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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-03
BIRMINGHAM LADY'S
 HAPPY EXPERIENCE
Willing to Be Consulted, But Prefers to Talk Direct
 to Those Interested

The following interesting details of a certain prominent local matron's suf- fering and relief are fully avouched for, and any who doubt may have the satisfaction of personal verification upon proper request. While the lady is very grateful for the wonderful relief she has so speedily secured, she modestly avoids unnecessary publicity, but is will ing to tell her story to any fellow suf- ferer who makes courteous inquiry. For a number of years I have had to neglect many social obligations, and reduce much of my usual fraternal af- filiahons on account of a rapid decline in health. Briefly, and according to diagnoses of several physicians, my troubles were ascribed to the complica- tions incident to the change period in womanhood. was generally run down, seldom free of pain. suffered with weak stomach, back and kidneys and had lit tie appetite at any time. The most care full attention, several trips to resorts, and much treatment by specialists failed to give me the desired relief. Without much faith I began taking Pal -Tox. To my immense surprise I felt better after the first few doses Am now on my second bottle. All symptoms of fe- male weakness have disappeared, there are no more pains in my back, my color and strength are returning, and I have a most ravenous appetite I am very grateful for what your wonderful medi- cine has done for me, and am willing to verify these statements in person to any who are interested I feel like this much is due you" Any who doubt above testimonial may have all doubts dis pelled by calling Main 7937 and this lady s home and address and telephone number will be supplied by consent Pal-Co-Tox is on sale at all drug stores at s1 per bottle, under a guarantee to relieve all forms of blood, stomach. liver. kidney and bladder troubles o< money back Ad1.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-03
At the Lyric

The Venetian Gypsy sextet, singing and dancing novelty, will be the headline attraction on the new Lyric bill to be presented today matinee. This novelty offering has proved a big vaudeville suc- cess and papers in cities where they have appeared have been loud in praise of the talent of this sextet. Henry Give and Miss D." smart entertainers, will also be on today's programme and they are clever entertainers. Give is a comedian and Miss ID" is an excellent soprano.
 "The Bride and the Widow" is the title of pleasing bit of entertainment to be presented by Sinclair and Casper, a duo of clever female entertainers. They show that the bride and the widow are he most popular class of women. Joseph Bernard in "Who Is She?" and Raymon Wilbert in 'tOn the Golf Links will also prove excellent entertainers. Lyric screen telegrans will be a feature
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-03
Travellers to Hold
 Convention in Selma

Montgomery. June 2,-(speciai) Announcement was made today that the annual convention of the Alabama Travellers association will be held at Selma. Saturday, June Is. A letter has been sent to each member by A, C. Smith, secretary, urging a ful at tendance in order that better orr ganizatior for the assistance of the government may be perfected.
 I've have given our services and time to war work, assisting in every way possible, and we want you to be present and hear the reports of the chairmen of your different commit tees" said the invitation. We want to make this great patriotic con- vention demonstrating to the people oc our state and the outside world that we are first. last and always for our government
 The Chinese alphabet consists of 214 letters.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-03
OPELIKA

opelika, June 2.-(Special.)-John H. Wallace, candidate for governor. made political address at the court house here Saturday afternoon in tte interest of his candidacy. It being q busy day in town, many of the mer- chants and others were deprived of the opportunity of hearing him. How ever, he had respectful sized au- dience on whom his speech seemed 10 have made a favorable impression. Mir. Wallace was introduced by Gen. George P. Harrison.
 An exhibition that has attracted much attention the past few days is a display in the show window of a local dry goods store of fine hosiery which was manufactured in this city from yarns spun at the local cotton The hosiery is of a beautiful texture and is said to be of very superior quality.
 The manufacture of hosiery in Opc- lika is a recent enterprise, and judg- ing from its initial output it is des- tined to be a success
 It is almost an assured reality that this city will secure and prepare a landing field for airplanes touring in this direction. A local committee, headed by I. J. Dorsey and George Glover. are making inspections of proposed sites. and as soon as suit able location is decided upon, meet : ing will be called to devise plans for raising the necessary funds for car rying out the project.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-03

such contracts with your men. mere understanding that men will be dis charged who join the union does not constitute such a contract on their part not to join unions. I think the making of such contracts after thu
 in accord with our principles of at
 tion by him approved, though the making of them would be legal
 DOES NOT SQUARE
 q think the plan upon which our board acts contemplateS a waiver by employ CTS of such a right just as it contem- plates waiver by employees of the legal right to strike as a method of securing industrial peace. With these views, think that your last proposal does not square with the principles on which our board must act if the issue is made by the employees part of our board. You deny to a majority of your emloyes a right to join labor union. On the other hand I think the proposal made by Walsh and presented by me to you at Philadelphia is one which you should accept in the interest of industrial peace.
 By it you do not recognize the union or deal with it. You deal only with committees of your employees You take back your men discharged for joining a union, which, under our principles, an employer SslOulu uOl PicNChl tiicii doliiS. The union would agree with the board not to order or permit a strike under any circumstances, but to rely for a redress of grievances solely on the lodg- ing of complaints by committees of your emnloyes with our board and the board s action thereon You would be given the express right under such a compromise to discharge any employe who sought remedy for grievance in any other way and the board would sustain the dis charge.
 Hinder such compromise which would be consistent with our principles, the board would have the power to se- I-cure you against the danger or a strike as completely as practical machinery can provide against it. Thus would be removed the danger of resort to strike and consequent public injury upon which YOU have your obligation to exclude union men from your employ
 HOW BOARD VOTED
 The motion by which the report was accepted and ordered given to the pub lie also provided that the manner Tn which the individual members voted shouId be made known. They voted as follows: \ For the Report: William H. Taft and Frank P. Walsh. joint chairmen' victor Olander. representative International Seamen's union; T. M. Guerin. represen- tative United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners; Adam Wilkinson. repre- sentative United Mine Workers; Thomas
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-03

Savage. representative International As sociation of Machinists; T. A. Rickert, representative United Garment Workers.
 Opposed to the Report: Loyal A. Os- borne, vice president Westinghouse Elec- tric and Manufacturing company; F. C.. Hood, president of the Hood Rubber company; C. Edwin Michael, president of the Virginia Bridge and Iron company; W. H. Vandervoort, president of the Root Vandervoort Engineering Co. {; B. L. Wordon, president of the Lack awanna Bridge company.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-03
COUNCIL OF MOTHERS
 CLUBS WILL MEET

The Council of Mothers Clubs will meet tomorrow morning at 1O:sO o'clock at w. c. T. U. headquarters. This will be the last meeting until fall and the annual election of officers will be held. Each central. is urged to have representation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-03
Red Cross Contributions
 From China Total $1OO,00O

Shanghai June 2.-As the result Of the recent American Red Cross drive for funds, it is estimated that China will remit at least $10o.000 gold to New York. Fifty thousand associate numbers were enrolled in the course of the campaign. The result is consid- cred most gratifying by the organizers of the movement. and is taken to in- dicate the good will of the Chinese toward the United States.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-03

now informally designed to raise be- tween s7,000000 900 and sS,o00, ,0o0,o0 of next years war expenses, estimated at something like 10000, ,000. 900, will be- gin next Thursday before the House ways and means committee with Sec retary McAdoo and Internal Revenue Commissioner Roper as the first wit nesses, The hearings probably will continue two or three weeks.
 Progress on the tax bill and pass age of many pending appropriations and other important measures prof- ably will be determining factors in plans for a vacation for Congress Of month or six weeks during July and August. Postmaster General Burleson has announced that the administration is not opposed to the recess while the revenue bill is being framed, but some members oppose any recess.
 ARMY MONEY BILL
 The record-breaking $12, 2,000, GOO, OO0 army appropriation bill, passed unanimously by the House, will be laid before the Sen- ate tomorrow. It will be referred to the military committee and probably re- ported bac kto the Senate late this week with prompt passage regarded as as- sured
 Of the other approprition measures the a, 210,O00,000 naval supply bill, the post OA44SS, d5A1Cdltul IlAA4AldLS dS6ASlH9 legislative. executive and judicial and rivers and harbors bills are in confer ence, while two remaining important money measures, a bill carrying upwards of 5000, GOO 600 for Qualifications and the sundry civil budget are before the House appropriations committee.
 TO CURB SENATE TALK
 An effort to curb Senate talk during the war is promised tomorrow when Senator Underwood of Alabama, demo- crat, plans to call up his proposed new rule limiting speeches by senators to one hour on all bills and 20 minutes on amendments, except when extensions are granted by unanimous consent
 Army investigations by Senate military subcommittees will continue this week. The aircraft subcommittee, headed by Senator Thomas of Colorado, left to- night to visit several airplane plants The committees itinerary was not dis closed, but it was understood that the Curtiss plant at Buffalo, N. Y, would be the first inspected. The committee plans to hear witnesses probably in executive session
 Another inspection tour of ordnance production plants also is planned late this week by the Senate military sub committee Investigating ordnance.
 Conferees on the oil land leasing bill expect to begin work tomorrow, with prospects of protracted controversy over disposition of the California naval re- serve lands
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-03
EPIDEMIC OF TYPHOID

The last conference was on the lbth
 stated on that occasion that unless something was done, something radical, and done immediately, that we might ex- pect another epidemic of typhoid this summer: that the people had been pa
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-03
ARGUMENT OF BUSINESS


 ocratic leader, there will be only one school, and that school will be composed entirely of business men. They will ar gue-and to some minds correctly-that 1t would be folly in time of war to de- stroy the business of the country. Some members of Congress declare that a busi- ness panic during the war would be equal in calamitous effect to an invasion of American shores by the German army. Nevertheless, it is safe to predict, that the rich man will pay. At the same time the man who is not rich but comfortable will bear an increased burden. It has been argued that taxation against large incomes, ranging from $500O0 to $500 eUO, and on big profits, is about as heavy as can equitably be imposed, and that she man who receives an income of between s50rj and s7500 must pay very heavily While at the present a man pays into the coffers of the government between 40 and 66 per cent of all moneys he makes between s5o0OO and s3OO, 900, and "a per cent Of all he makes in excess or s1,0o000Os it is indicated that new legis,a- ton will take from the man who makes mere. than s1,0O0,000 per annum practi- cally all in excess of that figure that he possesses.
 LUXURIES MUST GO
 The new legislation is destined to be a warning against the man who pos sesses the luxuries of life. It will be construed as a finger pointing to the necessity in times of war of citizens buying only the things without which they cannot decently survive. It will preach rigid economy and self-sacri- flee It will impose such burdens on automobiles, jewelry, musical instru- nlents, portraits and paintings sport ing goods from yachts to tennis rack cts. silks and velvets, and fine linens, tobaccos and liquors and other non- necessaries and nonessentials that the man possessing them will rue the day he purchased.
 And the man of business will have no other recourse than to grin and bear. Mr. Kitchin has already issued warning against lobbyists. And President Will son, in his address of last Monday, spoke in no uncertain terms of the men who for selfish reasons will attempt to change the course of legislation or throw handicaps in the way of an early com p'etion of the work.
 Cor gl ess is going to reverse the Bibli- cal injunction. The democrats are go- ing to take from him who hasti The man thus deprived might succeed in unseat- ing the fast riding majority, but even then he will not escape the necessity of paying the bill. The democrats will have the frs. shot.
 TAX BILL HEARINGS
 Washington. June 2.-Entering this week on the seventh month of its present session. Congress will begin work on war tax legislation, which may hold it in session until well into the fall with possibly brief respite in midsummer.
 Hearings on the new revenue bill
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-03

A micrometer used by a Swiss watch company accurately measures to the part of a millimeter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-03
COUNTER PROPOSITION

MT. Carlton according to the report. declined to accept this proposition, but rendered another in which he declared that his company holds that it's first obligation is to the government and the public, in an uninterrupted and competent telegraph service. The con- pany has reached the conclusion that this end cannot be achieved if it's op- orators are members of the c. T. U. of A.
 Mir. Carlton pointed out that the op- orators now have a basic eighth our day, premium for overtime. vacations with pay, semiannual premiums, sick ness benefits at full pay for varying g periods, pensions and life insurance. He expressed the opinion that a ma jority of the company's operators did not want to join the union, but he was willing to submit the question to secret referendum ballot under the direction of the war board.
 SCOPE OF REFERENDUM
 In this referendum the operators were to be asked if they wanted 10 join the c. T. U. of A, or whether they were in favor of an organiza- tion to be confined to Western Union employees. such organization to have the right of collective bargaining, but not to employ the strike or affiliate with any organization which employs the strike either for itself or for otI- CTS" Officers of the organiza tion, he proposed. were to be employees of Che Western Union. and differences be- tween the organizat ation and the com- pany were to be arbitrated before tne national war labor board
 "In the event that a majority of our telegraph operators vote affirmativeiy on Question l." MT. Carlton's propo- sition continued, the company will withdraw it's objection to that union and membership therein will no longer be cause for dismissal but we speci- fy that the company shall not Se called upon to recognize that union, nor shall it be required to deal with officers of that union. as such, whether employees or otherwise.'
 TAFT'S REPLY
 To this. MT. Taft replied:
 'I do not think our principles in- cluded the closed or nonunion shop in the status quo to be maintained. do not think our principles require us to ignore or invite a breach of existing contracts of employment in which tho men affirrna lively agree not to joir a union I do not think you have
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-03

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-03
AREAS NOT SEVERED

oovV VI Lucoc Ni IAo5obo III loii iieiiit Since then something over 200o connee-
 tions 10 the sanitary sewers have been
 forced. but new installations of dry clos cts have had to be made in areas not severed so that there are probably stiu 1000 dry closets in Birmingham, which
 number cannot further be appreciaJly reduced, by reason of inaccessibility ot sewers.
 Now, these closets are scattered over an area of 50.2 square miles. They fal into poor repair easily. Our sanitary in- spection force is small, and the custom IS when sanitary inspector finds q closet out of repair to give the responsi- ble party a written notice to repair the closet in three days; but his territory is so large that it may be 30 days before he can get around again to see if his
 order has been complied with. Maybe there IS an argument between tenant
 and landlord as to who is responsible
 and nothing has been done; or the ten
 ant will say he could not get a carpen- ter. or he has not had the time, or hc could not get material delivered to hlm any one of a dozen excuses-but the closet has remained out of repair 30
 days. The man is haled into court ana fined, but the closet has been out of re-
 pair 30 days, and a sanitary dry closet
 out of order is more dangerous than 1~>N%
 LAST YEARS EXPERIENCE 'All this was laid before the commits sion by the health officer and myself We explained that last years experi-
 ence had demonstrated that the tenant
 and the landlord could not be relied upon to keep these closets in safe condi- | tion; that the street commissioner was handicapped by a force entirely inade- quate to render weekly service, so that 1 frequently the pails were running over | and polluting the soil for four or five | feet in every direction, and that the only | remedy was to provide additional scaven- | ger service, and in addition a force of | carpenters who would inspect the closets ! frequently, make the necessary repairs and charge the cost in time and mate rialS against the owner, to be collected | through the comptroller's office by the | force of sanitary tax collectors, already | in existence In order to meet the addl- l tional expense of the improved sanitary
 service it was proposed to increase the sanitary tax from 33 1-3 cents per month
 to 50 cents per month, or $6 per annum, which would be per cent on slOOs the 1 estimated average cost of installing sanl- tary connections.
 We have an ordinance which provides that the cost of the repairs mentioned
 above may be charged against the prop
 erty. so that the only expense the com mission would have incurred would have been advancing this money temporarily. 1 However. we had been trying for over
 a month to put this programme through,
 and had held three or four conferences
 with the commission. All admitted that something ought to be done. and two Of | the commissioners were very much in
 earnest about it. There was no active opposition; there was no friction.
 There was just simply not enough l appreciation of the gravity of the situ- | ation to force immediate action.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-03
NEW TAX BURDENS WILL FALL UPON HIM WHO HATH" The Rich and Well-tO-Do Are to Pay for the
 War BIBLICAL PROVERB IS NOT TO BE FOLLOWED Big Incomes and Excess Profits Will Be Taken Almost Entirely.
 Revenue From Luxuries
 of Life
By HUGH ". ROBERTS

Washington, June 2.-(SpeciaL) Representative kitchin of North Caro- lima. leader of the democratic major ity in the House, declares that after the new revenue bill is prepared. no one longer can justly quote the Biblical proverb: "To him who hath shall be given. and from him who hath not shall be taken away, even that which he hath-o
 In other words, Mir. kitchin is "go- ing after'' the man who has money, property and other resources, and the man with sufficient energy and in telIect to make money. He is going to make good the prediction of an Alabama senator that as long as the war lasts. no man need hope to remain in possession of mere than .
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-03
TAFTsS FINAL LETTER

In his final letter to MT. Carlton MT. Taft wrote:
 CT ask YOU to consider again this rroposal before a final rejection. Of course. your submission to our Juris- diction is a matter of discretion, but deprecate an attitude on the part of an employer of men so widely dls- tributed which may defeat the useful ness of our board"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-03
CARLTON'S STATEMENT

t~The Western Union is not seeking to deprive any one of his inalienable rights" said MT. Carlton, in a state ment issued tonight, but it recog- nizes that it's employees much choose employment with the company or mem bership in the c. T. U. of A, with em- ployment in the many other telegraph positions open to them. for the Western Union employs less than 20 per cent of the total telegraphers in the United States. The company says in effect to it's employees:
 eff you desire to join the c. T. U. of A, then we must part So long as you retain your position with the com pany you will have every protection and full right of appeal but we can not agree that you shall join any or ganization which imperils the con- tinuity of the telegraph service which this company is expected to provide for the government and public of the United States"
 PROPOSAL MADE
 MT Taft and MT. Walsh, their report showed, recommended to MT. Carlton that the Western Union receive com mittee of it's own men only, who ce- sired to present requests for better working conditions or compensation, and if an agreement could not be T6dCnGu. the IHdlltT u to the war board and the question dis posed of according to it's rules. They stipuated that the company was mot to be required in any way to deal with the union or to recognize it."
 They stipuated also that the union should agree with the war board that in any effort by it's members to op- tain better conditions of labor, 1t would not itself initiate, and that it would not itself permit it's members to use the strike, but that it would submit it's grievances to the national war labor board and abide the de- cision under it's procedure"
 If any employe of the Western Un- ion. a member of the union. it was proposed. should fail to conform with this agreement. and to abide by the rules and principles of the board, 'tho Western Union might discharge such employe and that the national war labor board would sustain such dis oh
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-03
THE WESTERN UNION DECLINES TO SUBMIT
 TO JURISDICTION OF
 WAR LABOR BOARD

(COntinWed rom FaEe One1 the section and the vote of this board upon the report"