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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-14
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Falls Heir To Suit


 T do not know when l have been as much amused as I was on Friday morn- ing when J. Mercer Barnett and his party landed at the kxchange hotel in Mont gomery" said Jeff Bailey.
 There was a waiting list at the clerk s desk and in order to give the Birming- ham sports a chance to wash up and get the dust out of their throats after the long, dusty drive to the capital city. 1 invited them up into my room.
 As soon as the door was closed each fellow shucked his coat, but before J. Mercer got his off some guy commented on its brevity, another stated that it was cut too sparingly for a man of his fig- ure, and that it made him look like col- lege boy instead of the president of the kiwanis club. The boys saw they were getting his goat, so one joined in by say ing, Just look at his trousers, they must have been cut in high water while an other added, Or maybe it's raining in London By this time he was getting mighty uncomfortable, for he did not want to let the Montgomerans think that he had poor tailor.
 His Uncle, Frank Willis, having shed
 -rcer said, Look here, Frank, believe my coat will fit you better than it does me Try it on.' He stepped for ward and was soon in it and a chorus went up, Tt fits him like the paper on the wall He looks swell in it, while it makes you look like you were from Pratt City,
 By this time the big chief was ready to give it to him, and without further ado said, Well I am glad that it looks good on one member of the family and just as soon as I get home and can get into another suit I'll have it sent out to your house, but the sad part is I have two more cut by the same pattern
 The most touching part, however, was the careful way the uncle watched ten derly over his nephew to see that he did not soil his clothes and made him spread his napkin wide over his manly bosom so that no grease spot should drop to shine out from the new silk mohair suit to which he had fallen heir"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-14
Government Control
 and Railroad Employes

FORGE F. CONROY, an Erie NJ conductor, is convinced that politeness pays. A pleasant smile and courteous manner brought him a legacy of fifteen thousand dollars in the will of J. J. Adams of Allen dale, N. J., who was for many years a commuter, Gas a mark of appre- citation for his kindly treatment of me and other passengers when he had no personal interest in us beyond his of ficial duties."
 This bequest is creditable, both to the testator and a faithful employe of the Erie railroad who lived up to the policy, Nthe public be pleased" !" Before the war courtesy was the rule, rather than the exception, on Ameri- can railroads. It was partly due to a realization that the public is entitled to good service and a reasonable amount of consideration and partly to sharp competition.
 There has been noticeable de- terioration in the personnel of rail- road employees under government con- trol. People who are accustomed to go about the country great deal have frequently commented on the change and it has served as another argu- ment against government ownership of railroads. The objection that many railroad executives had to government control filtered down through the ranks and has been reflected in the mental attitude and the behavior of employees.
 When the "unscrambling" of the railroads is accomplished, a task that will prove by no means easy, one of the important problems to be solved under private management will be that of counteracting the demoraliza- tion among railroad employees.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-14

It is a fine thing to see so many prom inent men in America, past the age ot four score years and ten, who are stit able to sit up and discuss the league ot nations.
 President Wilson's veto of the measure to repeal the daylight saving law will be endorsed by every golf player in the coun- try.
 # < F Senator Reed says he had a nice little meeting" at Gadsden. There's so much opposition here that he may not have a nice little meeting in Birmingham.
 < < x Now that trading with Germany has been resumed, the Teutons are hoping that they will soon be back on basis of seven meals a day.
 % * E What worries-some people in this part of the country is the fact that they won't even be able to find out if 2a4 beer is in- toxicating.
 Women opposing suffrage at Montgom- cry have chosen the most pulchritudinous lobbyists they could find. Artful crea- lures!
 The man who can't get out of bed be- fore o'clock in the morning sees no necessity for going up thousands of feet in the air just to see the sun rise.
 # < # Recent photographs of the former Crown Prince show him to have a rather thoughtful look Perhaps Frederick is at last learning to think.
 # * # Japan, who busted the German burglar, is entitled to a reward in Shantung. That makes it much clearer, or does it?
 * x # According to the latest figures from the Toledo fight, it's lucky for Tex Rick ard that his oil property is booming.
 x # ]. Every day or two Sergeant York has to explain to an admiring multitude that he can't make a speech.
 # # # The report that Nat Goodwin died poor was proved erroneous by the discovery that he. left $s0,ooO worth of liquor
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-14

ioIil tHC NiiSoSO Ileldi
 Stefansson, artc explorer, thinks tha. "the trend of civilization is northward :" The climate of the northern part of the United States and of Canada he pro- nounces suited to physical and intellec- tual vigor, and he believes it will de- velop the best products of civilization
 That depends entirely on how far north you go. No amount of education and training could develop a really in fluential civilization among people who have to spend so much energy as the Esquimaux do merely fighting cold On the other hand, a high civilization could be developed along the equator.
 Some day, as the earth grows smaller in proportion to the number who claim life on 1t, high civilization will be de- veloped there. For heat only induces inertia, and human energy can over come inertia; but extreme cold induces lethargy, and lethargy is synonym for the want oi energy.
 Of course human beings are more adaptable than any other form of life The lion, the oyster and the pine are all energetic within a narrower climatic range than is man. Not only so but diff fertnt human beings brought up in the same surroundings vary widely in their capacity to develop to a high point in different degrees of temperature.
 Of two brothers, one may find his notch of greatest efficiency in an aver age temperature of 55, another in an aver age temperature of 75. And finally, the whole history of the world has shown that climate which affords a modicum of bracing cold is on the whole the best nurse of human energy. So far as that goes, StefaDsson is right.
 But an average temperature fifty de- grees lower than that of the blood means steady fight for existence; and steady fight leaves no leisure for growth Eng land would never have been the great country 1t became but for the influence of the great natural hot water radiator along it's shores.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-14
Boil WeeviI In Evidence

q have run up on some business and will be here only a day or two" sad James l.. Ross, a we'll known hardware merchant and automobile dealer of Eu- faula. T came on the train this time as was a bit afraid of the roads, and did not care to tackle the heat. Barbour county has planted great deal more cot ton than for the past few years. and the boil weevil is having the time of his life as the weather conditions have been just right for him to luxuriate in the squares The peanut outlook is good, but the vel vet bean prospect is poor as somehow most of the farmers got bad stands. The hog situation is encouraging. and if the people will only learn to feed what they make to them there is no telling the un- told riches which will flow into the county"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-14

lzed for two, three and four years at option of recruit in all ratings are now open for first enlistment, ex- cept that applicants for machinists' mates school and for aviation me- |chanics' schools will not be enlisted for shorter periods than three years.
 Present war pay," it is announced, ''ls now permanent for men during current enlistment and for all men Ienlisting or re-enlisting prior to July 1, 1920, for the term of such enlist ment or re-enlistment."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-14
Telephone Companies
 Ms John BarleYcorn

G7N HE reactions of prohibition are
 0 many and varied. For the next
 half century, provided the nation con-
 tinues bone-dry, psychologists, econo-
 mists, scientists, students of sociology
 and other observers will be concerned
 with the effects of suddenly taking away alcoholic stimulants from a na- tion of one hundred million people. Thousands of foreign-born citizens returning to their native countries with millions of dollars carried in money belts is one manifestation that has created uneasiness in financial circles. Another result of prohibition, both curious and instructive, has been brought to light by telephone officials
 It is stated that the Bell Telephone company is losing thousands of 'iol- lars in telephone tolls because genial John Barleycorn no longer creates desire to talk, not only with anybody who happens to be present, but to others at distance. Pay stations, which did thriving business during the 'wet" regime, don't take in as many nickels, dimes and quarters as formerly and there has also been a reduction in long distance conversa- tion.
 If the telephone business is hurt by prohibition, along with hotels, res- taurants, cabarets, theatres and dozens of other enterprises by the ab- sence of the festive cocktail and the ! lhighball, what must be the plight of the taxicab companies?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-14
RECALLING THE SPORT SHIRT

From the Chicago News
 What became of all the dreamy lock- ing young men with large, plunging Adams apples. who wore sport shirts few summers ago? One suspects that they have put the shackles of the bourgeois white collar upon their anato- mical handicap and have now become leading citizens.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-14
TWENTY YEARS AGO
 IN THE AGE-HERALD
Events Recorded July IA. 1899.

The situation in the Transvaal is still acute. Kruger's Boers are eager to fight
 the British Both sides to the South
 African controversy continue preparations
 for war.
 The Washington correspondent of The Age Herald wires that it now seems probable that Secretary Alger will be forced out of the cabinet by the popular clamor against him in many parts of tha
 der fire for his conduct of the war de- partment during and after the Spanish American war.
 The case of Roland B. Molineux, charg- ed with the murder of Mrs. Katherine J. Adams, was presented to the grand jury of New York county yesterday. The pro- 1 ceedings were secret. | William S. Taylor vas nominated by the 1 republicans of Kentucky yesterday at
 Lexington to make the race for governor ! Gas continues to flow from the arte-
 sian well at the Alabama Brewery, Twenty-seconT street and Avenue D. A l flame about eight feet high was obtained yesterday.
 R. S Warner of Chicago president of  and a party of officials are making a
 tour of inspection in the Birmingham district
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-14

BEGINNING THE DAY-Lord, for Thy quiet, that l shall not be un- strung. For Thy strength that l shall not be swept away. For Thy wisdom, that l may not lose my direction. There are so many voices, so many contrary currents, so many diverse ways, that must make shipwreck of it without my God. Amen.-H. M. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-14
GOOD IDEA

From the Atlanta Constitution.
 If the ex-kaiser's war-associates con- him." perhaps the allies will bag the whole bad bunch.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-14

Washington bureau. POT Hibbs build ing.
 European bureau, 10 King street. Covent Garden, London, w. C. /.
 Eastern business office, World bulld- ing. New York city; western business office. Tribune building, Chicago. The $. c. Beckwith Special Agency, agents for foreign advertising.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-14

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-14

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-14
Sweet Potato Crop
 Being Conserved


 GS is large this season-larger, prehaps, than ever. This state made a great record in Sweets" last year. It led the whole country, and it will be no surprise if Alabama leads again. Here is where progressive methods demonstrate their utility.
 "As result of the general success in the storing and curing of sweet potatoes in houses during the last few years," says Dr. J. F. Duggar of Auburn, Alabama now has over 100 houses of this kind, with storage capacity of one hundred thousand bushels. Special interest is being de- veloped this year by the Alabama ex- tension service, through the depart ment |of horticulture, in this move ment, and the indications now are that there will be over a hundred new houses constructed this year, with a storage capacity of over two hundred thousand bushels.''
 In order to be of the utmost service to farmers in conserving their sweet potatoes in this manner the extension iservIce has designated R. G. Briggs of the hortinlelre department as sweet potato specialist" He will give especial attention to all inouiries regarding ''the details of construction of houses, as well as the method of harvesting and curing the potatoes, A recent survey of the sweet potato houses in Alabama by H. c. Albin of the United States bureau of markets and MT. Briggs indicates that over ninety per cent of the houses now erected are satisfactory to their own- CTS; ot the remaining ten per cent visited there was definite fault lelther in the construction of the houses or handling of the potatoes All houses and potatoes handled ac- Icording to given directions have proven highly satisfactory.
 Prospective builders are urged not to build before receiving the special instructions available through the county farm demonstration agents. which have been prepared by the United States government and the Alabama extension service"
 A man in Washington created some ex- citement by accidentally dropping a brown bundle in front of President Will son. The package contained nothing hut newspapers However, if they were for eign-language newspapers 1t might be wise to look up the mans past record
 <. * x
 senator Arthur Capper is described ip the Saturday Evening Post as a quiet. 'unassuming man who rarely gives an or der. Still, the 700 employees of Senator cappers publishing plant at Topeka are probably willing to accept his gentle sug- gestions.
 < < *
 Luke McLuke mas been advised bv his physicians to quit work for few days. It is to be hoped that Luke didn't brea down under the strain of trying to be happy though dry
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-14
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-14

mighty Caesar! Dost thou lie so Iows Are all thy conquests, glorics, tri- umphs, :pofls, Shrunk to this little measure?
 -Julius Caesar.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-14
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-14

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-14

Luke McLuke mas been advised by his physicians to quit work for few days. It is to be hoped that Luke didn't break down under the strain of trying to be happy though dry
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-08-13
PROTECTING FARM BUYERS.

The United Grain Growers Securities
company of the Canadian Northwest
is doing work that might be well I'M
dertaken in Vermont 1t is protecting
the farm purchasers in that territory
from fraud. 1t appraises the land at
its real valuation and thus minimizes
the danger of the settler falling into
the clutches of the land shark, appar-
emily by making its valuation of land
available to the settler
Any farming section of Vermont
might well adopt a similar method Let
the practical and successful farmers of
neighborhood appraise the value of
any farm lands offered for sale in their
community and every prospective pur-
chaser go to them and learn their val
uation of the property he wishes to
buy. Then he can buy at fair price
| Every farm in Vermont sold BY
an outside agent whose purpose is tc
secure speculative price for it hurts
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-08-13
Little Benny's
Note Book
BY LEE PAPE

Me and pop was in the setting room
yestidday after suppir pop smoaking his
meersham pipe and looking at it after
about every puffs to see if it was color
ing eny more and ma was darning holes
out of socks and | wasent doing enything
and | sed to ma, how meny socks do you
think you could darn if you darned for
munths and dident even stop for meels ?
How in the werld do | know?-sutch
a question, sed ma, and pop sed, Now
mother, is that eny way to satisfy the
boys therst for nollidge children can
Tern ony by asking questions, and the
eest we can do is to anser them to the
best of our ability.
WITCH jest then | sed to pop, Pop how
is it Indians are red?
There's one, anser that one, ma sed to
pop, and pop sed, Serteny, wy shouldn't
I?-Indians are red, Benny, because the
pigmint in their skin is red, jest as the
pigmint in your skin is wife
And he kepp on smoaking and looking
at his pipe to see if the color was chang
ing yet, witch it wasent, and | sed, How
IS it nobody hasent got green pigmint,
pop?
There's good one, anser that one, sed
ma, and pop sed, Most assurantly iii an.
ser it-wat is it, Benny o yes, green
pigmint. Wy, there is no sutch thing
| that's the easiest way to anser that.
That's not telling him wy there izzent
| sed ma, and pop sed, if you would like
to anser the boys questions l will cheer
| ully hand him over to yeu, and ma sed
Hee hee, and l sed to pop, Well if there
was eny green pigmint, pop, wat would
you call the green people?
| There's a very nice one, anser that, sec
ma, and pop sed, Benny, don't | heer the
boys wisseling for you outside?
| No sir, | sed. WITCH he proberly dident
and pop sed, Well 60 out and see, ano
take your hat with you so you can stay
| a vile. ~
/ WITCH | did
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-08-13
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1919.
COST OF BARREL OF FLOUR.

William C. Edgar, editor of The
Miller, has some very
definite ideas about the cost of flour
and of the futility of the hope for
cheaper flour under present conditions.
He gives the cost of barrel of -four
with the distribution charges and his
figures will be interesting to consumers.
He says it takes four and one-half
bushels of wheat to make barrel of
flour, at 1926 bushel this costs $10.17.
manufacturing and selling cost is $l.20,
making the total cost $11.37, but there
is $1.75 worth of other feed produced
and this deducted makes the cost Of
flour in bulk at the mill 1892. To this
must be added the cost of the package
60 cents, freightage SO cents, jobber s
margin for handling IS cents and re-
tailers charge for selling and delivery
1925, making the cost to the consumer
1921.
If the government should decide to
sell its 1926 wheat to the miller foI
$l26, saddling loss of about 100000,
900 on the taxpayers, the cost of q
barrel of flour would be 1905, saving
of 1886 to the consumer. Taxpayers
however, will hardly care to assume an
increase of approximately $50 taxes
on every family in the country to make
this saving per barrel of flour. Tht
/ figures given by Mr.. Edgar indicat,
that the average consumption of foui
per individual in year is one and on,
third barrels. Computing the average
family as five persons makes the in
crease of taxation to get the $9.05 flour
Sc per person, and the saving on hi
-four bill only 1915. So it will be seer
that government relief would be NOR
expensive than buying flour at the mar
ket price.
Mr.. Edgar rightly says: "The cos
of living is no chimera, it is a rea
thing, and cannot be overcome by tn
pursuit of chimeras. 1t is the legiti
mate result of the war and initiation
Congress cannot reduce it and highc
. wages will only increase it. Govern
7 ment ownership, meaning higher taxa
ton, will certainly not reduce it. /
can only be overcome by thrift, indiv
0 idual economy, judicious expenditur
y for things actually needed and lessene
5 taxation. Again the cost of living
5 put up to the individual and he canno
al "pass the buck to the government G
0 his neighbors.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-08-13
was named. died in Paris. Re

was named. died in Paris Born
Oct. 4, 1902.
1S77-The centenary of Rubens s birth
was celebrated in Antwerp.
lSSS-Through communication by rail
established between Western Eu-
rope and Turkey.
lS94-United States senate ratified the
new treaty with China regulating
immigration.
l905-The vote in Norway on the sep
aration from Sweden was practi
cally unanimous in favor of dis
solution.
l910-Floods which submerged Toxic
Japan, cost many lives and mad,
thousands homeless.
1912-President Sehurman of Cornell
University was appointed T. S
Minister to Greece.
l9l4-Belgians repulsed the German
near Diest.
l915-Thousands of Armenians report
ed slaughtered by Kurds an
Turkish Irregulars
-Constantinople claimed furthe
gains for the Turks against It'll
Russians on the Persian frontie
1917-Allies refused passports for dele
gates to Stockholm peace confer
ence
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-08-13
Lemon Extract as Beverage.
Barre Times.

An Enosburg Falls man has just
been fined $500 for selling lemon ex
tract under circumstances which made
t evident to the court that the extract
was used for beverage purposes. Inas
much as the extract contained 33 per
cent of alcohol il made rather stiff
drink and easily within the ban of the
law. This prosecution is one of the
first of long series of prosecutions,
no doubt, which are made necessary by
the general prohibition of the manufac-
ture and sale of intoxicants.