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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-19
Well No. I

Now drilling, on tract one mile north
Desdemona townsite at 1885 feet. Well
of from 1000 to 5000 barrels daily ex-
pected within days or at depth around
1900 feet. This we'll is in the famous
Shel1engerger tract which has wells
producing from 500 to $500 barrels eaeA
The farthest one of these wells is aos
over 1900 feet from our drilling wei
Well No. 2
\ Now drilling around 1900 feet on eur
other Desdemona tract just short AIS
lance from the Magnolia Ellison we'll
(the largest in the feld-es timated 6sea
barrels. every "a hours) There are large
producers on all four sides of our well
number and a thirty million feet gass
well is within half mile of us.
Well No. 3
On our first Desdemona tract and will
be started just as soon well number |
comes in.
Well No. 4
On our 80 acre tract southeast of the
Burkburnett townsite. Derrick is up and
almost all the machinery is on the
ground. This tract is surrounded by pro-
dueton of shallow depth, but very re-
Gently large producers have been brought
in at greater depth of 1900 feet.
The Desdemona- Burlsburnett Oil Com
pany also has 60 acres in the Comanche,
Okla. field which is surrounded by pro-
duction.
Do You Know the Possibilities of Oh?
If this company's holdings appeal to
you, also IL the fact that they are ae-
tually drilling and the capitalization Of
$250,000, which is very small for so val
liable, acreage. also appeals to you. then
we invite you to join while stock is
par $50 per share. Remember the COM
pany with the small capitalization and
large valuable acreage have been the
large dividend payers. Investigation in
vited, but act promptly.
The Officers Who Promise You Fairness
WALTER JOHNSON. president, oil OPP
orator of Dallas, Texas, who has drilled
SO wells in the Texas fields
b. C. ROBERTSON. V.-President. oil OPP
orator of Dallas.
Fl. D. MUNEKE, Secretary Treasurer. oil
operator of Dallas.
REFERENCES ANY Bank. oil or BUSH
ness man of Dallas.
HOME OFFICES Ills Field St.. Hal'ss
Texas.
To Save Time, Use This Coupse
Desdemona- Burkburnett Oil Co
lis Field St., Dallas. Texas
Dear Sir:
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New York, November 1s.-Butter
firm; receipts, 12,2s9; firsts, 1910 Y C.
Eggs firm; receipts, s72s tubs; firsts.
s0972c. Cheese steady; receipts 27eS;
average run, 81 32c.
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Port Cotton>

New York. November 1s.--Spot sot
ton quiet Middling. 1850.
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Coffee Market

New York, November 1S.-The mar
ket for coffee futures was weak and
unsettled, owing to the declines in
foreign exchange, the uncertainties of
the peace treaty, nervousness over the
coal situation and the breaks in other
markets. After opening to points
lower, prices rallied slightly on cover
ing, but soon weakened under liquida-
ton and trade selling, which forced
March off from 16.14c and July from
1910 to 1850. Closing prices were
at nearly the low point of the day,
showing a net loss of IS to 80 points.
December. 10.50c; January, 1850;
March. 1870; May, 1870; July, 1866;
Septem Der, 1850.
Spot, nominal; Santos As, 2sHc Firm
offers from Santos were relatively firm,
including As. at assoc to 3o25c, but
Rio offers were shade easier with
Is quoted at 1900, London credits.
The official cables reported no change
in the Rio market. Santos spots were
not quoted, The early cable reported
Santos futures rs reis lower to 90 reis
higher, and two special cables were
received later, the first quoting futures
unchanged to 200 reis LAWYER and the
second showing further decline of
SO to $50 refs. Rio exchange on Lon
don, lid higher, at 1s SD
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w. E. Campbell & Co.'S Cotton Letter
with a better Liverpool than due our
market had a fair opening. but not as
good as we should have had owing to the
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Desdemona- Burkburnett Oil H.
lis Field St., Dallas. Texas
Dear Sir:
CLOSED find remittance for$
| for which please send prom otis
| ~ shares OF stock in your ~
pany at par $50 per share | uraer-
stand all stock is common, fully paid |
| and nom as sessable and | own a pro- |
rata interest in everything the COM |
pany now owns or ever shall acquire.
also underst and that when the COM |
pany sells their oil | will receive my |
proportion of the dividends monthly |
and that I will be kept regularly ad-
vised as to the progress of the COM |
pany.
Name ..................
Address ...................
In the event of over-subsc ription your
remittance will be promptly returned
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New York Futures

BY Associated Pross
New Orleans, November lS.-Cotton
New-York tribune., 1919-02-14
Belgium's Claims

Belgium, wasted by brutal German
military administrators, deserves ample
reparation. Her claims ought to receive
generous consideration at Paris. There
is no good reason why her wish for true
political independence should not be
granted. She relied for protection on the
guarantees of the major European
powers. These guarantees proved worth
less. She is entitled now to become
nation in her own right and to enter as
such into alliances which will defend her
against repetition of German perfidy.
If she also desires to strengthen her
eastern boundary by taking over some
small pieces of German territory, that
demand is reasonable There are some
Walloon communities across the German
line east and southeast of Liege. These
belong to Belgium under the theory of
elf-determinaton for races and peoples.
Moreover, Germany, having forfeited the
right to use the left bank of the Rhine as
a base for military operations against
her neighbors, cannot we'll complain if
IiiOSC llSlS iiOOl lilSlSC Oll luC
tion of the Rhine Province into an un-
fortified zone and a slight strategical
rectification Of their own boundaries.
When it comes to territorial readjust-
ments at Hollands expense the case for
Belgium is less clear. Undoubtedly the
Scheldt below Antwerp ought to be inter
nationalized. Antwerp is entitled to free
access to the sea, but to transfer to Bel
gium the south bank Of the Scheldt from
the Dutch border to the sea would involve
difficulties. The Belgians have no histori-
cal claim on this strip. The territory on
both sides Of the Scheldt is Flemish and
has been for centuries in Dutch posses
sion.
Belgium and Holland might easily come
to an amicabe agreement outside the
conference. But since Belgium is an in
ternational ward and her present status
and boundaries were fixed by internaton-
al concert it would be perfectly legitimate
for the peace conference to readiust her
boundaries, with Hollands assent at the
same time that she is clothed with full
sovereignty and accepted as a free agent
into the society of nations. The interna-
tionalization of the lower Scheldt and
a prohibition of Notifications on its
banks can hardly be avoided. For the
conference, or the society of nations as
its legatee, will be obliged to consider the
internationalization of many European
rivers which two or more countries must
use to reach the sea - among them
notably, the Rhine and the Vistula
New-York tribune., 1919-02-14
The Boys of the 18th

The bass-relief Of the pediment Of the
Shaw memorial became living thing az
the dusky heroes Of the 18th cheered tho
Liberty Statue and happily swarned
down the gangplank. Appropriately the
arrival was on the birthday of the blessed
Massa Abraham. And never was the
young idealist of Massachusetts filled
with greater pride than swelled in
Colonel Haywood as he talked of his men
the best regiment, he said, with par
donable emphasis, Of all engaged In the
great war
These were men Of the Champagne and
the Argonne whose step was always for
ward; who held trench ninety days
without relief, with every night raid
night; who won III medals for conspicu-
Gus bravery; who saw the war expire
under their pressure in a discouraged
German cannopade. First-class fighting
men, Hats of To them. The tribunal Of
grace does not regard skin color when
assessing souls.
The boys cbeered the Bartholdi statue.
II rna<cs the white man uncomfortable.
II ct1YertS into strange reading glib
New-York tribune., 1919-02-14

Weimar, in Berne, in all districts occupied
by American troops, a mighty German
propaganda designed to separate America
from its European comrades, designed to
persuade America to become the champion
of Germany against the European nations
she has wronged, and in the end enable
Germany, by escaping retrbutive justice in
the shape Of indemnties for her wanton
devastation, to win the war The burden
of this monstrous German propaganda is
this: 1--WE Germans have set our house in
order. We have dethroned our emperor and
our princes. We have become democratic
in fact, and all responsibility for The crimes
of the past must be placed upon those whom
we have eXiled of the old order 1t is an
act of injustice, deed of violence, to make
US, a democratic Germany, pay for
damage done by the wicked old imperalistic
regime. Here we are with clean hands
and reformed national spirit asking to asso-
ciate ourselves as equals with nations which
pretend to accept President Wilson's four
teen principles; but, in fact France Britain
and their associates are not seeking a just
peace. They are seeking 10 take our monev,
our resources and our provinces for I'M
periaistic reasons, and to destroy Germany.
The great indemnties they would levy are
uni burdens they are seeking to place
upon backs to their own economic
profit. We alone accept President Wilson's
doctrines as he meant them, we alone ask
healing peace. We are new, pure, demo-
cratic nation.'
1t is If murderer suddenly got re-
ligion and demanded that all his past crimes
be forgiven and forgotten since under the
shadow of the galows he has embraced
the true faith, not only with readiness bu.
with obvious enthusiasm. The Germans
clearly that this is their single ave-
of escape. They can still win the
war if they escape paying for the dam
age they have wrought, and leave devas-
tated and crippled France to pay not alone
for the cost of defending herself, but the
price of German devastations in all regions
Germany occupied and ruined
New-York tribune., 1919-02-14
Blaming the East Side

When anything goes wrong lay it n
New York's East Side. This has been
practice not little irritating to one of
the most industrious and orderly parts of
the country--to a population basically
individualistic, and often vehemently so.
DR.. George S. Smons, who left the
horror which is Russia in October,
ascrihes the atrocities the sight of which
scared his eyeballs to East Side agita-
tors. True, boatload, with Trotzky at
their head, sailed from New York, but
DR.. Simons should trace the life history
Of the group further back They came
whence they went. The East Side is
squash court wall and bounces back what
is sent against it. 1t is place where in
dlgestible elements find it convenient to
stop. Butdhe guests find it impossible to
convert their hosts, and stream away with
loud cursings Of bourgeois America when
news comes of trouble they may profit
ably captain.
The East Sides ideas about wealth are
shown by the country's largest per capita
savings bank deposits. It's thrifty people
lay up money as bees do honey Its sons
made up the 77th Division It's industrial
troubles are comparatively few. 1t drinks
tea and has few saloons. The young men
like to talk socialism, but they overlook
few chances to rise in the world All the
middle class virtues the Bolshevists hate
are at maximum on the East Side.
Democratic institutions honestly worked
are good enough for it, and sometimes,
Notwithstanding its patience, it grows
tired of being misrepresented.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-14

have come anyway--with, we venture
to say, something of the same (or cor
responding) effect on prices. If this be
true, it is not impossible there may be
no such contraction of present credits
such as the committee now forecasts
There has been none to date. And, there
fore, on the same reasoning, we may
have no marked, or long continued, de-
cline in the average of prices. The
next year may disclose which of these
views is correct. At least one inter
national banker, of high standing, be-
lieves we have, on the whole, more to
fear in the future from a violent out
break of speculation, and "boom,
with an attendant expansion of credits
and prices, than a severe depression and
price decline. The wide possibilities for
further expansion, under the new re-
serve laws, might contribute decisively
to this result.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-14
The End of Initiation?

The special committee appointed by
Secretary McAdoo, and headed by Mr..
Albert Strauss, of the Federal Reserve
Board, to consider a bonus to gold min
ing has made a report of considerable
interest. 1t is as emphaticaly opposed
to any such bonus as the British Par
liamentary committee on the same sub
ject, whose conclusions were recently
given in these columns. And in pro-
nouncing it's judgment the American
committee likewise gives expression to
views which at the present time are of
refreshing vigor. On the general ques-
ton Of gold reserves, it pointedly says:
"At that time (when the committee
was named) the war was at its height
and there was every prospect of pro-
longed war. Contrary to the belief ap-
parently entertained in many quarters.
the structure Of banking credit in any
country during war time does not depend
very much, if at all, on the amount of
gold that can be made available as q
reserve for that structure. Undoubtedly
the rise In prices in this country since
1914 Is to a great extent due to the
heavy importations of gold during 1915
and 1918, but it does not follow that
the export Of a corresponding amount
OF gold at present would operate to
bring down prices"
AS to the proposed bonus for the gold
producers, the report declares that the
cessation Of hostilities has naturally
brought marked change in the situa-
ton, and with this change any need of
a particular effort to promote or stimu-
late our gold. production which may
have existed has ceased. 1t add the
interesting obiter dicta:
"There Is no danger of an i'm
pairment Of confidence. The dimensions
Of our financial problems are becoming
clear, and we know that we can without
permanent strain meet any financial re
quirement the government will be will
ing to assume. Some further expansion
Of credit may result from our expendi-
lures for rehabilitation and rcadjust-
ment, but we can look forward to com
paratively early contraction of our credit
structure with the attending circum-
stances Of free gold market and a
Eoid ItscIFe tildt once more snail per
form it's normal function of regulating
credit conditions, That movement, we
believe, will be both preceded and ac-
companied by lower commodity prices"
If the future of banking credits were
dominated by war conditions alone, and
there were no accessory influences, we
might readily agree with the committees
forecast. But fact largely lost to view
is that the foundations Of our great ex-
pansion of bank credits were laid two
years before any one dreamed Of war
we mean in the establishment Of the
new Federal Reserve System and the
drastic reduction Of reserve require
rnents Herewith. War or no war, with
the revival Of business that was due.
some part Of this expansion would
New-York tribune., 1919-02-14
Germany Is Renlade

But in three months, with speed beyond
belief, Germany has found herself First,
she suppressed the Bolshevks; second she
held election, almost incredible in that
it revealed the old political parties still un-
shaken in their substantial hold upon the
electorate. To be sure, the Social Democrats
mysteriouslV increased their Representations
but they could not obtain a complete ma
jorty. The new National Assembly contains
clear majority of members of the old
Rcichstag who belonged to political faiths
which were consenting and enthusiastic sup
porters of imperial Germany
This new national legislature summoned
to meet at Weimar and not at Berlin, dis
guised in all respects to give an impression
of the reality of new Germany, democratic
and cured of old diseases, is, in fact, com
posed of the same men in the past, and
1T has met, and in its very first session
given taste of what is to be expected Not
beaten nor repentant Germany, but Ger
many refrigerated and determined to pur-
sue her old pathway of national greatness,
has already begun to challenge the right
of her victors to impose terms. 1t has taken
up arms to repress Polish aspirations,
Legitimate aspirations based upon the right
of self determination, and it has defed the
orders of the Entente Powers with respect
to Poland.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-14

eulogies of democratic principles. The
success of one of our chief political par
ties is predicated on suppression of the
negro vote, and other parties look on
without protest.
A large faith possesses the negro. He
has such confidence in justice that he be-
lieves its flow will yet soften hard hearts.
The evidence of things hoped for suffices,
and we have a wonderful example of q
patience that defies Encouragement. The
souls of black folk! When values are
truly measured some things will be diff
ferent in this country
New-York tribune., 1919-02-14

Europer IS for hundreds OF years, they were
ruled ~ their native chiefs until Germany
made treaty with them in 1878, following
this treaty with formal annexation in 1885.
The natives are Micronesans and are splen-
did seamen.
Although Japan bases its claims to the
islands on their commercial value, their
strategic value in the Pacific as the third
point of triangle of which Japan and
Japan controlled Formosa are the other COR
ners is not to be overlooked. Also, the lagoon
which the islands surround and into which
there numerous entrances is a splendid
anchorage for fleet The greatest dep-l
of the lagoon is $50 feet. while Immediately
outside the depth is extreme. Japan, whose
own soil needs frequent fertilization, says
she needs the Marshall Islands for the
phosphate they yield. The supply of this
product is large, that exported in 1910 be
ing valued at So, ,500,0 900.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-14
The Gold Star Flag

To The Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Has any one thought Of having
national Gold Star Day.
One by one the service flags in my BLOCK
have been taken down as the returning s0'-
dier or sailor donned mufti. but my serSiss
flag with its little gold star remains u
my window. =,
Could not day be set aside when q"
the service flags with stars OF gold be taken
down and reverently folded up and iaiu
away with their memories7
We who have gold star flags and no fe-
turning soldier-should have day for Wy
flags.
What do you think?
ELIZABETH BERESFORD ONEAl4h'
New York, Feb. IL, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-14
Ho1c She Cor, Win

The German policy must be clearly under
stood. The Germans have stripped France
and Belgium as far south as the Somme
and Marine of all machinery; not only m
chincry Of factories, but even farm imple-
ments; they have destroyed cities and ham
lets; they have paralyzed French and Bel
gian industry for decades; railways and
canals; everything is to make, and, having
done this they will profit completely If
they can escape paving for what they have
done
Nor is this all, or half. The collapse
OF the Hapsburg empire has made it in
evitablc that six or seven million Germans
IN Austria proper will be united to the
German empire. This means that even with
Alsace- Lorraine lost Germany will gain at
least 100000 people, and an area sew
eral times as large as that of the Rhine
land. She will acquire more territory and
larger increase of population than Prussia
ever gained by successful war.
In addition, there is the Russian field.
The Allies have abandoned it, they have
declined a task probably beyond their re-
sources of reinforcing the elements Of order
ana organization in Russia. They have had
recourse to the transparent device of the
rrinkipo conference, which means In fact
New-York tribune., 1919-02-14
Peril of Ignorance

There are eight million persons in the
United States who cannot read any Ian
guage or who cannot read or speak the
English language. That fact is all the
argument needed for the passage Of the
Smith Bankhead Amercanization bill. 1t
provides simply for the cooperation of
the government with the states in the
education of these illiterates.
The war and the problems that it raised
called attention to this vast army of
ignorance in America. The figures just
cited mean that more persons than live
in Nevada, Wyoming, Delaware, Arizona,
Idaho, Mississippi, Vermont, Rhode Isl
and, North Dakota, South Dakota, Ore
gon, Maine, Florida, Connecticut and
Washington are residents of this country
and cannot read our language, and mil
lions of them can neither read nor speak
it. These eight millions would fill the
cities of New York, Philadelphia and Chi
cago. Something like s per cent Of the
country's total population is thus dis
qualified for good citizenship.
This problem Of the illiterate and of
the n-English-speaking foreigner does
not belong to any one state or any one
section. The South has the more illit-
crates, the North the more foreigners
who do not speak or read our language
In the east South Central States 17A per
cent of the people cannot read or write,
but in Passaic, N. j., a few miles west of
the Hudson River, 1873 per cent of the
population cannot read, write or speak
the English language. Sixteen per cent
of the people of the South Atlantic States
are illiterate, but in Fall River and Law
renee, Mass, the percentage of iliterates
is almost as large.
These figures are startling enough to
the average American, to whom educa-
tlon has been a matter of course and to
whom it would come as a shock to know
that if the illiterates were equitably dis
trlbuted throughout the country every
thirteenth or fourteenth person he met
would be unable to read the daily paper.
The Smith Banllhead bill, with it's appro-
priation of $5,000,000 this year and $12,-
100000 year until 1926, would seem to
need little argument for it's passage. 1t
appears, however, that the Committee on
Education and Labor of the Senate and
the House Committee on Education.
which have the measure in charge, are
not decided and are asking for an ex-
preston of public opinion on the matter
New York has three members of the
House committee-Jcrome r. Donovan,
Edmund Platt and Harry II. Pratt.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-14

The Marshall Islands, which Japan took
from Germany in the first year of the war
and now announces its determination to
hold at all hazards, are apparently of so little
intrinsic value that they hardly worth
the controversy they have caused. The
islands a group of tiny atolls, arranged
in two rows almost parallel close together
and inclosing lagoon. The entire group,
consisting of between thirty and forty ISL
ands, has area of only 158 square miles.
The islands are low, rising at the highest
point only thirty three feet above high tide.
The largest is only 600 yards wide. The
soil is sandy and poor, the climate moist
and hot. Although the islands lie north of
the Equator, the warmest month is January,
the coolest July. The population in 1910
was $4,000, of whom only 179 were Euro
peans, ninety-one of these being Germans.
Although the islands have been known to