The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-07-27

ganization would be naturally heart
ened, but if the result should be in
favor of the republicans, the demo-
Gratis would not be in the least per-
turbed, as Maine is not in the demo-
cratic column when it comes to cal
culations for November.
AS to Wilson's chances for carry
ing Maine again this year, they will
depend largely on the attitude of the
progressives. Roosevelt received 49,
493 votes-nearly $4,000 more than
Taft. Word comes from Maine that
the progressives of four years ago
refuse to be delivered in bulk to the
old boss-ridden party, against which
they had bolted.
The situation in Maine is undoubt-
edly causing painful solicitude at
Hughes headquarters.
~ NE hears great deal these days
" about Captain Koenig, the bold
captain of the Deutschland, who has
been wined and dined in Baltimore
ever since the first undersea mer-
chairman completed it's voyage from
Bremen to the United States.
Perhaps one Herr Lohmann, back in
Germany, is quite willing for the cap
tain to be
The Man Behind the honized, for
Deutschland Venture Her Lohmam
is reported to
have cleared the tidy sum of $3,000,-
600 as a result of the Deutschland's
having eluded the British blockade
and brought to this country a valua-
BILE cargo of chemicals. The German
financier, who had a German father
and an English mother and was born
in Australia, conceived the idea of
sending a cargo of dyestuff to the
United States by submarine. He
bought concentrated essences at cost
in Germany, sold the product to
American manufacturers direct, thus
cannily avoiding commissions and
other middlemen's profits, and when
the Deutschland was towed into Bal
timore by tug, he was millionaire.
Herr Lohmann must be himself
man of imagination and financial abil-
ity, to have thought of such a bold
scheme, to have gained the support
of wealthy men in Germany and per-
suaded the admiralty to supply him
with sailors. Captain Koenig gets all
the applause, but Her Lohmann,
in popular vernacular, should worry.
He gets the money and there should
be a place in history for him as the
man who first undertook to use sub
marines as merchantmen.
VATE might have known it was
w coming. The only wonder is
that the dreaded announcement was so
long delayed. The useful postage
stamp, two Philadelphia scientists de-
clare in an article published in the
Medical Record,
New Peril Found is an instru-
on Postage Stamps ment of destruc-
ton. 1t carries
around millions of germs. He who in
his haste ticks a stamp and sticks it
on an envelope may do himself ire
parable injury.
The learned gentlemen tested fifty
stamps and forty-eight were loaded
with bacteria. 1t matters not that in
only two cases were any of the germs
isolated capable of causing disease.
A stamp can accumulate harmful
germs just as easily as the harmless
kind.
However, the postage stamp has
been under suspicion for sometime.
The woman who buys one from the
corner druggist and asks him to lick
it for her, may or may not know what
she is about, but the obliging druggist
gets the germs. Other Investigators
have discovered that the mucilage on
stamps has a certain food value, but
a hungry person might lick a million
and still not feel as if he had had
square meal.
incidentally, if the manufacturers
of stamp moisteners and mailing ma
chimes are wise they will use the
statement of the Philadelphia savants
to convince ultimate consumers why
they should never under any circum-
stances risk their lives by licking a
stamp.
THE Bankhead good roads bill,
j now enacted into law, will prove
to be one of the most popular meas
ures adopted by Congress in recent