRS. F. J. ROBERTSON
RECEIVES CHALMERS
FOR XMAS PRESENT
A. L. Boorse, Birmingham Distributor, Delivers
One of His Six-30 Touring Cars to Waiting Gus
toner BY Express On Xmas Morning

In order that Mrs. f. j. Robertson, well
known society woman of Birmingham,
may grasp the wheel of her new Chal-
mers Six-30 touring car on Christmas
morning, A. l.. Boorse, Chalmers dealer
in the southern city has essayed the
role eff Santa Claus with a promise of
delivery on December 25
In a conversation with Mr.. Boorse last
week, Mr. Robertson intimated his inten-
ton OF buying his wife car as a Christ
mas gift. Mrs. Robertson had her heart
set upon a Chalmers Six-30 touring car
The only detail interfering with the
deal was the fact that Boorse had sold
every Chalmers car on his salesroom
floor
To make good his boosted reputation
for service, the Birmingham dealer
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-12-26
ITALIANS REPULSE
AUSTRIAN ATTACKS

Rome December 25.-(Via London)
The Italian official statement today
reads:
the early hours of Thursday morning.
the enemy attempted to attack our posi-
tons opposite Grafenberg. Thanks to
the Intervention of our artillery and a
prompt counter attack by our infantry
we repulsed the attack
"On the Carso on the right wing of our
position. after brisk fusillade and
grenade and fire throwing. some enemy
detachments advanced against our en-
trenched positions east of Stelz, but our
counter attack repulsed them in disor-
der"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-12-26
Back to Rhineland

London, December 25.--Prince Won Bue-
low, former German imperial chancellor
who has been in Switzerland since last
October, but who has denied that he was
in that country on peace mission, as
has been widely reported, left Switzerland
yesterday for Germany, accompanied by
his large staff of secretaries, according
to a dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph
company from Zurich.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-12-26

grabbed the next train for Detroit. Reach
ing the Motor Metropolis on the evening
of December 20, Boorse chartered a taxi
and hurried to the residence of Paul
Smith. vice president of the Chalmers
selling division.
Got to get a car away by express to
Rirmingham-ought to go tonight was
his breathless message to the Chalmers
sales pilot "roday's output has been
shipped, but Wen fix you up in the
morning" replied Mr., Smith.
Boorse camped on the job next day.
until he witnessed the Grating of the
car for its rapid transit trip south. The
car left Tuesday evening by express and
will cost about $3.50 extra due to its de
luxe style of travel. But Boorse is happy
because he made good his promise, and
Mrs. Robertson ought to be happy as the
Chalmers traffic man states that the car
will reach Birmingham on Christmas
Eve, barring wrecks or washouts.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-12-26
Passing the Buck On
the Fllvver Route
ny ALLEN J. KREBs, JR

even if he did work at night and
sleep in the daytime"
Lots of gifts we're given with
Spirits"
Since the Taxicab and Touring Car
company went out of business, Joe
Hughes has hooked up with the Whit
man company. Ben Fowler is with the
Tutwiler Taxicab company They are
comes to service, in the business.
this pair and between the trio there
should be some keen competition.
Henry Jenkins says business was
never better. He now has IL Pack
ards in service for his patrons.
D. Words letter to Santa Claus at
Pizitz was fruitful, even If he did err
in his declaration Of his many vir-
tues.
Bradley Saunders. assisted by Gray
and Hewson, is putting the Hudsons.
Saxons and Scripps Booths over in the
usual style.
And inasmuch as this is written on
Christmas eve night, the writer is
going out to get some light. To each
and every automobile man and some
of those who are not his greetings go
out to each and every one who shall ao-
oept them on their face value-sin-
certify.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-12-26

Bob Badham is night man at Dren-
mems during the holidays. Hubert
Drennen tried to work Roy Kay in
as an assistant, but he decided to take
chance of the speed merchant. In
the meanwhile. Bob batted over 800
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-12-26

Made in Birmingham is a great
slogan. There is one thing in Bir-
mingham which is made here that is
not as good as that made elsewhere
and shipped here.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-12-26

George Leeming of the United States
Tire company says he is going to
know he is having a Christmas even
If he is in Birmingham.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-12-26

1T is not the gift. 1t is the spirit
In which the gift is given"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-12-26

Every employee of the various auto
mobile firms in Birmingham received
a token from the boss as an appre-
citation of their good work during the
year. Some crowd of bosses these au-
tomobile men have in this city.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-09-05

plain. everyday information that is en-
inently calculated to appeal to the gen.
eral reader as we'll as to the special
class for which it is directly designed.
THE AMERICAN COUNTRY GIRL. By
Martha Foote Crow. author of
"EliZabeth Barrett Browning" etc.
illustrated from photographs. New
York: Frederick A. Stokes Company.
Since the revival of interest in coun-
try life began, books have literally
rushed from the press on the subject of
the farm. the farmer, the farmers wife
and the farm boy. But. as this writer
says in explanation of the present VOL
ume. there has been no break in the
complete silence that surrounds the
farmers daughter. 1t is as if. for some
reason or other. she had slipped quite
out of reckoning. SO. somewhat in the
spirit of a champion this book appears,
Introducing the country girl, the far
mer'S daughter. In easy and engaging
informality Mrs. Crow takes up the
various possibilities of country life as
these may be made to open up to the
sided attractions of the town The
play side of country life is pretty thor
oughly gone over here. And the work
side of it receives adequate attention
Ways of earning money are hunted out,
and lines of study for the sake of both
pleasure and profit are set down. One
of the best things that Mrs. Crow does
is to point the girls to sources of in
formation concerning their various
projects, to show them how to go about
this or that business. The book is pri-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-09-05

officially to the American business man.
It's purpose is to give out good meas
ure of reliable information concerning
the general conditions of that country.
Its ultimate aim is to enlist the active
interest of American business in oppor-
tunities that China offers to it at the
present time, through the large with
drawal of English and German compe-
tition from that zone on account of the
war From a personal study of the
race, this writer has arrived at the
somewhat surprising conclusion that
the Chinese are not so different from
our own people as they have hitherto
been adjudged to be, and that there are
therefore, no racial or temperamenta1
obstacles to business interminging
of the two peoples MIR. Myron devoteS
twenty chapters to the study of Chinese
characteristics in support of this opin-
ion. The remaining chapters of the
book go into the details of business
opportunity afforded by the present in
duStrial and trade relations of China
and the world outside. Here he sums
the present condition of American com
merce in that country. He also COM
South America, outlining, in respect to
both countries, the effect of the Euro
pean war. In discussing the large fea-
lures of preparing for Chinese trade,
Mr.. Myron gives any number of praC-
teal hints to merchants and manufac-
turerS along the line of meeting the
special requirements of this eastern
trade. The author writes with the di-
rectneSs and Vigor of the active bust
ness man, or the live newspaper cor
respondent. The book is a mine of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-09-05

commerce receive practical considera-
ton. Many photographs supplement
the text to illustrate methods OF care
and construction, and to suggest 40 :
vantageous arrangements hoth from
the artistic and the commercial point
of view The book is a compact and
comprehensive aid to the practlcai
treatment of Horticulture.
PIANO MASTERY: Talks with Master
Pianists aud Teachers. BY Harriette
Brewer, author of THE Art of the
Pianist" illustrated with portraits.
New York: Frederick \. Stokes
Company.
Mrs. Brewer has here made use nj
an ingenious and interesting means of
gathering up a many-sided and author
itative view of what is involved in a
mastery of the piano. This method con-
ssts of personal interviews with ia
NOUS pianiStS and teachers OF the piano
the world over. Here are given the
substance of talks with Paderewski.
Won Bulow, Bauer and about thirty
others who have achieved distinction
and fame in this direction. \ musician
herself Mrs Brewer knows how to
approach these artists to the hest eff
feet And they tell her many interest
ing and important points in their own
to the sum of general information on
the subject. Brought together. these
interviews constitute a body of expert
knowledge on piano training. In adj
dition to the technical value of the
book it is brimmed also with the per-
sonality of this and that great artist
in piano music.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-09-05

Grafton. he entrenches securely behind
both politics and the press. Set off
against this full picture of current bust
ness life is the figure of Brent Good,
idealist and reformer. whose panopy
of spiritual forces is as woefully I'M
suited to warfare in a completely ma
teralstic world as would be that of
a medieval armored knight set upon
by the long range of modern artillery.
So. for Brent Good, this is story of
failure. of failure both as Social force
And the worsted fellow dies out of the
unequal and hopeless situation. About
all that he has done is to stir up dis
content in the hearts of the over
contented. And that. perhaps, is the
best that any one person can expect to
do. Half a dozen worth while people
take this story in hand and carry 1t
forward with spirit and consistency to
an open issue. Brent Good, a man to
remember, stands by right at the head
of these. And next to him is Judith.
with her young brother and the cleric
who here comes into a new vision of
the meaning of his particular calling.
1t is barely possible that Mr.. O'Brien
range of material into two stories in
stead of one. But. taken all in all, he
has made well balanced and consist
ent novel, if not a highly focused one,
out Of this broad outlook upon the most
conspicuous features of society as it is
now constituted.
OUR CHINESE CHANCES THROUGH
EUROPES WAR. BY Paul Myron.
Chicago: Linebarger Brothers.
This study of China is addressed spe-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-09-05

sanization has already been effected
here.
Three Drexel Biddle Bible class
homes are now maintained in the
United States. with parlors. dormto
RES, reading rooms and opportunities
for social games and entertainments
music and athletic exercises. The eN
penses for meals. etc. are made eX-
ceedinSly reasonable. while the ser
vice throughout is excellent. At one
OF the summer homes there are thirty
four acres of grounds. with excellent
base ball diamonds. tennis courts. cro-
quet and other facilities for recreation
1t is the intention to open additional
homes as the movement spreads. The
educational work is well planned and
conducted, and in the Philadelphia
district includes an excellent course of
lectures each season. One of the dis
tinctive features of the work of the
organization is a system of intervisita-
ton between classes. which has al
ready done much to promote the broad
spirit of brotherhood and to remove
barriers of prejudice or aloofness which
too long have dwarfed the effective
ness of Christian work.
The encouragement of personal work.
enthusiasm. voluntary service through
love of work, and positive rather than
negative Christianity, are emphasized
in the DreXel Biddle plan and training.
Rallies and banauets held at stated in
tervals in the different churches, with
plenty of good music and inspiring
addresses. have been effective in arous-
ing enthusiasm. and the formidable
conferences" are also of great benefit
The large annual rallies have been
made quite notable affairs number
of city missions are conducted by the
organization at different points, and
open air services in the summer are
feature. The work already inaugural
ed in the District of Columbia contem
plates an employment and boarding
house bureau. city mission activities.
training in helpfulness to strangers
within our gates. and a practical in
terest in civic and public affairs,
The emblem of the DreNel- Biddle
Bible classes is rising sun. typical
of the dawn of the era of universal
brotherhood and the spreading of the
Gospels light. A button bearing the
emblem is furnished for every member.
sold founders button is given to
the teacher of each affiliating class and
also to the member most instrumental
in bringing the class into the organiZa
ton. In addition to bearing the en-
blem, the buttons for the officers have
bars indicating their rank-superin-
tendent, two bars: city director. three
bars: state director. four bars, and SUI
preme director, five bars. Mr.. Biddle is
president of the entire organization and
supreme director. The semi-monthly
Bulletin, which has been edited and
published for several years in Phil
work of the organization. The value
of publicity is recognized. and much
systematic work is done along this
line.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-09-05
Changing America.
From the Chicago Tribune,

From the Chicago lrlpunf'
1t is officially announced that there
are no more abandoned farms" in
, Connecticut.
Probably the same could not yet be
said of Massachusetts, New Hampshire
or Vermont. But one suspects the
dream that has haunted so pleasantly
the city weary professional man or
clerk since the back-to-t Gland ro-
mances first began to appear in tho
popular ma gaines is fading rapidly.
What is repopulating the New Eng
land farm" In Connecticut proba bly,
the automobile is an important agent.
ly inexpensive annihilator OF space
New York and lesser cities in that re-
gion have been brought nearer the
back country. Remote places are now
adjacent to railway points, and BUSY
man can leave his office at the end OF
a long day and be in the hills for dim
ner on the porch.
This does not much help a district
like western Massachusetts, but the
aut omobile is not the only agent of the
restored farm. The agricultural school
is another at least as important. Bet
ter methods make bad farms good,
and acres which the loose extensive
farming of past times had exhausted
are now Welding profitably.
The immi grafton of foreigners whose
living standards are lower than the
natives has been a factor. and perhaps
also the fact that free land in the west
is less plentiful and available is an
other.
The disappearance of the abandoned
farm is a portent of significant change.
The lavish days of the past are to be
succeeded by generations OF a more
thrifty mode America is beginning to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-09-05

those writer's who have most fully held
themselves to the childs attitude of
wonder and delight in the joyousness
and beauty and mystery of spring.
! Here are classic myths and oriental
legends, FOLKLORE from the north and
stories of American aborigines, each,
in the poetic conception of its own time
and place. giving account and explana-
ton of this marvellous event in nature.
And besides these, there is here many a
modern poem and fairy tale bent to
the same end. Among the most beau
tiful of these modern classics is THE
Selfish Giant" by Oscar Wilde, and a
Christ legend by Fiona Macleod, show
ing how the first doves 1.-The Clan of
Peace" became white. and how the
first crows became black. Browning
and Swinburne, Maeterlinck and Low
ell. Henry Van Dyke, Alfred Noyes and
HELEN Keller are among the latter
day writers who have contributed to
the poetry and beauty of the Emerald
story Book"
THIRTY. BY Howard Vincent OBrien.
author of New Men for Old IL
Illustrated by Robert w. Amick. New
York: Dodd, Mead & Co.
Howard O'Brien engages here to fill a
big program. For readers of romance
he provides a love story of modern
quality. For those who chance to be
interested in the more general aspects
of the social drama he stages what is
nowadays here and there looked upon
as the shady methods and Unsuitable
personal greed Of big business. This, in
a good web of vivid and concrete elab-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-09-05

umphs had preceded him and he was
received with high honors. But the
quiet joys of family life into which he
settled down were short lived, for the
first roarings of the French revolution
were being heard.
Lafayette was destined to play an
important part in this revolution. He
was given command of the national
guard, a body of militia organized to
subdue the violent elements of the
populace, which the royal troops were
unable to control In this position he
rose to prominence and soon became
the only one capable of standing effec-
lively between royalty and the mob of
terrorists
1t was he who later saved the king
and queen from the mob outside the
palace at Versailles and through his
personal popularity caused them to he