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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-08
DISTINGUISHED HIMSELF

Tn the war with Spain, he displayed singular initiative and energy and dis tinguished himself among the com manders of the army in the field As President he awoke the nation to the dangers of private control which lurked In our financial and industrial systems IL was by thus arresting the attention and stimulating the purpose of the coun- try that he opened the way for subse- quent necessary and beneficient reforms
 His private life was characterized by a simplicity, a virtue and an affection worthy of all admiration and emulation by the people of America
 Tn testimony of the respect in which his memory is held by the government and people of the United States, I do hereby direct that the flags of the White House and the several departmental buildings be displayed at half staff for period Of O days, and that suitable military and naval honors under orders of the Sec retaries of War and of the Navy be ren- dered on the day of the funeral.
 Done this seventh day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and nineteen. and of the inde- pendence of the United States of Amer ica the one hundred and forty-third WOODROW WILSON. By the President,
 FRANK L. POLK, Acting Secretary of State
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-08

James A. GIenn-Aged S5 pioneer citizen. died at his home at Truss
 vile yesterday morning. MT Glenn
 was well known throughout Jeffer-
 son county and had many friends who will regret to hear of his death.
 He was prominent in religious cir cles, having been a devout member of the Presbyterian church for mahy years and a member of the Masonic order for 70 years. He is survived by widow, four sons. T. E. Glenn, P. A. Glenn. c. B. Glenn and George $. Glenn of Odenville. and five daughters. Mrs. W. F. Ponds. Mrs. Eula B. Cabiness. Mrs. J. F. Baker, Mrs Alta C.. Meigs. who live here, and Mrs. Marshall Inzer of Ashville.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-08
TO PROBE ALL PHASES

Jnvestigations of the engineer will not be confined to the schedules of the street cars. He will take in every phase
 of the system; he will determine "hetner : or not there Is need of repairs to the tracks. troleys rolling stock. Upon one occasion Engineer Nichol is known
 to have walked from one end Of the line to another in an effort to locate
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-08
ROAD EXECUTIVES TO ASK PRIV AT B
 MANAGEMENT WITH
 FEDERAL CONTROL
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 action. The period for which rates might bc suspended pending investigation would be reduced from 10 months, as at present, to two months.
 The railroad mems attitude is that the commerce commissions efficiency would be increased through relieving it of ad- n:inistrative detail, and the turning over to regional commissioners of much rou- tine involved in hearing local rate cases To make possible consolidation of weak railroads with strong lines, joint use of cars and facilities, inter-company agree ments as to rates and practices, the rail executives would amend existing laws forbidding these practices, and legalize them under supervision of the secretary Or transportation Other features of the railroad proposal include federal incorpo- ration of all railroad companies, federal control of railroad security issues, and establishment of federal wage board to investigate wage and employment dis putes.
 In the event of adoption by Congress of the policy of private ownership and oper- ation under government regulation, the interstate commerce commission proposed eight subjects for legislative considera-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-08

Homer WithingtOn-News has just been received in Birmingham of the death of Homer Wilmington, former ly of this city. who died in New York yesterday morning. MT. With ington was a well known travelling salesman for Warren Godfrey Of New York. He married Miss Lula Caldwell of this city and is survived by his widow. one daughter and one small son. his sister. Miss Willie Wilmington. and mother-in-law. Mrs. P. A. Caldwell of Birmingham.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-08

W. M. Curtis-Aged 60 died at the residence. 20O4 Richard avenue, West End, yesterday afternoon. Funeral services from the residence this aft ernoon at 2 o'clock; interment in Elmwood cemetery He is survived by a widow. one son, T. L. Curtis and one daughter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-08

Jim FauIkner-Aged 26, died at a local infirmary yesterday afternoon. Fun era! services will be announced later by Woodin. He is survived by his parents. Mir. and Mrs. J. M. Faulkner of Leeds. and four brothers and five sisters.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-08

J. H. Anton-Aged 26, died at a local infirmary yesterday morning. Fun eral services from the residence of his father. E. B. Anton. at Irondale, this morning at 10 o'clock. interment in McElwain cemetery.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-08
MANY OFFICIALS
 LEAVE CAPITAL TO
 ATTEND FUNERAL
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ture and governor of his state. as CIVIL service commissioner. as Assistant Sec retary of the Navy, as vice president and as President of the United States he displayed administrative powers of sig nal order and conducted the affairs of these various offices with a concentration of effort and watchful care which per mitted no divergence from the line of duty he had definitely set for himself.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-08

William H. Schmidt--Infant son of MT and Mrs N. N. Schmidt, died at the residence. 1O4 Fifty fourth street. Monday morning The remains were sent to Eden yesterday morning by WOodin.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-08
DEATHS

John W. Putman-Aged (35, died at local infirmary Monday night The remains were sent to Oneonta yes- terday afternoon by Johns Mrs. Jane 1fppen-Aged SS, died at the residence, 905 Second avenue. West End. yesterday morning. The remains will be sent to Atlanta this morning by Johns,
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digit, but prolonged pauses do not
throw the mechanism out Of its
proper operation.
The automatic telephone has yet
another accomplishment, that of
cashier and bookkeeper. When a
call is to be made over the auto
matte telephone from a public tele-
phone booth number Of nickels or
coins of a larger denomination are
placed in hopper provided for that
purpose. The call is then made as
described above. Only when the
receiver at the other end of the
line is taken off its hook does the
machine take the first coin, or
coins, the amount taken in every
case being exactly that charged for
the initial period of the call. If the
conversation lasts longer than this
period the machine automatically
takes the money required as it be-
comes due, and when the receiver
is put back on it's hook such change
as may remain in excess of what is
charged for the call falls into
tray at the bottom of the machine,
where it may be recovered by the
person making the call. Should the
conversation be longer than can be
paid for by the money originally de-
posted, the connection will not be
broken, but the instrument ceases to
transmit to the person at the other
end Of the line. The required coins,
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an intermittent buzz, showing that
the line is in use. When the con-
versation has been completed both
lines are instantly rendered ready
for further calls by returning the
receivers to their hooks.
Not only does this system elimi-
nate the mistakes due to the falli-
bility Of human operator, for the
machine must, of necessity, obey the
electrical impulse sent to it by the
calling device, but it also assures
you of perfect privacy in your tele-
phone conversation. Your connec-
ton is made by a machine, which,
though what it accomplishes may
seem to imply power Of reasoning,
will display no curious interest in
your affairs. A connection, once
made, is locked beyond the posi-
bility of being cut in upon by
third party. Give" and mine"
sound much the same over the tele-
phone, as most of us have learned
to our sorrow, but one must be
Blind to mistake for 8 as they
are printed on the dial. Thus the
demonstrating device eliminates
the possibility, which is always
present in old style exchanges, of
getting a wrong number which
sounds like the one desired.
For All Temperan,ents
This wonderful little machine
accommodates itself at once to the
temperament of the user. A nerv-
Gus, high strung person will often
be irritated by an operator who
drawls "N-u-m- b-e-r," while timid
person is quite likely to become
confused when asked the same ques-
ton in brisk, snappy manner. But
it is entirely permissible to operate
the dial Of the automatic telephone
rs quickly or slowly as the fancy Of
the user dictates. The switches are
so arranged that a scarcely per-
ceptible time is required for their
working between the dialing of each
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the United States and is not con-
fined to this country. During the
two years preceding the postaliza-
ton CT the telephone system in
Great Britain the government of
that country conducted an eXhaus-
tive survey Of the whole telephone
field. According to officials of the
Automatic Electric Compan
makers of the automatic telephone,
every type of apparatus was studied
by government engineers, who Wis
tied the plants where the different
kinds Of equipment were made.
AS a result of their studies the
engineers recommended to their
government that automatic tele-
phony be tried out under British
conditions. These tests proved so
successful that the British Postmas-
ter General has announced that
other areas will be converted from
manual to automatic operation as
promptly as possible.
After somewhat similar govern
ment tests the automatic telephone
has been installed and is now serv-
ing subscribers in many of the
cities of France, Canada, Australia,
New Zealand and India.
A Simple Device
The calling device of the auto
matte telephone is really very sim
pie. Attached to the base of the
telephone instrument, which is in
every other respect the same as
those in use to-day, is a disk about
three inches in diameter, near the
circumference of which are printed
all the numerals. Over this sta
tionary disk is another which is
arranged to rotate upon it's axis
and which has a series of holes
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coin of before the war. 1t isn't
current now. 1t is very good. But
1t has no value to-day"
The sergeant, disappointed, looked
at the candle and then at the cap
tain. He had positively forgotten
about the impending assault. Chevi-
gnard continued:
What is your object? What are
you aiming at? To charm, to fas-
cinate, to capture a public-that is
to say, clientele? Are you poet?
Or are you merely a dealer in
sugary merchandise? My boy, try
to understand me, for you are
young. A poet is rare product.
He doesn't belong to himself. He
belongs to his people, to his genera
ton. He is the voice of the mute,
with mandate to speak for them,
in their name, in their place and
for a double purpose: First, that
the mute may find in him means
Of expressing what they feel but
don't know how to express them
selves; second, that, thanks to
him, they may leave behind them q
transcript of the collective soul at
any given moment"
Gas to that
my boy, have you been favored
by secret inspiratio11fro on high!
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without even asking his permission.
He has come into the world with
a capacity which in itself indicates
mission and he doesn't fulfill his
mission if he remains silent.
Through egoism or through laziness
he fails his country, and perhaps
posterity. That is cowardice."
"You put it strongly, captain"
"But the poet who falsifes is still
worse. He is a traitor. Having
received as pure gratuity the
means of speaking and of moving
others, of making himself heard and
followed, he treacherously abuses
his gift when he uses it to advance
his own fortunes in place of conse-
Grating himself loyalty to express
ing that portion Of the common soul
of which he is the depositary."
Lieutenant Brachon raised finger
as II to present an amendment. But
Cnevlgnard went on:
Tomorrow you can all answer
me, if l am still alive. There, isn't
time for that this evening. l only
wanted to offer this young man, in
the way of legacy, two or three
convictions which l desire to leave
behind me. If they kill me tonight,
my boy, remember my last words,
and repeat them to those who come
after YOU"
"And if I fall, captain?"
IF you fall? Then ! shall print
your posthumous sonnet. Give it to
me-"
"Here it is, captain"
The little sergeant smiled again.
as he handed over the paper. He
was killed that Sight.
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Labor's Hand In Management
no FAR labor in America is not
> demanding voice in the pure
~ ly managerial direction Of in

~ 0 FAR labor in America is not
~ demanding a voice in the pure
~ ly managerial direction Of in
dustry, says Cyrus McCor-
mick, jr., works manager of the In
ternational Harvester Company, ii
an address delivered recently be
fore the National Safety Council
convention in Cleveland. Industr,
is being rapidly democratized in tn
United States to the extent Of giving
employees joint control Of matters
affecting their interests, but he de
clares it will require generations OF
development and education before
labor can take hand in executive
management.
Mr.. McCormick's address on "Co-
operation and Industrial Progress, :"
based on the experience of the In
ternational Harvester Company with
industrial democracy, details his
views on the whole question, includ-
ing organized labor's opposition and
the efficiency Of the system in pre-
venting or settling strikes:
"The war has taught nations once
and for all time that individual work
men must be regarded as human be-
ings," he said. "They are, to be sure,
an element in production, just as is
the management, but the time has gone
by when human labor can be bought
and sold as are machines, tools and
raw materials. . The man, as OPP
posed to the machine, has the power
to think, and is endowed with a soul.
He is at last seeking recognition of
this fact.
"1n agreement with many critics of
the present industrial situation, l be-
lieve the most significant feature is
the expressed desire Of labor to share
in the management Of business.
"Now, until recent years, our in
dustrial system was benevolent des-
potism. Large employers in this coun-
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Odds Monthly Bills

For the private lines of an ante
matte telephone system, there is an
arrangement in the central ofFco
which adds up the total number Of
minutes in the month that the mar
ticular telephone as in actual use
The charges to the subscriber arc
based directly upon the reading
taken monthly from this meter
With this system in operation, the
subscriber pays only for tie actual
time that he uses his telephone, a
short call costing him less than q
long one. The justice and general
advantages Of this system are self.
evident.
But the greatest wonder of all is
not the automatic telephone itself.
1t is that crazy Chicago under.
taker should have succeeded where
men highly trained as electrical en-
gineers had failed. How the gods
must laugh on their far-off mountain
at the bitter irony of a fate which
gave to Stronger divine gift, of
thought, the power of inventing a
machine destined to add to the con-
venience and comfort of millions of
people, but carried with it the curse
of madness.
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short at the close and awaited the
verdict.
"Not bad" said the captain. cts
even good"
every felicitous," said Lieuten-
ant Brachon.
Happy both in rhymes and in
metaphors" said Abeilles.
And Chevignard added:
'These boys astonish me-"
The sergeant folded up his manu-
script. He was enraptured. He no
longer remembered that he must
attack in a few minutes.
But Chevignard resumed:
eyes, they astonish me. Here are
these dandies playing their roles in
the most formidable drama ever
staged. They aren't dry yet behind
the ears, and they behave like leg
endary heroes. There are epics in
their smallest exploits. The most
ordinary letters which they scribble
for their papas and mammas fur
nish, almost any day, material for
a thousand years of poems and
tragedies. And these same young
men, when they take their pens in
hand to indite couple of quatrains,
serve us up something already
long ago chewed over. For your
sonnet is that, my boy. It is the
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I 7 WAS September, 1917. In a
front line dugout, twelve feet

8 front line dugout, twelve feet
underground, three officers
were seated about a table on
which poor candle flickered. Ex-
cept for their faces and a book which
lay open before them everything in
the room was lost in shadow. Cap
tain Chevignard knocked his pipe
against the corner of the table, spill
ing out the ashes. Then he said:
"Read The Albatross' once more,
And read it slowly"
Sub-Lieutenant Abeilles started to
read. But the flap which covered
the opening into the dugout was
raised and sergeant appeared. He
saluted gravely. Without word he
handed a folded slip of paper to the
captain.
"Ah! ah!" said the latter, laying
down MS pipe.
The others watched him as he
opened the note and read it. There
was an expression Of anxiety in
their eyes. A certain tenseness
seemed to pervade the air and the
silence. Chcvignard, without speak
ing, glanced at his wrist watch.
They all understood. The lieutenant
asked:
as it the order for the attack? Is
it for tonight? At what timer"
He passed them the note, which,
perhaps, condemned them to death.
They looked at their watches to find
out how many minutes they still had
to live. But it wasn't desirable to
abandon themselves : to thoughts
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Then speak, sing, cry aloud! Utter
what is within you. 1t is not only
your right to do that; it is your
duty. For what is within YOU is
something more than yourself. 1t is
the sum of the inheritances out of
which you are constituted, with the
aspirations which result from those
inheritances. You are an accumula-
ton from the past, which now turns
toward the future. You are a ma
chine which is driven by what lies
behind you and which must, in it's
turn, drive what is ahead Of US
that which will be, but hasn't vet
arrived"
II believed"-
Don't merely indulge yourself.
You are reservoir Of forces. What
you call your genius is a store of
ancestral vibrations, spending itself
through mechanism made to pro-
duce harmonies and to demonstrate
to history the number and amplitude
of those vibrations"
THAT is why
THAT is why, my boy, you have
neither the right to be silent nor to
falsify. The poet who holds his
place is in way deserter, since
he doesn't give back to the race
what the race has confided to him,
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which might unnerve them. If but
few moments Of life remained
those moments ought not to be spent
in a way to enfeeb1e the soul.
Sergeant Payet!"
eyes, captain?"
"Read US your sonnet"
What sonnet, captain?"
"You don't want to make me think
that yesterday, or to-day, or the
day before yesterday, perhaps, you
didn't compose fourteen lines, which
you think exquisite and which HUI
mainly is waiting for? I am human
ity. / will listen to them"
The young sergeant smiled with
happiness.
"It is true, captain, that I have
written little piece on which l
should be glad A master like
you! And since you are so
good"-
"Not so many phrases. We are
colleagues here. You are young. If
l must die at midnight, l shall at
least have left you, as my testament,
sincere judgment. Spout it QUIT"
The little sergeant no longer
thought Of death. He read aloud. at
first timidly and almost in whisper,
then with more warmth and finally
with real emphasis. He stopp{d
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through which one sees the figures
upon the lower disk. To call a
number you take the receiver off
the hook, insert your finger in the
hole in the top disk directly over
the figure representing the first digit
of the number to be called. You
then pull the disk around until your
finger encounters stop, when you
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-07
CALLING
Pr.ONE

Taking the receiver from the hook a so-caed
slime soch" to pick OF the ten available rs select
ors" '0hch is busy. "selector' merely sotch
capable Of connecting one line h OF the hundred
others and actaed by electrical impulses. Wen the dial
the calling instrument is turned the repre-
seting the first digit Of the required NUMBER from
zen impulses the line. These impulses
the mechanism Of the selecor until 10Th
unengaged second selector every respect like the
first, in Of the hundred groups The dining
Of the second digit, by like process, the ssecond
seector' makes ,cish on unengaged
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necor in OF the ten hundred groups. The con-
necor' merely sselector ,ohch is connected to the
cline s,oitch Of the called The daling Of the
third and fourth digiss in the same ,cay mocha
nisn Of the c0nnec0r until touches the one of ifs
group hundred lines by those oo dgts
This stitch also rings the bell instrument called as
soon the connection has been completed. the re-
qred line is in use, the spifc" sends the
sSbusy signal, soc audible in the re-
ceirer OF the person making the CALI Ater completing the
conversation restoring the receiver hook breaks the
connection instantly clearing both lines all the SWITCHES
concerned.
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release it, and the disk returns to
its original position. This operation
is repeated for every digit in the
required number. Within two Sec
onds after the disk has registered
the last digit you will hear in your
receiver either distinctly audible
sound, indicating that the bell of
the instrument called is ringing, or