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New-York tribune., 1919-11-05
New Regime in
(rucibIe Steel
Avoids Secrecy
Production, Officials Say, Is
Getting Back TO Peak Al
;aincd During War: Stock
Dividend Is Contemplated
Special Correspondence

Spccldt correspondence
PITTSBURGH, Nov. 4-ln the
months since February of this year in
which Crucible Steel common lcaped
forward 500 per cent in stock market
value, the companys officers at the
plants here were making strenuous Ell
forts to redirect production toward
pcacetime needs The Job of read
justment, although not yet finished, has
been completely planned, and. it was
learned to-day is for the most part
done.
Although as a manufacture of steel
products. Crucibe is turning back once
mere to its accustomed prc-war &C
cupatons, the company is ronovating
new nEancla. ana poD4icity p icy. DN
the election, one by one Of new direc-
tors after stock had changed hands in
New York, control OF the board has
slipped away from the old manage
ment and a new group, headed by
II. $. Wilkinson, OF Syracuse \. y. the
new chairman of the board. now sways
the decisions of the company.
Strong Men on Beard
Under the old regime. only those bare
facts, Wh ch Stock EXCHANGE and legal
requirements made necessary wcrc an
nounced 10 the public, but the new Cru
clJie board promises q more open dis
cusSion OF the alta IS OF the company.
During the months when Cruciblo
stock SCARED from 81 Is to 2Gl, imam
cal Observers. knowing that Il fight
for control was on in the open mar
kot, spcculate cndlcssly as to who
we've tn real owners OF the Cruoibie
Steel Company OF America. IL was
authoritative. 9id to day that both the
stock OF the company and board Of
d lectors il controlled By Mr. " kim
sons group and the interests they
represent. Seven new directors have
been elected IN recent months.
4 he latest addition. A. ". Mellon,
Pittsburgh aHanc.er. who is heavily in-
,erestcd in siNtY-onc separate comna
mes VS. chosen only last week. One
of his closest associates denied tho re
port tina. Mr.. Mellon was the chici
owner ct Cruclhlc. asserting. however,
tnat the banker was lending his sup
lort to the company and Was a substan-
ljal stochholder.
Other new directors are: Hamilton
Stewart. vice pres dent OF the Ilarb.-
SONY Walker Re FACTORIES Company. Of
Iittsburgh; former judge August
.leckscner OF Syracuse ctor in
he Scmet-Solvay Company; " liam II.
hilds. pres dent Of the Barrett Com
oany, Of New York, EverSicy Cnilds,
chairman OF the b arr o. directors of
The Barrett Company aMd August
Heck cher Of New York stec. man
and official Of the New Jersey Iinc
Company.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-05
FINANCIAL MEETINGS
MERGE>TnALER LI<O11pr co

Ths annual meeting OF the stoc 6holaers
y NJ be hold =: the onice OF the coa,,'e'a.y
.riourr HuildinS. No. ~ Nassau STR
i,a% ,a,', l"fE, X on Wednesaay. Novesnber IT,.
itl'' at II q CLOCK a. NJ for the election
~ hoard of nln~ Directors. and fer fne
transaction ot such other business as ,t,st.
l9OpeI! come betor- the nac,lnx
jos T. MACkEY
Secretary and Treasurer
New-York tribune., 1919-11-05

Ansver--S. W. S4rars & Co. arc
liable and We believe the bonds
b. the ii.m are safe. Normal Fed
tax is d by the company. does +
seem Nise for ouc TO place all ua.
Finds in one class OF investments.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-05

~nes' toon-Wi, lou kindly tel
stability. dividends. etc. o. 4
Havana Tobacco Company? A. +, X
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-08
Sherrod is Corrected

Sometime ago an Age-Herald writer re- ferred to the beginning of the last session of Congress, when w. B. Bankhead took his seat as a member of the House. Then, for the first time in the history of the republic, son sat in the House while father sat in the Senate.
 State Senator/Charles Sherrod, writing from his nome in Courtland, pointed to what he considered an equally remark able case. It was his opinion that a father, David Culberson, of Texas, was member of the House while his son, Charles Culberson, was a member Of the Senate. From the following letter, re- ceived by The Age-Herald yesterday from one of it's correspondents, it IS judged that MT. Sherrod was mistaken in his facts:
 "'Uncle Dave Culberson represented district from Texas for many years, pu1 he retired from Congress several years before his son, Charley Culberson, was elected to the Senate. Uncle Dave Cul- person on his retirement from Congress was appointed chairman of commls- sion to revise and codify the laws Tor the District of Columbia, and served on thl' commission until the time of his death. Charley Culberson was governor of the state of Texas when his father retired from Congress"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-08
Tribute to Bishop Atkins

Last Sunday was the greatest day in tbe history of the Highlands Meth- odist church." said pr. Preston 5. Wells, the beloved pastor Of the church, yesterday "We had two won derful services; at the morning service Bishop Atkins preached for us one of the finest sermons I have ever heard on the subject of money Bring Me a Penny was his brief text, and he announced, But that didn't indicate that the sermon would be in keeping with it. The bishop made magnifi- cent appeal to the manhood of this na- tion on the money question; the God given talent of making money and ap- plying it to the proper uses. In the afternoon Bishop Atkins and Dl. George Stuart were our speakers and another large audience was present.
 Bishop Atkins told graphically oi his visit to France, Belgium and Itaiy where he was received by the King If Italy and all the other high poten- tates The message he brought to us for the work of protestant Christianity in the matter of reconstruction and rc- generation was a magnificent appeal 1 was very much gratified at the fine attendance we had at both services and I repeat that last Sunday was a great day for the Highlands Methodist church.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-08
LUKE M'LUkE SAYS

After man has been married awhile he wonders who the wall-eyed idiot was who called them the weaker sex
 A girl may not know a thing about, social etiquette and vet be there with bells on when it confes to displaying good form.
 The girl who has couple of good- looking brothers has large flock of girl friends.
 Nothing rattles married man quite as much as having his wife agree with him on anything.
 Some men remind you of toupeess They are always trying to fool other people and never get away with it.
 You do not have to go to some other state to get rich. Successful men make their money at home.
 A whole lot of women are unhappy because they are always expecting something that can't happen.
 A woman never gets very 1oneson. e as long as there is a full-length mirror somewhere in the house.
 man would rather accept a po- sition' paying $20 in big city and pay SlO board than take a job paying $15 in his home town and pay $5 board
 The trouble with kicking all Inc time is that nobody will pay any att tention to you when you really have cause to kick.
 No man ever longs for anything as much as married woman longs for a little income of her own so she won't have to ask the animal she married for dime every now and then. <. If you want to discover a mans weakness let him do all the taking and he'll be sure to spill it.
 If yOII dn not lilxa a tention to him. It sure saps a whole lot of vitality to hate a man.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-08
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
One Contented Citizen


 A contented man has shown up and displayed his wares.
 He is pr. Henry J. Willingham, presi- dent of the Normal college at Florence. In Birmingham presterday he responded to the usual query. How are you?" by affirming:
 If I felt better I would have 10 be treated for it."
 lie continued in the same mood: q l. ave the job l want do not contemplate re-entry into politics. There's time for everything, and a time for quitting quit when the quitting was good, just as McAdoo did, if we are to believe his republican critics.
 Seriously. I am happy in my work. The college is large and prosperous. North Alabama is booming and should be rich in short order. Greater days are ahead.
 We enjoyed Senator Underwood last week. He was delighted with what he saw and he delighted us by predicting still more wonderful future, and promis- ing to keep his strong shoulder always to the wheel in behalf of Muscle Shoals and all our other enterprises pr. Willingham was formerly state su- perintendent of education and, politi- cally, one of the strongest factors of the state.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-08
Sd md Delegates to
 Cotton Conference

1DD IRMINGHAM should be well rep Ap resented at the cotton meeting in Memphis next Thursday. The chief topic to be discussed is the handling and exporting of cotton and the busi- Ines S side of the Harding plan.
 w. P. c. Harding, who originated the project for organizing a great ex- port corporation, will be present and explain in detail the method he has in view.
 The plan as outlined in the Asso- ciated Press had a strong appeal to the cotton growers, the bankers and the commercial south in general. Taken up and considered point by point the plan will seem all the more attractive and feasible.
 The proposed export cotton corpora tion should be easy of financing. It would mean millions of dollars of add ed wealth to the south. But the question of the moment is the selec- tion of delegates on the part of the Cha mber of Commerce.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-08
DISEASE IN THE WAR

From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
 The chief surgeon of, the American expeditionary forces is unsparing in his criticism of some of his associates in the medical service overseas whorn he charges with gross carelessness and negligence in permitting the spread ot typhoid and paratyphoid in the army This revelation is the more startling because the public had Heen led to be- live that modern military medical science had reduced to a minimum the one-time plaques of active service which so often proved more deadly than the weapons of the enemy. In particular it had been given out that vaccination for typhoid was to protect our soldiers from his greatest scourge of war
 From what the chief surgeon says the belief appears to have been shared too enthusiastically by the medical branch of the army. a false faith in inoculation which led many to disre- gard the common sense thought that vaccination. however effective, couAd not be expected to triuT Tnph over ad- mittedly insanitary conditions. What ever virtue there may have been in inoculation there should have been no relaxing of the precautions prescribed by experience for the protection of military camps and troops on the march. But from the chief surgeons statement the assumption that vacc!- nation had rendered the soldiers in- mune provoked carelessness and gross negligence in regard to these diseases which largely nullified the effects of the preventive treatment He cites that wounded passed through field camp, evacuation and base hospitals without being suspected If the disease which in some instances was "only discovered by the pathologists on the autopsy tablet" Again, in the weeks before the armistice pneumonia so en- gagged the attention of the medical of- ficers that typhoid and paratyphoid was comparatively overlooked.
 Some allowance must, of course, be made for our Jack of medical prepara- ton Tor handling these millions 0I 1nel, for hastily improvised medical staffa and unfamiliarity with conditions. Grave as are tle criticisms of the chief surgeon it will require detailed figures to show complete effects and to what extent these conditions were reflected in all mortality tables. But, after all that has been said about the ability of modern medical science to abate mili- tary plaques, the chief surgeons re- port is, to say the least, startling.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-08
MISQUOTINGL LITERATURE

peare, people say: Now is the winter of our discontent," and end the phrase there, as if Shakespeare had said: This is the winter of our discontent." But the phrase runs straight on: Now is the winter of our dscontent Made glorious summer by this sun of
 York.
 We quote Shakespeare" "On with his head So much for Buckingham ,r Look in your Richard IT, and see if you find So much, for Buckingham.s Colley Cibber interpolated that "A weak invention of the enemy is also Cibber. Cleanliness is next to godliness" is a hallowed misquotation of Bacon. You will not find in the Book of Familiar Quotations, When in Rome, do as the Romans do''-in that form This, how ever, is better than the form in which you will find it.
 The Nomad may note that when Shakespeare used the phrase: Rs| One touch of nature make the whole
 world kin,
 he did not employ it in our genial and good sense at all, but in exactly the. opposite sense-' nature" meaning weak ness and error:
 One touch of nature makes the whole
 world kin
 That all with one consent, praise new.
 born gawds
 Though they are made and moulded of
 things past; 's And gave to dust that is little gilt 5 More laud than gilt o'er-dusted. se We think much better of nature than Shakespeare did To him, as to the old theologians, men were by nature tho children of wrath. ~N
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-08
POE A PROPHET

Which brings us down to the pres. ent
 Aviators of three countries are pre-. pairing at the present time to make transatlantic flights. One of these, a South Carolinian, Lieut. Commander Patrick N. l. Bellinger of Bamberg, has been selected to represent Americas, and we believe if any of the three are successful in this accomplishment dreamed of for so long a time, Lieuten- ant Commander Be1linger will be sue. cessful and the first to make the fligh. from the one hemisphere to the other To paraphrase Poe: If this voyage isn't accomplished, it will be difficult to assign reason why it should nos be accOmplished. T
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-08

Soldiers of the "Rainb@w' division are leaving Germany by the trainload and not one of them shouts, "Auf wiedersehenE
 x x % No matter what happens to the peach crop, there will be the usual delectable display along the beaches this summer.
 < x T
 The old-fashioned druggist who of fers "something just as good" is viewed with suspicion by the liquor sleuths.
 < j; % There is no objection to members of the Hungarian nobility getting employ ment as street sweepers in Budapest.
 x x # Baltimore cannot condemn too strongly the high-handed methods of prohibition agents in darkest Virginia.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-08
SACRIFICE

By J. Corson Miller Sing not to me of earthly power. For winds make sport of the dus,
 of kings In many an immemorial hour Men fought and bled for trivia
 things. Sing me the prayer that lifts from
 some white heart As Earth's immortal part For deeds that live to gain reward. And dreams that barter Love ard
 Fame: These shall die as with a sword And be forever linked with shame. The great white visions born of pain
 and death. These have eternal breath And as comet sweeps the sky, To reappear through cycling years So, shall Loves deeds supreme and
 high
 Enkindle hope again from tears Sing me Loves utter sacrifice and Christs death upon the Cross.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-08
"Fi3ST AMERICAN POET"

, From the Kansas City Star, | Calling the readers attention to the l fact that May 31 will mark the centen- | ary of the birth of Walt Whitman, Louis Untermeyer, writing in the New Republic. pays a glowing tribute to the American poet. Tn the centenary of Whitman"
 says Mir Untermeyer, "Amercan letters 1 celebrates its own birthday.'I The follow ing is an extract:
 He came with double-harreled chal- lenge to a literary aristocrocy. His was first of all, a democracy of thought, of
 emotion, of theme. While the New Eng flanders (whose colonial poetry was not nearly as representative of New England as of old EnglandD were going to village embroidered notices and neatly turned
 maxims, he was taking his material hot from the raucous tumble of life. While
 most of his transatlantic contempo- raries were strolling elegantly through Bullfnch's Mythology, hymning the mi ties, Whitman was writing: Come muse, migrate from Greece and Ionia,
 Cross out, please, those immensely over paid accounts;
 That matter of Troy and Achilles wrath and Aeneas
 Odysseus wanderiHgs. Placard Removed and ITO Let on the rocks of your snowy Parnassus }
 For know better, fresher, buster
 sphere; wider. untried domain awaits and demands. you.
 It was Whitman who first revealed the glory of the commonplace" for him ugli- ness was fused perfectly in a vast har-
 monic counterpoint. Nothing remained casual. He showed the ord mary in d blaze of color that shamed the attempted
 brilliance of the Pre- Raphaelites his daily street cornors, ferries, bridges, were
 more bewildering than the lunar land scapes of Poe. His barbaric Iyawp could be softened to express a lyric ecstasy over a blade of grass which to him was
 mo less than the journey work of the
 stars" his half wonder "stagger sextil-
 lions of infdels' and his own hairy hand,
 whose 'narrowest hinge puts to scorn all machinery" It is this large natural ism, this affection for all that is homely
 and of the soil that set him apart from
 his fellow craftsmen as our first Ameri- can poet.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-08
INTERESTING ALLIANCES

From the New I York Evening Post.
 Napoleon and Crarles A. Dana on Interest" is the ingratiating caption upon a one-sheet pamphlet that ap- parently has something to do with economies. Let us have more of these interesting alliances. as. for example:
 Herod and Florence Nightingale on "The Three-Platoon System,"
 Peter the Hermit and Captain Kidd on "The Direct Primary"
 Cato and Senator Reed on "Excess Condemnation"
 Archimedes and Lady Macbeth on (Which is More Becoming to the Av- craze Woman-a Small Hat or a large One?' XII
 Madame de Pompadour and Cottol Mather on 'vegetarianism.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-08

From the Columbia Record.
 Astounding News by Express via
 Norfolk! The Atlantic Crossed in
 Three Days Signal Triumph of
 Mr. Monck Masons Flying Ma
 chine! Arrival at Sullivan's Is-
 land, near Charleston, S. C., of
 MT. Mason, MT. Robert Holland,
 MT. Henson, Mr. Harrison Aims
 Ainsworth and four others in
 Steering Balloon, Victoria" after
 a Passage of Seventy five Hours
 from Land to Land. Full Farticu-
 lars of Voyage!
 ,,,s 1' years s ago n'l,sr Edgar Allan Poe
 tion with '"rhe Balloo n Hoax written in the newspaper style of that day The above was the startling headline, supposed to have appeared in the New York Sun somewhere abou. 1S45, before the day of telegraph. the astounding news having been re- ceived "by express via Norfolk"
 
 Drawing upon his fruitful imagina- tion, Poe wrote a wonderful and most interesting account of the crossing Of the Atlantic, describing in. mi mute de- tail the balloon and it's workings de- tailing the experiences of the aero nauts as contained in their journal, and landing on Sullivan's island-the scene. likewise, of Poe's "Gold Bug"--greatly to the consternation of the natives.
 While Poe was bit premature with his announcement that "tfle great problem is at length solved and that "the air as well as the earth and the ocean had been subdued by science and becomes common and convenient highway for mankind" he spoke pro- phetically and with far more reason than his readers of three-quarters of a century ago gave him credit Tn fact, we read in the fictitious account: If Gas some assert) the Victoria did not absolutely accomplish the voyage recorded it will be difficult to assign a reason why she should not have ac- ccmpliShed it."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-08

In after years the owner of an air "flivver" will trundle it out of the GO mbination garage and hangar in his ba elk yard, step into the machine and fit away wherever he listeth, return in home with equally as little cere- mqny, but not until airplanes can land as safely and as easily as rolling up to the curb in an automobile.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-08

The Nomad, in the Boston Transcript 1D)RoBABLY the error in quotation JT which one meets every little while
 in the prints of all the world, about the burning of witches' at Salem, should be classed rather as an error of quotation than as a historical error Peo- pie who use the phrase employ it as a current saying, without stopping to con- slider whether the witches were really burned, hanged, guillotined, garroted or in what manner they were put to death. People are simply the victims of the phrase. Other popular amendements of the classics have passed into the books themseives-as for instance the amend ment of Scotts lines:
 Breathes there a man with soul so dead Who never to himself hath said. instead of the gramatically more cor rect
 That never to himself hath said.
 By the way, if you were reciting Cas- abianca,' would you read
 The boy stood on the burning deck
 Whence all but him had fled or
 Whence all but he had fled?
 Successive editions of Mrs. Hemans have the line in both forms. In this case put IS used as proposition, in the case ot except, apparently requir- ing the objective pronoun; but English literature IS full of instances in which the nominative-"none -bu I, "all but he''-is used
 Another odd instance of mtsquotation which will not down. Quoting Shakes
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-08
FROM THE FRONT
From the Minneapolis Tribune.

From the Minneapolis Tribune
 Representative Reavis of Nebraska was talking about his trip to the front
 Il witnessed a mild quarrel at the front he said, "between two young chaplains of different denominations. The senior chaplain got the better of the quar- rel.
 Let us bury the hatchet. rny brother. he said. After all, we are both doing the Lords work, are we not~
 We certainly are, said the junior chaplain, quite disarmed
 Let us, therefore, said the senior suavely, do it to the best of our abil- ity. you in your way, and l in His"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-08
The private wound is deepest Two Gentlemen of Verona
 * < x

BEGINNING THE DAY-I thank Thee. 0 Lord, for this multitude or people by whom I am surrounded- from those at my side whom l love as myself, unto those afar whom l do but see. Their songs and their sighs are mine. 0 make my heart tender and large to beat in all these lives. For Christ's sake. Amen.- H. M. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-08
CAUSE FOR ENVY
From the Boston Globe.

' IOIH tHc DOStoi HAopS.
 With bone-dry prohibition laws in ef- feet, Rye. N. Y, and Champaign. H., will envy Clearwater, Minn., and Water town, Mass. because sof the more appro- priate names the latter will possess
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-08
NEED INSTRUCTION

From the Charleston Evening Post.
 A good many statesmen are showing up at the peace conference who ap. parently never looked up the word democracy in the dictionary.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-08
An.1lEzMM1AaustH

P S.-But take comfort from the fact that the mania for collecting appendices is passing. The tooth collectors will soon give way to some other fad; which will no doubt, be the extraction of toe nails expect to live to see the day when there will be race of toenailless peo- ple