The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-01
THE CRIME AT SERAJEVO

From the Washington Star.
 5NOUR years ago the crown prince Of ITJ Austria Hungary was assassinated S at Serajevo, Bosnia, by a Serbian named Prinzip. It was an assassination such as had occurred in Europe from time to time for many years, apparently the act of a fanatieal patriot burning under 2 sense of wrong. At the time it was not believed that it would lead to any serious consequences, save per haps to those directly involved in what was charged to have been conspiracy. That it would be utilized as the occasion for the great war for which Germany had long been preparing was not thought possible. It did not involve directly questions in which Germany was herself concerned.
 Austria ultimatum to Serbia on the score of Prlnzip's crime was an outra- geous stretch of authority. Serbia could not have been held guilty of complicity in any court of law or any international tribunal. The crime occurred on Aus trian soil--Eosnia had been seized fy Austria in a criminal aggression-and the government at Belgrade has never yet been shown to have had the least connection with the killing or to have displayed any tolerance for the secret or- ganlzation of which Prinzip was said 10 from cattlemen. I got wise during my first experience in the old days, when for a few months l was general mah- aeer of the Baxter Stove works, large manufactures of stoves. I got the Job through pull. and at a time when did not know that stoves were made III pieces.
 In those days many visitors came oat to be shown over the plant l was al ways careful to find out if any one m the party had ever been connected WltA inc stove enterprise. If the crowd was inst ..rubpernecking" I turned myself loose as we went from room to room and out where the holders were al work. To have heard me you Would have though. that I had been born and raised in the stove business, for l knew
 
 everything about the plant But, if there happened to be a practical stove man " the bunch 1 was as dumb as an oyster
 I have used the same tactics on m| bull trip. i only threw the pull When felt reasonably sure that my aualtoFs were not on to the cattle game. wisA
 Frank could have heard me, for am sure he would have been proud ot me for haying gotten to be an enthusiast for Shorthorns in one short week. l would descant on the white, the roan ana tne reds, and appraise their worth as thous"
 I was an expert. As matter of fact, didn't know until he showed me the lot that a bull could be classed as d shorthorn unless he was red. was tor
 throwing our the whites and the roans as off colcr I might as well fess up and say that my knowledge of tin
 horns far exceeds my knowledge CT ''Shorthcrns."
 This was one reason I was willing to 1 take the message to Garcia for fei. | that the average man in Alabama was | as ignorant as I was a week ago as to the merits of Shorthorns, and so l went | on my tour over the state with all the enthusiasm of a new convert who want
 ed everybody to be acquainted With the I Shorthorn gospel of cattle which is to I improve the breed by placing one of the 1 Red Cross bulls in everN community.
 admit I am the ''hot air and pup
 licity end Of the campaign, but unless 1 the people are told about the sale and
 urged to be at it, there is small enanca to get gool money for a good cause oi get the sires out into the country where they are needed.
 And so in spite of my ignorance feel
 that put kn valuable weeks York
 for when Fred Jones and ! left towr Y