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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-18

Atlantic Coast Line 1st 4s . "A baltimore & Ohio cv. 4Ms . 59x betniehem Steel ref 5s bid . S2K central of Georgia cons. 5s, bid. 7e central Leather 5s .. 94 chesapeake & Ohio cv. 5s - 75H Chicago, B. & Quincy joint 4s.. 94M Cnleago, M. & St. P. cv. 41ss e.. 65 Shlcago, R. I. & Rac. Ky. ref. 4s 63 eAty or Paris 6s ..... S95k Colorado & Southern ref. 4s .. 69 Denver & Rio Grande cons. As SO beminion of Canada 5s t193D. s1N l.rie gen. As .,,.............. 41h Illinois Central ref. As ... esM Int. Mer. Marine 6s ... 90 Kansas City Southern ref. 5s s5x liggett & Myers 5s. hid .. S0 Louisville & Nashville un. Is. bid 7sk Missouri, K. & T. 1st 4s .. 55i Missouri Pacific gen. As, bid .... s3 New York Central deb. 6s .. S7st Nor1olk x Western cv 6s ... 9S7s Northern Pacific As . 717s Pennsylvania gen. 5s S4 Reading gen. As " 75H Republic I. & S. 5s G940). bid SsE St. Louis & San. Fran. adj. ss.. 5ex Seaboard Air Line adj 5s . 36 Southern Bell Tel. 5s . S2 Southern Pacific cv. 5s 100 Southern Railway 5s - So southern Railway gen. As .. 5eh leXas Company cv. 6s bid 104% Texas & Pacific 1st bid - 7sH Union Pacific 4s, bid . 79 United Kingdom of Great Britain
 and ireland 51ss (1s30 . s6N '; s; steel 5s ............... esa Nirginia-Caro. Chemical 5s. bid S5 Wilson & Co. cv 6s ... S9H
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-18

Cotton Merchants, Hanover Square, New York. Members New York Cotton Exchange, New Orleans Cotton Exchange. New York Produce Exchange. Associated Members Liv- erpool Cotton Association. Orders solicited for the purchase and sale of Cotton and Cotton Seed Oil for future delivery Special attention and liberal terms given for con- signment of spot cotton for delivery. Cor respondence invited.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-18
Money Market

New York, April 17.-Mercantile pa- paper, 6% or per cent Exchange, steady; sterling 6o-day bills, 3.90A commercial 60-day bills on banks, 3.9oM; commercial 60-day bills, -s.9oA demand, S.95A; cables, S.9e. Francs, demand, 1922; cables, 1920. Belgian francs. demand, 15.42; cables, 15.40. Builders, demand. 37 1-16; cables, s7 3-16 demand, 22.20; cables, 22.00. Marks. demand, 1.59; cables, 160 Gov ernment bonds, irregular; railroad bonds, irregular.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-18
Louisville Live Stock
East St. Louis Live Stock

East St Louis, April 17.-Cattle: Re ceipts, 250; no sales; market for week, steers, s1 to $1.50 higher; yearlings, s1 to s3 higher.
 Hogs: Receipts. 900: market light, soc higher; heavies steady. Bulk, light and medium weights$17. .0O@17.50 Bulk heavies ...................... 14.00Q16.00
 Sheep: Receipts, none; no sales.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-18
Live Stock TTnin.= CfAa1x U,-1o

NOIffUIt kJtONh L fli USsJ
 Fed steers: Good to choice, sr0.o0611.0 co; medium to good, ss.0oQs1o.oo; common to medium, s. c0d9.004
 Grass cattle according to weight. quail ity and flesh;
 Steers,$S00 Q1o,0o; fat cows, s7.00ae. .00 medium cows s6.009700; cutters, $500 60o; canners. $400Q5.0 heavy bulls, 100 @S.0o; light bulls. s6.00QD7 %; oxen, S400@ S.00 fat yearlings, s7.00GS.00; medium yearliEgs. s6.004T.0U; vealers, sS.00@l1.0O
 Hogs.
 Choice corn fed hogs, 165 and up. $14; choice corn fed hogs 135 to 165. s13; choice corn led hogs 90 to 135. $11; light pigs % pounds down, $10; best heavy rough hogs, s115o; half fat rough hogs, s7.5O to s9.50; soft and only from 1 to % per pound less than above pricsa.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-18
Cotton Seed Ofl

New York. April 17.-cotton seed oil was inclined lower under realizing sales and for want of outside support. The strength in cotton was offset by asier lard Leading months closed 3 to IS points net lower. Soles, 17,e00 barrels. Prime crude. $16, nominal: i: prime summer yellow spot. sls.50@ 1850; May $1e.25; July. $1s.s9: Octo- Der. $19.5o; prime winter yellow and summer white, nominal
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-18
Sugar Market
 pv Assorizfsd prexs

New. York, April 1.-The local market for raw sugar continues strong and prices again made new high records, closing at 1s1h cents for Cubas, cost and freight, equal to 1956 for centrifugal. These were sales 5,0O0 bags of Cubas afloat
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-18
Liberty Bonds
London Money

London, April 17.-Bar silver. 6SHd per ounce; money A per cent; dis count rates, short bills, SIS per cent. Three months bills. 6 $ per cent.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-18

trucks in which the snow can be moved to the dumping ground. the winter traf- fic problem of many of our cities can be solved.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-18

Lake Lasang. Havana; Lake Fresno. Ha- vana.
 Sailed: Steamer Eastern Sun, Liver pool.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-18
Spot Coffee

by Associdteu freSS New York, April l7.-Coffee, Rio No CT, 15c; futures, steady; May. 14.57c; July, 14.S7c.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-18
Naval Stores nv Aasoein fsd orass

Savannah. Ga, April 17.-Turpentine, dull, 2.20: no sales; receipts. E; ship ments. 60 stock, 1.l7s.
 Rosin. firm; sales, 26; receipts, P; ship ments. none; stock, 15.215
 Quote: B, SIS: D. E. F. G. H7.o5: H. S7l0. I. TIPS; K. SIS; M. $1s.25: N, $1s.z5: Wg, $1s: Wv, N9.25.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-18
Meal and Feetlstuff

Meal and Feedstuff Mixed Horse-So0a75. Old Style Hulls-s22 Corn-$210 Corn Chops-4 No. White Oats-$1.25 per bushel Shorts-s66. Bran-$55 c. & Meal, per cent-s7s Hen Feed-s4 per 100-lb sack. Economy Dairy Feed-s75. Choice Pea Green Alfalfa-s53. Wheat Straw-so5 Timothy-s4s. Perfect Hog Feed-s75.
 Hides and TaIJow No. Green Salt Hides-19d20c. No. ? Green Salt Hides-1SG1sc. No. 1 Green Hides-15a16c. No. ? Green Hides-14G15c. No. Dry Flint Hides-37G3sc. No Dry Flint Hides-36937c. No Dry Salt Hides-34035c. No Dry Salt Hides-330 34c. Sheep skins -50c@s1.5 50. Horse Hides-s306. Goat Skins-s1d1.20. Hog Skins-25d50c. Tallow-10d12c. Beeswax-36Q38c. Clear washed Wool-6DM65c. Clear Grease Wool--45950c Burry Wool-25G30c. Ginseng (wild)-sl0d12.
 Spot Cotton Good middling .........-...........-.... .4o1zc Strict middiing ..........................40 40c Middling .........-........... .39c Strict good middling -36c
  It is fifty years since Holland dis. continued capital punishment.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-18
Fish

Gray Snapper-Headless ana drawn,. i4c.
 Red Snapper-Headless and drawn. P 623c.
 Eastern Select Oysters s2.5o gallon Spanish Mackerel-22Q23c. Pompano-S5c. Salt Water Trout-z292sc. Mixed Fish--l2c. Mullet-1lc.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-18

FfUuuCo Sweet Potatoes-$3.50 per hundred. California Celery-s1e crae; sl-75 doz. Lemons-$5. Peanuts-Spanish. sc ib.; large. 12Q13hc. Cabbage-$650 per hundred Irish Potatoes-$6 per hundred. Onions s. 25dl7.5 50 100 lbs. Bananas-Extras, 7I5c .b. Limes-s1.75 per 106 Lettuce-s3,50 hamper 6 to dozen.) Rutabagas-4c lb. ranges--Flor1oa, 126s, $500; 15os. $6.50; i76s, S7; 2Ocs, s7; 216s, s7; 250s, s7.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-18
LOCAL MARKETS
Poultry

otdgS-5UQsK0c. Turkeys-Live 42d45c. Ducks-35c. Fryers-Sman, soc h.; large. BOG. Hens-37Q3Sc Fresh eggs-40d42c.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-18
Meats

: D. s. Clear BeIIies-2215024tzc. D. S. Rib Bellies-201a0 a023hc. Pure Lard-24c. Hams-Regular. ooas5c; skinned. soGsoc. Pork Loins-28c. Picnic Hams-23c. Bacon--3S445c.
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Butter Creamery-71gz2c.

Beef Cut Quotations
 Ribs-No. l, 25c; No. ?, 2lc; No. g. 18c. Loins-No. 1. 41c; No. 2, 35c; No. 3, S1c- Rounds-No. i. 29c; No. 2, 2sc; No. 3. 21c. Chueks-No. 1, 13c; No ?, 12c; No. 3, 11c Plates-No. 1, 12c; No. 2, 11c; No. 8, 1Oc.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-18
Spot Cotton

It is fifty years since Holland dis continued capital punishment.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-18
Hubbard Bros. & Co.

Mobile, April 17-Arrived. Steamers
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-18
LOCAL SECURITIES
BANK STOCKS.
Rid Asked

Amer. Trust & Savings Bank. .15O ITS Bham Trust & Savings Co......2S5 So5
 First National Bank. ..........--..2 .2S5 S05 Traders National Rank......135 150
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-15
LUKE M,LUkE SAYS

\ girl wouldn't ask man fifty times a day if he loves her if she did
 not know the answer in advance. man likes to listen to a good
 looking woman talk--unless he hap pens to be married to her. And it is very obvious that the man who says what he thinks" does mighty little thinking. Every married man knows that if he asks his wife for half cup of coffee she will fill the cup to the brim just to be contrary Most of the tooth brushes that men
 carry in their vest pockets look as though they had been used to clean typewriter keys.
 Once in while married life is mere ly an endurance contest to see whether the children will have stepfather or stepmother. Every perfect woman develops lot of flaws after she has been married | fo. while.
 man isn't anxious to be next l in a dentists waiting room the way | he is when he is in barber shop- The chilly spring may knock the | tar out of the fruit crop this year But the forbidden fruit crop never seems to be failure. And the men who need eye treat msnt are not the only ones who are
 blind to their faults.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-15

who forgot that they once held such people in contempt and would now emulate their foolish example. The man who spends doubled or trebled income for luxuries and pleasure, will have to pay the piper. He will have plenty of company. The orgy of spending goes on apace and no one can say when it will end.
 A reaction is inevitable. Those maxims of thrift and hard work which are now being laughed at will sound in the ears of the improvident like a funeral knell.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-15
* X People of America in a "Dance of Death"

0NHE National Association of
 l Credit Men recently issued an appeal to the American people to de- sist from a campaign of .extrava- gance." It was in the form of let ter sent out to the members of this organization.
 "The dance of industrial death in which the people of America are now participating should cease before they have to pay the piper," is striking paragraph The nation is still "sound fundamentally" the credit men be- lieve, and will so continue if the folly of spending is succeeded by hard work and thrift. As the letter points out, extravaganza is contrary to the traditions of people who became great through frugality and plain liv- ing and in the past few years have abandoned ideals cherished for more than century.
 There was a time when the antics of the ''idle rich" furnished "copy" for newspapers and diverted millions
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-15
WHAT MODERN SYRIA IS LIKE

sheep and goats. Sometimes he eve raises cotton and corn and sugar cal and olives and the most delicious melos in the world.
 One who has travelled over the Syris desert could never blame Feisal for as ing for it It is Arabian geographical physically and racially. To obtain u part of Syria between the mountains al the Euphrates, or even the part beyoI the Euphrates toward the ruins of Min yah. is probably the reason why Feis is making his exorbitant demands f Palestine and Mesopotamia.
 But the mountainous parts of Syr known as the Lebanon and the Ant Lebanon. present a different questio There live the Drusses and Maroni Christians and a few Kurds and Turk mans There, too, is the real home the Syrians, that composite people ma up of the ancient Assyrians, Arabs, E rcpean crusaders, Greeks and Turks It needless to say that this part of Syr should never be a part of the new kin rom of Arabia nor should it be mart the new Jewish state in Palestine.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-15
Connecting Alabama and
 Ceorgia's Electric Power

A MOTHER forward step in indus GA trial and manufacturing prog ress in Alabama has been taken.
 The Georgia and Alabama Power companies have contracted to connect their hydroelectric supply lines so as to be able to shift power to points in either state in quantity from time to time as desired. The power of the two states thus becomes of service to each and to both in such an elastic manner that where much power is required it can be supplied, where lit tie is required the surplus arising out of the small need may be directed to greater needs.
 Again, when the Georgia watershed supplies small amount of power for driving the Georgia hydroelectric tur-
 pines, the old Coosa may have flow that generates a greater power than
 usual. It may be the other way. In the one case, Alabama will help out
 Georgia; in the other, Georgia will help out Alabama.
 It is the very essence of economy and conservation. The turn of key on switchboard will transfer power
 going to waste at one point to an- other a hundred or more miles away where wheels of industry are restive
 to make their wealth producing levo- lutions.
 The power of the plants that gen. crate electricity by steam will be as available for this interchange as that generated on the rivers. The entire
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-15
Horrors of War Are
 Quickly Forgotten
king Lear.

E7T HE vicar of Holy Trinity church 0 at Colne, England, is quoted as saying, "We have learned that war is not matter of. fluttering banners and clashing swords and beating drums, but merely a sickening and dirty butchery of lads in water logged or fly-infested trenches. We shall be less ready than we were to compare the movement of the church to that of victorious army. Hymns that we could sing unthinkingly be- fore the war have become a lying plasphemy. Who would now sing, like mighty army moves the church of God'?"
 The language of martial hymns is figurative, of course, although to the unimaginative mind they express physical rather than spiritual war fare. But what the good vicar says about "sickening and dirty butch cry" is a lesson humanity -learhed, yet is even now beginning to forget.
 Scientists predict that the next great war will be inconceivably more frightful than the last. What it will be like passes comprehension. AL though the struggle which ended in 1918 was appalling, it may have been the forerunner of something far worse.
 In spite of our realization of what modern war means, do the govern ments of Europe show that they have prcfited by the unprecedented horrors and economic destruction of the last war? If they do, it is hardly notice. able. There are still several million men under arms in Europe and many of them are fighting. The martia spirit is not dead in Italy, France England, or Germany. What the JaI is thinking about concerns the world particularly the Anglo-Saxon world.
 If the League of Nations ever be gins to function, and is able to en force its decrees, there may be enough sanity among the great powers tt prevent another world war, but no ma tioi will ever be deterred from going to war by the recollection of what il suffered in a previous struggle. Hu man nature is not constituted tha way.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-15
ANTIoUArED DAREDIvILING

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer. An English daredevil proposes io shoot Niagara in barrel. Old stun this,
 Going over the falls and through the
 whirlpool has been favorite stunt oi
 publicity seekers ever since the falls were discovered and publicity invented Bu' inc public got its fill of this particular brand of foolishness long ago. The Eng fish daredevil came late to his inspira- ton.
 shooting Nianaga belongs 10 the era vhen bicycle speed tests attracted nnblic notice. when villages passed ordi- nances prohibiting bicyclists from riding overly fast. when drivers of horses cursed the bike and its owner as instru- ments of the devil, when country boys courted their girls with horse and buggy, when balloon ascension was deemed q major event and Darius Green was sup posed to have uttered the final worN oh air flight, when the church supper was a great social event-when father was a boy and the world unsophisticated. | Daredeviling has come to new day and this Englishman is asleep. To stil | a popular thrill nowadays one must hang by his knees from the running gear of ar
 airplane 2.0OO feet above the earth. ol
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-15
IN HO'TEL LCBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
A Warrior Convert

There is a new convert to the merits of the Warrior river as a traf- fic bearer said I. c. Beatty, general manager of the Birmingham Realty Company.
 Several years ago, when only a~few of us were talking the Warrior, Henry R. Carse of New York, president of the Birmingham Realty Company. visited here. I took him by automo- bile to Taylors Ferry. He saw only a sheet of water. I talked Warrior pos abilities to him. but he could not see it. The Warrior river map show ing connections at Mobile and prox- unity to Birmingham made no inn pression.
 "He was in Birmingham recently I took him to Birmingport on a day when they were loading steel plates on barges for the Chickasaw yards at Mobile. He is now a Warrior enthusi- ast and warmly commended the river as Birmingham asset in his annual report covering the leading features of district development"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-15
A DEMOCRAT WINS

their state. As it Is, it is no credit to tl party that combination of "dry'' an
 Tabor fanatics, many of whom claims to be democrats, tried desperately to bei Underwood.
 Of course w. J. Bryan was in the yer detta. Wherever a man conspicuous demonstrates his democracy Bryan ca be counted on to show up in an effort destroy him. No man ever lived WI did as much to wreck the democrat party as this necessarily meddlesome ar malevolent' mischief-rnaker has don That Underwood is generally recognize as pre-eminently an exponent of dem cratic principles and that as such he hs been elevated to the head of the dem, cratic party in the Senate, was enough insure that the man who for twenty-fov years has insisted on being the leader the party. who has insisted on subst tlting class fads for democratic pril ciples, and who has never led except disaster, should go all the way to Al; bama with the object of assassinating real democratic leader.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-15

goldfish packed in moss, baby terrapl,, soft-shell crabs, shellfish, blood-worm and all chameleons may be sent throug the mails to points which they may req sonably be expected to reach in good cor dition, and even little day-old chick will be accepted if they can arrive a their destination within seventy-tw hours from the time of mailing. Mof mature fowls and live domestic animal may be sent only along rural motor veh cle truck routes or country motor expres routes and then only when they can | delivered to the addressee within forty eight hours.
 Especial precautions are taken with rf gard to the mailing of infammab. liquids and substances. Moving pictur films (with the exception of those mao of cellulose-acetate) come under this cate gory. The ruling is that they must | well labelled and packed in tightly close metal cases enclosed in a strong sparl proof wooden box or in spark roe boxes made of sheet iron and line throughout with fiber board or son other insulating material
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-15
MENAGERIE IN THE MAILS

From the New York Evening Sun. 1O0 EFFORT of a swarm of bees found lM recently in a parcel post package
 suggests an inquiry into regula- tions' governing parcel post and restric- tions with regard to sending live crea- lures through the mails.
 Apropos of bees, 1t develops that d queen bee and her attendants may travel by post only when accompanied either by g sworn statement from the bee keeper to the effect that the honey used in mak- ing the candy provided for their deIec- tation en route has been diluted and boiled in a closed vessel, or by certi- ficate of the current year from the state or government apiary inspector testifying that the apiary from which they come is free from disease. The precaution is well taken, since disease once introduced into a hive is very hard to eradicate unless the apiary happens to be provided with the modern convenience of aluminium combs. which may easily be removed and sterilized.
 Harmless live animals not requiring food or water while in transit, such as
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-15
From the Louisville courier-Journal

From the Louisville Courier-Journal
 @ SCAR UNDERWOOD's success in Il the Alabama primary election, if
 NJ confirmed by the complete re- turns, should surprise no one who still has faith in the vitality of the democratic party His failure, aside from any local influences which might have confused the issue, would have discouraged such faith. , For if Oscar Underwood is not "a demo- crat then there is none left to us. He has been stanch and stalwart in his filedity to the essential democratic prin- ciples throughout his public life, and there is no man in Congress today who, in the promotion of those principles. has done greater service to the democratic party and to the nation, which is but lit- tie older than the party. If the democrats Of Alabama had refused to indorse him for reelection to the Senate it would have proved, either that they were demo. crats only in name or that they had al- lowed other considerations for the time to obscure their duty to their party and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-15
Economic Beginnings of a Permanent Abode

TIT ILL FERGUSON, of the Jemi- U U son Real Estate and Insurance Company, indorses the servant house home plan of the Birmingham Realty Company, and has one of his own. His is to build the rear or plain por- tion of the permanent home and oc- cupy that pending ability to com- plete the remainder of the perma- nent residence.
 At Bessemer the Bessemer Land Company has encouraged the build ing of small initial homes, having financed one of only two rooms.
 MT. Ferguson calls attention to the pride with which men are wearing old clothes and to the recent popu- larity of the overall. He does not see why the same spirit of economy and self-appreciation of economy could not also be applied to the be- ginnings of a home.
 The servants house on the rear of the lot, or the rear portion of the per- manent home on the site of the per- manent home appeals with equal force to the sa}aried man earnestly desir- ous of a home but unable to float an eight or ten thousand dollar in- vestment.
 1 The homes are needed. They are not extant within any degree of the need. Salaried men and their wives will make no mistake by looking into
 these more modest plans of nest building.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-15
FoRTy-Two GREAT BOOKS

From the New York World.
 Columbia University's new programme for general honors provides that candi-
 dates shall in their last two years read and discuss fifty books, more or less, cho-
 sen from the great literatures of the
 world. The list of works and authors
 selected for beginning the experiment will
 be of interest to general readers:
 Homer. Herodotus. Thucydides, Aeschy-
 lus, Sophocles, Euripides. Aristophanes
 Plato. Aristotle, Lucretius, Virgil, Ho- race, Plutarch, Marcus Aurelius. St. Au-
 gustine, Nihelungenlied, Song of Roland
 St Thomas Aquinas, Dante, Petrarch
 Montague, Shakespeare, Cervantes. Ba- con, Milton, Moliere, Hume, Montesquieu voltaire Rousseau, Adam Smith. Lessing Kant, Schiller, Goethe, Macaulay, Victor
 Hugo Hegel, Darwin. Lyell, Tolstoy Nietzsche.
 They may be roughly classified by ori. gin or language as follows: Greek, 10 Roman, 4; Patristic Latin, g. Medieval, ? British s. French, 6; German. 6; Italian | 2; Russian and Spanish. 1 each Why no American writer at all?
 The academic answer would probably be that modern students are assumed te have read modern authors of the frs
 rank, and particularly those of their owr nation. But is it true? Does the Colum. bia senior know his Hawthorne and Elm erson, to- say nothing of the Federalist a foundation-b block of the modern world as well as he knows Robert Chambers? We should like to think so. But the home reader cannot profitably make use of tht academic list without many additions and some omissions. upon his own ac- count.