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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-16

Laughinghouse began to increase their gait, gradually pulling away from Deas.
 In the sprint, Laughinghouse passed Jones once, but the Crimson star re- gained the lead within 15 yards of tho finishing tape.
 The University of Alabama easly won the team honors, with the Acipco Y. M. c. A. second Camp Sheridan finished third and Camp Mcclellan fourth.
 No accidents marred the race, and everything ran on scheduled time.
 The following is the complete and off, ficial list of how the teams and indi- viduals finished;
 First-University of Alabama (4D: 1, Walter Jones; 1, O. E. Kirchner; 5. Henry Beatty; 10, H. K. Deloney; 21, Leon Kidd; 20, E. W, Jones' Only first five mems scoring counted.
 second-Acipco Y. M. c. A. CID: 8, Rich ard Deas; 8, Guy Walker; It. Milton Fuquai r. Douglas Beatty; 27. Norman Darlington; 30, Raymond Fuqua.
 Third-Camp Sheridan QD-9, Edwin Heckel; 1S, l.. ". Barnett; IS, k, P. B, Brendleck; 15, A. D Mccartney; 19, K R. Beymer; 20, E. c. Moore
 Fourth-camp Mcclellan CS)--6 H. Kropman; [, M. Lynch; 21, H. Hudson; 2s, s, c. Gaule; s4, J. F. smith; 4s, J. Rogers. 6
 Fifth-Central Y. M. C. A. (9S)-11, John Connors; II, Howard Borland; p, Bill Hokins 23, Sam Chestnut; 2S, A. Papan- drow g, John Graham.
 Sixth-Birmingham Athletic Club d50- 2 Glenn Laughinghouse; 2S, Carl Stokes; S1, Douglas Early; 4S, F. F. Lambeth; 50, Charles Mabry.
 Seventh-Marlon Institute QSsl-S5 w. w. Barr; 36, G. Garvin; 8, D. S. Baker; s7. F. V. Anderson; fl, R. F. Maddox; 47, J. c. Collins.
 Unattached Runners From Camp Me- C1ellan-33, T, c. Young; 10, A Dun- can; 51, Friedman; G, Devanney; 45 Gwyn; 46, Rapp; 52, J. Early; 49, C.. Marbury; A, E. Kelly.
 Local Runners Attached-3S, ". God hski; A. Willie Roberts.
 Time of Winner-16,Ss 2-5. Laughing house, 1s:33 S-5; Deas, 16:42.
 0fficials-C. W. Streit referee: H. M. Urban, s. R. Batson, c. R. Orr and H. s. Cobbs, head iudges Clarence Me- Eachin, scorer; Jack Riddle. head timer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-16
JONES LANDS FIRST PLACE IN SPIRITED FINISH; ALABAMA IS VICTORIOUS TEAM
Laughinhouse Finishes Close Second and Deas Third. Camp Sheridan Third and Camp McClel-
 Ian Is Fourth

Walter Jones of the University of Alabama won the annual Birmingham Athletic club road race yesterday aft ernoon over a large field in one or the best events witnessed in years. Jones was pressed throughout, and only by a sensational sprint in the final yards did he manage to cross the tape slightly ahead of Glenn Laughinghouse of the B. A. C. The time was 16:SS 2-5.
 The weather was slightly too cold for the runners to try at the record, which is ls:1s. Of the 7s runners to start, 62 finished.
 Jones. Laughinghouse, Deas, Kirch- ner and Kropman led from the start. In the final mile, Jones, Laughinghouse and Deas ran together, with the lat ter in the lead for the majority of the time. In the last two blocks Jones and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-16
CASE AGAINST JURY
 COMMISSION ON TRIAL

The case of Horace c. Afford ct al. vs. the jury commissioners of Jeffer- son county, Eugene Brown, J. E. Gih- son and John B. Reid, wherein the jury commissioners are attacked in that they are charged with drafting only these for jury service that are ac- ceptable to corporations, is on trial before Judge H. A. Sharp in the cir cult court. Over 100 witnesses are to be examined.
 The case is attracting much saterest in view of the fact that it will ma terially affect the trial of cases and the legal profession is very much ln- terested in its outcome
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-16

ceve an honorable discharge with pay to date of discharge and travel pay at ths rate of 3iz cents per mile to the place where ordered to report by the local board. The order further states that tht local board of Jefferson county, Alabama will receive no credit for Bibby.
 Two Alabama officers Capts. Howard Gaillard, 116th field artillery and. John M. Fray of the 117th field artillery, have been ordered to Fort Sill, Okla, for a course in the school of fire.
 STEINER PASSES
 Washington, December 15.-(Spe. cial. 1.-The war departments examin- ing board for general officers, of which pr. Mayo is in charge, pro nounced today Gen. Robert E. Steiner, in command of Alabama troops at Camp Wheeler, perfect specimen of humanity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-16

a grave crisis is approaching in manl of the working class districts were adopt ed today by the workers national com mittee, which includes representatives oi most of the large trade unions Roberi Smiilie. president of the Miners Fedora tion, Is chairman of the committee
 The resolutions say that in somt working class districts women are com pelled to wait In front of shops and often are unable to obtain tea, sugar milk, butter. bacon, or margarine. bad system of distribution is said to be largely responsible for this state of af fairs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-16

Perhaps the most notable specimen of self-watering plants is the so-calied water barrep' which, of about the size and shape of an ordinary beer keg, is, in fact, nothing more nor less than living water tank. Its whole interior is composed of storage cells so admirably arranged that the pulp which they form contains something like 96 per cent of pure water.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-16
STEINER PASSES
English Workers Want Food Distribution Plan Bettered

London, December 15.-Resolutions call ing on the government to introduce a system of rationing and asserting that
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-16
HOWELL AND CURRY INDICTED FOR MURDER

Grady Howell and Clifford Curry, the two white boys who confessed to the murder of the negro chauffeur some weeks ago, are being held for trial on a charge of murder in the first de- gree by the grand jury.
 The boys are now in the county jail. This case created quite sensation in local police circles.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-16

Canadian press statements report the acquisition by American interests of experiencing lands in New Bruns- wick
The day book., 1917-04-25


vibration of the earth's surface when
yet very thin formed that infant-ike
mass separated in large Jumps the
approximate Size of man.
The shaking crust caused Jumps,
which had a north and south pole
like magnets to crawl and jump
about. It was subject to the earth
pole, just as a child's brains are sub
ject to the call of its mother. AS
these peculiar things crawled about
on the grass under the trees that
were already forming, one lump
would occasionally fall on another
top Of another.
The vitality jacket already partly
developed and the other forces in the
top lump were attracted by gravita-
ton and by the lower lump. The
forces flowed downward into the
middle of the lower lump. The Jumps
were little bigger at the middle and.
therefore, the eyes, the spots, Tadi-
ating toward the sun, fell into each
other. After a while the center of
the lower lump became sOftened by
the rocking and vitality flow. A piece
separated and fell away. A first baby
was born.
The top lump, father lump, fell of
and the baby, which had just inher-
tied a personal vitality jacket and
the same forces which were pos
sessed by the parent humps, became
more pronounced. The little lump
became more sensitive and active. It,
therefore, developed into a lump like
the father lump The production pro-
cess was repeated, etc. Vital force
began to be transformed and utilized
for active life by the lump human.
Thus it is possible that a live human
race had started and as the ages
passed grew more active and deve1-
Oped a greater form of life.-Good
Active, P. o. Box $50.
NO, ONE is PERFECT eniOv
The day book., 1917-04-25

man to go uncondemned, if they
must blame? The man is always as
much to blame and usually more.
Forget the past and look toward the
future. None Of us are perfect, so
why condemn those who have
fallen? Help them rather to rise
again-A. II. Harris, 1928 Cleveland.
The day book., 1917-04-25

future. None Of us are perfect, so
why condemn those who have
fallen? Help them rather to rise
again-A. II. Harris, 1928 Cleveland.
A COLONY OF HOMESEEKERS.
1t was with pleasure that read F.
P. H. s article Of April Is about the
homestead. presume he knows
the hardships he will have to under
go, the solitude he must overcome
and the education he will not give to
his children. To go on homestead
takes money, even though it is free,
and you must do all the work alone,
which makes it all the harder.
had the same idea of taking a
homestead, but I found l cannot do
all the work alone, but must have the
help Of others. 1 know, as l went
with my father to cOlOnize in North
ern Michigan, and I know the hard
ships one must undergo.
But it is not necessary to go way
out west. Good productive land can
be gotten right here in Southern
Michigan or Wisconsin. 1t takes
money to buy land in these states, it
is true, but what is the use of taking
a homestead of $50 acres and let it
all lie idle when a few acres under
cultivation are enough.
If a group of men and women
would. get together and plan on go
ing, a way would be found to go, as
there are many land companies who
are looking for such undertakings
and are offering special inducements.
l would like to hear from those
who would like to GOWN. Fuhr-
man, 2243 w. 18th st.
OVERALL WORKERS STRIKE
Fifteen firms of overall manu-
The day book., 1917-04-25

OVERALL WORKERS STRIKE
Fifteen firms of overall manu-
facturers were hit yesterday when
between 500 and 600 workers went
out on strike because the employers
refused to fulfil terms of a union
agreement signed at the close Of a
prviOUs strike.
The day book., 1917-04-25

NO, ONE is PERFECT. Il enjoy
reading The Forum every day.
should like to express my opinion in
answer to A Young Mother. Why do
men look down upon these unfortu-
nate girls? Why do they allow the
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-03-03
STATE ROAD BILL DEFEATED
Could Get Aid Voted Down
by House.

Topeka-The state will not go into
the road making business itself for at
least four years. The house, after
TWO hours debate, defeated the reso-
luton to change the constitution so
that the state could engage in road
construction, by a vote of to 10.
Advocates of state aid had worked
hard for the resolution, hoping that
the question would be submitted to
the people at the next election
While the house was fighting over
the state aid question the senate was
Iixlng up the good roads bill. passed
carrier in the week by the house This
Dill tells how roads shall be built in
case the various counties want to
build roads 1t provides for a state
commission to supervise road work.
Inc senate made no material changes
except to eliminate that section which
gives the state commission power to
levy taxes in county for the upkeep
OF federal aid road in case the
county commissioners refuse to do So
However, provision was inserted
which practically compels county COM
missloners to make such levy
IL the house passes the senate bill
providing way for the construction
OF hard surfaced roads, the state will
nave plenty of legal machinery for
building roads, even though it cannot
issue state bonds or levy state taxes
10 pay for the work. The counties,
townships and road districts can build
roads and receive federal aid, too
The house also voted down the reso-
luton providing for a change in the
constitution so that more than three
constitutional amendments could be
submitted to the people at one cleo
ton 1t adopted, in committee of the
whole, resolution to change the con-
stitutional provision in regard to tax
alton. The resolution adopted is the
same as was submitted to the people
two years ago and voted down by
them. 1t classifies property for tax
alton purposes.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-03-03

This attractive little lady is the
two year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
o. NJ Fisher, 23S North St, Harris
burg, Pa. Last winter she had an at
tack of measles, together with a very
severe cold. Just at that time Drug
gist s. ]. Wilhelm presented Mr..
Fisher with a jar Of the Southern
outside" treatment-Vick's VapoRub
Salve, which was just then being in
troduced in Harrisburg, and requested
that he give this preparation a thor.
ough trial Mr.. Fisher writes
7 must say that our >baby had
such a cold on her chest and in her
throat that she could hardly talk.
and we could not get her to take
anything internally After we used
Vick's VapoRub Salve on her breast
and throat at night before going
TO bed she was entirely relieved.
No family should be without this
preparation. 1t is externally applied.
and so can be used freely-it is abb
sorbed through and penetrates the
skin. and. in addition. is inhaled as a
yapor. 1t has a hundred uses for the
many minor ailments for which every
mother is the doctor. Three sizes.
25c, SOC or s1.0o.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-03-03
is 1T TOO MUCH RoUTINE7
Writer Complains That Too Few Are
Properly Familiar With the Pages
of the Bible.

Bible-quoting is all the more effec-
tive nowadays, as an influence in lit
erature or oratory-at least when it is
pat and clever-for the fact that fewer
people know the book than formerly In
spite of the Sunday schools and the In
ternational Lessons, familiarity with
the Bible is becoming rarer.
Boys and girls go to Sunday school
all through their childhood and some
how come out of it unable to quote a
line from the Bible. And yet they are
sufficiently familiar with 1T to be able
to feel the force of a quotation or an
illustration, and the rare individual
who knows his way through the pages
of the book can easily catch their SYM
pathy.
Why should almost universal instruc-
ton in the Bible result in a genera
ton that does not know the book? Why
should rote lessons on Hamlet" and
1.-The Tempest" make the same genera
ton hate Shakespeare Why does
everything that is required TO 20 in at
one ear and out at the other7 Why
are the set words of the wise as odious
goads, as nails fastened by the masters
of assemblies, while bread eaten In
secret is pleasant? Much study is now,
as in the days of Solomon, a weari-
ness of the flesh 1t thwarts its own
purpose.-Exchange.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-03-03
CUT THE SCHOOLS BUDGET
Only Small Increases Were Allowed
State Educational Institutions by
the Senate Committee.

Topeka--Three new buildings, but
only nIggardly increases in the main
tenance and salary accounts were al
lowed the state educational institu-
lions by the ways and means commit
tees of the legislature when the bud
get for the educational and penal in
situations was submitted to the SEN
ate. The friends of the institutions
are greatly discouraged over the fail
ure to provide sufficient funds for
maintenance and salaries. This years
budget compared with the 1915 appro-
priation is:
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-03-03
"CASCARETS' ACT
ON LIVER; BOWELS
NO sick headache, biIiousness,
bad taste or constipation
by morning.
Get a 10-cent box.

Are you keeping your bowels, liver.
and stomach clean, pure and fresh
with Cascarets, or merely forcing a.
passageway every few days with
Salts, Cathartic Pills, Castor Oil or
Purgative Waters?
Stop having a bowel wash-day. Let
Cascarets thoroughly cleanse and reg
u1ate the stomach, remove the sour
and fermenting food and foul gases,
take the excess bile from the liver
and carry out of the system all the
constipated waste matter and poisons
in the bowels.
A Cascaret tonight will make you
feel great by morning. They work
while you sleep-never grippe, sicken
or cause any Inconvenience, and cost
only 10 cents a box from your store.
Millions of men and women take q
Cascaret now and then and never
have Headache, Biliousness, Coated
Tongue, Indigestion, Sour Stomach or
Constipation. Adv.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-03-03
s1,517,745 for Charities.

Without criticism or opposition, the
senate ways and means committee put
through on final roll call bills. already
passed by the house. appropriating a
total of S1.517,745 to six big state char
liable institutions. The total, although
it included only small amounts for new
buildings. is an increase of 1864, S95
over the appropriations made to the
same institutions two years ago.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-03-03
Road Bill to the Senate.

The senate has begun work on the
Hard Surface Road bill. When road
is finally ordered and built the bill
provides that after any state and fed
eral aid has been exhausted that the
county at large pays one-ha1f the re-
naming cost, the township 25 per
cent and the other 25 per cent is
then taxed to the property in the bene-
fit district. The benefit district may
be a larger area than the abutting
property.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-03-03

finished The doc
tors said I would
have to be opera
ted on and / simply
brok Q down. A
friend advised me
to try Lydia E.
Pinkham's v eye.
table Compound,
and the result is /
feel like a new wom-
an. / am well and
strong, do all my
nUn -0-l~
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-03-03
LEGISLATURE HAS
KILLED 588 BILLS
Out OF a Grand Total of 1,577
Introduced, Only So Have
Passed.
HOPE To ADJOURN MARCH 10
Leaders of Both Houses Believe Ia
bors of Session Can be Compile
ted by That Time.

AOpehd-In SIX weeks of work the
Kansas legislature has passed fifty
three bills and killed 58S out of a toal
or 1,517 introduced, according to re-
sumo of the session compiled here. 1t
was pointed out that in the fifty-three
measures passed by both houses there
are few important acts and many ad-
ministration bills are yet to be acted
upon finally Leaders of both houses
are hopeful for an adjournment not
later than March 10.
Only two of the big measures got
through during the week-a city man
ager bill and a good roads bill. The
mouse passed the state manager bill
but 1t has not come up for considera-
ton in the senate. The house will
likely pass the receivership bill.
Both houses have passed many
original bills. But these measures
have encountered rough travel when
they reached the opposite end of the
hail. A majority of these bills are
either held in committees or are being
deferred in the deliberations of the
law makers.
A total of 81 bills, however. is
out on the house and senate calendars
under general orders. 1t is quite GER
tain, though, that the next week will
see the appointment of revision COM
mittees in both houses. That means
that numerous bills that found their
way through the committee rooms
will die on the calendars when final
adjournment is declared
Each day the desire of the rural
members to go home increases New
members who are digging up real
money from the family till to meet
meal ticket deficits after So a day
is gone, are willing to quit almost
any time.
House committees have performed
noble service in the trenches during
the last few weeks. From an offering of
879 bills, they have to date slaughtered
347. 1t is estimated that SO per cent
of the bills now in the committees will
fail to find place on the calendars
during the present session. In the SEN
ate 220 of the Cos bills have failed
to survive a trip to the committee
rooms.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-03-03
House Bars Cigarette Ads

The house has passed a bill to pro-
hibit the circulation in Kansas of any
newspapers containing cigarette ad-
vertising. The bill is a companion
measure to the one prohibiting the
circulation of papers containing liquor
ADVERTISING
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-03-03
Normal May Get s2oa, 900.

AT a joint session, of the ways and
means committee of the senate and
house it was decided to recommend
the appropriation of 5000, 900, for a
new building at the Pittsburg Manual
Training Normal school and So 900 for
improving the athletic school field.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-03-03
To Help Draft e..eone Dry Bill.
May Fine Cigarette Smokers.

The lower house of the legislature
has passed bill providing a fine of
from So to SIS for persons caught
smoking cigarettes. The bill does
not exempt class, district or place,
making it just as unlawful to smoke
at home or at dinner parties as in
public
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-03-03
May Ban Cigarette Smoking

Persons possessing or smoking
cigarette in Kansas viii be guilty OF
misdemeanor if bill recommended
for passage by the Kansas house be-
comes a law. The sale of cigarettes
in Kansas has been prohibited for
several years.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-03-03
A FRIENDS
ADVICE
Woman Saved From a Seri-
GUS Surgical Operation.

Louisville, Ky.-'fFor four years I
suffered from female troubles, head
aches, and nervousness. I could not
sleep, had no appetite and it hurt me to
walk. IL I tried to do any work,
would have tn lie down before it was
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-03-03
Constitution Bar to Roads.

The state of Kansas will not be
able to engage in road building until
a constitutional amendment is adopt
ed giving it the right to engage in in
ternal improvements. The legisla-
ture wanted the question tested and
made an appropriation of $4,000
short time ago for road building pur-
poses. Then a suit was brought in
the supreme court and that tribunal
held that the appropriation act was
illegal resolution is now pending
to change the constitution.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-03-03

For genuine comfort and lasting pleas
ure use Red Cross Ball Blue on wash day
ALI good grocers. Adv.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-03-03
House Passes Road Bill.

The Kansas Highway Commission
bill has been passed by the house
by vote of 20 to 40. The bill has
been under discussion by the house
for five days. and has had more
amendments offered and adopted and
then stricken out than any measure
before the present legislature
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-03-03
Passes City Manager Bill.

The house, on third reading. passed
the city manager bill and also the bill
consolidating state boards and pro-
riding for general manager to handle
the business Of the state institutions.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-03-03

Some people tell the truth only wheI
lie won't answer the purpose.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-03-03

A state-owned paper mill is being adj
vocated in Minnesota.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-03-03

nave an eight pound baby girl I know
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound saved me from an operation
which every woman breads. - Mrs
Louisville, KY.
Everyone naturally breads the sur
geon,s Knife Sometimes nothing else
VIII do, but many times Lydia E. Pink
mans Vegetable Compound has saved
the patient and made an operation un-
necessary.
If you have any symptom about which
you would like to know, write to the
Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co., LYNN.
Mass, for helpful advice given free.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-03-03

There's very little to be gained by
being n knocker
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-03-03

sun-dried oysters are delicacy in
China.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-03-03
Gratitude.

Grocer-Now that l gave you a ba-.
mana. what do you say?
Mary-Please open it.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-03-03
No Carry Nation Memorial.

The Carry Nation Memorial Bill.
which gave permission for the cree
ton of drinking fountain on the Kan
sas statehouse grounds in honor of
Kansas noted woman prohibition
worker. by the Kansas Women's Chris
tian Temperance Union, has been kill
ed by the house committee on public
buildings and grounds.