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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-11-25
NORTHERN ALABAMA
FURNISHES MOST OF
RECRUITS SECURED
Admission Officer Leads the
List in Number of Men
Added to State
Units

Montgomery, November 24-(Spe-
cial.)-About 600 recruits were added
to the National Guard of Alabama ana
the regular army through the activ-
tiles of the special recruiting officers
whose positions were abolished by or
der 70 report at Fort Barrancas, Fla,
Where they will be mustered out OF the
service.
Reports received by the state mill
tary department covering the period
to November showed that 493 re-
cruits had been received and since
that date about 100 additional men
were received, due to reports that the
First cavalry regiment would be or
dered to the Mexican border before
the end of the year. Capt Arthur Har-
rison of Admission, senior recruiting
officer, has led the list in the num-
her of recruits and the reports show
that north Alabama has furnished
more recruits than any other section
of the state.
When the recruiting captains are
mustered out they will return to
civilian life and no positions are open
for them in, the National Guard or
regular army.
Officers of the cavalry regiment say
there is no doubt that the cavalry will
be ordered to the border during the
next few days and indicate that the
order will provide for the movement
about December Is. The abolition of
the recruiting stations supported this
statement as recruits accepted now
could not be equipped by December Is.
The last official inspection of the
regiment was made by Governor Hen
derson and staff Thursday afternoon.
Every order from the war department
now gives further indication that the
regiment soon will move. It's destina-
ton will be Ell Paso, according to
communications from the war depart
ment and from General Bell COM
mander of the FL PaSo division
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-11-25
Patrick Quinlan Goes Free

Paterson, N. J., November @.-Patrick
Quinlan, Industrial Worker of the World,
who was sentenced to serve not less than
two and not more than seven years in
states prison for his part in the silk
strike disorders three years ago. was
given his freedom today by Judge KEN
ert Quinlan claims to have contracted
tubercular affection in jail. His re-
lease was brought about by the efforts
OF friends who drew up a petition signed
by 5000 persons and raised the money
necessary to pay the $500 fine
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-11-25
Feagin Calls Conference

Montgomery, November 24.-(Special)
William F. Feagin, state superintendent
of education, has called the five MEM
bers of each county board of education
of Alabama to attend a conference here
December 4, at which time a study will
be made of the powers and responsibilities
placed upon the county boards by the
legislature. Superintendent Feagin adj
dressed a letter to each member Thurs
day and urged him to attend in order that
there may be an Interchange of opinions
about the work to be begun.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-11-25
CHANGES IN HOUSTON

Montgomery, November 24-(Spe-
|cia1 J--E.C. Porter of Dothan has been
elected chairman of the board oi
of Houston county, and c.
h. Register of Columbia has been
named associate member of the same
board by the state board of equaliza
|tion Mr.. Porter was elected by Mr.. Reg
lister and the associate member APP
pointed by the Houston county board
Inf reYenue.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-11-25
Another Democrat Elected

Pittsburg, November 24.-Former Repre-
sentative M. Clyde Kelly Will be a men,
Der of the Sixty fifth Congress as pro-
gressive democrat, the official count of
the Thirtieth Pennsylvania district minus
the soldier vote showing Kelly a victor
over Congressman w. II. Coleman by $50
votes The soldier vote gave a plurality
to Kelly in the unofficial canvass.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-11-25
THANKSGIVING FOR CoNyIcTs

Montgomery, November 24.-(Spe-
eial. )1Operations in the state convict
lamps will be suspended Thanksgiving
Day and the state convict department
will serve special dinner to all con-
Eicts confined in the state prisons.
Orders for the dinners have been is
|sued to the wardens. If any convict
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-11-25
BOLD ROBBER LOCKS
CLERK IN VAULT AND
MAKES DIAMOND HAUL

Arkansas City, Kan, November PA
robber entered McDowell's jewelry store
here shortly before noon today, held M
the only clerk and escaped with SOoo
worth of diamonds, after locking the clerk
in the vault.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-11-25

works Thanksgiving Day he must be
paid in cash for his services.
The state also will serve a special
dinner Christmas day and the con-
viCts will have another holiday. I'm
de1 the state law the convicts cannot
be forced to work July 4, Thanks
giving Day and Christmas Day.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-01-15
LARRaBEE FOR LIEUTENANT. COVE RNOR.

Senator Fred Larrahee. of ForI
Dodge, is in distress. He has had two
terms in the state senate and now ii
is Calhoun county's tam - have the
senator. Calhoun purposes I" claim It's
rights and P, g Holdoegel is tho can
didate \ Larrabee would ne lost II
he found himself out OF office, hence
the distress at Fort Dodge
1t is being argued that because
Rockwell City secured the state re-
formatory for women Calhoun county
has forfeited her turn as state senator
to which It will probably be replied
that because Fort Dodge has had
seat in the United States senate for a
generation OF men she has never had
rights 10 any other honors. In fact
sentiemen's agreement in a two county
senatorial district can not be kicked
over without serious political cost and
retaliation for many years to come
There is but one relief expedition in
sight for Larrabee. The state could
hardly do without the services of so IL
lustrious 3 family and The state just
now badly in need Of a lieutenant gov
ernor who can measure up TO the Dig
nifty OF the office. Larrabee as lieu
tenant governor might succeed Lar
rabee, the father. but be that as it may
a state senator Of Fred LARA bees ex-
perience is equipped TO preside over
g state senate. Fred is clean and
young and capable and dry He halls
from Fort Dodge. so why not sent Lar
rabee to Des< Moires as chief OF all Of
the senators, and thereby keep faith
with Calhoun county
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-01-15
SPECULATION.

30
Speculation il the shortest and
most direct route between hope and
bankruptcy. 1t is the easiest known
method Of becoming rich In the imag-
nation and poverty stricken in the
bank book. Few people make it .
habit OF specializing at long range for
any length of time without going
broke with a surprised look or retiring
to some well-known penitentiary TO
engage in the rock-crushing business.
The most popular form of specuia-
ton at the present writing Is dab
bling in war stocks which have begun
to sit up and breathe freely for the
first time in several years This is one
of the most uncertain and expensive
forms of dabbling recorded In all his
tory. and frequently costs more than
trifing with the affections OF coy
widow with nine children, and law
yer who works on shares. The method
is to pick out a stock which has been
In a cataleptic state ever since the
Spanish war. and lay bet that In
side of thirty days II will be sitting
UP in a wheel chair and shedding divi-
dends Once in a while some keen
Spectator who Is related by marriage
to the head of the shrapnel department
viii get in before breakfast and gath
er In an armful OF dividends, while all
around him are grouped the discon-
solate forms Of mourning friends who
guessed on the wrong number. The
winner then plunges back In and
energies coon after bearing a close
resemblance to plucked pullet.
Speculation is extremely popular
with people who have no money OF
their own. but tap the church treas
ury with light heart. When May
corn drops below the freezing point.
this variety Of Spectator takes what
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-01-15
The NEXT ATTORNEY GENERAL.

The Sioux City Journal is excessively
anxious that Cosson be continued in
his present office" 1t calls him the
efficient incumbent and wishes to
keep him always
The Journals conversion to Ccsscn
for attorney general is like the con-
version of the Cedar RAJ ids Repub-
lican to drouth. The repeal seems to
have brought the Republican to a con-
clusion that the saloon is an unmiti-
burned all bridges between himself and
the attorney generalship seems to have
been the opportunity Of the Journal to
praise the incumbent" and insist that
he should go on incumbenting.
Let US cease talking of Mr.. Cosson
as a future incumbent OF the Office he
now holds. That can do no good what
ever harm it may be hoped that it
would do Mr. Cosson's candidacy for
governor. And let us turn to the Sc
lection of a man tit and able to take
Of the office as capably and sincerely
as has George Cosson.
We need and must have a good law
Yer and a forceful man with sense
Of duty in the attorney generals Of
fee The milling that will 90 on over
the governorship is likely TO distract
attention from rhe Importance OF the
prosecutors office and afford weak
ness its chance. Let us concentrate
upon some good man and good lawyer
and see that he Is nominated II none
such is out bring him out Get q good
lawyer OF the right Kind for attorney
general! 1t Is a. important as The gov
ernorship. Watch out for il.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-01-15

the pork barrel Of congress to the bene-i
fit of politicians, into schools to create;
officers for the new citizen army.
Under the bill the militia shall be
freed from police duty after 1920. That
gives states time to provide substi-
tute for the militia in suppressing To-
cal disturbances. The more thought is
given this angle of the bill with all
facts and conditions in mind, the more
it will establish itself as wise. We are
planning n nation wide organization for
national defense, not a police force.
Iowa may find it hard to understand
but Industrial states will not This
plan is for a national army willing to
defend the country. 1t must include all
classes and conditions of men.
England is an example of a divided
The division should be avoided here,
and must be avoided If the national
guard is to become a national army
recruited from men of all classes and
COnOlllOnS. II Is either tHe
itarism of Germany and France, or cit
izen army upon whom local disturb
ances and different local viewpoints do
not make for division and denial.
Senator Cummins' bills are the first
constructive proposition to be offered
which is in line with the thought and
desire of the great middle west. Its
purposes are plain and it's operation
would be entirely practical. AS COM
pared with the dream of an enlisted
continental army it is far the most
practical In comparison with the pro-
posal to establish forced militarisn
in the United States, modelled on the
European systems the latter is not to
be thought OF.
When the smoke of the congressional
battle field has blown away. the ma
tional guard will remain the main de-
fenSive force of the United tSates, and
Cummins' ideas will be written into
the enactments of preparedness.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-01-15
REGULATING NECESSITIES.
Madrid Register-News.l

Insurance is necessary, but no more
neceS> AIRY than are houses to live in.
Why should not the state say TO the
men engaged in selling lumber. that
they shall no longer do business IN
competitive basis but that they must
adhere to a regular schedule OF prices
fixed by the state and suffer a PEN
atty If they sell their product under the
prescribed rate?
The Journal may argue that it is the
states duty TO fix insurance rates in
order that the soIvency Of insurance
companies may be obtained and policy
holders protected, The Iowa law gov
erning the supervision of insurance
companies and their collateral deposits
with the state, may be expected to do
that. How many policy holders in
Iowa have suffered a loss as the result
of "unscientific premium writing" The
people have money deposited In banks.
Should not the same principle apply.
and the banks told that they shall loan
no money under certain rate?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-01-15
Topics of the Times

Lest we forget that a daily news
some magnitude, the New York Times
announces that its yearly gross in
come is $4,000. 900. that it employs 1000
people and circulates 100000 copies
every day. This represents a growth
ten fold in twenty years.
The count for Iowas census began
count is not yet done. Nobody would
have thought that we had that many
people in Iowa.
The cost Of a good newspaper should
be divided equally between the sub
scribers and the advertisers and each
should have half the paper devoted to
his interests. II the subscriber wants
to get off cheap the advertiser will get
more than his half Of the paper.
Measure up what you get for your
newspaper money as you do for your
coal money
Fortunes are awaiting the inventors
of commercial dyes which Will produce
fast colors. If necessity is going TO
mother anything in this line now is
her opportunity.
The Greater Des Moines committee
would have US abandon all state cleo
tions in Iowa and assemble every
voter in a big town meeting in Des
Moines for the selection Of state OFF,
GERS now that there are automobiles
enough in the state to carry every
voter to the town meeting on one trip
Senator kenyons concern for Taft
is one of the idiosyncractes which his
friends have to overlook in an other
wise sensible fellow
While the yield per acre may
be no perfect measure Of profit
TO the grower owing to the huctua-
tons of prices the aggregate yield
of crops for a season is good
measure Of prosperity for the entire
nation. When we have plenty OF game
in the bag we are pretty sure to have
meat for every member Of the camp.
Mr.. Havner, the brilliant lawyer Of
Marengo who is seeking the republican
nomination for attorney general. says
that when Polk county was wet it had
as many inmates in penal institutions
as thirty-six other counties with six
times as much population, that 1t had
as many DRINKS at Knoxville as forty
other counties with six times as much
population and that during the first
year in which Polk county was dry she
cut down her representation of DRINKS
at Knoxville one-half.
Savings bank in Fort Dodge wants
to build a sixstory block and another
savings bank in Cedar Rapids which
already has an eight-story block wants
| to make it twice as wide. VIII these
Iowa savings banks ever be satisfied?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-01-15
AUTOMOBILE FATALITIES.

iDes -ucIHe- capital
Is the deadliness of the automobile
increasing?
This question seems to be answered
in very conclusive manner in gov
eminent mortality statistics for the
year 1914. which Indicate that during
the five years from 1909, to 1914 the
number of automobiles increased in
the United States more than twice as
rapidly as the number of fatalities
caused by them. &
People who have noted the increas-
ing number of automobile accidents
with alarm have failed TO take into
consideration the rapid increase In the
number of machines used
AT the close OF 1909 the number Of
automobiles in use in the United States
was approximately 200. 600 by the close
of 1913 It had risen. TO 100000 and a
year later. at the end Of 1914, it was
1850, 900. ii
In the meantime the number of
deaths due to automobiles increased
which contains Sc per cent OF the pop
the same area for 1914
Thus a FIVE year increase of IT'S per
cent in number of machines has been
accompanied by an increase OF BIS per
cent in fatalities. The figures appear
to furnish ample justification for the
conclusion that the automobile today
is being driven with more care and
more regard for public safety than il
was a few years ago. altho there il
still plenty OF room for Improvement
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-01-15
WHY Blame God7

Everybody has seen the obituary res
olution that begins something like this:
TN the inscrutable wisdom OF Divine
Providence it mas pleased God to call
from us our dear brother samuei
Jones." Every body is familiar with the
funeral oratory that ascribes the TAX
ing off OF the lamented deceased to
mysterious act of the Almighty against
which it Is futile to protest.
The other day clergyman, the Rev.
J. Howard Melish. addressing puntic
meeting from the steps OF the city hail
in Brooklyn. declared this practice oil
blaming deaths on God WAS lying OF
pretty base order. He evoked no little
critfcism, but was he not right!
Why, for example. should death
by typhoid fever be attributed to the
inscrutable decree of heaven, when we
all know that typhoid is caused by
drinking polluted water and thas
polluted water is the result OF I'M
proper sanitation? Science has taught
s the. .:::Sss.. s;..::sscs ses are DreyentaDie,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-01-15
THE WAGES OF EASY" LIVING.
TSioux CITY Tribunel

The man who was counted not only
Chicago's most successful criminal, but
who was conceded by police authorities
and the underworld to have been one of
the greatest and most successful inter-
national crooks. is writing his auto
biography for the Chicago Daily News.
Altho his has been a life full of po-
litical pull and he has been given i'm
munity for a number OF crimes for
which men with lesser influence had to
serve time, Christian Barney Bertsche
writes this out of his own experiences:
1T {the life of a criminaD is an un-
equal combat. The individual Of the
underworld always losses-a bullet by
night. prison cell, a cot in the pau
per censumptive ward. The route may
be different, but the finish Is the
same" ,a
The young man who Is inclined to
follow the easy life OF sport"
should heed such warnings from those
who have reaped the sowing of such
wild oats. The finish is always the
sape-down and out under the most
favorable conditions, behind the bars
with the brand of a felon or on the slab
OF coronsT's ::c-sne as the other al
tentative. Would you work for any
store, any factory. any corporation, Civ
ing to the last full measure of your vi
tally and youth and energy for such
wages. young man?
OF course the world Of real labor IL
disagreeable at times; 1t requires sac
rifices Of pleasure. it demands appli-
cation. long hours and stern discipline.
to those who succeed. And some times
the wages are smaIl-unfairly so-but
even at the worst they are better than
the wages Of an "easy" life.
The safest thing and the most prof.
table thing that any young man can
do in these days is to get something
to do in the way Of honorable work,
regardless of what the wages may be.
Barney" Bertsche could tell every
young man not only the finish is the
same for every man who tries to beat
the straight industrious game of life.
but nine times out of ten the beginning
is the same:
aHalf Of the trouble and half OF the
strife.
Half of the ills and sorrows Of life:
Half of the crime and misfortunes. too.
Can be laid at the doors OF nothing to
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-01-15
cUMMINS' PREPAREDNESS BlLLs.

Senator Cumnins, in a bill introduced
Yesterday offers mis- idea of prepared
ness. The bill proposes an increase of
the national guard or states militia to
100000 on peace footing and double
that number for war strength. The
complete increase to 100000 can be
taken care of and maintained, the SEN
ator asserts. at cost of forty millions
and could be more equally modified
and better trained than the proposed
continental army
At the same time the senator intro
duced another bill toeconvert six army
posts into military training schools for
officers.
This proposition will probably re-
ceive united support from militia Off
GERS and militia men over the United
States. The friends OF the guard will
find 1t acceptable. Those opposed to
the Introduction OF European compul-
sorry military methods will find the
Cummins bill in agreement with their
ideas Of American preparedness. Per-
haps the army set and the ultra peace
at any price advocates will join in op-
posing it from entirely opposite view
points. But Senator Cummins' bills
seem to express the real desire Of the
country aside from the frightened
coasts, the war propaganda and the
non-resistants.
Whatever preparedness bill passes
the congress it will contain PRACTICAL,
the points of the bill introduced by the
Iowa senator. This Is a Democrat,
congress and whatever bill goes thr,
will be minted with the picture of {
democrat, but Cummins has writer
into his bills the sense of the people
Moreover, he has provided something
really constructive, an army effectiv
and readily mobilized that retains it
individuality Of citizenship and who's
soldiers, while trained in the element
of modern warfare, are still citizen
first and warriors in emergency.
Given militia organizations fairl
faciIe in military movements, the rea
lack Of an army is officers. These tn
senator proposes to furnish by adapt
ing useless army posts planted fror
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-01-15

morning, the mirrors face. snowy halr anu
ere we've time dye the place, hundred more are
there yesterday my locks were brown. ana NE
seemed in its dawn. the gray spreads Ger my
erown-how swift the years roll on But YESTERDAY
held child upon willing knee; an infant nnocent
and mild be utiful he: and now N tones u
bass he speaks he's learned to toll and spin, ana ne
whiskers on his cheeks upon his cnln. On
can this be that little child OF weight and
Drawn? the two be reconciled? How swift tne
years roll But yesterday limbs were Tree Ion
tree or swim across a lake But II walk block to-
day my wind and strength they take me home
ward dray; how swift the years roll on!
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-01-15
Iona Newspapers
THE AYES HAVE 1T.
TMcCallshllrg Record

Well, this is the day after election In
the town of McCallsburg for the cleo
trio light proposition, and the results
are certainly very satisfactory to those
favoring the granting OF the franchise,
as there was the largest vote polled at
this election that has been cast for any
proposition at any town election In
McCallsburg for the past ten years.
and while it was not quite unanimous
in favor of granting the franchise. the
negative vote was so small that it was
hardly worth passing comment. for
out of seventy votes polled, and every
one a perfect ballot, there were IS for
and against.