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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-25
ROOSEVELT LETTERS
 GIVEN ID PUBLIC
Views on Presidency and Other Matters Set Forth in
 Characteristic Style
By Associated Press

New York September 24.-Delving into the mine of 10000 letters which Theo- dore Roosevelt wrote during his public career, Joseph Bucklin Bishop, the colo ners biographer. in the October issue of Scribner's Magazine, brings to light a number of gems in the intimate corre- spondence between the former President of the United States and Sir George Otto Trevelyan, Bart, o. NJ, English statesman and author, with whom the great American enjoyed a rare friend ship covering 20 years.
 MT, Bishops paper, the second of the series, entitled Roosevelt and Trevel- yam" reveals the many-sided Roosevelt as ''an unsuitable reader of books,' his warm sympathy for authors and his broad and profound knowledge of ancient and modern literature. Even amid the cares Of the presidency, MT. Roosevelt, it is shown, maintained a regular correspond ence with leaders of literary and intel lectual life both in this country and Flu rope In Sir George Trevelyan, nephew of the historian Macaulay, he found a man singularly responsive to his own intellectual tastes and Knowledge. The correspondence began when he was gov- ernor of New York and continued until q few months before Mir. Roosevelt's S
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-25
WOULD PROSECUTE FOSTER

Washington. September PA book on syndicalsm bearing the name of Will liam z, Foster. secretary of the steel strikers organization committee, as one of it's authors, was brought to the atten- tion of ,Attorney< General Palmer today by Representative Kahn of California, with especial regard to the books al- legged advocacy of direct action" in la bor disputes. MT. Kahn suggested that in view of the deatrs which have oc- cured in rioting incidental to the indus trial unrest in which Foster has been playing a prominent part, legal action might be taken against the strike leader as an accessory to the murders" of which the union men have been com planning
 Mir Palmer, MT. Kahn said after the conference, took the position that the question was one for the state courts to handle.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-25
Dr.. R. L. Eaton, Formerly President of Medical So- ciety of Nashville, Ten nessee, Compounds New Formula.
PRACTICED MEDICINE
 TWENTY-FIVE YEARS
Hundred Thousand Bottles
 of Ell Vigor Sold in Only a
 Few Months. Thousands / Praise New Medicine.

Dr. R. L. Eaton, of Atlanta, Ga, has de- cided to place his famous tonic prescription, Fl Vigor, on the market and offer this med- icine for sale through the druggists.
 For several years Dr. Eaton was presi- dent of the Medical Societies in Nashville. Tenn His 25 years of active practice as a physician has gained him standing in the profess sion that ranks him among the lead ing physicians of the entire south.
 Dr. Eaton began years ago to pay par ticular attention to the study of diseases of the blood, liver, stomach and kidneys with a view to compounds .ng formula that would prove successeul in the treatment of such disorders El Vigor was the result of these years of labor.
 The thousands of enthusiastic kouthern people who tell of the remarkable results ob- tained through the use of Fl Vigor for rheu- matism. indigsst ton. dyspepsia, liver trouble. nervousness, b;liousness, impure blood. and other kindred disorders, is unpues tonable evidence of the suctess of Dr. Gaton's ef- forts.
 More than fifty thousand bottles of Fl vigor have been sold and dissr,nuted in Att Ianta and vicinity iI the past few months. Druggists and dealers repeatedly order- ing Fl Vigor in large quantities to meet the tremendous demand.
 Over hundred thousand bottles of Fl Vigor have been sold in the past few months. Atlanta sales over 50.ooO; Birmingham sales. sO.000; Chattanooga sales. 30.000, and Nash vile sales, 15,o00 bottles.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-25
VIEWS ON PRESIDENCY

q certainly would not be willing to hold the presidency at the cost of fall ing to do the things which make tht real reason why I care to hold it at all he wrote to Sir George on May 2S, 1904. 'I had much rather be a real president for three years and a half than a figure head for seven years and a half. I think l can truthfu7fy say that I now have to my credit a sum of substantial achieve meut-and the rest must take care of itself.'
 Previously, in 1899, Trevelyan had sent Governor Roosevelt a copy of the first part of his history. ''The American rev. olution," which made a deep impression on it's recipient and which he praised for its interest, delightful humor. absolute fairmindedness and exactness of narra- tive" an opinion which was shared by Senator Lodge and Elihu Root, both of whom later joined with Roosevelt in buying a silver loving cup and sending it to Sir George as a token of their ap- precia tion Roosevelt his biographer says, was always on the alert for writers of only even moderate fame" and of encouraging them with friendly letters and invitation to visit him at the White House or Oyster Bay.
 The books that made the President happy covered remarkable range. his- tory, fiction, philosophy, travel, zoology, ornithology, anthropology. religion and art, and he sad they gave him ease and relaxation he could get in no other way, mot even on horseback*'
 Statements and apothegns character istically Rooseveltian abound in this col lection of letters. Some of them are here reproduced for the first time in apv naWcDaner.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-25
TULANE ATHLETIC
 LEADER HERE TO GET
 GAME WITH ALABAMA
Louisiana Gridiron Team Would Like to Meet Crimson Eleven in Bir-
 mingham Next Year

New Orleans, September 24.-An evil dence of the great rejuvenation of ath- letics at Tulane university will be the visit of President A. F. Westerfield of Tulanes athletic council to Birmingham to discuss arranging a game with Ala bama at Birmingham next season.
 Tulane and Alabama usually meet in a game here or at Tuscaloosa, but Pres ident Westerfield believes a game be- tween the two teams at Birmingham would prove a big attraction. Look ing so far ahead as that shows Presi- dent Westerfield is leaving no stone unturned to build up Tulane's athletics, which long have suffered from lack of pep behind them until Mir. Wester- field became president.
 In fact, Tulanes present schedule is the finest the local institute ever had Games with Georgia university and Washington and Lee are included. anc President Westerfield Is being highly complimented for landing them. Ht says the Tulane athletic council is go- ing after even bigger things for the 1920 schedule, and expects to see not only the best teams of this season, but Alabama and Georgia Tech added.
 President Westerfield left New Or leans Wednesday night
 A. J. Heinemann has been reelected for the third year as business manager
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-25

Abraham Lincoln. in the midst of the heart breaking anxieties of the civil war, to have to take up his time try ing to satisfy candidates for postmas- ter"
 There are numerous and grave evils incident to free government, but after all is said and done I cannot imagine any real man being willing to live under any other system.''
 Benedict Arnoldl What a base web was shot through the wool of his wild daring, He was at heart Lucifer, that child of thunder and lover of the bat ties hottest heat"
 'The more I read Carlyle the more hearty grows my contempt for his pro- found untruthfulness and for his shriek- ing deifcation of>shams!'
 T have never understood public men who get nervous about assassina tion. CWritten shortly after the attack upon his life in Milwaukee in 1912D For the last Il years I have. ot course. under st6od that I might at any time be shot and nrcbably would be shot some time. II think I have come off uncommonly well. I cannot understand any serious nineed public man not being so absorbed in the great and vital questions with which he has to deal as to exclude thoughts of assassination. It is not a question of courage"
 Colonel Roosevelt, in what was proba bly, one of his last letters to Sir George in 1918. referred to the fact that his four sens and son-in-law were fighting for the allies After referring to them in terms of affection and that he would not for anything have them anywhere e,se," he concluded: 1T fear we would welcome their return home. each with an arm or leg off. so that they could 4t.a... manfully-and yet we could have them backi'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-25

vision popular back home. and the en largement of the commission would make a few more offices to which political fa- forites might be appointed. The fact that these appointments carried no salaries was of no moment.
 The senate refused to concur in the house bill and asked for a conference committee. in which request the house acquiesced.
 This committee got together this morn- ing and agreed upon report to which it is believed both houses will agree.
 It retains the larger commission, but recommends that the automobile license fund be distributed among the counties in an equitable manner and that all county seats be connected up with the highway system.
 With the adoption of this report. it is stated both sides agreed to get In back of the good roads movement and put over the s25. 900 bond issue.
 The bond issue bill will come up in tht house tomorrow.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-25
STOREKEEPER HELD
 UP AND ROBBED BY
 LONE HIGHWAYMAN

w. A. Ferguson. in charge of the gen. eral merchandise store of Swafford & Pass at Vanderbilt station, East Bir- mingham. was held up by robber late last night, who went through the cash drawer and secured about $50.
 According to statement made by Fer guson. an automobile drove up in front Of the store and a white man got out of the car. entered the store and asked for a dope" As Ferguson turned the rob- Der pointed gun at him and after being backed up against the wall, the highway man rifled the cash drawer. The rob Der left about 80 in small change be- hind in the drawer. taking only the bills of large denomination.
 Backing out of the store with the gun still pointed at Ferguson, the srobber jumped into the car and made his get away.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-25
Fl V|C0R IS NOT
 PATENT MEDICINE Famous Prescription Not "Cure-Alp Nor Remedy, But a We'll Balanced Tonic Prescription Treat ment.

The thousands of inquiries received the nous tonic prescription. have prompted Dr. Eaton, the manufacturer. to issue state ment as to the purpose of his medicine.
 ..EI Vigor is neither a patent medicine. a nostrum nor a remedy" states Dr. Eaton. Tt is carefully worked out prescription. designed to treat disorders of the blood liver. stomach and kidneys. It is not a cure-all-
 Medical authorities agree that large majority of the most prevalent diseases trace their origin to disorders of the stom- ach. liver and kidneys. The formula of Fl v;gor. which is printed on every bottle, has Men compounded with view to reaching the source of such ailments. and by correct ;po the causes, to relieve suffering in a nat ural way.
 "Thousands of people all over the south have told me repeatedly that Fl Vigor has relieved them of rheumatism. biliousness. constipation indigestion, dyspepsia nervous ness, blood and skin disorders and hundreds of other troubles that have their origin in disorders of the stomach. liver and kidneys.
 '.The statements of these grateful people who have taken Fl Vigor and been benefited by it, prompted me to place it in the hands of the druggists, so that everyone who suf- fers from such disorders could obtain 1t easily and at a reasonable price
 .'The thousa sands of questions that are be- ing asked every day about Fl Vigor demand an answer, and I intend to prepare state ment regarding the ingredients of my pre- scrption for publication in few days.
 T will be very glad indeed if every per- son who buys bottle of Fl Vigor from the druggist will read the formula printed on the label and show same to his family physi- elan and ask his opinion of it's ingredients Many of the best phy sicians in the south are prescribing Fl vigor for their patents.''- Adv
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-25
ELECTRICAL WORK FRS TO QUIT
 as

Chattanooga, September 24.-All union electrical workers in this city will go on strike tomorrow morning at Il O clock to enforce a demand for an in- crease in wages for all classes of the trade.
 The present union scale is 62h cents an hour for first-class workers, 50 cents for journeymen. and 30 cents Tor helpers. The demands are for 75 cents an hour for the first class. 60 cents for the second, and 40 cents for the third. All electrical establishments will be at- fected with the exception of the Chat tanooga Railway and Light company and one private firm, which does not employ union men.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-25
GOmpers Cites Gary's Action in Summing Up Opposition to Anti-Strike Legislation
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 and detective crooks employed by the companies. woman murdered in cold blood, and the detective who did 1t re- leased on bond of s2500 while men ar rested in the ee.ings are held in sS00s bail"
 Where's that?" committeeman in terrupted him.
 "At McKeesport, Pa" MT. Gompers rejoined. That's the sort of thing we have to meet in guiding labor organi- zations. We've done and will continue to do our level best, men in the labor movement. to keep things going. But if you take from us our last effective form of appeal for necessary things, as this head and not on ours"
 Dealing with the subject ofsgeneral uf1- rest, Mir. Gompers asserted that labor organizations were experiencing difficult. ty in holding radicals in check.
 "The disposition is so great now" he added, that democracy is sneered at by certain groups who say that it is only a pretext which the employing classes hold up to create workers. and that work CTS can only secure justice by revolution Nothing would give these people oppor- tunity to spread their doctrines like the passage of this bill. Nothing would cre- ate so much unrest"
 UNDERWOOD DEBATES ISSUE
 Senator Underwood of Alabama de- bated the issue with the witness at some length.
 Back of this bill, what stands behind it," remarked the senator, lis fear of the general public that at sometime a general railroad strike will be called. be prevented?"
 "I can't underwrite any measure, sug- gest any proposition, which will abso- lutely prevent general strike," MT. Gompers returned. This I do know; fair treatment of labor will go far to pre- vent it."
 "This kind of legislation.'' Furuseth told the committee. wiped out the sea power of the United States during the last century. It drove Americans off the sea. Birds and cattle have the right to combine: this takes away that right for men. It leaves us absolutely at the mercy of employers. I've no hesitation in saving that the government can't be trusted with power, to fix wages; that kind of power is always abused"
 Glenn E. Plumb, general counsel for the railroad brotherhoods, returned to the stand to clear up some points in the labor argument
 Several questions as to profit sharing have been asked of witnesses here." he said. "Our point in opposing such schemes is that whenever under a pri vate capitalistic system you get the own- CTS to dividing profits with the employees you instantly have capital and labof combining against the public. The inter- ests of the two elements are put together in raising charges which the consumer must pay"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-25
State WiHLikely Haue
 One of Best Systems of Hghways tn Country
Out of Tangled Web of Roads Proposition Has, Evolved Solution Expected to Put Alabama
 In Front Ranks of Good Roads States
ny W. J. ROLES

Montgomery, September 24.-(Special) ) Out of the tangled web into which the good roads proposition was thrown a while back has come solution that l., expected to give Alabama one Of the very best highway systems in the United States.
 The machinery for it's administration may be a bit cumbersome. but with com petent engineers and the money to foot the bills the roads and bridges will be built
 The two louses of the legislature di- Vlued on the machinery. and in part on the methods. bur conference commit tee mas agreed upon a plan that will end the quarrel and result 1t is believed ir the ratification of the s25,0oO,0o0 highway bond amendment to the constitution
 The senate some time ago passed d bill creating the state highway system to be composed of chief engineering instruc- tors at Tuscaloosl and Auburn and three members to be appointed. It also diverted all automobile anu auto truck licenses t. the state road fund
 An identical bill had been introduced in the house by Representative Arnold of Jefferson county. An effort to substitute the senate bill for this when it <was calleu 1ailed, ana the Arnold bill, loaded down with burdensome amendments, was passed.
 It provided for commission of 13 mem bers, consisting of the state geologist. tn. chief instructors i1 engineering at Tusca- lodsa and Auburn and 10 appointive mem- bers, one from each Congressional dis trict. The automobile and truck license, under another amendment, would have been equally divided among the 67 coun- ties.
 Political considerations were believed at the time to have influenced this action on the part of the house. Requiring the commission to spend an equal number or dollars ir-each county would make the representatives respor sible for this pro-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-25
TAX DEATH BLOW
 TO BOTTLERS, CLAIM

Montgomery, September A.-tSpeclaI.J Bottlers of soft drinks in Montgomery today say the bill passed in the legis lature yesterday levying a license tax of cent on each bottle will put them out of business While. the tax Is 10 be col ected from the customer by the retailer. they claim that dealers will refuse to handle bottled soft drinks if they are required to charge an extra penny for 1t and, of course. if the retailer does not handle it there will be no market for the bottlers' product.
 The bill was presented in the senate as an amendment to the general revenue bill, and as originally drawn was in- tended to legalize the sale of nonalcoholic cereal bevera ges. but a substitute which was passed does not permit the sale of beverages now prohibited by law,
 Bottlers will try to prevail upon the governor to veto the bill, it is said.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-25
NEGRO BOY HURT
 IN AUTO ACCIDENT

Oliver Brooks. negro, il years old. or % Sloss quarters, was run down and badly bruised about the head by Buick automobile at First avenue and Thirty sixth street about 1915 o'clock yesterday afternoon He was carried to the Hill man hospital, where he was reported as resting well.
 The automobile was driven by O. N. Wood of S200 Underwood avenue, who was placed under arrest by Sergeant Ryan charged with reckless driving.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-25
CHARACTERISTIC STATEMENTS

"A great free people owes 1t to itself and to mankind not to sink into help lessness before the powers of evil" unfortunately for us, small men do most of the historic teaching in the col leges The great historian must have the scientific spirit, able to marshal and weigh the facts.'
 rThe presidential office tends to put b premium upon a mans keeping out of trouble rather than upon his accone plishing results. The electorate is very apt to vote with it's back to the future" /"
 T do not think the average American multi millionaire very high type, and do not much admire him. On the whole, our people are, spiritually as well as ma terially, on the average better and not worse off than they were 100 years ago"
 Each man knows where his own shoe pinches. I have had most vivid reali- zation of what it must have meant to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-25
Excess Profits of Clothing
 Men Being Investigated
By AssoeiateA Prsss

By Assoetated PFeN
 Washington, September 2.-Reports of excess profits of manufacturers and dealers in clothing are being investigat- ed by the department of justice. Att torney General Palmer said today that prosecutions would be instituted wherever justified as soon as Congress passed the amendments requested by President Wilson making the food con- trol act applicable to clothing and pro- yiding a criminal penalty for hoardine and profiteering.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-25
Montgomery Negroes Are Indicted ~ for
 Criminal Assault
Rv Assocjated PrNss

Montgomery, September 24.-Robert Crosky and Relius Phifer, negroes, were indicted by special grand jury today on charges of criminal assault. Crosky is alleged to have attacked a 63-year-old white woman three nights ago and Phifer is charged with assault on young white woman about a month ago. Both negroes are said to be in the Mobile county Jail for safe keeping.
 Preliminary hearings will be held next week. The preliminary trials will be private because of threats made in the past few days to lynch the negroes when they are brought here for trial. The date for the trial will not be an- nounced by the court.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-25
Want Legislation to Exempt Ex-Service
 Men From Poll Tax

Mobile. September 24.-(Special )-Reso- lutions urging the Mobile county dele gation to make provision by legislation for the exemption of ex-service men fr\n payment of poll taxes while they were in the service of the country were adopted at a meeting of the governing council of the First Alabama National Guard association at the Cawthon hotel this afternoon. telegram was sent to Sem ator John Craft and the house rep resentatves of Mobile county.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-25

The Fl vigor Distributing Co.,. Atlanta, Ga. will pay ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS IN GOLD for the best answer in two hundred words to the question: What Is Fl vigor? Read the ads and mail an- swers b(ore December lst.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-25
Wilson Would Regard Any Reservation as
 Rejection of Treaty
(Centinuea from Page One.)

beg you to observe that I said the only organized forces. because I would not include many individuals that l know in such charge as this, but do mean that it is the pro-Germans that showa the hyphen during the war that are now organized against that treaty"
 Following the address President and Mrs. Wilson and members of their party were taken for an automobile ride over the city and through Fort D. A. Russell. three miles out Upon their return their special train left imme diately' for Denver.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-25
S25O GOO LOSS WITH
 FIRE STILL RAGING
sv A.,oef,sss Pres,

Greenville, Tex, September 25.-Fire of undetermined origin. which broke out in the shoe department of the Hud speth Dry Goods company at 12:30 o'clock this morning had virtually con stunned tpa Hudspeth building at 1:15 and destruction of. the entire block, situated in the heart of the business district was threatened. The loss al- ready is estimated at $250.000.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-25
Great Gathering of
 Catholics Attend University Opening
BY Aasoeiated Press

Washington, September A.-The great est gathering of the Catholic hierarchy and clergy of America since the plenary meeting of 1884 in Baltimore attended the opening session at Catholic univer- sity today by the conference called by James Cardinal Gibbons to lay plans for greater unity in the work of the church. Ninety-two of the total of 112 prelates of the church in this country and more than 600 members of the clergy and laity attended the opening session.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-25
s3-Year.Old Man in Jail
By Associaied Press

Lynchburg. Va September 24. Frank McMinnis. S3 years old, Confed- crate veteran, is in jail at Chatham as n result of the shooting of his e-year- old granddaughter. Magic Mattox. who is in a critical condition at local hospintal McMinnis claims he did Tot know the gun was loaded. The child stated she saw him insert the shell in the gun