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The evening world., 1919-12-30
FEDERAL BOARD
LIMITS ALL LOANS
TO RESERVE BANKS
Takes Strong Measures to
Bridge Over a Delicate
Financial Situation.
WILL FORCE ECONOMY.
Board viii Use Power to
Check Speculative Activity
Started During Holidays.
By DdUid Laurence.
Especial Correspondent Of The Eve
ming Worldly

Especial Correspondent Of The Eve
ming Worldly
WASHINGTON, Dec. so Q919
CopyrighD.-Generaliy speaking the
public-which is largely responsible
has not been acutely conscious Of
the delicate financial situation in
which the nation has found itself in
the holiday season. While the Fed
eral Reserve Board believes the
crisis has passed It is nevertheless
determined to check speculative ac-
tivity and use its powers and in
fluence to cause the American peo-
pie to economize.
So many persons have thought
chat because the Federal Reserve
system was constructed to bear the
strains that had previously been
placed upon our national banking
system that any burden whatsoever
could be imposed and the structure
would not sag. But the Federal Re
serve Board has been compelled for
the nations good TO restrict the
amount OF money which member
banks could borrow OF the Federal
Reserve Banks and otherwise use
It's powers to check the extensive
issue OF credit paper for speculative
purposes.
OLD RESTRICTIONS WAS AN OBJ.
STAcLE TO EXPANSION.
Before tn" Federal Reserve act was
passed, a National Bank could not
borrow more money than it's capital
stock. This inlexihillty was in one
sense a good thing but in many other
cases an obstacle 10 business exDnn-
sion. Tho Federal Reserve system
has permitted banks 10 borrow as long
as the funds were available in the
Reserve Banks. In some cases mem
Der banks have borrowed ten ana
fifteen times their capital stock. Now
the Federal Reserve Board has called
halt, II is determined to prove that
the Federal Reserve system not only
was designed to cxpnrd upon emrrg-
7ncy but TO act as a check and re-
straininE force too
There is no denying the fact that
the approach Of Christmas with its
tremendous buying in the retail trade
caused some uncasincss II viii be re-
membered that the ArmIstIco came
so suddenly that the public generally
was not prepared either as purchasers
or s'llers 20 take care OF the Christ
mas trade.
All tho pent-up desires OF the
American people, however. resulting
from the war period Of involuntary
economy were let loose this year II
was the hn5t great after-the-war test
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TIE WONLn LMNNEI. nuREAU.

Arcadc. PulitIer twofii Buliims 5-6s PARK
RCw. n. y city. Telephone Berkman 1000
Chesk room fT baggage aud pArogla open day and
night hJutb orders and travellers ehecks for
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TWO DIED AFTER DRINKING
LIQUOR AT BAR.

feager said he bought the aIlag.t
h.5koy from Samuel SolouoY. u
saloon keeper A. No. 210 Belmont Ave
nu". Federal agents found that Sp..-
mon had already been arrested To-
violating the Prohibition Law. The,
also discovered that a porter in his
saloon ana another man had died
after drinking some liquor a the bar
Solomon was arrested and held on u
charge OF mansiaughtcr.
James Lownski, bartender in the
saloon 81 Lyman Morris at No. i27
Passaic street. Passaic. n. J., was
arrested to-day by direction OF Chief
OF Police Gustav Schmidt ana County
Prosecutor Dunn. Charges Of nm
slaughter We're prepared against the
bartender based On the deaths of
stephen Bliss OF No g. Wall Street
Martin Duhek OF No. iO2 Passatc
Street. Three other persons lnclud-
ing the husband OF Mrs Mlynarz are
reported dying at Passaic Hospital
Morris, the prourietor OF the saloon.
was not in tlr place when the bar
tender was arrested.
Five men accused OF selling wood
alcohol were arra gned on a charge
Of murder in Chicopee, Mass, TODAY
and are held in jail there. Another
man was arra.gned on similar
charge in Northampton, Mass, and
was held in bonds Of {G,5OO.
Alexander Crceton, prosecuting at
torney OF Hartford. Conn, came TO
New York to-day as a representative
OF the State Attorney. and after a
conference with Assistant United
states District Attorney Joseph
Mulqucen jr. announced that with
evidence already obtained from four
men under arrest in Hartford and
testimony he has obtained here he Is
ready 10 ask for the extradition to
Connecticut on a charge OF homicide
OF Adolph Panarelli. who has con
tesssd that he was Instrumental "a
The evening world., 1919-12-30

"MEDDNG BELLS"
Clcan. delightful comedy EuocsEs HaUis Theatre
-AdiL
The evening world., 1919-12-30

John Reynolds went to his homo al
No 26O Varicl, Street. Jersey City,
last night with bottle OF what he
had purchased for whlskey. He and
his wife invited Mrs. Mary Ward.
living in the same house. in for q
party Tho three drank OF the al
legged whiskoy and in a fow hours
Reynolds and Mrs. Ward died. Mrs
Reynolds is seriously m.
On Information given by Mrs.
Reynolds the police closed the whole
sale and retail liquor store OF Philip
Seiden at No. 3Oi Newark Avenue
to-day and seized a small stock OF
liquids in bottles and recipe for
making whiskey at home, together
with ingredients ,sallcd for in the
"c!pc, These ingredients were sugar.
rnolasscs and alcohol and the con.
tents Of a small vial
Mrs, Reynolds told tho police be-
husband told her ne bought the
liquor he brought home from Seilea,
who denies the sale.
Edward Klein OF ~. Tl6 Bergen
street Newark, speedily died aft-r
taking four drinks OF what ne was
told WAS whIskoy In the saloon ui
John H"ager and John Anderwels O..
! nntorton and Bigeluw Streets.
leago~ was arrested and held in S25.-
600 bail and AndeIwcia was held a
a material ,,1t,,...
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TAKE BELL-ASs AFTER MEALS and ses
h0v 6ns GOOD DIGESTION nihss Eou issL.- AaE,.
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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-08-31
Birmingham, Ala, August 81, 1919.
In Your In tere S t.

In the face of real estate mar
ket which is already active and
will be progressively so for an
indefinite time to come, we earn
estly advise citizens to loseI no
time in preparing to build homes.
There is no assurance of lower
1orinnc for h1lildinO material c
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-08-31

city to entertain this national gather

city to entertain this national gather
ing.
A committee from the Chamber OF
Commerce will be named to draw up
an elaborate programme of entertain
ment, which will include a trip to The
steel plants and mines in the Birming-
ham district. a banquet and dance, and
possibly a barbecue. The president or
the association is J. carruthers OF
Proctor. MINI. In addition to the dele
gates to the convention, a large num-
Der of eastern manufacturers and sup
ply men will attend and display their
goods.
This convention will mean big
thing for Birmingham, because the
men who come to it are buyers of the
very articles which Birmingham pro-
duces," said Mr.. Steed Representing
some of the biggest industrial plants,
railroad shops and shipyards in the
country they are charged with the re-
sponsibility of purchasing machinery
and tools for their respective houses.
We want to show them Birmingham
and what we can do down here"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-08-31

either in the immediate or distant future and the
possibility Of saving in that way by waiting is
practically discounted
On the other hand those who buy lots now will
effect substantial saving on the cost of a home
as compared with next spring, for instance, to say
nothing of the wider selection in home sites
which the present affords
These the facts Do than ponder them Act
them.
Our special building plan lowers the cost Of the constc
ton Of the home. It's popularity proves that We offer
lit to YOU.
Birmingham Realty Company
2118 First Avenue
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-08-31
ZOE STEED LANDS
!, BIG CONVENTION

\The International Railroad Master
association will hold it's
annual convention in this
ciSy during the latter part of August.
1940 The convention was secured tor
by the Chamber OF Com
merce who extended an invitation
Through one of it's members, Joe Stesd
of Fairfield.
The convention will bring to Bir-
yninggham over 1000 leading master
blacksmiths from the big Industrial
[plants in all parts of the country.
)These are the men who buy machinery
land TOOLS for their respective houses.
Birmingham is the second southern
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-08-31

- HE cottage illustrated in this
issue is 2S IT. wide in front and
81 It. in depth. 1t has three
- rooms on the first floor and a
glazed in piazza, finished same as
other rooms. On the second floor are
three good chambers, bath room and
clothes closets. The design is simple
in arrangement and construction and
economical to build. There is one
central chimney with fiues for heat
ing plant. fireplace in living room
and for kitchen use. The plan is
best suited TO an east or south front
age, for west or north it should be
reversed.
The front entrance opens into the
glazed piazza and on the right you
enter the main living room, at the
end of piazza you open with wide
glazed French windows into the din
ing room. The living room is pref
tily lighted with. grouped windows in
front and on each side. The fire.
place is in the center OF the long side
with the main stairs carried up to
second story back Of fireplace and
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-08-31
Deputies Run Down
and Capture Alleged
Prohibition ViOlatOrs

After a sensational foot race for some
distance and the firing of several shots,
Arthur Armstrong, A. B. Payne, Sam
Goodwin and Oscar Turner were captured
near the Potter's Cross Roads crossing
yesterday by Deputies Melton. Smith,
Arnett and Jones.-with two tin buckets
of corn liquor. The men were placed
in the county jaii charges of violating
the prohibition laws.
According to the arresting officers,
they saw the four men walking along
with the buckets and started to APP
proach them They stated that when the
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-08-31

Snowman. who dubbed him Gen. Tom
Thumb. At that time Stratton was
less than two feet high and weighed
16 pounds, In 1863 I.avina Warren
(aso a dwarf was married to STRAIT
ton. Mrs Tom Thumb Is still alive.
She is known in private life as the
Countess Magri. having been married
three years after the death of STRAIT
ton to Count Magri, an Italian by birth
and also midget.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-08-31

Tom Thumb. whose real name. was
Charles Sherwood Stratton, died in
Middleboro, Mass. July Is, 1888. He
was born at Bridgeport, Conn, in jan
uary 1888. and was IA years old when
first engaged by p. T. Barnum, the
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-08-31

men saw them they fled and were cap
turned after lively chase and after sew
eral shots had peen fired.
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the basement stairs underneath. The
is conveniently provided
with pantry cupboards and
screened porch in rear with space
for refrigerator. This main floor is
in birch with white maple
floor and the second story chambers
are finished in white enamel, with
birch floor. The exterior of house
is faced with dark pressed brick to
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-08-31

the first story window sills and with
stucco above and the gables are
shown with half tmbeis and cement
between. All outside trimmings
stained dark brown and the sash
painted wkia, the roof stained moss
green giving very pretty combina-
ton. The estimated cost, exclusive
of heating and plumbing. is $4,000
to $4,000.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-08-31
FOR SALE

the suitable lots Highland for
Highland
with 1O-room house good condition Will
until ready with
opportunity
that worth the price asked for the house
lot
JEMISON REAL ESTATE & ms. CO.
211 North 10th Street Main $3.50
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-21
Say Abracadabra!

Adventures Of Baroa Munchausen. 1t is
the most fascinating book ever read.
If you read it to dig out "Truth" you
are lost, for you may find it, and that
means the BOBBY hatch at the last end of
Twenty-sixth street. But IL you read it
without any malice prepense toward in
tellectual amusement and for the serious
purpose Of studying the curious psyche
Of the author you will have the finest
romp of your young mental life. 1t proves
that nothing lies so magically as num-
bers, that you can do anything with fig
ures and that on the wings of z (if z
has not become modern and turned into
Caproni) you can really ascend to
heaven-the heaven of forgetting for an
evening your landlord and Senator
Knox's mystical love for the coolies in
Shantung.
Dig your thumb into page AZ. Says
she: "In Ireland and Scotland it is the
common belief that three colored cat
(sortoise shelly brings good fortune;
hence If such cat attaches itself to a
home it is considered sign Of a great
good luck" Here is accumulated a settle
ment Of the Irish question. 1 suggest
that every one who wants to bring hsppi-
ness to the Shan Van Vocht send three
colored cat to a home in Ireland. Mail
them all to Patrick Quinlan, care of
"JoePs," and he'll see that they reach
their destination. Scotland doesn't need
any moro tortoise shell cats; if so be she
is In bad way, there is only one thing
that will save that bonnie country ma
tional university for inculating the art Of
spending money.
The book is full Of diptbongs, Tauric
eyes, little Aldebarans, big .Alderbarans,
arnpersands, umlauts and ornamental
0uas. There is drawing which looks
exactly like an apothecary's scale, but
which is labelled Plane of Divine Reality.
The spiritual sun" is at the top-the
pivot, and in the scales we are all weighed
and found Wanting.
THE KEY TO THE UNIVERSE. By
HARRIErTE AUGUSTA CURTIss. Z. P. Dut-
ton & Co.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-21
"The Four Roads"

Hardy creeps in, not quite so ironic,
ward these tillers Of the soil, these woS
be tillers Of the soul. The gallery of fgu1
is rather large for book of 800 pagea
but they are all handled skilfully and
interviewer into completed whole that
makes up vivid presentation of Sussex
life. Old Mus Beatup, nearly always
drunken; his wife with her crudities Of
manner and vague attempts at tenderness;
Nell with her congenital sense of refine
ment in the midst of this broad vulgarity
Of Beatup life; Steve Kadwell; Seagrim
from Northumberland and his wife, all
of them are rounded figures, some more
or less developed, but always with that
vivid sense Of reality that may only be ap-
proximated by the utmost familiarity with
the subject matter on the part of the
author. The -Four Roads is a worthy sue
cessor to SusseT Goyse, although it may
not possess the unity of that earlier book
that brought Sheila Kaye-Smith so much
credit.
No proper mention of The -Four Roads
can be made without dwelling for short
time on the atmospheric effects and man.
ner in which the very soul of the country
side is interviewer in the book. Sussex
with its rains, with its earthly scents, its
clayey roads, its steaming business, is
brought extremely close to the reader.
Here again is the Hardy touch. 1t is not
the vital symbolical presentation of at
mosphere which may be found in The Re
turn Of the Native, for instance, where
that gloomy heath casts its shadows over
the characters and actions of the story,
but it is deftly conceived atmosphere
that makes realistic the characters and
plausible the action.
THE FOUR ROADS. BY 5HuLA KAYE
SMITH. George H. Doran Company.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-21
By BENJAMIN DE cASSERES.

HE pursuit Of truth is one of the
4 most curious pastimes of the hui
man race. Mystery, not truth, is the most
beautiful thing we know.
The latestSbook Of its kind is The Key
to the UniUerse, by Harriette Augusta
Curtiss. There are seven keys to Bald
pate, four doors to "Jacks," but it seems,
according to Harriette Curtiss, there is
only one key to Heaven. Years ago
"Charlie" Hoyt wrote a farce called A
Bunch Of Keys. This, it strikes me,
would be more likely name for a book
that attempts to burglarize tho mansion
from which Prometheus and Lucifer were
hustled before they could grab their win
Kings.
Heaven / conceive to be land in this
Harriette Curtiss and differ most griev-
ously) like Life itself, a mammoth hotel
with millions Of rooms-hallrooms, suites
de luxe, grand bathrooms, grills, rooms
with baths, rooms without baths, bridal
chambers, bachelor floors for Lohengrins
and Parsifals, wine cellars for Falstaffs
and Poes, belvederes for lovers, Turkish
corners for our Oriental friends, Russian
baths for Bols, cabarets for the Khay-
yamically minded and silent, thick walled
rooms for morris chair bohemians like
james Huneker, Edgar Saltus and Carlo
de Forraro. This would require the man.
ufacture Of bunch of keys so big that
the peaks Of the Rockies would not do for
nails on which to hang them.
For there is no Heaven - Harriette
Curtiss and the Californian Inner Seal
Yogis TO the contrary Notwithstanding
but there are only heavens. Each one,
said the late Mr.. Wilde, has his private,
portable hell. And each one has his own
unique tabernacle Heaven. And the
roads thither are not paved with printed
words. t'a
1t Ii because Harriette Curtiss's book
h fairy tale Of Numbers, Tarcot cards,
Cycles, Solomon Seals, Pentacles and
Calico Callays that I purpose not to
pawn il, but to put it alongside of my
books on demonology, witohcraft and The
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-11-02

Mary Cunningham, in The
Magic Melody" a new musi-
cal comedy opening in Wash
iugton this week.
Photo 10y .\Ifnd Cheney Johnston.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-11-02

Photo H., Charles Alhin
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-11-22
Other Editors Than Ours
not THE AGE OF PEACE, BUT OF HUMAN
GREED
lCinclnnati EnauLrcrl

Is this the age of peace? 1t is be doubted With
all our boosted civilization have advanced
much beyond the social conditions of the feudal
days.
Pick up your morning evening paper. and what
DO YOU read2 Wars and rumors of war; strikes and
lockouts: tumuts in the cities; the appar-
ruinous antagonisms and struggles between lab
and capital: blood in the Baltic provinces blood
Russia and Poland blood the sands Of Africa.
in Mexico and in the lands of the rising sun; sedi-
tons and revolutions. and, under ALL the sinister
muttcrngs of peoples who have toiled for the sup
port OF governments to the end that other men and
women might live better than themselves.
The world still is as far from peace in any real
sense il has been at any time during the
les The policy of governments demands the build
ng of dreadnoughts the construction OF submarines
the development Of lighting craft designed
other agencies by the use OF which IL may be pos
sible swiftly and effectively to crush. mangle
and kill
Is this the OF peace? No. It should be the age
of but il is the OF human greed and
sion Not long ago we dedicated a peace palace at
The Hague. Since then the world has witnessed
prccedented human strife, the bloodiest and most
inhuman atrocities perpetrated fields OF bat
tie The peace palace stanes mock the insincerty
OF men. Il is beautiful building.
This should be the of reason. and tells
that trade is better than war that is OF
more worth than dynamite and meinite:
saw, the hammer and the plane better than
the rifle. the bayonet the Capital and lab
must hand in hand friends, each receiving
its just due and when this is the world have
peace. lasting. real peace. Nations than in
dividuals construct the foundations peace up
on the elements OF slaughter and distinctions. There
should be Caesars neither the Caesar OF capital
Of labor Of the mob. There is a mighter
force than any Caesar. and that is the will OF q
united neoDle IN this land Of America
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-11-22
The MENSURGRAPH.

Fathers. according to article in the Popular
Science Monthly likely 10 make mistakes when
asaring their children They may exclaim proud
y that the has grown inch when ne has
grown only longitudnally He may have lost
latitudinay and, might say. thick-th roughly,
a the same time than he has gained in heght. The
total cubic contents Of the child nay be less than
before.
To correct this difficulty. Or. Theron Kmer of
New York has invented what he calls "mensur-
graph" He superimposes negative of a screen on
a negative Of the child Both are printed together.
Future photographs of the child printed with
the same screen and can easily be compared. The
sizes Of the whole body before and after a given
period months will readily show sp their diff
ferences.
The method is also used for X-ray pictures of de-
formities. Progress in disease or in healing of
diseased joint o a growth may be watched.
Doubtless for pathological purposes the plan is
extremely useful. For normal children it seems
hardly necessary. The father may be misled by his
of the measuring stick record growth. The
mother who has spent all morning letting the
bands of little petticoats and the hens of little
dresses and reinforcing the buttons that have burst
off needs adventurous aids When it to
the matter of shoes and gloves leggins.
fully laid away last spring and wholly impossible
this fall
No. mother does not need a mensurgra pin. What
she would like is microscope for the bills and
magnifyiDg glass for the hect-balance.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-11-22
ABOUT FIGHTERS

We always thought tie express
sions below went with a prize fight
er, just the same as applause Goes
with an actor, and raisins with a
boOtlegger:-
Where do youse get that stuff?"
He wallops me one in the lamp.
and then 1 puts out his tungsten.
Il hits off a little OF that there hip
music before the show anc was
full Of the old pep"
Me Mol sits down next 10 the
ring side, cheerin' for her big brown
eyed Cuckoo"
One night down in Texas goes
south with the gate"
THAT is. we thought that IS
about the way all professional fight
ers talk until we met frankie Mason
the other day. Mason, you know.
oLtfought a fellow by the name of
Armstrong over at the Oliver the
other night. How he ever licked a
gent with the name like that IS be-
yCnd my comprehension, but that
has nothing to do with this discus
sion.
Mason waltzes into the office the
other afternoon, and by George. we
picked him for either a bond sales
man, or an advance man for the
Saturday Evening Post. We were
introduced and got acquainted. He
was Immediately dressed. talked
like an Episcopal parson, never
used the compound word "youse"
once, and made a hit generally all
around. We were trying TO find out
what ii was worth a quart I'm Fort
Wayne. his home, and he talked
about the situation the, United States
is in industrially; Theodore Roose-
welt the father, the president, the
private citizen; the bee culture in the
East Indies; the origin OF printing;
causes and effects OF the European
war; ways and means OF increasing
the power and prestige Of the mod
ern church; the Athenian age; Al