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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-08
For the Good of
the Community

y
ONE month of the states new fiscal
" year has passed and it is now pos
sible to form some conclusion as to the
revenue returns that may be expected
from the tonnage tax on coal.
It will be recalled that the revenue bill
put through the legislature by the admin
istration levies a license or privilege tax
of two cents on every ton of coal mined
in Alabama.
The revenue bill was effective October
1, 1919. 1t requires the coal and iron ore
tonnage to be paid on the Goth day of
each month for the preceding months
tonnage.
Coal operators in Alabama make
weekly reports of their production to the
Alabama Coal Operators Association.
Each report covers the week ending on
Saturday.
Five such reports include October coal
production, the one made on October 4
covering four days in October and the
two last days in September The last re-
port made on November / includes pro-
duction of that day, which was light, be-
cause of the strike.
No reports were received from a few
of the mines whose tonnage probably
would equal the total output in the dis
trict on November |.
The five reports covering October pro-
duction show a total of !, 440, 800 tons,
which at cents ton would yield $685.
806.40 in taxes. But deducting the daily
average of the five-week period for the
last two days in September would make
October's total production. 1928, 169
TONS yielding S25, 963.38 in taxes.
With this ratio maintained through
out the year the production in the twelve
months would be 15,578,028 tons, upon
which taxes amounting to 1911, 56056
would be collected.
There is quite a difference between
that sum and the 100000 the admins
tration and budget commission originally \
estimated as necessary from that source.
AldUdIld CO1lCCG0u du VdlOIOIl CdAOS
in 1918-1919 on property-real and per-
appraised at S705,030, SGT. Ken
lucky, with approximately the same pop
ulation, mostly rural, as in Alabama, paid
valuations appraised at $1,788, 083,477,
Of whcih $3.50, 226,382 were farm lands.
Kentucky has a Accent tax rate, except
on livestock and money deposited in
bank, which are taxed at 10 cents on the
500; yet at this rate Kentucky collected
ad valorem taxes aggregating $685.
25428.
Compared with Kentucky's $500, 1885,
382 of farm lands, Alabama tax books
carry real estate values totaling only
S444, 843,824, and this includes farm
lands and town lots.
1t is long time until the next legisla-
ture meets, but when the times does come
for it to convene somebody will be clam
e f,.o
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-07-31
TALK OF THE TOWN

Mrs. d. c. Jones of Waterbury, who is
state manager of war savings, was a
business visitor in the city to-day.
Earle Winter and Harold Bancroft
have gone on an auto trip through the
northern part of Vermont. From there
they will 20 to New Haven, Conn, Bos-
ton, and then home.
James A. Best of Burlington has been
spending several days in town. He will
be remembered as Sergt. Best of the
Headquarters company Of the First Yer
mont, as he spent much time in Barre in
connection with the forming of the com
pany As a lieutenant he fought in
many battles in France. Since his dis
charge he has been employed by Conrad
B. Shelyin company of Boston and the
territory he covers includes this section
of Vermont.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-07-31

WANTED Woman or girl to work in kitch-
en- Baltimore Lunch. llstf
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-07-31

PIGS FOR sALE-F. o. Ralph, Brookheld.
VT ll6tgs
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-07-31
WAITSFIELD

"Messmates,' given by the young peo-
pies Bible class of the Congregational
church, was great success and was en-
ioyed by crowded house, l. 0. O. F. hall
being sold out. Door receipts were $3.50.
Entire acts were vocal and piano selec-
tions by Everett Wallis. The cast Of
characters follows; Alvah Morgan, Clar-
ence Bisbee; Richard Carter, John Con-
nor; Mat Taylor, Dwight Joslyn; Teddy
Morgan, Harold Hayes; Wolf, Will
Graves; Crumbs, Bert Savage; Grace
Morgan, Dorothy Savage; Polly Taylor,
Blanche Straw; Arabella Caraway, l..
Jean Bisbee; Phillis, Clara Spaulding.
The audience was highly enthusiastic
and expressive of appreciation of the
high grade of work done by the young
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-07-31

people. "Messmates" was given in Mid
dlesex Wednesday night.
The Waitsfied house has been sold Ia
Verne Griffith, who has taken posses
sion.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Barnard of Bran
don were in town Tuesday.
Will Ford of Montreal is a guest OF
his sister, Mrs. Allen Kirkness.
Elvin Graves is visiting relatives in
st. Johnsbury.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Graves returned
Sunday from st. Johnsbury.
Will Graves and Mr.. Marshall of st.
Johnsbury were in town Sunday.
MIR. and Mrs. John Legg of Worcester
Mass, were in town Tuesday. making
the trip in their limousine, with chauf,
feur.
Robert Eagan of Waterbury was in
town Tuesday.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-07-31

Seeks Divorce on Two Grounds.

Burlington. July 3l--A divorce libel
has been filed in Chittenden county court
by Dora Butler Brown against Sartoris
Brown, now of Arizona. She alleges
non support and intolerabe severity.
The couple were married in Burlington
Oct. s, 1910, by Rev. Ernest G. Guthrie.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-07-31
BARRE DAILY TIMES
THURSDAY, JULY 81, 1919.
The Weather

Cloudy, probably showers late tonight
and Friday; warmer tonight; moderate
variable winds.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-07-31

. Stated conclave of st. Aide
mar commandery, No. 10, X.
T., Thursday, July 81, at 1880
p. m. Per order E. c.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-07-31
TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY

FOR -Two-burner gas stove inquire
at Is Maple avenue 1852.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-07-31

WANTED-Core makers and moulders APP
VT ll6t6
The Seward gateway daily edition, and the Alaska weekly post., 1919-01-25

along the coast of Alaska. As q cou , sequence they are urged by the Land and Indu trial Department, of tfa Alaskan Engineering Commission, to direct thei, attention chiefly to dairy ing aui the raising of hogs ralhcr than as at present to the growing C pcriShablc vegetables.
 Motlakatla Indians, to whom the Rev Father William Duncan loft his entire fortune, in charge or trustees, it now appears are not unanimous n favoring the continuance of the mis-
 ion which the aged priest couducle, for nearly 60 years. Statements O. many of the Indians says dlspatch from Ketchikan, are to the effect that ,he more than S1OO,O0O left by Jh, oric.t < belongs of right to the lnd'an .hcms elvos, that it was the result O. .hcig work, and in part, of their in- ;estmentS.
 For her work in st. Stephens Hos 0itol. Fort Yukon, said tc be the mos 1orthorlv hospital in North Amcmco Miss Marcarct Nunvialli, the ono re- aaining graduate nurse of the instIt- lt,.a, has boon awarded a "Specia, service chevrou" 2y the American Red Cross.
 Nose Dunn died recently in the hos ',tal at Fairbanks. He was insane fo" ome time before his death. Mr. Dunn ras one of inc old-timcrs of the in- arior district. Little is known of his at history and nothing is known of Ai5 people.
 That Valdez holds the record for ordarliness is shown by the fact that
The Seward gateway daily edition, and the Alaska weekly post., 1919-01-25
CHAS. G0L-DSTE:
 & CONTRARY
of JUNEAU, ALASKA

offers to the Trappers of Alaska highest Cash prices fo their Furs.
 The Method of purchase is as follows: Ship your fur u by express parcel post if same a0u to Sl0C CT over We will wire best offer, which if u satisfactory wifi eithcr return your fur or ship to i other point des gnated, ali charges prepaid.
 Compa HiSon of our prices with outside figures WI prove that we pay aAd you get your money fror t!yee ta i've weeks earlier.
 w References; Any Bank in Alaska, Dexter-Hol cn National Bank oi Seaje National Bank Of Tacon& Tacoma, Wash Make us trial shipment VIE GUARANTEE SAFES FACTION.
 CHAS GOL DSTEIN & COMPANY.
The Seward gateway daily edition, and the Alaska weekly post., 1919-01-25
.:niMMl:Ia.MNlMrUl!MNIMl.iMi,
SHN AED DEUG co.


 no, a single arrest has been made ;. the city for any cause for the pas sevcn months. We believe that tn s the record for any town of the sam size in the United States says the Val. 'cz Miner.
 Cordova'S tax rate for the comiH" year will be 10 mills, fixed by the cit council recently. This rate, it !s C. imatad by the city council will sui flee to pay all the current expense ,r the city and leave balance of te" thousand dollars in the treasury foc he incoming council.
 Soup kitchens have been establish d in the First division to provide ourishing food for natives i'll with in. luenza.
 Jessie Mclaughlin and old timer of Dawson, and well known in many amps in Alaska, died recently in Cal rornia of influenza.
 James Manker of Copper Center lied at the Cordova hospital recently uycnic poising. Deceased was a wei nowu old-timer who came to the 'ountry in 1898 and followed the rush n from Valdez to the Copper River alley during that summer. In 1900 he Joined in the stampede to Slate creek.
 Frederick D. Brown, engineer in 'harCe Of the Alaska Engineering commission at Fairbanks, stated at q mo'cr given by the Commercial club her" recently, that a large smelter 'oTld probably be erected at Nenana a serve the needs of a very large sec ion of the interior.
 A recent a-ival from the Koyu- -"l country brings the news that a -ob"', Indian known as Nigrer Billy 'cturncd to Bettles recently with over thousand dollars worth of fur, most f which vas composed of tho skins f white foxes. He reported that the ountry adjacent to the Arctic coast vas literally alive with ptarmigan and 'abbits, and consequently fox and lynX were also very plentiful.
 The Fairbanks branch of the Amer can Mining congress recently met in he interior city and discussed the ad- visibility of erecting q huge central power plant to supply power over & wide area of the mining district. A committee was appointed to gather data
The Seward gateway daily edition, and the Alaska weekly post., 1919-01-25

Evenrude motors and repair parts !. l.. Graef's.
 -A- gasoline and distilate at J. L. Graefs
 If.
The Seward gateway daily edition, and the Alaska weekly post., 1919-01-25

Elaine -Eogene and pearl oil at J. .. Graef's. tf.
The Seward gateway daily edition, and the Alaska weekly post., 1919-01-25

Read the Gateway.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-26
Brifain's Long
Indulgence

Balm realized--long after it was too
late-that German sea power had been
only peace-time fction-a matter of in
diligence on the part of Great Britain
The British were exceedingly tolerant Of
German rivalry. This "folly," as BALM
called it, was not due to any real con-
sideration for Germany. 1t was only
phase of British f-complacency. The
average British merchant had no aver
sion to using German freight carriers. He
was willing to buy cheaper German
goods and sell them at home and abroad
under his own labnls There was no
consciousness at all in Great Britain of
a German peril The British public
still put implicit faith in the diplomacy
of Beaconsheld, the cardinal principle of
which was to combat the influence and
ambitions of Russia. German ambitions
were not taken seriously
The self-deception Of many British
Statesmen about German purposes was
extraordinary. Even down to August,
1914, leaders like Lord Haldane and
Sir Edward Grey seemed unable to i'm
agine that Germany would not alone pro-
woke European war, but would draw
Great Britain into it. 1t was because
of this singular fatuity that the British
had to enter the war so deplorably un-
prepared.
The Kaiser and his advisers may have
had some cause to think that British
politicians would continue complacent
while Germany was building up pow
erful navy in addition to a prosperous
merchant marine. But they misread his
tory and misjudged the British char
acter when they assumed that Great
Britain would ever tolerate the use Of
the German navy to destroy the French
feet and to seize the French Channel
ports. Such a challenge to their own
naval superiority in Western European
waters the British people would GER.
tainly meet, whatever their pacifist
politicians thought. SO the creation of
German navy strong enough to de-
stroy French seapower inevitably paved
the way to war with Great Britain
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-26
The Surrender
Off Scotland

But this author, characteristicallv
obsequious, automatically gids the pill
by adding: "The World War affords in
controvertible proof that Germany must
for all time to come maintain her claim
to sea power. We need not at present
discuss by what means this aim is to be
achieved"
Empty and melancholy words, Hard
~ more than a year after they were
written the greater part of the German
high seas fleet was steaming across
the North Sea to surrender to the AL
lies, and the German U-boats, the onlv
units in the German navy which were
able to keep the seas and to inhict real
losses on the enemy, were being turned
over en- naasse to the victors The Ger
man navy struck its flag in November.
1918, without even fighting to save an
pearances. 1t was a fitting end to a
preposterous military experiment.
But no one in Germany ever foresaw
the tragic ceremony off the Firth Of
Forth. The strategists of the General
Staff, who should have subordinated
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-26
Herr BaIlin'S
Confession

More than ever | must admit that
every increase in our wealth. every sue
cess of our enterprises in the years pre-
cedng the war, were due to our relations
with the British Empire It's ports, it's
dominions and its colonies were largely
opened to our fleets and our merchants
| have often been astonished at that
generosity, which I even regarded as
folly. Can one suppose that we shall
ever restore those old relations?
Owe aspire to recover our overseas
commerce. On that prospect we build the
fondest hopes. But how can we recover
it in the face Of Anglo Saxon unity,
which hates, and ought to hate, our very
presence? Do our imbeciles of chauvin-
lists take account Of the fact that we
haven't even a port where our ships can
dock or where they can receive a friend
ly greeting?
"Dover Falmouth and Southampton,
Gibraltar, Malta and Alexandria, Alden,
the Persian Gulf, Bombay, Colombo,
Singapore and Hongkong - what are
they? English arsenals, naval bases,
coaling stations, docks where we shall
not even dare to show our faces, if Eng
land forbids us to do SO.
at is the same all around the CONT
nent of Africa. 1t is the same in the West
Indies. 1t is the same in the Pacific We
have not single coaling station, not a
single dock, where we can repair our
vessels
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-26

everything to securing Germany's Con-
tlnental position, were silent while Ad-
mlral Won Tirpitz pursued for two dec
AIDES or more his task of fitting Ger
many for that future" on the seas of
which William II had boosted.
Tirptz was, in a military sense, Ger
many's chief evil genius A promoter
and politician rather than seaman. he
worked for his own glorification and
that of his caste. He won the conf
dence of the pan Germans and the Junk
ers, who saw in his schemes ONLY an
other easy way of boosting German
military expenditures He spent mill
ions of marks organizing navy leagues
IN the interior Of the empire and car
rylng back-district delegations to Ham
burg and Bremen, where thew were
feted and infected with the big navy
propaganda. He had the support of the
big industrials and the exporting in
terests and became in time one of the
"uncrowncd kings of the Prussian
state, like Krupp, Thyssen, Heyde-
brand, Balm and Rathenau.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-26
Submarine
LaWfeSSI1ess

But Tirpitz was to involve Germany
IN still more costly military blunders.
his surface fleet was swept from the
ocean in the first months of the war.
He found accidentally in the submarine
an offensive weapon worth vastly more
than his battleships and cruisers. Yet
the use he made Of the U-boat was
senseless and disastrous. Smarting at
the failure of his surface vessels to
hold the seas, he resolved to drive all
other surface shipping off them. 1t was
grandiose idea. Had Tirpitz succeed
ed he would have won the war He
would have won the war equally if he
had been able to carry through his
original plan to create a surface navv
strong enough to cope with Great Brit
aims.
But both these ideas were fallacious.
And the failure Of the second scheme
entalled more fatal consequences than
the failure of the first one. Germany
still had chance to win a European
war after Great Britain had Joined
France and Russia But she had no
chance at all to win a world war into
which she had logged the United States
by persisting in her unrestricted U-boat
operations. Tirpitz had his sufficient
warning of the perils of high sea muir
der when he sank the Lusitania and
raised moral and legal issue with the
United States. But nothing could deter
him. he had become more than ever
visionary and q gambler. So, after
contemptuously parleying for nearly
two years with Washington, he began
war of piracy against all neutral shin
ping. This madness arrayed against
Germany power even more formidable
than Great Britain When reluctant
America was converted into a belliger
ent Germany's last chance of victory
disappeared.
The German public was slow to recog
nl2e the fatal effects of Won Tirpitz's
naval policy. But long before the end
of the war the Kaiser found it advisable
to make a show of sacrificing him to
popular discomfort He was sidetracked
though the continuing effects of his
blunders could not be sidetracked.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-26
"Der Tag"
ln1pudenCe

If Germany intended to be a real sea
power she would therefore have to count
on locking horns, sooner or later, with
the British. The officers of the German
fleet knew this. They had their toast,
Der Tag" meaning the day when they
expected to take Great Brtan's meas
ure on the seas. That sort of thing was
magnificently impudent But it was
not war A competent general staff
would have vetoed as fantastic and sui
cidal the proposition to take Great Brit
ain on as an additional enemy. And
such veto should have stood, whatever
its effect on the Kaiscr's inflated naval
and colonial programme.
But after the elder Moltke's death
German military policy became con-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-26
No Famine
In Germany

Reports of alarming food shortages
in the Central states filled the Allied
press in 1915, 1916 and 1917. They
were gross eXaggerations, intended to
keep up the spirit of the Allied publics.
After 1917 people ceased to put any
faith in them. Hunger would not have
brought Germany to her knees in the
fall Of 1913 or broken the Teuton CO.
alitioD if American man power had not
arrived in Europe and the German ar
mics had not been decisively beaten in
Champagne, Picardy, Artois and Elan
ders.
The Allied blockade failed to starve
Germany into submission, although it
caused the enemy much annoyance and
discomfort. Allied sea power was also
unequal in preventing the attainment
of what should have been Germany's
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-26
Giving Hostages
To Fortune

What the, Kaiser and his advisers
could not see was that their overseas
expansion ran counter to true German
military policy. If Germany was going
TO pursue the Prussian tradition of mill
eary conquest, her energies should have
been concentrated for use along the lines
OF least resistance. Her natural enemies
were France and Russia Eastern and
Middle Europe were marked out bv nat.
ure for Teuton exploitation. To seek
power and territory beyond the seas was
only to give unnecessary hostages to
fortune. For Germany could not expect
20 become a great colonizing nation. tn
maintain worldwide carving trade
and, above all, TO build first class navy.
without exciting the distrust and hos
tihty Of Great Britain. And in a Euro-
pean war in which Great Britain sided
with Germany's enemies the latter's
colonies would fall, her foreign trade
would be suppressed and her navy would
De either blockaded or extinguished.
oversee expansion could not but
weaken Gcrmany's military position. II
necessarily introduced and stimulated
pacifist tendencies within militar;stic
state The more intelligent and practical
leaders in the upbuilding of the German
merchant marine could not but realize
that Cermany's future on the seas de-
pended absolutely on the retention Of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-26
Tirpitz the
Promoter

Arrogant, lmperious and narrow
minded, he bestrode Germany like an
uncouth colossus. A neutral traveller
gave this glimpse of him in the latter
part of the war A train ovcrcrowdea
with women, children and wounded sol
dlers is travelling from one German
town to another. The disabled and suf-
ferlng pack the compartments and the
alsles At one stopping place spa
clous, locked compartment is opened
and Won Tirpitz issues alone-obese.
whlskered, gorgeously uniformed and
baughtily rigid. What was the comfort
of any one else on that train comnared
with his comfort?
Tirpitz had his secret naval appro-
prlatlons and his secret building pro-
gramme. But there are no inviolablc
secrets in a matter like naval construc-
ton. The German navy, as planned by
him, was soon to overtakc and mass
every other navy, except Great Brit
aims. The British government remained
apathetIc for a long time. But the
point was eventually reached when the
British standard of naval superiority
"a fleet equal to that of any two other
powers-was threatened bv German
construction
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-26

fused and unstable The Kaiser's en-
ratio influence was all-pervasive He
was an enthusiastic yachtsman He
was big stakeholder in the Ham
burg-American and North German
Lloyd companies. He wanted to create
a tinsel colonial empire. He was eager
to pose as war lord on the quarterdecks
of battleships as we'll as at the head of
divisions and armies. There is nothing
to show that the general staff tried seri-
ously to dissuade him from his mad ad-
venture on the high seas-an advent
ure which could only dissipate German
resources and weaken Germany's high
~ advantageous military position
The military leaders humored the
whims of the All Highest, whether from
choice or from necessity.