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Evening star., 1917-10-03
Memory of Sven Magnus Gronberger

memoir on the life of Sven Magnus
Gronberger, a student who was pre-
pairing to receive the degree of doctor
of philosophy at George Washington
University when he died, April "a, 1916.
after a brief Illness, has been published
by the Writer'S Club of Washington
Evening star., 1917-10-03

you think flew about just for fun?
/ get all my food in the air. and. be-
lieve me. Peter Rabbit. 1t is some work.
When you are hungry you can go to a
patch of sweet clover and sit in one
have to hunt for and chase every bite
get. l can get only one at time. and
often that one is SO small that it is
hardly a taste. If l hadn't learned to
turn suddenly and wheel and dart and
Evening star., 1917-10-03

koma Park, Friday. October IL. for the
benefit Of the Episcopal Eye. Ear and
Throat Hospital.
Evening star., 1917-10-03

II you want work read the want col
umns Of The Star.
Evening star., 1917-10-03
Five Hundred" Players Invited.

All who play fve hundred are cor
daily invited to attend an entertain
ment to be given at the residence of
Mrs jerome Hubbard. Homecrest. Ia
Evening star., 1917-10-03
]. Franklin Fort Is Confirmed.

The nomination of J. Franklin Fort
of New Jersey member of the
federal trade commission has been con-
.irmed by the Senate.
Evening star., 1917-10-03
AWARD OF PRIZES
ORBEST EXHIBITS
Results Announced at Brook
land Brotherhood's Flower
and Fruit Show.
TROPHY TO D. H. 0ERTLY

Obtaining the greatest number or
points for three consecutive years. ~.
II. Oertly was last evening awarded
the point trophy cup, the highest hon.
or attaiuabie. at the ninth annual eX-
hibition Of flowers. fruits, vegetables,
pottcd plants and canned goods under
the auspices of the Brookland Brother
hood at Lord Memorial Hall. The eN-
hibiiion will continue throughout TO-
day and this evening.
Mr.. Oert1y won the first grand pre-
niuins In cut flowers. potted plants ana
vegetables Second and third grand
premiums in cut flowers went to c. H.
Hospital and Charles F. Tansiil re-
spectively. Charles +: Tansill won the
white rose exhibit for the ninth con-
secutive time, having Won it at every
exhibition given by the brotherhood.
One of the novel features which at
traeted much attention was a dahlia
exhibited by Mr.. Hospital, named Mrs
Woodrow Wilson, in honor of the wlle
of the President of the United States
\ new reony dahlia. also in Mr. Hos
pitars collection. was named Merritt
q. Chance. in honor of the postmaster
These two and several other flowers
were originated by Mr.. Hospital.
Evening star., 1917-10-03
Class VI.

Canned or preserved goods not grown
by exhibitor, but canned or preserved
by exbihitor-For best collective ex-
II. Pitcher. Fruits-For best display of va
rieties first premium Mrs
w. H. Pitcher: cherries. first premium,
Yrs. F. D. Roach: crab apples. first pre-
infum. Mrs. Fred Barnes: peaches, first
premium, Mrs. Fred Barnes; pears, first
Evening star., 1917-10-03
Glass II.

Potted plants-For the hest collective
exhi ibit-First grand premium, D. Fl. Oert-
ly: aspidistra. first premium, Mrs. D.
Marean, begonias. first premium, D. II
Oertly: cactuses, first premium. D. H.
Oertly; cannas. first premium, Fred
Barnes: ferns. first premium, D. II. Oert-
ly; rubber plants, first premium. D. H.
Oertly; scarlet sage, first premium Fred
Barnes.
Evening star., 1917-10-03

Mahogany case: original price.
sS5n-a bargain at S5e5.
This player is just as good as
new.
Evening star., 1917-10-03

Fruits-For best collective exhibit
First grand premium. Fred Barnes. For
best display of varieties-Apples. first
premium, Mrs W H. McMillen: crab
apples first premium, Fred Barnes
grapes, first premium, G. Y. Graft; pears,
first premium Fred Barnes plums, first
premium, Fred Barnes chestnuts, first
premium, Fred Barnes; melons, first
premium, c. +. Watts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-01
BREAK A CH|LD'S
 COLD BY GIVING
 SYRUP 0F FIGS
Cleanses the little liver and bowels and they get well
 quick.

When your child suffers from cola don't wait; give the little stomacha liver and bowels gentle, thorough cleA 1ng at once. When cross, peevish, lisA vs. pale. doesn't sleep, eat or act naturA y; if breath Is bad, stomach sour, give\ . teaspoonful of California Syrup of Figs and in a few hours all the clog ged-up, constipated watse. sour bile and undigested food will gently move out of the bowels, and you have a we'll playful child again.
 If your child coughs. snuffles and has caught cold or is feverish or has sore throat, give good dose of "California Syrup of Figs to evacuate the bowels. no difference what other treatment is given.
 Sick children needn't be coaxed to take this harmless fruit laxative'' Mil- lions of mothers keep it handy because they know it's action on the stomach. liver and bowels is prompt and sure. They also know a little given today saves a sick child tomorrow. Ask your druggist for 50-cent bottle of california Syrup of Figs" which contains directions for babies. children of all ages and for grown-ups. plainly on the bottle. Beware of commercials sold here. Get the genuine. made by California Fig Syrup Company Adv.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-01
DR. GOODE LAST
 LYCEUM NUMBER
Chicago Scholar Will Discuss 'The Geographic and Economic Founda- :
 tiOns of the Great War"

Dr. J. Paul Goode of the University of
 Chicago, comes to the Central High school auditorium tonight at S:15 o'clock as the sixth attraction of the Brming- ham Lyceum course. Dr. Goode's sub ject will be "The Geographic and Eco homie Foundations of the Great War" The lecture will be illustrated.
 The lecture tonight concludes the five, which out of the entire course of 10, were chosen by the committee to present the several phases of the European war and have been designated as the war series" The men chosen to deliver these five lectures were selected because of their special fitness by reason of having made exhaustive investigation and study of their selected phases of the subject The committee conceived the plan of giving to the people of Birmingham the benefit of the interpreted substance from the thou sands of newspapers, periodicals and on the subject, as welded into judicious, well balanced summary and based upon
 an intimate knowledge of modern Euro pean affairs.
 Dr. Goode will discuss, among other things, the economic effect of the present
 German blockade and submarine warfare,
 how the helligerent peoples shall be clothed and fed, and just what the war has or has not to do with the present frenzied condition of the food market in
 the United States.
 Dr. Goode has the distinction of com
 bining at once the attributes of the
 ripe scholar and popular platform orator.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-01
BANKHEAD IS READY
 TO ASSUME DUTIES
New Congressman Is En Route to Washington to Witness Inaugura- tiOn and Be Ready for
 Extra Session

w. B. Bankhead. congressman-elect from the Tenth district. will leave Bir- mingham this morning for Washington to attend the inauguration of President Woodrow Wilson and to be ready to as- sume his duties in event an extra ses- sion Is declared.
 Should the "bone-dry' bill be held up until the incoming Congress passes upon it, the extreme prohibition measure will have an advocate in Mir Bankhead
 T am a 'bone-dryer' MT. Bankhead said last night at the Tutwiler "I be- lieve that 1t will be a good measure.
 While l am going to Washington to hold myself in readiness to assume my duties on March 5. I am somewhat du- bious as to whether there will be an extra session. If Congress endows the President with the authority that he re- quests, 1t is probable that there will be no extra session. The President and the democratic leaders are very mach op- posed to the idea"
 MT. Bankhead was accompanied by his wife, Mrs. J. H. Bankhead, Jr., and Miss Marion Bankhead. who will witness the inauguration.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-01
CANNOT AFFORD ID
 NEGLECT COLLEGES
James Weatherly Writes on Movement to Upbuild
 Local Colleges

Birmingham has been neglecting her two colleges, both in the matter of per- sonal support and in contributing to their upbuilding and we cannot afford to neg feet them longer. according to James Weatherly, who has written a letter to Frank Willis Barnett, associate editor of The Age-Herald.
 The following is MT. Weatherly's let ter:
 matter of her two highest institutions of learning, Howard and Birmingham colleges
 I've have been accustomed to taking them as a matter of course, and in that way have neglected to do our duty toward them. The two colleges have been oper- atsng in Birmingham for a number of years without any personal or financial support from the citizens as a whole. and we cannot afford to neglect them longer.
 "Of course, these colleges will con- tinue to work as they have been doing. but in order to make them what they representatives of Birmingham, our own people are going to have to organize to aid them This does not mean that we must give money only, but we must learn to look upon these colleges as our own and to boost them as home institutions.
 T am in line with anything that will be for the upbuilding of these colleges and for the progress of Birmingham through them"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-01
Are You Intoxi- Cated? The question is


 not as irnpertinent as it sounds. You may be a real teetotaler and yet be 'intoxi- cated" that is, poisoned by the gases that come from imperfect digestion. The products of food putrefaction are taken up by the blood and often poison the entire system. Cut out meats and starchy foods for a while. Eat Shredded Wheat with milk or cream for breakfast; eat it with stewed fruits and green vegetables for dinner or supper. It will cure auto intoxication and make a new man of you. All the meat of the whole wheat in a digestible form. A perfect meal at lowest cost. Made at Niagara Falls, N. N.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-01
JUDGE SHARPE HEARS.
 MANDAMUS CASES.
Attorneys Argue For and Against Demurrers-De-
 cisiOn Reserved

Arguments on the demurrers to the ants of Solicitor Hugo L. Black were Judge H. A. Sharpe of the circuit court, who reserved his decision until a later day in the week. The mandamus pro- ceedings seek to compel the board of revenue to issue warrants for the pay ment of the salaries of the assistants and office force Of Solicitor Black the board having declined to issue the warrants pending the result of litigation. Messrs. Gibson & Davis appeared for the board of revenue and Solicitor Black for the petitioners.
 In support of the demurrers MT Gib- son argued that the board of revenue had discretionary powers in the payment of the claims presented, and had exer- cised that right, deeming the employ ment of assistant solicitors not neces- sary. He also contended that there was no such fund as solicitors" fund, authorized by law, from which said fund the petitioners were seeking to compel he board of revenue to make an appro-
 priation for the payment of their sal aries.
 In answer Solicitor Black denied the proposition that the payment of the sal aries of his assistants was discretionary with the board of revenue and that it was commanded by law to issue the
 warrants on a proper affidavit signed by him that the claim was just and cor rect.
 Many authorities were cited by the at torneys in support of their contentious and at the conclusion of the arguments Judge Sharpe announced that he would render his decision later.
 In event Judge Sharpe overrules the demurrers, the case will go to a hearing on the answer to the petition for man. damus proceedings and the petitioners will be put on the stand for examina- ton,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-01
BOLD ROBBERS LOOT THE SOUTIISIDE JAIL

While a noun ed guard kept his midnight vigil snd 25 feet away might be seen the malfortunates behind the prison bars, few rob- bers, lacking in sentiment. robbed the storeh0use of the SOuthside Jail early Wednesday morning.
 What the robbers lacked in sen timent was made up in nerve.
 In expectancy of heavy loot, the robbers communicated a truck. After breaking the window of the stockade storehouse, which is just 25 feet from the jail the mem- bers of the gang removed 46 24- pound sacks of flour, more than 100 pounds of white meat or JaiI breakfast bacon,o three sacks of feed and six 5O-p0und sacks of meal. They loaded this On the truck and returned. But while pre- pairing n second load they became frightened and left.
 While it is hardly believed that the thieves might have consumed their haul, the detectives of the city are baffled so far and no ar rests have been made.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-01
INGERSOL TO SPEAK
 AT REALTY LUNCHEON
National Secretary of Real Estate Boards Will Speak on
 Development

Tom Ingersol, executive secretary of the National Association of Real Estate boards, will speak to the local Real Es- tate exchange at the regular weekly luncheon tomorrow. MT. Tngersol is on an annual tour through the country and is stopping in all the important cities. He will speak on real estate development throughout the country.
 The exchange is conducting silent campaign for the appraising of property, and it will not be long before it has all property appraised in Birmingham, ac- cording to Secretary Robert McDavid, Jr Since last October the exchange has appraised property amounting to more than a million dollars. The National as- scciations working with the railroads throughout the country to get the ap- praising of railroad property for the local exchanges, and the Birmingham board expects to get all the railroads in this city before very long, Mr. McDavid says.
 The appraising is done through special committee, with John Cartwright as chairman
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-01
HAVE SPECIAL TRAIN

to our colored people of the south, as well as to the men of the north, to state the facts
 The negroes were segregated and To- cated on the outskirts of the town. They were living in cheap wooden houses built in rows and covered with cheap roonng, many of them one-story high. One of the companies had converted a stock barn into house for theT and had made the rooms as small as horse stalls
 In many cases I found the same bed used night and day, the day shift using it at night and the night shift using it during the day.
 The negroes in many places were work ing in squads and in some instances had white southern man as boss. The physician in charge of one of the indus trial plants used this sentence: They do not seem to be able to stand this climate. They are dropping off like flies with pneumonia" In many instances I found their feet frost bitten. I found them standing in groups along the railroad where they were hired as section men shivering around fires with the cold wind whstling through their meagre clothing,
 LONGING FOR OLD HOMES
 I did not find their condition socially or morally one whit better than in the south On account of open saloons I found moral conditions worse.
 I found all with whom had opportunity to speak personally longing for their old homes. I do not think the negro is bet tering his condition by going north, but believe he is making the saddest move he ever made. There are negroes in the north who are getting larger wages than some of the negroes in the south. but if you will notice the sentence in the adver- tisment above, "We start them at the bottom" and it will be found upon inves- tigation they are started at the bottom and continue there.
 have personally carefully and thor oughly investfmted conditions both north and south. andh full justice to my good
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-01
NEGROES ARE IN SERIOUS PLIGHT
 AS STRIKE BREAKERS
Party of 100 Forced to Jump Through Windows of Train Tarentum- Women Suffer Severely When Left Alone In Strange Country -Glttering Promises
 Made Before They Left Alabama

Some of the Birmingham and Besse- mer negroes who have gone north in re- sponse to the appeals of labor agents seem to be still having hard time
 Pennsylvania newspapers received here group of 100 in the coal fields of that state. The Valley Daily News, published at Tarentum, Pa, contains the following account of the incident:
 Excitement ran high at the Pennsyl- vania station in Fifth avenue yesterday afternoon when about 100 negroes en route to coal mines in the vicinity of Leechburg and Vandergrift, leaped from windows of a special train that was carrying them from their homs in Bir- mingham, and made their escape.
 Fannie Sellins, union ,nine organ izer, as well as six or seve, men organ izers, urged the negroes to leave the train. When the blacks learned a strike Vandergrift mines they rushed from the cars. Many of them left their wives, families and baggage on the train in their excitement to get eff.
 "As a result about 100 penniless and homeless negroes were thrust upon the union mine organizers to care for. Steve Kiewich, a leading member of the coal workers union in the Creighton field, took charge of the men and ordered them to New Knsington, where they were given food and shelter last night. Some of the colored men walked the entire dis tance to Kensington, while others went on street cars.
 According to the negroes, they were told that they would receive glittering wages in the north. if they would agree to work in the coal mines in the vicinity of Leechburg and Vandergrift. They said agents for the coal companies offered them homes for their families and a handsome daily wage, Nothing was said about strike. The negroes were aware that high wages were being paid in the north and it was compara lively simple, they declared, to secure scores of men.
 HAVE SPECIAL TRAIN
 "The party left Bessemer-near Bir- mingham-early Thursday special Queen and Crescent train of five cars car ried the negroes. When they arrived in Pittsburg yesterday afternoon union or ganizers endeavored to reach them, but the men in charge of the party refused to allow any of the blacks to leave the cars .
 The union organizers, it is said, posted men along the Conemaugh division to get the strikebreakers off the train if possi- ble. The special followed the Blairsville express due here at 3:36. It stopped 2t a signal block near the Pennsylvania sta- tion This was the signal for the union organizers to get busy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-01
Will Probated

The will of the late Mrs. A. White was probated yesterday by Judge J. P. Stiles of the probate court. Under provisions of the will the estate, valued approxi- mately at $40,000 was bequeathed to her daughter, Mrs. Maud U. Coleman; grand daughter. Miss Sarah K. Coleman; and son, Charles F. White.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-01
DIR. WARD GRATEFUL

The following has been received from pr. Lyman Ward, president of the school at Camp Hill:
 Dear Ned Brace: You warm the cookies of my heart by your recent fine reference to Camp Hill. With great re- spect, Yours very truly,
 LYMAN WARD. New York. February 19 1917'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-01

originally owned the negroes and brought them south and sold them to us because the north did not suit him. They are rap idly dropping into graves among strangers and in a strange land.
 Second-Northern people do not under stand the negro as southern people do and their sympathies are not as warm toward them.
 Third-The negro will not have in the north any better social advantages than he has in the south. While he is admitted into white churches and white schools. he Is admitted with as much real segre- gation and in many cases more painful, than If he occupied his own schools and churches in the south.
 Fourth--He is being brought into con- tact with cheap foreign labor who sus- tain for him the deep prejudice that might be expected in such competitors of labor, and this prejudice is rapidly grow
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-01

friends in the north, whom I love and honor, and to the negroes of the south. in whom I am deeply interested, I am prepared to say that the negro will not better his condition by going north, but I believe he is making the saddest move he ever made for the following reasons
 The climate does not suit him. The north
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-01
HAPPY IN THE SOUTH

The negro has been happy and con- tented in the south among his own black brethren and the white man who knows him and can handle him as no one else can.
 I suggest to our white people that we study more carefully the housing, the health, the comfort and the happinsss of our brother in black whose place cannot be easily substituted and whose loss to the south will not only be loss to the negro in the fact that he will not better his condition. but will be loss to us be- cause we shall not be able to substitute with a more satisfactory class of labor, everything considered.
 It is the duty of the whitA man to in form the negro of the false allurements to leave his Dixie home.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-01
Gets Money for Eggs

To, the Editor of The Age-Herald. It's only fair to write you again about the eggs. I received a check for them last week after I wrote and today the cases came with no word of explana ton, only a request to discontinue the eggs. Yours truly,
 MRS. S. J. SOILIE. Folly Hill Farm. Myrtlewood, February 27, 1917.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-01
At the PhotopIay Houses

Triangle: William Desmond in The Last of the Ingrahams.'
 Strand: Robert Warwick in "A Girls Folly
 Colonial Mary Pickford in "cinde- rella."
 Trianon: Ruth stonehouse in "saintly Sinners"
 Rialto: Florence Labodie in 'Her Life and His
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-01
NEGROES WERE SEGREGATED

I eXamIned thelr location, the houses in which they lived, and the manner in which they were treated. I found that MT. Houston. who is noted for his hu- mane treatment of all employees, was giv- ing the negro perhaps better treatment than he was getting elsewhere in the north. As he was employing only small number comparatively of the negroes who had been imported to Coatesville, I exam
 ned the whole situation and it is but fair
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-01
PITTSBURG PAPERS VERSION

The Pittsburg Post also contains the following which evidently refers to the same incident:
 ITO prevent the importation of strike breakers into the Kriski valley, where more than 2000 coal miners have been on strike since last April. four organizers of the United Mine Workers of America after Tagging a special train on the CCnemaugh division of the Pennsylvania railroad at Tarentum yesterday after noon, according to one of them. induced 100 negroes aboard the train to leave.
 There were 200 negroes, according to the union organizers. on the train. They were en route from Birmingham, Ala, to the Kriski valley.
 "A According to Organizer Steve Kiewch Of kittannipg. guards on the train locked the doors when the negroes attempted to leave, but about 100 jumped from the windows and joined the union organizers Those who deserted the train marched to New Kensington and were given shelter there last night by union officials.
 "Kiewch said employment would be given all the negroes and if any desired to return to Birmingham the union would pay their transportation back
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-01
TODAY'S EVENTS
At the Theatres

At the Theatres Lyric: Keith vaudeville. Matinee at 2:ao. Night performance at 7:S0 and 9 clock.
 Majestic: Gardner and Lawson, in Hello Southland Revue musical \ m- edy.