The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-09-22


 cU one to skin cat, it is possiole so settle labor troubles when media tion and arbitration fail. A gang ot section men employed by railroad Aar+r.ctor in Missouri, named Stelu'
 struck for higher ASection Hands wages. B Being akborten Shovels Theodore s h n
 sort of pers n, Et.;n refused the mems request ana told them to go back to work, or they would lose their jobs. Dirt flew merrily for two days ana she laborers seemed to be in an un- usuallv cheerful frame of mind. They apparently worked just as hard, put res,,lts were several carloads below the normal output.
 A husky foreman finally became s,sn;c;ous-as all foremen will, II eiven time enough-and as1d what was the matter in approved section hand dialect. His question went unan- swered. but it was discovered later that each of the willy section hands had sawed about two inches off his shovel. with the result that he was apparently doing the same amount oi work, but was putting considerably less dirt in cars.
 The laborers got their revenge Tor the time being, but while 1t IS not so stated. the hard-hearted contractor probably issued new shovels and urged a little more speed to make up for the energy that went to waste.
 M7Ew DECATUR, in changing its IN appellation to Albany, hit upor a name at once pretty and popular There are between thirty-five and for ty Albanys in this country. Mississlpp' is one of the few states that sklppeo
 the name. u Albany a Popular Albany, Ala, has Name for Towns the dlstlhctioh o'
 being one of three If city size, most of the others being mere villages.
 Albany, N. Y, with population above one hundred thousand, has sucn a start that it will always keep the lead. Albany, Ga., has population o1 about nine thousand, but our busting Albany, with ten thousand lnhapi- tants. will never drop below second nlace. It has been a forward going town ever since it was founded, and leading citizens feel confident that its growth from now on will be more rapid than ever.
 The postoffice department will be requested to take notice of the change in name and govern itself according ly. A prompt compliance may be ex- pected, although time was when the department was slow to move in the matter of changing postoffice names Kanawha c. H. was the old name ot Charleston, w. Va, and even after  that city included within it's boundary lines five or six thousand souls Ii continued to be known to postoffice authorities only by it's original desig nation. Notwithstanding the fact tha' in West Virginia Charleston ranked next to Wheeling in commercial i'm portance a cranky postmaster genera came along and made a ruling tha no mail could be forwarded to tha city unless it bore the official direc ton. So serious was the confusion caused by the nonsensical order that mighty protest was entered and inside of ten days, after great volume O. mail addressed to business firms il Charleston had been held up, the rul' was rescinded.
 Finally the name of Kanawha c. H passed into history and the postmarl was made to conform to the modern designation of the city. Today, and fo many years past, the policy of thu postoffice department has been based on the idea of efficient service rather