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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-04
Cloudburst Claims Over 60
 Lives in North Tennessee
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ing washed for five miles among drift wood. Two of Edmonds' children were found alive on drift timber three miles from home Edmonds said he was awak- ened at 8 o'clock this morning by the roaring flood. Water was all around his house, and a foot deep on the floor. Be- fore he could awaken his family the building was moved from it's foundation and started floating down the stream Edmonds said the creek was full of drift wood and other debris and that he does not know how he got out of the building, or how he was piled on the bank The other dead are:
 \ Robert Johnson and his wife.
 Mrs. D. c. Edmonds, her four children and two grand children.
 The Misses Lillie and Minnie Wiley, daughters of MT. and Mrs. S. H. Wiley of Monroe, Mich.
 Bush Ferguson his wife and seven chill dren.
 w. P. Zachery, his wife and five children
 Rescue parties returning from the strick- en district report that the water is all over the little valley of Blair's creek and that apparently every home along the creek for a distance of six miles has been washed away. Some estimate that the death list may reach 50.
 Rescue parties that went into the val ley today brought out a number who have been made homeless and these are being taken care of in Tazewell and in farmhouses in that vicinity.
 Some of the SurViVors fell fhrilltne tales of escape, but others say that the water came upon them during the night and that before they had time to flee their homes were floating away.
 Rescue parties stayed in the valley to- night with the expectation that they could start work in earnest in the morn ing If the waters began to recede.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-04
'OUSTED MAYOR|S IS
 WINNER IN SHELBY
Crump Nominated for Coun- ty Trustee in Tennessee
 City by Big Vote

Memphis, August 3.-Returns tonight
 from the democratic primary held in Shel- | by county indicate that E. H. Crump l Harry Litty. The Crump vote tonight was placed at S170 and Litty's vote at | e55o. Unusual interest attached to the contest for trustee, owing to the fact that custer proceedings brought against Crump several months ago resulted in his deposition as mayor after six years as
 head of the city government.
 Other candidates for county offices who
 were elected today and who are desig-
 mated Crump candidates, are M. G. Tate. sheriff, and w. B. Weiseger, county as- l sessor. Judge D. B. Puryear was elected to the first division of the crim'llal court to succeed Judge Jesse Edgington, impeached recently by the state senate on bribery charges. B. l.. Capell was elected circuit court judge to fill the unexpired term of the late Judge Walter
 Malone. T. w. Harsh was elected to fill an unexpired term in the second division of the criminal court The latter two had no opposition.
 Returns from the Eighth congressional district indicate that Congressman Thetus w. Sims has won renomination over Dud- ley Porter, while Congressman Finis J.. Garrett has been successful over J. D. Senter in the Ninth congressional dis trict. All are democrats.
 The proposition for calling a constitu- tional convention met with much favor in this section
 Nashville, August 3.-In the congress sional primary held in several districts today figures received up to late hour
 tonight indicate a large vote. In the Fifth district, Congressman w C. Hous- ton apparently has defeated Judge Ewin L. Davis by not more than 175 votes.
 George L. Diemer boiled only a few votes, put sufficient to make necessary a run off between Houston and Davis. In the Seventh district, Congressman l..
 P. Padgett has won over J. Brady Jones
 by 10 to 1.
 The race in the Eighth between Con- gressman T. w. Sims and Dudley Porter is so close that the result is still un- certain, but indications are that Sims will be renominated by a narrow margin
 Congressman Finis J. Garrett apparent ly has won over Senter, but the contest is close.
 There was little interest in the prop osition for calling a constitutional con- vention, particularly in the country dis- tricts, the cities favoring the plan In- dications are that it has met defeat
 Chattanooga, August 3.-Chattanooga and Hamilton county favored a call for constitutional convention by a major ity of 1887, with two small precincts out in the referendum election held here to- day. light vote. about 370O, was cast Preliminary reports from lower east Tennessee indicate a majority against the proposed constitutional convention
 Knoxville, Tenn, August 3.-All counties in Tennessee selected county officers today. In East Tennessee the republicans virtually swept all before
 them, although they lost the two larg-
 est offices in Knox county, sheriff and
 trustee. In this section of the state
 the sentiment was strongly against the
 calling of a constitutional convention.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-04
STRANDED SAILORS
 CANNOT BE FOUND
Search Following Message for Help Sent in Bottle
 Proves Fruitless

Biloxi, Miss, August 3.-A party o1 sailors who today searched several of the minor islands of the Chameleon group returned here tonight and stated they found no trace of Captain Duggan and five members of the crew of the Schooner Emma Harvey, washed to sea from Chameleon Island during the tropi- cal hurricane of June 5.
 The search was started after bottle had been found on the beach at Deer Island, in which was enclosed a note signed by Captain Duggan asking helr for himself and crew, whom he said were on an unknown island.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-04
ANOTHER PERFECT
 BASEBALL GAME

Lumb erton, N. C., August 3-Lee Stone. pitching for Lumberton in the semi pro Cape Fear league yesterday worked out perfectly pitched game when not a single Raeford runner reached first No hits were yielded, no passes were issued and not an error was made.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-04
JUDGE BRANDON SPEAKS

Judge w. w. Brandon of Tuscaloosa was the next speaker and with his usual oratory and in convincing words he sounded the .tocsin of the fight for bet ter health conditions. urging not only better health service for Birmingham. but urging that the entire state of Ala
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-04
South Atlantic League

At Columbia: Columbia 6. Columbus 1. At Jacksonville: Jacksonville 3, Au- gusta l (called at end of four and half innings account rain).
 At Charleston: Charleston ?. Macon 0. Called end fifth account rain.)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-04

Among the treasured possessions of the Maine Historical society in Port land are the gavel and desk used by Thomas B. Reed while he was speaker of the House of Representatives. These relics were given to the society by the children of the late Thomas Donald son.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-04
STRICKLAND-GREEN
 SPLITS DOUBLE BILL

Yesterday afternoon at Thomas dia- mond the Strickland-Green Furniture company team and the W. S. Brown Mercantile company team played two of the hardest contested games that have occurred in the Commercial elague this season. Cox and Levy fought out pitchers battles and due to the breaks of luck each pitcher won a game. Spectacular plays were made by
 Knight, Byrd, Vann and Rich. The hit ting of McClendon, Dumas, Strickland
 and Neese played large part in de- ciding the games.
 First game R. H. D. Strickland-GreenN N............ 2 6 2 W. S. Brown ................. 3 6 0 Batteries: Levy and Rich; Cox and Wheeler.
 Second game R. H. F.. Strickland-Green ............ 8 5 w. B. 6rOWn Batteries: Levy and Rich; Cox and Wheeler.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-04
FINAL WORD FROM
 GENERAL CARRANZA
 IS EXPECTED SOON
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Juan B. Rogo, secretary of the commits sion, is young lawyer, who has been attached to the foreign office.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-04

Data accompanying recently pub lished official map of North Dakota show that the state has 64,000,000 set apart in land as public school en- dowment
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-04
such steps as may be necessary to re- cnyAr tho fiIp1o

such steps as may be necessary to re- cover the funds.
 In the debate over a motion offered by T. F. B. Sothain of Michigan to issue a call for the reassembling of the party s national convention to nominate presi- dential candidate, Burton Vance. of Kentucky, referred to Theodore Roosevelt as "a traitor" to the progressive party. Later the motion was withdrawn after discussion lasting several hours.
 John M. Parker tonight sent tele- gram to Oscar s. Straus of New York protesting against a letter sent out on stationery bearing Parker's name which it Is alleged has been sent to progress sives throughout the country asking con- tributions for the Hughes campaign fund. The conference devoted sometime considering a plan which contemplates reading out of the party all those na- tional committeeman who are now sup porting Hughes, but finally abandoned the idea.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-04
Will Investigate Entire
 Railroad Situation

Washington, August 3.-The joint com niittee created by Congress to investi- gate the railroad situation, including the advSsability of government ownership. organized today by selecting Senator Newlands, chairman; Representative Ad- amson, vice chairman. and Senator Rob- nson, secretary. The chairman and vice chairman were directed to report pro- gramme of procedure. Senator Newlands said tonight plan would be reported in few days.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-04
Beer Tax Increases

Milwaukee, Wis, August 3.-A total of $74o,44S collected as taxes on beer was a new record for the month of July, ac- cording to the Milwaukee collector of internal revenue. This at the rate of $150 per barrel represents 493,623 barrels. The amount collected during the same period a year ago was $571,7SS.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-04
EMPHATIC REPUTATION


 ''The course of the national committee
 has been emphatically repudiated in every state where there has been free discus sion and action
 "This conference is the eliminating pro- test of the party against the reasonable attempt to put it out of existence as a national party and to deliver it's vote 10 the republican party. The progressive party cannot be delivered. The attempt to do so has already recoiled upon it's
 authors, and covered them with discredit and confusion.
 Tt is the sense of this conference that | the action of the individual progressives
 on the presidency should be left to their
 individual judgment and conscience. "Any effort to dictate the action of in- dividual progressives must of necessity fail and this conference recognizes the capacity and the resolve of every pro. gressive to make up his own mind and
 to determine his own course CAREFUL CONSIDERATION we have considered carefully the question of holding new convention and completing our national ticket. The diff faculties in the way of this course are at this late date insuperable. The fact
 that the party machinery in many states 1 is in the control of servile committees
 me nwho were involved in the scheme to
 deliver the party to the republicans, the
 further fact that the campaign is already
 so far advanced and that more time will be required to assemble the party in convention, all have combined to bring ns to the conclusion that second conven- tion of the party this year Is impractica- ble.
 'The conference has authorized the ap- pointment of a committee and has con 1 fided to it the duty of taking appropriate measures to preserve our party's exist ence, and to make vigorous electoral con- tests This committee will later announce a national conference of the party to be | held at some convenient place after the election. At this conference ways and means will be considered for the main- | tenance of our party and the carrying | forward of it's great mission ACCOUNTING DEMANDED The conference instructed the chairman | to demand from the treasurer of the pro- gressive party an accounting of the funds Icontributed to the bull moose cause, and list of outstanding pledges and to as- l certain where any of the money has been expended for the benefit of any other
 political organization. and If % to take
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-04

Texas is the seventh state in point of wealth, first in size and fifth in popu- lation.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-07-21
THE SAME EVERYWHERE
By DIR, FRANK CRANE

among red Indians wiping out frontier settle
ment Timour decorating the front gate OF con-
ouered CITY with a mountain of fresh cut heads,
or the apostles of Kutur bringing light and
progress to Louvain.
But what started out to say (and no matter
where one begins, these days, he always gets
around to the war; is that wherever you soJourn
YOU find what the preachers wife called nice
people.
Kindly people, generous, open-minded, com
panionable, honest, straight, decent, opnglne-
where do they all come from?
Possibly this poem of Edwin Markham's,
which I copy from the December NUMBER OF the
Nautilus may throw some light on the subject:
Once. where a prophet in the palm shade basked,
traveller CHANGED at noon to rest his mules
"What sort of people may they be-" he asked,
''In this proud city on the plain o'erspread!
We'll friend, what sort of people whence you
Gamer"
'eWhat sort?" the packman scow1ed. why,
knaves and fools"
you'll find the people here the same" the wise
man said.
Another stranger in the dusk drew near,
And pausing cried, what sort Of people here
In your bright city where yon towers arise?
''Well friend, what sort of people whence you
Gamer"
"What. sort?'' the pilgrim smiled Goou' uue'
and wise!"
"You'n find the people here the same," the wise
man said
Copyright 1916, by Frank Crane)
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-07-21
The Tax Equalization Lam.

There is one, We take it, who openly opposes
the principle Of tax equalization Those urging the
repeal of the law, enacted a few years ago to put
that principle into effect will hardly deny that the
broad purpose of the measure is needful and just
however severely they attack its methods and
details. Yet they propose to strip the State of it's
only protection against tax inequalities and de-
ficences simply because certain features of the
Their attitude is like that of a surgeon who would
cut off the patients head merely to remove mole.
If the law has weaknesses, strengthen them. If
it has nequities, rectify them. If it is open to
improvement, by all means improve it. But in no
circumstances destroy statute which stands at the
very base of the States fiscal order and security.
Before this law became operative Georgia s
plan of tax assessment and collection was largely
one of voluntary contributions to a mendicant
treasury. In numbers of counties the tax valua-
ton of land was anywhere from twenty-five to
seventy-fve per cent less than the valua-
ton. Land of the same general quality and sur
roundings was returned in some counties at fifty
dollars an acre, and in others at only three It
was not to be expected that the new system could
remedy these and other inequalities within a brief
three years, but unquestionaby it has effected sub
stantiaI reforms and if consistently upheld, it will
prove more and more productive of good
Fairness and uniformity in tax returns are help
full to the individual citizen no less than to the
Commonwealth, for when all men bear their right
full part in the cost Of good government, every
mans load will be lighter. The repeal of the
equalization law would be blow to honest citizen
ship and colossal fraud upon the State.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-07-21
QuipS and Quiddities

The old pensioner who blew the bellows for the or
gan had a most exasperating falling spite of
quent he would continue blowing after the
music had stopped. thereby producing undesirable
sounds
one day organist could stand it no longer.
The congregation had been tittering by the old
mans forgetfuness during the organist
seized the opportunity write him note the mat
and hand it to the choir boy to deliver
Misunderstanding the whispered directions the lad
handed the note straight up to the preacher who as
2oundedly read the following:
viii you stop when I tell you to? People here
to listen to my music, not to your horrible noise"
a provincial town there lives old maid
who has the reputation of being about the fastest
talker record, added which her tongue has
than the average amount of One day recently
however, she met her match. pedder called on the
lady and had the mpudence ring the front doorbe
moment later the door opened and when the lady
saw who it was she at once gave him piece of her
mind, finally concluding with
And now, then you can be off. There's nothing
you sell me that will be of any to me-"
The peddler, who evidently novice at getting
his own back turned on his heel sweety saying he
did
NO, num- seeing as ow I'm only sellin' mousetraps
an not muzzles, don't see 'ow there is.
Dark, dark the night; so dark the
intentions of the burglarious intruder in the suburban
domicile
Having got that out of the way let us proceed
with the story.
The burglar searched the bedroom, with movements
stealthy that they failed snorer the
bed. But he found booty He had drawn a blank
BLOW mr. he murmured, angry. But I'll get
satisfaction out O. the BRUTE!
So he set the alarm clock the mantelpiece for
$3.50 m. and softly stole away.
The patient explained his symptoms fully, while
the specialist regarded him closely.
Eyes, see," he commented gravely Now tell me-
have you ever been operated for appendicitis"
Well responded the patient obviously, 81 certain
Iy had operation but have been quite sure
whether it due to appendicitis or professional
curiosity"
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-07-21
EFFICIENCY AFTER FORTY
\ n. AppNGTON BRUCB. :

want every young man VINO reads these
lines to get firmly fixed in his mind the truth
that bv living wisely before forty, he can post
none indefinitely the evil day when he really will
be fit only to go on the she'll
And in what consists wise living from the
point of view of preserving ones efficiency?
Perhaps | can better answer in the words of
President Emeritus c. w. Eliot, of Harvard, the
most efficient of old men; and man to whom
once put this same question with reference to his
own experience Of life.
''Wise living for efficiency, President Eliot re-
piled in effect, may be largely summed up IN the
phrase, Be temperate in all things.
"a man should exercise regularly, but he
sbou1d not overexercise. He should eat nourish-
ing food but he should not overeat He should
get enough sleep, but should sleep neither too lit
tie too much
His emotional life, like his physical, should
be a temperate one. Hurry, worry, irritation, any
kind of emotional excitement-aH these Things
he should avoid as much as he can.
"Also he should try to attain high religious
and ethical standards. He should be a churcn-goer
In this way he will surround himself with an
atmosphere that will have good erect on him.
not only spiritually but physically as Well
I commend these observations to all young
men. 1,,-
They embody a homely, common sense ph1loso-
nhv of life that every young will find 1t bene-
cial to put to practical effect or hs own account.
Copyright, 1916, by The Associated NeWspapersI
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-07-21

There are nice people everywhere"
The speaker of this sentence was Mrs Walden,
a Methodist preachers wife, She had lived and
moved (moved usually about year, in Cen
trail Illinois for thirty years. and she ought to
know.
The strange fact about human nature is that
it is not strange. 1t is about the same wherever
you find it.
The petty quarrels ambitions, and jealousies
in a Hindu village are much of piece with the
goings on in hamlet in Indiana, Alaska, KAN
chatka or Cape Town.
Wherever there are people-genus homo sapi-
ems two-legged animals without feathers-there
is old friend Human Nature, incurable up to its
old tricks the same yesterday, It'd and T.
The Greek hoplites in the army OF Cyrus, as
we read of them in Xenophons "Anabass, car
ried on about like the Bulgars and Teutons act
nowadays.
Father Noah got pifiicated, Anthony erotic,
Pericles jealous, That's frisky, Tarqu1n lusttuI'
Semiramis ambitious Rienzi insurgent, Scarron
witty-all pretty much the folks now IN your
circle of acquaintance each according to his FORCES
and limitations. ,
Nature shifts the scenes, secures new settings
but keeps the same old stock company.
The common people boobs in the days
of Alexander or Rameses l., just as they are now
and marched forth to hack each other whenever
their governors whistled.
Kaiser Bill has nothing on j. Caesar, VINO
defended" the Roman empire by dlvldlhg al
Gaul into three parts and devour1ng them ohe
after another. bo+bor
Frightfulness is about the same whether
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-07-21
Farm Wastes.

Industrial progress consists largely in eiminat-
ing wastes and utilizing scraps. Why not quicken
agricultural progress by similar methods?
According to recent estimates by the federal
Bureau of Animal Husbandry more than one hun
dred million dollars worth of corn fodder and straw
is wasted each year on American farms That is
one item among thousands 1t is hardly to be
pected that the economics of the farm can be
ried into details minute those of the packing
plant which makes profit on every part of pig
except its squea but there is nevertheless broad
opportunity for reducing farm wastes.
good deal already has been accomplished in
this direction by the of agricultural machinery
and by the training of agricultural schools. The
processes of planting and harvesting are far more
economical than they once were. Great quantities
of fruit and vegetables, which formerly went to
waste are now canned. Great quantities of produce
which once rotted or were sold at beggarly prices
are now protected through cooperative marketing
systems.
Agriculture has progressed from a mental task
TO an art and a science. In time it will become
business as WELL and will be conducted upon the
same lines of efficiency which are followed by the
successful merchant and banker and manufacturer.
When that is done, the sum of the country's wealth
will be multiplied beyond reckoning, and the
achievements of captains of industry will not COM
pare with those of the captains of agriculture.
The Russian colonists plan considerable devel-
opment in Hungary.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-07-21
Reapeal This Ubiquitous Law, and
Remove Our Disgrace

There remains only the vote of the lower house OF
representatives to exempt from taxation the endow-
church schools and colleges in the state of
Georgia We sincerely hope trust that the lower
will follow the action of the senate and vote to
repeal this iniquitous law.
There could be no more important work accom-
pshed by the legislature than to remove our shame
state by removing the tax college endowments
southern state excepting Georgia and Florida, has
such tax now, and as Georgian we plead for the
removal of our disgrace in this matter
federal government refuses to tax the property
of colleges yet state since 1877, has taxed the
property of colleges, far endowment is con-
cerned Rightly, Georgia refuses tax the buildings
grounds and apparatus used for colleges, but
wrongly puts tax endowments, and this wrong
should be rgEted by the general assemby.-Telfair