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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-28
STUDEBAKER SHOWS
 GAIN FOR QUARTER
Largest Business in History of Factory Done in
 Three Months

The first three months of the present year marked the largest quarter in the history of the Studebaker corporation, says Balin Blaine Brownell, of the Brownell Automobile company, Stude- baker and Ford distributors here
 While this is great business, there is every indication that the present quarter will far surpass the previous one, both from the standpoint of pro- duction and the sale of cars.
 Sales of Studebaker cars for the first quarter of the current year. ending March 31, were 16.952 automobiles, as compared with 9400 for the same period a year ago, or an increase of 75 per cent. The completion of the new $1- 100000 factory extensions WIT be a con- siderable factor in enabling Studebaker to increase it's output for the present quarter and the easing up of the freight situation, will permit of shipping of all the cars that can be built.
 With the largest selling organization in it's history, numbering 570O dealers, the problem of distributing this year s record output will be simple one far Studebaker. As an indication of the ef- fort being made to catch up on orders, take care of dealers, and incidentally set a new record for Studebaker during the current quarter, the high water mark of 490 cars shipped in a single day was made.
 With the Brownell Automobile com pany, the Studebaker business is flour ishing and it is improving all the time.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-28
Making Money in Wall Street

Jasper in LeSlie'S.
 The man who makes money in Wall street is the one who finds out things for himself How can he do this in the same way that he calculates the speculative value of anything. from a piece of real estate to tub of butter? Many good housewife will attend a bargain sale" to buy things not ab solutely needed at present, but to put away for future use because they seem to be cheap. Many a man buys a piece of real estate not because he wants to move into the house. but because he thinks, from his Knowledge of 1t and its surroundings. that it will some day bring a high price and yield him a good profit.
 So in the stock market. The success ful men are those who keep their eyes open for opportunities. For instance. when the war opened and the demand for sugar was instantly disclosed by the rise in the price of that commodity. experienced operators of Wall street began to buy American Beet Sugar common. It had sold. when it paid div idends. at over 70 and it had dropped when dividends were suspended to less than one-third of this price. Those who bought it from $30 share up- ward realized handsome profit. for they were able to sell it at twice that figure.
 Other wise and thoughtful forecast CTS picked up the war intuition stocks as soon as the war opened and on all of these can realize handsomely The steel and iron stocks that were in the dumps profited at once by. war or ders, and so did the automobile stocks and the shares of all the concerns which could be profitably turned to- ward the productive field of war manu- factures. Has the rise in all these discounted the prospects for the future? That is the question many are ask :. ing.
 It is not difficult for anyone to ob- tain information regarding the earnings of our great corporations, for these are published with great regularity in the financial columns of the leading daily papers in our great cities and are also referred to in weekly fnan- cial letters which leading stock brokers send out to their customers and which they are willing to supply without charge to those who write for them publish a list of these at the close of my department every week. We often hear that money cannot be made in Wall street. This is true if it refers to those who simply take gamblers chance. but money has been made, is made, and will continue to be made by those who deal in stocks and bonds just as a business man deals in other commodities, that is, with knowl. edge of the values behind them; and values must be predicated largely upon earnings and earning power. This sounds like very elemental lesson in finance. but inauiries from many read CTS prove to me that they seek funda. mentals.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-28
CHANDLER DEALERS RUN OWN.
 CARS OVERLAND
Two Pullman Cars Filled Buyers Who Visit Chand- Ter Factory and Cap
 ture Cars

With a party of 40 dealers and pur- chasers driving 30 new Type '17' Chan dler touring cars and four-passenger roadsters across country from Cleveland to Chicago Thomas J. Hay, Chicago dis tributor for the Chandler company, has gone on record with another of the un- usual things which alert automobile deal CTS are doing these days.
 Like other Chandler dealers, MT. Hay has been selling more cars than he could get from the factory, but he got a nice big bunch of them all at once by arranging this drive away"
 MT. Hay and his party in two special Pullmans arrived in Cleveland Sunday morning, May '. They were met by Chandler company officials and depart ment head, breakfasted at Hotel Statler and taken immediately to the factory, where their cars, resplendant with Chan dler banners, were awaiting them. The cars made a most attractive showing in the tour through the city.
 The Chicago tourists made the run to Toledo in tue afternoon and into Chicago the following day, attracting great att tention all along the line.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-28

churches and any others of sufficient ar tistic value to warrant restoration, and inasmhuch as private individuals are en- titled to indemnities for damages to their property, it Is suggested that the other churches should likewise be indemnified.
 Churchgoers have on this question the support of all admirers of the old arch lecture of which the best specimens are becoming rare There is a strong element in France that still resists the idea that decorative art may be preserved inde- pently of architecture. This element Is alarmed at the prospect of the demol- ished edifices of the fourteenth fifteenth and sixteenth centuries being replaced by modern construction.
 Groups of architects and builders have been formed and even syndicates organ ized to prepare a programme for the res toration of churches and other buildings in the war zone. Most of the plans pro- posed are inspired by the puresr modern ism in which the practical and the tech meal predominate over the artistic and the sentimental. This tendency IS what the chufchgoer and the art lover are try ing to overcome proposing where the question of economy enters into consd- eration the construction of cheap provi- sional chapels to serve until the time when the churches may be restored in the full sense of the term.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-28
DIETER REMAIN
 W|THUN|TEDSTATES
Japanese Think Best Inter- ests of Philippines Would
 Be Thus Served

Tokio, May -(Correspondence of The Associated Press .)-Japanese jour nals which commented on the bill be- fore the American congress granting eventual independence to the Philippine Islands generally express the opinion that the best interests of the Filipinos would be served by remaining under the rule of the United States
 The Jiji thinks that independence for the Philippines might serve to remove suspicion of Japan held by some people in the United States, but doubts whether independence would be of real benefit to the islanders. It points out that the Filipinos have been enjoying progress and prosperity to a considera ble degree under American admnistra- tion, and is inclined to feel that it may be too early to give them independence. The journal concludes with the opinion that it would be of permanent benefit to the islanders to remain under Amer ican rule.
 An apparent contradiction is found by the Tokio Nichi Nichi to exist be- tween the expansion or armaments by the United States and the independence to be given to the Philippines within a period not shorter than two years and not longer than four years. It had understood that the question of the Philippines and the importance of pro- tecting American interests on the Pa cific were the principal reasons for eff fecting an expansion of the American navy The paper thinks that the reason for Americas expansion of ar maments must now be sought else- where than in the importance attached to the protection of American interests in the Pacific, and is inclined to the view that inasmuch as the war in Eu- rope has damaged the trade interests of the United States the projected ex- pansion must be interpreted as a pro- lection of American interests on the Atlantic ocean.
 The Osaka Asahi expresses the opn-
 ion that the Philippine Islands would be a seat of anarchy the ntoment the last American warship with the American soldier disappeared from the horizon.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-28
S|RPARln9S|NGH
 BACK IN TRENCHES
Aged Indian Warrior Insists Upon Returning to West
  ern Front

London, May -(Special)-Sir Partab Singh, famous soldier of India, wants to die in the trenches, if he has to die, and although the Indian troops have gone from France to other fighting zones, Sir Partab has returned to the western front at his own request. This veteran Indian fighter, Il years of age, comes of the mighty Rajput warriors and since youth he has followed the life of soldier. In England he is considered one of the best of Indian officers, and also a fine example of Indian loyalty to the King and En- pire. An Indian writer in one of Londons newspapers has told the story of Sir Par tab:
 Tt was no new policy for his highness when, in spite of all efforts to dissuade him from doing so, on account of his great age, he elected, on the present oc- casion and in 1914, when the Indians were first sent to Europe, to brave the hard ships of campaign life. Thirty eight years ago, when he was quite young man, he went to Kabul as a member of the mis- sion that was sent there. Nineteen years later he accompanied the Mohmand ex- petition as extra aide-de-camp to Gen
 
 same capacity with General Lockhart in the Tirah campaign on the Indian north west frontier. While serving in the last campaign he received a wound in his hand, which fact with his characteristic stoicism, he hid from everybody until the general noticed it and ordered the doctor to attend to it-just in time to avoid blood poisoning
 When the Indian troops were being sent to assist in queling the Boxer rebel lion in China, Sir Partab' persuaded Lord Curzon, then viceroy and governor general of India, to let hlm accompany the expeditonary force. There was no precedent for member of an Indian ruI- ing family having crossed the ocean to fight for Britain, and Lord Curzon did not wish to expose our Maharajas to the perils of foreign service. Sir Partabs earnestness and determination, however, would not be denied 16 years ago any more than they could be denied in 1914. While serving in China the Maharaja learned to hate the Prusslans. who went out of their way to treat his highness and other Indian rulers as 'coolies.'
 Sir Partab is as good an administra- tor as he is a soldier His administrative genius has been demonstrated by the work that he did in Jodhpur--which by the way is a state more than three times the size of Belgium and has about as many inhabitants as Denmark-during his two terms of regency and another as prime minister of that state. His rule over Idar, state in the Bombay presi- dency. POGO square miles in area, extend ing from 1902 to 1911, was also progressive and enlightened He voluntarily abdi- catedl the gadi (throne) of Idar in favor of his adopted son, in order to assume the regency of Jodhpur'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-28
No Music For the Monk

From the Pittsburg Chronicle-Te Telegraph.
 Handicapped, but undaunted, the &C., tors in the touring "drammer" were do- ing their best but their efforts were spoiled by the rude comments of small boy at the back of the nan
 At last, after some of his best scenes had been spoiled, the hero missed melo- dramatically: pN9NNEa
 Ladies and Gentlemen: Five years ago I lost monkey. Tonight it has turned up again at the rear of the hall.''
 The applause and laughter which greeted this brilliant sally had hardly died away when the voice of the in- sulter was heard to ask blandly:
 What did you do with the organ?"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-28
MT. Bate is Done

John w. Bates work now seems done. He says he has reached his limit, in the factory and the car. He would never permit us to mention his efforts until they reached this completion.
 With all these things together, the Mid Year Mitchell is an interesting sight. No motor car lover should miss it. It has all that men know to make car handsome, enduring and complete. Your Mitchell dealer will show you a hundred perfections you never have thought of, perhaps.
 Go see this model Then ride in it, put it through hard tests, and watch the car perform.
 MITCHELL-LEWIs MOTOR co.
 Racine, Wis.,, U. s. A.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-28
Conversational Cut-Ins

From the COrnelI WldoW.
 And the minister says, my poor man. he says, why was you begging for money in the street?" he says, and the bum he looks at i'm and he says, Y was inpeFson- ating a suit of clothes, sir, just like that ''
 What did he mean fmpersonetipg . suit of clothes?'
 Well, he said he was pressed fer . quarter D
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-28
I LANDLORDS COME DOWN

Finally this talk grew so insistent and looked so like being translated
 into drastic action that the landlords climbed down a few days ago-not very gracefully or cheerfully it is true-and intimated to the government that they would not object to some measures of sacred law of contracts was not in- ment is about to introduce a measure giving the courts power to reverse or vary pre-war contracts in cases where the conditions of military service rem der them onerous for either party. Of course this is only half measure and lit does not touch the root of the evil, but it is a long step in advance and it is the first breach in the landlord s position for centuries.
 An effort is also about to be made to remove the landlord from his position as preferred creditor and to secure for the tenant some protection for his household goods. In most of the Amer ican states household effects up to q substantial amount are exempt from distraint for debt, and the landlord is just in the same position as the butcher or the grocer or any other creditor. There is no such exemption in England, and a landlord may strip his tenant who happens to fall into arrears for rent of all except the clothes he and his family stand up in. The only ex emption is that a workingman may keep the tools of his trade. but there is no protection for the middle-clas man from the rapacity of his landlord
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-28
THOMAS DIXON NOW
 DRIVES OVERLAND
Author is Riding About Pic ture Studios in New
 Model

Thomas Dixon, author of ''The Victim, y ''The Southerner'' '"The Leopard's Spots, ''The Fall of Nation,'' but best known as the author of ''The Clansman," which furnished D. w. Griffith, motion picture producer, the basis of his famous Birth of a Nation," is now riding around the motion picture Rialto in Los Angeles and adjacent cities in brand new Overland Model S6.
 MT. Dixon is now a resident of Los Angeles. He has erected a studio of his own and will produce a number of his own novels in picture form.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-28
The Day the Nurse Left

From the Illinois Siren
 Mother (whose husband was sick with trained nurse)-What are you doing, children? Don't you know it isn't nice, Tommy to kiss your sister that way?"
 Tommy-I know, mamma but shes playing nurse.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-28
Easily Fixed

From the Kansas City Journal.
 'sAn apple day keeps the doctor away. And what will you do doctor, when your business is gone?"
 Guess I'll hedge,' replied the unper- turbed medico. Just invest in orchards"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-28
Impossible
From Puck.

The minister, not being acquainted with the family, was uncertain how to work out the obituary. Waiting for the hereaved widow, he piled his questions to Johnny. "Ah my boy, perhaps you can tell me what were your fathers last ords?"
 "He didn't have no last words'' said Johnny. Ma stayed with him to the end"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-28
Too Long

From Exchange.
 Toward the end of a tiresomely iong play an actor came on in a prison scene and began picking at the walls of his cell with an iron bar. Pausing and wip- ing his brow, he said:
 ''Ths will take years.'
 Good night" said the youth in the gall lery. e y4II
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-28
26 Extras Free

This Mid-Year Mitchell has 26 unique features. Each is an extra which all motorists want. But in other cars they cost an extra price.
 These include power tire pump, re- versible headlights, light in the tonneau, alocked compartment, cantilever springs, an extra-cost carburetor. You will find in this Mitchell, at, no extra price, 26
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-28

<. .g.,I If you saw this Mid Year Mitchell without knowing the facts, you would say that such a car at our price is impossible. For it underse1ls any other car of its size and power and grade.
 Then you might say when you saw all the extras that some where we had skimped. So we to tell you of John w. Bate to giv' a right conception.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-28
We Have Saved 5O%

Years ago, John w. Bate, the eff ciency engineeer, was brought to this organization.
 As an efficiency genius he stands at the top in the metal-working lines.
 He has built here model efficiency plant. He has equipped it with thou sands of time saving machines. Now it represents an investment of $5, ,OO0.O00
 He has, in this way, cut our factory costs in two. We are building the Mitchell for less than a like car would cost anywhere else in the world.
 And all of our extras - beauties, luxuries and conveniences are paid for through factory savings.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-28
UP IN PARLIAMENT

The matter was raised in Parliament and at first the mere suggestion that the landlord should forego any of his vested rights was received with horror. The old cry about the widow with her little all invested in small house prop erty, and the workingman with his savings similarly employed, was raised. As matter of fact the proportion of such landlords is infinitesimal The great bulk of the house property in England is held by great estates or by companies.
 The married men, however, contin- ued their demand for information, and in the meantime declined to enlist in the required numbers, and those who had attested began to say things about having been roped into the army by false pretenses. Members of Parlia- ment like Sir Alfred Mond, a great capitalist, who cannot DC accused of socialistic 1eanings, began to ask why the landlord class alone should be pro- tected in the enjoyment of their full
 income during the war, and to point out that other business men had been forced to give up all sorts of trade by the war conditions and had done so without a murmur. Others pointed to the example of France and Germany where the serving soldier enjoys rent moratorium from the day he is called up, and still others began to talk in a nasty way about the greed of the land lords
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-28

wanted to know what was going to be done about his insurance policy and his other commitments
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-28

such attractions which other cars omit. These make the Mitchell, in those 26 ways, the most complete car on exhibit.
 257 Cars in One
 You will find here also all the best new ideas brought out in 257 Show models.
 This Mid-Year Mitchell was complet- Ned after the NewYork Shows. And it em- bodies in one car all the new touches which proved themselves attractive. Every new-model car has some of them. The Mitchell has them all.
 So you will see here the most up-to- date car that's out.
 Lifetime Service
 Mr. Bates idea is that cars should last like watches. That is another side to his efficiency.
 He has studied the Mitchell part by
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-28

part, to attain simplicity, light ness and strength. He has made in the car over 700 improvements.
 In each part he insists on a big margin of safety. But he gets it by using Chrome-Vana- dium steel. By using drop forg- ings and tough stamped steel
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-28

There are 44O such parts in the Mitchell.
 One Bate-built Mitchell, as result, has run 218,734 miles. Six of them have averaged 164,372 miles each-over 30 years of ordinary service. There are no other like records in Motordom.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-28
All 1916 Attractions Combined in One Car-Plus % Extra Features

This Mid Year Mitchell, in its new
 ideas and its extras, shows you one result of efficiency. All this added value is due to John w. Bate, who has cut our factory costs in two.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1916-05-04

where, under the marvellous system Of
military training, a fifth of a million
of the finest soldiers in Europe were
placed on the frontiers of their coun-
try to guard them before the first
shots at Liege had died down, you get
it driven into your American mind
that compulsory military training is
not intended to create soldiers. It's
purpose is to create a nation of fine
strong young men and hale, hearty
old men who will know how to be sol
diers if an enemy forces them to play
that role. The Swiss aren's fussy;
they don't love fighting. All these
years Of learning how to be soldiers,
if the need comes, has taught them
: that fighting is no picnic and that it
| doesn't pay to start row just for
the sake of rowing. The Swiss are
not a fighting nation, like the Serbs,
for instance and yet, man for man,
the Swiss army is the equal of any
army in the world. Every citizen in
the ever fighting Balkans is sol
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1916-05-04

United States doesn't need 100000
soldiers. What it Does need is 1900
900 men who know how to Be soldiers,
in case the need arises.
II had boy in college" wrote the
father of young British soldier. Zone
day he ran off and enlisted in a Lon
don foot regiment. After three
months training his regiment was
sent to Flanders. He was killed at
Ypres. am telling you this to help
you preach the gospel of compulsory
training, not CONSUMPTION. II am
grieved and proud about my boy. But
| feel that his regiment did not have
sporting chance. They only knew
HOW TO GO AND DIE. l feel that
the men in England who oppose COM
pulsory military training are guilty of
greater felony than those who sank
the Lusitania" This is the sort of
feeling l find, this feeling expressed
by this father, that brought about
compulsory military training in
Switzerland. Here in Switzerland
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1916-05-04

many questions regarding this strange
phenomenon, that it finally decided
to lay the matter before local astron-
omers. One said it was caused by a
Zeppelin. But we fail to see why Yep
pelin should wish to visit Grand Rap
ids, the only powder we are aware Of
in this city, is that on sale at the
drug stores for the ladies. Another
thought is was star bomb such as is
used in the European battle1ields at
night to light up the trenches for night
attacks. Still another said it was the
trail of a Fokker aeroplane carrying
/ incendiary bombs for dropping on
powder plants in this state. Another
said that the sun had gotten mixed up
and was feeling bad for not shining
more during April and came out by
mistake. Another remarked he thot
it was one of the "arrive late" variety
of the male population who was Hlit
up" and was having trouble locating
the keyhole, SO used pocket search
light rejecting the rays ON the SKY.