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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-06

men in the prime of life. Citroen disiiket to leave his artillery regiment. but he knew the gravity of the situation and had one idea in his head-shells. shells and more shells. Shells without limit alone could bring the victory. Unlike Renault, Citroen had no established bus fness with large plant and thousands of hands, In the summer of 1915. when the ministry of armament told him to go ahead and make shell ,sme possessed only plot of land on the right bank of the Seine beyond the Port de Gre nelle. Business enterprises had not pros pered along the Quai de Javel. The land was used for growing cabbages and cauliflower. But the quarter was a pop ulous one, and Citroen was looking for labor. He started with one building and a hundred 75-cm. shells 8 day. Three years later his plant covered acres. He was turning out in Paris over l0,oaO shells a day, and directing another large plant. almost as important as the Paris one at Roanne. In 1918, nearly 50o9 peo- pie were working on the cabbage patch of 1915. When I spoke at the CitIoen factory at the time of the last German thrust toward Paris, I lunched in a great hall with the 5000 workingmen and work ing women of the day shift. We were served by white -garbed girls who brought piping hot food to the tables in motor-driven wagonettes Monsieur Citroen has cooperative stores for his hands and a model creche where hun dreds of babies are cared for from Mon day morning until Saturday night.
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Reused List of Members
 OF Legislature Prepared
 For Secretary Of State
By WILLIAM L. GoRMLEY

Montgomery, July 5.-(Special.) l.)-Wilcox is the only county in the state that will not have a full representation when the legislature meets on next Tuesday for its 30-day session. The election to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of W. A. Mcdowell of Camden will not be held until late in July. The affairs of the county will be in the hands of Rep resentative B. F. Oakley until MT. Me Dowells successor is chosen.
 There will be another representative from Walker county who was not at the session of January. Thomas J. Calvert, war veteran, was elected to succeed Orizabo Manasco, deceased. Representa- tive Calvert will be sworn in at the first of the session on July s. c. C. Jordan will be in the house taking the place of J w. Marshall, deceased
 The state printers have delivered to the secretary of state correct list of the members of the two branches of the legislature, as well as the officers of the house and senate.
 SENATE OFFICERS
 The senate officers will be:
 Nathan L. Miller, lieutenant governor and president of the state.
 T. J. Bedsole, president pro tenn.
 Walter L. Miller, secretary.
 H. F. Reese, Jr., assistant secretary
 Mrs. Jesse T. Lamar, Engrossins clerk
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stood them drinks whenever the op- portunity offered. I have seen whole Groves of them drinking in the wine shops of Cairo with the fellaheen, and even exchanging their hats with the natives for the latters fezes. Taat even worse things happened is com mon knowledge, and the inevitable re- suit of this departure from the great traditions of our army in the east was to lower our prestige. Discretion for bids really candid talk about the sita- ation that has existed. but the effect on the native mind is undeniable.
 Slowly the conviction has dawned on the Egyptians, why these people are really no better than we are' Such feelings in the east take a long time to fester before they break out in an open sore, but the process has now been going on in Egypt for upwards O. three years. And now I, for ore, count it as by no means the least of tho causes that have resulted in the new spirit of characterization which led to the recent instruction, and may be fruitful source of further trouble unless we are quick in mending our ways"
 (Copyright 1919l
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Our Beet Sugar Industry


 The beet sugar factories are dis trbuted over wide territory, extend ing from northern Ohio to the Pacific coast, and from Montana almost to the Mexican border. East of the Mississippi the principal beet sugar state is Mich igan where two-thirds of the beet acreage east of the Missouri river is located. This region produced in 1916 10S,000 tons of sugar while the region west of the Missouri river produced, 712,000 tons. The principal sugar beet states in the west are Colorado and California, but the industry is also important in Utah, Idaho, Nebraska and Montana.
 The beet sugar. industry is essential ly cooperative affair. If sugar mill is constructed it requires large quanti- ties of beets to treat, and if farmers raise sugar beets they require a fac tory to extract the sugar from them. Ordinarily, before a sugar mill is built the owners enter into agreements with the surrounding land owners by which they agree to plant so many acres to beats, and the mill agrees to pay certain price therefor In the ordinary contract. a minimum price is specified for beets containing certain percent age of sugar and fixed amount is paid fer each additional percentage of sugar in the beets above the minimum. In cer- tain districts the promoters of the mill buy up enough acreage, which is plant ed to sugar beets, to insure full ca pacity to the mill, as the initial equip ment is so costly that the owners do not want to be subject to the whim of farmers who might decide to plant some other crop if their price for beets is not met.
 One of the most important factors in determining the suitability of a given area for sugar beet culture is the cli- mate. Frequently all other conditions are favorable, while some climatic fac tor renders sugar beet growing un- profitable. Successful sugar beet grow ing has been confined to the tempera- ate region in practically all beet coun- tries. Sugar beets will often produce a sufficient tonnage of roots in warmer areas, but for some reason they gem orally are not sufficiently rich in sugar to make them profitable. This is true of practically all of the southern states, and in southern California and in some parts of Arizona and New Mex ] leo, where the summer climate is warm. ] beet growers produce their crops only during the winter months. when the ! temperature is lower.
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Mrs. Lula Thompson, enrolling clerk. J. K. Jenkins, doorkeper.
 The house officers will be:
 Henry P. Merritt, speaker. Fred H. Gormley. clerk.
 John Q. Adams, assistant clerk. Leon Jackson, expressing clerk J. H. Stuart, enrolling clerk. J. F. Pouncy. doorkeeper.
 Members of the senate, showing the dis trict they represent and their home ad- dresses, follow
 MEMBERS OF SENATE First-B. A. Rogers, Florence. Second-W. H. Smith, Town Creek. Third-A. A. Griffith, Cullman Fourth-W. E. Butler, New Hope. Fifth-John B. Taly, Scottsboro. SixthZwatt T. Brown, Ragland. Seventh-W. P. Acker, Anniston Naturalization H. Sims. Talladega. Ninth--A. w. Briscoe, LaFayette. Tenth-R. L. Huddleston. Speigner Eleventh-J. T. Beale, Northport. Twelfth-M l.. Leith, Jasper. Thirteenth-C. R. West, Birmingham. F,ourteenth-J. A. Rogers, Gainesville Fifteenth-J. c. Harper, Columbiana- Sixteenth-Joseph Norwood, Fort De- posit.
 seventeenth-J. Morgan Prestwood, An dalusia
 Eighteenth-J. Marvin Moore Marion. Nineteenth-T. J. Bedsole, Grove Hjll. Twentieth-T. J. Carlton, Linden. Twenty-frst-Riley Kelly, Excel. Twenty-second-Joh Miller, Camden. Twentv-third-W. W. Morris, Daleville. Twenty -fourth-C., S. McDowell, Jr, Flu faula.
 Twenty-fiftl1-D. A. Baker. Troy. Twenty-sixth-S. c. Cowan, Union Springs. Twenty-seventh-B. T. Phillips. Opelika. Twenty -eighth-W. A. Gunter, Jr.' Montgomery.
 Twenty -ninth-J. A. Nance, ColilnsVilie' Tbirtieth-James B. Ellis, Selma. Thirty-first-A. H. Carmichael. Tuscum- bia.
 Thirty-second-N R. Evins. Greens
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British Army Discipline
By HAYDEN CHURCH.

he became a member of the British Intelligence Service in Egypt and was one of the first censors at the Egyp- tian war office. Until last week. when he was demobilized, he held the rank of staff captain.
 Many causes have led to the pres ent trouble in Egypt" said White but the one have mentioned, a po- tent one. as 1 believe. has escaped at tention so far IS l am aware. In our professional army of pre-war days discipline was rigid. In the eastern countries over which we held sover- eighty we ruled as a superior race In the army, officers and men alike. in common with British civilians, held themselves aloof from the native pop ulation. We were sahibs. that is to say gentlemen, beings to be regarded with awe and respect.
 But the citizen army, mainly drawn from Australia and New Zsa- land, that has been quartered nl t,gypt ever since Turkey joined our enemies and threatened danger has been marked by a wholly different sririt, the spirit of over tolerant de- moeracy and careless .camaraderie, and It's effect on the natives has been de- elerable. Not only the men, but the officers have fraternized with the Egyptians. and to meet the native of the east on plane of equality is iG,- possible without an immediate loss of caste. In the old days to see | drunken British soldier in Cairo was thing unheard of One might see . Scots suardsman in his cups on Christmas eve. but even that was ex- ceptional.
 "tlTtortunately the spectacle of men in the new army drunk in the streets. even participating in brawls. sprees an" riots was common one from the earliest days of the war. The Aus trRlians. in their careless good nature. freely paled with the natives and
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THE. WILSON

2d Ava. and Church St.
 Hendersonville, N. c. Large, homelike place with excellent home cooking Large lawn and ve- randas Modern, airy, outside bed rooms Under new manaSement' Rates reasonable. MRS. MYRTLE Y. BRADEY, Mgr
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-06

Welsh coal miners propose to resist the payment of income tax unless the abate- ment allowance is raised to S1250.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-06

Several large mining concerns in Ger many have gone bankrupt because of the suspension of work by their employees.
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London, May 21.-A drastic tighten ing up of discipline throughout the British army is fairly certain to be one of the first manifestations of the process by which the great military machine which the empire called into being for the purpose of winning tEe world war will cease toEbe citizen" and become again professional army.
 That the discipline of Britain's lard forces are constituted during the war should become comparatively lax. as judged by professional standards. wls more or less inevitable That it was and is lax, particularly as regards the men from the British colonies. has been common knowledge, but, hitherto, what may be termed the comedy sije of this has been the subject of most Of such comment as there has been, though the serious side must have been readily apparent to all in au- thority, and must have constituted difficult and embarrassing problem.
 The effect of the free-and-easiness e! tle men of Britain's new army" on the subject of races of the empl~e is a matter that has not, however, previously come up for public consii- cratioa According to one eNceptica- ally well qualified to speak on this suhiecr. the loose army discipline of today as compared with the rigidity ot that which existed before the War onstitutes one of the root causes of the present unrest in Egypt and other parts of the east. That this is unGe- nIably the case is the firm conviction of Percy White, the distinguished British novelist and scholar
 Mir. White. who has been serving his country in uniform since early In 1?17 has an intimate acquaintance with Egyptian affairs. since, for thu co years, or from 1911 until the outbreak Of the war. he was lecturer on Eng fish literature at the Esyptian univer- sitv at Cairo. mmediately afterwards
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Laurel Park Villa r,,s' nrnaess'@- S' ",
MISS F. JORDAN

Situated in beautiful Laurel Park. fronting Rainbow park On street car line. One and one-half miles from cen ter of city. All modern conveniences; telephone eleetrict lights, water supply from Crystal Springs. hot and cold haths. large shady grove
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-06
Wizard of the French Munitions

Herbert Adams Gibbons. in Harper's
 Magazine,
 Andre Ciroen was one of the engineers with special training released from ser vice at the front when public opinion finally realized that the industrial effort of the rear must have technically trained
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CHESTNUT PARK LODGE
 wAYN WILLIE. N. C.
Mrs. Robert GiImer

New modern, unique hotel, natural park of 175 acres. partly In the corporate limits. living room 6ox36 feet with 10 foot fireplace; about 1000 feet above and overlooking Wayncsville. Natural Lithia Spring. electrically illuminated grounds Everything modern; cuisine unexcelled. Prices reasonable. Free camp sites. Come or address Chestnut Park Lodge, Waynesvi1le. N. c.
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DOrO- Thirty-fourth-O. T. Smith, Goodwater. Thirty y-hfth-J B. Espy, Abbeville.
 MEM RERS OE HGTTSE
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-08-09
STRIKE CRIPPLES
STATE INDUSTRIES

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. Aug. g.
Many industries In Indiana have been
cripples by the strike of railway ship
men, reports from over the state show
More than 1900 railway men are out
at Evansville and coal mines in that
district are being shut down, due to
the failure Of the operators to make
shipments,
The entire Monon Railway system
is affected by the strike Of shopmen
at Lafayette. Nine hundred men are
said to have gone out. At Anderson
a serious tie-up IN rail traffic is feared
and several factories are planning to
close II the strike continues. Five
hundred and fifty shopmen at Frank
fort in the Glover Leaf Railway shops
voted to strike, and at Terre Haute
400 railway employees have gone out
crippling the coal mines and indus
tries. Over 1000 men have struck at
Logansport. Men are also out at
Washington and Bloomington,
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-08-09
PLUMB WOULD PUT
POSTAL SERVICE
INTO new BILL
(By Associated Press)

WASHINGTON. Aug. 9-Glenn e.
Plumb, continuing his testimony to-
day before the house interstate COM
merce committee declared that If the
plans of the brotherhoods for control
Of the railroads were applied to the
post office department, that govern
ment agency would be conducted with
greater efficiency.
The post office department" Mr..
Plumb said, SIS the only great indus
try politically managed. l do not
want to be understood that it is not
efficiently managed. But l do believe
the post office department would show
a higher rate of efficiency if operated
under the democratic principle of this
bill.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-08-09
CHICAGO STOCKYARD
STRIKE IS GROWING;
REPORT $4,000 OUT
(By Associated Press3

CHICAGO, Aug. 9.-Between $4,000
and 10000 men will be out on strike
at the Union stock yards by tonight
should the union leaders statement
that the swalkout started yesterday.
would continue today. The strike
started over a demand of the men
that the guards placed about the plant
be withdrawn. The men said they
had no objection to working with the
negroes If they were union men. but
objected to working with non-union
men and particularly under guard.
Policemen and deputy sheriffs were
placed in the yards on Thursday,
when several thousand negroes out
while the race riots were at their
height, returned to work. Soldiers on
guard outside the yards were with
drawn yesterday following notice to
Adjutant General Dickson from the
governor that such a request had been
made by the mayor. 1t was repre-
sented by Mayor Thompson to Gov
ernor Lowden that the BLACK belt
was quiet and as no resumption of
rioting was likely the troops were
not needed About half Of the 5000
men were dispersed last night and 1t
was expected that the remainder
would be relieved by tonight.
Labor leaders claimed that $4,000
employees of the stockyards have al
ready quit work but the packing house
representatives say less than half that
number are on strike.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-08-09
GENERAL RAILROAD
STRIKE IMPENDING
IN BERLIN, REPORT
(Ry Associated Press)

BERLIN, Aug. 9-The government
announces the discovery Of an exten.
sive secret strike movement which. If
successful, will lead to a general rail-
road strike in central and perhaps all
of Germany on September 1. sparti-
cist and communist agitators are
charged with being the leaders Of the
movement, which the government Is
using every means to suppress.
"The discovery was made just when
Germany believed itself quieting down
while the rest Of the world rioted and
struck" the official statement says.
"The object Of the communist strike
leaders is to appropriate power, the
first necessity of which is the stop
page of transportation to prevent the
distribution of food and coal The
movement which is already wide
spread, began at Erfurt, where q huge
meeting controlled by communists
was held last night, the strike being
decided upon. This action is not un
derstandable because the government
has not only carried out promises
made at he time the last railroad dis
pute was settled but has introduced
other reforms"
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-08-09
Belgian Government To
Reclaim Battle Lands
(By associated Press)

BRUSSELS, Aug. 9.-The Belgian
government has undertaken a vast
project for reclaiming the devastated
farm lands in the battle zone. The
farms will be taken over from their
owners and worked under the latest
scientific principles and then returned
in first class condition to them.
Owners are to be paid five per cent
interest on the pre-war value Of the
property during the operation by the
government, which, however, is pre-
pared to purchase the land outright
in the event owners do not desire to
keep their farms.
King Albert will fix the limit of
the operation Of the project which is
designed maily to hasten in the nat
ional interest the restoration of the
vast territory laid waste by shell fire
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-08-09
CROP REPORT SENDS
PRICE OF STAPLES
SOARING ON BOARD
(By Associated Press)

CHICAGO, Aug. 9. - Every single
staple in which there are dealings on
the board Of trade rose decidedly in
price today. Whatever effect to the
contrary might have been looked from
the address of President Wilson to
congress in regard to the high cost of
living was entirely obscured by the op-
posite influence of the government
crop report which was issued shortly
before he spoke.
So impressed were traders on change
here today with the unexpected mag
nitude Of the crop losses shown dur
ing July that the presidents views
appeared to be virtually ignored as a
market factor.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-08-09

Germs whom the government is about
to prosecute are:
Louis F. Swift, president Of Swift
& Co.; ]. Ogden Armour, president Of
Armour & Co.; Edward A. Cudahy,
president of the Cudahy Packing Co.;
T. E. Wilson, president Of Wilson &
Co.; Nelson Morris, chairman Of the
board of directors of the Nelson Nor
r1s Co.
The governments triple blow
against the big five packers will be
opened in Chicago this month, when
evidence gained by the federal trade
commission in the course Of exhaus-
tive Investigations will be placed be-
fore a federal grand jury. The de-
partment Of justice will seek indict-
ments under both the criminal and
civil sections Of the Sherman anti
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-08-09
Kings Job Is Declined
By Ex-Emperor Charles
(By Associated Press)

PARIS, August 9.-Former Emperor
Charles of Austria Hungary, was be-
seeched by Magyar patriots to mount
the Hungarian throne when the fall
of the Peidll ministry was determined
upon, according to a dispatch to the
journal from Zurich. The former
monarch refused on the ground that
having been king and emperor, he
could not go down the social scale
and be content simply with . kings
crown.
The Duke of HohenbeSg. son OF
Archduke Franz Ferdinand, whose as.
sassination at Sarajevo, In 1914, was
the immediate cause Of the great war,
also refused the crown, according to
the dispatch, which says the Hun
garians ended their quest by choosing
Archduke Joseph as a last resort. u.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-08-09
WAGE DEMAND.
and CONTROL
NOT UNITED,
SAY UNIONS
Have no Desire to Impose
Plan by Threats for Railroad
Naturalization, Declare
Leaders.
ENCOURAGEMENT seen
(By Associated Press)

WASHINGTON Aug. 9.-Leaders of
the fifteen organizations Of railway
employees united today in definite
assertion" that they had no desire,
and have had none to impress upon
the public by violence or threat" their
proposal that the railroad be nation
allied under trtparite control.
Declaring that the requests Of the
men that living costs be reduced or
their wages increased was aside from
the question of the future disposition
Of the railroad problem. the labor
leaders said that If President Wilson
and congress could not meet this re-
quest, the men would have to try
to find another solution"
Small Per Cent Striking.
Reports to the railroad administra-
ton today were expected to show
many more railroad shopmen return
ing to work to meet the condition
laid down by President Wilson as a
prerequisite to opening negotiations
on the demands Of the men for in
creased wages. Hold over reports
from yesterday were expected to make
the situation appear even more favor
able than it did at the close OF the
day, when the men were showing a
general disposition to return to work
at practically all important strike
points except at Indianapolis.
Continued cooperation with local
officials Of the railroad administration
and union chairmen In explaining the
situation to the men, was believed to
be having full effect in bringing the
men rapidly into line.
Union officials have estimated that
only about forty thousand of the 500,-
900 men in the shop crafts went on
strike. They express confidence that
negotiations can be begun by Tues
day with Director General Hines un-
der the terms stipulated by President
Wilson.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-08-09
Profiteers Found In
Hamilton County, Says
Report Of Grand Jury
(Bv Associated Press)

CINCINNATI. Aug. 9.-The Hamil-
ton county grand jury which is inves-
tigating the high cost of living in
Cincinnati and Hamilton county in a
partial report to the court today stated
it has found evidence of prohteering
and boarding in this county.
No indictments and no names were
were mentioned. The Investigating
will be continued.
The jury claimed that the United
States bureau of markets in Cincin-
natl is one of the big causes of the
high cost of living and urged discon-
finance of the bureau. 1t charged the
bureaus food prices lists are fixed ar.
bitrarily and are not based on cost
of production. supply and demand.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-08-09
PREDICTS MONARCHY.

ROME, Aug. 9-Commenting on the
situation in Hungary, the Popolo
Romo suggests the possibility that
Archduke Joseph. head of the new
Hungarian government. is aiming to
restore the Hapsburg monarchy and
again Join Vienna and Budapest"
The annexation of Cretota and
Slavonia may follow" the newspaper
saye, "as these two regions are even
more bitter against the Serbians than
against the Italians. The Hapsourg
empire, having lost only Galicia and
Bohemia then would consider Fiume
its natural outlet. That is why Ffume
was refused to us. We must keep an
eye on Trieste also, the last disorders
there having assumed the character
of a political plot organized by pro-
Austrian elements