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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-01
A VERY SLOW GROWTH

Those who have read and studied the history of securities markets do not he's itate to say that 1t has taken even cen- turies to perfect liquid market such as the United States now possesses. strictly impersonal as to the ownership or iden- uty or those who buy and sell. Venetians Knew nothing of market of this kind nor aid those who followed the Venetians especially the Dutch. The London secu- rites market Is not liquid, as is that of the United States. In the United States the growth has been gradual but steady TOT the past 6O or 70 years. until now this market is regarded as ahe most perfect lquid market. strictly impersonal, to be found anywhere in the world
 An illustration by comparison may per haps give better understanding of what IS meant by liquid market. Real estate and almost all manufactured articles re- qalre elaborate and expensive systems for distripution. Often several weeks, and even month, must pass before a piece of real estate is marketed. For a transac- ton Of that kind requires negotiation with many uncertainties, and further- more the price finally established is not great factor in determining the true value of the real estate On the other hand, the liquid market on the stock ex- change Is always instantly available Tfere is always quotation which means practical cash for the seller. Neither the seller nor the buyer is necessarily aware Of the others identity
 The action of J. P. Morgan & Co. in security for call loans based upon fed eral bank discount terms, banking ac- ceptances is an example of the tendency to increase, if that were possible, the liquid character of the stock exchange, at the present the worlds greatest mar ket for handling securities. There may be other advantages similar in principle if not in kind to those which will follow the leadership of J. P. Morgan & Co in so acting as sooner or later to set free what in the aggregate is believed to be at least $.00O 900 of frozen as- sets. Acceptances and the utilization of them for stock exchange transactions, it is believed. will convert much the greater part of these frozen assets into liquid
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-01
Hubbard Bros. & Co.
By BRIGGS

Cotton Merchants. Hanover Square. N. Y. Members New York Cotton Ex- change. New Orleans Cotton Exchange. New York Produce Exchange, Associat- ed Members Liverpool Cotton Associa- tion. Orders solicited for the purchase and sale of Cotton and Cotton Seed oil for. future delivery. Special attention ments of spot cotton for delivery. Cor respondence invited.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-01

New Orleans, August 31.-Rough rice receipts, 4s95 sacks; millers, 1882 sacks Sales: Honduras, 4439 sacks; Carolina, 110 sacks, at 7z0c Quotations: Honduras, 7.250l7. .5oc; others nominal. Clean: Re- ceipts, none Sales: Honduras, 1892 pock- cts, 61sd9tc. No quotations.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-01

The latest material from which 1t is proposed to obtain a supply of motor fuel is straw.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-01
Dry Goods

New York August 31.-Holiday quiet ruled dry goods today as many houses are closed until Tuesday. Raw silk was steady. Burlaps settled on lower basis than lately quoted.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-01
Bonds
Money Market

New York, August 31.-Mercantile pa- Ter, per cent; sterling 6o-day bills. 473; kmmercial 6O-day bills on banks, 472% sormercial 60-day bills, 4.71&; demand. }75A cables. 4.76.6o.
 ! Francs. demand, 548: cables, 5461a. Guild Frs. demand, 50& cables, 511k Iires, de- hand, 6S6; cables, 635. Rubles, demand, t311; cables, IA, nominal. Mexican dol lars, TIC. Government and railroad bonds, firm.
 London, ANgust 31.-Money, per cent; discount rates. short and three-month bills. 17-s2 per cent.
 Kansas City. August a.-Butter and poultry, unchanged.
 Eggs. firsts, 40c; seconds. 3ec To. 1 hard. s2. 1892 191s; No. ?, s215@2. .1e: No. 1 red, g. 1s1k; No. ?, g. 151z \Corn: No. mixed, S16SG1.70; No. ? fhite, $1S2d1.S4; No. 2 yellow, >s1 7O71 n 1oats: No. white, 73@73c; No. 9 fixed. Tic.
 Live Stock
 lSt. Louis, August s1-Hoes: Re- lipts. 2S00; higher. Lights s1s.501 < 20: pigs, s14.75@1s;25: good heavy. p.10@ 2o.25; bulk. $19.So@ 20.2o Cat e: Receipts, 15o0: steady. Native sef steers, $1i5o@1s.25: yearlinr sers and heifers. $9.50@15.50; cows.
 Se@1250; stockers and feeders. $S5O
 }2; beef cows and heifers. $T.50@15;
 live calves. $7.75@155o. Sheep: Re-
 pts. 300; steady Lambs, $14@17;
 es. $1l@12: canners and choppers X fhlcago, August 31-Hogs: Receipts, 70; weak. Butchers. $1920@ 2025:
 pt $1s.50 Q 20.s0; packing. $1S25@
 se.10. Cattle: Receipts. 5000: com sed with week ago. native steers A evenly strong to Soc higher; the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-01
Railroad Schedule
Corrected to May I2. 1ble

Corrected to May IF. IBls { Arrival and deporture of passene>~ trains, Birmingham: The foIlowfn. schedule figures published as informa. tion. are not guaranteed BIRMINGHAM TERMINAL STATION
 Southern Railway system
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-01
S.R.Stewart&Co.

lOI-2 Woodward Bldg.. Birmingham, Ala. Cotton, stocks bonds. grain, provisions and cotton seed oil New Orleans cor respondents Jno. F. Clark & Co. Direct private wire, continuous quotations.
 Phone Main 587 W. L. PHELPS. Mxr.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-01

London, Asgust 31.-Money, per cent; discount rates. short and three-month bills. 17-32 per cent.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-01

Kansas City. August s1.-Butter and poultry, unchanged { Eggs. firsts, 40c: seconds, 36c.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-01
Rice Market

St. Louis, August 31.-Poultry, butter and eggs, unchanged.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-01-20
Humorlno People Isn't Pleasant.

"Humoring a man" sounds like g pleasant and comfortable thing, but when one links humoring with the question of who makes the money, it does not seem very fiattering 10 the humorer or the humoree, says a writer m the Woman's Home Companion. And what lamentable sight is that of the humoree, what deep inequality 1t implies and what an absence of any real respect O. understanding between two people in whose lives humoring is q part of the daily routine! When the one to be humored Is woman it may mean that man has been forced Into the craven part of doing anything Cor the sake of peace. There are few concessions some men will not make 70 avoid domestic storm. Some un fortunate men there are who even give uN vital friendships, legitimate forms Of recreation. and even their own individualiJies in this unworthy cause.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-01-20
When Silence Is Golden

When you don't know, keep silence, On such occasions silence Is golden. The man who cannot control himself Is not free man. He is the sport ot every wind that blows. He is for some thing when he has just talked with q man who is for it. He is quite as strongly against 1t after listening to one who is against it and will be just as ready to change again under some other persons influence. His opinion Is valueless because it is never his own. It is we'll to think carefully of sub- feet before expressing an opinion on it. Do not allow yourself to be influenced by spacious reasoning. still less by talk in which thosc is no reason. The more important .fla subject, the more aeed of self e.f-confrol.--Exchang
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-01-20
EDITORS CHARGED
 WITH CONTEMPT
(By Associated Press.)

Fort Smith, Jan. 19.-Contempt of court proceedings were commenced Tn the United States district court yestef- day afternoon against Dan Hogan and his daughter, Freda Hogan, editors and publishers of the Huntington (Ark) Herald, as a result of an edl- torial that appeared in their publl- cation November 30 last, in reference to motion filed by counsel for the Bache- Denman coal syndicate to add $120,0OO interest to the judgment of $6,OOO awarded the syndicate against the United Mine Workers of America. The Bache- Denman damage suit was heard by a jury and the trial was pre- sided over by Judge James D. Elliott of Sioux Falls, s. D., sitting by special aSSiVpment
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-01-20
German'S Air Monsters are
 Rapidly Being Brought Down
Thirty Mammoth zeppelns Have Been Destroyed Since War Began--Nearly All of Dirigibes Have Been Handed Over to Ge11na Navy.

French Front, Dee. 1O.--The Zep- pelin hogey has been laid or, at least. the major part of its terrors have vanished, since reliable lnfor- nation shows the reported existence in Germany of great aimadas Of these aerial dreadnonghts to have been bsolutely mythical. Alto gether only just over on" hundred of these diIigibles have been con- structed since the late Count Iep- pelin launched the first one over Lake Constance.
 Up to August, 1914, the total of those built had numbered 20: siacc hostilitles began the two great works at Friedrichshafen and Staakcn nave constructed between 1l and so. prob ably nearer the lower than the high CT figure. This means an average of two per month. As the mean perior for the building of Zeppelin is known with certainty to be two months, there must a lWays have been four new airships on the stocks at the same time.
 Most of the Zeppelins launched into the air before the war came to grief, mus leaving III the -SefVlce or lhe German army and navy fleet Of less than dozen when fighting began. Since then nearly all the dirigibles, old and new. have been handed over to the German navy, which has used them for many kinds of work, such as bombarding expeditions. protection of mine-layers and small torpedo boats at sea. chasing submarines, searching for mine-tields, and, last and most important, rcconnoiterine.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-01-20
for the high seas fleet.

Tor the hlSh seas 1lcct.
 Disaster has attended the flight Of an overwhelming majority of these air monsters, no fewer than thirty ot which are known to have been de- stroyed in one way or another, as is shown by the following list:
 L-1--Destroyed just before the war when it fell in the North sea near Heligoland.
 L-2-Burnt at Buhlsbuettel just be- fore the war.
 l.-3~-DeScended at Fanoe in Den. mark at beginning of the war and was burnt by it's crew.
 L-l--Descended at Blaavands Hulk Denmark, al beginning of the wal and was burnt by it's crew.
 E-5--Brought down on the Belgian front in 1915, part of crew saved.
 I.-G--Burnt at Buhlsbuettel in its hangar in September. 1916.
 I.-7-Brouaht down by British de stroyers off JutlanG, crew belnt drowned, in 1915.
 I.-S-Brought down by machine guns in Belgium, part of crew being killed. in 1915.
 I.-9-Burnt at Buhlsbuettel in its hangar at same time as I<6.
 I.-l0-Struck by lightning near CuX- haven during it's initial flights, ant lost with it's crew.
 I.-12-Destroyed at Ostend i'll 191! when returning from a raid on Eng land
 L-15-Brought down in the Thames England, in 1916.
 I.-1G-Dcstroyed on October 19 19l1
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-01-20
Food Souring Causes Indigestion,
 Gases, Heartburn-:- Tapes Diapepsin
Instant Relief Neutralizes acid in stomach stopping
 dyspepsia, pain belching-1t's fine!

pepsia. A little Diapepsin occasion ally keeps the stomach sweetened, and they eat their favorite foods without fear.
 If your stomach doesn't take care of your liberal limit without rebellion; if your food is damage instead of 2 help, remember the quickest, surest most harmless antacid is Pape's Dia pepsin which costs only fifty cents fol large case at drug stores. It's truly wonderful--it stops food souring anc sets things straight, so gently ant easily that it is really astonishing Your stomach will digest your meals if you keep acids neutralized.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-01-20

You cont know what upset your which portion of the food did the damagc-do you? Well don't bother. If your stomach is revolt; if sick. gassy and upset, and what you just ate has fermented ana turned sour; head dizzy and aches; belch gas es and acids and eructate undigest ed food; breath four, tongue coated-just take a little Pape's Diapepsin to neu- tralixe acidity and in five minutes you wonder what became Of the indigestion and distress.
 Millions of men and women today know that it is needless to have dys-
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-01-20
Trotzky Protests.

Petrograd. via London, Jan. 1s.- British Admiralty, per Wireless fress.-M. TrotZky, the Bolshevlk' foreign minister, has sent an ener getic protest against the distortion oi the minutes of the Brest-Litovsb peace conference, especially the mis- representation of the Russian declara- ,ions, made in the German official statements, which, he says, a,s In tended not to be informative, but to mislead the German public.
 Trotzky calls attention to point seven in the negotiations. whicf reads: Our government has writ ten at the head of it's program thf word peace, but at the same time has undertaken the obligation to sign only a just and democratic peace"
 He says that only the first half o' the phrase is cited in the German re- ports.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-01-20
New Peace Delegates.

Petrograd. Thursday, Jan. 11.-Re- sponding to the plea of the Smolny Institute government, the new ukra nian Rada, composed of Bolshevikl and which was organized at kharkov in opposition to the Kiev Rada, has determined to send new set ot peace delegates to Brest-Litovsk. The Rus sian delegation asserted that the ukrainians had been holding secret and traitorous negotiations With the Austro- -Hungarians regarding bounda ries.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-01-20
Not old Enough.

Alice was not greatly interested III the approaching Halloween party ana when her older sisters tried to enthuse her with the subject she answered sadly: "Oh, what good is Halloween to me? I am not old enough to see my future husbands face in q mirror"
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-01-20
ls-Burnt in hangar at Tondern

I-lN-Bufnl III q hangar al l OnueEH in 1916.
 l.-19-Foll in the Baltic while re- turning from raid on England ;
 L-22-Bunt accidentally while com ing out of it's hangar at Tondern.
 l-23--Foll on the English coast
 L-2J-DestroyeG while being en- ployed as q training balloon at Wild park.
 1.-31-Fcll in London in 1916.
 I.-32-Brought doWn in London in 1916 Sept. g2-24J.
 I.-333 Brought down in England September B. 1916. and crew in termed.
 l.2:'-- Brought down in England
 I.-39- Brought down at ~omp;egne, France, March. 1917.
 l.-40- Fell in the woods near Ein- den.
 L-d3-Brouaht down in July, l917, at Terschelling.
 l.-4i-Brought down afire at Saint Clement, October 20. 1917.
 l.-4a-Brought down and burnt at Sisteron October 20, 1917.
 L-4S-Brought Gown in England June. 1917.
 L.-49 9-rBrought down at Bourbonne- lcs-Pains October 20, 1917.
 I-50-Fell at Dommartin October 20. 1917.
 l -57-Broke up on it's first voyage.
 The last named is the highest num- Der believed to have been in the serv- ice. Missing numbers in the list given above are accounted for az fol lows:
 I-11-Put out of service in 1917 and believed to be in shed at Haze
 I-l3-In the shed at Haze since May, 1917.
 I.-14-School airship at NordholZ.
 I.-17-Believed to have been destroy ed at sea.
 L-20--Dismantled
 L-21-Dismantled believed burnt at Tondern.
 L-24-DismantIed
 L-26-Planaed but never con- structeG.
 but never constructed.
 I4-34 4--Peleved destroyed off Eng land L.37-Attaohed to Baltic squadron but believed destroyed. I-3SN hercahcutA unknown. I.-41 to l.-56---ln service in the North sea. No information is obtainable as to the fate of tine remainder Of the Yep pelins, nor as to whether their con- structiOn was ever completed, out the few other types of dirigible airships used by the Germans have not been better served by fate than their more renowned sisters. The Schuette-I. I.anZ Girigible Is something like Zeppelin. but with a framework of bamboo instead of alum inum. There have been eight of these in use since the beginning of the war and their fate or present condi | tion is shown in the following list: SI-3-Out of service since a Ions time. S.L-A-Struck by lightning in the l Baltic. l S.I.-6-Relieved to have fallen into | the Baltic. l S.L-S-In service in the Baltic. l S.I.-9--Burnt at Stolp. S.L-14--In service in the Baltic. l S.L-16-Believed to be still in serv l ice 1 SI4-2C-In service. 1 There was also one Gross semi-riglt dirigible, which was put out of serv l ice at the end of February, 1915, ant 1 three Parscval non-rigid airships. on' of which was destroyed in Russia, thu second used as schOol-ship and th' third understood to be still in service
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-01-20
NEGOTIATIONS AT
 BREST-LI10VSk
 ARE INTERRUPTED
Germans Endeavor to Place Russian Representatives
 in Bad Light.

London, Jan. 18.--The negotiations rupted temporarily. according to a PetrOgrad dispatch to the Daily Mai! dated Thursday, and the Russian dele gation is returning to Petrograd The Germans, it is added, appeared to be maneuyering to force the Russians to break the barley over a minor point so as to throw the blame on the Rus sian representatives in the eyes of the Russian people.
 Further dispatches from both the German and Russian sides regarding the negotiations at Brest-LitoESk in dicate that the discussion on Wednes- day turned largely on the question of the conditions to be recognized in dis posing of Poland, Lithuania and Cour- land. Dr. von kuehlmann, the Ger man foreign secretary, said in effect that his government was willing to permit the peoples Of the territories occupied by German and Austro-Hun- galian troops to vote in regard to their political future, such vote to be taken not later than one year after the conclusion of general peace.
 
 Leon Trotzky, Bolsheviki foreign min- ister, attempted to obtain clear statement whether the voting would be preceded by evacuation of those territories by the German armies. Aft CT several attempts to eyade a direct reply, Dr. von Kuehlmann declared that Germany could not undertake any obligation regarding withdrawal of the armies.
 M. Trotzky returned to Petrograd on Thursday night. Apparently the negotiations were suspended Thurs day, although there is nothing to indi- cate how things were left at adjourn ment.
 "Moving Toward Rupture" The Petrograd correspondents of the Daily News, telegraphing on Thursday, described the, negotiations as steadily moving toward final rupture" Referring to the private negotiations between the Germans and Ukrainians, the correspondent recalls his recent statement that peace was more likely to be signed by the Ukran- ians than by the Bolsheviki. This opinion is confirmed by the news that the Germans have been strengthened l in their resistance to the Russians in 1 consequence of the result of the sep arate negotiat tions with the Ukranians. 1 Dr. von Kuehlmann let slip the fact l that these discussions already had ] been begun, taking up the question of 1 the frontiers. The importance of this, the correspondent adds, lies In the
 fact that Ukranians are ready to negotiate "imperialistically' with a view to possible territorial gains, thus
 weakening the position of the 'Bolshe- wiki, whose strength consists in their | absolute disregard of territorial gains or losses and insistence that the in- habitants alone have the right to de-
 eide their fate.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-22
Ships to Be Released.

American bottoms are to be released
for the shipping trade just as soon as
our soldiers are repatriated: some
vessels have been surrendered to own
ers for cargo purposes and more will
be available from time to time, while
American business men hope that the
shipbuilding operations, under gov
eminent patronage and control. will
continue until such TIME. as the Amer
lean merchant marine is indeed a feet
in being. i. ra---, -,
Anticipating the foreign export
trade, before it is fairly under way,
the bankers Of this country are max
ing strenuous efforts to overcome the
various handicaps that our manufac-
turers and exporters will find to their
efforts.
First will; be the matter of cheap
money. We have no such aggrega-
tions Of capital in this country as
they have in England and on the con-
supplement the efforts of the Bank of
England and other Institutions of the
state. Money in England is per
cent; here to per cent.
American bankers are making every
effort to stimulate the use Of bank
acceptances, as the best and cheapest
form. and yet the highest grade of
credit. --~---
Bills are made for purchases of
etc, and credit arrangements made
with banks for accepting these bills
drawn fer thirty. sixty or ninety
days. or even longer. The bank ac-
cepting gives Its, Official Endorsement
to the paper, and it is rediscountabie
at the federal reserve bank. or salable
in the open market. On imported
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-22
MEN PLAN VOTE
ON u. S. ROADS
Brotherhoods Are to Sub
nit the Question of
Government Control
to Their Membership.

ON the railway brotherhoods
- stand on the proposal Of Dr.
rector General McAdoo that
the roads be left in the
hands Of the government until 1924
will probably be determined by a
vote to be taken next month. Plans
for submission of this question to the
workers are already in process Of
preparation, according to information
emanating from responsible labor
circles.
1t was learned that the leaders are
not in full agreement as to the wis
dom of adopting Mr.. McAdoo's plan.
though the sentiment for the recon-
mendation appears to be strong.
Frank Morrison, secretary of the
American Federation of Labor, in a
speech to the members of confer
ence of the railway department OF the
Chamber of Commerce Of the United
States at the New Willard Hotel re-
Gently, warned the conferees that any
abrupt interference with present
wages and living conditions might
precipitate a bolshevik movement.
Warns of Danger "Spot.''
Mr.. Morrison, however, did not say
ownership, government control or
private ownership and private con-
troll would meet the situation. He
merely called attention, he said. to
what he deemed a danger spot which
patriotic citizens should do their best
to avoid.
Some of the leaders among the
brotherhoods are Withholding their
support from the McAdoo plan. be-
cause of the director generals recent
announcement that employees must
keep out OF politics. They say If
government control of the roads
means the forfeiture Of civil rights
for those engaged in running them
they will be forced to oppose the
Recommendation.
..But with the restoration Of civil
rights much of the opposition among
the workers would vanish" said a
leader.
Railroad men. as Mr.. McAdoo has
admitted on a number OF occasions.
are among the most patriotic and
eficient men in the country. To deny
these men the right to run for Office,
to make speeches, attend conven-
tions and organize committees is not
fair.
'IInder private ownership we had all
these rights, though, of course, some
times an arrogant railway official
tried to nullify them. 1t is very i'm
portant that railways be run eff
GENTLY and that the highest measure
of service should be obtained for
them, but it is even more important
that intelligent and patriotic men
should retain their civil rights.
II is understood that the plan to
take a vote among the railroad work
ers on Mr. McAdoo's recommendation
will not be opposed by lie railway
administration.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-22
ALLIED CENSORSHIP
RAISES DISCUSSION

PARIS, December 21.-An official
statement probably will be given out
soon explaining the status of the CEN
sorship. Although it had been
promised by President Wilson that
the censorship would be lifted entire
", it, develops that his promise ap-
plies only to political matter concern
ing the peace conference which does
not concern France and Great Britain.
The American delegation. it is de-
clared, recognizes the need for clari-
fication and is asking for it.