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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-08-04
TO
COUNT VO TIE
Contest Department Faces Mighty Big Task-Winners
Will Probably Become Known Tuesday
Wednesday Morning

| Preparations stiff continue for be-
ginning the official count to deter
mine the winners of the 10 automobiles
and other gifts that are to be dis
tributed by The Age-Herald as a result
, of the immense $4,000 prize campaign
whicl closed Saturday night.
All possible haste, commensurate
with absolute accuracy, will be made
! in tabulating the vote totals. SO that
| quickly as possible. 1t is expected that
| the winners will become known Tues
| day or Wednesday
| Every incoming mail yesterday
brought loads of letters and remit
| tances from out-of-town candidates,
and it is to give time for this mail
| to arrive that the count cannot begin
until this evening. All mail must be
/, in the campaign office tonight al S
o'clock and the judges will probably
| get busy even before that time.
F.! Among the stacks of letters were
many lauding The Age Herald for the
! equitable manner in which the cam
| paign was conducted. Expressions of
appreciation were frequent, and The
| Age-Herald thanks those from wfom
| they emanated. 1t was, indeed. grea.
campaign, long to be remembered.
| Those who are fortunate enough to
| win a prize or one of the handsome
automobiles, will have especial cause
| for qualification for the fruits of their
| labor will remain long after the strenu-
| Gus race to capture it is forgotten.
! The ballot box is reposing safely in
| The Age-Herald's big vault, guarded
| night and day AS the mails from
outside towns arrive, they are deposited
! in the ballot box. Early Wednesday
| morning, and possibly earlier, the
judges will break the seals, open tie
| lock and begin the official count on
| a battery of adding machines.
| In the meantime, all subscriptions
are being verified so that it can be
ascertained if votes already issued car
| remain credited.
! The tremendous voting activity OF
| the last week of the campaign Will
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-08-04
was it, and so prosperous looking and
business-like the men engaged.


Tuscaloosa, August s.-(Speclal)
An agent of the state convict depart
ment here yesterday observed that
the convicts on the county roads were
shackled and got in communication
with headquarters and the result was
orders were issued to cease the prac-
tice. AS regards food and housing
conditions, the agent was very com
plimentary, and he found that the
convicts were humanely treated in all
respects, but that putting shackles on
| their legs was contrary to law and
| that has been discontinued.
| Tuscaloosa, August s.-(Special.)
The towboat Baldwin went down the
river yesterday with three barges u
export lumber from the Henderson
| sawmill, just above this city, and one
barge of coal of some $50 tons. The
| three barges of lumber contained
, something above $4,000 feet of square
timber to be shipped abroad. The tow
boat Goldbug passed UP the river with
| two empty barges.
Tuscaloosa, August ESPECIAL Wv.
NJ Hayslett, one of the repairmen of
1 the Tuscaloosa Motor company's ga,
! rage, was badly burned about the face
and eyes while repairing an electric
| battery yesterday, when for some un-
known reason the acid in the battery
exploded, burning him about the face
severely and inflicting injuries on one
| of his eyes the extent of which are as
| yet undetermined.
| Tuscaloosa, August ESPECIALLY
l The bill introduced in the legislature
| by Representative Van de GRAF. making
| the circuit clerk ex officio clerk of the
| county court, has passed and only
awaits the signature Of the governor
! to become a law. This was a local bill
and affects only Tuscaloosa county. The
work of the clerk to the county clerk
was performed by the circuit clerk up
| until 1917, when law was passed
| taking it away from him. Since then
| the sum of $50 per month has been
paid out for the work, but hereafter,
, under the new law, it will be en- the
fee basis. the same as the circuit clerk
is now paid. s
Tuscaloosa, August Especial lit
| developed at the meeting of live stock
| raisers here yesterday that without ex-
ception, all reported their cattle to be
in the very best of condition and in
/ prime condition to market and give
the greatest return to the growers.
/ Grass has been abundant--superabun
ant, so the cotton planters say who
have tried to clean their fields-and
cattle has not been compelled to for
age around over pastures which ordi-
narily are very dry at this season OF
! the year. In consequence cattle every
| where are fat and ready for sale, and
at no cost whatever to their owners
for feed. 1t is thought that coop
erative shipment of couple of cars
| at least can be arranged within the
next two weeks,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-08-04

make quite sizeable task in countas
but all possible haste will be made
in determining the winners. Hundred
of telephone calls have been received
at the campaign office from candidates
and friends seeking news regarding
the outcome. All those Interested may
rest assured that the result will be
published just as soon as it possibly
can be done. The final list will show
the vote total of every candidate.
Until then
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-02-11
York Tenement Roofs

Revenue officers have begun a
'tmoonshine" hunt over New York's
tenement roofs, that may rival the
exciting and bloody hunts in the
mountains of Georgia and Tennessee.
The advent of prohibition officers
huge gains to those willing to take
the risk of capture, and although the
three principal raids have been with
uot bloodshed, the revenue men say
they look for some desperate fights.
Instead of the cellar dens where
moonshining has been carried on, the
top floors of tenements now are ia
Vored, because the odor of the fumes
from. the still are not so likely to at
tract attention.
By process new in moonshining,
all an illicit "stiller" needs to set up
in business is yeast, brown sugar;
water and his still and worm or
coil of pipe in which the vapor con-
,denses into liquid before dripping
into the container. -
By this method, the clumsy
tmash" process, involving ground
grain and a minimum of seventy-two
hours fermentation, is avoided. Also,
it does away with the trouble of dis
posing of the ''mash,'' which would
betray the moonshiners.
Two of the largest stills raided in
the last week were in east side tene-
ments; the third, a thirty-fve gal
lon still, was seized in house in
Brownsville.
Kitchen stills" too are coming in
for scrutiny. Recently some disbuis-
ed advertisements of small private
stills offered in Western newspapers
came to his attention, and he is
checking up,ato learn whether any
have been shipped into this district.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-02-11
HOW ABOUT TWO
PER CENT BEER?
BIT "LOADED?"

"There is a small rift in the pro-
hibltion' cloud that is settling over
the United States. Prohibition leaders
believe that under the provisions of
the constitutional amendment which
goes into effect next January, brew
cent alcohol. This belief is based
on the assumption that 2 per cent
beer will not intoXicate person.
Two per cent beer, it is believed,
would sell like the proverbial hot
cakes after the drought comes.
"I do not believe that q man can
drink enough of 2 per cent beer to
make himself drunk Or Intoxicated, -
said Representative G. c. Car1in of
Virginia. "The prohibition amendment
prohibits the manufacture or sale of
Intoxicating liquors. I imagine there
will be plenty of men, who will make
that sort of beer in states where all
such manufacture is not specifically
forbidden"
Representative E. Y. Webb, chair
man of the house judiciary commit
tee, believes that the 2 per cent beer
proposition will loom up after the
effect He said that the jury in indi-
viduaI cases will have to pass upon
the question of intoxication.
"In states where prohibition laws
Go not exist brewers Will make 2 per
cent beer" said Mr.. Webb. "Some
of them will go further, taking the
risk for the money they may make.
The state laws will not reach them,
and if the liquor is not Intoxicating
it does not come within the bounds
Of the, prohibition of the federal
amendment. If a person manufac-
lures or sells per cent beer, on
which some fellow becomes drunk,
then the matter would be taken to
court, and the jury would have to
pass on whether it caused intoXica-
ton or not, That is the way the case
stands now"
To Enforce Law
The treasury department is pre-
pairing to enforce the war prohibi-
ticn act in New York after June 80
Twenty revenue agents are kept there
now ITO run down Illicit distillers, but
the force will be increased to sixty
in the summer. The revenue agents
expect big bootleggirg business TO
open up Immediately after New York
goes dry. 1t is feared that smooth fell
lows who have but little regard for
the law will buy up great quantities
of tax paid liquors, hold them until
July and then start peddling them at
nrOfifS
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-02-11
Divorces Mean Better
World, One JUGue Thinks

The world is getting better. The In
creasing number of divorces is the
proof.
That is the opinion of Judge
Charles Grail, of the Los Angeles
divorce court.
Spread of education, increased
prosperity enabling common people to
hire lawyers, and publicity are the
real reasons behind the increasing
divorce rate, Grail believes.
''The question coming up all the
time is what is the cause of the
greatly increased rate of divorce
cases." he declared addressing a
meeting of Christian ministers. at
is the result of two things.
First, the increasing wealth of
the people and their education. In
years past law and lawsuits were
the privilege of the few. The result
is we have a great many people now
who can afford the advantages of the
divorce court who could not in the
past.
Second, many people know of the
divorce court by reading about it on
the front pages of the daily newspa-
pers, who once knew little of di-
Vorce.
Don't think the greater number of
divorce cases indicates the world is
getting worse. I believe it is get
ting bettern
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-02-11
CHILDREN HATE OIL,
CALOMEL AND PILLS
"CaIifornia Syrup of Figs"
best for tender stomach,
liver, bowels

Look back at your childhood days.
Remember the dose mother insist
ed on-castor Oil, ,calomel, cathar-
tics How you hated them, how you
fought against taking them.
With our chilqren it's different.
Of physic simply don't realize what
they do. The children's revolt is
well-founded. Their tender little
''insides" are injured by them.
If your childs stomach, liver and
bowels need cleansing, give only
delicious California Syrup Of Figs"
Millions of mothers keep this harm
less fruit laxative handy; they
know children love to take it; that
it never fails to clean the liver and
bowels and sweeten the stomach, and
that teaspoonful given today saves
a sick child tomorrow.
Ask your druggist for bottle of
california Syrup of Figs" which
has full directions for babies, chill
dren of all ages and for. grown-up
plainly on each bottle. Beware of
counterfeits sold here. See that it
is made by "California Fig Syrup
with ontemptN-( Advt.)
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-02-11
Tampa Cigarmakers
Are Out on Strike

Union cigarmakers in several of
the largest factories at Tampa, Fla,
walked out last week, following re-
fusal of their demand on the manu-
facturers that machinery installed
recently for stripping tobacco be
discarded. About thousand men left
their tables, but the unions report
several thousand are out today. The
men claim the machinery replaces
band Shippers: The manufacturers
claim there is no labor saved, but
material only.
About one hundred union plumbers
struck today when the employers
refused to grant a 50 per day wage
increase. The present scale is &c.
The employers offered an increase
of 40 cents, which would equal the
scale paid by the federal govern
ment in shipyards and cantonments.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-02-11

In the spring of 1898 I was at
tackled by Muscular and Inf1amma-
tory. rheumatism. I suffered as only
those who have it know, for over
three years. l tried remedy after
remedy, and doctor after doctor, but
such relief as l received was only
temporary: Finally, 1 found rem
edy that eured me completely, and
it has never returned. 1 have given
it to a number who were terribly
afflicted and even bedridden with
Rheumatism, and it effected cure
in every case.
1 want every sufferer from any
form Of rheumatic trouble to try
ia. marvellous healing power. Don't
send cent; simply fill out the cou-
pom below and will send it free to
try. After you have used it and it
has proven itself to be that long
looked-for means of curing your
rheumatism, you may send the price
of it, one dollar, but, understand, I
do not want your money unless you
are perfectly satisfied to send it.
Isn't that fair? Why suffer any
longer when positive relief /. is thus
offered you free? Don't delay. Write
today. Mr.. Jackson is responsible.
Above statement is true. -
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-02-11
.M'ADOO'S SALARY
AS MOVIE COUNSEL
IS 100000 A YEAR
Quit His Government Job
Because~He Couldn't Live
on $4,000 Pay

William G. McAdoo, former secre-
tary of the treasury and director
general of railroads, has accepted
the position Of general counsel to
the United Artists Distributing as
ISOLATION, an organization of the big
gest stars of the motion picture
world.
Mr. McAdoo signed his contract
signalling his return to private prac-
tive, in Los Angeles, where he has
been resting since he gave up his
duties as director general of rail-
roads.
AS secretary of the treasury, Mr..
McAdoo's salary was $4,000 a year,
and it was the limitations of this
income which he said impelled him
to resign No mention of his in
come from the movies was Off
cially received from California, but
the brother of D. w. Griffith, one
of the members of the association,
declared it could hardly be less than
Besides Griffith, Mr.. McAdoo will
will now represent legally Charlie
Chaplin, Mary Pickford, William s.
Hart and Douglas Fairbanks, known
to the screen world as the Big
l. i've"
Issued Statement
In a statement issued Immediate
ly after the signing of his contract,
the former secretary of the treas"
ury said:
termined not to permit any trust
or interfere with the high quality
of their work. They feel that it is
of the utmost Importance to secure
the artistic development Of the mo-
ton picture industry, and they be
if any trust should get possession
Of the field and menace the bust
ness"
Discussing the acquisition Of Mr..
McAdoo in the broader sense of it's
relation to the moving picture bust
ness, managers all expressed the
greatest satisfaction.
Credit for securing the services or
Mr.. McAdoo was assigned by Mr..
Griffith's brother promarily to
Douglas Fairbanks.
"Mr. Fairbanks" he said, had
most cordial. When the ex-secre-
tary decided to go to Los Angeles
for rest, the new United Artists
company was looking for a general
counsel of unquestioned standing
and ability,
The chance of Mr.. McAdoo's ar
rival at this juncture, he added, sug-
gested him to Douglas Fairbanks
film film star ia q Approached his friend i'm
mediately upon the latter's arrival
in Los Angeles. The next evening
conference, at which the other
members of the quitette were pres
ent, took place at Mary Pickford's
home. Mr.. McAdoo, on that occa-
sion, expressed himself as willing to
consider the proposition. A series
of subsequent conferences culmf-
mated in the agreement. . o.
Previously on the same day that
Mr. McAdoo's resignation from the
cabinet was announced, an offer
was extended to him to enter the
movie" business as a general d.
rector. This offer came from the
Universal company, the salary sug-
geSted being $4,000.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-02-11
QUEER ITEMS
IN THE NEWS
The worlds census of sheep runs

The worlds census Of sheep runs to
well over 450.000.000.
1t is believed that kerosene was
first used for lighting in 1926.
Widows outnumber widowers in the
United States by three to one.
Peru has 100000 residents of Jap
anese and Chinese half-blood.
The world knows no better climber
than the Rocky mountain sheep.
The press of oxford university has
type for printing in $50 languages.
For automobile upholstery an artt-
fetal silk is being made from spun
glass in England.
Greater New York consumes at
least one-twentieth of the food eaten
in the United States.
The blanket was first made and
used by Thomas Blanket, a poor
Flemish merchant, in 1910.
j. B. Shaw, worker in a factory at
lola, Kan, made $52.36 in a week
recently by cutting 67,24S buttons.
The postmen in Portugal save
themselves much walking on Sunday
by delivering letters at church.
According to the statistician Of a
New York trust company, there are
1925 rniIlionaires in the United
States.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-02-11
Small Farmer Must Be Considered, Says
Union President ON WaV to Peace Conference

Declaring that the only way in
which economic equality and justice
can be arrived at and maintained
among the nations of the world is
by establishing an agricultural sys-
TEN in which small land owners
rather than all-powerful landlords
constitute the basis of operation,
Charles S. Barrett, of Union City,
Ca, last week indicated that he
would advocate before the peace con-
gress certain measures intended to
foster agriculture as applied to the
millions of small farmers through
out the world. .
Mr.. Barrett, who is president of
the National Farmers union, is en-
route to Paris to attend the peace
conference as representative of the
farmers of America. He said:
"The peace conference is to con-
slider questions in which labor is
vitality affected, but as far as have
been able to ascertain, no mention
has been made of the great class OF
workers on whose efforts depends
the economic safety of the world.
81 refer to the farmers, who pro-
duce the raw materials which clothe
and feed the nations of the earth.
1t is the most ancient labor craft
in the world, and it's rights are not
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-02-11
State w. C. T. u. Holds
I Convention at Macon

Miss Anna Adams Gordon, ma
tiona1 president of the Woman's
among the speakers at the state
convention of the Georgia Women's
Christian Temperance union at Ma
con, with a hundred or more dele
gates attending. A feature of the
meeting was the presentation to the
state association of a service flag
containing $50 stars.
Mrs. Leila A. billiard, the state
president and other speakers ex-
pressed the great qualification of the
union over the ratification of the ma
tional prohibition amendment.
Mrs. S. C. Moore caused a ripple
of interest when she criticised bust
ness women for the scant attire often
" orn during their working hours, and
she vigorously urged reforms along
this line
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-02-11
SADDEST TRAG
OF WAR is [
OF THE "MISS]
Many Thousand s.
Whose Fate May
Be Known to Their Loved
Ones

There IS a world or patRos IN Inat
word missing" in the war reports,
writes f. Tunliffe-OWen in the New
York Sun. Whereas the word kill
ed in the official reports means that
the officer or soldier in question has
had his body inferred in duly marked
and oft consecrated ground by his
comrades, the word missing" leaves
the bereaved relatives in doubt as to
whether those dear to them have been
left to linger badly wounded on some
battlefield; or have been thrust with
out recognition with hundreds, nay
thousands, of other dead into some
huge and nameless grave; or have
fallen into the hands of an enemy
so cruel that throughout the great
war information was denied concern
ing the identity of prisoners in their
clutches.
Every Aid Used
The allies lent themselves to every
endeavor to relieve the anXieties of
relatives of their captives by furnish
SO, through the Vatican ana through
Gustav Ador at Geneva (now presi-
dent of Switzerland). The Germans
sought to add to the frightfulness of
their methods of war by Withholding
any such information.
The London Times and other Eng
1ish, French and italian papers are
filled with advertisements in which
parents and wives entreat for news
of missing" sons and husbands of
whom all trace has been lost since
the summer of 1914. Those adver-
tisements abound during and subse-
quent to every international con-
flagration and it would scarcely be
believed that even to this day the
London Times still prints advertise
ments asking for news of British Of
f1cers who have been missing" since
tho RnRI. war o
Most Terrible List
Appalling as is the list of the kill
ed and of the wounded, the number of
those returned as missing, is still
more terrible. According TO figures
compiled by the under secretary of
state for war in Paris and presented
to the legislature of Francethe other
day, that country has 314,000 officers
and men missing. Great Britains
missing are still more numerous;
States has 1861 missing, that is to
say, soldiers and officers who have
vanished from sight in the fighting
That some of these 1861 missing
doUghboys may still be living and
may vet be eventually restored to
government may be relied upon to
do everything in it's power to seek
clues as to their fate. The British
authorities, in Difference to vigorous
demands in parliament, have inaugu-
rated a most exhaustive search
throughout every corner and nook Of
Germany and Austria-Hungary, of
bulgaria and Of Turkey, to find out
what has become of her missing war
riors. Our foes have shown such a
sinister ingenuity in devising horri-
Bile methods of warfare that they NAV
be relied upon to have invented all
sorts of equally resourceful ways of
hiding prisoners
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-02-11
| am Sincere! Stop CaIomeI! l..
| Guarantee Dodson's Liver Tone
Listen to me! Calomel sickens and you NAY lose a
days work. If bilious, constipated or
headachy read my guarantee.

Liven up your sluggish liver! Feel
fine and cheerful; make your work
pleasure; be vigorous and full of
ambition. But take no nasty, dan
gerous cafomel, because it makes
you sick and you may lose a days
work.
which causes necrosis of the bones.
CaIomel crashes into sour bile like
dynamite, breaking it up. That's
when you feel that awful nausea and
cramping.
Listen to me, If you want to en-
joy the incest, gentlest liver and
bowel cleansing you ever expert
enced, just take a spoonful of harm
less Dodson's Liver Tone tonight
Your druggist or dealer sells you a
bottle of Dodson's Liver Tone for
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-02-11
SWAMP ROOTFOR
KIDNEY AILMENTS

There is only one medicine that
really stands out pre-eminent as a
nledicine for durable ailments of the
kidneys, liver and bladder.
DR.. kilmer's Swamp-Root stands
the highest for the reason that it
has proven to be just the remedy
needed in thousands upon thousands
makes friends quickly because its
mild and immediate effect is soon
realized in most cases. 1t is a gen
tie, healing vegetable compound.
Start treatment at once. Sold at
az drug stores in bottles of two
sizes, medium and large.
However, if you wish first to test
this great preparation, send ten cents
to DR.. Kflmer & Co., Binghamton,
n. Y, for sample bottle. When
writing be sure and mention The At
lanta Semi-Meek!v Journal.-(AdVtO
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-02-11
THE MOST
DANGEROUS DISEASE

No organs of the human body are
so important to health and long life
as the kidneys. When they slow up
and commence to lag in their duties,
look out! Danger is in sight.
Find out what the trouble is
without delay. Whenever you feel
nervous, weak, dizzy, suffer from
sleepleSsness, or have pains in the
back or difficulty in passing urine
wake up at once. Your kidneys need
help. These are signs to warn you
that your kidneys are not perform
ing their functions properly. They
ere only half doing their work and
are allowing impurities to accummu-
late and be converted into uric acid
and other poisons, which are t&aus-
ing you distress and will destroSAyou