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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-22

The activity in home building is greater throughout the south today than at any time since the war began. It is not only brisk, but the volume of building operations is limited only by the supply of material
 In general business, too, there is much activity, but the strike situation Whether the steel workers win their strike for recognition of the union, there will be more or less turmoil. That the Steel corporation win hold out for the open shop policy, goes without say . ing. If worst comes to worst, the corporation will shut down its opera tions here and elsewhere. It is known that many of the employees of the Ten nessee company are to strike, but the nessee company are not to strike, but the situation.
 With regard to the pig iron market Rogers, Brown & Co., weekly report says:
 Some improvement was noted in the pig iron situation during the past week in fact, numerous orders were placed Cor various kinsd of iorn. The aggre gate tonnage figured fairly good. Sey eral inquiries are outstanding, princi pally for foundry iron for shipment dur ing the fourth quarter of this year and the first half of next.
 ''Foundries report increased business, regardless of the unsettled labor con- dition. As a general rule, they are op- timistic as to the future and are buying for forward shipment. The melt is holding it's own and in a great many foundries would be increased if it were not for limited capacity
 The southern furnaces are taking on little business for this year, but still remain out of the market for ship ment after January l. If they were 10 enter the market, large tonnage would no doubt be booked. Each sue ceeding week shows an increase in in- auiries for next years shipment, not
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-22
Demonstration Work andHome Economies in Alabama County

and long list of other good and nutri- tious things to eat.
 These meats are canned under steam pressure with special apparatus which can be provided at a small cost for family use. The utensil for the purpose is an aluminium vessel of any desired size, fitted with steam-tight lid and steam gauge and vent cock. It is very simple in construction and may be operated by any one on the cooking stove. Meats canned under steam pressure are said to be free from ptomaines.
 The Lee county demonstration agent has planned very active campaign in home economies and domestic science for the fall and winter months, and she has the assurance of the hearty cooperation of the most progressive people in the county. One of the best signs of the day is the avidity with which the most intel ligeft and up-to-da farmers and farm CTS wives are seeking improved methods of producing and preparing foods for the home, and as a result of the demonstra- tion work in the county the people are better fed and better dressed at less cost than ever before in the history of the county.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-22
Housing Need haperatiue
 Is Heard in Various Sections

would be doing a wonderfully good thing for Clarksdale.'
 A news special from Fitzgerald, Ga says:
 The local chamber of commerce is staging a big home-building drive, anc President ]. H. Mays reports consid- erable progress with it's plans to have 25 new homes erected immediately in the city by local capitalists. Fitzgerald is suffering with the rest of the country for want of homes and building operations Ten homes are already pledged, and construction will start this mHlth."
 house builders club has been organ ized at Cordova, Ala it being proposed that it shall have fifty members, each of whom will pledge himself to construct immediately residence to be rented The Eagle of JasrAr. Ala, says: '"rhe shortage of houses at Cordova has be- come acute. Many miners are anxious to move to Cordova and the companies need more men. but house to live in is unobtaina>l. Working men cannot go to a new place for employment, ana payxboard and also pay grocery bills and houEe rent at some other~ place for their antilles. They have to live where they
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-22

work. As one business man from Cor dova said: We can fill 200 new houses in Cordova with desirable tenants if we can only get the Nouses built. We can't increase our population with empty lots. so why not every one who can build at least one house.
 ! The Industrial Index has noted from time to time the acute need of addi- tional housing in the larger cities of the southeast. The quotations given above relate to smaller cities, and show that in these the demand is just as impera- tive as in the larger cities It will be noted that these quotations refer to smaller cities in Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi, demand for additional hous- ing being widespread.
 The point which it is desired to em- phasfze is that arrangements are beins
 made to meet the demand in part. al
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-22
From the Industrial Index.

From the Industrial Index.
 "ClarksdaIe is badly handicapped at present owing to the scarcity of houses, both for living purposes and for busi- ness.' says the Register of Clarksdale, Miss. ''The city is forging ahead with out much effort on the part of anyone. but it is true assertion when we say that during the last several years we have lost any number of new firms and at least-50o5 in population on this ac count Poor people are unable to secure any accommodations whatever and the well to do have strenuous times getting what few accommodations they receive. There should be q corporation formed here to build such houses just as it is being done elsewhere and even though building material and other commodities used for this purpose are high, almost exhorbitant, we believe the end justifies the means and that if such a concern were formed it would prosper greatly IT the long run by so doing and in the end
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-22
Bv R. J. RICE

Opelika, September IT. -(SoeciaL)-One of the biggest things Lee county is doing now and has been doing for the past four years, is the demonstration work and home economies carried on under the directorship of Mrs. Bessie c. Moore the special agent of the federal govern ment in th,s Ane of endeavor.
 At seven centers in the county where the sub high schools are situated, Mrs Moore is giving definite courses in do- nestle science, which includes all club activities such as cooking, sewing and household management The agent meets at these schools twice each month on the same day of the week and at the same hour of the day each time in order to avoid confusion in dates of meeting much as possible. The same work is heing given in each of, these schools, and so well organized are these clubs and so cooperative are the teachers that on the days when the agent is not with them the programme is carried out in perfect de- tail This means that each of these schools has domestic science lesson or demonstration of two periods each week for which they are given credits which is getting the club work a scientific as we'll as a. practical basis and can only result in the greatest good.
 The object is to carry the work of the schools into the homes and the work of the homes into the schools, and for this purpose the agent visits the homes in the rural districts where she is always a welcomed guest, to offer practical sug gestions and to assist in and teach do- nestle science.
 The past season was very active one in fruit and vegetable canning, but that being over now, various other activities are engaging the attention of the home- makers, such as putting out strawberry plants planting fall gardens, canning meats and sorting the fowls. All fowls not suitable for breeding purposes or not desirable to carry over will be fattened ..for the market or slaughtered and canned flor home consumption during the winter months And so also willsother meats be canned for table use in the homes. such as roast beef, roast pork, spare ribs and backbones Brunswick stew fried chicken
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-22
Renewed Actiuity in the South's
 Building Operations Ls Good Sign
Demand for Houses Greater Than the General in Healthy Condition Strike Situation Causes Anxiety-Pig Iron Market Indicates Decided Brskness.
 The Coke Trade

alone for southern iron, but northern brands as we'll While some northern furnaces are willing to book orders for that shipment with what they term old and regular customers. at the same time they are not soliciting the busi- ness, their disir<iination being the un- certainty of production and costs
 The alloys market was more active Some very large sized orders were placed for ferro manganese and several good sized inquiries are still pending. which, no doubt will be closed prompt Ix-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-22
THE HUM OF INDUSTRY IN THE SOUTH

least This means the erection of resi- dences and apartments in numbers throughout a wide territory. This means an even greater demand for building ma terials..
 r What will be the effect upon the prices of building materials next spring of this increasing demand.
 win it be in accordance with sound business judgment to continue building through the fall and winter?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-22

A patent has been granted for chain with a screw on one end and clamp on the other to fasten a telephone direc- tory to a desk or wall.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-22

The coke market continues to ad- vance. Considerable interest was shown the past week in the foundry grade. with quite little business be- ing booked for shipment during the first half of 1920. No weak spots can be detected in the foundry coke market. Furnace coke is in good demand and the supply is just about sufficient to take care of present wants of blast furnaces. The car shortage is begin ming to show up in spots and the oper- ators are commencing to be anxious over this phase of the situation"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-22
Memphis Banking

Memphis special to the Manufac- turers Record says:
 Memphis ranks as one of the biggest banking centers of the south, second only to New Orleans. It is indicated by the record of the Memphis branch of the federal reserve bank for the St. Louis district. According to the August federal reserve bulletin, the Memphis institution ranged fifth in the United States in point of earnings, which aveage s4o,ooo or more than such branches as Louisville. Den yer. Seattle and Spokane, Wash, and usually higher even than Atlanta, home of a parent federal reserve bank.
 The Memphis branch celebrated its first anniversary September 3, when ban ouet was given AS employees. The institu- ton opened a. year ago with only 14 em- ployes. It has outgrown it's quarters, and plans are now on foot for the erec- ton of a permanent horne.
 
 A patent has been granted for chain with a screw on one end and clamp m inc other to fasten telephone direc-
New-York tribune., 1919-07-17
Pichon's Uniform Heart

Having insisted on a guarantee of a
guarantee by asking Great Britain and
the United States, as responsible in
dorsers, to add their signatures to a
covenant note deemed Of doubtful value,
Foreign Minister Pichon of France fur
ther indicates the esteem in which he
holds the league as it stands. He saws
he favors amendments under which a
permanent military and naval staff shall
be established for the league to concert
measures looking to making defence
against aggression effective
There is testimony that the heart of
Europe would be torn and forward-lool
ing men everywhere would be cast into
deep despair if the covenant is not ac-
cepted as perfect instrument which it
IS profane to seek to change. Yet the
British House Of Commons was swept bv
gale of laughter when Llovd GEORGE
mentioned the league. And Italy-filled
with Indignation as she learns that the
principle of self-determination APPLIES
everywhere except to Fiume-vents her
feelings by making faces at the cove
nant. What is thought in other coun-
tries is not concealed, and it may be
fairly said that everywhere, except in
limited districts in this country, the
covenant is seen to be what it is.
There is a general willingness to ac-
cept it as doing a little and as holding
out slight hope of better days, but it is
not received as substitute for national
defence and for the arrangements peace
able nations must make among them
selves for the safeguarding of their own
future and the general interests of the
world
New-York tribune., 1919-07-17
The Falling Pound

The value of the English pound ster-
Gng in American money declined yester-
day to $4.30A. Normally the pound
sterling is worth S4.86. So British
merchant wishing to convert his Eng
lish money into dollars to pay for goods
purchased here gets only $4.30& for
what normally commands $4.86. The
reason is that there is greater demand in
England for dollars to pay bills here
than there is in this country for pounds
to pay bills owing to the British.
Now if you think of such transactions
from the British point of view it is ap-
parent that the discount on British
money here becomes premium on dol
lars in London, so that the already high
prices of our goods to the British buyer
are automatically increased about Il per
cent. That acts as a check on British
buying in this market, and it is obvious
that the depreciation of the pound can
not continue Indefinitely without seri-
ously injuring American trade. That is
why it is to our interest, as we'll as that
of our customers, to provide as soon as
possible the credits necessary to sup
port the foreign exchanges.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-17
capt and Ample?

According to The Times, Senator
Swanson described the covenants char
acterization Of the Monroe Doctrine as
apt and ample" Article XXI of the
covenant says:
Nothing in the covenant shall be
decmed to affect the validity of intcrna-
uohai engagements, such as treaties of
arbitration or regional UNDERSTANDINGS
= like the Monroe Doctrine, for securing the
maintenance of peace"
In the text as given out by the State
Department on April % there were no
commas in the above sentence. In the
text which appeared in the Congress
slonal Record of June 8 commas an
pear after engagements" and after
Doctrine" If this latter version is cor
rect, the Monroe Doctrine is blunder
ingly classified by the makers of the
covenant as an international engage
ment." This it has never been and could
not we'll be, since it is a declaration Of
nationalistic policy pure and simple.
Nor is the doctrine regional under
standing" 1t does not derive it's VALIDITY
from the consent of any group of neigh
boring nations. Mexico, our next neigh
Dor to the south, has recently denounced
it with emphasis. 1t represents no
regional compact or understanding of
any sort.
Whatever may have been the intention
Of the draftcrssof Article XXI, they
made botch Of their description Of
the doctrine. 1t poses in the covenant
AZ something which it is not. The char
acterization OF it is neither "apt" nor
New-York tribune., 1919-07-17
Your War VS.. My War

Henry Ford sitting on the universe is
deliciously naive and omniscient and
preposterous. The cleft between fifty
millions and common sense is bottomless.
But let no one lose sight of the fact that,
essentially, the fallacy of Henry Ford is
the fallacy of all pacifsm. Every paci-
fist believes, at bottom, exactly the two
opposite and contradictory faiths that
he does. The only difference is that
most pacifists are not pinned down in a
witness chair and compelled to answer
the questions of a cross-examiner until
their inmost basic beliefs are dragged
out to the light for all to see.
Also, the plight of Henry is instruc-
tive vindication of how pacifism comes
about. Most pacifsts lack his candor
and childlike confidence in his own alb
surdity. They conceal their unreason
beneath wealth of philosophic general
ization mingled with grief over the
wounds Of war. Not Henry. Calmly he
sits on his throne and dispenses a new
wisdom, his own personally invented
fiftymillion theory of the universe His
tory simply isn't so. 1t isn't true, let US
say, that this peaceful, pious country of
ours has fought six wars in matter of
century and a half-or one every thirty
years on the average. (This is omitting
the Indian wars altogether, of course.)
Henry knows better than all the wise
minds of the past, better than all the
annals of recorded time.
So quite naturally and simply Henry
resolves all his contradictions into the
one immortal pacifstic paradox, which
we may define as follows: All war is mur-
der-except my war-the war would
have to correct all of Gods work at
once and settle everything my way.
The "Deity Complex" is what the
Freudians call this cheerful omniscience
built on colossal ignorance. An indi-
vidualism gone mad might be it's social
explanation. Would mild insanity be
too severe a term for the aff1iction of
such paciism?
New-York tribune., 1919-07-17
The Whole hing
(From The Manchester Guordian)


There is pleasant naIvette in the sur
prise of an American correspondent over
the lack of "dressiness" among British
delegates at the peace conference He
should have remembered the story Of
Thompson, master of Trinity, walking with
a friend at Kissingen and receiving with
approval the dignitied but not condescend-
ing salute of beautifully dressed per-
sonage. "Who is that?' asked the friend.
"A Russian prince" "Oh, no. said
Thompson, chats my courier" W. II.
Smith once wrote of the appearance CT
Lord Harrington at Homburg, dressed like
a seedy sailor" Ouida makes one of her
aristocrats say: "You may have seen me
In shabby coat, but never in one badly
cut" which was simply one of Ouida's
limitations, for few British statesmen re-
fleet much credit on their tailors; pro-
found disregard OF tailors is one of the
marks Of our higher craftsmanship.
AS Lord Lytton was the worst dressed
man IN one generation in the Lords, so
was the Duke of Norfolk in the other, and
there is nothing at all unlikely in the
story of Mr.. Balfour appearing in the
lobby in a flannel shirt, frock coat, gray
flannel trousers and brown tennis shoes. 1t
was the garb which to his mind best sug-
gested compromise between tennis and
the House of Commons; so he wore it
and would have been surprised had any
one commented on it in his hearing. Tn
der secretaries, on the other hand, are
generally rather carefully dressed. Does
not that sum up the whole thing?
New-York tribune., 1919-07-17

to be given to blanket charges against
Japan, such as that she seeks to make
"slaves" Of 40,000,000 Chinese. Japan's
leadership would probably help rather
than harm the Chinese. But this has
nothing to do with the present contro-
versy.
The obvious solution is definite un-
dertaking to evacuate Shantung at an
early and specified date, and The Trib-
une, out Of long and deep friendship
for Japan, assumes that her statesmen
will give that undertaking and that her
people will keep it. They cannot af-
ford to be misunderstood
New-York tribune., 1919-07-17
Selling Optimism,
(Fron Tho Manufacturers Record

For months the United States government
urged all business men to realize that they
could "sell" prosperity to the country by
big, bold advertising. 1t urged everybody
to advertise heavily; if they were already
advertising, to increase their expenditures
and broaden their publicity campaign; and
if they were not advertising, to begin an
aggressive campaign.
Never was better business advice given.
never was it more fully accepted, and never
was there a greater demon n stration of the
wisdom of such advice. Business men every-
where commenced to advertise more freelv
and on broader lines. Many men who had
never done much advertising saw new
light and began to advertise, while old
time advertisers made larger appropriations
and gave greater heed to the almost limit
less power of publicity.
The result is everywhere in evidence
The confidence displayed by heavy advcrtis
ing begat confidence. The optimism of adver-
tlsers created optimism, and the pessmists
skunk back into their holes and pulled the
holes in after ther-permanentlv buried
face downward, as is the Just desert of
every man who becomes pessimist in
America.
Largely as an outcome Of this splendid
work, vigorously conducted by the Secretary
of Labor and to whom great credit is due.
every one now realizes that the country
has taken the right road at the forks, and,
instead of travelling toward the land Of
poverty and anarchy, is headed STRAIGHT on
the road to the land Of Astounding national
prosperity, and this glorious change is
largely due to the power of advertising.
which created an air of optimism, and as
a nation thinketh in it's heart. 40 ia -
New-York tribune., 1919-07-17
Side-Car axis

The "side-car taxi" has arrived in
Paris, inventor of the taxicab and other
engines of delight. Motor cabs are still
very scarce. The 6ld-style horse-drawn
facre has all but disappeared (merci-
fully). So the Project of Police has
sanctioned this new vehicle. The plain
English name is it's official title; and the
fare is to be very low. There is an
initial charge of so centimes for the
first 666 metres, which is, roughly, 10
cents for the first two-fifths of a mile.
After that the rate is, approximately,
two cents for each fifth of mile
We await news Of the details of these
new craft. Has the ordinary "wife-
killer" of our Sunday highways been
endowed with new equipment, we won
der? Perhaps it has a top against
rainy weather. And a rumble seat for
the husband No doubt the side-car taxi,
Paris style, will be workmanlike and
agreeable product.
For us in New York of the madden
ing streets the thing looms on the hori-
LOlI as tIc SOlQllOu OI all our CrdInC
problems, the salvation Of pedestrians
everywhere. All that is needed is a
little boldness, one act of legislative
courage. Abolish pedestrians altogether.
They lead a hunted life as it is; no
chicken on speedway faces a more
certain fate than any consistent crosser
of New York street. You may escape
the private cars by concentrating upon
their cleaning sides; and cheat the taxi
cab drivers of their prey by one-stepping
skilfully and &C :urately. But sooner or
later mail truck will get you-or drive
you in front of a trolley car-inevitably.
1t is our fate, the blood toll we pay for
living in this enchanting juggernaut of
a town.
So why not do away with pedestrians
altogether and require every one who
would venture beyond the curb to
enter side-car taxi? There would be
ferrymen at appointed corners, no
doubt. The technique would require
some working out. But the idea is sim
plicity itself We have turned our
streets into fast, multiple railroad tracks.
Let US end the nonsense of letting peo-
pie walk in front of the locomotive
New-York tribune., 1919-07-17
A Mending Offer
ditor Of The Tribune.

10 the Editor Of The Tribune.
sir: Is there any regular cstablishm G
IN New York where people can have socks.
stockings, gloves, etc. mendcd?
lady, whose only support wos k;1,oa
III inc war; must have additional income,
ana suggested that she start, in small
way such business if there is none now
established
would very much appreciate any infor
nation you could give me for her.
f. A. WALZ
New York, July IA, 1919.