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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-29
Public Notice

! UUlIO ! VOVlOO
The following letter has been received from the
Insurance Commissioner of Alabama:
Subject to withdrawal provided in Section 80
of the Workmen's Compensation Act of Alabama,
approved August 23d, 1919, am handing you here
with rate sheet showing compensation insurance
rates for the State of Alabama as approved by the
Commissioner of Insurance November 18th, 1919"
Signed, A. W. Brscoe Commissioner of Insur-
ance.
Coal mining risks have not yet been rated and
rates will not be promulgated until December 18th,
on which date the Commissioner of Insurance will
hold conference with all insurance carriers in his
office in Montgomery, at which meeting coal mine
rates will be agreed upon.
Friends, don't be misled by any one offering a
less rate either before or after inspection. Allpo
icies must be written at state published rates. The
State Inspection and Rating Bureau will inspect
your risk at the earliest possible moment and if
your rate is altered by inspection either one way
or other, same will be retroactive to original date
of your policy. All our compensation policies will
carry the following:
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-29
HEAR
WOMEN SPEAK FOR
POLITICAL PARTIES

NC0nfmme0 from rage rVeJ
to mothers and square pay for SQUARE
work"
In her speech advocating republican
principles, Mrs. Bonelli said:
The republican party is about as
popular In Alabama as the suffragists
10 years ago. I am more interested in
seeing the women do themselves credit
with their ballot than in strengthening
any political party.
women voters in New York have
never voted a straight republican
ticket. We always scratched. But
want to advise you women of Birming-
ham to get in on the ground floor or
politics. When you can deliver the
votes, then you'll count for something
in politics, and the formation of po-
litica1 machinery.
OPPOSED TO STANDPATTERS
While I am a republican / don't
want any more Henry Cabot Lodges,
Elhu Roots and other party stand
patters. / certainly can not approve
of the stand-patters.
you people in Alabama are not un-
dergoing the tension that today exists
in New York, where our gravest con-
Germ is the menace of bolshevism.
Democrats and republicans are going
to join hands in batting this common
ennemy.
while Tn not certain absolutely
what the republican party will stand
for in 1920 we need change. The
democrats did their share in the war
with republican cooperation, but now
we have a domestic disturbance before
us and the republican party should as
sumo this new responsibility
"Another thing, let's return all these
public utilities, seized during the war.
including, principally, the railroads
back to private ownership"
She criticized sharply the action of
the Alabama Legislature in it's consid-
Grafton of suffrage.
"If you women of Alabama vote next
year it will be through the hands of a
republican Congress and by ratification
by. republican states Let us rebuke
these democrats BY voting the repub-
lican ticket next year"
Arizona republican., 1919-03-21
BAKER SAYS UP . T0 CHAMBERLAIN
TRepubIican A. p. Leased Wirel

YUMA, AriZ., March 20.-Newton D. Baker. secertary of war, en route from Los Angeles. Cal, to Fl Paso, Texas, replied tonight to the charges made today in Washington by Senator Chamberlain of Oregon, that the sec retary was under the influence of re- actionaries opposed to changes in the army court martial system. by assert ing that Senator Chamberlain himself caused to be enacted the system he is attacking.
 Secretary Bakers statement follows;
 q can't allow myself to be drawn into a newspaper controversy with Senator Chamberlain about officers of the army to whom l hold an official relation and whose conduct 1 must judge dispassionately and upon all the evidence I can obtain.
 That duty is mine and not Senator Chamberlain's and I shall perform it unbiased and unhurried by abuse or agitation.
 Tt is important, however. to note that the system of court martial and of military justice which the senator attacks, is one which he himself caused to be enacted in 1916, when it was presented by me as a reform and a moderation of previously existing ir regularities
 "It is also important to note. that the amendment which 1 sent to Sen ator Chamberlain as chairman of the military affairs committee of the Sen- ate more than year ago, and more than a year before the occasion for the present discussion. has so far as ] know, never even been presented by him to the military affairs committed for consideration"
Arizona republican., 1919-03-21
D|STLLERS ATTACK LEGALITY OF AR|D
 NATION AMENDMENT
Also Question Constitution ality of War Time Prohi- bition-To Bring Test Case-Referendum Being Invoked.

NEW YORK, March 20.-The com mittee of distillers of the United States, representing the entire distill- ing industry, announced tonight that steps were being taken to attack the constitutionality of the federal prohi- bition amendment and the war time prohibition act.
 Levy Mayer of Chicago, counsel for the organization, was instructed to ar range for a suit to test the emergency prohibition law after the treaty of peace has been signed. Action to bring about a judicial review of the eighteenth amendment. it was stated, would await the outcome of referen- dunn elections in thirteen states, where petitions calling for popular vote on the bone dry enactment have been filed, or are in circulation.
 1 MT. Mayer advised the committee that in states having referendum laws. i and whose legislatures have ratified the amendment, the ratification would i have no effect unless majority of l the votes cast in the elections favored l the amendment.
 ] In their discussion of measures to nullify the federal amendment, the distillers named California, Washing | ton, oregon, Nevada, Idaho, Utah New Mexico, Colorado. Michigan Ohio Missouri. Maine and Nebraska as states where referendum petitions have been circulated. As A state leg islatures ratified the amendment, nine more than the necessary three fourths the distillers' announced plan of action l could not be carried out if the people of more than four states approved the decisions of their legislative bodies.
 The distillers' attack on the wal time prohibition act follows the lines
 laid down by counsel for the brewers
 in their test suit filed here yester-
 day, alleging that the law having beer
 enacted after the signing of the ar
 mistice, went beyond the power O
 congress to adopt measures for tn,
 national security and defense.
Arizona republican., 1919-03-21
DEDICATE TREES TO
 SOLDIERS ARBOR DAY

WASHINGTON, March 20.-Nation- wide observation of arbor day through the planting of trees dedicated to sol- diers who died during the war was urged today by Secretary Houston in a letter to governors of the states. He asserted he could not conceive a better way to keep alive the memory of those who had fallen.
 Now that the great war has come to it's conclusion MT. Houston said, in his letter, we shall seek many ways to perpetuate the memory of those who made the great sacrifice. It has been happily suggested that we do this by adorning with young trees, each named for a fallen soldier, our waysides, our yards and our pleasure places. This can be done on arbor day, which is now at hand in most of our states. Such an observance of the day will give it a meaning more pro- found a purpose more exalted, than 1t ever had before
Arizona republican., 1919-03-21
THREE LEADERS ARE
 TRYING ID ADJUST

PARIS, March 24O.-CBy The Asso- ciated Press)-President Wilson. NJ. Clemenceau, the French prime minis ter and David Lloyd George, the Brit ish prime minister, are holding a ser ies of meetings for the adjustment of differences between them. They con ferred at the residence of Alr. Lloyd George today. the session lasting from three o'clock in. the afternoon until late in the evening
 The differences constitute some of the larger questions pending now reparation for war losses and the French-German frontier. These ques- tions for the moment have assumed paramount importance, taking place i even ahead of the league of nations, for while the work of the commission revising thee ovenant is preceding rapidly. much difficulty is being met in reaching an accord on separations and frontiers.
 The chief issue of the giving of rep aration is not what Germany should pay, but what she can pay. The com missions which have studied the sub ject have gradually reduced the claims to a total of about forty billion dollars
 The American view as to the means | 10 provide Tor this balance, is that the chief reliance will have to be placed in Germany's balance of trade. This in turn has opened another large and | subsidiary question, as to how far German industry should be allowed to compete with the rest of the world, particularly with nearby countries like France.
 The French delegates hold that Ger man industry should be curbed by checking exports and imports. The American and British views tend to- ward permitting Germany to resume industrial activity. in order to pay the balance of the four billion dollars debt to the allies and associated powers.
 The commissions experts estimate the exports and imports would yield a balance of about three hundred million dollars annually. or approximately a billion dollars every three years.
 On this basis the balance of the debt could be extinguished in twelve years and the entire operation con- cluded. This view. it is said. is far from meeting with general acceptance.
Arizona republican., 1919-03-21
.R. R. ADMINISTRATION
 ID MEET DIVIDENDS

WASHINGTON, March 20-Divi- dends and interest on railroad stocks and bonds due April 1, amounting to approximately S70,000,000 will be met by the railroad administration by is suance of certificates of indebtedness to. the companies for amounts due from rentals and other sources. The war finance corporation will make cash advances to the companies on the certificates.
 The plans for meeting the railroad corporations requirements were an- nounced by Director General Hines af- ter a conference with railroad execu- tiyes.
 "The plan announced by the direc- tor general" said a statement issued tonight. lis that the railroad admin istration will issue it's certificates ot indebtedness to the railroad corpora tions for amounts due on account oi
 rental and other transactions arising out of federal control. It is estimated
 that the amount of April 1 require
 ments will be approximately s70,. | 900, 900.
 "The war finance corporation an.
 nounces that it is prepared to receiv, application from the railroads for ad yances for their April 1 requirements l on the security of certificates of in | debtedness issued by the director i general.
 | Consideration is still being given b, the director general as to the methot | to be adopted for meeting obligation | due from the railroad administration | to equipment companies. An announce
 ment on this subject will be made il | the near future
Arizona republican., 1919-03-21
HOOVER SORRY .HOC
 PRICE UNSTAB|L|zED

NEW YORK, March 20.-A cable gram from Herbert Hoover, director general of the international relief or ganization, expressing regret that this country had abandoned stabilization of hog prices and urging continuation and stabilization in sugar. cottonseed products and wheat, was discussed at a meeting here today of executive of ficers of the food administration.
 Pointing out that hog prices had arisen since the stabilization plan was abandoned two weeks ago, MT. Hoov CTS message. asserted that if the only foodstuffs now controlled are thrown upon the market, without any steady ing hand" the dire need of the world may produce further dislocation and place an added burden on American consumers.
 It was said that, with ocean trans ports still restricted. food must be shipped overseas in it's most concen- trated form, but that when more ton- mage became available. it was hoped such foodstuffs as beans, rice and canned vegetables and fish, of which | the United States has a surplus. may | be sent abroad.
Arizona republican., 1919-03-21
REACH AGREEMENT
 ON BRITISH MINES
raepublicaasA. p. Leased wire1

 - LONDON. March 2G.-(By the As- sociated Press)--Andrew Bonar Law, the government spokesman. in state ment in the house of commons this evening. said that the government had accepted the report of the special coal commission, of which Justice Sir John Sankey is chairman, including it's un- dertaking to report on the question of naturalization by May 20 and to secure interim reports from time to ime on problems of improvement in the coal industry.
 Proposals of this nature would be put into immediate operation. declared Mr. Bonar Law. This involved the continuation of coal control sor two years.
 With reference to the Sankey report which he explained was signed by three representatives of the employers not directly concerned in the coal in- dustry, and granted the miners two- thirds of their demands in wages, MT Bonar Law said that the s5gners of the report recommended a further reduc- tion in hours in 1921, because they aS- sumed that by then the output of 1913 namely 2S1,006000 tons, would be re- sumed. The estimated cost of what was recommended for the current veal was $43,000 eco pounds
 It was. proposed that the profits o the coal masters should be limited tC II pence per ton. Taking all thing. into consideration. the estimated cos of the taxpayers would be nearly 30, 000.000 pounds.
 Mir. Bonar Law also announced tha the employers had made what he him self and the labor ministers considere, reasonable proposals to the transporta ton workers and he had reason 70 be lieve these would prove acceptable t l the men
Arizona republican., 1919-03-21
URGE CARD RATINGS FUR ALL EMPLOYES

NEW YORK, March 20-Application to industry of card rating system for employees, similar to that used in the army, was urged as a step to- wards solution Of labor problems by speakers at a round table conference here today at the society of industrial engineers.
 w. s. McArthur of Armour and Company. Chicago. explained the per sonnel system now employed in the Armour industry, asserting it's ratings had proved of great value in placing men, had proved a valuable check on promotions through favoritism an had stimulated ambition among workers.
 The ratings, he said. are made by immediate superiors of the men. but are carefully studied by the men high erup in the organization. Thus fai the employees have not been permitted to know their ratings. but this priv | ilege will be granted soon, he added. "One half of all the workers in tho United States gre giving the country | less than a fair days work" declared l H. E. Miles, former president of tht National Manufacturers association 1 in discussing the magnitude of tb' | task of educating and stimulating | labor.
Arizona republican., 1919-03-21
HAIL ARRANGEMENTS WITH SOUTH AMERICA

WASHINGTON. March 20-Ameri- can businessmen are greatly interested in the establishment and maintenance of extensive commercial arrangements with South America, Hugo Wilson, commercial attache of the Argentine embassy, said today upon his return from trip through the United States and Canada. Mr. Wilson visited 26 cities in the two countries and both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts.
 T found everybody keenly alive to the necessity of securing a fair share of the worlds business" said MT. Will son, and quite willing to adapt them selves to the requirements of the diff ferent markets. The great incognito is, of course. the matter of freights, both by railroad and by the sea. No one appears to know exactly what policy the government is likely to pur sue in this respect, and as apart from the cost of manufacturing the goods these two items are of the greatest importance in establishing the cost of commodities which have to face com petition in the worlds markets Great interest is shown all over the country as to the ultimate solution of these intricate problems
Arizona republican., 1919-03-21
DEMOCRATS G|vE. UP FREEDOM FOR GOODNESS SAYS
Old Texas Warhorse Bitter ly Lashes His Party Made a "Scrap of Paper" of Constitution - Cites Prohibition and Woman Suffrage - Attack Is Bitter.
Republican A. p. Leased Wlrel

NEWARK, N. J.. March 2o.-As- serting that 'the democratic party has ceased to support Democratic principles" former United States Sen ator Joseph w. Bailey of Texas de- elared in an address here today that he "wouId never again vote for the candidate of any party which con- stantly reduces our liberty and un- necessarily increases our taxes"
 Mir. Bailey, who was the principal speaker at the "Victory Banquet" of the Road Horse association, blamed the democratic party for the passage of the prohibition amendment to the constitution, and for the near passage of the amendment granting suffrage to woman.
 q have been a democrat all my life," he said. "A color democrat if you please, and have never scratched a party ticket. But those who now control the democratic party have re- nounced or abandoned one democratic principle after anoaher in such rapid ity and bewiderIng succession that they have left us nothing except the name.
 "Since Thomas Jefferson founded ii the democratic party has always in sisted that every state should exclu siVely control the local affairs of it own peoples, but a democratic con sress immoated that time -honoret doctrine upon the altar of nationa prohibition, and a majority voted t repeal the sacrifice in behalf of womar suffrage"
 "The doctrine of reverence for tn constitution" he declared, had beel altered until the constitution was re garded as an obsolete scrap of paper.
 "The liberty we have thought wort fighting for and dying for" he declare lis the liberty of the individuals; tn right of every man to do for himseI and with his own whatever he please; as long as he does not interfere wit the right of other men to do the same
 "eut in this day they tell us that is better to be good than 1t is to E free, and they have multiplied ou penal statutes until the lawyers can not carry even an index of them i their minds. We have restricted tn right of men until no civilized coun try on the globe interferes with tn habits, the pIeasures and the bushes of the people as much as this fire government Of the United States"
Arizona republican., 1919-03-21
WIVES ECG HUBB|ES
 ON ID BANK ROBBERY

CHEYENNE, Wyo.. March 20.-Just to show their wives they had nerve" was the reason given by two of the three men in jail here for their attempted robbery of the Wyoming Trust and Savings bank Monday Tony Gonzales and Thomas Delgado today gave the police the details of their plans which they said had been drawn from a news paper account of Q Chicago bank rob- berp.
 They said they had decided a bank robbery, though great fun, ,'\was too difficult when their wives chided them for lacking courage and offered to help. The women purchased the gunnysacks and ropes which were to be used to securely bind Cashier Henderson. the second sack to be used to carry the loot. Cruz Hernadez. the third mem Der, was called in at this stage and their plans went through to the point where the cashier was confronted with a pistol. When Henderson gave the alarm. instead of meelly allowing the robbery to proceed, they became ex- cited, fired one shot at Henderson and disappeared in an automobile. which was waiting. They face a prison term Of fourteen years if convicted.
Arizona republican., 1919-03-21
LOWERING IF STEEL PRICES FIRST STEP
 TOWARD MORTALITY
Voluntary Reduction of 10 to 14 Per Cent Sets Ex- ample-No Decrease In Wages Necessitated.

WASHINGTON, March 20.-Agree- providing for a reduction in the pres ent quotations for the commodity was reached late tonight by representa- tiyes of the steel industry and the industrial board of the department of commerce. The new prices are for the year 1919 and are effective at once,
 A partial list of the new prices was made public tonight at follows:
 Basic pig iron reduced to $25.75 a gross ton; four inch billets s3S.50 a gross ton; two inch billets SAP gross ton; merchant bars $2.35 a hundred pounds; plates $2.65 hundred pounds and structural steel $2.45 a hundred pounds.
 The price of iron ore, f. o. b. Lake
 Erie ports, remains at the present
 rate, except in case freight rates are changed. In such an event the price will be reduced or increased accord | ingly.
 The prices made public tonight rep
 resent average reductions from the present pIlSeS Ol lIOIl ltu u 1OuI lecI 1 per cent. The reduction on. pig iror was S4.75 gross ton; on billets, 5 { | gross ton, and on plates, bars ant 1 structural shapes S7 a net ton.i The conferences with the represen- | tatives of the steel industry whicl | began yesterday were the first to b' | held by the board in its attempt to ob l tain reductions and stabilization il | the prices of the asic commodities Producers of other essential and eX | tensively used commodities will confe ] in the near future with the board. Judge E. H. Gary, chairman of tn board of directors of the United Stats
 Steel corporation, in announcing tn new schedule said:
 We have agreed upon prices. w
 cannot give you full statement re | garding these prices until tomorrow
 when one will be prepared for tn | press.
 Tt is expected that prices durini
 1919 will not be any lower and ou 1 present intention, is to make no de l creases in wages except, perhaps, a ! some mills where there are contract | between employers and employees pro | viding for a sliding scale.''
Arizona republican., 1919-03-21
CHARGE GIRL WITH MURDER

SEATTLE, Wash, March 20.-Miss Ruth Garrison, IS years old, who ac- cording to the police, confessed she caused the death of Mrs. Dudley M. Storrs Tuesday by poisoning the fooc Mrs. Storrs ate as her luncheon guest. was charged with murder in the first degree today by John D. Carmody. as sistant prosecuting attorney.
 Miss Garrison in her confession. said she was a rival for the affections of Storrs.
 Storrs, an automobile mechanic. was expected to arrive here today from Okanogan, where he was notified of the death of his wife,