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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-12

struggling With more momentouS and difficult problem involving the establish ment of financial strength than she has been compelled to face within the last 150 years. Germany cannot recover world trade or any part of the world trade shel stest when the war began, until she has perfected her industries and found mar kets for their products. And it is upon her industrial prosperity that Germany must rely if she is to meet the indemnities ex acted of her and also maintain financial Streneth a { home.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-12
STUDY GERMANY'S
 ABILITY TO PAY
By HOLLAND.

New York, May 17-(Special)- )-Thomas w. Lamont of J. P Morgan & Co, Ser lard Baruch, representing the United states are reported as having been il, conference recently with some of the 9erman representatives who are at Yer sailies awaiting consideration of the peace treaty document The presump. tion IS strong that one of the purposes or the conference was to obtain infor- mation respecting Germany's ability tc pay the indemnity and the terms upon Whlch payment is to be made
 very likely MT. Lamont and his asso- clate were aware that Great Britain and france would be glad to make such ar rahSement IS would fortfy the German government with financial aid either for Indemnity purposes or else enable Ger many to re-establish her industrial life. The amount of credit or funds which Germany would receive if arrangement can De perfected, as Great Britain ana trance hope 1t can be, is reported to be >, 0o,OOO, WO But it all depends upon whether the United States is willing to guarantee the bonds. Certainly unless MT Lamont has changed his mind he Will not recommend financial propost- ton of that kind, in fact will earnestly oppose it. Furthermore, the impression among some of the bankers who have been familiar with the method by which credits have been extended by the United states to our allies and the legislation winch made it lawful to extend these credits, are convinced that Congress- could not be persuaded to authorize the United states to put it's guarantee upon any issue of this kind
 Nevertheless, there may be another way to aid Germany Very likely, by and by private capital in the United States may De invested in securities issued by Ger man corporations and we'll guaranteed so that aid may thereby be given to Ger
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-12

planes was brought down near London
 and an expert examination showed that the Germans were using this product TOT tteir aeroplane fabrication.
 | After a while the Germans tore all Of
 the machinery out of the factory and re-
 moved it to Germany, where a plant was set up and the manufacture of this prod
 uct began and is still in progress. The
 product was protected by patents ob-
 tained by the American corporation in l Germany, as also was the trade mark. A 1 new corporation was organized under the | title of the Deutsche Oild az Fabrik. 1 So it seems that this commodity, estab- l lished by American capital, highly regard- | ed in Germany, is now being manufac- tured in Germany by means of stolen ma chinery. It is a clear case of robbery, but the establishment of the plant in Germany and the utilization of American | ma chinery made it clear that the Ger mans expected to find large market for this product. At present no one can tell whether the corporation will receive any remuneration on account of this stolen property.
 This is only one instance of German methods. The American authorities are already in possession of information which shows that like methods have been adopted by the Germans whereby new industrial plants have been estab- lished and operated by means of machin- cry and equipment which the Germans stole from Belgium and France and re- moved to Germany.
 Incidents of this kind are so plentiful
 that the inevitable suspicion which in
 wolves German leaders may make it diff
 ficult for Germany to secure in the United
 States financial aid for the re-establsh
 ment of her industries. For it is the
 feeling that industrial Germany mast
 come to the United States for aid with
 clean hands. The situation, however, is critical. Those who know best say 4e
 world would be not only amazed but |apprehensive also if there could be Suir realization of the peril of bankruptcy which now some of the nations of Eu- rope are facing. It will require extra
 ordinary financial ability to put France
 upon firm foundation. Even England is
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-12
Are the Transatlantic Flying Machines Liuing
 Up to AM Expectations
By wALDEMAR KAEMpFFERr

They have arrived at Halifax, those
 seaplanes of ours which are to venture
 across the Atlantic. But the average
 speed of GO miles an hour-how dissp-
 pointing. It sustained the contention
 that has been made in these articles
 that our NC planes are so lumberiag
 and SO slow that they bear about the same relation to the transatlantic
 flying machines of the future as Full tons first steamboat bears to the Mauretania. The Englishmen, who have been waiting week after week for gooa weather in New Foundland, are more likely to live up to popular ex- pectations assuming that all goes well with their engines, for their airplancs are built to travel much more than hundred miles an hour. The public expected the trans Atlantic flight to be made at breathiess speed, But 90 miles an hour-our best express trains can equal that. The one advantage is that of speed From that standpoint the trip from New York to Halifax IS disappointing.
 Yet this is exactly what might have been expected The NC planes nave been built not for transatlantic fly ing despite all the protestations 70 the contrary, but for lesurely naval scouting. They are no more adapted for the task that lies before them than a battleship is adapted for passenger carrying.
 The lessons that have been learned in the aerodynamic laboratories of Eu- rope and America have not been thor oughly applied in the NC machines. Study the pictures of the NC planes that appear in the daily papers. Note that the engines are placed in a row between the wings-the very worst position that could be selected from the standpoint of speed. The labord- tory experiments have shown that every protuberance adds enormously to the head on resistance at high speed When you travel fast the air resistance increases not in direct proportion, bus as the square Increase your speed twice and your head-on resistance in- creases four times. So important is this resistance at high speed that 1n the last stages of the war even hel- nets worn by some of the fighting pilots were stream lines-in other words. so shaped that even their ar- parently negligible exposed surface
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-12
DE ORC PROTESTS
 BILLIARD VICTORY
 OF ROBT. CANNEFAX

New York, May u.-A protest of the victory of Robert Cannefax of Chicago in the recent worlds championship three cushion billiard match, made by Alfred De Orc of Cuba, who lost the title, will De considered by an arbitration commit tee Of three, it was learned here today.
 De Orc charged that Cannefax made a toul during the second nights play by hitting the white ball twice with his cue and that the referee should have ordered the balls replaced in the positions they occupied before the alleged foul
 The two players agreed that each should pick an umpire these two to se- feet third person. It was asserted that the title, side stakes and gate receipts are tied up pending the settlement.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-12

city would do. He fretted because the campaign Jagged. but he kept right on smiling. By the way that smile on Sam s Is an institution in itself It has put over many good thing for him and At lanta. And he loves people as do few men that l have known. Tears stood in his eyes when he paid tribute to the Boy scouts, to those who had worked with him in the drive, the great big forceful power of the men of his city. He liked to look over the crowd and tell them per- sonally how he appreciated their support And when the trick was turned and the deed well done his fellow citizens swamped him with their congratula tions
 He was almost carried from the stage by the crowd about him. It was an At lanta victory, victory for the loan and n triumph for Dobbs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-12
Capt. John I. Freeman
 Home on FurlOugh

Captain John Inzer Freeman of Ash land. who was in Birmingham yester- day and Saturday, is spending a two weeks furlough at his home. Captain Freeman went through five campaigns in France and at present is recuperat- ing from an attack of pneumonia.
 Captain Freeman was a student iH Birmingham for four years at Howard college, from which institution he ra- ceived his diploma in 1917. He left school before commencement to enter the first officers training camp at Fort McPherson. He went to France as a lieutenant and recently was sent back to this country as a captain. He is 23 years old
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-12

would have as little retarding effect ] as possible.
 Not only are the engines unfortun- ately mounted on the NC planes but the maze of struts. and wires between the wings must inevitably attract crit ical attention. Even thin wire plays it's part as a giant seaplane rushcs through the air. It vibrates and be- cause it vibrates it's thickness becomes that of rod. It is for this reason that special wire is now made which is of such cross section that it, too, offers as little resistance as possible. Speed in the air above all the speed that we expect of the swiftest vehicle that man has thus devised is dependent upon scientific considera tion of such trifles.
 Let 1t not be supposed that l am try ing to belittle the flight from New York to Halifax. No aeronautical en- gineer would regard it as anything but a commonplace performance. It is hardly comparable, for instance, with the great flight made by Handey- Page machine from London to Con- stantinople in a few stages, or with the journey of General Salmon from Cairo to Delphi, or with some of the bomb dropping journeys that were made at the height of the war by whole flocks of machines into the very heart of the German industrial region
 
 age to Halifax has nothing but a his- torical significance.
 The delay that has attended the journey of NC-4 bears out the predic- tions that have been made in these articles. Airplane engines are not what they should be. If the Atlantic |. is to be crossed at anything like the regulatio that we have come to ex- peet of steamships we must invent T more trustworthy, more durable, form of propellins mechanism. The business man whose presence in Lon don tomorrow is vitally important must have some assurances that he will be deposited at his destination al definite hour. No company could safely guarantee 10 transport him on schedule time with the engines that failed the NC-4.
 Clearly we have not conquered the air. We have only invaded it. Not yet is the task of the inventor done. The Wright brothers gave us the flyinS machine. Who will give us the trusted worthy engine of the air-the engine that will transport us like magic carpet at safety and with almost miraculous swiftness to distant Flu ropean port?
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-12
LAUDERDA[E OVER # THE TOP IN LOAN
 BY 20 PER CENT
With a Quota of S3SO, 1000, County Has Subscribed a.
 Total of S440,000
By Associated Press

Florence, May u.-tspecial) Fiorenos and Lauderdale county went over the top for the Victory Loan today, total sub scriptions being $4i0.o00 Her quota was $3SO GOO.
 Florence held grand celebration on Court street tonight The White Way was turned on and good music was fur nished by two good bands. The people of this city had an oversubscription of 50 per cent, and they have right to feel proud of the wonderful showing made in the loan campaign. R. T. Simpson was in charge of the campaign for Lauder dale county.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-12

lan manufacturers and to the leaders in
 'ubic utilities. For it is essential that
 'ermany be in position to earn the many
 ,illions which she will be required to pay
 il the way of indemnities. She cannot
 10 that now, except in small part, and
 cry likely will be unable to liouidate all ner idemnty obligations within a gen. sration's time
 HER CREDIT IS POOR One of the obstacles, and perhaps the : chief obstacle. which must be overcome if the Germans are to receive financial aid from private capital in the United States. is the distrust of the Germans and or their sense of financial and business ob- legations and the suspicion that many of them are inclined to repudate any agreement unless it be bound by security which is ample
 Already information comes from over the sea that the American authorities have discovered, as have the French, that machinery, in the aggregate vast in amount, was taken from Belgium and northern France by the Germans while the war was in progress, and even while the German armies were retreating across the Rhine, and this machinery is now be- ing installed in German plants.
 This morning a communication was re- ceved by an American manufa cturing corporation which, of itself, furnishes a concrete example of the methods em- ployed by some at least of the industrial leaders in Germany whereby they cap build up their own industries by utilizing machinery and equipment which were taken by the German armies from in- dustrial plants in Belgium and northern France
 Some years before the war began an
 industrial plant was established in Bel gium Its product was an American in- venton. It was q subsidiary of the pa rent American organization. The manu- ia cture of this American invented prod uct was carried on with success. The product itself found very favorable market in Germany and Europe. As soon as possible after the German armies en- tered Belgium this plant was seized The product was utilized by the Germans in lubricating their aeroplanes. One of these
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-12
Don't 0verfeed Babies

When baby is born, it's little stomach holds about an ounce-two tablespoons full. If baby is vigorous nurser, it is liable to overfeed and this may cause collie. What to do and how to treat this painful trouble is one of the many sub- jects covered in a valuable 28-paga
 booklet called Healthy Babies" which
 has been published. Any mother can
 have copy FREE by simply writing to TEETHINA. No. ? Broad Street.
 Columbus, Georgia
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-12
CHAIRMAN BARNETT
 CALLS MEETING Expansion Campaign of the Chamber of Commerce. Reception Committee
 to Meet

J. Mercer Barnett, chairman of the reception committee named to act at the public gatherings in connection with the expansion campaign of the Chamber of Commerce has called his associates to meet this afternoon at 4 o'clock in the campaign headquar- ters. The committeeman are Ira L.. Armstrong; c. P. Beddow Jr, Murray Brown. B. B, Burton, Wallace L. Cald- we'll w. w. Crawford, Henry M. Dozier, Col. T. O. Smith and W. A. Steadham.
 One of the arguments which the campaign committee is making for the expansion of the chamber of commerce is based on the support like organiza tions are given in other cities Mem bers of the committee call attention to the fact that while it may not be true that these cities are known as Tive ones because they have strong civic commercial bodies, it is true that they all have the community spirit highly developed and are expressing that spirit through their chambers of com merce.
 The income of the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce for the past three years has averaged less than S20,000. The following table sho ws what the incomes of the chambers in the cities named have been:
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-12
ATLANTA SPIRIT BREAKS FORTH

Then came Rev. M. Asby Jones, who is a wizard in speech. I have yet to hear the man who can so arouse the better emotions of audience. He carried the crowd by wave wave of enthusiasm until the house was in an uproar of ap- plause.
 President s. c. Dobbs, Sam Dobbs," as Atlanta knows him, pushed the purpose of the meeting right along as the doctor sat down, and the spirit of Atlanta broke forth like stream With 100000 more of it's quota to raise the city of Atlanta. in the potential power of it's leaders, be- gan to cry out the amounts. MT. Coles began with a subscription of $25O 600 in addition to the million and a quarter his bank had already signed for, and few moments later he this up to half a million.
 Harry Schlessinger said his boy had been in all the wnr since we got into it. Put me down for $60, ,O00 he said. An other man took s25,0 ,000 and almost at once raised it to s50o0o, and then he said if four others would join him with s5O0OO each he would raise his own ante that much. He got the four almost at once Then Avalanche broke forth. Some one jokingly announced just before the quota was reached, that 5000, 900 more was need ed. 'Holding our own" cried Wiley West. And when they were right at the top Mrs. HanSell, leader Ot the women, SOt up to say that modest sort of a man who had just gone out left her card. She read it: Edward Inman $400, GOO ' But they kept going and went many laps over, subscriptions coming after the meet ing closed and the crowd was passing out.
 I have said it before, but I never get used to it, the Atlanta spirit is the most tangible intangible thing that it has ever been my good fortune to observe. When it gets ready to work it works, and it wins 100 per cent strong every time.
 DOBBS AS A LEADER
 Few men have given more to Atlanta than Sam Dobbs, In fact there are few such striking business successes as this big executive of the Coca-Cola orga ni0l- tion at the present time. He is into everything that is for the building of the city. As president of the chamber he took over the duty of putting Atlanta over the top in this drive and he stayed on the job until it was done. He left his daughter to graduate in a distant city without the presence of her daddy and turned down several big invitations from other sections to see it out
 Dobbs never had doubt of what the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-12
LOAN WORKER GOT
 INSPIRATION FROM TWO ALABAMA BOYS
Atlanta Bank President Sells S2,0O0,O0O in Bonds by Reciting Exploits of
 Hebrew Fighters
By HARVEY ". LAIRD

Atlanta, Ga, May 1l.-tSpeciai. )-Presi- dentA Pickens Coles, of the Central Rank and Trust corporation, got his in- spiration to sell personally nearly $2,OO0,O0O of Victory bonds from two Alabama boys, both members of the Hebrew religion. one colthing man and the other green grocer. He stated this at the great meet inG on Friday night when Atltanta went over the top and more in the loan drive.
 In the same meeting pr. M Ashby Jones caused q roar of laughter and ap pfause when he stated that We are going over the too; we've got to or move to Bir- mingham." His reference was to the news from the Magic City q hours before that that city had gone over and would be glad to help Atlanta do the same thing. A great many Alabama men in the audience enjoyed the incident to the uttermoSt.
 And there was yet other Alabama in- fluence in the work that was so well done. Wiley West-all the people of Mo bile know him, and a lot of them in other sections-was the biggest collection taker Wiley has become just as much an insti- tuition in Atlanta as the Atlanta spirit itself Whenever the Chamber of Com merce wants to do anything and do it with snap and punch and pep Wiley is called on and he puts it over He jolled and caioled and threatened and per suaded, and all the time he was passing up the cards with the amounts in many figures
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-12
.ETOWAH COUNTY HAS
 GONE OVER THE T0P
Gadsden and Attalla Are Now Beyond Quota in
 Loan Drive

Gadsden, May 11,-(Special.) )--Gads- den and Etowah county went over tne top this morning in the Victory Loan drive. Handicapped by the absence uf large subscriptions from the corpora tions and their employees, which formed the business men and banks of Gads- den rallied to the cause. In three short meetings business men raised $125,0G9 and the banks subscribed $175, O00 making a total of nearlyas s435, 900 sun- scribed. in Gadsden. Attalla went over the top with $500 subscriptions early in the campaign.
 The Etowah County Bar association at a meeting this morning, decided to send a strong committee to Montgom- cry to urge the legislature to allow the sixteenth judicial circyit, comprised of Etowah St. Clair and Blount counties to remain intact. Increased salary for the judges and the payment of travel ing expenses of the solicitor also will be asked. A committee was named t. prepare amendments to the present disbarment statutes. to be presented to the legisla ture, and another commit tee will draft resolutions on the re- cent death of W. H. Standifer, a pio- neer member of the association.
 The city council last night adopted an ordinance establishing a drainage area in the vicinity of Chestnut street from Sixth to College street The low land there will be drained. the cost. estimated at $1550, being assessed against the property owners
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-12
THAT STORY oF MR. CoLEs

Mir. Coles said that these Jew boys from Alabama, whose names he did not men, tion, were infantry runners with one of the big artillery units, that they cap tured a big German gun, got them some help and turned the gun on the enemy, tearing up roads and putting many of his guns out of commission, besides kill ing great numbers. One of the boys who was in the same fight told him about it and he felt that he wanted to make good as effectively as possible.
 All the time the Rotary club with George Hanson. the auto man, as song leader, were making a noise that kept everybody in a good humor. When Mr. Coles got up they sang: "Old Pickens Coles, he aint what he used to be. four or five years ago" telegram came in from Fred Houser subscribing S40oo, and telling them he was trying to get home. Everybody knows Fred from the sands of the seas and the lakes to the gulf, as the secretary of the Atlanta Convention bureau.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-10-08

congress shall, by act or resolution.
so direct. as will make it clear that
no domestic questions, such as the
tariff and immigration, viii be taken
from the control of the United States,
and that the United States shall be
sole judge as to the Interpretation Of
the Monroe Doctrine. There must be
no abridgment of the sovereignty Of
the nation, of the control of its own
domestic affairs or OF the mainten
ance of its national policies
Senator Lodge is the biggest, broad
est and most progressive New Eng
land member of the United States sen
ate and naturally is the chief target
of the anvil chorus Senator Lodges
chief qualification n this struggle,
however, IS that he is a student of
history and is able to apply the les
sons OF the past for the benefit Of
the present and future.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-10-08

The big Democratic newspapers of
Massachusetts have been jumping on
Senator Lodge without mercy for
months and claiming that he does not
Represent the Republican sentiment
Of Massachusetts but when the Re
publican state convention met it made
an ouyspoken and hatfooted endorse
ment OF the position taken by Sena-
tor Lodge The convention Hnani-
mously adopted the following resolu-
ton relative 70 the peace treaty:
eve therefore favor prompt ratif-
cation of the treaty of9feace without
amendment. but with sUeld unequiyo-
cal and effective Observation-Disclosures viii
make clear the unconditional night of
the United States to withdraw from
the league upon due notice, as will
provide that the United States shall
assume no obligation to employ
American soldiers or sailors unless