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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-20
KEEP POT BOILING
 TO AID CHRISTMAS
 WORK AMONG POOR
Salvation Army Makes Plea for Two Hundred and Fifty Children and Many Dependent Families
 Here

Keep the Christmas pot boiling is the
 plea of the Salvation Army which is
 making preparations for the annual Christmas dinner for the poor of Bir- mingham and vicinity.
 A Christmas entertainment for 25O noor
 children will be given in addition to the substantial gifts that will be distributed by the Salvation Army and according to Commandant Levi Grimshaw substantial toys, fruits and candies that children long forward to will be given them on this occasion.
 Every basket that goes out from the Salvation Army building will contain Irish and sweet potatoes. cabbage, ap-
 ples, oranges, coffee, butter, one can to- matoes, celery, bread. a good size chicken and copy of the special Christmas is- sue of tn War Cry.
 It is pointed out that the Salvation Army has a long list of worthy appii- cants who have been investigated by Sal vation Army workers, many of these families depending on this organiza ton for help at other times during the year. The kettles are on the downtown streets and the public is urged to keep them boil ing from now until Christmas Eve so those less fortunate people may have good Christmas.
 Persons who have been sending checks each year to swel lthe fund and assist in making it a success will not be asked personally to do so this year. but if they desire to give they are requested to re- member the kettles and can deposit their , checks there. All checks should be made payable to "The Salvation Army and addressed to Capt. David Main, 6A Lyric building, Bfr- mingham
 In addition the Industrial home on Fifth avenue will furnish good Christi mas dinner to their men and employees. also the Women's home and hospital on Avenue F will have a good Christmas
 spread for the women and children.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-20
By CLARK BOOTH

The case of William Cutcliff. charged with assault with intent to murder his wife, Mrs. W. H. Cutcliff, after consum- ing four days in Judge Harrington P. Heflin's division of the criminal court. went to the jury last night at o'clock.
 The charge of Judge Heflin to the jury was started at 4:So o'clock, following the closing of the argument by Capt. Frank s White for the prosecution. Judge Heflin's charge went thoroughly into every phase of the law, governing the charge of assault with intent to murder, and with reference to insanity of a de- fendant at the time crime is com nitted
 The case opened on yesterday, tFe fourth day of the trial, with the atgu- ment of John Altman on behalf of the defendant. Mir. Altman spoke all during the morning session of the court, and fin- ished his speech to the jury when he spoke for few moments at the afternoon session
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-20
REFINEMENT TAKEN UP BY COMMITTEE
Civic Association Committee Discusses Plans and Pros
 poets of Improvements

At meeting yesterday of the city m- provement committee of the Civic asso- citation steps were considered to secure the repavement of Twentieth street from the north side of Railroad avenue to the south side of Avenue B. Those present were City#Engineer Julien Kendrick, B. F. Moore, 70. H. Ohme, w, T. Warren and Secretary Treasurer Charles l.. Harold
 It developed at the meeting that great difficulty is experienced in getting the street railway company, now in receiv- CTS hands, to carry it's portion of coe paving expense. The federal court is in- clined not to approve any expenditures of this character, but it is hoped that this attitude may be changed at an early date as soon as the revenues of the company permit.
 The committee had received notice from the county board of revenue that a res/- lution had been adopted by that body which registered the decision of the board to abandon Twentieth street as the north and south highway, and to adopt in it's stead Twenty first street across the new yiaduct to Eighth avenue, south, thence to Twenty-second street, thence to Mag nolia avenue. thence east to South Twen- tieth street
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-20
M. WE'LL & BRO. CLOSE LONG LEASE
 ON THIRD AVENUE
Ben Veil Also Announces Firm Will Incorporate and Take In Five Employees
 as Stockholders

Ben Well of M. Veil & Bro, announced yesterday that the firm had closed a lease for 10 years on the three-story building at 1909 Third avenue, effective beginning October 1, 1920 The building is at present occupied by c. c. Holcomb f Mir. Well also announced that he is about to incorporate his firm, and will take into the company as stockholders five of his most faithful and trusted em- ployes. The men who will be taken into the firm vii include Charles E.. Swengo Doc Ensey, D. A. McLane, Emil Behrens and Beverly Swengo.
 The firm has a lease on its present building 1906 Second avenue which runs to October l, 1921, and vii remain in the present quarters until the expiration of that lease. This will make necessary ts . subleasing of the Third avenue building for approximately a year.
 Tn the new Third avenue building we will have an abundance of room" said MT. Well yesterday, "and we propose to put in complete line of everything that is made by Hart. Schaffner & Marx. This will include full supply of boys clothing now being made by this firm. as well as full line of summer goods, the manufacture of which has now been re- stunned. The new building has three stories and is ideally arranged. With an abundance of room we will be able to do full justice to our business as exciu- sive agents for all Hart, Schaffner & Marx goods for Birmingham and for the territory 100 miles north, south, east and west of Birmingham.
 Another step we are taking is to in. corporate the firm of M. Well & Bro, taking in five of our employees and giving them a direct share and interest in the business. It is something they deserve for their faithfulness and service My brother and have been in business in Birmingham since 1886, B years of which time was spent on First avenue. SNce my brothers death I have tried to carry on the business just as I thought he would have agreed to have had It con, ducted It is with this idea in view. ana looking to the future of the business, that we are taking into the firm the boys who have done so much in helping us to build it up to its present proportions.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-20
Young Men Charged
 With Forgery of a
 Government Check

Earl Downey and Charles Earring ton, young men about 21 years of age, were arrested yesterday by local secret service on charge of forging a gov ernment cneck or the geological survey department. Downey, was arrested in Jacksonville, Fla. and brought back to Birmingham. while Harrington was sar- rested here.
 It is alleged that suitcase belonr- ing to G. l. Parker was stolen severa, months ago in the union station ir Nashville, in which the government check was found, together with bis handbook and one of the boys returned to Birmingham, where the check was cashed at a local store
 The members of the secret service went to work on this case and it |, stated that they traced them throurh Georgia and Florida where they had gone on an automobile trip, which broke ur in Jacksonville. They were placed under 5000 bond each and vii, be given preliminary hearing earl, in January.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-20
GORE LEAVES
 FOR WASHINGTON

United States Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma who was in Birmingham Thursday night. left yesterday morning for Washington. He came south to deliver an address at Shreveport, La, last night but wreck on the Alabama Great South. ern a few miles north of Meridian. Miss. Thursday tied up traffic on that road and made 1t impossible for the senator t1 reach Shreveport in time for the meet ing.
 Senator Gore received number of call- CTS at the Tutwiler hotel. where he stopped, with whom he discussed in a general way important n..ters pending ip Congress
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-20

ambition, of the aspiration for something larger. Southerners were an individual people, the product of a peculiar civill zation. and their windows were shut to other ideas and other impulses than their own.
 SOUTH GREW MORE RURAL
 At the close of the eighteenth cen tury the application of steam as a mo- tive power crystailized as a great com mercial factor into the invention of the cotton gin. England emerged from a. great agricultural nation into a great in dustrial nation. Our northern cities hummed with the prosperity of the whiri- ing loom. But the invention of the cotton gin served to make the south more hopelessly rural Cotton and the cotton gin made the slave more valuable than ever.
 And then came '61 and 'e5. History knows no blessing that came clothed in more dark disguise than did Appomat- tox. It was not the negro who was freed but the white m'ln who was freed. With few years came liberty to the south. and the magnificent forces thai had strewn the hills with sacrificial gray at Gettysburg brought about the miracle O. an industrial resurrection a marvellous revival of human energy. in the south
 But it is not the number of vour fac tories that tell the story. It is the signif- canoe e the changed attitude of a prov ince to a nation. The teleoranh and tha railroad plotted out the artificial har- riers of state boundaries, There had hcen an Ala abama, With interests and problems peculiar to Alabama, But Alabama ex- pandel. Her interests became the inter- ests Of all America. Alabama came to do business with all the states of the Union: local interests became national
 ''The fear has been expressed that the national government has been encroach- ing upon the states: that Washington has expanded. But il is not Washington that has exnanded. hut Alahan-a and all the other states. Ii is right that the inter- ests that are peculiar to Alabama should be directed by and for the good of the state.s but all interests that are national that are common to all the states ought to be directed by the national govern ment.
 MADE FOR SECTIONALISM
 ''Paradoxical it may seem. the same factors that made for nationalism in the
 Continued on Page six)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-20
KNOX IMPROVING
 AFTER INJURIES

George E. Knox. manager of the South ern Bell Telephone company. was removed to his apartments yesterday from the Norwood infirmary. and his friends will be glad to know that he is greatly im- proved.
 MT. Knox was severely injured last Sunday afternoon when he was struck by an automobile which was coming out of garage at Sixth avenue and Twen- tieth street. MT. Knox was on the side walk and was knocked several feet when the car got out of the drivers control No bones were broken, but there were severe abrasions on the leg and arms.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-20
Fire on East Lake Car
 Causes Much Excitement

Fire which broke out in the con troller of an East Lake car on First avenue. between Twentieth ana Twen- ty-first streets yesterday afternoon caused much excitement among the pas sengers who were on the car at the time.
 The origin of the fire. which filled the car with smoke, was caused by a shcrt circuit in the controller. No one was injured. Fire company No. 1 an ~wered the alarm
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-20
Mrs. Strickland to Sing
 at Southern Club

Mrs. I. ]. strickland will sing tomorrow afternoon at the Saturday afternoon luncheon, heading an attractive muslcai programme planned for the occasion, IL was announced by the Southern club. The luncheon will start promptly at ociock-
 The musical programme will be unoes the direction of Prof. Emil Levy. Early reservations are urged
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-20
Courts Adjourn Today
 For Christmas HoLidays

An adjournment of all the courts of Jefferson county will be taken today until after the Christmas and New Year holidays.
 Practically all of the business of the civil courts was finished yesterday, but formal adjournment will not be taken until today In the criminal division of the circuit court today will see clean docket with nothing on the call but sentence day in the two divisions
 The Cutcliff case has taken up all
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-20

the week in Judge Harrington P Hefln's division, who turned all his other cases over to Judge William E. Forts division. The Cutcliff case went to the jury last night, clearing the docket in that division of the court,
 Both the criminal and civil divisions of the circuit court will be adjourned until January g. Regular cases have been set for that week in both divi- sions while in the criminal division. the organization of a January grand Jury will be started
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-20
"Soid Souh" Holds Back Political Freedom From
 South, Says Dr. Jones
Prominent Atlanta Pastor Speaking Members of South ern Club, Declares Sectionalism in South Is Bar True National Spirit-Says Present Method of
 Voting Is Inmical to True Democracy

Declaring that the south seek political freedom verance from the incubus of the solid south Dr. M Ashby o Atlanta pastor of the Ponce de Leon Avenue Baptist church of that city, thrilled the members of the Southern night ~ Jones delivered paiony address South the Nation" graduated in person by all those who had him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-20

pr. Jones declared the south, to some extent freed from sectionalism by a com nercial nationalsm. still lacked a polit- ical Americanism because it was forced to vote as a section and as a group, be- cause of the negro question. He declared rnqualifiedly that the Solid South" was the bar to a true national spirit in the south.
 Tt takes more than a written consti- tuition or convention to make nation, declared Dr. Jones. "A nation must be & living thing 1t takes more than one government, or one language, or one land to make nationality. There must be a common consciousness, common interests common ideals and common destiny.
 America was settled by peoples of a vast variety of traditions and senti- ments, customs and aspirations. But there was common consciousness, a common interest, binding together the original colonies. They were federated with this doctrine as a basis: All men are created with the -nalienable right to an equal chance for life, for happiness and for liberty
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-20
SECTIONAL PREJUDICE

But the development of a nation from that federation was a story of multiplied conflicts, as each section sought to work out of it's own destiny, it's own interest There followed a century of sectional passions and sectional prejudices ex- pressed in a perennial conflict.
 So the south was born. Soil and cli- mate determined our southern history They were an invitation to slavery. To- bacco and cotton made us a rural people whose industrial destiny was dependent upon agriculture. The slave made our social system-a feudal system that was an aristocracy and not a democracy.
 T yield to none in admiration of the ante bellum social system of the south. with its charm and it's chivalry, its courtesy and it's grace. But that system has gone the way of dreams Leisure brought culture and courtesy and the charm of conversation, but the same so- cial system decreed that the life of the south should be an isolated life, walled off from the rest of the world, and greet ing the rest of the world, when contact was established. with a self-superiority. superb egotism and self-sufficiency.
 The people of the south lacked all the tonic urge of rest .ess change, of daring
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-20
w. O. W. Ball at Blossburg

W. o. w., No. 1065, will give a grand hall Christmas Eve and New Years Eve. Music will be furnished by Miss Maude Leslie's orchestra, and it is announced that all Woodmen and their friends are invited to attend
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-20
EMBARGO REMOVED
 ON RAIL AND WATER FREIGHT SHIPMENTS
L. & N, Accepted Steel Ship ment Via Tuscaloosa for Cuba Which A. G s.
 Had Refused

The embargo on rail and water ship ments by way of Tuscaloosa, put into effect by the Alabama Great Southern railroad two or three days ago. did not last long. Regional Director of Rail roads B. L. Winchell; when the matter was called to his attention, ordered the embargo removed.
 It developed yesterday that a ship ment of $40 tons of steel rails from Bir- mingham for export to Cuba was the immediate cause of the embargo order. This shipment was offered the Alaba na Great Southern but that road refused to accept it. It was then delivered to the Louisville and Nashville road which hauled it to Tuscaloosa for delivery to the Warrior river management.
 Following this transaction General Freight Agent F. T. Steel of the Ala bama Great Southern published an or der directing all agents of that com pany to refuse further shipments routed by way of the Warrior.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-20
REACH NO VERDICT
 IN CUTCL|FF CASE
 DURING THE NIGHT
Jury Retires and Will Re- new Deliberations Today. Judge Heflin Concludes
 Charge to Jury at 6
 O'Clock

The jurn retired before midnight without a decision fin the case of William Cutcliff. They will renew their deliberations again this morn ing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-20
INTEREST IN TRIAL

Tbe trial has heen the result Of much ;nterost during the four days that it has been held in the criminal division of the circuit court
 It was called Monday afternoon. In Judge Heflin's division of the court, after it had previously been passed and reset five tines by the court
 The courtroom has been practically filled during the present trial, and number or interested spectators besides the witnesses have been present each day
 The case was enc of the hardest fought in the history of the circuit court, and much tune was consumed during the trial by the opposing counsel in arguing points Of law. The prosecution hs been repre- sented by Capt. Frank White and SolieI- tor James Davis, while the defendant had for his attorna.'s John Altman and Judge Frank Cahalan.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-20
SAID DEPENDANT RATIONAL


 He also recaile testimony of the state $ wtnsss, who had stated that the defend ant was a man rational in mind and actions.
 The history Of the case as drawn from the evidence given during the four days of the trial shows that several months ago William Cutciff the defendant. had gone to the second story of his home. where his wife was engaged in honse cleaning, and with a razor in his hand. approached her, telling her that her time had come"
 Mrs. Cutcliff. according to the testimony begged her husband to show mercy for the sake of th4ir children. He did not need her pleading, but dragging her by the collar into another room, he cut her throat five times with the razor.
 Mrs. Cutcliff, after lying on the floor for a sh ort while, managed to get ip and go to the home Of neighbor, Mrs. Jaffe, from which place she was sent to St. vincents hospital
 The contention of the defendant in the case vas that he was insane at the time the crime was committed. and a number of witnesses were brought to show thar the man was of unsound mind. and had for a number of years previous to the cutting acted or many occasions in a very irrational manner.
 Witnesses were also produced by the state to counteract this evidence and show that Cutcliff was just the opposite, and a man who had conducted his busi- ness and family affairs in a rational sman- nor
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-20

opinion that the railroads wilt not be re- turned to private owners on January l. as indicated by President Wilson last July. on account of failure of Congress to pass remedial Legislation. still they are making every preparation for such a transfer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-20
REVIEWS THE TESTIMONY

Mir. Altman went into the testimony of every one of the witnesses for, the de- fense, and strived to show the jury that the man was undoubtedly insane when the cutting occurred. He asked the Jury to consider the after effects of their conscience should they send the man to the penitentiary, but told them that if they were going to find him guilty of the crime, he thought that the least they could do. was to give Cutcliff the limit. which is 20 years in the pentertiary.
 He appealed to the jury not to disgrace the mans family by sending him to the penitentiary with a stain of attempted murder against him, but asked them rather to consider the feelings of the de- fendant's family and declare him insane
 Captain White for the prosecution made the closing argument for the prosecution, and tried to show the jury that Cutcliff was feigning insanity. He appealed to their sense of justice, and asked them to send Cutcliff where he would not be able to enact a repetition of the fSrmer act, Captain White attacked the testi- mony of all the witnesses for the defense, and tried to show that the opinion of one witness, Dr. Leland. was drawn only from a hypothetical question presented bt the attorney for the defense
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-20

ambition. of the aspiration for something larger. Southerners were an individual people. the product of a peculiar civili- zation. and their windows were shut to other ideas and other impulses than their own
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-05-23
HOUSE SPENDS
A BUSY DAY
ON ROUTINE
NEW GOOD ROADS BILL IS PRO.
POSED AND FURTHER TIME
ASKED ON WORkM EMS COM
PENSATloN BILL.
(BY JOHN c. TRIcE.)

Tallahassee, May 22.-At the very
beginning of the morning session of the
house there was a number of bills
introduced among them a new good
roads bill, by Mr.. Mckenzie OF Put
nam county.
May % was set as the time for con-
sidering the appropriation bills for the
insane asylum at Chattahoochee, the
reform school at Mariana and the
reform school for girls at ,Ocala. This
was done at the suggestion of Mr..
Harris, of Pinellas county.
Mr.. Jarmon renewed his request
which was pending when the house
adjourned yesterday, to make a special
order for today at 1925 senate bill
LOG, to provide for the working of
the convicts on the roads of the state,
and providing for their maintenance.
etc. This motion was agreed to and
later on in the day the bill was taken
up and passed, with only three dis
senting votes.
The speaker requested the members
not to interfere further with the regu-
lar order of business.
Forthwith, Mr.. Kite, of Alachua
county. chairman of the committee on
organized labor. said he would be
obliged to ask for further time on
the -FOUR 1aDOGeTS compensation D1iiS
before his committee, for the reason
that it seemed impossible for the COM
mittee to agree on them. The time
was granted.
Mr. Gillis of Walton county, called
up his bill amending the fertilizer in
spection laws, so as to place the work
under the direction of the commission
er of agriculture instead of the state
chemist as at present.. The bill passed.
There was another stormy time over
the board of health for little while.
It arose over a motion by Mr.. Stokes
of Bay county, to reconsider the vote
by which the house on yesterday
passed the senate bill reducing the
board of health state tax from one
half to one quarter of a mill. The con-
tention was made that if the bill stood
as passed, requiring the state board
of health to set aside $4,000 of the
funds now on hand for an epidemic
emergency fund and only allowed one
quarter of one mill for the support of
the organization it would be about
$4,000 in debt at the end of the two
years. A majority of the house did
not think so and refused to take up
the bill agin.
The special committee appointed by
the house to represent it at the .dedi-
cation OF the bridge across the Chat
tahocohee river near Chattahoochee.
made its report. The committee was