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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-09-20
Watch Spectators

Shippers of grain, hay and feed are adj
vised to be on the lookout for what
is known as shippers order bill of lad
ing transactions with unknown or ir-
responsible persons. Shipping car lots
to such buyers under no obligation other
than to pay for the shipment if they fin
ally take it out of the cars tends to en-
courage speculation and is liable to in
crease freight congestion. Some of these
buyers order products shipped in the
hope that the price will go up in the
meantime and enable them to sell locally
to a local dealer who will pay cash. I'm
less they succeed in selling to others.
many of these shippers order con
sienees have insufficient capital to pay
for the goods, which sometimes fall back
on the shipper.
In a case recently investigated by the
department of agriculture man with
out financial standing, who posed as a
commercial company, succeeded in pur-
chasing large shipments of hay and mill
feed. AS there was no advance in price
and as he had no cash with which to
meet the drafts, he held the goods for
several weeks In the cars ON the track.
Some of the cars were on the track for
over 20 days before unloading When
he succeeded in selling car, instead
of paying his own cash for It, he sent his
customer to the bank to release the
draft. The day the department inves-
tigator was on the ground this man had
Is cars of hay and nine cars of mill feed
on the track. papers for IT more cars en-
route, and a numb er more still to be
shipped. It was stated locally that in
the same kind Of transaction in the past
severe decline in price rendered this
Individual unable to pay for 80 cars of
produce, which the shipper was forced
to sell at a material loss The shippers
in this case easily could have obtained
facts as to their customers responsible
ity from the mercantile agencies or from
local banks or merchants.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-09-20
WARNING NOTICE

To manufacturers of, dealers in. or
agents for, oleomargarine or oleaginous
substances, and proprietors of hotels,
restaurants, dining cars. boarding houses,
eating houses, ETC., as set out in the
following act:
Section 1919, Code of Alabama. Manu-
featuring or selling olemargarine-Any
person who renders and manufactures,
sells, offers for sale, exposes for sale,
or has in his possession with intent TO
sell or serve to persons, guests, board
erS or inmates, in any hotel, eating house,
restaurant, dining car, boarding house,
public or private hospital, school or penal
institution, any article, product or COM
pound made wholly or partly of any fat,
oil, oleaginous substance, or compound
thereof not produced directly and at the
same time of manufacture fro munadul-
terated milk or cream from the same
must on conviction, be fined not less
than $40 nor ore than $500 But this sew
ton shall not be so construed as to
prohibit the manufacture or sale of cleo
margarine in such manner as will advise
the consumer of its real character, free
from coloration or ingredients that cause
1T to look like real butter, by having it
stamped with its true name.
WARMING.
Attention of his department has been
called to the fact that oIeomargarine or
oleaginous substances are being sold or
served to persons, guests or boarders
without their being ADVISED Of the fact;
and that in some instances coloring or
ingredients are used in the product that
cause it to look like real butter, in viola
ton of the above section Of the law.
The penalty for failure 10 advise person,
guest or boarder that he Is being served
x.r,4,s- rl,cfr, no
by stamping each bit served, or for
ing coloring or ingredients that cause the
product to look like real butter is fine
of not less than $50 nor more than $l0C
per each offenSe.
AS the purpose of this act is merely to
prevent a person, guest or Doarder from
being served oleomargarine or an oleag-
inous substance as substitute for butter
without knowledge of the fact, the com
missioner of agriculture has ruled, on ad-
vice from the attorney generals office,
that, in lieu of stamping each bit Of oleo-
margarine or oleaginous substance served
the requirements of the law may be COM
piled with by the proprietor of hotel,
restaurant, eating house, dining car,
boarding house, ETC., by displaying and
keeping constantly posted card of the
following descriptions and in the follow
ing position:
The card shall be white and at least
10 by IA inches in sze on which is print
ed the words: Substitute for Butter
Used Here, or ''Oleomargarine Cubsti-
tute for Butter Used Here. printed ir
black Roman letters not less than one
inch in length by one-half in width; and
the position of the card shall be opposite
each table where persons, guests OF
boarders are served.
JAMES A. WADE,
Commissioner of Agriculture and Indus
tries
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-09-20
REPAIR MACHINERY

The great cutlery for tar production
and the scarcity of machinery points to
the need of some way to repair a great
many implements that are now useless
largely because Of the neglect with which
they have been treated, says the United
States department of agriculture, which
adds that the machinery manufacturers
and their local sales agents should help
to perform this repair service
Throughout the country there are thou
sands of binders, mowers and other farm
machines rusting in the fence corners.
and many of these might be made avail
able for further valuable service. The
manufacturers of farm machinery are
admittedly unable to furnish all the new
machines required and are paying for
full-page advertisements to influence
governmental authorities to insure them
necessary raw materials and transpor-
tation in competition with the demand
for machines of war
The railroads of the country, according
to one of their officials, are being COM
PEELED in the present emergency to res
cue practically every scrap locomotive
from the old-iron graveyards and rebuild
them for active service. A similar plan
should be adopted says the department,
for the reclamation of this cast-off farm
equipment through the agency of central
repair shops where the work could be
done. Many of the machines might be
made available for further service with
repairs of comparatively small cost.
Added to the almost sinful careless
ness of some farmers there has been the
attitude on the part of farm machinery
manufacturers in years past to favor
the abandonment of worn and disabled
machines in order to sell new ones; but
now the time has arrived when it is
difficult to supply the market with the
necessary new machinery. The depart
ment suggests that representatives of
the manufacturers, on the one hand, and
of the farmers-such as farm bureau
agents or county agents-on the other
hand, should get together to establish
the necessary farm machinery repair sta
lions in convenient localities.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-09-20
Use for Small Potatoes

Pick over the potatoes and sort the
smallest ones into separate baskets
Wash them thoroughly with a vegetable
brush. Then CRATE the potatoes with
out removing the skins, or else run them
through a meat grinder. Pour clear
water over the gratings and let them
stand for a few hours. Remove the
Feelings and other foreign substances
from the top. Then add more clear
water and allow it to stand overnight.
so the starch granules will settle to the
bottom The next morning scrape off
the dark part of the starch again. strain
it through a cheesecoth bag and allow
the water to evaporate from it. This
starch is useful in making cornstarch
buildings, for the thickening of salad
dressing, in milk dishes such as GUS
tards and ice creams, and also in pud-
ding sauces. 1t is not much trouble to
make the starch, and the small potatoes
for on farm there are always sew
eral bushels when they are sorted-do
not go to waste. A bushel of potatoes
makes a quart and half of starch, and
there is no expense to the preparation
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-09-20
Are You Going Back?

The secret of happiness is to be in
terested in your work, and what work
could have more elements of interest
than that of the farmer? The farmer
meets and knows nature at first hand.
She surrounds him with all her beauties.
She gives him opportunity to read all
her secrets. Every day she performs
miracles in his sight.
To live among green fields and hills
and pleasant waters, to see broad acres
covered with waving grain from the
planting of your hand. to gather your
flocks about you and study the ways
of the creatures that know you, trust
you and depend upon you, to be COM
parton with the living earth-these are
the joys Of the farmer Accept Uncle
SANS offer, young man in search of a
job, and take farm.
The business men who are thinking Of
spending their vacation" in the har-
vest field or behind the plow are think
ing well. 1t would be better still to
act, and maybe many Of them will de-
eide to make such vacation a perma-
nent thing.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-09-20
HERE AND THERE
BY e. L. VINCENT

By f. l.. VINCENT
As soon as the kernels have fairly
hardened it will do to cut corn for grain.
Silage corn needs to be cut sooner.
Choose dry day to dig potatoes in
prohibition state.
Once more with the harrow over the
wheat ground.
The potato digger looks good to us
this year-help is scarce and potatoes
plentiful.
have seen lots of subsoil plows. but
seldom one with the paint worn off the
handles.
Washington Journal., 1917-08-03
Sine nmberedtigte Mmflaae.

Sir 9eutifIano bot lnlere Trele uno Die Der Nu1erten fem freluno-
Ihes g8ort ubrq. MaeS, mos man bort tut ooer lprtdt miro genobn-
lid faIid1 ousqeegt Ser uno orIben iprift mon 10 pe bon einen1 er.
pberunqsintiqen Oeut1dluno, 0uS mr. Steoen 1flteBen mn, naUs
Dem es sen alinrten oos @eriprchen ub9enomnen bot Dob es einen
gro6en Sell bon Selgien, 5ranfretdD HlBlano umo Ttr1anlen oS QUA
oeneriat fir feline Spfer erbGlt.
Sebt bat Ser neue oeutide HehSfan5er etnen 1blngenoen @e9en-
benis erbrudt, ser beionoerS Sen Sran5olen lnlieb fltngen 1olte. Or.
WidoeGs erfI6rte ben &ertrehrn ser 0eutAen rno neutralen Erefe
aeqeniiber, ouB es ourhuts nht IN Ser IbMht Der 0euRhcn uno l1rer
Qerbinoeten Iieet, 9eutidlon0s @ren3en meier binais5u1hleben, ME es
10 oft BON BEN @egnern ongenommcn lptr0c Die 0eutlten maren belfe
aum TreoensifluB beut, falls 6ieRr bonn Hitf5ng Der oeuhben Seere
nd Der oeut1hen @ren5e abbange. 0ugegen bettnOet 1D Der oen1lUe
Meidsfan3ler i'm 9eTte elmer Conformation, IN Der oe Groberlngsmt
Der Sron8oien oufgeoedt miro. gatIrlderneie perlangt 6ronfreth gl-
ioR 0othrinaen; ferner bot Ih berausgefeat, Dab Die Srun5oen Saar=
brlden uno 2Gnoerteie auf Ser linfen Seite os Hbelns bon Selt1dplano
bemiprrten molen. Sebt, nodoem Or. Widuelis often ertldrt hat, Dob
9euttIono cine @roberumgsiudt fern legt lit Der SSeg gum 6rteoen
fret geegt porausgeest, bB bic Iaierten ebenfols nit Dem 5ufr1eoen
ino, mas ie Dor Dem Iugrt 1914 beMBen. Die Mntlage, oaB Nen11dDz
LAMB mad, terrtorialer 8~ergroBerung auSgebt, 1T alo lnbeett19t &C.
meSen umo mB Ie iet bon Ben @egnern 5urildgenpn1men meroen. NuB
LAMB bat fh et fir5lid gegen cine Nnnerion olsge1proben., Us III
ier mqhr5heinlid, oaB HuBono NIT Iincn Gerbinoeten oas Sano Der
~sSreunoIdaft lofern miro, faQs 6ronfreid rmo ENGLAND mif cine Nn'
nerion beItben. Imerfa, 0S gcgenpartg gepnlerHaBen Den Sor-
numb RuBIon0s 1pidt, '1oate cbennQs nit aer Gntibleoenbet Der gro
berunqsluIt liner mefdiden @erbinoctcn Gin Gnoc ieben. Sobolo bh
belize 8artGen bereit erlGrt buben, Den GroberungSgeonnten auf5ugcben,
fonen Die Srieoens &erban0lungen aufgenon1n1en meroen. Ser
2entrumsfihrer, Or. Matbias GrSberger, 1fent an Der Serbeiflbrung
elmer @erItanoigung 8piiden GnelaO mo 9euti6lano 81 orbeien. SEER
Gr8berger, Ser an Der Spite elmer 0eutiAen Srieoemsbefpegun9 lebt, bat
ielbft erfl1rt, Dob Or. Wifoells elm 6rieoensfan5cr IT. GGu1blono
bntet niht Inn 9rieoen; es lit jeood erntIid beItrebt, Srieoen IN Der Belt
berbei5ufubren. @enn Die Manerten berte ibre Serettwlgtet ertld-
rem, BON elmer Mnnerion ab5uhteben, Damn olrte oe SSet III 8lt6m
gube uno Sue6en baben. @merfa mGren in iol6em Sale Die OpRr err
ipart, sic es miro bringen niien, falls 2onOon uno 9aris ibre Grobe-
rlnasfuht ntt oufgeben moQen. llnNre Hegeritng lolle Jet en9reten
uD Ole 8ermitthrIteQe einnebmen. 0emofratie miro rmo tan Dos
Gdhpert nidt berbeiibren. &erban0lungen fonnen jeopd in flr5cr 3lt
an elmer @erItdnoigung flbren. 708olfram".
Washington Journal., 1917-08-03

NeBen. Ser Mnienfompf mag Den Neger our MusmmnOerung nob
Ifrtfa o0r moeren 21noern Der Mdt beronnHen. Nun mien mir ebr
mobL Dab Defenders in uneren iiOIidcn 5tauten Die Sous- unO 6eIOabet
qr0Bten Cell BON gegern berieben miro. SoQte cine ge9ermlspan=
6ernq enften, Damn pHroe Der 0iongel an arbeisfrditen nod GROCER
weroen. Sir limo gum gfoBen Cell auf Die Neger ongepieen rnO ioG-
ten us beireben, 10 melt ne m0elih nit iEnen in Srieoen 3u leben. 0e
4usihreitunqen gegen Die SdNuor5en gereiden Dem 2onOe MIR 5ur
Sdonoe. 8tr iOnten 6em in ie0er 8e0ebung tiepr lebenoen Neger
NIT @oblnoqen um0 @roBmut begegnen. Gin fefes, enHhieoenes Muf-
treten bat bem Ieser cine before @irfung, ols elm StroBenfanpf Der
in linn Sab uno 5einoibaft gegen Ole neBen @inmobner einf6Bt.
WBR1E 49, - -08oIfrom".
Washington Journal., 1917-08-03
@eaerbaf!

Sn ben Iebten 8odpn fam es in perifieoenen SeHen unerer &epu-
bid al auslhrGt1ngen gegen Neger. Die Sorgange in Gait ct. 2ous
rueien Ooruif bin, BOB Die meiBe &oiie Den @egern finoldb gesenilber-
febt. Sn Gbe5er, Ya, mieoerbolten lib ole Sample gegen os afrfani-
Idle Clement unleres 2onoes. 9ns @orgeben 0es Entertainers Dem See
ger gegemiber lit nurhals nft eereqHertiet Die geeer, sic bier mob
men, ino mlerifaniite @lreer uno baben iat oeieben &ebte me bic
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-04-06
PROPER USE OF H%YDROMETER
Service Manager Of Manufacturing
Concern Gives Important Point to
Watch In TESTING.

The service manager of storage bat
terry manufacturing concern gives an
important hint to automobile owners
In advising them about the use of
their hydrometers.
when you use your hydrometer for
testing your battery" he says, make
your test and reading, if possible, with
out removing the hydrometer from the
battery. In this way none of the
liquid will be spilled and the balance
of acid and water will not be disturbed
In your battery. Your battery when it
leaves the shop new has in it a certain
proportion of battery acid to the
amount Of water that is in it. The
water naturally evaporates and must
be renewed from time to time. There
is no evaporation, however, to the acid
and this proportion should always be
constant. When you remove your n.y.
drometer from your battery to take a
reading, you have in it both water and
acid. 1t is very easy to lose a little
of this out of the bottom of the hydrom-
eter and thus weaken the efficiency
Of that particular cell. In most cases
the barrel of the hydrometer is long
enough for you to see the marks on
the float if you stoop a little, and the
slight inconvenience is well worth the
trouble. Never add acid to your bat
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-04-06
CARE OF AUTOMOBILE MOTOR
Not Highly Complicated, Mysterious
Piece of Machinery, Nor Are
Principles Difficult.

The automobile is not a highly com.
plicated, mysterious piece of machine
cry. nor are its principles of operation
difficult to master Upon a thorough
knowledge of these principles, how
ever, depends much of your pleasure
and satisfaction with your machine.
writes B. F. Bell of Lancaster ounty
Neb., in Farm and Home. Few ma
chimes are ever worn out most of them
are knocked out" through the ignor.
ance of the operator and his inability
to detect variations in operation.
Your success as an operator de-
ponds not so much upon your ability
to make repairs as to detect the vari-
atoms in the operation of the motor
and to know just when repairs are
necessary. Many a good car has been
ruined because some little thing was
neglected. 1t stands every operator.
owner or prospective owner of an auto
mobile or gas engine in hand to know
simple principles which underlie
Its operation.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-04-06
TIME FOR ROSS TO GET BUSY
Paddy's Earnest Warning Seems to
Have Been Justified by the Facts
of the Case.

Paddy was out of work, and passing
a works he saw Il notice which said a
stOker was wanted.
OF course, he could use a spade, so
he applied and got the job. 1t seems
the man who held the job before was
sacked because he lost time, and nat
urally his mates wouldn't tell Paddy
how to go about his fresh job.
The boss told him to watch the pres
sure gauge, and if he wanted to know
anything he was to go and ask the
boss.
For a while all went well. Paddy
shoveled the coal on, and the gauge
registered full PRESSURE; and he
worked away until the safety valve
started blowing off. Still he worked
away, and the, steam still escaped
through the safety valve.
Paddy, not knowing what, was the
matter. ran to the boss, and said:
Boss, if you don't be coming to
this boiler, the boiler will be coming
to you!"
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-04-06
PROMOTE SAFETY IN DRIVING
Painting of Poles Near Danger Spots
Is Urged by Publicity Manager
of Auto Concern.

with the state and county highway
commissions eXerting every effort to
make automobiling less dangerous by
the eliminating of bad curves in roads,
improving bridges, putting approaches
up, safety guard rails at dangerous
fills, and painting bridges a uniform
color for warning of an approach to
the bridge, there is a suggestion along
this line that / would like to make"
says the publicity manager of a west.
ern automobile concern. "The idea
that l am suggesting for adoption by
the highway commissions would be one
of the greatest things in promoting
safe driving, especially at night, and
that is the painting Of the telegraph
and telephone poles nearest to the dam
gerous curve, or bridge or fill, so that
the driver in approaching the danger
would be warned before he has run
upon it. The driver will then be put
upon his guard and he will be able to
avoid the danger that he now encoun-
tiers without the warning signs.
Photograph and telephone poles
could be painted about ten feet from
the ground for about a fi%ve-foot strip.
This strip could be white with the ex-
ception of about a foot in the center,
which could be red, and about ten
poles on each side of the dangerous
place could be painted. At railroad
crossings the railroad officials would
glad to cooperate, for many rail-
road crossings are so obscured that
the driver does not know that he is
approaching one until he is right upon
it. By using these warning posts this
danger would be eliminated"
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-04-06
BLOWOUT IN TIRES
CONDEMNATION" BENDS THE
FABRIC AND GENERATES
HEAT.
Most People Owning Automobiles Ride
for Pleasure and Are Inclined to
Pump Air Into Tires Too
SparingIy.

Ask a tiremaker why tires break
down and he will promptly answer
"underintlation," or "~oyerloading.'
which is the same thing. A highly in,
flate tire is almost as hard as soliG
rubber. Let out some of the air, and
It's s%pringiness increases. Since most
OF us ride for the joy of it, we are
inclined to pump air into our tires too
Sparingly. The car bowls along east
lily; the tire absorbs all the shocks,
But all the time the underinfated tire
fabric is bending and bending at the
sides, thousands and thousands of
times, until at last the heated interior
walls weaken and a loud explosion
breaks upon the air.
That incessant bending and straight
ening of side walls to which a tire is
subjected generates heat. Bend a
piece Of wire back and forth in your
hand many times, and it will become
so hot that your fingers cannot hold
IT. Heat, similarly generated, breaks
the chemical union between the inner
fabric and the outer rubber and re-
duces a tire to separate layers. No
longer are the strains equally distrib-
uted. One layer is pulled this way,
another that way-moreover, with UNI
equal forces. Blisters, c%orrugations,
bumps large and small, appear on the
surface.
Tires are popularity supposed to blow
out because they have been heated by
the sun. No tire manufacturer makes
allowances for hot weather. 1t is true
that heat expands, but the amount of
expansion due to the sun alone is
negligible. A certain degree of heat is
generated in running over the road.
even that does not increase the
air pressure as much as motor car
owners believe. If the temperature of
the air Is 81 degrees Fahrenheit (cold
enough to freeze water), if the tire is
blown up to a pressure of 72 pounds
a square inch, and if the rise in the
tires temperature at the end of q run
Is 30 degrees, the total pressure with
in the tube will be IS pounds, an in
crease of only six pounds. But if the
records 80 degrees, as 1t
often does on a summers day, the rise
In temperature at the end of an equiv
alent run will be only 33 degrees, and
total air pressure Tx pounds, an
increase of only 5A pounds. Para
loxical as it may seem, the increase
n pressure due to the suns heat is not
nearly so great as motor car users
For a given distance, it is
actually less on a hot than on a cold
ay.-Waldemar Kaempffert, in Nc
Magazine.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-04-06
that morning. Even In the half light.

that morning. Even In the half light,
they glowed with fiery color.
The ring was in his right hand. With
the left he settled his collar and soft
silk tie.
IA. saw Carlotta that evening for the
last time. Katie brought word to him,
where he vas helping Harriet close her
truhk-she was on her way to Europe
for the fall styles-that he was wanted
III the lower hall.
"A lady !" she said, closing the door
behind her by way of caution. "And
II good thing for her she's not from
The alley. The way those people beg
off you is Il sin and Il shame, and it's
not at home you're going to be to them
from now on"
So X. had put on his coat and, with
out so much as n glance in Harriet's
mirror, had gone down the stairs. Car
lotta stood under the chandelier, and
he saw ut once the ravages that trou-
bic had made in her. She was a lend
white, and she looked ten years older
than her age.
Il came, you see, Doctor Edwardes."
Evidently she found it hard to speak.
You were to come" X. encouraged
her, TO see If we couldn't plan some
thlng for you. Now, ! think I've got it.
on know, Of course, that | closed my
hospital. They are trying to persuade
me [" go back, nnd-l'm trying to per-
Suade myself that I'm fit to 20 back.
You see,'-his tone was deterIninedly
checrful-"my faith in myself has been
nearly gone. When one loses
That, there isn't much left"
You had been very successful" She
not look up.
"Well had and | hadn't. I'm not
going to worry you about that. MY
offer is this: Wen just try to forget
,hout-about Schwitter's and all the
rest, and if | go back I'll take you on
n The operating ROOM"
"Nuu sent me away once."
""cll, | can ask You to come back.
ant II He smiled at her cncour-
AR" you sure you understand about
Max Wilson and mysclf?"
"Everyonc makes mistakes now and
hen, and loving women have made mis-
axes Since the world began. Most
'"ople live in glass houses, Miss Har-
iSon. And don't make any mistake
bout this: People can always come
'ack. No depth is too low. All they
Ieed is the will power"
lie smiled down at her. She had
ONE armed with confession. But the