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Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-14

habit of paying the dairymen we'll say,
 three cents a quart for milk, delivered
 at the railroad. They have transported
 that milk to the city, pasteurized" it,
 and peddled it out by the pint, quart or
 gallon.
 It has been shown that the average
 cost of railroad haul. year in and year
 out, is not far from a quarter of a
 cent a quart. This brings the cost of
 the milk to the distributors at the city,
 up to 14 cents a quart.
 won't tell-at least they don't tell what this costs. But don't let us be faxed by big words. "Pasteurizing" is sim
 ply heating to a degree sufficient to
 kill certain harmful bacteria in the
 milk. It can be and often is done by set over a kettle of stealning water on the kitchen stove. It probably can be done at less expense and trouble, per quart, in specially devised installa- t1ons, heating barrels at a time instead Of quarts. It is not, in itself, an eX- pensive nor difficult process. What fraction of a cent it may add to the cost of a quart of milk we can only guess. But we can be reasonably sure that the cost, whatever it be- is less than the cost the dairyman's wife in
 CUTS when she "pasteurizes'' her plan or two on her own stove. Tn other
 words, it is practically negligible. Next they, the distributors. put the AAAAAh 114lo lIS1I OW II CdtlSy IOc1O- IL lIlIO their own carts and send their own drivers to peddle it out. f' | And they charge ten cents a quart I for it, when thus delivered.
 One of the biggest of them, in a plausibly written advertisement in a | big New York city daily filling nearly half page and costing maIfy hundred dollars evidently intended to make l out that its managers are saints and TrTITo 1%-I IL I ice, asserts that it handled it's many 1 million gallons of milk last year at a | profit of about" fourth of a cent ] per quart.
 Now the difference between the pos 1 S1ble four cents which it costs them, | transportation paid and "pasteur1zed, D | ready to deliver, and the ten cents | they charge the consumer for II. is six cents. That is, they assert that it | costs them double as much, merely to | New York city, as they have been | willing to pay the dairynan for the ] milk itself and all the cost, labor and 1 risk of producing it!
 l The very statement of the thing is | enough to bring increduIC4sz laughter [ from the most melancholy COW in the ; Worst-starved herd of Poverty Hollow
 Either the assertion is not true, l either there are other profits con cealed by some perhaps legal trick CT
 supterfuge-or the men who do the i distributing are so wastefu1 and in- l efficient in their own business as to l be unfit to conduct it-or any other. l Another of the big companies, in an-
 other big and costly advertisement, as-
 serts that For sixty years The - i Company has bought milk direct from l the producer at what we believed to
 be q fair price, and in turn delivered it
 10 the consumer at a price based on l the same conception of equity"
 1 Do you notice the absolutely uncon- 1 scious confession made in this paid
 for pronunciamento that the d1stribut-
Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-14
LETTERS FROM TWO STATES

Brooklyn, N. Y, and Mrs. James
 Hughes of Springfield, Mass. were callers in town Tuesday.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-14

Does that mean that the consumer should pay money? Or does it mean that the distributors should cough up'' some of their profits?
 The dairymen have the right to bet ter pay for their milk That's fat. And. if. they can't persuade better pay bv individual cRego+fsti6usIe e with afhe -noneyed Corporations among the distributors. they have the right, by equal organization, to compel better pay.
 But who shall foot the bigger bill ? The customer? Or the distributor?
 Tho, really, is the only question in volved.
 And. as to that, there are certain fa cts and certain principles which should not be lost sicf7t of.
 The distributors have been in the
Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-14

NEWBRO'S HERPICIDE is tnp one remedy on your druggists 8 shelves which may always be de- pended upon:
 Instead of complaining to your friends and mourning over your loss of hair, call upon your local druggist and purchase a bottle of NEWBRO'S HERPICIDE.
 It is the first and original germ remedy for dandruff, stops itching and checks falling hair.
 You can save the hair you have much easier than you can grow new. The time to save your hair Is now. The remedy for doing it is NEW BROS HERPICIDE.
 Appficatioas may be obtained It He best barber shops and hair dressing parfors.
 It is guaranteed by The fiespicide ce. Sold everywhere.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-14

The situation is about this: In New York city are some five million people consuming milk, none of which they produce.
 On various farms of New ! ork state and contiguous parts of Connecticut, New Jersey and Pennsylvania are about a half a million cows kept by dairymep, 1isFling the nallk the city consumers want. r.jTi4zr
 Between the dairy farms and the city kitchens are four big and a dozen or two small corporations who have undertaken the business of getting the milk from the rural dairies to it's city users.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-14
Cauoht at Last.

John T. McCutcheon is to marry. Since MT. McCutcheon is a good look ing bachelor with a salary of $35,00 year, the natural explanation is that he was out of breath.-Topeka Capital.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-14

Even The New York Times, whose sympathies are all with the interests" small matter what they be, admits that What seems wrong to the outsider is that the distributors fix the T---e4s to both the producers and the consumers and thus regulate the price of milk and their own profits, virtually without control.''
 Seems wrong," indeed I should think SO When in any business transaction one lordly will, alone and at which it will buy and the price at which it will sell, paying only such heed as it's irresponsible tyranny may choose to concede to the rights of pro ducers. or the claims of consumers, then business ceases to be business, and becomes merely Q matter of seign- orage and serfage.
 That is the real question at issue between the big milk distributing ccm- panies on the one side, and the dairy men and the city consumers-whCse interests are nlutual-on the other side.
 Shall the big milk distributing com panies continue forever to exercise an unfettered prerogative in all price-fix- ing, turning both producers and con- sumers into seTfs to work and pay for their profit, or shall they be com pelled to come down on to common earth with the rest of us and recOg- nize at least our right to an equal voice in a business where our invest ments are greater, our labor harder, our risks sharper and our interests vastly more vital?
 THE FARMER.
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THE MJLKL LoRDs AND THE LANDL oRDs

CWritten Specially for The Buuet1n.)
 The one matter of chief agricultural interest throughout the east, just now, is the latest attempt of the New York dairymen to get fair pay for the milk they sell,
 Perhaps, by the time this is printed and circulated, the whole matter may have been settled. But at the time of writing it-which must necessarily be some days before it is printed-the fight still on and the outcome not assured. l must, therefore, write of it as 1t is today, not as it may be to- morrow or next day.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-14

Would Help Some. Evidently the thing to do is to stop eating food and, go to raising it. Kansas City Times.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-14

That the dairynen earn and have an indefeasible right to better pay for their milk Is a fact as adequately proved and as assuredIy settled as that Columbus discovered America,
Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-14

Each one of the three parties has a distinct part to play; a separate func- tion to perform.
 The dairyman's part is to produce the milk in quantities and qualities as desired, and deliver it at the railroad.
 The distributors part is to see that it is conveyed thence to the cans, pitchers, pails or what-1ot of the buyers
 The consumers part is to pay for it payment including the value of the milk, fair wages to the dairyrnan, fair interest on,s hiss investment and fair profit; including also fair rates for transportation of the9 milk to the dis tant city, fair wage 'for4those engaged in peddling it to individual customers and fair interest on the investments of the distributing companies.
 Both the dairymen and the .distribu- tors are hedged in and cribbed by statutes and health board regulations.
 The dairyman can't sell just milk" in New York city. He muSr first have his cows inspected and tested and ar9- proved as healthy, and pay big fees therefor; he must have specially built and garnished stables: he must main tain the fat-COntent at a high point and therefore must buy large quanti- ties of expensive feeds; he must have the milking done by people with steri- lized hands in disinfec-ed milking suits and into pails. etc. made just so and scientifically de-bacterialized twice a day.
 The distributor must keep the milk under rigid ly- ike d qc6n6fg ions, sup posed to involve purtTe < and cleanlf- ness; must ''pasteuriZe' it before sell ing and so on and SO on.
 Some of the regulations under which both have to work are undeniably wise; some of them are douDtriG. with divided evidence as to their sanitary value; some of them are pure poppy cock, the mere whins of impra cticaI theorists unfortunately elevated 10 practically Irresponsible power on health boards, etc: q few Of them smell strongly of graft" and the de-
Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-14

the lake last summer As the watch found tallied exactly with MT. Little's description of the one he lost, it was returned to him. MT. Little resides
Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-14

Either the assertion is not true, either there are other profits con cealed by some perhaps Iegaf trick CT suptertuge-or the men who do the distributing are so wasteful and in efficient in their own business as to be unfit to conduct it-or any other.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-14

 lazy or too incapable to earn their iv- ing at servtceably productive work.
 But all these regulations, whether wise, unwiSe or idiotfc, have to be tributors. And the obedience thereto costs them both some money and adds something to the price which the con- sumer must finally pay.
 The present dispute is very simple, both as to principle and facts.
 It is a dispute over what pay the dairymen shall get for producing the milk.
 In regard to this, also, the principle involved and the facts appertaining non one of even ordinary intelligence can fail to understand them.
 The dafryTnan, as a simple business proposition. should receive enough for his milk to pay all natural or statutory costs of production, lawful interest on his investment, and fair profit to him. self. A @ z--
 He must build the barns and keep them in such state as the health boards order.
 He must buy or breed the cows and feed, stable. clean and milk them un- der rigid conditions of health board fixing.
 He must supply all the labor in volved furnish all the tools and i'm plements needed bear all the risk, and deliver the milk at a railroad for ship ment
 For all this he has got, for years, payment averaging somewhere around two and a half or three cents a quart. Repeated complaints that this was in sufficient have led to repeated inVesti- cations in numerous states by various committees ,Or. commissions. In every case where such inquiries have been conducted with anything like ratrness and thoroughness. they have not only shown that the complaint was inst, but have demonstrated that the con- dition enforced upon dairymen was an intolerable and tyrannic outra ge-a virtual confscation of their property, their labor and their rightful earnings by somebody else and for somebody else'S profit.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-14

The present dispute is very simple, both as to principle and facts.
 It is a dispute over what pay the dairymen shall get for producing the milk.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-14

Democratic spellbinders made a flying trip through the small towns in this vicinity in automobiles Tuesday. The party arrived in Columbia about 2.30 D. m., a fairly good audience greeted them at Yeoman's hall. About a dozen women were present, about the same number of local democrats, a fair sprink.ing of local republicans
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RANDOM NOTES

Mr.. and Mrs. J. Pratt Jennings Of Union
City, Tenn, are guests of Mr. and Mrs.
J. NICK. Long at their home at Norwood.
They will spend several days here be-
fore going to the gulf coast
Mr.. and Mrs. S. e. Batson will be at
home for the winter at 1880 Tenth avenue,
SOUTH
Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Murdoch have re-
turned from most delightful motor trip
through the state, stopping at Admission,
Sylacauga, Talladega and other places.
Miss Iva Cook will represent the
Wednesday Study club, Miss Julia V. Mil
Ter the Euterpeans, and Miss Annie La
mar Noble the third division of clubs
at the state federation in Birmingham
next week. They will be entertained at
the Tutwiler as guests of the fedora
tion.-Anniston Star and Hot Blast.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. e. Richards, who
have been the guests Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Henry Howe, left last evening for Louis
Vile, where they will stop for several
days en- route to their home in Duluth,
MINI.
Mrs. James o. Dickens is leaving the
early part of the week to attend board
meeting of the National Federation OF
Music clubs, which will be held in Chi
cago the middle Of November. EN- rout
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By "Hop''

to Chicago she will stop over in Mont
gomery, Birmingham, Knoxville and other
places, and has promised that on her way
home she will stop in Charlotte, N. c.,
to address the state music clubs.-Mobile
Register.
Mrs. Mason billiard and Miss Dean Dill
lard have returned from Florence, where
they were the guests of relatives for a
few days.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Randolph Meyer
have named their little son Robert Ran
dolph, Jr.
Sunday from their wedding trip, and will
Cosby.
Miss Margaret Coleman will leave today
for Nashville.
Mrs. L. K. McVoy, who has been the
guest of Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. Nevins, has
returned to her home in Selma.
Mrs. John Hooper, who has been the
guest of her daughter, Mrs. Howard
Holmes, has returned to her home in
Selma.
old Rothwell of New York are in the
city at the Tutwiler.
Mrs. Frank Byrne of New York is in
the city at the Tutwiler, and will remain
until after the wedding of Miss Long
and her son, Mr.. John Francis Byrnes,
, on Saturday evening.
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MORTGAGE LOANS.
II you wish to borrow money on your
home or business property. it will pay
you to see US. Title Guarantee Loan
and Trust Co. 7-21-tf
MONEY to lend in amounts from $1,000
to $4,000 on improved real estate in
birmingham, Ensley, Bessemer, West
End, Woodlawn, North and South High
lands at to per cent, from three to
five years. r. C. Hemphill, Pres, 1O02-3
Empire Bldg. Phone 627.
11-5-su- tu-fri-tf
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Club Meetings Today

The Quest club meets with Mrs. W. f.
Tyler at o'clock.
The Sahala club meets with Mrs.
Brown.
The Highland Book club meets this
morning at u instead of 1890, with Mrs.
c. T. Randall.
The Cadmean circle meets with Mrs.
Van Hoose
The Study club meets with Miss Ber-
ryman.
The Twentieth Century club meets with
Mrs. D. r. Copeland.
The Modern Study club meets with Mrs.
Dickson.
The Out vive club meets with Mrs.
Todd
The Amaranth club meets with Mrs.
Arthur Moody.
The meeting of LAllegro club has
been postponed from Thursday to Friday,
November 10, when it will meet with
Mrs Walter Hooper on Twelfth avenue,
north, at o'clock in the afternoon.
The Joycrofters will meet this afternoon
at 2:30 o'clock with Mrs. w. A. Davies
on Glen Iris avenue.
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Roman Chemical Co.,
Nashville, Tenn.
Gentlemen: l have been a sufferer
for quite awhile with stomach and
liver trouble, and for about six weeks
could hardly eat or drink anything
without causing trouble. ] consulted
two physicians. They gave some re-
lief, which was only temporary. Soon
after this saw your advertisement In
newspaper, and what your BOWERS
PREPARATION had done for two
Nashville City employees, Fire Cap
tain and Policeman, and saw that their
symptoms were just the same as IN
my case, SO Immediately ordered .
bottle, which swept greenish mass
from my system, including several
gall stones. One bottle has entirely
cured me. I am now very strong and
have gained several pounds. Symp
toms in my case were biliousness,
coated tongue, drowsiness on rising In
the morning, gas on stomach, and had
a great deal of pain in stomach and
sides. I write this hoping that It may
reach some poor sufferers, that they
may be persuaded to use BOWERS
PREPARATION and be cured there
by. You may tell the world. May
the Lord bless and prosper you Is my
earnest desire.
I represent the Baptist cause In this
community and shall always speak
well Of your preparation.
Rev B. H. Crider,
Baptist Minister, Evarts, Ky.
Bowers Preparation $1.00.
All drug stores and wholesalers.
Or by parcel post prepaid.
Address with price
ROMAN CHEMICAL CO.,
P. o. Box A. Nashville. Tenn.
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Continued from Page Eight

Fl. Craig, chairman of the Fourth dis
trict; Mrs. ]. B. Ellis, Mrs. D. A. Ken
nedy, Mrs. H NJ. Smith, Mrs. w. X.
Huston. Mrs l.. K. McVoy, Mrs. Kate
M. Jarvis, Mrs. John Creagh, Miss Lucy
Monk, Miss Lorraine Peacock, Mrs. j. l..
Bishop, Mrs. Pettus Randall, Mrs. John
Seymour, Miss Kate Welch.-Selma
Times.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. E. Batson entertained
at a dinner Wednesday evening at their
home complimenting Congressman
George Huddleston. Among the guests
were Mr.. and Mrs Richard Johnston
Mr.. and Mrs Coleman and DR.. Howell
Hefiin.
The following invitation has been re-
ceived:
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Massey, Miss
Elizabeth Massey request the pleasure
of your company Tuesday evening, Mo-
vember 81, at o'clock, Country club,
to meet Miss Millikin, Miss Seidel,
Dancing.
Mrs A. r. Wynne and Mrs. w. C.
Samuel entertained at luncheon at Mrs.
Samuers apartment in Norwood.
Chrysanthemums were used for the
table decorations, and those who en-
|joyed the hospitality were Mrs. M. j.
|Longherst, Mrs. J. P. Means, Mrs. Mollie
hyde, Mrs. A w. Bryan and Mrs. Lucy
Morrow.
Mrs John Cox entertained the Young
Matron club and a few friends yester-
day afternoon at her home, compli-
menting Miss Lucille Green a popular
bride elect. Auction was played and a
boudoir bag and a pretty camisole were
given for the highest scores. The guest
of honor was presented with crepe
de chine negligee.
for tea. The club includes Mrs Henry
Hidden, Jr., Mrs. c. C. Heidi, Jr., Mrs.
Oliver Cox. Mrs. John Cox, Mrs. Roscoe
Harris, Mrs. Roderick Beddow, Mrs.
Hinson Sibley, Mrs. Luke Hunt, Mrs.
Carlton Smith, Mrs. James CARRIER, Mrs.
James Moore Mrs. James Carter Hor-
Iris, Mrs Michael Nolan and Mrs. An
glin White.
The Birmingham Athletic club will
give the first of series of semi tn :
lily dances this evening, to which only
club members are invited. The follow
ing will act as chaperons for the even
ing: Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Pankey, DR..
and Mrs. James Dedman and Mr.. and
Mrs. Robert Strickland.
The following invitation has been re-
ceived: DR. and Mrs. William d. Perkins
request the honor of your presence at the
marriage of their daughter, Mary Ellen,
to Mr. Louis Frazier Ebersole Wednes-
day evening. November %, 1916, at s
o'clock, 1918 Nineteenth street. south, Biz
mingham.
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Prussian Standard of Action

From Freedom of Trade by Maj.
George Haven Putnam, in the Forum.
The Prussian standard of action is sum-
married by Neitzsche:
War and courage have accomplished
greater things than love for ones fell
low men,
The Prussian theory regards life as a
conflict and struggle for existence. The
Prussian holds that lin the worlds rela-
tons morality, the philosophy of the
weak, has no place. The men who are
really great, the superhuman, are those
who are pitiless." Under this conception
the only hope of creating a tolerable So
ciety is to establish at the center nu-
cleus of force which is able to coerce
all other wills into obedience to itself
Frederick the Great carried the principle
to it's logical conclusion by converting
the Prussian people from nation into
an army obedient to the king. Bismarck
used the military power of Prussia to
compel all parts of Germany to unite
under the domination of the Prussian
state. The foundation of the present
Prussianized German state is force. This
is why the government of Germany is
driven to assert its power and to use the
mechanism of the army, of the schools
and the universities, of the pulpit, and
of the press to inculcate the duty OF
obedience in it's subjects. The Prussian
system is founded on the belief that the
human being is not to be trusted. The
commonwealth rests upon an entirely
different set of ideas. In a commonwealth
it is right and not force which is the
principle of unity in the state. When the
nations of the world have thrown down
the conception of the divine state,
whose authority is not to be questioned
and whose will ia aYDraSS4d DV a Fred
erck or William and have adopted the
principles upon which are based free COM
monwealth like Great Britain and the
United States. we shall have the founda-
lions for a worldwide system of free
dom of trade based upon mutual respect
and clear understanding, and upon the
conviction that the welfare of each con-
duces to the welfare of all and that in
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.TAXTCARS pay " or night lghi Phone PnSi.
man Taxicab Co.. City Hall s-11-tf
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Registered Packages Stolen

Gadsden, November Especial 1.-Two
registered packages were stolen from the
Southern station at Leesburg Wednesday
night. The pouches were slashed open
when the mail was put off the Gadsden-
Rome train and into the transfer box.
No indication is given as to the value OF
the stolen packages, nor is there any
clue to the robbers.
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SOciability

From the Washington Star.
I'm afraid father-in-law doesn't care
much about me- said the young man.
He finds fault with most everything
l do
Nonsense" replied his wife. You
don't know his ways. He is treating you
just like one Of the family"
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FOUND
LEGAL NOTICES

Notice to Contractors
Sealed proposals will be received by
the undersigned until 8 o'clock p. M,
Tuesday, November IA, 1916, for the
construction of certain sanitary sewers
under Imp. Ord. No. 929-C. Specifi-
cations may be obtained and plans ex-
amined at this office. The right is re-
served to reject any and all proposals
(Signed) JULIAN KENDRICK,
City Engineer.
Birmin CHAM Age-Herald, November TO-
II and Ii. 1916
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WANTED-FEMALE HELP

lady solicitors; must
have neat appearances; house to
house canvass; salary. Apply 203 En-
ptre hotel. between ~ and l.
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AUTOMOBILES

AUTOMOBILES
NEW and secondhand tires and vul-
canizing. Brophy & Hall, 800 S. goth
St Telephone Main S27S I-5-tf
AUTOS nickelplated like new. S. M.
Bernheim Co., 2023 list ave. Main SS1.
11-5-tf
FOR SALE-Metz runabout complete;
engine, carburetor and FL. T. Bosch
magnetic in fine condition; price $50.
Address B-36 care Age-Herald.
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Tools kept in damp places can be kept
from rusting if some unslaclled lime.
which absorbs moisture from the air, is
kept near them.