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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-07
PIONEER CITIZEN
 DIES AT PULLMAN

News of the death of George C. Hoehn of Cullman was received in the city last night. his death having oc- cured yesterday afternoon at the fam fly residence in Cullman. The deceased was IT years of age and had lived in Cullman since 1871. He is survived by his widow and 10 children, the major ity residing here. Funeral arrange ments have not been announced. Sur viving children are A. U. Hoeh;i. R. c. Hoehn, C. II. Hoehn and A. R. Hoehn of Avondale, F. M. Hoehn of Vivian, Albert Hoehn. Joe Hoehn of Texas, A. Hoehn of Chattanooga. Miss Lena Hoehn of Birmingham and Miss Min nie Hoehn of Cullman.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-07
Y. M. c. A. CAMPAIGN
 ENDORSED BY CITY
Tag Day for Relief of Destitute Armenians to Be Held
 Saturday

Rev. W. B. Holmes, on behalf of the Y. M. c. A., appeared at the city commission meeting yesterday morn ing and asked the indorsement of the war work councils plan to raise $T5,- 900 in Birmingham for the I. NJ. c. A. work in training camps and at the front among American soldiers. The city heartily indorsed the plan.
 John c. Morrow also asked permis- sion for the Armenian and Syrian com- mittees to give a tag day in Birming- ham on Saturday, November 10, the proceeds to go to the war relief fund being raised in America for the starv- ing and destitute Armenians and Syrians in the old country. This per- mission was granted also.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-07
Children's Aid Society

Ralph S. Barrow will leave in a few days for Mobile. where he will speak before the Alabama Federation of Women's clubs on the subject of the Alabama Childrens Aid society. MT. Barrow is connected with the ju- venile court and Children's society and will give the womens clubs informa- tion along these lines.
 The women's clubs are behind the work of the above organizations and are planning some active work for them in the near future.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-07
From Weak and Lame
 To Well end Strong

Try them. Foley Kidney Pills will do far other men and women--Quick- lv-what they have done for Mrs. Straynge.
 Last year. rot almost down with my back" writes Mrs. H. T. Straynge of Gainesville, Ga. R. No. 3: T sui ferel from Inflammation of the plad- l grew worse. l tried Foley Kidney Pills. and after taking them he sg,,,a awn,,s nns the stinging sensation disappeared. ! am now stronger in my back than I've ting weli. I've stayed we'll and had TO return of the trouble"
 Start in now to use Foley kidney Pills. You will feel an improvement from the very first doses. showing how quickly they act on kidneys and bladder. They stop irregular urinary action. ease pain in back and sides, timber up stiff joints and aching mus cles. They put the kidneys and blad- Ger in sound. healthy condition. Try them.
 Sold everywhere.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-07
TEMPTING DISPLAYS
 MADE IN FURNITURE

Many smart retailers use fac-simile illustrations to induce sales through printed advertisements. Hhe Strickland Green Furniture company not only does this, but is now adding further induce ments by an arrangement of show win dows that suggest the usefulness of their furniture. Recent alterations of their windows provide a complete series of rooms. kitchen, dining room, living room and bedroom, each suitably and coziy furnished.
 To judge by the number of visitors at this big Store. still greater inducements are the quality of goods and fairness of prices shown inside.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-07
White Man Injured

P. F. Cleveland, white man. was run over and seriously injured yes- terday afternoon about 5:30 o'clock by an unknown automobile on the First avenue viaduct. Cleveland was rushed to the IIillman hospital in ShaW's ambulance, where his condition was announced as serious but not fa- tai. Police are in search of the driver of the car.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-07
Monday Denver Crowds
 Witness Bold Robbery
 and Did Not Suspect

Denver. November 6.-While hun drcds of noonday shoppers were pass- ing. an unmasked man today entered the town office of NJ. Cooper on Seventeenth street. near Curtis. forced him to open the safe, took jewels valued at s4Oo0, marched Cooper across q crowded sidewalk into mo- tor car driven by Confederate and drove of with Cooper and the loot. Cooper was taken to q remote sec tion where he was thrown from .lthe cor
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-07
City Commissioners to Attend the Community
 Singing Next Sunday

The city commission on yesterday ac- cepted the invitation of Director Rob- ert Lawrence to attend the concert at the Bijou theatre on Sunday afternoon next, when a box would be provided for them under special arrangement.
 This is the regular community sing ing, but special programme has been prepared for the commissioners.
 The invitation was extended by W. H. Hendrixs, who spoke in behalf of Prot lessor Lawrence, who could not be present.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-07
TODAY'S EVENTS
At the Theatres

Jefferson. Tim Murphy in Pals tirst' Matinee at 23Q Night performance at SIS p. III.
 Lyric: Keith vaudeville. Matinee p. m. Night performances 7:So and s:1a D. n?.
 BiJou: Superior vaudeville ana eAclu- sive feature pictures. Continuous per formanccs, o'clock until Il p III,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-07

sion. officially, with one excep- tion. He is also ex officio presi- dent of the city board of educa- tion. In various capacities the president of the city commission is called upon to serve, but the duties of his office are prescribed as above in the act creating the office which he holds
 As an opener, Dr. Barrett yes terday asked the city attorney to draw up an ordinance to borrow s50,000 for immediate use of the city. The East Lake doctor ham, died the. situation with ease.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-07
Arouses the Liver and Puri6es the
 Blood

The Old Standard general strengthen- ing tonic. GROVES TASTELESS chill TONIC. arouses the liver to action. drives Malaria out of the blood and builds up the system. For adults and children. COG.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-11
The Citizens Responsible
Should Prevent Child Deaths by
Furnishing Milk to Poor

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: In your issue of October there Is a
"weasel-worded" editorial on the milk stu
alton. Il "a there set forth that there has
been an increase in the number Of deaths
among children caused by diarrh9al dis
eases; that this increase in infant mortality
was caused by feeding the children poor
grade Of milk; that the price Of milk was so
high that poor people were forced to buy a
low grade because they were unable, By rea-
son of their poverty, to buy good grade;
that either the dairymen or the dealers, or
both, are responsible for the high prices, and
are therefore guilty Of child murder
The editor Of The Tribune is poor s,euth.
lie has entirely overlooked a lot of people
who are the real criminals. That lot of people
arc the citizens Of the City OF New York II
is their business-nay, their duty-to care
for their poor II is their duty to aid those
of their poor who are unable to provide
proper food for their children. And when
they fail to perform that duty, and as re-
suit of their failure children die, the respon-
sibility for their death rests on the citizens
of New York, and on them alone. II, there
fore, the charge Of child murder is to be
brought At all in the controversy over the
milk situation, then we submit that it rests
more properly against the people Of New York
than against the dairymen, who arc struggling
TO escape from condition that has been lit
tie. if any, better than slavery.
The dairymen are entitled to a fair price
for milk. They will not get a fair price until
it is high enough TO put their business on the
same level as that occupied by other kinds Of
business The price they are getting is much
too low to accomplish that just end. 1t should
be at least double the present price.
And the dairymen a-e under no obligation
OF any kind to sell milk at a price so low
that even the poorest may afford TO buy.
Press that idea to its logical conclusion and
the dairymen would Be compelled 20 furnish
milk for nothing, for there are always some
who are too poor 20 buy at any price. Even
If they did furnish milk for nothing the con-
sumer would have to pay seven or eight
cents a quart for it as the result OF trans
portation and dealers charges. At that
price many poor people might be unable
to buy. What would the consumer want
then? Would he want the darymen taxed
that they were forced 20 produce in order
TO provide fund 10 be used 10 aid in
supplying the poor with milk? Very likely
he would for he does not seem TO have even
the most elementary idea OF fair play.
o. V. MORRIS.
Adena, Ohio, Oct s, 1917.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-11
Omceholding Tax Dodgers
No Reason for Granting Them
Invidious Exemptions
n rho Editor Of Tn. Tribune

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: If the Hon. Claude Kitchin, chairman
Of the Committee of Ways and Means in the
House Of Representatives, had deliberately
Planned perhaps he did to bring about a
condition Of antagonsm 70 the new Liberty
Loan he could hardly have thought of any
thing better calculated to discourage sub
scriptons and interfere with its success than
the clause ne forced into the new bill which
taxes all incomes over $4,000, except those of
Congressman and government officials, $ per
cent in addition 10 the regular income tax.
Why should Congressman or Senators be
exempt? Is their patriotism of a different
trand from that of the voters who elected
them? This attempt to shirk duty imposed
or all others is likely TO cost the party in
power dear at the next Congressional cleo
ton.
Mr.. Kitchin is credited with a feeling Of
hostility to the with Germany, and ap-
parently he is doing all he can by outrageous
taxation TO make it unpopular. Congress
should lose no time in repeating this obnox-
ious exemption provision. NJ. 7. X.
New York Oct. 9, 1917.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-11
\ Word for Mr.. Bennett

To the Editor Of The Tribune
Sir: Il is not too late yet for the new"
papers to throw the.r influence 20 Mr zen
nett a. the candidate most likely % deieS'
Judge Hyi.u Let Mr. Bennett but grow il
popular esteem AS the canvass progresses, !"
did the last candidate Of the Republican parry
Tor Mayor, and this step might be assured
Meanwhile, let the $50 citizens who are inter-
ested. as they claim, in the citys welfare
above all personal OF partisan affiliations sup
port this candidate. His honesty is unim'
peachable, and If ne is elected they need n."'
no concern about good government 10 Ne'
York Tor the next four years most iinpoi'
tant consideration in this tax-rldden COM
munity. j,
Every New Yorker was proud o. the r'eola
made during his canvass By the candidate iSs
Mayor, who called himself the lonely chi'a'
At its close nothing was too good for D N .
the hands Of his fellow citizens, except w
majority OF their votes. lie was so much os
GER and better than his party that he mas Nv
been heard from since as candidate ~, ~
Office "A fate that is not likely 20 beiaI "''
Bennett whether he is elected or not
JOHN p. DAWN, ~ D.
New York. Oct. Q. 1917.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-11
The Great Bad
tor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir Froude quotes George Eliot as observ-
ing, spropos of bishops knee breeches and
his liberal theological views: "The mixing of
things is the Great Bad" Mr.. Cornelius Dom
oyan's letter in The Tribune on single tax and
lGnd-value paper money is IA sample Of the
bad results of mixing a sound economic prin-
ciple with a monetary delusIon. The PROPOSE
tion TO take for public uses the increased
value Of land arising from growing popula-
ton and better public services is one against
which no valid objection can be urged The
Lotion that a satisfactory currency system
can be based on land values is an iridescent
dream.
Henry George was a profound thinker on
most social and economic questions, and his
exposition OF what he termed the natural
order of human society is destined TO become
the basis Of future civilization. On the money
question his views We're weak and inconclu-
sive, proof that great men are not great in
all directions.
Our present currency system IS undoubtedly
imperfect and in need of radical reorganiza-
tion. The Federal Reserve banking law is
better than the old national bank law, but
there is still room for vast improvement. The
line of reform, however, is not in the direction
OF paper money based on land. but rather in
the establishment OF mutual banking systems
Under which all yestiges of money monopoly
will disappear; in other words. free trade in
banking, and the issue OF currency based on
the commodity wealth of the country
WHIDDEN GRAHAM.
New York. Oct 10, 1917.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-11
Cabarets
Prom The Chicago Triop.>)
of scoundrels


TIL. Chicago brewers ard retail liquor deal
ers demand an ordinance TO forbid music
dancing and kindred frvolitos In saloons
and bibulous restaurants unless (why the e1-
ception?) there are seats for 800 guests An
end of jazz bands. An end OF runways
Taken under the angelic wing Of the rum
trade. this loop would be as purl;anical as the
Boston our aldermen visited ana are sun
piaising 10 the zenith.
Now, when the rum trade COS in for re-
form there are onlookers cynical enough TO
harbor suspicious. Some Imagine that sa-
loonkeepers not in possession Of jazz bands,
,unways and dancing floors seek vengeance on
those who are. Others suspect that the rum
trade fears prohibition and taxes this way Of
limiting that cabarets would be Sorely missed.
Well so they would. To be sure, their
passing might prevent much needless COB
ping and, by liberating large swarms Of
ablo-bodied young women who now caper in
pink tights, do lot toward solving the SER
want problem; but many Chicagoans enjoy
cabarets without abusing them and IT is our
impression that the damning charges pre-
ferred by the rum trade grestly exaggerato
the facts.
Nor does it seem to us that the sole way Of
abolishing what evils exist in carbarets is TO
abolish the cabarets. Keep the cabarets.
Abolish the evils. That can be done. We are
inclined to think that il can be done more
easily than by putting ca5arets out Of busi-
ress and attempting to cope with new forms
Of skittishness that will manage to take their
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-11

have made German newspapers and Ter
man statesmen hail him as Germaays
friend. This is the natural outcome, the
logical fruit Of the work which Elihu Root
so eloquently and so accurately described
The seeds of hate which Hearst was then
sowing in the minds of immigrants are
now ripened into antagonism toward
America Hearst, as Mayor Mitchell mas
said, has stabbed America In the back
And this the public owes to him.
There is one way to pay some OF this
accumulated debt. 1t will pay Hearst, and
at the same time serve the City of New
York and the United States. 1t is to de-
feat Hearsts candidate and Murphy's,
Judge Hylan, SO that the result OF the
election can carry no JOY to Tammany
Hall and no hope to Berlin.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-11
An Embargo on knitters

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Thank you for publishing to-day tho
letter OF I. W. Ketcham. As an American
country woman. whose childhood pin money
was obtained By knitting mems socks and
mittens, | naturally started to resume such
knitting for my men at the front to-day.
say started for ! got no further than pric-
ing the wool
had an experience which |. ". Ketcham
does not mention. and that is of receiving
hostile and contemptuous treatment from
the small shopkeepers in my neighborhood
from whom first tried to obtain gray Scotch
wool for mems socks. Out Of three nearest
stores, tro were we'll stocked with colored
woods, but showed a singular lack of interest
il securing the material wanted. The third
responded TO my request By the attendant
contemptuously tossing before me a small
sample of exactly what | wanted and quoting
me a price of $40 pound, without any at
tempt TO notice whether | accepted or de-
clined It. Il am buying a superior quality
OF wool in small towns TO-DAY for less than
81 poundl
was given the impression in many small
shops that il was a rep-ehensibe thing 20
use the material sought 70 buy. On this
cue found that | was correct in my surmse
as TO the nationality of the keeper of each
OF these shops. MARY ELLIS.
New York, Oct 3, 1917.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-11
Ireland's Awakening

II is not surprising to learn that the
Irish of Ireland are ashamed and heartily
sick of a little group of contemplate I'M
posters who have pretended for years 10
represent their race in this country. Inc
only wonder is that it has taken them so
long TO discover the true character of these
vretched. servile agents of foreign schem-
ers. who, without running any risk them
selves. were perfectly willing to ruin Ire
land if by so doing they could in any way
promote the success of Germany
A Dublin correspondent of THE Globe
saws that the recent disclosures have made
a painful impression on the minds OF the
neople. and that "the revelation that Ger
many was using them is not agreeable
But what, after all, did they imagine? Is
it possible that they swallowed the rub
lish so impudently dished out to them by
such writer's as James Mcclure or were
so simple as to think the Germans cared a
fig about them and their aspirations!
Could they not perceive the irony OF Mr..
McGuire's alegorical frontispiece, showing
Germania as the devil on the summit OF an
exceeding high mountain
If such transparent hints escaped them
thew might at least have taken warning OF
the more obviously foolish propagandists,
such as the grotesque Dewey, that prince
of stage Irishmen. who at least year ago
was talking ingratiatingly of German
Irish alliance as something which was to
last not only to the end of the present war
but at is to be hoped for long after it, a
broad enough hint, surely, of what the
schemers here were really aiming at.
But if these plain intimations were not
sufficient, the case of the Inflated Case
ment, with what has since come out about
the futile attempt to establish a German
Irish brigade, spoke for itself. The mo-
tive of the Germans in this case should
have been obvious TO the dullest under
standing, being exactly equivalent 20 what
Nelson conceived to be Napoleon's gen
eral principle of action" in equipping and
sending forth party Of Corsicans in
1896: of you succeed, so much the better
FOR US; if you do not, we get rid of set
of scoundrels."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-11
Going Through the Motions

Americans are ritualistic nation in
uon-essentials. We are blatantly indie
pendent and free-and-easy in our religions,
in our speech, in our manners. When 1t
comes to our sports, that is, our hired
sports, we are as another breed-we kow-
tow and humble and repeat our magic
rites, from one year TO another, like so
many lamas of Tibet.
Just now the whole United States of
America, and the regions bordering on
Lake Michigan and the Hudson River in
particular, are going through the great
annual rites known as the Worlds Series.
There is no difficulty in selling all the
seats. The entire staff of Office boys de-
ploys about the ticker from the first pitched
ball to the last, exactly as in the past. No
detail of ritual is omitted. The whole
thing is put through by the great Ameri-
can public precisely as punctliously as if
men by the thousand and million had not
died and were not dying only few thou
sand miles away in the greatest tragedy
Of human history.
Is it comic relief? Does the Polo
Grounds serve to cheer up the down
hearted? Certainly, there is no reason for
ending all our fun and sitting around with
a long face waiting for something TO turn
I'D. But we doubt that the great Ameri-
can public is getting vast citation out OF
the present warfare under Coogan's Bluff.
II is chiefly ancient humble tumble that
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-11
Futile Education

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: There are some of Us who have ar
gued that the war is largely the product Of
the false education Of the day-Gernany BE-
ing about the leader in IL. We have also
said that in the reconstruction after the war
there will be a new education. Now CON"
Lord Hsrbertou with a book published re-
comfy in London that may be cons der'd ono
Of the stepping stones 10 tho rev education
Lord Harbertou actually attempts TO show
that We owe more to uniearned people thah
10 the sons of learning, and that the whole
education craze IS a wicked mistake ne
holds that there should be no compulsory eda'
cation or school attendance Herein be IS
like many noted Englishmen OF the past
Herbert Spencer in particular. whose frien1
cssayed a movement for the abolition Of eota
state-supported schools and compulsion.
Lord Harberton contends that the Engisn
education act approves a system that
constant source of worry and expense, en-
failing endless, irritating, inquisitorlal on
cial visits morning, noon and night fron
hordes of education providers, licensed MO-
wives, sanitary pests inspectors, surveyors
spies and that abomination Of desolation-
the medical Office Of health
Exactly as Lord Harberton portrays Il 10
England do We ind 1t here Exactly as DO
portrays il did the friends Of Herbert spencer
find it throughout England years ago, and
socmnly did they say that the land 30 gwen
10 the persecution of IFS masses would have
reckoning made Of IL in the years 10 come
FRANCIS B. LlNEsEf'
West Friendship, Md, Oct. 6, 1917.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-11
The Nemesis Of Germany

What years, what centuries. shall cleanse
your name?
What from the scorn OF men shall set you
free?
You, who have built of black inquity
The dreadful pillars of your house Of fame.
Echoes of agony shall prolong your shame
Dead lips shall tell your deeds Of infamy;
And all your savage hopes, in days to be,
Shall die like shriveled leaves before the
flame.
The bitter fruitaGe OF your monstrous art
Shall cease not with the ceasng Of the
strife;
Still shall men enter with a shrinking heart
Sad places where your rayaging lusts were
rife;
And stern DEGREES shall set your soul apart
From all the kindly brotherhoods of life.
MARION COUTHOUY SMITH.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-11
War Honors
next coming

There has been before Congress bill to
nrovide an understudy of the existing war
honor medal. which is the only thing of its
kind in our country. This is inadequate to
the purpose The oversight of the Trainer
Of il in entirely emitting all mention oil
the United States Navy and Marine Corps
and saving nothing of the Red Cross ser
vice indicates that the charge of made
quacy is by no means groundless.
We are chcerfully calling up two millions
of our finest young men to go forth ana
attack brutal and dangerous foe. Deeds
Of bravery and gallantry of a hundred
kinds are expected Of those men. Beyond
doubt. they will not be one whit behind the
bravest and the most effective men OF the
British Empire, of France, Italy and Bel
gium-all of whom are rewarded by ther
Governments with thoroughness and
rromptness absolutely unknown in Amer
lea. save through foreign kilograms. we
know the Victoria Cross, the Cross OF war,
the D. s. O. and the Legion of Honor deco
rations only by hearsay.
In the matter of providing honors to be
awarded for gallant and distinguished ser
vices in this war it is time for this nation
to get into step with the march Of nations
Justice and square deal to our army
navy and Red Cross service demand this'
Congress and the public should unite for
liberal and farreaching action.