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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-17
THE FARMERS AND GINNERS
 COTTON OIL COMPANY

Birmingham considers herself fortunate la possessing the Farmers and Ginners Cotton Oil company the big manu- featuring plant which makes the high est grade of ''Ctton Seed Feed" a feed which is used more extensively than any other in this state and throughout the south
 Just word about how the Farmers and Ginners Oil company appreciates the souths greatest commodity-cotton which has been called King Cotton, :" Queen Cotton and Princess Cotton :; they have utilized the seed of the cotton in the manufacture of their .Cotton Seed Feed and produced one of the most satisfactory brands of feed ever put on the market, realizing that the seed alone from an acre of cotton is worth as much as all the corn that could be produced upon that acre. But it does not sell for ase much because the producer does not know the value of each.
 Cotton is famous in history and in song.
 Its fiber makes clothing, paper, books, buckets, pans, car wheels, boxes, blan- kets, beds. Its blossoms supply the nec- tar to bees for the manufacture of the best quality of honey known to man. l. is the coIntrymans flower garden upon which he rests his tired eyes. It's leaves and stalks feed the soil. It's seed-a newly discovered fountain of wealth-food for all animal creation. It's seed furnishes meal for live stock, bread for man, and oil for salads, cakes, pas try, butter. lard. as we'll as for soap and paints. Cotton not only clothes the world, but feeds it and cleans it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-17
r T0ddu's RotogrdDure P0rtrdys H0U Birn7inQhdn1
 Industries Are Reaching Out Oper the South

cut paste manufactured from genuine Durum wheat flour is unexcelled and the sanitary conditions, the immacu- late and thorough manner in which the foodstuffs are handled, makes them desirable from health stand point as we'll as other standpoints.
 The Birmingham Macaroni company is one of the most modern and well equipped plants in the south. A visit to this big plant reveals hundreds of people employed in making the gle Brand' of macaroni and spa ghetti.
 The macaroni manufactured by the Birmingham Macaroni company is of the very finest and strongest of dururn wheat flour that has twice the quan titles of gluten in 1t as is contained i'll the highest grade patent wheat flour. Mixed with pure filtered water and kneaded thoroughly with mahcin- cry, forced through molds into long, perforated strings and then dried slowly by the Italian process. the fin ished product of macaroni is turned out. The process is simple and clean; no grease. no cooking, no manipula- tion. no dirt, just flour and water and as flour is made up of two principal ingredients, starch and gluten, and dUrum wheat flour having twice the quantity of gluten over other Hours, tnemacafoni made by the Birmingham Macaroni company is superior to any or the market.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-17
AVONDALE STOVE AND
 FOUNDRY co.

superior quality of material and workmanship places the articles manu- factured by the Avondale Stove and Foundry company in the highest class of manufacturing institutions in the big Birmingham district.
 guarantee of quick service excellent quality of goods and reliable mechanism satisfies the large clientele of this we'll known and popular manufacturing plant and the fact that once a customer has patronized the Avondale Stove and Foun- dry company means ascontinuous patron- age, is the highest approval that can be placed upon the wares sent out all over the country by this plant.
 Fair and honest treatment. courteous attention and personal interest in ev- cry article sold is the slogan of the Avondale Stove and Foundry company, whose superior line of stoves has been on the market for 20 years and whose best advertisement is the constantly in- creasing demand for them.
 Among the activities listed by the Avondale Stove and Foundry company are the following:
 Stove repairs, bolts, rods knobs, patent dampers. etc.; stove pipe and elbows. stove tinware in sets, stove hollowware in all it's branches, machine moulded pulleys, standard sizes of boxes and caps. washers. grate bars. etc.; ash doors, ash pits for dumping the ashes under the house into a receptacle, and side walk grates and ventilators
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-17

equipment be torn down and so arranged through the water in each washing ma chine during the process of washing By the action of this current you are en- abled to get the clothes clean in water of moderate temperature; to do away with destructive bleaches; to wash with a neutral soap.
 ''The application of electricity also enables you to produce sterilization. de- odorization and perfect cleanliness. so customers pure sweet and clean; also to guarantee colors not to fade or run.
 Among the things that "The Electric Process" can do are these:
 1t completely sterilizes the clothes. The application of an electrical, current to the water in which the clothing is washed and rinsed destroys all bacteria, thus minimizing the danger of germ in- lection.
 1t deodorizes the clothes. The purify ing influences of the electricity entire- ly removes all wash odors," ''soapy smells" etc, and the clothes come home to you pure. sweet and immaculate.
 It prevents colors from fading and running Indeed, colors that have grown dull and dingy from being washed by the ordinary processes, are frightened by the electric current and often look as though they were new.
 It makes the clothes wear longer. Be- cause the use of electricity makes 1t un- necessary to use strong alkaline soaps and powerful bleaches, such as destroy the texture of the goods clothing washed by this wonderful process have their
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-17
Mason Builder Biz Business Example Younq
 Accomplish Through Perseverance, Honesty and Laudab Ambition

1 life of serviceability heightened fully 2S per cent.
 The clothes are purified. Electricity is natures greatest purifier and when it is applied to the water in which your clothes are washed your garments come home to you perfectly sterilized. pure, clean and sweet, free from all disease serms, thus giving you a health insur- ance you could get in no other way.
 As the use of electricity eliminates the necessity for continuous boiling in order to insure perfect cleanliness. the dyes used in colored goods are not af- fected, and the most delicate colors arc guaranteed not to fade or run.
 It may be added that the liquor made by decomposing salt water by the action of electric current Is a positive gerrni- inside, and is used for purifying drink ing water, for disinfecting clothing. bed- ding, etc, used by patients suffering from contagious diseases and Is most delightful when used in the bath.
 Birmingham points with pride to the Empire Laundry as one of the biggest assets in the business world and the capable. efficient organization under MT. Clarence E, Masons management spells satisfactory Service to Birmingham's large population.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-17
DOLL LY-ETTTES
Love May Be Blind, but he seems to get along Pretty Well in the Dark Just the Same

mingham when he was quite a youngster and his first 'job" was collecting freight claims, which took him from the Alice furnace to North Birmingham-a wide territory and one which was a liberal education in itself when it came to meet ing people and coming in contact with all classes and kinds
 The next step took him into the Con- tinental Gin company, where for six years he found another medium which added to his business experience
 Quite by accident MT. Mason became connected with the present business he is engaged in (when Mir Griffin owned the bustness) and his firsc employment was in the position of manager. From this he became interested in the business, buy ing bunch of the stock and later af- filiating with Mir Robert R. Meyer, the two became the joint owners, from which vantage point Birmingham now sees MT. Mason as one of the splendid exam pies of what young man can do in thd commercial world who has perseverance, honesty and laudable ambition to his credit.
 Speaking of the present war situation and it's influence on the business world, Mr. Mason told me a few days ago when was talking with him some interesting things, among which he mentioned this:
 Never were business conditions so thoroughly abnormal as they are now; at no time in the worlds history of busi- ness has there been such 8 state of af- fairs; of course, there are many business propositions which have benefited vastly by the war, others are suffering tre- mendously from it. Birmingham has held her own during the trying times with credit to herself
 There is scarcely any other busi-
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ness which has been more affected by war conditions than the laundry business MT. Mason said. For 30 years or more the same laundry prices have been maintained; that is, prac- tically maintained. In a few instances the prices have been raised, but very few. and this in spite of the enor- nous increase in commodities Take the matter of soap, for example. Ten years ago we could buy all the soap We wanted and have it delivered as we pleased: 10 barrels a month or any other way. Today we must give an orcer for soap and have it delivered at the earliest possible time and store II ourselves. Soap prices have ia- creased from very small sum to a very large sum, which shows one im- mense item in our business which is Tn the ascendancy as to price.
 Again. take the material known as duck, which is used in laundry work Ter covering the ironing boards" Mir Mason continued. This material which formerly cost 95 cents, fluctu ating to $1.05, now costs over s4 Take the matter of twine. A very small Item. you say, which is true, but if mas increased in price so tremendous " that 1t becomes a big item, and of course 1t is impossible to restrict peo- pie in the use of a small commodity like twine, yet all of this counts.
 Labor is another thing that we nave to contend with now" MT. Ma son said Not so much in the ln- crease in wages but the inability to Ind efficient help. With good wages ana practically no hard work in any or our departments, it seems that there are many who would rather lead an
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-17
By DOLLY pALRYMPLE

f you should refer to him as a living
 namo, he would object; if you termed
 h high-speed energizer of human ann
 ion. he would object; if you. called him
 magnetic young man with a big job and P ability to get away with it, he would ject; in fact, no matter who you called
 or what you said about him he
 uld object, for that is the attitude
 Clarence F. Mason, manager of the npire laundry, and one of Birming-
 ms most successful young business Pn, holds when 1t comes to personalities
 business.
 so to him and ask him any question
 u want to about how the big business
 the Empire laundry goes, and what business conditions surrounding it are Day, and he'll take the greatest pleas in telling you; but go to him and
 him anything about himself and |u'll feel breath of the Arctic creep
 that warns you of your mistake and +eeps you out with a feeling that you'd yer have gotten in if the nice young hn had known it was Personality you re seeking.
 n the big business which Mr. Mason s built up in Birmingham every de- Irtment, as far as he is concerned |rries the responsibility of specific duty; the efficient performance of that duty bends results, and 1t Is in results and It personality that MT. Mason is in tested.
 While MT. Mason will not talk about |nself, while the theory that he works is that an ounce of actual accomp- |hment is worth 1000 pounds of telling Tout it, there are certain little chan |ls through which have trickled little Is of information about him, one of |ese bits being how he got his start the business world which has led up to |ccess.
 Mr. Clarence F. Mason came to Bir-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-17
THE MOTION,

One of the most beautiful hotels in the entire south is ''The Molton," which has drawn a tremendous ciien- tele from the travelling public with it's slogan. If you don't stop with us we both lose.' since it's formal opening a few years ago.
 ''The Notion towers slSyward in the busiest and most beautiful section of big Birmingham and it's handsome architecture, its airy, spacious rooms and it's splendid sanitation make it one of the most up- -to-date and at tractive hotels in the country.
 "The Motion" is situated halfway between the two railway stations and Is convenient to every part of the city. the churches, the schools, the theatres. the shopping district and all th@ car lines.
 Every room is well furnished and the heating and ventilating plans of the hotel are unexcelled while the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-17
Debt to the Indian

By George II. Pepper. in World Out
 look.
 Of all the Indians economic gifts to modern man. corn, or maize, Is king. From an humble beginning 1t has grown until it's power seriously af- fects the economic balance of the world. Corn was not known in the old world It probably had its origin in Mexico.
 Cotton. although an indigenous plant. was co-eXistent in both hemispheres, but our Indians developed it. In Mex leo, the West Indies and Peru it was grown in abundance and used in the fabrication of textiles. Beans and squashes were raised in all parts of America and with wild rice and maple sugar were of much assistance to the early settlers. The ancient Mexicans and Peruvians gave to the world the nutritious cocoa, or chocolate, the po- tato. the sweet potato, the peanut, the chile, or red pepper. the tomato, the cassava, and other fruits.
 A recent government crop report issues the statement that for food products alone our annual debt to tho American Indian amounts to the enor- nous sum of s3,000,000.00
 To the American Indian Is also duo the credit of developing irrigation. In +i.e arid ragions the. Indian- fa rrrrcr , deep planting brought bountiful crops. Tn this parched land water was a ne- cessity. Fields were planted at the base of table lands that the mesa seep- age as we'll as the natural infiltration from direct rainfall might be secured. Dams were built and reservoirs were made.
 Not satisfied with these efforts, pre- historic man evolved a scheme of ir- rigation which developed into a won. derful series of mother canals and lesser ditches. Individual canals were known to have traversed distance of
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idle. shiftless life than to earn good wages and become reliable people in our institutions.
 And again I cite you the instance of increase in the upkeep of our teams horses" MT. Mason said. ''Why, do you know what We used to pay for the board of horse at a livery stable? Twelve to SIS a month: to- day we pay s1 a day for every horse we use; as much as it costs a hu- man being to live; in fact, many of them don't have as much as that While it doesn't seem a large item one horse and team-but when 13, Ii,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-17
COAL WASHING
 AND MANUFACTURING CO, INC.

Standing beacon-like in the manufac- turing world of Birmingham, Is the Mont gomery Coal Washing and Manufactur- ing Company. Inc, pointing the way to high-grade castings of all kinds.
 Among the articles manufactured by this big company and patented are the Montgomery coal and ore washers, which throughout the United States find ready sale. and once used. are always in demand again.
 The Montgomery Coal Washing and Manufacturing Company, Inc. engineers, founders and machinsts. number among their manufactured articles sheave wheels, gear wheels, sprockets, pillow blocks, takeup boxes, malleable and steel chain links, elevators elevator buckets. conveyers. shaking screens, revolving screens. automatic Jumpers and hoist inl drums-in fact. everything desired by the large coal, iron and steel industries
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-17
BATTERToN COFFEE COMPANY

Every housekeeper' in Birmingham, every hotel, cafe restaurant and lunch counter appreciates what the Batterton Coffee company and it's splendid prod ucts mean to Birmingham.
 Royal Cup Coffee is household word in the south. and no finer blend of coffee has ever been presented to the public than this
 The delicious fumes of roasted coffee which greet you as you step into the plant of the Batterton Coffee company tempt the epicure and make him feel-~as if life were not complete without a quaff from a dainty cup of the delicious beverage.
 Nothing means so much to people who care for good. food products as the coffee they have served on their tables and once Royal Cup Coffee has been used it is very difficult to supplant it in the affection of a household.
 Modernly equipped and efficient in every way. the Batterton Coffee com pany ranks among the most important of Birminghams manufacturing inter- ests, and unless you are a partaker of Royal Cup Coffee you have missed one of the real treats of your life.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-17
CITY PAPER COMPANY

Birmingham is fortunate in having an institution like the City Paper company which manufactures blasting paper in tremendous quantities and turns out a product which is satisfactory and reliable at all times.
 The Star Blasting Paper water proof. which is manufactured by the City Paper company is a superior line of paper and the company has such large number of customers for it's products that 1t has extended it's territory over practically all the southern states, in- cluding Georgia. Mississippi. Louisiana, Texas and Tennessee, besides our home state Alabama.
 The efficient service rendered by the City Paper company's large plant. which is modernly equipped and up-to-date in every way, makes it one of the most important and desirable of Birmingham big manufacturing industries
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necessary If we are to hasten the vic- torions ending of the war. War savers are life savers.
 A single strand in the cables which uphold the great Brooklyn suspension bridge is not very strong, but thousa nds of these strands bound together uphold one of the tSaat thoroughfares of the world.
 The Connors-Weyman Steel company IS one of the largest and most influen- tial of all Birminghan's industries, and its loyalty and sincerity of purpose in placing before it's countrymen at the War Savings Stamp movement before anything else is worthy of the high ideals of the great men at the head of this great company.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-17
Beauty Specialist
 Tells Secret
A Beauty Specialist Gives simple Home
 Made Recipe 10 Darken Gray Hair

Mrs. M. D. Gillespie. we'll known beauty specialist of Kansas City. re- cently gave out the following state- ment regarding gray hair:
 Anyone can prepare simple mix ture al home, at very little cost. that will darken gray hair, and make 1t soft and glossy. To half pint of box of Barbo Compound and r ounce of glycerine. These ingredients can be bought at any drug store at very little cost. or the druggist will put it up for you. Apply to the hair twice week until the desired shade Is ob- tained. This will make gray haired person look twenty years younger 1t or greasy and does not rub off.r---AdY.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-17
New Light on Anarchism

Maynard Owen Williams. in the Chris
 tion Herald.
 It was at our last meeting in Tiflis that the indomitable optimist threw new light on his anarchism.
 "KropotlSin. Reclus and myself were sitting together in London once. dis oussing our theories. We were taking great deal of satisfaction In the thought that we were anarchists. who recog- nized no rights of. coeroive government
 But" he added with a smile. T said to them: there Is one government be- fore which we gladly bow and whoss retty expressions we willingly endure You forget our wivee."
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over 30 miles, and in Arizona alone over 200, 900 acres of desert land were made available for cultivation before the arrival of the alien.
 Several of the old canal beds have been utilized by modern builders. in one instance a saving of over s2o,0o0 being effected in Arizona by employ ing an ancient ditch, Many other cases show that primitive man, with tools of crudest type, produced results of start ling magnitude.
 Roads have proved serious problem to modern America. But the Indian trail is father of them all Owing to the fact that the natives usually trav- ,eled in single file their paths were very narrow, but because they fol- lowed lines of least resistance they became the guiding routes of the pio- neer who eventually built roads along their courses.
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popular price cafe" in connection with 1t is one of it's most attractive fea- tUres
 NO prettier CT more delightful hos tiery offers a welcome to the travel ing public anywhere in the country than The Molton," and Birmingham points to it with pride as one of the handsomest buildings and one of the principal attractions in this district.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-17
THE EMPIRE LAUNDRY

Among the successful and substantial industries of Birmingham Is the Empire Laundry, which makes speciality of The Electric Process beneficial in- vention with no destructive chemicals but with wonderful sanitary qualities.
 Careful investigation made by trade journals and by the Laundrymen's Na- tional Association of America, both among the selling agents of dyestuffs
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-17
CoNNORs-WEYMAN STEEL co.

One of the largest and most important of all the Birmingham district indes- tries is the Connors- Veyman Steel com pany. which stands pre-eminent in it's resources. turning out tremendous amount of material daily.
 With all of it's success and its pros perlty. however. this big manufacturing industry has not forgotten that oar country must be upheld and maintained during the world war by such indus-r.es as theirs, and it's solgan today is War Savings Stamps first last and always.
 To quote Secretary McAdoo on the war savings stamps, let us consider these words of his:
 "Tte main reason for the purchase, of war savings stamps is because your country is at war. Your country needs every penny which every man, woman and child can save and lend in order 10 feed, clothe arm. and equip the soldiers and sailors of America and to win this righteous war in defense of American honor and the cause of democracy throughout the world. "
 If we are to win the war. we must sin 1t as united people. The savings Of every man. woman and child are
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of this district and others operating sim liar works.
 The Montgomery Coal Washing and Manufacturing Company, Inc, spells ef- ficiency plus in it's particular line and 1t Is ono of the most valuable assets to this big industrial district.