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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-09
ACCORD MARKS MEETING
By Associated Pres

Paris, February S.-The following off, ficial statement was issued today
 At 1:30 o'clock this morning at Hotel De Crillon, the commission on the league of nations held a meeting which was marked by the same accord of view that has characterized It's previous ses- Sions.
 At the end of this meeting the com mission finds itself nearing the end of it's task. Only a few articles of the draft remain to be presented formally to the members of the commission. A few matters, referred to the draft com mittee for clarification, still require ref erence back to the commission, and cer- tain points provislonally accepted may be reopened Tor discussion before the committee makes it's report to the con- ference.
 M Ricci Busatti was named to rep resent the Italian delegation on the sec Sretariat. The committee will meet again at 10:30 Monday morning N .On Sunday afternoon the drafting Scommittee above referred to, consist ing of aul Hymans tBelgium). Leona Bourgeois (France), Lord Robert Cecil tGreat Britain), and M. Venizelos (Greece) will meet at the Hotel Majes- stic in order to prepare report for the JEext meeting of the committee.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-09
STATE FURNISHED
 73,811 MEN UNDER SELECT|VE DRAFT I
36 Per Cent of Registrants of June, 1917; June, 1918, and August, 1918, Were
 Inducted

Montgomery. February S,-(Special) Tn report submitted by L. E. LaMont, draft executive of Alabama, the state is shown to have furnished 73.S11 men for service under the selective service law. This number is shown to be more than S6 per cent to the total white and colored registration of June 1917. June. 1918 and August 1918. None of the registrauts of September l, 1918, were inducted through the draft.
 Says the report:
 '"rhe two Mobile city boards had a total white and colored registration of 4475 The city of Mobile furnished 2206 men, this being 49 4-10 of the June 5, 1917, and June and August, 1918, registration. However. SS7 of this number had enlisted before regis tration day. The white and colored registration of June 5, 1917, and Junc and August, 1918. of the Mobile county board was 3151. Mobile county sup piled 1921 men, sS4 of whom enlisted before the draft. The number fur nished was fl 9-10 per cent of the June, 1917, and June and August. 1918 registration.
 Birmingham city supplied S4S0 men with a white and colored registration of June ,. 1917. and June and August 1918, of 21,942, which is SS 6-I0 per cent of the above registration. Eleven hundred and forty of these men enlist ed before registration day in different branches of the army. t..,
 The three Jefferson county boards having Jurisdiction outside of Birming- ham contributed 4S05 men with a white and colored registration of 14 297. of June 5, 1917 and June and Au- gust, 1918, registration. Four hundred and 15 of these men enlisted before the draft. The total number furnished is 33 6-10 per cent of the total white and colored registration.
 "The number of men who entered the military service from Montgomery city and county was 2455; Mobile city and county, 3527; Birmingham city and Jefferson county, 13,2S5."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-09
Farm Implements
 Not to Be Cheaper
By Associated Pres.

Chicago. February s-Farm implements and vehicles will not be cheaper in the
 immediate or early future.
 "On the contrary" said Secretary E. w. Mccullough of the National Imple- ment and Vehicle association, today. 'it Is the opinion of the officers of our as ;ociation that present price levels cannot he substantially reduced without serious or even disastrous losses to the manufac- turers until the stocks of raw materials which they bought and contracted for at wartime prices are worked up and mar keted.
 The report recently sent out from Pitts burg about cheaper farm imple was entirely mistaken. At special meeting of blow and tillage implement makers held there on February standardization of varieties was discussed as means of economy, but nothing was said about present or future prices"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-09
THIS MIST HAVE
 BEEN MALE COW
cv as,oc,sfso P-e,,

Columbus, Ga. February S.--An intoxicated COW running: away with "A i5O-t;uiiOn stin was captured by DePasy Revenue Collector English of 4 ianta and s. J. Causcy of thia city about 1. miles north of here this afternoon. Inyextl ttun showed that the cow had found the top of and the stfsl fau of ssoIr mash" Having, no conseiangioEs .s ruples about violating the ''hcre- dry" law. she. had the tins of her life. Her head wen; in ths .s II opening easy enough, but w0t i'd not come out.
 The rest of the still orsfit was captured by the officers near srh re the COW was fOrnd. hut the owners had disappeared.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-09
Chain of Radio Stations Along Atlantic Coast
 Has Been Established
By Associated Prsss

Boston. February S.-Establishment of chain of radio stations approximately 30 miles apart along the Atlantic coast. was announced by the headquarters of the First Naval district here today. The statement said that by this arrangement. Incoming vessels when 150 or 200 miles off the coast could determined their posi- tion easily by communicating with shore stations, regardless of weather conditions Along the 250 miles of coast included within the First district, eight stations already are in operation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-09
EIGHT PERSONS DROWN AS BOAT CAPSLZES ON
 WARRIOR NEAR GORGAS
Ernest Beavers and Joe Collins of Bir- mingham Meet Death While on Fish
 ing Trip on Warrior River

Ernest w. Beavers, we'll known cafe and Joe C. Col ins south Sixteth street. Woodawn; B. Garon, nisher of Atlanta E. Haber of Dallas Tex Alex Odey of Macon Ga A. L. Tppe of Anniston, Smith and unknown being eight of the 25 board the small boat Pollyanna, plying between Gorgas and Beno drowned yesterday afternoon 30 o'clock when the boat capsized miles above Gorgas while making in the bend of the Warrior according distance message received here last night
 
 eonstuted Only the bodies had been
  aut
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-09
MILL OWNERS AND STRIKERS TO ASK
 TEMPORARY DECISION
Rx As.ncia,ed Prs.,

Paterson, N. J., New Jersey silk mill owners and representatives of nearly 5000 striking employees agreed early this mornin= to re- quest the national war labor board to fix teDipOrar. working hours which will he accepted by both, sides pending q final decision by the board of the hour question. It was said that work probably would be resumed Monday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-09
LABOR PROPOSALS OFFERED

\ Paris February S.--The American del- fsegates on the commission on interna- Ytional labor legislation of the peace Sconference has submitted the following proposals to the commissions:
 l we declare that the following fun xlamental principles should underlie Nand be incorporated in the peace treaty; ! "A league of the free peoples of the i. world in a common covenant for genu- inc and practical cooperation to secure justice and, therefore, peace in the re- lations between nations. "The entrance of any free natior irto the league of free peoples of the world shall be inherent. Y ."No reprisals based upon purely vim dictive purposes, or deliberate desire to injure, but to right manifest wrong. v "Recognition of the rights of small nations and of the principle, No people Vnust be forced under sovereignty hnder which it does not wish to live N .No territorial changes or adjust Nnents of power excepting the further p{.nce- of the welfare of the peoples af-
 fected and in the furtherance of world
 peace.
 "That in law and in practice the prin-
 ciple shall be recognized that the labor
 of human being is not commodity
 or an article of commerce.
 Involuntary servitude shall not ex
 ist except in a punishment for crime
 of which the party shall have been duly
 nopv victed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-09
All Males in Russia
 Must Fight for Reds
By AssocIsted Press

London. February s.-The bolsheyik government has decided that all males in Russia. irrespective of nationality. must serve in the Red army. according to a Copenhagen dispatch 10 the Ex- change Telegraph company.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-09

past 17 years of age. he had been with the government fin this ca pacfty for sew real months. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Collins of WOOdtawn, and is survived by his mother and father three sisters, Mrs. c. B. Edwards, Miss Myrtle Collins of the Drennen Motor Car company. Miss Velva Collins, and one brother. Howard W. Collins. This was q shock to the family. of course, but made more so by the fact that Mir. and Mrs. Collins in October last lost their eldest son, i.cRoy, wAC died in T fbiindeiphia.
 ooh. don't know how can stand fhis,. said Mrs. CoIiips when informed by The Age H. rnld of the death Of her young son. ~and l looking for him home tonight. Thought when the tell
 phone rang it was him calling me."..
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-09
ALLIES ADVANCE IN
 BATTLE WITH REDS
By Associated Prs,

ArchanEel. February 8-Alied forces advanced five miles down the petrograd road from kadish ycs- trrday. The belxhevist guns were cap@vred by the allies during the fighting
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-09
NIGHT MEETING

a's By Associated Fress 4s4s z Paris, February S.-(British Wireless service )-The official statement is- sAed today on the meeting last night ,sf the peace conference commission 'sn society of nations says: 'yThe commission on the society of na- ms met on the evening of February land continued it's discussion of ar-
 Hcles of the draft.
 E Substantial agreement was reached
 ~ the commission on the chief points
 Discussed. The commission decided.
 Nlowever. that certain clauses of tEe ,JEaft should be referred to a sub- nmittee of four for clarification. h bHder that the greatest possible prog (Continued on Page Ten)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-09
RECORD-BREAKING WAR REVENUE b,L
 ADOPTED BY HOU [
Measure Now Goes to Senate for Final Approval, Which Is Expected Early
 Next Week
By Associated rfsss

Washington, February S.-The
 House tonight concluded it's work
 on the record-breaking war reve-
 nue bill by adopting, BIO to II, after
 six hours discussion, the confrees
 agreement on the measure. It now
 goes to the Senate for final ap-
 proval, which Is expected early
 next week.
 The conference report, which pro poses to raise s6,O0o. .OOO,0Oo in taxes this year and more than s4,000, 100000 an- nually until repealed will be taken up by the Senate Immediately after disposal os the woman suffrage reso- lution Monday, or. if delayed, on Tues day. It's adoption by the Senate and approval by President Wilson are TO- garded as assured.
 During debate in the House today, democratic and republican leaders joined in declaring that the bilrs tax levies were too low. both for this year and 1920. and predicted that high- CT taxes must be provided by the nexs Congress-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-09
ELEVEN OPPONENTS

Opposition to the report was not based, however, on It's tax impostS but to minor amendments, particularly the child labor Legislation. On the tindl roll call seven democrats--Blackmon of Alabama, Dies and Rayburn of Texas and Humphrey, Sisson. Ste phens and Venable of Mississippi-vor- ed with four republicans--Dye of Mis- souri. Langley and Powers of Ken- lucky and Sells of Tennessee-against the conference draft, A motion by Representative Venab1e to recommit the bill and strike out the child la Dor section was defeated, 171 to Is.
 Besides the child labor provision. several House members criticized as a 'pittance" the $60 pay bonus provid- ed for persons discharged from mili- tary service.
 Representative kitchin, democratic leader, made the principal address, commenting the bill as whole, but declaring 1t should have imposed high- or taxes and that it would not meet future requirements. He expressed the belief that expenditures this year would total SEQ, 1000, 100000 and s10,0O0,- 0O0,000 in 1920, and that by the end of the next fiscal year the bonds out standing would aggregate $S0.000,00 900. He explained, however. that to enact the bill and take s1, TOO 000, ,00c more than under the existing law from "profiteers" charged with conducting propaganda against it's passage, tho House conferees were compelled to fore the 10 per cent semi luxury taxes become effective April l, next, legIs- lation for their repeal would be forth coInln@
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-09
THINK TAXES roo LOW

Representatives Fordney of Michigan and Moore of Pennsylvania. republican conferees, asserted that there must be immediate revision of the tariff.
 All the conferees criticized various features in the bill and MT. Moore re- ferred to 1t as "a forbiddng measure" and "a chamber of financial horrors"
 Representative Rainey declared that 1t was illogical in many respects and would meet with violent criticisM." He also agreed with MT. Kitchn that next years expenditures would be s13,- 000000000 and advocated a budget committee to bring about economy in appropriations. Heavy federal estate taxes also were urged by MT Rainey, who declared there now are 10000 American millionaires.F 22.oO0 of whom were created by the war
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-11-08
EDWARDS DOUBTFUL
TRIUMPH

The fall elections for 1919 contained
many surprises, but none that surpass-
ed the New Jersey results. For Gov
ernor, Senator Edwards won on the
dement's of platform that fairly
reeked with sophistries and bare
faced impossibilities, and none knew
this better than the candidate himself.
Making prohibition an issue at this
time was worse than ridiculous, but,
as The Palisadian forecasted, he was
almost dead sure to win on the hum
buggery and daring of his proposal.
Making New Jersey "as wet as the
Atlantic Ocean" was the veriest bull.
Prohibition is now federal law, or
will be January 16 next, and no Gov
ernor can change it. Mr.. Bugbee made
a strong plea, but could not stem the
tide Of those who believed in CHANGING
a chance. The question of personal
liberty and the challenge against it by
prohibition was too much to be resist
ed by those who hoped against hope.
Senator Edwards, himself teetotaler,
knows the awful damage from saloons,
and he will not undertake to deceive
himself into believing that he has
won anything like a fight for the
people. He has done no such thing.
He just fiimfammed them. But it is
all right, and he deserved to win. He
has many good qualities, and as be-
tween him and the man he beat, there
is much in his favor, according to the
way we read the characters of the two
men. Mr.. Edwards proved P. T. Bar
NUNS old theory that the people like
to be humbugged.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-11-08
COMPANY ELECTS
NEW OFFlCERS-N.F r. THURRER,
VICE PRESIDENT.

At meeting of the Board of Direc-
tors of the New York Telephone Com
pany held on Wednesday,, October 20,
Mr.. H. F. Thurber, Vice President,
was elected President of the Company.
The new President has been Vice
President in charge of the Companies
constituting the Eastern group of Bell
includes the New York Telephone
System Telephone Companies, which
Company, the Bell Telephone Com
pany of Pennsylvania and the Chesa-
peake and Potomac Telephone Com
pany.
Mr.. Thurber is one of the best
known men in the telephone bust
ness. He entered it in 1890 immedi'
ately following his graduation from
Cornell University as mechanical
engineer. The telephone business
was then very young and Mr.. Thur
ber's interest in it was aroused by
an address given at Cornell University
by DR.. Alexander Graham Bell, inven-
tor of the telephone. His first posi-
ton was with the Metropolitan Tele-
phone and Telegraph Company of New
York, the predecessor of the New York
Telephone Company and he has risen
through the ranks to the position he
now holds.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-11-08
PRAYER OF LiBERALlTY.

The supreme prayer of my heart
is not to be learned, rich, famous,
powerful or even good" but simply
to be radiant. / desire to radiate
health, cheerfulness, calm courage and
good will.
| wish to live without hate, whim,
jealousy, envy, fear. / wish to be
simple, honest, frank, natural, clean
in mind and clean in body, unaffected
to say, 81 do not know" if it be SO,
and to meet all men on an absolute
equality-to face any obstacles and
meet every difficulty unabashed and
unafraid.
| wish others to live their lives,
too-up to their highest, fullest and
best To that end pray that ] may
never NEEDLE, interfere, dictate, give
advice that is not wanted, or assist
when my services are not needed. If
/ can help people, I'll do it by giving
them a chance to help themselves;
and if l can uplift or inspire, let it
be by example, inference and sugges-
ton, rather than by injunction and
dictation. That is to say, Desire to
be Radiant-to Radiate Life.-HUB-
BARD.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-11-08
VS. IN RIGHT SPOT, DIDN'T KNOW
1T, WAITED TWO HOURS.

Lady from New York wanting to
visit friends in Hoboken, was told to
take the Fort Lee Ferry and "get off
at the top of the hill" where she was
to wait with her mother for the auto
mobile that was to pick them up
later, The pair of lonely travelrs
waited some hours, then about night
fall asked the Palisadian man, who
happened along, if they were In the
right spot. "They told me to get off
at the top of the hill. Could there
be any other top of the hill?" she
asked.
NO" she was told.
"Is this Fort Lee?" she asked.
'Not the town of Fort Lee. 1t is
Palisade, but in the borough of Fort
Lee"
"Well, where is Fort Lee?"
"a mile and half from here,
north"
"But l was told to get off the Fort
Lee Ferry and go to the top of the
hill and wait. Is there any other
place L COulu ullSldhS lUI Luio
mot that l know Of. There is no
other place like Palisade."
Il wonder why they don't Gomez"
How long have you been here?"
about two hours, guess"
Have you asked anybody about
automobiles that passed here and
wanted to find any one?"
mo, / have not"
Have you asked any auto drivers
If they Were looking FOR any one?"
mo, ( have not"
There are two cars standing ovel
by the curb. Rave you asked either
driver if they were waiting for some
one?"
| mo, l have not"
Then she went over and the frs
one told her he had been waiting fol
two hours for her, told her to get in
and they drove off Evidently more
than one person knows how to b.
| foolish.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-11-08

were no more down grades or up
grades. The long run was over. Yet
in that moment when desire grows cold
and the very consciousness of self be-
comes twilight before the greater
morning, he thought of his thirty pas
sengers. AS Hercules wrestled with
old Thanatos for Alcestis, Raab fought
off the destroyer, not for himself, but
that he might save these men and wom-
en- whom he did not know. And he
won.
Curious inquiries have sought to
draw from the invisible some proof of
the souls existence apart from the
body. Was it not the soul of Alexan-
der Raab that mastered his failing flesh
in the very act of dissolution? Was
it only muscular reaction, energy of
dust returning to dust, that set the
brake? Let che spirit that dwells on
earth little longer in the thirty saved
passengers reply.-New York Evening
Sun.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-11-08

| ing signs placed along the state high
ways on highway property. Every
| thing is to go-patent medicines pos
ters, danger" signals kindly placed
| by commercial firms and bearing the
names of the beneficent concerns, and
all the rest. Danger signals removed
because of their advertising nature
will be replaced by neat warnings
posted by the highway department.
County fair and Chautauqua posters
| will be permitted temporarily.
The section of the highway law
which permits this wholesale removal
of ugly signs and billboards has been
in existence for two years, but has
not been enforced. Now at last the
law is to be carried out and the nat
ural scenery given an opportunity to
show itself to travellers along the
highways.
Unfortunately this law does not af-
feet in any way advertising signs
placed on private property. With the
removal of signs on public property,
however, it is hoped that private land
owners Will have Self-reSpect ana pup
lie spirit enough to resist the wiles
of the advertiser.
Citizens in parts of the country
where the billboard nuisance still
flaunts itself in all it's crude ugliness
should take hope from this beginning
in New York and from the good work
done in other sections. When every
body realizes that there is no need
for having the scenery entirely OBJ
liberated by advertising signs, the
latter will disappear.-Hackensack
Record.
The Borough of Fort Lee has
shameful record in permitting bill
boards along public highways, as we'll
as allowing the beautiful rocks to be
disfgured by local garage and also
by "Danbury Hats"
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-11-08
HIS GREAT MOMENT

Thousands of those who live on this
side of the river have taken at some
time the trolley ride down that steep
incline from the cliff to the Edgewater
ferry. They know the tremors of its
fearsome grade and the need for steady
control. Perhaps many such missed
the news note, twelve lines long, which
told how Alexander Raab, motormans
stricken with heart disease while his
car was making the descent, applied
the brake and then lied.
We wonder how the cynical philos-
ophers who reduce all motives to some
ultimate impulse of seishness will dis
pose OF Alexander Raab. The hand OF
Death, 80 easy to visualize since Hot
bein graved it upon the worlds imagi'
nation, pressed his failing arm. To
him the power-house of life had ceased
to send its motive curreut There
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-11-08
FACING THE FACTS.

The editor of the American Maya
zine says that 1.-The greatest error
made In business is In refusing to
face the facts" The expression was
used in connection with an article by
a successful man, who expressed the
same thought in other words.
But 1t is not alone in business that
the error is made; 1t is made every
day in every home, in nearly every
conversation, indeed. 1t is the COM
monest of all errors. It Is at the foun-
dation of nearly all argument, for, If
people would face the facts, there
wouldn't be so much argument in the
world.
But it Is in business that the error
probably counts most. The compar-
alive statement handed to the chief
shows a falling off in trade, but in
stead Of facing the facts, an effort is
made to explain 1t away. The month
failed to show a profit, according rc
the balance sheet. Why not face the
factss Instead, there are more ex'
plantations, and the truth Is covered
over with a veneer of hope for the
next month. And SO 1t goes. and sc
failure eventually comes.
Age creeps upon us--and we am
afraid to face the fact. We try t
deceive ourselves into believing tina
we do not feel the weight OF thu
years. We seek explanations for ou
/ shortcomings, due to the march o
time. Instead Of facing the facts AM
attempting to adjtst ourselves to tn
passing years, We too Otter make fool
! of ourselves in the eyes of our friend
by trying to deceive the world. Tha
was the origin Of the expression
"There is no fool like an old fool.
The "old fool" is simply person VIII
refuses to face the facts.