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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-20
Sherman Welcomes Probe of Activities
 Housing Corporation
Rx A..oe,.,.a prsss

Washington, June 1e.-Leroy K. sher' man, director of the United State; Housing corporation. told the House rules committee today he would wei come congressional investigation of the corporations activities, but questioned whether it would be worth while
 MT. sherman said the Bethelehem Penn, housing project had been aban' doned after expenditures of $3,000,0o0 1T preparation for actual construction work because the corporation had de cided abandonment was more economi- cal.
 Abandonment of the completed prep aration work would return s2,000,000 te the government, he said.
 The rules committee deferred action in the investigation resolution to await further reports from officials of the corporatio
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-20

No.i17
 The resourceful MT. Holladay, how ever, caught the look of abject misery in Jane Browns eyes as she regarded the ruinous stain on the pretty dress He remembered that she had rented the smallest and cheapest room in Mrs Selden's boarding house and he under stood what a tragedy this must be.
 Now, you just stop your worrying. You don't understand what wonderful woman Mrs. Salvatore is. She's two fine girls of her own and if I'm not mis- taken I hear them on the stairs They'll both help you out on that matter and in no time"
 Even as he spoke an elderly Italian woman, with enormous coral earrings in her black hair-and Jane wondered how it could be so free of gray at her age-entered the room with winsome smile for Holladay and a gracious bow toward Jane.
 Behind her came two young girls, one apparently about IS and the other two years younger. They were soon introduced and made the unhappy girl welcome.
 With a dignifed wave of her hand, Signora Salvatore dismissed both her husband and Holladay from the room, as she scrutinized the stain in lanes gown. She could speak no English, but the 1S-year older-a graduate of an American school-translated readily
 Mother says that if you will come up stairs to our rooms she will ask you to remove the dress and she will take the stain out, while I will press 1t for you with an iron," said the girl with kindly smile in her dancing black eyes. What pretty dness it is even rich lady like you with so many dresses would hate to lose such nice one"
 Jane could not but smile at her in- genuousness, as she realized what tragedy the loss of this single garment would mean to her. But the kindliness, the warmth of these transplanted blos- soms of an ardent, friendly land, could not but reassure her.
 You know said the girl as she was led into a roomy, old-fashioned bed room on the floor above, we of our country are more experienced, perhaps than you Americans, with the spilling of red wine, and know how to cure it much quicker. She laughed and added, 'It Is easy now, for the stain is quite fresh"
 And. in answer to their natural questions, while the younger girl ran to heat an iron, and the older one wrapped a simple but pretty kimono about her, and the mother skillfully soaked out the stain, Jane explained about the spilling-as much as she deemed eXpedient.
 When. in their little talk, as the steam arose from the iron and brought the folds of cloth back into shape. she mentioned that she was a stranger in the city, the girls were all eagerness to know about her own part of the country.
 "Ah,' sighed the older of the girls 'How we long to see the great big country of America-here, we have only city, and streets, and subways, and crowds and automobiles. It is not so nice as our own fair Italy, with the groves and the blue sea and the boats with the painted sails. How you must long to get back to your pretty trees,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-20
ONL Y TWO DAYS REMAIN; ENTER
 CONTEST WOW
Time Is Short in Which to Take Advantage of Age Herald's Offer-Interest Fever Heat-Host of New Candidates and New Leaders Will Be
 Shown in Sundays List of Candidates

that you want one of The Age-Herald' d s
 ask for their subscription. They know about The Age-HeraIds big campaign,
 and will no doubt tell you to write them
 up for a period of six or twelve months.
 The one big decision to win is with you
 entirely.
 Then it is but matter of few min
 utes until the votes start in your direc- tion. It is easily possible for you to com
 plete club in an hour-not every hour. of course. because there are slow times as we'll as fast ones-but enough votes to put you in the lucky circle of aspiring automobile winners.
 And these two important days will be
 marked by tremendous gains. They will conclude a week that has been much
 given to the entry of candidates into the
 prize campaign. The competition for the numerous prizes grew in numbers and in
 enthusiasm, but only merrier In their race for the big Roamer. A-any are hav-
 ing their first brush with business and profiting wonderfully thereby. And none of them are sorry that they started. The big feature, however, is the great possibility of coming into the big event now and being successful in the finish Look over the published votes and see how easily a position near the front
 might be obtained. Your decision to start and your determination to devote every spare hour to securing one of the hand some prizes would make you a formid-
 able candidate from the very start Con- sider how easily you might win one or fba hi, blank with your first subscription to the campaign department today-while there is time to fill at least one club for the first big offer.
 There is a wealth of opportunity in the two remaining days of this superb offer
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-20
|U. s. Sends Protest
 to Mexico Against
 the Lack of Protection
By Associated Pvsss

At3os4NpU
 Juarez, June l9.-A message was sent ia protest by American Consul Dow to General Gonzales last night in the name of the American state department against the lack of military protection being furnished Americans and their property in the north. General Gonzales announced today he had ordered a col umn of cavalry to Casas Grandes. near the Mormon colonies.
 The American consul was also asked by the state department to furnish an estimate of the number of Americans in the state of Chihuahua outside of Juarez and Chihuahua City who might be ex- posed to the danger of Villa reprisals. Consul Dow estimated these to number 750, including 670 Mormons.
 There are probably 200 Americans in Chihuahua City and more in Juarez, but they are not considered in danger.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-20
Addresses Wanted

Letters from the government to the fol- lowing persons are undelivered at the postoffice because of insufficient address or other causes:
 Pastor, Monticello church. colored M E. church, Birmingham, Ala
 Pastor St. Mark chapel, Colored M. k. church. S. Birmingham, Ala.
 Mrs. Lucy Robinson, Jefferson, 2306 Sth avenue, Birmingham, Ala.
 Mrs. Electa Gray, 6317 Davis avenue Birmingham, Ala.
 The Birmingham chapter of the Red Cross has been requested to locate these parties
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-20
How You May Reduce
 Your Weight

Overstoutness is very unwelcome
 condition, especially in the present day. when slender figures are so popular.
 and every reader of this paper who has noticed a tendency to put on weight
 will be glad to know of new, simple
 home treatment that is remarkably ef- ficient and inexpensive.
 If you happen to be one of those whose weight Is more than it should be. self; eat all you war 'rt take after each meal and at EfiN 'N 8Nd.4 of Phynola which yut eNre s%i any drug store.
 Phynola Is design ga sTeEaAsa the oxygen carrying poH pieisa and dfssolves fatty ti isi in fHan. es se8 I at the rate of a raHnH day it ia
 pleasant to take anu sINss rests ssa { ss
 results quickly and easily. Patton -Iope
 Drug Co. can supply you-Adv.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-20

1t is announced that a meeting will De held at the city hall in Ensley on June 27 for the purpose of organizing the steel workers of this district into union. This Announcement follows the action of the American Federation of Labor In
 voting to actively take up the organiza- ton of steel workers all over the coun-
 try.
 The local workers will be organized oy representatives of the American Federa-
 tion of Labor
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-20
CRIMINAL COURT

Arnold Gibson pleaded guilty to charge of grand larceny before Judge William E. Fort yesterday and was given a sentence from 1 to 10 years.
 Joe nTerrell, accused of buying, re- ceiviny or concealing automobile tires. was acquitted by jury in Judge Joseph R. Tate's division of the crin,- inal court Thursday.
 Dock Sanders was convicted in Judge Heflin's court of violating the prohibition laws, but his sentence was not made yesterday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-20
Crowder's Mother III

Cambridge. Mass, June 19.-Maj. Gen. Enoch Crowder. who was awarded an honorary degree of doctor of laws at Harvard today, received word while here of serious illness of his mother at Col
 orado Springs. He left immediately for Colorado. MT. Crowder is SS years of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-20
Marriage Licences

Marriage licenses issued yesterday:
 J. Henry Austin, Birmingham. and Miss Hannah McCabe.
 James F. Bryant, Sylacauga. ard Miss Laura Smith,
 Lewis B. Hughes. Tuscaloosa. ard Miss Bamma Jim Winton. w. J. Norton. 5Bessemer. and Miss Pearl McNamara-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-20

Authorities of West Africa have been giving special attention to the raising ot Ida" fiber. While da can not take the place of jute in the manufacture of va- rious fabrics, it is equally good for rope making.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-10-03

adherance to platform principles and
common law should be strictly OBJ
served either party would be safe.
AS it is both law and precedent ap-
pear to be thrown to the winds and
! individual assumption of means and
methods adopted. with the result that
strikes and riots are everyday Oc-
currences. We appear to be striving
to give the old world pointers as to
how to resist and defy law and order.
authorities to the utmost to restrain
the lawless element which is menac-
ing our industrial system.
{ The origin of the spirit of unrest
in this country can be traced directly
to the association with the world war
promoters and the changed conditions
caused by the same. The greatly de-
creased purchasing power of our
money as compared with unWarranted
increase of neceSsaries of life IN con-
nection with the return of a million
idle men to be supplied with work,
while almost that number had been
turned out owing to the closing of
munition plants and other govern
mental industries, thus making our
people apprehensive of hard times.
AS a result of the action of our
trusted representatives abroad we
are confronted with menacing condi-
tions which call upon every man who
loves his country better than he does
his political party to cast his vote IN
November so as there will be no mis-
take as to which side he is on. The
matter has merged into a concrete
question of home power or world
power Any man who will sacrifice
American interests to promote Euro
pean interests is not safe man
for the working man to follow. l
often wonder why the WOrkingman
submits so tamelv to the subtle flat
terry Of the AVERAGE applicant for
public office just prior to an election.
As an illustration | would refer to
recent speech of our president, where
in he said he was making a tour as
the servant of the people to report
to them directly certain information
which he refused to give the United
States senate in compliance with their
request to enable them to legislate
intelligently. This claim possesses
all the earmarks Of politics and should
be regarded as an insult to the senate
and a reflection upon the intelligence
of the masses. The sO-called masters
were not consulted relative to the
mission abroad, their wishes or views
were not known or cared for. We.
have carefully read the speeches de-
livered on tour and failed to see
wherein the United States senate
lost much or the people gained much
by the Presidents action. If the
voters had been permitted to settle
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-10-03

the question Of the Presidents trip
abroad it would never have been
made.
Workingmen are demanding IN
most decided terms for an increased
wage equivalent to the increase in the
price Of commodities of life, while
big business claims a readjustment of
conditions, with wages reduced to
foreign made products. AS matters
now stand a feeling of uncertainty is
universal and apprehension Of war
between capital and labor is fast de-
veloping into certainty, as is evil
denced by riots, strikes, martial law
and armed troops in all labor centers.
Our boys returning from Europe are
to be armed and lined up to maintain
law and order. A natural result Of
the adverse conditions and the neces-
sary readjustment Of the wage ques-
tion is the universal belief that our
national officials should divert the
efforts and energies they are wasting
on foreign troubles and look after the
dangerous and distressed conditions
at home.
We would, with all respect, sug-
gest to congress that they enact a
law more clearly defining the duties,
privileges and limitations of the
power Of the President of the United
States. 1t is a mOoted question with
the masses as to the Presidents
authority to leave his country and
virtually pledge any sacrifice Of
American pcWe" or principles. 1t
lends to lower the traditional respect
of the people for the law making
| bodies of our country.
Capital and labor are marshaling
their forces all over this country to
determine which shall be the domi-
mating power in the future, and the
readjustment of the wage question
is one Of the prime causes which leads
Iup to this unfortunate situation
| Capitalists claim that in order to en-
able investors to operate our in
dustrial pants at profit it will be
necessary to reduce wages to equalize
the cost of production in Europe and
this country, while the laborites claim
the present rates OIL wages are much
below the advance in high cost Of
living and should be materially ad-
vanced. How much better it would
be for both sides to unite to lower the
cost of the necessities Of life and then
reduce wages proportionately Much
depends upon the stand the working
man takes for solution OF this per-
picking problem. Other serious
changes are contemplated which may
be met ana overcome by watchfulness,
devotion to national principles and
unfinching allegiance to our laws.
Fraternally yours,
LEE A. RILEY.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-10-03
EXISTING CONDITIONS
Lee Riley, Late President of |. M. T.
No. 152, Writes Interestingly of
Present Outlook in IT,, S.

Editor Leader:
Dear Sir-I wish to express through
the Newark Leader a few thoughts
suggested by the conditions which
are at present seriously affecting the
working class of our country.
1t will be but a short time until we
can, through our vote, legally apply
the remedy provided for correcting
the evils of misgovernment; and the
vote upon this occasion may reason
ably be regarded as approval or con-
demnation. If the workingman will
exercise common sense judgment,
break away from party lines and vote
for men who will respect the oath
they take when assuming office, if
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-10-03
NATURAL GAS

at $2.2O per thousand is equiv
alent to Electricity at &c per XIV.
u. S. Fuel ADMINISTRATION.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-26
FARM WAGES A BIG PROBLEM.

1.-THE farmer has big problem in wages,
says Deane Eugene Davenport, of the Illinois
State College Of Agriculture. No matter how
much agricultural education a man may get
nor how good machinery he may use, he cannot
till enough land to bring him In as great labor
wage as the man who has ten dollars invested
in a pick and shovel. Nor can the farmer give
his children good education as the man
who lives in the village or city unless he gives
up his business of farming and moves to town. !"
In view of this situation asks the dean,
chow can the farmers feed the world by com
peting with other industries in labor?'
This farm income problem, with which is
closely associated the farm labor problem, is
serious matter which must be taken into con-
sideration in the discussion of every question
relative to rural Improvement and food produc-
ton Without reasonable income the farmer
cannot equip his home with the improvements
which are considered necessities in city homes
He cannot install furnace, a modern lighting
system or sanitary plumbing in his home and
the home Of his tenant. To him advice other
matters is meaningless. He cannot pay his
hired help wages sufficient to hold them in com
petition with employers in the cities. And with
out these improvements and living wage
scale not only his hired man but his own family
will go to the city.
Government money used for locating return
ed soldiers and others on farms developed from
swamps and cut-over lands will be wasted and
the would-be farmers led into a life Of disap-
pointment unless the farm wage scale, meas
ured by the farm returns is relatively equal to
that Of the city worker. The days of cheap
food are at an end. Soil robbing is no longer
possible Underpaid child labor and the
twelve or fourteen-hour day are becoming I'M
popular on the farm. The time is soon coming
when farm income and farm wages will have
to be measured by industrial standards if food
production is to be maintained.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-26
INDICATED.

A morse hitched to a wagon fell
across the car tracks in front OF
government building.
In about two minutes the driver,
assisted by the usual first aids. had
untouched a lot Of harness and the
horse was up and on his way And
that Is all there was to 1t, except
that
While the car waited for the track
to be cleared an elderly man person,
who looked as il he considered the
world big mistake, said to man
beside him:
Cast your eyes at the windows of
that Office, sir; every one alive with
men and women; If the clerks OF
department will leave their desks and
fritter away the governments time
over a trifling sight like this, what
sir, ask. must be the state OF our
national conscience:
The man next had cast UP an eye
per request, and chuckled with the
lheartiness Of one who sleeps well,
eats three solid meals a day and
treats his wife like a perfect lady.
"Say, friend, you've got it all
balled up. You are SO busy looking
at the windows that you overlook the
clocks. Noon means lunch time"
And the national conscience was
lvindicated.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-26
EVEN CROSS, SICK ]
CHILDREN LOVE ]
SYRUP or F|G|
IF FEvERisH, BILIOUS, coNsr,
PATED, GIVE FRUIT lAxA. y
TIVE AT ONCE.

Don't scold your fretful, peav,.,
child. See IL tongue is coated. ~. IN
is sure sign its little stomach l;ra
and bowels are clogged with row.
waste.
When listless, pale. feverish. fu1 n
cold. breath bad, throat sore. doas,s|
eat, sleep or act naturally, has ston
ach ache, indigestion. diarrhoea s g,s.
a teaspoonful of California Syrun Y,
Figs" and in few hours All ,t.I
foul waste, the sour bile and fermsrI
ing food passes out Of the bowels AM
you have well and playful chiss
again. Children love this harmla,.
fruit laxative" and mothers can rs,,
easy after giving it, because it neys,
fails to make their little "inslde,,
clean and sweet.
Keep 1t handy, Mother, A lin.
given today saves a sick child ,omo,'
row, but get the genuine. Ask yon,
druggist for bottle of "Californi,
Syrup of Figs" which has direction'
for babies, children. of all ages and
for grown-ups plainly on the bottls
Remember there are counterfets soIs
here, so surely look and see that
yours is made by the California n,
Syrup Company" Hand back WITH
contempt any other fig syrup.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-26
AN ALL OUTDOOR COUNTRY.

Julia NJ Sloane, in Scribner's: They
say that IL you spend year In south
ern California you will never be able
to leave it. 1 don't know. We haven't
tried. The only possible reason for go.
ing back would be that you aren't in
the stirring heart of things here as
you are in New York. and The Times
is five DAYS old when y-ou get it. Your
friends-they all come to you if you
just wait a little What amazes them
always Is to find that southern Calf
ornia has the most perfect summer elf
mate in the world; II you keep near
the sea. No rain-many are the UNI
brellas I have gently extracted from
the reluctant hands of doubtiny xisi-
tors; no heat sIch as we know it in the
east. We have an out-of-doors dining
room, and it Is only two or three times
in summer that it is warm enough to
have our meals there. In the cities or
the back country it is different. I
have felt heat in Pasadena that made
me feel in the same class with Shad-
rach, Meshac. and Abednego, but new
er ny the sea.
One result of all this fresh air is
thatwe won't even go indoors to be
smused. Hence the outdoor theatre.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-26
EHERTs PRlNcELy SALARY.

Dubuque Telegraph-Herald: Ebert,
first president of the German fedora
ton, will receive a salary of $780,
900, which is larger salary by s175,-
900 than paid the president of the
United States, and about 100000
larger than paid the highest officer OF
any big American business.
Thomas Jefferson, who, unlike
Ebert, was not a socialist, refused to
use a carriage to ride to the white
house on the day of his Inauguration,
and rode up on horseback, hitching
the horse outside while he went in
to take the oath.
Andrew jackson, who, also, was
not a socialist. disdained any prac-
tees of the rich or evidences of
riches, and went his simple way in
unshowy, democratic fashion, max
ing the white house in point of hos
pitality, a mountain home, where the
door is never locked and the hungry
wayfarer is welcome to all the pantry
offers, provided he washes the dishes
when through eating.
Two hundred and fifty thousand
dollars year for socialist presi-
dent jars all nations about socialistic
theories of equal distribution of
wealth. Still, one must remember.
all truth is relative. Germany may
regard Ebert at s250,o00 a year COM
pared to William Hohenzoliern cheap
at twice the price.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-26
URIC ACID IN MEA1
CLOGS THE KIDNEYS
Take Glass Of Salts IL Your Bad
Hurts or Bladder
Bothers.

II You must have your meat ever
day, eat it, but flush your kidneys will
salts occasionally, says a noted auth
orsty who tells us that meat form,|
uric acid which almost paralyzes th.|
kidneys in their efforts to expel ii
from the blood. They become sluggisd
and weaken, then you suffer with
dull misery in the kidney region. sharI
pains in the back or sick headache
dizziness, your stomach sours, tongud
is coated and when the weather is Lad
you have rheumatic twinges. Thd
urine gets cloudy, full of sediment, thd
channels often get sore and jrritatcdI
obliging you to seek relief two od
three times during the night.
To neutralize these Irritating acids
to cleanse the kidneys and flush Cd
the body's urinous waste, get foul
ounces of Jad Salts from any pharma
cy here; take tablespoonful in 1
glass of water before breakfast for
few days and your kidneys will the
act fine. This famous salts Is mad
from the acid Of grapes and lcmc,
juice, combined with lithia. ana hal
been used for generations. to fiush
and stimulate sluggish kidneys, alsQ
to neutralize the acids in urine, so /
no longer irritates, thus ending blat
der weakness.
Jad Salts Is inexpensive; cannot IN
jure, and makes q delightful efferyes
cent Whitewater drink.