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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-28
Good Results Obtained
 From One DeliUery e Day
 Plan Adopted by Grocers
Food Administration Is Contemplating Two Prices for Goods, Cash and Carry" and Charge and Dev- ery'-Report at Meeting of Local Association
 Is Satisfactory After One Months Trial

needed in war work; that on January l, this year, 50 per cent of the man power of this country was engaged in war work, and that by the first of next January fully 40 per cent would be directly engaged in war work
 Tn normal times the government does not interfere with your business, but leaves you to conduct it to suit yourself, but these are not normal times Fourteen million men are en- gagged in war work and this number will be increased as time goes on. Tn order to supply this great number of workers it became necessary to with draw men from less essential employ ment. and your help, coming under the class of nonessentia1 employ ment. was called into other lines more directly connected with the prosecution of tba
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-28
STATEMENT EXPECTED

Wis no hostility amon~ the McAitan fed eTal soldiers toward +he American fcroes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-28
( CANADIANs SHOW BRAVERY

The Canadian troops are fighting in lively fashion between the Sensee and Scrape rivers, and to them have fallen numerous German-held villages and many prisoners.
 Bapaume, one of the strategic points over which there has been much heavy fighting, is still held by the Germans, but the British are now so nearly around it that possibly few of the enemy remain inside the shell-torn
The sun., 1918-11-24

conterplots OF Kinds and Beers to end
Johns career as the skipper of the Nim-
bus.
There are lively descriptions Of the
technique of mackercl seining, somewhat
overdone; of attempts to defeat the fish
ing laws of Canada, very raw melOdran;i
indeed; and there is also a sirikingly vivid
description of storm on the coast IN
which Beers's schooner is wrecked and John
Dcane rescues him in way that may well
arouse wonder as to its possibility Of exc
cution, particularly as TO the handling oil
the Nimbus on 4 lee shore in such a hurri-
cane. Also the reader may question the
ability of even a Gloucester fisherman TO
make seine boat with jury rig handle
so magicaly under sail rs when pitch
fork" Graham and Bill Squirting fought
the "Battlc Of Cow Bay But readers
who like sea stories spiced with battle and
storm and good red blooded fights will
overlook these nice nautical QuestiOnings.
SKIPPER JOHN OF THE NIMBCS. BY
RAYMOND MCFARLAND. The Macmillan
Company. $50.
The sun., 1918-11-24
Replies to Questions.

i. c. P, New YORK CITY-With the very
vague description it is hard to trace the
book you ask about. Unless it be under the
name of an author, none of the authorities
examined has any reference to it. Perhaps
if you will address letter to L. Carterct,
) Rae Drouot, or to NJ. Henri Omont, Biblio-
thcque Rationale, Paris. you may discover
that which eludes us on this side of the
water. Either of these gentlemen is likely
to be able to give you what you seek.
W. J. s., New YORK CrTY-Dryden s
Firgi was sold in the Hagen sale last May
for $2l; the Merrivane book is worth about
So: the London Magazine about 81. As to
the print We refer you to Robert Fridenberg
of West Fifty sixth street between Fifth
and Sixth avenues.
c. F. j., Hartford, CONH-The OIirCr
TWiSt and the Nictlsby are worth about
$50 if the original wrappers have been re-
moved. If the wrappers were bound in the
value would be about $1J each. Binders
have usually removed these wrappers unless
instructed otherwise, thus destroying much
of the value.
W. NJ s, CHICOPEE FALLS, MAss.-SaI-
dmmbO and Mn6. Bordry have been put out
in English. Almost any OF the better class
secOnd hand shops would probably have
them. As regards the other book, we find
no trace.
The sun., 1918-11-24

M ELODRAMA stark and unadorned
INI fills the pages of Raymond McFar
lands Skipper John Of the Nimbns, a tale
of the fishermen of the Maine coast The
book paints IN broad lurid strokes the life
of John Deane from the day he revolted
at the cruelty of his uncle, Captain John
Hinds,s and started to run away TO sea,
until that great day years afterward when
he returned from a seasons fishing trip as
the winner Of prize for being high line"
for the year and as the rescuer of his i'm
placable enemy, Captain Decatur Beers,
from a tragic death.
The tale is told by John Deane's boy
hood friend and companion in revolution,
David Graham. 1t is concerned with such
exciting and cruel episodes as the kidnap
ping of John Deanc by Decatur Beers at
the command of the villainous uncle and
the unsuccessful attempt Of Beers to
"break' Johns spirit, almost breaking his
mortal body. The steady pursuit of his
chosen calling by Deane until he was
known as one of the most successful Of
fishermen was checkered by plots and
The sun., 1918-11-24
"Believe me yours truly.
HEDWARD HUTTON.
The Bowyer Bible.

The Bible has on many occasions been
used as a vehicle for extraillustration, and
TO most Americans the Daily copy sold in the
Crimmins sale last spring comes to mind as
perhaps the finest example of such work,
most persons having no knowledge of any
other. There is another fine copy of the
Cxtraillustrated Biblc-that of the late
Robert Bowyer Of London.
Mr.. Bower began in 1904 to collect ma
terial for this purpose and continued to do
, so up to the time of his death, in 1884. He
used the fine edition published by Macklin in
seven folio volumes and when he died he
had added no less than 1000 engravings,
etchings and original drawings. The book
passed into the hands of Mary Parkcs, who
had been his assistant at the Historic Gal
le-y in Pail Mall. who later applied for the
privilege of disposing of the work. which
had then grown to forty five volumes, at q
The sun., 1918-11-24

TINE Boston Athensum is publish
i ing a valuable contribution to the
earlier history Of the American colonies:
The Founders. Portraits Of Persons Born
abroad Who Came to the Colonies s" North
america Before the Year 17o1; with an in
PRODUCTION, biographical outlines and COM
ments on the portraits. 1t is by Charles
Knowles Bolton. The book will appear IN
two volumes and will be illustrated by 100
photographers; the price to be ST. for the
set, The AthenGum announce that they
have decided to issue the book themselves
without the intervention of a selling agent,
and strictly at cost.
A large number Of letters of the poet
CoEper, together with manuscripts, have re-
Gently turned up in England. 1t is reported
thew are 70 be secured for the Cowper Mu-
scum at Olney, which is a most fitting rest
ing place for them
A Treatise on Repairing.
In this day when so many collectors take
delight IN repairing defects in books any ex'
perienee others may have had comes as wei
come news Mitchell S. Buck, Phliadel-
phia bibliophile, has not only praetised this
art for some years past but has now put our
q little book that gives the results of his own
experience as well as that Of some of the
best of the professional reStorers, notably
Bonnardot, the great French artist in this
work. The book is entitled Book Repair
and Restoration: 4 Manual Of Practical
Suggestions for BibEOphiieS. Mr.. Buck
saws in his preface:
'eI have designed it especially for the
bibhophile who enjoys fussing over his
books and who receives in seeing them IN
good condition and repair through his own
Efforts IN echo of the pleasure he receives
in reading them.'
The chapter headings, which show no"
carefully Mr.. Buck has gone into his sub
ject, are General Restoration. Rem0ring
Stains, Rebdckiag. Repairing Old Bindings.
Rebindiag. Book !ShelUes. Book Buving and
The GreeE and Roman Classics. Many IA
mous recipes are given for various steps in
the work, and the illustrations are so plain
a novice can put them to use. The author
has done a service TO all who like to fuss
with their books.
The sun., 1918-11-24
For Desert Islanders.

We have been requested to publish the
following letter:
''I wonder if your readers would help me
TO complete photography am making of
Desert Island novels and stories. Any
book that deals with Crusoe adventures on
desert island is to be included, and in all
languages. am, however, more especially
anxious to complete my list of such books
in English and French.
''Believe me yours truly.
edward HUTTON.
DUKE Hotel, 81. st. James place. S.
W. l., London
The sun., 1918-11-24
Rare Books
A Boston Work of Reference
Secrets of Book Repair Told
Auctions, Catalogues and Replies

lottery. Permission appears to have been
granted.
At that time the work, with the carved
oak case, was valued at 800 guineas
(about $l6,O00). There is no record what
the lottery produced; but little later the
treasure appeared in the sale of the library
of John Albiison, noted antiquary, IN
1856, when it was purchased by Robert Hay
wood for $3.50 ($2,7JO). His family have
recently placed it in the Bolton Reference
Library as a loan exhibit.
In the Auction Rooms.
At the sale of the books of Mary MeMI-
lin Norton the four folio Shakespearcs
fetched $4,000, Gabriel Wells being the
buyer.
At Andetson's beginning last Monday
was sold the first portion of the stock of
Robert Fl. Dodd. Prices of note were:
Paine's Dialogue BstUcen Ghost Of Gen.
Montgomery and an Amencda
Delegate, 1776, 800: BacOn's Essdies,
1913, $l22y50; Broadside, The Columbian
Tragedy, 1892, $3.50; San Francisco Direc-
tory, 1850, $4S; HOlfe'S Expedition against
Quebec, 1859, sos; Creuxius 5 Canada, l664.
800; Champlain' TOydges. 1852, 500;
brakes World Encompassed 1923. $3.50;
Ben Jonson s copy of Martial, with auto
graph, $1,l60. The sale WAS not concluded
at this writing.
At the American Art Association on No
vember 1921 was sold the library of James
Stillman in eight sessions. As was to be eX-
pected the attendance of society people was
large, the bidding spirited and the result
what was looked for. The works on archi-
r.. L i a kh, ~
items. Chalmers Biographical Dictionary,
1927, brought $ll5; Wilson and Bona
parties Birds, Philadelphia, no date, $l15;
the Gebbie Burns, $l07.50; the Clans of
Scotland, 1851, SIS; Ricci g COlie=iOne d.
Mondgrofe Illustrate, 1906, $40; another
set, $l05; Ferrario's Costumes, 1S29-34,
$3.50; Military Costumes of Europe, 1922,
SI35; Racinet's Costumes, 1888, $40;
Guizot s History of France, 1877, s145. The
sale was stin in progress at this writing.
Catalogues Received.
From T. F. Madigan, Bulletin No. S.,
containing some unusual autograph letters;
among Others, one of the late Canon Farrar,
written n long time ago, which was
prophetic and deserves printing here:
''To the Hon. Robert c. Winthrop; and to
other distinguished American gentlemen who
have taken an interest in this memorial, /
trust that many an American visitor to Lon
don will feel some pleasure when he sees the
arms of the United States enblazoned on
the window of an English church. 1 can
not be mistaken in the conviction that Incl
dents like this will have their little share in
liuking together the amity of natiOns-TWO
yet ONE-upOn whose union and faithful
doran1S in mn small the wei.
fare of all the world.
'I am sincerely yours,
"FREDERIC W. FARRAR.'
The Pulaskian., 1918-08-09

away the poisonous matter. They ara
Small, Mild and Effective.
25c, All Druggists. Refuse Substitutes
friends in the city en- route to Dallas,
Texas, where they will visit Mrs San
dersons mother.
Letters from DR.. Boyce say that ne
is serving in the trenches in France.
He enclosed a piece of stained glass
from one of the famous cathedral Win
dows there. Mrs. Babcock prizes it
as a valuable addition to her curio col
lection
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Alexander and
daughters, Marian, Louie and Vir-
ginia will leave soon for motor trip
to North Carolina Before returning
home Mr.. and Mrs. Alexander will ac-
company Misses Marion and Louie to
Pennsylvania, where they will enter
the Baldwin school at Bryn Mawr.
Miss Susie Mcdonnell has returned
from visit to Miss Dorothy Andrews
of Helena. They were classmates al
Fairmont, Washington. She is now en-
tertaining at her home on the Heights
Miss Mary Bale Sellers of Morrilton
and Misses Katherine Montgomery
and Theola Simmons of Pine Bluff.
City Collector Lawson left Satur-
day afternoon for Boston, Mass,
where he will join Mrs. Lawson, who
has been visiting at the home of her
father, James E. Chase, for some time.
Bfore their return Mr.. and Mrs. Law
son will make an extended trip
through the mountains of New Hamp-
shire and Vermont.
Mrs. Stansworth died August 6 al
Arkodelphia, following an operation.
She was the wife of the Rev. Samuel
Stanworth, pastor of the Presbyterian
church at that place, and is survived
by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. \.
Walker of McGregor, Tex. The body
was sent to McGregor. The Rev. Mr..
Stanworth formerly was pastor of the
Pulaski Heights Presbyterian church
of Little Rock.
The Pulaskian., 1918-08-09
SMASHING ANOTHER CHERISHED
NOTION,

Chairman Bradley, of the American
Agricultural Corporation, which came
so near going by the board when Ger
many forced it out of its ownership of
important potash mines in that coun-
try, explodes another cherished idea
about the necessity of potash as fer
tilizer for American crops. He ought
to know all about the matter for his
company is an enormous producer If
fertilizers.
He claims that for several years be.
fore the war the German Potash Syn
dictate expended millions of dollars
in this country in booming potash, IN
til American farmers became obsess-
ed with the idea that potash exerted
an almost magical influence on crop
production. In December, 1917. a Ger
man professor claimed that America
had entered the war to secure potash
deposits, because without potash
American crops would be in perpetual
jeopardy.
Then he smashes things-since 1914
the United States had had no potash
from Germany and we nave produced
only a small fraction of the amount
normally used. This is particularly
true of the last Two years. Yet this
country has in sight today the larg-
est crops ever produced, while Ger
many's crops are far below normal
yield. The same thing is true of other
countries which could not get potash
The fact is that phosphoric acid is
far more important to crop produc-
ton than potash and Germany has
no mineral phosphates to make IL
Germany needs our phosphates far
more than we need her potash. Potash
is valuable as fertilizer and does
improve the quality of some crops,
but the essential element for grains
and fruits is phosphoric acid.
He does not think the United States
will be able to produce it's own supply
OF potash unless deposits of natural
potash salts should be discovered.
The Pulaskian., 1918-08-09
MR.. KAHN KNOWS WHAT HE
TALKS ABOUT,

When Otto H. Kahn, of Kuhn, Loeb
& Co., makes a statement his business
associates know that he is fully in
formed on the subject talked about
and so in his interview, published on
his return from Europe, what he had
to say about business meant business.
He was greatly impressed with the
business organization in England and
particularly with their tremendous
savings in salvage from things which
formerly went into the scrap heap,
and made this statement: IF we
find ways of applying after the war in
civil life the lessons now being learn
terial heretofore considered absolute
waste, the possibility of the creation
of wealth by that means in our coun
try almost staggers the imagination
ut was interesting and significant
to notice how universally the French
look to us for commercial cooperation
after tht war They want us to join
our qualities with their qualities and
their opportunities.
1.-The French people are turning all
their clear mental processes to fos-
tering and stimulating personal effort
and enterprise and private initiative
after the war. They have learned
that bureaucratic regime and govern
mental Capitalization for many years
have accomplished little.
Therefore, it is to be hoped that
paternalistic control of enterprise and
industry here will not be permitted
to grow into a permanent feature of
our business system.
For so old country France offers
many and great commercial opporrun-
tiles quite apart from the work OF
reconstruction and their colonies are
an empire of immense resources and
fast potential wealth.
"Great Britain ardently desires a
continuance of the lasting deep and
cordial friendship with us which is
so strikingly manifest there through.
out the land from the highest to the
lowest and the importance of meet
ing them in the same spirit and with
out reservation cannot be overesti-
mated"
The Pulaskian., 1918-08-09
WHOSE GOO is THE BELLYY


In his letter to the Church of Philip
pi. the apostle Paul refers to certain
persons whose God is the belly" We
fear the members of this cult are still
alive and that some of them are
among us today We are in the midss
OF great struggle for our dearly
bought liberties, the issue of which
depends upon the endurance and self
sacrifice not only of our soldiers az
the front, but of every man and wom-
an iii the Nation. We have been as
sure by competent men who have
made an expert study of the question
that we are threatened with a world
famine by reason of the great num-
Der of men in all the belligerent
countries who have been withdrawn
from production since the beginning
of the war, and that unless we prac-
tiee the strietest economy, especially
sn the use of certain food products,
such as wheat, meat, and sugar, there
is grave danger that our soldiers may
not receive a sufficient supply to
keep up their strength.
And yet in the face of this peril and
the sacrifices being made for them by
our brave front, there are those
among us who are apparently unwill-
ing to deny themselves any luxury in
the food line which they once enjoyed.
The deprivation involved in a meat
less or wheatless meal or in giving
up rich cake for a while, to conserve
the supply of sugar, is so paltry in
comparison to the sacrifices and suf-
ferings of the men at the front that
1T brings the blush of shame to be
compelled to acknowledge that there
are any among us bearing the name
which has come into such worldwide
honor who are not willing to deny
themselves even to this small extent.
Our boys lying out in the trenches il
the cold and mud and rain, enduring
the unspeakable horrors of shell and
poison gas and liquid fire, in hourly
peril of their lives, may go hungry,
but these deyotees of the belly-god
must have their meat and wheat bread
and cake as usual.-The Canadian
Bulletin
The Pulaskian., 1918-08-09
HERE ARE WHEAT
RULES FOR YEAR
LOOK THEM OVER CAREFULLY
AND PERHAPS, If you HAVE
SAGE LIKE PROPENSITlES,
YOU MAY FATHOM THEM.

The following has been issued by
the Cereal Division of the United
States Food Administration:
PLAN OF WHEAT AND FLOUR
CONTROL FOR THE 1918 WHEAT
CROP.
1t is, of course, generally known
that the value of wheat of various
grades and varieties depends upon
three factors: First, the relative dis
lance from the consuming markets,
because of the differences in freight
rates to the points named below. Sec
ond, the variety of the wheat and its
relative value for flour production.
Third, the grade of the wheat as 70
quality and impurities within the va
rious varieties.
In order to simplify accounting and
to avoid red tape" the President au-
thoried the creation of the United
States Food Administration Grain
Corporation as an instrument of the
Food Administration to carry out the
financial details of buying and selling
wheat and various cereal commodities,
Therefore contracts and payments
are made in the name of the United
States Food Administration Grain
Corporation, which operates without
profit, charging such differentials as
will cover risks, storage, and insur-
ance.
Likewise the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture, acting under the
Grain Standards Act, has endeavored
to establish wheat-grade definitions
according to relative merits of various
qualities and varieties of wheats.
The following are the fair price
basis and wheat classes and grades
on which the Food Administration
Grain Corporation will buy wheat in
elevators at the points nomed:
/. The wheat grades are those
The Pulaskian., 1918-08-09
INTERESTING FIGURES ON COR
PORATE INCOMES.

In view of the discussions at Wash
ington over the wisdom of taxing
war profits. pure and simple, and not
excess profits, figures have been pub
Hshed of the net income returns by
corporations paying taxes IN the six
years preceding Americas entrance
into the war
In 1911 the sum was $3,503, 100000.
in 1912 $4,151 100000, in 1913 S4,714.-
o00000 in 1914 $3.940,00O, 600; IN
1915, $3.50, 100000 in 1916, $685.
100000.
Estimates for last y ear put the act
income at $4,000, 100000 and for this
year at $4,000, 100000.
Taking the average of the four best
years before the war there would be
an excess. income Of more than s..
000,O0o,000, which at so per cent tax
would yield S2,000,O00,OO0, and at so
per cent $2.512, 100000.
The suggestion is now made that
the tax on war profits be levied, where
such profits are largest, and that the
excess profits tax be kept to reach
cen 2erns with very large profits but
which are not strictly war profits,
The Pulaskian., 1918-08-09
ON PAINTING UP THE OLD
HOuSE

In the days of hard times, when
prices for crops and most other things
were at the minimum, and business
generally was at a standstill paint
manufacturers suffered severely be
cause one economy strictly enforced
was the saving of whatever money
it would cost to paint UP the old house
inside or outside. When the demand
for paint began to increase, better
times had already arrived. Nobody
seemed to think there was any sacri-
Gee in refusing to buy paint, although
economics called loudly for such pur-
chases and use since more money was
loss through deterioration of struc-
lures than was saved through failure
TO buy paints.
All through the Northwest, where
fax seed is an important crop which
has been damaged this year by
drought, bankers and paint men are
discussing the situation and the high
price for linseed oil which is abso-
The Pulaskian., 1918-08-09

lutely essential as the mixture for the
various leads used in making palms.
With the present price of linseed oil
1t is figured that it costs $25 more to
paint a small bungalow and $109 more
for a larger house than the average
householder has been in the habit Of
paying whenever he is goaded into the
periodic expense of painting his
house. There seems to be universal
idea in the Northwest that this year
there is not going to be anywhere
enough flax seed.