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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-20
NATIONAL PARTY

One of the enjoyable social events of the past week was the National party, given in the basement of the Ensley Highlands Presbyterian church, by the members of the Ladies' Aid society, and was participated in by about 150 persons. The affair was rather unique in its nature. the at- tendants paying an admission fee of IA cents. Tables draped in the narlonal colors of America, Ireland and Ger many were presided over by Mrs. Bert Simpson, Mrs. Newbold and Mrs. Lam inert, each being costumed in keeping with the styles of the country rep resented. On each of the tables was placed a china pig, to be filled with pennies by those present. Mrs. c. c. Burke served as banker in an fm- provised booth. changing money into pennies, with which the pigs were fiat tened" and at the close of the even ing the German pig carried off the honors
 The room was made very attrac- tive with lavish use of bunting and flags and musical programme was given under the efficient directorship of John X. Thomas Among the num- bers, the national hymns of different countries were given. Miss Mamie Belle Parsons of Union Springs gave a vocal selection, and appropriate read- ings were given by Mrs J. A. Dupuy and Mrs. s. L. Morrow.
 The evening was concluded by the serving of salad course, each plate bearing a small American flag.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-20
NOT FAULT OF ALLIES

1EVm Edkc Ohey Germans had no fear of any such shortage.
 NOT FAULT OF ALLIES
 If the deficiency in imported milk has not been made up, it is not our fault. As matter of fact, Germany confesses that 1t has been made up. The Cologne Gazette of January 4 states that an investigation of the health of 2500 school children in Goet- tingen shows their health perhaps to be even better than in peace times Germany is touched on all sides by the greatest milk producing countries in Europe and it is idle to contend that she is not still getting supplies from these sources. In fact, we know that Switzerland is sending milk to Germany.
 Last of all, we must consider the question of fodder. Of course, cotton seed cake and similar imports have been stopped, but we have good ground for believing that this shortage has been met by the slaughter of bulls, leaving a larger proportion of fod- der to supply cows; and, moreover, Germany has reaped vast crops of ce- reals. The resultant fodder, added to what she removed from Belgium and hOA thOAii dilu OInGr occupied territories. has gone far to compen- sate for any deficiency due to our blockade. To this may be added the fact that Germany sent enormous herds of cattle to be actually pas tured in northern France and the Ger man chancellor has promised the Reichstag, to take the same action in Belgium.
 Germany had the effrontery to in- clude in her appeals for milk distress ing descriptions of the shortage of milk in Poland. What can be thought of this when we, find published in Aus trian papers the particulars of large imports of milk from Russian Poland to Austrian territory-imports so large that the municipality of Cracow alone is getting 1000 litres daily from Rus sian Poland
 T have been unable to find any evidence of honesty in the German claims that their babies are suffering for the lack of milk The whole agi- tation is wholly a political move de- signed to discredit us with philan- thropic Americans"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-20
ONE PERSON KILLED IN SOUTHERN WRECK
 AT GREENSBORO, N. c.
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tCOntInucu rom Page One) N C., arm broken and cut about head. Miss Ethel Johnson of Jamestown, foot crushed and injured about the head
 ARM BROKEN
 Miss Charlie Mae Criddlebaugh of High Point, N C., arm broken
 J. l.. Stout. Greensboro, leg broken Numerous other passengers received in- Juries of less serious nature
 Train No 43 had just left Jamestown and was running at reduced speed when a car of freight train running on a parallel track, but in the opposite di- rection, left the tracks and crashed into it
 The heavy steel baggage car resisted the impact, but the next car, passenger coach, was crushed. Several other freight cars, including an oil tanker, piled on top of the wreckage. which covered a 300-foot area.
 None of the trainmen was injured so far as known tonight and no cause has been assigned for the accident
 Mrs. Hyatt died an hour after arriving at hospital at High Point
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-20
HUNTSVILLE

Huntsville, March 19-(Special.)--T state, district and county farm demon stration agents of the northern half of Alabama will hold convention in Hunts vile Tuesday and Wednesday of this eek to map out their plan of caEpagn for the coming season, and incidentally to instruct the farmers how to combat the cotton boil weevil. MT. Saverly, general field agent for Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia and Florida. will be in attend ance, and there will be dairy expert and cattle-rasing expert from Washing ton to deliver addresses. State Demon stration Agent ]. T. Watt of Montgomery will preside at the meeting.
 The Huntsville lodge of Elks have elect ed Clarendon Davis, prominent banker and farmer, as exalted ruler for the ensuing year. The other officers are Alex Hum mel, esteemed leading knight; Joseph J. Bradley, Jr., esteemed loyal knight; Quincy B. Love, esteemed lecturing knight; H. C. Pollard. secretary; Claud Davis, treasurer; Walter Hummel, tiler; Joseph J. Bradley. Sr., trustee for three years; Paul Monroe, representative to the grand lodge.
 Practically every one of the conductors of the Memphis division of the Southern railway and a majority of the engineers have received copies of q letter written by President Fairfax Harrison, announc- ing that medals will be presented to al employees who have been in the service ol the company continuously for 25 years.
 The New York Yankees of the American league bringing about B baseball players will play an exhibition game on the Mer rimacS grounds near here on March p Home Run Baker and Lee McGhee vii. be among those present.
 i Mrs Mollie Hall, aged i5 years. diet at her residence in Merrimack yesterda, afternoon after long illness with tuber cuosis She is survived by one son Louis Hall
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-20
DYESTUFF TARIFF

German dyestuffs have been held up as an example of the new lines of industry that could be taken up in this country after the war, The truth is-and a great many republican editorial writers have lost sight of this-the Underwood bill did not lower the tariff on dyestuff. Neither did the Payne-Aldrich bill raise it. The present rate of 30 per cent was the rate In the old Dingley bill and has never been altered We did not touch it at all. If the republicans think it is too low, why did they not raise it in the Payne bill? The facts are that they would not raise it today even if MT. Mann himself were in the White House. I am sure of that.
 '"The reason for Germanys supremacy in the dyestuff industry is not tariff reason, or labor reason, in the ordinary sense, but is due to their system of edu- cation. They have a greater proportion of young men educated in the line of chemistry than we have, and chemists are one of the chief requirements of the dye stuff business. Germany has a surplus of chemists, so far as the high-salaried positions are concerned, and you can hire any grade of chemist cheaper there than here. This condition could not be changed by any tariff provision. In order to keep out all foreign competition in that line it would be necessary to have rate so high as to work needless hardship on many of our own manufacturers who are using dy estuffs.
 Another feature missed by those high tariff advocates who would perpetrate an economic scare is this:
 After the war the countries that have ceased fighting will follow the line of least resistance in marketing their goods. We will be about the last country that they will want to compete with on our own ground If they sell to us they must first mount our tariff wall which yu-n o1x .1o Even though that wall is comparatively low, they will prefer to face our competi- tion first in South America and other places where we must pay the same tariff that they do and meet them on an equal basis.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-20
ST. JOSEPH'SD DAY
 A B|G SUCCESS
The Life of St. Joseph Was Portrayed by a Cast of
 Fifty People

The celebration of St. Joseph's Day which was held yesterday afternoon ta the State Fairgrounds, was attended by very large crowd and the cere- monies were very impressive. The eel ebration was given under the auspices of the several societies of the St. Jo- seph's Italian Catholic church of this city and was carried out in excellent manner. Italians from all over the Birmingham district attended the eel ebration, as well as a large number of Americans, and the affair was very much enjoyed. A parade through the principal streets, headed by the T. c. I. band, under the direction of Prof. S. Costa, was held in the early part of the evening. After the parade reached dressed in historical costumes, DOT trayed the Life of St. Joseph" which was very impressive. Those taking the principal characters played their parts exceedingly well, and the entire pro gramme was carried out as follows:
 Pprelude-"The Protection of God in the Flight of St. Joseph Into Egypt"
 Part 1-"The Reunion of St. Joseph and His Brothers
 Part 2-"The Dream of St. Joseph With Hazy Appearance of Angels"
 Part 3-"The Assault on St Joseph, with the Appearance Of the Angel Gabriel"
 Part 4--"The Sorrow of Benigno."
 Part 5-"The Signing of the Angels at Cena"
 Following the programme a dance was given. which was attended by a large crowd and very enjoyable time was had. The celebration yesterday was one of the largest that the ItaI- fans have ever held in this district and was very elaborate and impress sive.
 G. H. Gillian, residing at 56 Highland avenue, Pratt City, reported to the Ensley police department yesterday morning that his residence had been entered Saturday night and SLY in cash and several suits of clothing stolen. The money was in Mr. Gillians clothes which were on a chair beside his bed and was in four s20 bills, two $10 bills and the rest in silver. Detectives are working on the case
 The members of the four bands of the Ensley Baptist church will hold their regular meetings this afternoon at o'clock as follows: The Highland, with Mrs. J. W. McCarty, on Jefferson avenue; The Builders,s with Mrs. c. T. Thomasson, 1T25 Avenue G; The WorK- CTS, with Mrs. P. A. Eubank, 2114 Ave nue G, and The Helpers, with Mrs. E. P. Steele, 2609 Avenue H. All mem bers are requested to be present
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-20
Masked Bandit Busy

San Diego, March 19.-A masked bandit early tonight held up two au- tomobile stages less than a half mile this side of the Mexican border. robbed all of the passengers. number ing about 30, and escaped. Posses un- der the direction of United States inn migration officers are searching the nearby hills for the desperado, but it is believed he crossed the line and is hiding near the Mexican town of Tijuana
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-20

ucHOcfauc vote.
 HEMENWAY HOPEFUL
 There is every reason to believe that Indiana is republican in it's trend" said Senator Hemenway Tn the recent pri- maries, the republican candidate for gov- ernor received 50,000 more votes than the democratic and progressive candidates together. In the senatorial contests, the republican vote was 25O00 in excess of the democratic vote. And in the presi- dential contests, 2O,000 more votes were cast for Fairbanks than for Wilson
 Tn 1912 in Elkhart county, there were 6G,0Oc progressive votes. In that county, in the recent primary, the progressive candidate received 66. This is strong proof that the progressives have welded themselves again with the old line re publicans.''
 The senator declared that in his opinion. Governor Ralston will appoint Tom Tag gart senator to succeed the late Senator Shively.
 Governor Dunne. who conferred today with Senator Lewis over plans to secure the permission of the war department for the state of Illinois to build a canal which would complete direct waterway from | the lakes to the gulf. talked politics with local correspondents He was positive 1 in his belief that Illinois would remain faithful to democracy.
 T can see no reason why republicans
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-20
PICKPOCKET STEALS STEELE'S POCKETBOOt

J. $. Steele, employed at the loca
 office of the Southern Express con,s pany, reported to the detective departs ment last night the theft of SIP fro,A hls person Saturday. MT. Steele state
 that when he left the Southern Ex, press company's office Saturday nigl+ he had the above amount in a pockr etbook in his back pocket. When hI' arrived home he discovered that someu one had gone into his pocketbool anl. got his money. The thief, after getA ting the money, put the pocketboou back in MT. Steele's pocket |
 At first he thought that frienf had played joke on him and woul5 return the money yesterday, but aS no one offered him his money yestelx day he decided to report the matte,, to the police.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-20
UNDERWOOD SAYS
 HIGH TARIFF TALK
 PURELY POLITICAL
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purely political rather than economic ar gument. After the Underwod tariff went into effect there failed to come that flood of foreign goods and the disa ster that re- publican politico-optimists had predicted. Then the war came and the republican explanation of things was The demo- cratic tariff bill would have been disas- trous except for the war, which shut off foreign competition
 Looking at the matter solely from a tariff angle, the war did us much more political harm than good. It shut off foreign competition somewhat. but there
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-20
Mrs. M. A. Armstrong

Funeral services over the remains < Mrs. M. A. Armstrong, aged 76, wi died Saturday afternoon at o'clock at local infirmary, were conducted from til Fifth Avenue Presbyterian church vel terday afternoon at o'clock InterneI followed in Oak Hill cemetery. The Rfl J. M. Broadly officiated. She is survive by three daughters. Mrs. A. H. Maxfielt Mrs. L. R. Sabiston and Mrs. Carl Spec and son, Leon Armstrong.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-20
Business Council

The business council of the Chamber of Commerce will be organized tomorrow afternoon at the chamber at o'clock. President Bush will preside at the meet ing, which will he attended by the dele- gates from all the divisions, about 30 in number. A smoker and brief social ses- sion will be held in connection with the meeting.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-20
NINE PERSONS WERE
 KILLED IN AIR RAID
 OVER COAST OF KENT
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carried out a raid on that place were attacked at sea by a French machine before reaching the coast. The seaplanes. however, arrived over the town and dropped number of bombs, one of which killed a man and four children
 So far as can be ascertained, the other Ramsgate casualties total one woman and eight children slightly wounded.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-20
Homer Hayes

Funeral services over the remains Homer Hayes, aged 21, who died SatuI Second avenue, East Lake, were con
 ducted from the East Lake Methodii church yesterday afternoon at oclocl with interment in Elmwood cemetery. Fl is survived by his parents. MT. arE Mrs T. w. Hayes, brother and a siS
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-20

Ut was the object of the Underwood bill to provide not a prohibitive tariff but d revenue tariff You know, If you were to start moving picture show and charge $3 a seat. you probably could not pay expenses, but at 10 cents a seat you might take in enough dimes to show a good profit. We could have put the sched- ules so high as to keep all foreign goods out of the market. but that would have brought no revenue and necessitated rais- ing money in other ways-the very thing that the republicans are now criticizing us for doing.
 We have heard a great deal about the opportunity for building up new lines of trade. provided capital can be encouraged by high protective tariff against com petition with a flood of cheap labor abroad after the war. This line of argu- ment seems to be based on the theory that we would suddenly build new fac tories dedicated to the purpose of car ing for lines of trade that formerly Re- longed to the countries now at war As matter of fact, our taking on this foreign business is, of course, gradual evolu- ton. We do not suddenly start a new machine shop to sell machinery where Germany or France sold it before, but shop already in operation increases it's output, or its quarters, and goes after the new business
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-20
THE BIRMINGHAM AGE-HERAID, MONDAY, MARCH 2o 1916

Later | was removed to the union depot where was operator for nearly year. For nine years l was train dispatcher at Knoxville. and for three years was chief dispatcher of the Knoxville division. Later was promoted to the position of trsinmaster of the same division remain ing for three years before being trans ferred to Selma as superintendent came to Birmingham as superintendent more than six years ago. and was made general superintendent of the southern division la st wear
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-20
q. w. Thompson Bennie

Funeral services over the remains G. w. Thompson Bennie, the infant s' of MT. and Mrs. l.. A. Bennie, who di Saturday night at g o'clock at their hon 1201 Third street, west, were conduct from the residence at 3 o'clock yeste day afternoon. Interment followed Elmwood cemetery.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-20
ISSUE STATEMENT

Washington, March 19--The Southern ral'way issued a statement tonight on the wreck at Jamestown, N. C., in which list of 19 injured persons was given. Several had broken limbs and nearly all of them were cut about the face and hands. No cause for the accident was given.
 All the injured were residents of North Carolina.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-20
Russian Minister Resipns

London, March 1s-An imperial ukase announces the resignation of Alexi. Khvos, Russian minister of the interior, according to Reuter- dispatch from Pet rograd. Premier Sumner Is assigned the portfolio, assuming it's duties in addition to those of the premiership.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-20
Deaths and Funerals
Mrs. Mary J. Chambers

Funeral services over the remains ( Mrs. Mary J. Chambers aged G5, wll died Saturda morning at her late res dence, 11o6 Thirteenth street. soutl after an illness of several months, wel conducted from the residence yesterda afternoon at 3:30 o'clock. Interment fo lowed in Elmwood cemetery. The Re A. J. Bryan officiated. The deceased survived by her husband, George VI Chambers; daughter, Mrs. W. $. Petit son, G. Eugene Chambers. and severa grandchildren
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-20
Mrs. Anna Gordon

Funeral services over the remains { Mrs. Anna Gordon, aged 69, who die Thursday night at the family residenc 2209 Avenue F, were conducted from tf residence yesterday afternoon at o'clock with interment in Elmwod cent tery. The deceased is survived by he husband and two daughters.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-20

should be elated. In my state, there is prosperity, in the first place In the second place, the administration has the support of the people in parcticalls- ali of it's policies There is universal satis- faction in that we have been at peace with honor, and everybody applauds the present hunt for the bandit, Villa.
 REPUBLICANS INTERESTED
 "All Illinois democrats are for Wilson and the Interest among republicans, as d result of keener rivalry in their camp. is greater Therefore. 1 would not be surprised if the republican vote In the primaries is larger thansthe democratic. This would not be significant, for in the recent municipal election, the demo- crats made great headway even over their previous successes.
 Governor Dunne declared that the re- publicans of Illinois were giving Senator sherman of that state sincere support in his candidacy for the presidential nomi- nation
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-20
TO YIELD REVENUE

was no danger from that source. The gl eat trouble was that 1t shut off vast amount of tariff revenue.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-20
GROWTH IN EQUIPMENT

NheO " IN I-tII1I
 During the time I have been with the road have seen the size of the locomo- lives increased from 20 tons until we
 put on the present giant engines of 135 1 tons Every mile Of roadbed on the entire system has been rebuilt and re
 laid several times since l have been in the service. The size of the rails has | been increased from the old 56-pound rail to the present S5-pounders The car yying capacity of freight cars has been doubled, and every other part of the present equipment has been improved in proportion to the changes in the locopo- tives. Block systems have been installed. thereby enabling the operation of trains more safely and at much greater speed.
 The air brake has been placed on all trains to take the place of the old method of hand6 brakes. It has not been so long since the sight of brakeman on freight train running rom car to car was familiar to everyone. The old coupling pin has been banished from the road and the present automatic coupler has come into general use. The sight of a single loco- motive hauling train with 1200 or more tons of freight is so common now we think nothing of it, but such feat years ago would have seemed like dream. ln- stead of the little light wooden passenger coaches drawn by a dinky engine, wei now have the solid steel trains, vestibuled, ccmmodious and comfortable drawn by giant engine at a rapid speed, but far more safely than in the past. There has been wonderful decrease in the percent age of accidents during the past 20 years.
 SLEEPING CAR CHANGES
 Although the roads operated some sleeping cars or Pulmans when started to work for the line but few people ever rode in them unless they were going a very great distance. Even then, only the rich travelled in sleeping cars The aver age man had never been inside of one. The first train of vestibuled coaches oper- ated through Tennessee was what is now the Alabama Great Southern Nos and which runs through Birmingham. The vestibule feature made such an impress sion on the people that the train was known as The Vestibule'' and to this day that is the only way these trains are designated in that section.
 "The Southern Railway. as it now ex- ists, was formed in 1894 by the combining of 102 independent roads throughout the south and the south Atlantic seaboard. 1 Every president of the line has been a 1 southern man and the road is largely l operated by people born in the south. l Samuel Spencer was the first president, l serving until 1906, when he was killed in | North Carolina in railway accident. | William Finley was the next executive, l being succeeded by the present chief ex- ecutive of the line. Fairfax Harrison" |
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-20
PREDICTIONS VARY AMONGST SEERS OF
 POLITICAL CAMPS
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HEMENWAY HOPEFUL

preaching primary be larger than thu democratic vote.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-20
MILK FOR BABIES OF
 GERMANY THE MOST | DISHONEST GAME OF
 OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-20

Mrs, Molie Hall, aged io years, diet at her residence in Merrimack yesterda. afternoon after long illness with tuber culosis. She is survived by one son Louis Hall. ss
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-06-06
RESOLUTION

OF MAYOR AND
COMMISSIONERS OF THE CITY
OF ARDMORE, OKLAHOMA, DE
CLARING THE NECESSITY OF
IMPROVING THAT PORTION OF
"D' STREET SOUTHWEST FROM
THE NORTH LINE OF THIRD
AVENUE, SOUTHWEST, TO THE
SOUTH LINE OF WEST MAIN
STREET: ALSO STANLEY BOU-
LEVARD FROM THE EAST LINE
OF "F" STREET SOUTHWEST
TO THE WEST OF &c" STREET,
SOUTHWEST, IN THE CITY OF
ARDMORE, OKLAHOMA.
BE IT RESOLVED BY THEqMAYOR
AND COMMISSIONERS OF THE
CITY OF ARDMORE, OKLAHOMA:
That the mayor and commissioners
deem it necessary to improve that
norton of "D" street southwest