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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-21
SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS

Last evening at the South Highlands School for Girls. two scenes from Shakes scenes were taken from "A Midsummer scenes were takn from "A Midsummer Nights dream and from "A Merchant of Vence' The cast for "A Midsum- mer Nights Dream was as follows: rheseus. Miss Elizabeth Terrell Hyp- olita, Miss Mary Porter; Demetrius, Miss Catherine Massey; Lysander, Miss Dor othy Stewart; Pyramius, Miss Susie Min ter; Thlshe, Miss Bessie Dawson; Wall. Miss Ida Neal Ford; Moon, Miss Lille Porter; Lion, Miss Louise Agee, Pro. ogue, Miss Louisa Wheeler; Philostrate, Miss Dorothy Beatty.
 Appearing in the Merchant of Ven ice" were Miss Frances Harris as Por- tia, Miss Rebecca Pegues as Bassanio, Miss Magd S'creven as Nerissa, Miss li. Neal Ford as Gratianis Miss Frances Hood as Antonio Miss Dorothy Stewart as Loreno. and Miss Katherine Plosser as Jessica.
 Immediately after the scenes were pre- sented the graduating exercises for Miss Mary Porter took place.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-21
MIR. AND MRS. COLLINS ENTERTAIN

MT. and Mrs Ali Collins entertained with barbecue picnic Sunday at their home al Maxine Their guests were Mr. and Mrs. knox Fleming, MT. and Mrs. Charlas Leeper, MT. and Mrs. W. M Hoke, Mrs. C. c. Terrell, Mrs. Margaret Mccormack Gillespy, Miss Lois Fore man, Miss Mildred Foreman, MT. and Mrs Ralph Williams. MT Sam Paul, Mir. Roscoe Locke, MT. Billy Horn, and JNv rID,As piersnp
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-21
MISS COUGHLAN ENTERTAINS
 AT TEA

Miss Kathleen Coughlin of Norwood entertained at tea Saturday afternoon at the Tutwiler, complimenting Mrs. .. B. Gentry of Austin, Tex. Those pres ent were Mrs. w. T. Ratliff. Mrs. Bert Ingram, Miss Georgia Wilson, Mrs. James Buchanan Johnson. Mrs. c. E.. Gentry and Miss Couehlin.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-21
D,v and Night Shifts

Washington, May ao.-Lumber and labor conditions in the south have improved so much since January that southern
 shipyards soon will be able to begin working night shifts, according to re- port na1e today to the Emergency fle7t corporation by John H. Kirby, Wno mas been making survey of conoiuons III the south
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-21
IHENDERSON-JACkSON

Mrs. A. NJ Jackson of Docena an- nouncas the engagement of her daugn- ter, Alma Lavada to MT. John Vincent Henderson. chief pharmacists mate, United States navy, Charleston, s. (. The wedding is to take place June D. No cards
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-21
Southern Shipbuilders Offer to Give Days Work
 for the Red Cross Fund

Washington. May 20.-Chairman Hurley of the shipping board today telegraphed the employees of the Southern Dry Dock and Shipbuilding company, at Orange,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-21
LWAhTHALL.ROGGAN

MT. and Mrs. James Joseph Boggan an nounce the marriage of their daughter.
 Lucille Justine. to Mir. Milton Paul Wal
 thall. Saturday afternoon, May Il, 1918.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-21
IREED-JACKSON

Mrs. k M. Jackson of Doeena an- nounces the marriage of her daughter, Agnes Lemer1, to Mir. William A. Reed, of Dallas, Tex, on May g.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-21
SEMINARY COMMENCEMENT

The baccalaureate sermon of the Louie Compton seminary was preached Sunday morning at the First Methodist church by pr. Robert Simpson of the First Christian church. The auditorium was crowded to it's capacity, the entire mid dle section being filled by the sudden. body of the seminary. The gathering CT about es0 young girls dressed in white was ninspiring sight. This year the mass Of white was broken by group of little boys from the primary depart ment, dressed in soldier suits. The pres ence of the khaki, even on this occa- sion, seemed strangely symbolic,
 A group of seminary girls formed the choir and gave some very beautiful se-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-21


 "A great net of mercy drawn through
 ocean of unspeakable pain'' The Greatest Mother in the World STRETCHING forth her hands to all in need to Jew or o Gentile black white; knowing no favorite yet favOring all
 Ready and eager to comfort at time when comfort is most needed Helping the little home that's crushed be- meath iron hand by showing mercy in healthy hu- man way; rebuilding it, in fact with stone stone; plenishng empty bins and empty cupboards; bringing warmth to hearts and hearths too long neglected. Seeing all things with mothers seventh sense that's blind to jealousy and meanness seeing in their true light naughty children-snatching, biting bitter-but with hidden side that's quickest touched by mercy Reaching out her hands across the sea to No Mans Land to cheer with warmer comforts thousands who must stand and wait in stenched and crawling holes and water soaked entrenchments where cold and wet bite deeper, so they write, than Roche steel or lead She's warming thousands, feeding thousands healing thousands from her store the Greatest in the World-the Red Cross
 Your help is needed-give till the heart says stop
 
 
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  \ Congress authorizes t. Wilson, adst Var Departure it ~ ~ IVY ~ tobnrm workofre%
 
 approciive citizens of Birmingham
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-21

The American Red Cross is the largest and most efficient organization for the relief of suf- ferng that the world has ever
 It is made up almost entirely of volunteer workers, the higher executives being without ex- ception men accustomed to large affairs, who out pay.
 It is supported entirely by its membership fees and by voluntary contributions
 It is today bringing relief to suffering human ity, both military and civil, in every war-torn allied country.
 It plans tomorrow to help in the work of res toration throughout the world.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-21

It feeds and clothes entire populations in times of great calamity It is there to help your soldier boy in his time of need
 With it's thousands of workers, its tremendous stores and smooth-running transportation facil- ities, it is serving as Americas advance guard- and thus helping to win the
 Congress authorizes it.
 President Wilson heads it.
 The War Department audts its accounts. Your army your navy and your allies enthus- iastically indcrse it.
 Twenty-two million Americans have joined it.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-10

sources. In the first place, President
Wilson has repeatedly urged nobiliza-
ton OF the full boy power Of the coun-
try as rapidly IS possible. Only re-
Gently, the league points out, he de-
clared that the country had little idea
OF the Importance of the work being
done by the boys of the country
In the second place, the league says
that juvenile delinquency, which shows
a proneness TO increase in each country
where the war RACES, can best be com
bated by enlsting the boys of the ma
ton in movement such as that of the
Boy Scouts. That the increase of crime
among boys has already started is es-
tablished by figures included in the bull
letin issued by the Boy Scouts as par,
of the literature in their campaign.
Massachusetts has had an increase thus
far of 65 per cent in crime among the
boys; Detroit reports an increase of
nearly so per cent, and Newark and
Toledo, Ohio, police courts have noted
an alarming increase III boy arrests.
In New York City the Boy Scouts
want four hundred new scoutmasters.
At the same time they want four hun
dred new meeting places where Boy
Scouts may rally.
Several Of the cities where the cam
paign has already been started, have re-
ported that there is every indication of
success. The campaign for new scout
leaders so far has resulted as follows:
In Philadelphia. 600; Toledo, 260; Flint,
Mich, 200; Buffalo, 1920, and Spokane.
| Wash, so.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-10
Drug Evil Diminishing,
Says Justice Collins
Report ON State Conditions
Urges Laws to Curb
Doctors

BUFFALO,, Feb. 9.-The drug evil in
New York State is diminishing, but
dishonest physicians are still able
under the present law to furnish con-
siderable quantities of narcotics to ad-
diets, Justice Cornelius Collins, of the
Court of Special Sessions, New York
City, told the State Conference of
Justices and Magistrates here to-day
He made this statement in his report
as chairman of a special committee on
the drug evil.
"Although the Whitney bill did not
contain all the recommendations we be-
lieved absolutely necessary. marked
improvement was accomplished" said
Justice Collins. "Peddling Of narcotics
in the underworld is largely under con-
troll, and its malevolence with its in
cidental anti-social propensities checked d
materially.
can unfortunate condition, however
prevails with regard to promiscuous dis
tributicn by some unprincipled physi-
clans who have made business OF
prescribing for drug addiction, and do
so, not as was intended for the pur.
pose Of alleviating distress with the
intention of etfecting a cure of the
addict, but rather to keep the un-
fortunate supplied and to reap dishon-
orable profit.
"The existing law in the state is in
sufficient, too, in checking the addict
seeking supply from physicians. The
abuse of power on the part of some
dlshonorable physicians, happily few in
number, became so rampant that the
Federal officers who had greater scope
of legal authority than municipal OF
state, raided some establishments and
disclosed deplorable condition"
New-York tribune., 1918-02-10
Ills Canadian Chum
And Money Vanish
Koegland Gets New Outfit and
British Authorities Seek
Missing Soldier

After night of good cheer spent
in the company Of o jovial Canadian
soldier, Albert s. Rocgland woke up
yesterday afternoon in room in the
Eastern Hotel, on Whitehall Street. to
md himself alone with a Canadian ,,ni-
torn and a headache His companion
mad departed, as had all his clothes. in
the pockets Of which were a passport
and $40. f"'''''
In great perturbation of spirit Roer
,and roamed the streets and considered
his situation. He could not report for
work on his oil barge in Canadian
uniform, and at every step he was fear
ful OF being arrested as a deserter or
summoned before court martial for
failing to salute the right men,
At last he took his trouble to Head
quarters, and detective was sent with
him to the headquarters of tho British
Recruiting Mission. There Eoogland d
spent an embarrassing five minutes,
while officers, who waited for no ex-
planation, demanded why he did not
salute, why his cap was on hindside
foremost, why he had buckied his belt
that way, why he hadn't buttoned his
coat, and what under the sun he had
been trying to do with his puttees.
When the detective explained the sit
uation, Roegland was sent to the Office
of the British Consul, who supplied him
with an entire new outfit from head to
foot and made careful note Of the name
sewn in the Canadian uniform.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-10
Parole Commission
Called Extravaganza

A committee of the New York County
Lawyers Association, which was ap-
pointed to consider the advisability Of
extending the provisions of the indie
terminate sentence law and the juris-
diction of the Parole Commission to
all felonies save those involving CAPT
tai punishment, has reported against
the proposal and expresses doubt that
the city is getting the worth of its
money from the Parole Commission
The report, which was made public
yesterday, says:
"Thc budget for the ensuing year, as
your committee is advised, contains
items in large amounts covering the
expenses of the Parole Commission; !;
the salaries of the regular employees of
the commission alone are to exceed
$96,00O Your committee is firmly con-
vinced that the city and community at
large do not receive any adequate re-
turn for this large outlay"
By far the greater number of Gen
eral Sessions judges opposed the idea
and, while the members of the commits
sion were in favor of it, the committee
reached the conclusion that even with
it's present powers the commission in
fringed upon the functions of the judi
ciary and was inclined to constitute
itself kind Of appellate court. The
committee further stated that the pres
ent indeterminate sentence law as ap-
piled to felonies accomplished virtu-
ally the same ends as would be served
by the extension of the law of 1915
although the responsibility was in the
hands of the courts instead of in those
of the Parole Commission.
Herbert r. Limburg is chairman of
the committee. Other members are
Peter r. Gatens, Francis d. Gallatin
and jeremiah T. Mahoney
New-York tribune., 1918-02-10
Boy Scouts Start
Big Drive for
Men and Money
Campaign Designed to Add
to War Efficiency Extends
Over Entire Country

The Boy Scouts of America need two
things-men and money. They are not
particular which they get first nor of
which they get the most. They want
both and have started drive, which
they are confident is going to NEE,
their fondest desires
The campaign throughout the United
States, except New York City, started
last Friday and will continue until
Tuesday night. In New York the
drive is to be started next Friday and
will continue four days
In making its plea for men who will
act as scoutmasters, the Boy Scouts
point out that there are thousands of
boys anxious to JOIN their ranks but
are unable to do SO because of a lack
of men to take charge of the squads as
fast as they are recruited. The war. of
course, has greatly depleted the ranks
of the old scoutmasters, a great per
centage of them having gone into some
branch of the government service.
The need of recruiting up to full
strength the ranks of the scoutmas ters
is made manifest from two distinc
New-York tribune., 1918-02-10
ID Cornell Students
In Court for Hazing

ITHACA, N. Y, Feb 9.-Charged
with having hazed Morris Scherago, of
Brooklyn, and Joseph Reinenstock, of
Manhattan, fourteen upper class men
of the New York State Veterinary Col
lege at Cornell University were ar
raigned in police court here to-day
Scherago and Reinenstock, who are in
the Junior class, alleged that the other
students assaulted them in the clinic
rooms of the college last Tuesday and
shaved off their mustaches. and also
claimed the attack was due to racial
prejudice. Their counsel told the mag
istrate that they had left the univer-
sity because of the humiliation the oc-
currence had caused them.
All of the defendants pleaded not
guilty and demanded jury trials, which
were set for next Thursday. The ac-
cused students are:
d. Snow, Central Square; n. A..
Boardman, Springville; E. P. Hust,
Jeffersonville; W. f. Gilroy. Platts-
burg; NJ. F. Whitmore. Addison; P. R.
Houghton, Fineview; II. P. Wynne and
l.. d. Drummer. Binghamton; a. X. Sell
ner and A. J. Tarr, Waterloo; II. F.
Fleming. Walden; B. B. Loveland,
Franklin; w. A. Brunson, Moons. and
Z. C.. Stafford, Cortland.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-10
Prosecutor Sends Warning
to Owner Of House at
1O8 East 18th Street
More Raids Planned
Tips" of Card Sharps' Ring
Involve Names of Several
Enemy Aliens

District Attorney Swami announced
ceed against the owner of the house at
108 East Seventeenth Street, which has
been the home for years of the Gem
trail Merchants Club, an alleged gam
bling resort, controlled by Sigmund
(Beansy) Rosenfeld Inspector Dan
Costigan raided the place Friday night
and arrested four of the attaches of
the club.
Police records show that Mrs. Felicia
Tucker, wife of Frank Tucker, vice
president of the Provident Loan So
ciety, is the owner The place is leased
to Mrs. Ernestinc Vcrgnolle, who sub
lets the basement and parlor floor to
the club. The District Attorney sent
the following letter to Mrs Tucker yes
tcrday:
1t seems wholly unnecessary for me to
notify you that the premises at 1913 East
Seventeenth Street, said to be owned by
you. have for two years past been used a
gambling house. This fact has been SO
notorious that it would seem impossible
that you had no knowledge of it.
You will now take notice. under Section
| 973 of the penal law, to abate this public
nuisance by removing the tenants of the
said premises without delay
Managers Arraigned
Carl Heyman. the cigar stand opera
tor in the club; Louis Heyman, the
steward; Charles Schenger and Jesse
Mann, members of the board of gov
ernors," who were arrested in the raid
on warrants issued by Judge Wadhams
/ in General Sessions, were arraigned yes
terday before Magistrate Ten Eyck in
the Tombs court on a charge of keeping
gambling house. They were held in
$1,000 bail for examination.e
IF these defendants waive eXamina.
ton shall be ready to try them in
Special Sessions in ten days." said Dis
trict Attorney Swami.
The prosecutor would not discuss the
identity of the witnesses who will give
corroborated evidence against the de,
1endants. 1t was learned, however
that at least one of .he high officials OF
the Central Merchants Club has de.
clded to turn states evidence
1t was also learned that the fate o.
Rosenfeld's organization will be visited
upon many others before Judge Wad-
hams's John Doe inquiry is ended Evi
dence IN the form Of anonymous tips
from hotel employees is coming to the
prosecutor daily Of the operations of a
ring of professional gamblers, who
New-York tribune., 1918-02-10

Plans to throw new searchlights OF
publicity on the war savings stamps
campaign were yesterday formulated
at lunch of the officers and manac-
ers of the light, heat and power com
panies of New York at the Engineers
Club.
Already the lighting trades, it was
announced, have opened sales agencies
IN all their branches, having the dis
tnction of being the FIRST trado to do
so. Frank w. Smith, vice president
and general manager Of the United
Electric Light and Power Company
who presided, declared that the indus
tries represented at the meeting would
dispose of $1,500,000 worth Of stamps
to their employees and customers this
year.
The companies have put out two
posters-one directed to attract their
customers and the other for their en-
ployes. The billboards owned by the
lighting companies are soon to be
decorated with war savings display.
The campaign will be focused on the
New-York tribune., 1918-02-10
Coler Plays "Peanut
Politics., - Says Howe
Bucks Removal Unjust, Says
Ex-Deputy Commissioner
of Charities

Peanut politics is to be made the
guide for every public action Of the
present city administration"
That was the declaration of Stanley
II. Howe, former Deputy Commissioner
of Charities, yesterday in denouncing
the removal of William B. Buck as di-
rector of Sea View Farms, Staten Isl
and, by Commissioner Bird S. Coler Of
the Department of Charities. He de-
clared that the charges against the
director of the cty's poor farm" were
most trivial and that a serious injus-
tice had been done against competent
city employe.
"Not word in Commissioner Coler's
charges about the welfare of the sick,
about the condition of the food, about
the death rate, about the nursing care,
about the manner Of treatment of the
old married couples who live content
edly in the cottages" said Mr.. Howe.
mot q word about the improvement
among the tuberculosis patients, not a
word about the extension of medical
service to the old people, not word
about the food for the inmate workers,
not word about the economies brought
about by consolidating the garage,
laundry and the storehouses of the
colonies The humane service per
formed in this institution by Mr. Buck
and his assistants is forgotten. He
must give up this work, for which his
whole life's experience and training
have euuipped him"
of the Mitchell administration, was re-
moved by Commissioner Coler recently
after a star chamber hearing on minor
charges.
Without mentioning Mr. Bucks
name, the medical board of Sea View
hospital yesterday passed resolutions
approving of his removal by Commits
Eioner Coier
New-York tribune., 1918-02-10
F;remen Rescue Passengers
Trapped in Blazing Third
Avenue Car
Accident Blocks Traffic
Danger and Difficulty Are In
creased by Icy Coating
of Structure

Wooden cars Of Harlem-bound
Third Avenue local elevated train were
shattered and one was set afire yester-
day, when they were rammed from be-
hind by an empty express train of steel
eoaches at Fifty-sixth Street The local
vas crowded and ten of the passengers
we're injured, one of them seriously,
and the motorman of the express train
was also hurt. If the cars of the local
had been OF steel, instead of the more
aimsy material, the damage probably
you'd have been comparatively light.
The blazing rear car of the local and
She ice-covered elevated structure
added to the fright of the passengers,
who were taken TO the street on ladders
erected by firemen. Traffic was blocked
for several hours.
The rear car Of the local took fire
Immediately after the collision. Fire
men quickly oNtinguished the blaze and
rescued the injured and the frightene d
women. Motorman Richard Lougheed,
Of the express, was imprisoned in his
box for twenty minutes. Firemen bat
cue him. Excepting a badly lacerated
night leg and few minor burns, he
was uninjured.
Patrick Dunn, forty-five years old, a
broker, Of 166? Lexington Avenue, was
taken to Flower Hospital, suffering
from three broken ribs. His cond-
ton is serious. but he will recover.
John j. Cronin, of $500 Fort Independ-
ence Avenue, a. patrolman assigned to
Police Headquarters, suffered a fract-
ured right wrist, but went home.
Failure Of the brakes of the heavy
express train to work promptly caused
the accident. according to Lougheed.
The local which the empty express was
following, stopped abruptly, resulting
III the crash. II. Simmons, of 11O5
Crotona Park North, motcrman of the
local, said he was forced to stop be-
cause another uptown train was dis
charging passengers at Fifty-ninth
Street.
The rear car of the local was de-
nolished. The first car of the express
ploughed ten feet into it, but, being
made of steel like the subway trains,
was not damaged.
After questioning Motormen Lough
eed and Simmons, the police cxonerated
them from all responsibility The In
terborough also regards the smash as
an accident. Lougheed has been a
motorman for nine years.
For several hours uptown traffic on
the Third Avenue line was suspended
Trains for Harlem and The Bronx were
sent over the Second Avenue branch,
For half an hour after the crash down
town Third Avenue traffic was halted
The Third Avenue surface cars were
also tied UP for like period.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-10

consumer through tho medium of bill
heads and pamphlets
Those present at the dinner includ-
ed w. Ward Smith, vice chairman
OF the trades division Of the War Saw
ings Committee; Finley Peter Dunno,
chairman of the publicity committee; !;
Arthur II. Ham, manager OF the War
Savings Societies Bureau; Il. r. Barnit
assistant secretary of the Consolidated
Gas Company; G. G. N. Thomas, treas
urer of the Consolidated Gas Company;
J. W. Lieb. vice-presdent and general
manager Of the New York Edison Com
pany; w. f. Wells, vice pres dent and
general manager of the Brooklyn Ed-
son Company; II. F. MCGOWAN, secre-
tary of the Brooklyn Union Gas Com
pany, and r. E. Livingston, of the
Consolidated Gas Company.
The vast sale of war saving certifi
Gates in England, especially among the
working people is the best proof that
all the clements of the nation arc
standing behind their government, &C
cording to H. Gordon Selfridge, the
American born owner Of London's big
gest department store, who is stopping
at the Biltmore. He said he had nc
doubt that America would outdo Eng.
lands splendid effort in buying the
stamps to help their government wir
the war