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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-22
Germany and Turkey

From The Progress of the World" in
 the American Review of Reviews. . The narrow minded attempt of the past 20 or 30 years to circumvent Germany's
 economic expansion has had the rather
 miserable effect of driving Germany to
 raise and dangerous schemes of political
 expansion. The future welfare of na-
 tions lies in the field of cooperation.
 For all legitimate purposes, Russia should
 have full use. of the water passage be-
 tween the Black sea and the Mediterra-
 mean, and her proper share of influence
 and authority at Constantinople Ger
 many should be compelled to eliminate
 from her Asia Minor projects and her Bal
 kan plans every vestige of military and political domination. while her economic and administrative talents should be well comed to the very utmost. Turkey should not be governed by a Moslem clique, nor should 1t be governed as Russian prov ince by a Petrograd bureaucracy Tur- key in Asia is a great country, with im- portant resources, and with populations capable of being educated and developed to the point of intelligent self-govern-
 ment. The great powers should establish in Turkey the principle of religious free dom; should provide for universal edu- cation; should see that taxation is hon. est; should promote modern agriculture; should organize local institutions; should gradually create 8 real Parliament In the course of time, when representative government has become possible, the country-under some appropriate name Anatolia, perhaps-should take it's place
 as sovereign member of the family of nations. But for 50 years it should be governed under a trusteeship supported by league of many powers, great and small
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-22
The Growing Y. w. C. A.


 Y. w. c. A.. The Young Woman s Christian association had no truer friend than Miss Grace H. Dodge She gave to 1t not only money, but devoted her talent, time and personality to it's up- building. At her death she left a legacy of s500.000 to the work she loved. Since then an effort has been made to add S, ,00O,00o to the legacy, thus making a memorial fund worthy of Miss Dodge S devotion to the association. By the prom ise of $500, 900 on condition that the other s500,O00 be pledged by January l. 191S MT John D. Rockefeller has now made cer- tain the success of the fund, as only about $160.000 more needs to be sub scribed. MT. Rockefeller's contribution is munifcent, but there is also a deal of ap- preciation of Miss Dodge and the work of the Young Womans Christian associa- tion, in the gifts to the fund of 30OO0 others half of whom withheld their names. MT. John D. Rockefeller Jr. on New Years day made gift to the New York West Side branch of tho Young Womans Christian association of their building This s40O0o0 property had been purchased from MT. Rockefeller in 1914 for s20O,OO0. cash payment of s2O.- 900 was made, the balance being secured by mortgage bonds. Convinced of the increasing value of the work of the Young Womans Christian association to the neighborhood. Mir. Rockefeller has cancelled the obligation of the association to him and returned the entire amount he had received on account of principal and interest.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-22

The navy's task is simple It's prob lems are those of material rather than personnel. Almost little more than 100000 men would be required for manning every available ship or scout ing craft They could be obtained al most overnight by mobilization of the naval militia and the various sec lions of the naval reserve, supplement- ed with volunteers. Only highly trained officers would be lacking.
 The army's problem is just the re- verse. It is men that will be needed and no definite step toward securing a great force for training can be taken until Congress expresses it's will. Full equipment can be obtained long before the men are ready to use it.
 Steps actually taken by the navy to- day included the advancement of the date of opening bids for additional de- stroyers and notification to shipbuild- CTS that their full plant capacity would be utilized In this work. There is no way of estimating how many de- stroyers will be ordered until esti- mates called for show how many can be built.
 Secretary Daniels said every avail able plant would be utilized to its ut- most. The builders will present their figures next Saturday and awards will be made imm ediately.
 Bids for the first large consignm ent of l10-foot submarine chasers or coast patrol boats also were received today but will be held confidential until next Wednesday when 100 additional build CTS are expected to submit figures. The navy hopes to find facilities available for more than 200 boats, the first of them to be delivered in two to three months. Meanwhile the work of sur veying private yachts and motor craft Is being pressed in every naval dis trict and the enrolment of volunteers to man the boats proceeds rapidly.
 The department has no present in- tention of taking over merchant craft for naval use. Secretary Daniels said tonight, simplifying earlier assurances given to American shipowners by Chairman Denman of the shipping board.
 All American merchant ships, how ever, have been surveyed and classi
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-22

fled by navy officials for possible use in time of war The guns being placed aboard transatlantic craft were des- tined originally to arm auxiliary cruis- CTS withdrawn from merchant fleets for that purpose. Other vessels were classified as colliers supply ships or transports as they were found suit able. In many instances the officers of these ships have enrolled as reserve naval officers and would accompany their vessels in the government serv- ice.
 NO definite policy has yet been adopted" MT. Daniels said. "We will not. however. demoralize commerce. None of the ships engaged in trade will be taken over except in case of vital necessity. They would all be taken in that case"
 board of navy officers already is dealing with the merchant marine question and will cooperate with the shipping board in whatever is done It was indicated, however. that no plans the navy department is now making will require the acquisition Of any important portion of the merchant marine to navy uses Some ships may be diverted under charter to supply the fighting fleets or scout patrols if necessary, but because of the fact that it is believed the major ships of the navy would not be actively engaged, it is improbable that a great supply line will be set up.
 Navy officials were disturbed by press reports of a strike in the Curtiss Airplane company's factory, with which the government has placed large or ders. Tomorrow a conference of the various aeronautical organizations will be held at the war department to dis cuss means of hastening aircraft pro- duction and the situation at the Cur tiss plant may be taken up then. The President has power to take over the establishment if necessary. A joint army and navy board reported today that in it's opinion the development of the air services of both military arms of the government should be CO., ordinated and consolidated to a large extent
 Orders to enroll women for nurse work in time of war as part of the naval reserve forces were sent out to- day to commandants of naval districts and recruiting officers Details for the enlistment of women as clerks, typists, radio operators and for similar posi- tions, so that the men occupying such places may be relieved of shore duty and used to strengthen the sea forces already have been completed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-22

as we'll as the men, so that new ele- ment of competition is introduced be- tween the sexes. The women have the advantage of possession of the million places, and it remains to be seen whether they will hold them, or whether there will be another displacement, of women for men, when the million men come back. Many commercial houses have promised to take back the men, but whether this means displacing the wom- en, or keeping both, is still open. The labor unions are also apprehensive over the great swelling of woman labor, as women workers are now about half the total strength of the uinons, which are chiefly mems organizations strong in politics and with representatives in Par liaTent and the ministry. So that the competition between the sexes is being extended all along the economical, polit- ical and social lines
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-22
CITY ORDINANCES Ordinance No. 467-C
To provide for the construction of the
 Twenty first street viaduct.

Be it ordained by the commission of the city of Birmingham:
 Section l. That the president of the commission of the city of Birmingham be and he is hereby authorized and directed in the name and behalf of the city of Birmin gham to enter into and execute agreement with the Louis vile and Nashville Railroad company, the Southern Railway company, the Alabama Great Southern Railroad com pany and the Seaboard Air Line Rail- way company, in words and figures as follows. to-wit:
 State of Alabama. Jefferson County;
 This agreement. made and entered into by and between the city of Bir-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-22
CITY ORDINANCES


 of Powell avenue, shall be so constructed as to project not more than eighteen inches outside of the east line Of Twen- ty-frst street and so as to overhang the abutting property of the Southern Rall- way company; provided, the southern Railway company shall have the right to remove all or any portion of such railing at any time that it may construct a building on it's said abutting property iu such manner that the building so con structed shall join to said viaduct The parties of the second part shall have ac- cess to- both for ingress and egress, said viaduct for any building constructed t) abut said viaduct Any or the parties Of the second part may from time to time, a their own expense, construct a stairway stairways from property under said viaduct to the said viaduct il such manner as may be approved by the city engineer, provided the usual building permit therefor has been first obtained from the city.
 g. The present viaduct structure shall b. wrecked by the Southern Railway company, through itself or by contract anc salvaged or scrapped, the actual cost ot the work of wrecking to be charged as Eart of the cost of construction anG the proceeds of the salvage or scrap ping to be credited to the cost of con struction of the new structure.
 10. The city shall pass all necessary reg ulations, traffic rules and ordinances to suspend all traffic between First avenue, south, and First avenue, north, on the public highways of the city and along said Twenty-frst street or the streets intersecting said Twenty-hrst street be- tween said avenues during the construc- ton of the new viaduct when and as requested by the Southern Railway com pany, provided only that Morris avenue shall be kept open for traffic during the construction of said new viaduct
 In witness whereof, the city of Birmingham has caused this agreement to be executed in it's name and behalf by George B. Ward, the president of the commission of the city of Birmingham, his signature to be attested and the cor porate seal of said city to be affixed by c. B. Lloyd, city clerk of said city of Birmingham, and the parties of the second part have each caused this agree ment to be executed in their respective corporate names by their president or vice president, and their respective cor porate seals to be hereunto affixed and attested by secretary assistant sec retary all thereunto duly authorized, all being done in five counterparts, each of which shall be treated and considered as an original, as of the - day Of March, 1917.
 CITY OF BIRMINGHAM,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-22
ARMY AND NAVY
 READY FOR WAR

Washington 21Naval preparations activity session Congress the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-22
Notary Public

Sec 3. Be it further ordained, That the clerk of the city of Birmingham, be and he hereby is authorized and di- rected to attest the signature of the president of the commission of the city of Birmingham to said agreement and to affix the corporate seal of the city thereto.
 Sec 3. Be it further ordained, That, effective upon the execution of said agreement by the Louisville and Nash ville Railroad company, the Southern Railway company, the Alabama Great Southern Railroad company and the Seaboard Air Line Railway company, the grade of that portion of Twenty first street over which said viaduct and its approaches are to be construct ed shall be changed from the present grade thereof to the grade of the via duct and it's approaches agreed to be constructed in the foregoing agree ment and that such grade shall be and is hereby established as the grade of said portion of Twenty first street along the part thereof over which said viaduct is to be constructed as pro-, vded in said agreement The viaduet and it's approaches to be constructed upon said portion of Twenty first street and along and over the rail- road properties in said agreement mentioned and described shall be public highway in lieu of said portion of said Twenty-frst street. hereinart- CT vacated. and in lieu of the present
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-22
Notary Public District of Columbia, City of Washing.

-NOIdTy T UUlIC. District of Columbia, City of Washing
 ton:
 l, , notary public in and for said city, in said District, hereby certify that -, whose name as -, of the Southern Railway company, corpora ton. is signed to the foregoing agree ment, and who is known to me. acknowl- edged before me on this day that, being informed of the contents of the said agreement, he, as such officer and with full authority, executed the same volun- tarily for and as the act of said corpor- ation.
 of March, 1917
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-22
Notary Public.

INOldTy IUUIIC. State of Kentucky, Jefferson County:
 I, -, a. notary public in and for said county, in said state, hereby certify that -, whose name as -, of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad com pany. 8 corporation, is signed to the foregoing agreement, and who is known to me. acknowledged before me on this day that, being informed of the contents of the agreement he, such officer and with full authority, executed the same voluntarily for and as the act of said corpora ton.
 Given under my hand this the - day of March, 1917.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-22
Notary Public District of Columbia. City of Washing

District of Columbia, City of Washing
 ton:
 ], a notary public in and for said city, in said District, hereby certify that TT, whose name as -, of the Alabama Great Southern Railroad com pany corporation, is signed to the foregoing agreement and who is known to me, acknowledged before me on this day that, being informed of the contents of the said agreement he, as such off cer and with full authority executed the same voluntarily for and as the act of said corporation.
 Given under my hand this the -- day of March, 1917.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-22
otary Public.

State of Virginia, ------ County
 I, -, a notary public in and for said county in said state, hereby certify that -, whose name as -, of the Seaboard Air Line Railway company. a corporation, is signed to the foregoing agreement, and who is known to me, acknowledged before me on this day that, being informed of the contents of the agreement, he, as such officer and with full authority, executed the same voluntarily for and as the act of said corporation.
 Given under my hand this the -- day of March, 1917
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-22
Secretary.

State of Alabama, Jefferson County:
 I. -, a notary public in and for said county, in said state. h ,by certify that George B. Ward, and c. B. Lloyd, whose names, as president of the commission Of the city of Birmingham. and city clerk of the city of Birmingham, a municipal corporation respectively, are signed to the foregoing instrument and who are known to me, acknowledged before me on this day that, being informed of the contents of the instrument, they. as such officers, and with full authority, exc cuted the same voluntarily for and as the act of said municipal corporation.
 Given under my hand and seal this the - day of March, 1917.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-22

City Clerk of the City of Birmingham. LOUISVILLE AND NASHVILLE RAIL-
 ROAD COMPANY
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-22

President of the Commission of the City
 of Birmingham. Attest:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-22

ALABAMA GREAT SOUTHERN RAIL-
 ROAD COMPANY
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-22

 SEABOARD AIR LINE RAILWAY COMPANY, By --Presiden Attest:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-22
Improvement Ordinance No.
 948-C

VI p' I1I~O ID, OItV CI1TF A ge-Herald, March %. .1Q1l
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-22

 SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY, By ------------President Attest:
New Britain herald., 1917-01-23
BEGIN AT ANY TIME Her Side---and His
 
The Scales of Life.

with JanctS work. Then he rcaliz q; he had felt the same way about tae type of magazine "Woman" wus lony before he had ever met Nicoll. In fact, his story, '''The Silkcn Noose," written even before he had met Janet, had been inspired by bis detestation of tale he had read in that very magazine. He had written it in protest against what that mag azine had praised, in the samo way Nicoll had praised in Watts story the very thing Walt himself despised Now Janets progress lay altogether in the direction which to Walt seemed to lead to. the kind of writing Walt was trying his best to destroy. In short, Janet's work and Waits work were hopelessiy at war against each other.
 He looked for the thouS;lndth time at the brave little book he and Lucy Benton had produced-for he was convinced Lucy had almost as large a share in it as he. It had come from the depths of his heart; that book. It rang true It would live. F would arouse thought. The joy he had talk en in writing it!
 Janet had little share in it's crea- ton. She sympathized less with it than she did with Roy Nicolls ideas for their magazine. Lucy, on the other hand had been the spark which had struck fire from him-and there, at last, a strong, almost living, think ing thing, was the book!
 He looked from it to the latest is- sne of "Woman"-Janet's and Ni- coils first number. Their ideas had indeed produced a harmonious nu"- azine. Janet had glowed over it as though it had been her child. Her work had developed Janet amazingly in the short time she had been editing ..NVoman." Roy Nicoll had not only given her the great chance for de- but was doing infinitely more for her than Walt himself, if work was the measure. And to Walt, Work was the measure, IS it was to Janet.
 Walt read the issue of the magazine again and again. hoping to sec some ing in 1t to approve. But the more he read it the worse he felt toward it. Suddenly the whole structure of their love appeared to Walt to be wrong. He, Walt, was not giving Janet the sympathy in her work she needed; vet Roy Nicoll gave her that very thing She, Janet could not give Walt the sympathy in his work he cravcd: and. Iucy Benton gave him that very thing. Love was draEgin- Work down for both Walt and Janet!
New Britain herald., 1917-01-23

There" said the Authorman's s Wife, triumphantly, I'm so glad we're invited to the Charity Ball."
 "Why?" asked the Authorman. "There'll be terrible crush. and the cards are two dollars and half this year instand of two dollars-on ac- count of the war, I suppose" "I know that, said the Author mans Wife. 1T shouldn't care for it ordinarily, but it's such a splendid chance to wear my new gown'
 The Authorman laughed.
 1T don't see anything so funny in that" his wife protested.
 1T was thinking. dear Madame, of what you said to me just before you bought the gown"
 "What?'
 Like Flora NcF1imsey, She Had Noth-
 ing to Wear.
 ..That you had to have it because so many important things kept com ing up that you needed that kind of a gown for"
 Well, they did,
 And now you are planning to go 10 something that you wouldn't nat urally be interested in so that you can have chance to wear the gown"
 1T suppose that's terribly funny from a masculine point of vieW,' said the Authorman's Wife; "but, as have often told you. my sense of hu- nor isn't masculine"
 First She Wants Something to Wear,
 My dear" said the Authorman, ''as if you needed to tell me. But really, cant you see that you've eX- pressed the whole philosophy of Wom- ans attitude toward dress. First she wants a dress to wear somewhere, and then she wants somewhere to wear the dress. It's an eternal cir cle. Which ever way the poor man who wants to cut the cost of living turns. he finds himself shut in by it.
 The Authorman's Wife retorted something to the effect that the poor man who wanted to cut down the cost of living might sometimes look in his cigar case instead of at his wife's gowns and the argument be- came so personal that I lost interest in it But I loved the Authorman's g analysis.
 Don't you?
 Just tho Dividing Line.
 It seems to me he sketched just tn dividing line between normal an| an abnormal interest in clothes
 To want pretty clothes so that yo may be appropriately and becomins'' dressed at all the functions you de sire to attend is normal
 To work the thing the other wa> around, and go to functions so that
New Britain herald., 1917-01-23

Janet's chilling reception Of Walt s book, her unwillingness to hear why he had gone to Lucy's studio on the evening he had to work at home. and his detention at the book bindcry while the first belated copy Was struck off, caused a wretched spell ot silence to settle between the two. Into each ones mind came the same diii- cult problem.
 When modern man and women weighs life it is on scales of Love and Work. The two must balance or life itself is found wanting. Without Love, Work sinks life to drud4ery. Without Work, life sinks to sloth But if one must outweigh the other 1t should be Work. For, after all, there is a kind of love in work: whereas no amount of love will keep love alive and nOurished on the bread of idle ness.
 This was the religion of life for both Walt and Janet Stedman. Both had built their lives on work before love had come to them in common. They had told each other, in those deep moments when one dedicate's ones self anew to life, that if ever their love showed itself to be drag on work, which to them also meanth growth, they would be strong enough to be surgeons to their own lives, and sever the tie that bound them.
 When every morning Janet would leave for her work with Roy Nicoll on their magazine, Walt would say:
 "Good luck to you today, dear!"
 What his words uttered was a wish that the day would bring a rich yielc of work. But in his heart he despised the type of magazine Roy Nicoll was putting out. Nicoll, like a good bus mess man, measured success by the money it brought. If the public was willing to pay money for "pap and adu1terated food in its magazines, Nicoll intended to give the public what it wanted.
 Janet, seeing only the immediate effects of the magazine, thought it good. Walt, seeing farther than she in such things, saw that under Ni- coils influence Woman" would he only "pap and adulterated food' for ever When he wished her good luck" therefore, in the mornings ne had a twinge of conscience. He wished her good luck: but not the pur- poses for which Roy Nicoll and the magazine stood.
 He wondered to himself whether 1t geon spirit toward Roy NicoN that made him feel so far removed from sympathy with the magazine; hence