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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-31
THE WEATHER
Weather Forecast

Washington, August 30.-Forecast for Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi: Showers and thunderstorms probably Sunday and Monday, gentle to moderately variable winds.
 Tennessee: For Sunday and Monday not much change in temperature.
 Local Data
 For the 24 hours ending at p. m. August 30:
 Highest temperature .................. Sf Lowest temperature .................. t9 Mean temperature ..................... 7o Normal terinperature ................. v Deficiency in temperature since Jan 267 RalHIdil ........-..---.-.. .s.--.....--.... l.-o Total rainfall since Jan. 1 ..........37 .64 Excess in rainfall since Jan. ......c214 Relative humidity, 8 a. m. 9j 1 D. m, 73 & D. n ....................... ST Dry thermometer, a. m. .......... 70 l D. nl ........-...-............ .....'..... ov D. m. ......-.............-...... 70 Wet thermometer, a. m. ............ 69 n. m. U 8 D. m. 76 should get down to business, dispose of all necessary legislation and go
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a quarterly temperance lesson was placed Tn the International Sunday School course. The loyal temperance legion has banded together the children for temperance and moral training; in many foreign speaking centers the little chil- dren have been gathered into these l.. T. Ls
 Help the W. c. T. U. in its work for children.-Perkins.
 It is to the W. c. T. U. that New Zea- land is partly indebted for equal suf- frage. During the suffrage campaign back in the nineties when the equal suf- frage became law, nearly one-fourth of the 10000 women personally visited by the women of the W. c. T. U. attached their names to petition praying for suf- frage. Thirty-one thousand women in all.
 When it came time to register, 1O9,OO0 of the 10000 registered.
 Just an humble negro. servant had passed into the great beyond, but an air of genuine sadness pervaded the atmos- phere of the w. c. T. U. tea rooms when Mrs. Myatt conveyed the information to the business women that "Addie the faithful had dropped dead at her home in the early hours of Friday morning.
 Addie had bee min charge of the w. c. T. U. kitchen since the opening, except for the first few months <. She was loyal and trustworthy, and had the confidence of the board,N\ and by her humble, kindly. courtesy and consideration of the pa irons had won their esteem.
 The board sent handsome floral de- sign with words of coincidence.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-31
TWo Important Measures Passed By Legislature
 During g. Week Session
Seven Weeks Whiled Away in Hopeless Effort to Prepare Revenue Bill Acceptable to Both
 Houses and Governor Kilby
By W. '. BOLES

Montgomery, August 30.-(SpeciaL) I Busy days are ahead of the Alabama legislators next week. They have been
 here eight weeks and passed two bills | of general impor sance-the workman s 1 compensation act and the act increas-
 ing the salaries of the justices of the
 supreme court from 5000 a year to
 s650O.
 They have spent seven weeks trying
 to whip a revenue bill into such shape
 that the governor and a majority of
 each house can agree upon it, and at
 this moment they seem to be hopeless | ly deadlocked. One more effort will be
 made by the conference committee next Tuesday morning to harmonize the differences betw cen the two houses and the chief executive, but as they have
 been unable to accomplish this in five 1 days of constant work, that would ap- | pear to be an impossibility.
 Whether the new conference commit | tee to be appointed next Tuesday will be more successful than the present committee remains to be seen. Grant l ing that the members of the commit tee reach an agreement the next ques- ton is will the two houses accept the report?
 With the revenue bill out of the way, which does not seem to be a probability of the coming week, other measures de- manding attention are of such import ance that stiff fights are bound to come up over them. Notably is this true of the school and health bills which make radical departures from existing laws. The strong lobbies of tao q n0
 doctors that have been here the past two or three weeks in the interest of their respective measures have anger ed some of the members of the legis- lature. Some of these who were dis posed, to look with favor upon the school and health codes when they were first presented to the legislature are now openly hostile to them.
 They say that the present adminis- tration was selected on a platform Of retrenchment and economy. and that the creation of vast machinery to administer the school laws and another to enforce the health code are not in
 keeping with the platform.
 They point to the creation Of the
 board of control and economy as shining example of the departure from
 the prediction pledges and say they will not be parties to any further creating legislation. STRONG OPPOSITION DEVELOPS
 During the summer session of the
 legislature a great deal of opposition
 to the board of control and economy has developed and there is striking probability of it being abolished before final adjournment. The fact that one or two members of the board have been devoting a considerable part of their
 time to lobbying in the interest of certain legislation not connected with
 their official duties has incurred the hostility of many members of both houses who express determination to either abolish the board or load it down with additional duties that will keep
 the members thereof busy during every day of their term of office.
 In the remaining ten days5of the pre- sent legislature not only must the re-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-31
ALBANY

Albany, August 3o.-(Special.) .)-The allied crafts of Albany Decatur today were completing the various floats which will compete in the spectacular parade Monday morning, which will open the greatest celebration in the history of organized labor in Morgan county The parade will form on the Gordon school campus and marchthrough the principal business districts of the two cities. William L. Harrison, president of the Alabama Federation of Labor and Congressman Edward B. Almon are among the speakers scheduled to de- liver addresses.
 Church ando0ine streets will be paved at an early date, the Decatur council yesterday afternoon authorizing the work. Engineer Meade, now city en- gineer at Florence, has been elected by the council to supervise the work In Decatur and he is expected to arrive next week for conferences withoffi- cials in regard to further extension of the paving programme.
 Tax Assessor Herman o. Troup is engaged in readjusting his tax assess ments to ho@ the new 3-mill tax for the chools of eight districts. voted last Saturday. The tax will be collected this year and will be available for use early in 1920, when Tax Collector Rob- ertson will distribute the countys rev. enue.
 The educational tax was voted in ev- cry district balloting on the measure A heavy downpour of rain caused the cleo tion to be called off at Danville and the polls were not opened there.
 A severe rain and windstorm did considerable damage to telephone and telegraph lines in north Alabama Fri day night reports received by officials l here show. The home of Doss> Tab scott, in Albany, was damaged when a tree, blown down by the high wind. Tell across the roof of the dwelling.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-31
". C. T..U. Activities For God, Home and Native Land'
By MRS. MABEL F. LEAKE

birmingham will be honored with the thlrty-fourth Alabama Woman's Chris t,dh temperance union convention which the loyal earnest workers are unanimous Tn calling the victory convention. The 1oHowing call has been issued by the state officers:
 With great pleasure we announce that the thirty-fourth anncal conventions the victory convention, will be held in Bir- m1ngham during October, exact dates to be given in the October White Ribbon. During the past year war conditions made it impossible for us to hold the convention, and we have accepted the lnVitatlon of the Jefferson county union for 1919
 We can now eagerly anticipate counsel together. We earnestly hope all our unions will at once begin to make plans to secure full delegation, SO that Jeff ferson~ county white ribboners and tenn peranee friends may welcome the larg- est and most widely representative con- vention Alabama has ever held
 MARY T. JEFFRIES.
 President.
 MARIELoU CORY,
 Vice President.
 MIRIAM JACKSON,
 Recording Secretary. Mrs. J. M. Myatt, secretary at 1- local headquarters, says: With the bus iiSso nofIcH IeluEulIS from Inelr Naca- lions, the tea rooms are filled at noon- time with both new and old friends of the one lunch room in Birmingham that has not advanced prices in spite of the high cost of living"
 Mrs. Myatt is spending the weekend lat Clairmont Springs. She will return Monday evening.
 The Central union will hold the first autumn meeting Tuesday afternoon at s o'clock in the local auditorium Jackson has returned from an extended visit to Lake Junaluska, and will preside over the meeting. cordial invitation is extended to all members, and it is hoped levery member will bring jubilee offer ing.
 One hundred and fifty thousaDd of the million-dollar jubilee fund is for child welfare. The Womans Christian Tenn perance union (organized mother love). Mothers form a firt-line of defense for the welfare of children. Through our bare of our children we are laying the foundation for the greater America of tomorrow.
 To every child belongs the right to be well born, an education, protection by child labor laws, to be morally safe guarded and spiritual training
 The Womans Christian Temperance union has definite progress of work towards these great goals: and it is rich in it's history of work for and with children. It secured the teaching of scientific temperance in the schools: through the appeal of Frances Willard.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-31

venue bill be enacted. but all of the ap- propriations bills for the upkeep of the various executive, administrative, edu- cational, health departments and ele- emosinary institutions, must be passed
 Among the pending measures of prime importance which are yet to be acted upon by both houses are the school health, highway bond issue, in ternal improvement constitutional amendment, and few others vitally affecting the interests of the state. There is strong opposition to each of these measures, as presented to the legislature, and it is not going to be an easy matter to pass them even if the legislature had twice the number of days at it's disposal
 Among the important measures af- fecting Birmingham are the Warrior river development bills one of which provides for a constitutional amend ment permitting Jefferson county to build, acquire, own, control and oper- ate river terminals and railway lines connecting the terminals with Birming- ham, and three bills relating to the same subject, effective only upon the ratification of the constitutional amend ment.
 Representative Ross bill dividing Jefferson county thereby creating Pet tus county, comes up in the house uSoudy. IHIS IS TnOre llkelY 10 cause a big fight. MT. Ross and lobbists for been busy ever since the legislature convened last winter spreading their propaganda among the members from other parts of the state and but for the fact that citizens of Birmingham and other parts of the county awoke to the seriousness of the situation. a few days ago the bill would in all probabil- ity, now be law.
 
 ROSS BIL LTHOUGHT DOOMED
 The delegations from Birmingham that were here Thursday and Friday did good work during the brief time they had in which to see the members of the legislature and it is not be- lieyed that the Ross bill can now be passed
 When the members from other parts of the state learned that by creating a new county Birmingham and Jeffer- son county would be at the mercy of the politicians of the new county m the matter of sewerage and the War rior river terminals they changed their views and will hardly vote to impose suck impossible conditions upon 300,- 900 or 100000 people
 They have learned also that the op- position to the new county does not come merely from few corporations and their attorneys, as they had been consistently told, but that Birmingham business men and citizens generally, as well as the citizens in other parts of the county who would suffer by reason of the rape of Jefferson" are against it.
 It is local fight, they now say, and they are willing to let Jefferson county fight it out L, the finish
 The moving picture censor bill. which has been reported favorably by
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-31
No Indictment nd : Returned

Fort Worth, Tex. August 30.-Refusal or the county grand jury to indict w. A. Turner, wealthy oil operator. for shooting and killing Charles Wiseman in the Turner home August 22. was announced am today Wiseman and Mrs. iurirr were alleged to have arrived at
 Nhe Turner home toghher. Turner ,ya secreted inside. ~
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-31

should get down to business, dispose of all necessary legislation and ge home
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-31

without costing the state a/dollar for any purpose other than building five convict road camps in different parts of the state. which is provided for by the bill
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-31
PrOfiteers Running
 Mad, Is Declaration
 of Senator Harris
By A.soe,atsd Pres,

Washington. August 30.-"Profiteers are running mad in this country" Senator Harris, democrat. Mississippi, declared today in the Senate in seek ; ing to have the oil leasing bill laid aside so that consideration might be given to the amendments to the food control act suggested by Attorney General Palmer as one means of conn. bat.ng the high cost of living.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-31
Card of Thank.

We desire in this maner to thank our neighbors and friends who SO kindly assisted us during our great, bereavement in the loss of our daush- ter and sister, Olive. Also for the many beautiful floral offerings, the quartet. Rev. Glasgow and Dr. Baker for their conseling words and Under; takers Echols and Angwin.
 MIR. AND MRS. A. F. ELLIOTT !
 AND DAUGHTER. ERNESTA. :;
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-31

the house committee. is another bill in which Birmingham is, to more or less extent, interested. As reported by the committee. Section s of the original bill is eliminated, but with this out the censors, if the bill passes, would perhaps be more powerful than with Section in. The approval pr rejection of pictures would be Jeff largely to the discretion of the cen- sors. with only the state criminal laws as their guide. The bill stipulates that they shall exclude pictures of a sacriligeous. obscene or vulgar nature. or pictures that are calculated to cor rupt the morals of the people.
 At ptesent there are no strong ad vocates of the measuse in either house, but the women of the state, headed by Mrs. R. DuPont Thompson Of Birming- ham, are making a determined fight for it's passage and there is no tell ing what may happen when it is called for passage, which, however. does not -nTx- o1Noh To af
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-31
BIRMINGHAM INTERESTED

The Mobile harbor bills are of in- terest to Birmingham because of the development of the Warrior river. One of these provides for a constitutional amendment which would authorize the state to lend it's credit to the develop . ment of Mobile harbor and to the building and improvement of terminal facilities along the various waterways in the state There is strong opposi- ton to these measures. It is argued that the state should not engage in internal improvements, that they should be Left to private enterprise to develop and improve
 The members of the legislature are getting anxious to go home They have been here two months during the hottest weather of the year, and it is time to gather their crops. They are beginning to fret under the prospec. of four or five weeks more in Mont gomery and it may be that they will make short shrift of the whole mat ter and with the passage of reve- nue bill and the necessary approprfa- tion measures vote down the remain- ing bills and go home.
 There seems to be strong senti- ment against recesseS and adjourn ments over two or three days at time and it would not be surprising if the last 10 legislative days were dis posed of in two or three weeks at the outside. Eight weeks have been re- quired for 20 legislative days. That is an average of almost three calendar days to one legislative day, and at that rate four full weeks would be used up in the last 10 legislative days.
 This spirit of rest1essness cropped out Friday when the joint resolution to go to Mobile on September 10 came up iT the house While 2 ma aiorifv of the members apparently were in favor of making the trip, a sufficient num- Der opposed a suspension of the rules to send the resolution to the rules committee and thus prevented it's irn- mediate passage. Opponents of tie resolution urged that the legislature is wasting too much time and that it
The courier-index., 1919-12-19
4 WOn,ar,'s Back

The Advice of This Marianna
 Woman Is of Certain Value.
 Many a woman's back has many aches and pains.
 Ofttimes 'tis the kindney's fault.
 That's why Doan's Kidney Pills are so effective.
 Many Marianna women know thls.
 Read what one has to say about 1t:
 Mrs. G. H. Shell, 412 Walnut st., says: sT was troubled with my back and my kidneys acting irregularly. When stopped over, I could hardly straighten up again. I had dizzy spells and black specks seemed to appear before my eyes. read or Doan's Kidney Pills in the paper and started using them. They helped me from the first. Two boxes cured me and haven't been troubled since. think the world of Doan's Kidney Pills"
 Price soc, at all dealers. Don't simply ask for a kidney remedy-get Doan's Kidney Pills-the same that Mrs. Shell had. Foster-Milburn Co.,. Mfgrs., Buffalo, N. Y.
The courier-index., 1919-12-19
AS THE YEARS ROLLED BY.

For weeks we had besieged cer- tain city room and certain city ed itor. the object being a permit to hang up our hat and coat and go to work, writes Jay E. House in the Philadelphia Public Ledger. The city editor offered not the slightest en- couragement. But we continued to haunt the city room because we had read, somewhere in magazine, that persistence was the key to job in a newspaper office. Finally, in last desperate effort to make land, we again bearded the city editor in his cubicle and offered to work for noth- ing until such time as he saw lit to attach us to the payroll.
 We had read that in magazine, too. The city editor looked up. The ghost of sheer curled his upper lip and half contemptuous smile played upon his countenance.
 "The Times," he said, "could not afford to hire you at that price"
 After that the years came and went. We served, briefly in most cases, lon list of city editors and reached at last, an insignificant sort of job which carried with it a modi cum of authority. One day there drifted into our cubicle a bit of hu man driftwood cast up by passing freight train. It was grizzled, frayet and scared and stood sadly in neet of the kindly ministrations of ton I sorial artist. But we recognized i upon the instant. It was the forme-
 city editor who had deemed our pric | too high. He wanted a permit to ham, up his coat and go to work.
 We have no notion as to what yo would have done in the circumstance
 We have still less as to what W
 should have done. All we know to
 certainty is that he got the job.
The courier-index., 1919-12-19
QUAINT SIGN ON
 AN ENGLISH INN

Al Leicester, in England, there is an inn upon the wall of which years age e pastor wrote: ''I pray for all. :" The Iilae lawyer, seeing in this means for free advertising, wrote underneath: 'T plead for all" One day a farmer thought he was justi- fled tn adding: s'I feed all" and an army officer passing through the village iefh sa fights for. ail.R ABur an unknown author added the last by writing: q take them all-The Deva.s The host, not wishing to show any partiality. has hung out his slgn, "The House of All>Five."
The courier-index., 1919-12-19
J. B. Markhan SkOlUs What
 Can Be Done With Grade CGttle

prominent place in the farming program of many is clearly demonstrated ny
  farmer of the word when ne OGusn d friends assured him that ne would he able to Today there is not farm the county that giving better living than NIT Markhms efforts be attrlb- uted directly to his stock The three pictures shown tell Mr. Markhams plan and
 his land bushels of when he bought it will average year.
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third picture tells MT arkham place is increasing fer
  something like 100 will be put unde cornt spring. tf Markham all good being the principal interested getting good registered bull to head
  bought cheaper this winter than time in the last bull
  whu money is easy o
The courier-index., 1919-12-19

Listen, MT. Farmer. Don't you want some extra fine Duroc-Jersey hogs-the best meat producers on earth? I have some fine breeding stock for sale-stock from the best strains of Durocs in existence. If you sent away for hogs like these you would pay twice the amount I charge. Stock up on something good at req sonable prices. Henry James, route 2, Marianna. *tf sas.sss 7ssAa s zEST4 s zTEE7T w% 8 M
 If neither president nor senate will retareat from present positions on the treaty, we shall have to retreat with the powers.-Richmond Times. Dispatch.
The courier-index., 1919-12-19

Wilhelm must sometimes wonder if he is the person who once styled him. self the "all highest"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-10-01

saved.
Thank you. Mother Crow" he call
ed as the ripples In the water carried
the leaf to shore and landed him safe
ly. He crawled uUon tho bank and
went to sleep and when he awoke
strange sight was before him. There
stood a barefoot boy looking up into
the trees. A gun was in his hand.
Little Johnny Beetle wondered what
this DO. was looking tor SO quietly.
BY and by the boy pointed his gun to-
ward the tree top and Johnny, look
ing up. saw Mother Grow asleep on
limb. Johnny Beetle knew then that
the boy intended to kill Mother Crow,
so he ran as fast as he could to where
the boy stood, and sank his Jaws deep
into the boys heels.
"Ouch!" cried the boy and dropped
his gun. This awakened Mother Grow
and she flew away. Little Johnny
Beetle dropped from the boys bare
heel and ran under some leaves. But
he heard Mother Crow crying: Cav,
cav. cav" which in her language was
Thank you. Johnny Beetle"
II want this blue stone" said Tink-
or Bob, and he tapped it again against
the gray one. Instantly he found him
self standing in the funny house, where
the little old man was telling his ser
wants what to write in the great books.
-Tomorrow--The Flint Stone.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-10-01
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BY Carlysle H. holcornb
THE BLU c STONE.

Tinker Bob wanted to know about
the beautiful creature. So he took from
his pocket another stone-this time
the blue one. He tapped it against the
gray one, and before he could count
two. the angel-creature stood before
him
"Oh. you are wonderful" said Tink-
err Where do we so today?"
"You will know the rule OF the for
est today" said the creature.
Where do you liver" asked Tinker
'T live with you all the time. but
you do not see me-" was the reply.
In less than a moment they were
by the side OF n gurgling spring at the
foot Of a large oak tree. There came
to the spring Mr.. ana Mrs. Beetle and
their son. They were on long jour
ney. Little Johnny Beetle fingered
behind the others and drank long OF
the cold water. As he bent over q
twig to get his last drink before going
on his way, the twig broke and he fell
into the spring. He tried to crawl out
time and again, but fell back into the
water.
Up in a tree sat Mother Crow. She
looked down in sorrow upon the
struggling Beetle. and desiring to help
him, she dropped leaf into the spring
and called to him to climb upon 1t.
After some scramble. he finally man
aged to climb upon the leaf and was