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, 1918-09-12
Governors Salaries From
$500 to $4,000 a Year

The salaries of state governors run
from s2,50O to $4,000 a year. The
governors of Nebraska and Vermont
receive $500; those Of Maine. New
Hampshire, Rhode Island, South Caro-
lima and South Dakota receive $1,000;
those Of Arizona, Arkansas. Connects
cut, Delaware, Nevada, Tennessee,
Texas, Utah and Wyoming receive S4,-
600; those of Maryland. Mississippi
and Oklahoma receive $4,000; those Of
Alabama, Colorado. Florida, Georgia,
Idaho, Iowa. Kansas. Louisiana. Mich
igan. Missouri. Montana. New Mexico,
North Carolina. North Dakota, Oregon.
Virginia. West Virginia and Wiscon-
sin, receive $1,000; the governor Of
Washington receives $4,000; the gov
ernor of Kentucky. $1,000; the govern
or Of Minnesota, $1,000; the governors
of Indiana and Massachusetts,. $1,000;
the governors Of California, New Jer-
sey. New York. Ohio and Pennsylvania,
$4,000; governor of Illinois, $4,000.
, 1918-09-12
HERE'S THE RIGHT PRINCIPLE
Enunciated by E%ngIishman Who Evil
IDENTIFY Has His Heart Set on
Winning the War.

Eyes, I know all about it'll You are
going to tell me that you've been do
ing 1t ever since the war started" re.
marked an Englishman to a London
newspaper writer.
"You're going to draw my attention
to the price of bread and boot leather,
and the fact that you are reduced to
taking the Riddles to a cheaper part
of the cinema these do without
days.
"And you utter the immortal com
plant that you are blessed If you know
where all the money goes, since you
have nothing to show for 1t.
81 sympathize with you there. I
used to have hat feeling.
81 ration my salary now. I spend it
only on necessities. Each of my chill
dren has a War Savings certificate
book, for, l figure out, they are not. too
young to learn the secret of limiting
their wants.
"It's not an easy lesson to learn, I
grant you.
"But 1 tell them: Better a Wal
Savings certificate now than a broken
and useless toy next week. Better a
War Savings certificate and its inter-
est five years hence than a good time
today
"And that's the spirit of my family
at the present time. We are going
without and yet not going without.
1.-THE only things we. have given up
are frivolities and superfiuities.
"My wife and 1 no longer wonder
where all the none goes"
, 1918-09-12
Nou. hLe4meaQ
California Women on Farms
Successfully Execute Work
Formerly Left to Their Men

Four hundred and sixty-five farm
erettes" were sent out from the SOUTH
ern California branch Of the woman's
/ to July II, last, to aid California
ranchers in their efforts to increase the
country's food supply. Nearly all of
these have remained in the service.
and as proof that these young women
are capably filling the places of men
called into the army or other activities
connected with the war, 1t was pointed
out at the headquarters of the service
that many of their requests for help
came from ranches near those to which
units had previously been sent.
Volunteers in the woman's land army
sent out from Los Angeles include
teachers. stenographers, saleswomen,
mattresses and school girls. Most OF
them have been employed in gathering
and preparing for market deciduous
fruits. Activities of others have in
Guided driving tractors, dairying, plant
ing tomatoes harvesting various crops
and making hay.
The dairy industry has taken large
dairies near Los Angeles, women hav-
ing largely replaced men as mixers.
OF the first units sent to the dairies
only a few of the young women had
MIXED before, and most of them were
unaware that there is a wrong as
well as a fright" side to a cow until
they had been kicked over by out
ragged animals.
, 1918-09-12
Observation-Disclosures
RIGHT WILL WIN

Right must win whatever the cost;
Right must win or the world Ia lost!
And Right will win IL we fight for it.
If we summon the whole of U might for
Right viii prevail.
Cling to the thought with might and
main,
With body and soul and heart and brain,
Right must win. whatever the cost;
When toll. wealth. life. in the scales are
Right will prevail.
Might-is the weight of a cave mans
fists;
Right is a knight squirting into the lists.
Justice his sword n right his spear,
Brain alert and heat without fear:
Right must prevail.
Whatever the cost the Right must win!
To linger is craven, TO doubt is sin;
Are you ready the price to pay
To ave the world for a dayf
Then Right will prevail.
Alice williams Brotherton OF the Vigil
lantes.
, 1918-09-12
Birds Get Mo Fun Out OF sInoIno.

"That the singing of birds bears no
analogy to the singing of human be-
ings, and is neither to please them
selves nor to please others, is obvious
from at least two facts: One is that
birds with defective DR. only half ar
ticulate voices will sing just as JOY
ously and persistently as do birds
whose instruments are perfect" John
Burroughs writes in Harper's. II have
witnessed this in the s Of the
hermit thrush, the bobolink and the
cockerel of the barnyard. The birds
of the wood and of the meadow quite
ignored their split whistles, and the
cockerel arched his neck and inflated
his lungs and went through with the
motions of growing just as proudly
and repeatedly as did the cock he was
challenging"
, 1918-09-12
New Torpedo Catcher" Said
to Illustrate a ShipWreck

A new method Of fighting the U-boat
menace is for the attacked vessel to
drop a depth charge as the torpedo APP
proaches. In daylight the wake of the
torpedo can usually be e quite clear
~. When the depth charge explodes
1t either causes the premature explo-
sion Of the torpedo or else diverts the
deadly missile from its course. This
was found out quite by accident. A
ships officer, in his excitement one
day, threw a depth charge overheard.
1t did the trick.-Cassell's Journal.
, 1918-09-12
n Millions Burned
in Year
Total Covers Fire Loss IN 21O
Cities Of Over 10000
Population

During the fiscal year 1917 the 210
American cities estimated to have
more than 10000 inhabitants main
tanned $3.50 fire companies, with 40,141
employees, and 1852 volunteer compa-
total number of stations was 3.0S2;
and the equipment included 994 motor
propelled and 1878 horse-drawn en-
gines. A number of the smaller cities
now rely entirely upon motor propul-
sion of fire department apparatus. Sep
arate high-pressure service by direct
pumping into fire mains is maintained
by nine cities. The property losses by
fire during the year aggregated ST.
S42,170. The total value of fire de-
partment property was reported as
Sill, 202,2O1.
The foregoing are some of the
more Important statistical facts set
forth in a report on fire departments
In cities of more than 10000 popula-
tion, issued by Director Sam L. Rogers
Of the bureau of the census depart
ment of commerce.
OF the 40.141 paid fire department
employees, 35,S27 were regulars"
the remainder comprising "call men,"
substitutes, "supernumeraries," civil
Ian employees. etc.
Volunteer fire service. subject to call,
was reported by 80 cities, including
New York and Chicago. The total
membership of these volunteer fire
service organizations comprised 14,-
472 on the active and 1851 on the hon
orary rolls. BY far the largest num-
Der of active members-5,S40, or
about two-ffths of the total shown for
the 80 cities-was reported for Read
Ing, Pa.
The property loss amounted to ST.
B42.170. or about $500 per capita. This
loss was distributed as follows: On
buildings. 27.076,4s4; on contents,
s37.4SO.233; on marine property, $101.-
BIZ; and on unclassified property,
s7,184, IA. These figures do not In
clude the loss, amounting to $7,000.0OO.
caused by the Black Tom explosion at
Jersey City. Though Chicago report
ed more fire alarms than New York,
the latter city's property losses from
fire, $S,746.404, were more than two
and one~half times as great as those of
the former, $3.470.978. Chicago's fire
losses were exceeded by those Of De-
troit, which amounted to $3,540,284.
, 1918-09-12
Timely Sayings.

A womans' idea of a good hus-
brnd Is one who isn't so fond Of
home that he won't be willing
to leave 1t WIDEN she wants to
take him somewhere.
The world viii always get
along no matter who lives o
dies, but every man should SO
try to live his life that he will
at least be missed by a few
after he is gone.
The man who used to drown
his sorrows in a saloon now
goes out to work and forgets
thea.
, 1918-09-12
Training Hawaiian Dancers.

Hawaiian dancers have a curious
training for their profession. a CORE
s~pondent writes. When they are little
brown babies their mothers take them
out in the sun and put a soft rubber
ball on their stomachs. If they can
keep the ball safely on the "tummy"
they. get something good to eat. II
they let 1t roll or they got a spanking.
, 1918-09-12

appeared and your Vegetable Compound
has made me a well, strong oma SO
l do all my own homework. l cannot
recommend Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
passing through the Change of Life"
Mrs. FRANK HENSON, 1916 s. Orehads
ST., Urbana, Ill.
Women who suffer from nervousness,
cheat iashes," backache, headaches
and "the blues" should try this famous
root and herb remedy, Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound.
, 1918-09-12

udu dIi dtLdCh VI
grippe which lasted
all winter and left
me in q weakened
condition. Ifelt at
times that ] would
never be well again.
/ read of Lydia C
Pinkham's e ge-
t BILE Compound
and what it did for
women passin g
through the Change
of Life, so l told my
doctor / would try
it soon began to
gain in str
and the annoying
svmp tom a dis
, 1918-09-12
Two Additional Disks.

To insure their identification officers
and men of the American expedition
airy forces and all civilian attaches are
required In an order by General Per
shing to wear two additional metal
Identification disks.
, 1918-09-12

He-No woman can keep anything
to herself.
She-Yes. she can.
He'd like to know what 1t Is.
Shelter real and private opinion
of her husband.
, 1918-09-12
The Proper WAY,

81 see where photographers are 20
ing to form a union in the West"
81 suppose, then, all its proceedings
and reports viii be heard In camera
, 1918-09-12
pevIIed Fish.


Cover three to four pounds of fish
with boiling water, add one small on
ion and n tablespoonful of salt boil
for 25 minutes. Take from the water;
when cooled, pick the fish, discarding
the bones and skin. Put into a Bowl
and add the sauce, mixing well; put
into ramekins, sprinkle with bread
crumbs; place the dishes in hot water
and bake for 10 minutes. Sauce.Put
three tablespoonful Of flour and two
of butter in a saucepan; cook until
smooth, then add one and a half cup
fuls of milk, two tablespoonfuls of
chopped parsley, a tablespoonful Of
onion Juice. the same of salt, one
fourth Of a teaspoonful of pepper and
one-half teaspoonful Of dry mustard.
Cook all together for five minutes; then
it is ready to serve with the fish.
, 1918-09-12
Crab Salad.

Line a bowl with shredded lett.soe
and put four cupfuls of crab meat In
the center, coyer with w~ell-seasoned
mayonnaise. Garnish with a cupful
of sliced pickles. Sprinkle with
chopped green pepper. capers o.
stuffed olives.
, 1918-09-12
WOMEN OF
MIDDLE AGE
Need Help to Pass the Crisis Safe
ly-Proof that Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound
Can be Relied Upon.

Urbana, I1.-"During Change Of Life,
In addition to its annoying symptoms, /
, 1918-09-12
JelIied Fish.

Take two pounds of any large steak
fish, two cupfuls Of strained tomatoes.
one t~easpoonful of onion juice, a tea
spoonful of salt, half a ~teaspoonful
of table sauce, six stuffed olives, one
hard cooked egg. three tablespoonfuls
Of graduated gelatin and six thin
slices of lemon. Cook the fish in three
cupfuls of boiling water for 20 min
utes. Remove the fish and return the
stock to the fire; reduce to one pint by
boiling. Strain, add tomatoes, onion
and seasoning. Cover the gelatin
with two tablespoonful of water, then
add to the boiling stock. Remove the
skin and bones from the fish, break it
into flakes and put 1t into q mold or
bowl rinsed with cold water. Cut the
lemon, egg and olives in thin slices,
put around the edge of the bowl, then
slowly pour in the mixture. Set in a
cold place until firm; hen turn out
IN a chop plate that has been lined
with shredded lettuce. Garnish with
lemon and a few rings of stuffed
olives. Serve with tartare sauce or
salad dressing.
, 1918-09-12
Let Us Eat Fish.

The variety Of fish is legion and
only the limitabions of shipping re-
strict us from all kinds. Those who
live near the sea coast have a large
choice, while the inland dweller may
have a limited number. They are very
good.
Some fish are best baked. others
Dreaded and fried, while others are
best broiled or boiled.
, 1918-09-12
Mothers Cook Book

Study simplicity n the number of the
dishes and variety in the character OF the
meals.
The homes Of a nation are its tronges
forts.
, 1918-09-12
JUDGE DECIDES
STOMACH REMEDY
A GREAT SUCCESS
Commissioner of Mediation and Coneil.
iation Board Tries EATONIC, the
Wonderful Stomach Remedy,
and Endorses IL.

Judge william L. Cham
.ers. who uses EATONIC as
a remedy for loss of appe-
lite and indigestion. Ia q
Commissioner of the q. 8.
Board of Mediation and
Cancellation. II 10 natural
for him to express himself
in guarded language, yet
there is no hesitation in his
pronouncement regarding
the value of EATONIO.
. Writing from Washington,
n d. O., to the Eatonic Rem
g. edY CO.. he lnYa.
, 1918-09-12
The Maid and
the Manikin
BY BARBARA KERR

/. 1918. by the Mcclure Newspa
per Syndicate.)
, 1918-09-12

"EATONIO promotes appetite and
aids digestion. have used 1t with
beneficial results"
Office workers and others who sit much arc
martyrs to dyspepsia. belching. bad breath.
heartburn, poor appetite. bloat. and impair
ruent OF general health. Are you. yourself. q
sufferer EATONIO will relieve you Just a.
surely as 1t has benefited Judge Chambers and
thousands of others.
mere . inc secret: Ehl0NiC drivcs nne e,
1t Is guaranteed to bring relief or you get your
money backi Costs only a cent or two a day to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-12
FEDERAL BUREAU
 WILL HELP SECURE
 ARMY D|SCHARGE
Many Petitions for Dis charge of Soldiers of Ex- pert Knowledge Are Re
 ceived at Local Office

Petitions for the discharge of men now in the army who held responsible posi- tions prior to enlisting or being drafted are coming into the local office of the federal employment service in numbers Not a day passes but one or more ot these petitions gre received, Examiner in Charge J. k. Watts stated yesterday and in every instance where the prope. showing has been made to the army of .icials tae sold der's discharge followed,
 Heads of departments ill stores, drafts men in offices and men filling positions requiring more or less expert knowledge who went into the army are very badly needed now by their former employers, according to information reaching MT. Watts, and the employers are asking for their discharge.
 We are doing all in our power to help in these cases, MT. Watts said, and wherever 1t is possible to do so these men are discharged immediately upon the presentation of the petition with proper showing of the necessity. We want all employers who need the.r old employers back to let us know this fact giving us thesr employees name and army address and we will take the matter ua with the proper army officials at once 2
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-12
REGARDS COTTON AS
 BEST INVESTMENT
Congressman Heflin Is Among Speak CTS at the Southern Commercial Congress in Baltimore

Washington, December u-(Special.) Representative Hefin of Alabama and Senator Smith of South Carolina ad- dressed the Southern Commercial roa, gress at Baltimore today Mr Eeflin
 spoke i'll part as follows:
 Cotton is the inassnensable servant of
 mankind The demand for it today is
 better than ever before The United
 States cotton mills will need more than 7,00o,oeo bales and English spinners say that they need 100000 bales Of American cotton. This leaves Russia, France, Bel giums Austria and Germany calling for 700c,00 bales of American cotton and no cotton with which to supply them The cotton mills Of the United States and Great Britain will need more cot ton than the present United States crop can supply and world demand for cot ton shows that the worlds supply is about 100000 bales short. After Christ mas when the figures of production are made known and the public can no long CT be deceived as to the big demand for cotton and the very small supply cotton will rise higher and higher and then those who have cotton to sell will receive d profit that will repay them for holding and waiting for the oppor- tune time. l regard spot cotton now as the best investment in the world.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-12
REAL ESTATE LAW
 ID BE DISCUSSED AT MEETING TODAY
George w., Yancey to Ad- dress Realtors at Luncheon on Needed Revisions of
 Realty Laws

The Realtors are evidently getting ready to make few suggestions to the legislature next month. for they are holding series of meetings on real estate law at which various ex- pressions are heard as to needed re. vision in the code relating to realty. At the Southern club today at l o'clock they will listen to an address by George ". Yaneey, one of their members
 The following extract of one of the Realtor bulletins will give a faint idea of what may happen at the meeting:
 We have on the hurling hill this week none other than our own George. the W. k. jury mesmerizer, who can quote legal phrases like 2-year-old can quote nursery rhymes. lGeorge led the Realtor forces in the last tax campaign and has always specialized more or less in realty law.
 There are three reasons for asking George to address Us this week. First, he is a dandy speaker. Second, he knows what he's talking about. Third the legislature meets next month.
 If you can think of any needed changes in the laws relating to landlord and tenant, conveyances, leases, deeds, Hmortgages( redemption per.ods, me .chanics' Hens, taxation, titles, estates, etc. be ready to make suggestion aft CT Brother Yancey talks"
 President Butler has sent out an urg ent call for 8 good attendance So many of the members have been short of help on account of the flu that the last two meetings haven't been up to our standard in attendance he stated, '"but owing to the importance of the subject to be discussed we want all members present today"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-12
FORMER ENSLEY BOY CHARGED WITH THEFT OF OVER SlOO,O0O
Los Angeles Claims to Have Unearthed Most Famous
 Case in the County

Los Angeles, December 11.-(special) The Evening Express publishes the fol- lowing:
 Following the arrests of two youths, Gilbert Gardner, A years old, and Ernest Randall, IS, probation officers of the county today made known one of the most startling lists of criminal acts so far recorded in the juvenile history of the county
 According to J. w. Libby, probation officer, theftss of valuables aggregating S100,000 have been disclosed.
 These thefts are charged against Gard ner, who is said to have adopted the alias of Claud Gleanon and to have started on a criminal career when he was 10 years old
 Gardner recently escaped from the city jail, where he was being held on charge of burglary. He was recaptured at Will i mington The older boy was arrested in juvenile court when he appeared and pleaded for aardner's release
 Randall is accused of acting as a fence for his younger companion. He is ai-- legged to have received the stolen prop elty. found means to dispose of it and
  had warrants for his arrest. Three es- capes are attributed to Gardner by Libby
 Gardner is a native of Ensley, near Birmingham. Ala. Four years ago his parents came to Venice, where the fa- ther became a member of the police force The alleged career of crime on the part of the lad began at the beach city, when ] hundreds of dollars disappeared from , business places. Later, according to Lib- by, jewelry was stolen from the Mary land hotel, in Pasadena, and the theft was traved to Gardner He was grant ed probation after hearing on this off, fense.
 The lad was later arrested at Mobile, ! Ala, to which city the family moved. The charge against him was burglary of thousands Of dollars worth of jewelry and money
 Still later the theft of diamonds valued at $500 and other iewelry from q store in Jacksonville, Fla, was charged to Gardner. He was arrested at Kansas City. but succeeded in obtaining his re- lease,- through a story told by Randall, who accompanied him east. Immediate ly after his release, the juvenile officers say, a roonling house and office ill , a creamery concern were robbed. Gard ner was arrested at Fl Paso, Tex, and Randall told the officers he left his com , panion there and came to Los Angeles.
 According to Libby, he has complaints from many eastern points concerning other alleged thefts by the younger lad. He says he also has a report of three escapes made by Gardner from jails, one escape being from the city jail in Los Angeles. The other escapes were from a reform school at East Lake, Ala, and at Fl Paso, following which he returned to Los Angeles.
 Juvenile officers say the case presents strange features which may result in an examination of Gardner as to his men tai status. Both lads are held at Juve- nile hall.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-12
SUITS FILED


 sherman Cole vs. the Birmingham Tidewater Railway company s20,00o claimed for alleged personal injuries. Jesse Horsley vs. Neil Birch, $5000 claimed for alleged personal injuries sustained when an automobile which the defendant was driving is alleged to have struck the plaintiff.
 M. H. Maddox vs. A. A. Linden, $3000 claimed for alleged personal injuries sustained when an automobile of the defendant is alleged to have struck a motorcycle on which the plaintiff was riding. Isabel Crenshaw vs. J. w. Karr. John Karr, and the Norwood Transportation company, $10,000 claimed for alleged personal injuries.
 Clinton Eff vs, William G. McAdoo s3000 claimed for alleged personal in Juries sustained November 25 while the plaintiff is alleged to have been work ing for the Louisville and Nashville Railroad company.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-12
NO WAGE REDUCTION FOR NUMBER YEARS
Secretary of Labor Says De- mand for Labor Will Ex- ceed the Supply for
 Long Time

Washington, December u.-No reduc- tion in wages can be expected for num- Der of years because the demand for labor will exceed the country's supply the House rules committee was told to- day by Secretary of Labor Wilson. He appeared to urge the completion of leg islation to provide useful and necessary public work for discharged soldiers and industrial workers.
 The secretary thought it would be only for brief period if at all that the gov ernment would have to provide employ ment, but that the precaution should he taken. He suggested extensive work on highways, rivers and harbors and public buildings under new appropriation bills being framed by House committees, add iEg:
 "The restoration of the industries may not take place as fast as demobilization so a reservoir of opportunities should be created to care for men for brief period.
 From the time we restore ourselves to our normal postwar production, the de- mand for labor will be so great that there is not remote chance of re- duced wage rates. The manufacturer who does not maintain his force for the short readjustment period will be handi capped.