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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-19
At "Hell-Buster,s' Ranch

From "Trailing Statistics on an Ameri-
 can Frontier by Viola E. Paradise. in
 Scribner.
 But despite the struggle which most of the homesteaders were having against poverty and other unyielding factor of frontier life we met everywhere with warm hospitality. The custom of the country seems to be to take in the stran- ger and share roof and meal with him. We often had difficulty inducing families to take payment from us-even those families who were in the hardest straits Sometimes the mention of pay was an in suit. Again and again we were invited to "spend the night and though we were usually quite comfortable sleeping out of doors on the ground, we often &C., cepted invitations to sleep in. There were times when a bed could hardly be re- sisted and when the chance ot get good vast was tempting beyond refusal. ano frequently invitations were so proffered as to be hard to refuse. What are you afraid of?" asked the father of family of five who lived in one room, partitione1 by a scant curtain. (Few houses have more than three rooms, and most of them consist of only one or two rooms. And the size of the family is usually in in- verse ratio to the size of the dwellingl Nothing rere'l hurt wou unless it might be a bedbug, and they don't bite hard this time of year. And, you aren't afraid of little bedbug. are your" The agent who had protested that she could be quite comfortable in the haystack felt challenged to show her lack of fear, and slept comfortable with the mother and baby, while the father and the boys oc- cupied the floor on the other side of the curtain.
 Another night three of us stayed at He'll Buster's'' Ranch. His real name -.-l.-. had earned at bronco-busting on an oc- casion when a wild "bronc' had thrown him, and stepped on his face. He had "been given up for gone.' when he sur prised the onlookers by regaining con- sciousness suddenly, making at once for the "bronc,'' and succeeded in subduing the animal. Hell-Buster's ranch was un- usually prosperous for that country, own ing a vctrola and some excellent records After playing a Tetrazzini, he turned to us with the comment:
 There ain't coyote got nothin' on that gaIi'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-19
Where Kodaks Are Made

What the Eastman Kodak Company is doing to make working conditions att tractive to its 1000 employees is thus described. by one of the companys own workers. in the Forbes Magazine (New York;, in an article submitted in this publications contest on Which Is the Best-Kept Plant inAmerica%'
 Kodak park. the home of the East man Kodak Company in Rochester eX poses conventions. Set in a park of 225 acres just within the northerly limits of the city, surrounded by eight cen acres laid out in trees. shrubs and lawn, and another 4Is acres devoted to playground, the group of IA modern steel and concrete buildings which com prise the plant fake on a character not ordinarily associated with manuf- featuring activities. Most of the build ings, too, are ivy-clad, giving a touch of repose, beauty and dignity to other wise severe architectural lines.
 Stern laws of necessity conspire with Eastman philosophy for the comfort and physical well-being of the workers. Surroundings that are free from dust and dirt are essential. Kodak park site provides the maximum of safety from these. Its green acres are an effective barrier, a broad No Mans Land. against the enemy of dust along the highways. It's own paved streets-it has four miles of them--are not merely sprinkled but flushed from it's own high pressure mains many times day.
 Four hundred tons af coal are burned daily to furnish power and light, but no particle of soot may fall within the sacred precincts of the park enclosure. Hhimneys that tower 366 feet above the power house provide against that possibility, as also against any offend ing fumes.
 In safety appliances nothing has been left to chance. A medical service. including physician and trained nurses, hospitals fully equipped with medical and surgical supplies, x-ray facilities and a dental department pro- vide against any eventuality.
 Fire protection is as complete as modern apparatus and human ingenuity can make it. A fire department of 150 trained members under the direction of a chief and two deputy chiefs who are professional fire fighters, and a private water supply system of 12,o00. 900 gallons daily capacity, are features of this protection
 The iccaculate dining halls where over 5000 meals are served daily are as attractive and we'll appointed as most city restaurants. the kitchen and kitchen utensils wherein the food is cooked are clean to laboratory stand ards, and the food itself is as good and we'll served as any hotel chef can fur nish.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-19
NOT FOR THEM

To the Editor of The Age-Herald:
 There is a movement on foot with flowers being sold for the purpose Of building nurses home for the Birming- ham nurses There has also been flashed on the screens in some moving picture shows an advertisement to help the Bir- mingham nurses and, too, that they might be lucky enough to get an auto mobile. There is nobody on earth but that believes fin helping out the nurse, and we heartily indorse any such move ment, but when an individual hospital advertises for personal aggrandizement, the nurses of Birmingham cannot in dorse it.
 The nurses of Birmingham are not planning for any nurses home" and this article is published purely for in- formation. Anybody who desires to do- nate for a nurses home for any one or more hospitals may do so, but the Birmingham nurses. through the Grad uate Nurses Association, deny the fact that they are soliciting funds for a home for nurses. When they desire to build home they will ask for donations in their own name.
 The Graduate Nurses Association Of Birmingham gave a script dance in June for the benefit of scholarship which is memorial to the labama nurses who died in service. a memorial fund for Miss Forsman, which will be seen as an endowed bed in the children's ward at Red Mountain sanatorium. and an en- dowed room for sick nurses at St Vim cent hospital. Further than this they have not asked for any donations.
 Signed:
 Ellen M Guilty, R. N; Mrs. F. B. Cook, R. N; Mrs. Walker Foster. R. N; Miss Helen Machan, R. N; Miss E. c. Clements, R. N; Miss Catherine Moul- tis, R. N., Executive Board of the Grad uate Nurses Association, Birmingham
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-19
Thousands of New Theatres

As sign of the times, an expression of the mood of people, the taste of a public the need for diversion, there is nothing more significant than the null tiplicity of thetres. large and small, going up throughout the country. Hardly small town now but has its playhouse, usually devoted to the movies, and that they are proving a profitable investment is evidenced by the fact. that more than any kind of building. they seem easily financed. The movies have driven out plays from many famous old houses that were once the home of the legitimate; and the largest of the new houses are given over to the movies, either with or with : out accompanying vaudeville or some musical entertainment. In New York there are more than $50 theatres in the greater city. and more are under con struction. The amount of money all ready appropriated for new amusement houses in New York alone amounts, we are informed to something like $25, 900 00o
 One of the great contributing factors in theatre construction of today is the use of reinforced-con arches Some of the spaces covered in thia way are amazing in their daring and knowledge of the engineering problems involvAA
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-19

i, He spent happy week gixing up all the delinquent domestic machinery-a happy week for him, that is. He complained a good deal because we had so few tools, l and kept them in such bad condition. | But being a handy man, he knew how ! good working order in a few days, ana began on his helpful tack of making our household what it ought to be.
 He did it, too. We would have been better off if we had moved out in the meantime. In fact, when he was fixing the bathroom hot water faucet, without shutting off the water, we suggested II.
 But he wouldn't hear of it.
 Whats a little falling plaster?" he said calmly as the cook in the pantry below raised wild vail of despair. I'll put it all back on the ceiling, and when it's done. it will stay there. I'll make it waterproof"
 His first shock, as he went over the
 house, was caused by smoking chim- ney.
 When he spoke of it we told him we had sent for a chimney sweep, who
 would be around in few days. Don't fool away your money on chim- ney sweeps" he said. They don't know
 their business, anyway. I'll attend to that in jig time"
 lie QlQ. TIC SOl d iduOCi ONS VI - cellar lashed several scantliEgs to- gether as the handle for swab, tied a bunch of rags around one end and pro ceeded- to climb to the roof. Hauling the swab up after hun, ne broke a couple of windows, but he said that could be easily fixed afterwards. The family went into the back yard to
 watch his operations. Several times we suffered from heart failure when hls fee' slipped on the steep roof But all the
 damage was done to the shlnSles' 1ho handy man wasn't even disturbed. i It was quite a juggling feat to get the swab handle, which was thirty or fortv
 feet long, nicely poised over the cnini- tney. But he managed it at last, aIteI
 several failures, each of which precipl'
 tated the thing to the ground.
 Then bracing his feet on either side
 of the chimney, he shot it downward,
 while a cloud of soot scared into the air and quite shut him off from our vision.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-19

When the handle came out again there
 was no swab on the end of it.
 Stuck some place, he called to us
 cheerfully. But never mind. I'll burn
 it out. The chimney's good and clean,
 anyway"
 So he went into the cellar and built
 roaring fire in the furnace. The result was somewhat startling.
 Thick, black smoke poured out of all the windows. Passersby rushed up the street , md called out the firt department. When It arrived we had to use all the firm
 ness at our command to keep them from
 rushing into the house and flooding t with water.
 But the scheme worked-eventually
 All his schemes worked, after the harm
 had been done. The rags burned out, and the chimney was clean. So was the house after we had spent three days get ting the smoke out of ir, and the handy man had rekalsomined all the ceilings on the lower floor.
 This triumph achieved, he found that the front door refused to lock. That $ a little job," he said, nothing messy about that. Get me a screw driver.' We got the screw driver and he went to work eagerly. In a few minutes the
 lock was in eighty or ninety pieces and
 he was explaining why it didn't work. Rust, full of it. I'll put little oil
 
 have no danger from burglars" We were all going out that evening. so we were glad to have the lock fixed. The bolt clicked into place we | slammed the door, and we had a sense | of security that had been lacking since 1 the rust had done it's evil work. ] We returned that night in pouring
 rain and quickly slipped the key into the | lock. But it wouldn't turn. | The handy man seemed elated. When I fix a lock-" he said, Tt stays fixed" But how are we going to get into the house?'
 "Oh, I'll take it down again. ''But you can't take it down again You're on the wrong side of the door. l" That daunted him for the time being. But he soon icheered up. I'll go in through one of the windows he said. He might have don so except for the fact that he had previously been over the windows and fixed all the catches fixed them securely, too. | We got in eventually with an axe. Il didn't do the door any good, but he said he would build another in couple of days.
 He'd have done it, too-he could dc anything. But that night he caught a | bad cold, and we sent him to a hospi- I tal And we never in our lives sent any I body to a hospital with such cheerful ness.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-19

bers to accept Dothan's invitation and make this convention the greatest and largest in the history of the state-to ex- ceed in the number of delegates the big convention held in Birmingham four years ago, when there were 125 delo- gates Tn attendance.
 The state president requests the state superintendents to secure reports from the local unions in time for the con vention, and it is hoped all will report to the national superintendent in time for her to compile her report.
 Thursday at a most interesting meet ing of the Woodlawn w. c. T. U. the annual election of officers was held and the following officers elected for the en- suing year: President, Mrs J. M. Han kins; treasurer, Mrs. E. l.. Platt, secre- tary, Mrs J. P. Jackson. while Mrs. E. C. Brooks was reelected superintendent of the young peoples department, a well deserved compliment in recognition Of the most excellent service Mrs. Brooks has rendered this important branch of the work during the past year.
 Mrs. R. A., Clayton will be hostess to the newly elected officers next Wednes- day afternoon at her home, as well as the new members.
 Mrs Emmett Ledbetter of Anniston has been appointed by Governor ki'hy as a delegate to the sixteenth interEa- tional Congress Against Alcoholism, which will meet in Washington, D. C. September 21-26.
 Day sessions of the congress will be held in the Pan-American building.
 Only two weeks remain before report must be made in Alabama's S membership drive. Can't real earnest work during these ew remaining days double the mem rnbership of the unions? Let every poenoher enlist the name of at least one member, if not more
 Mrs. J. D. McNeil announces the first of series of citizenship schools to be conducted for the women of Jefferson county under the auspices of the League of Women Voters to be held at the Tutwiler hotel, beginning Monday morn ing. and lasting until Thursday The morning sessions will be held from 10 until 12 o'clock, noon, and the after
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-19
". C. '. U. Activities
GOD AND HOME AND NATIv
By MRS. MABEL FORD LEAKE

The regular monthly meeting of the Central Union of the w. c. T. U. will be held next Tuesday afternoon at $ o'clock in the auditorium of the local headquarters at 11Sk North Twenty-first street
 Mrs. Jackson will preside over the meeting, for which an interesting pro- gramme has been prepared, one of the most interesting features of which is the address by Mrs. Philip B. Powers on Woman as a Citizen"
 A most cordial invitation is extended the members to be present, and if pos sible, bring a new member.
 The Dothan union is extending a cor dial invitation to w. c. T. U. members in Alabama to attend the state conven- tion October F, and the state president. Mrs W. H. Jeffries, is urging the mem-
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noon sessions from ? to o'clock. Each session will be complete in itself. The subject taken up will not be left unfIu- ished for the next session, which will prove a great convenience to women who are interested but can spare only two hours time for the school each day. Mrs. T. F. Gotham. graduate of the na- tional school of citizenship, will super intend the school, assisted by the fol-
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lowing committee: Mrs B. K Fiske. chairman; Mrs H. H. Shell, Mrs. J. D. McNeel, Mrs. c. H. Ohme, Mrs. W. b. Nesbitt, Mrs. Angus Taylor, Mrs. Davd I.etton, Mrs. J. F. Carle, Miss Molhe Dowd, Miss Emily Miller, Mrs. Richard Fell and Mrs. Clives Johnson.
 The state president and presidents of the local unions are urging their mer- bers to attend the sessions of the school
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-19

We've just had viist from a handy man-you know the kind, They under stand all about plumbing, and furnaces. and locks, and gas stoves And they are pained beyond expression to discover that you let these things get out of re- pair and don't do anything about it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-19
His Attitude

What is your attitude on the liquor question:"
 Well. I'll tell you. You don't hap pen to know where we can get soma do youT'
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-10-14
Thousands Cured By
Drinking Mineral Water
The Famous Psrlax Mineral Springs
ct Excelsior Springs, MO-, Makes
Generous offer to Sufferers

Every year as manv as 100000 peo-
pie visit Excelsior Springs, Mo-, to
drink the wonderful waters found
there. Invalids from all over the
country, sgiven up by their home
doctors, find health and vigor in
the mineral and curative agents
compounded far underground by Ma
ture.
Probably the most famous waters
are those found in the Perlax Min
eral Spring, and many thousands
who have suffered from Gout,
Rheumatism, Constipation, Liver
and Kidney troubles and similar all
ments have been permanently re-
lfeved by drinking it.
So confident are the owners of
the spring that this water will ben
eft you, that they offer to send
a 81 carton of Perlax Mineral Salts
to anyone who will write for it.
When. dissolved in water this is
equal to ten gallons of Perlax Min
eral water. Their offer is that 1t
is to be paid for only if it benefits.
The person taking it is to be the
sole Judge and report results within
thirty days time.
If you suffer from any Of the
above diseases write for a carton to-
day. Send no money-jusk your
aname and address to Perlax Mineral
LSprings, 470 Perlax Bldg. Excelsior
Springs, Mo.-(Advto
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-10-14
Wants to be President
On Scent Beer" Platform

y DALLAS. Texas.-Plenty Of beer,
the old kind with five per cent of
kick, at a price not exceeding five
cents a glass, is the. inducement
James E. Ferguson is holding Neut
for votes for president of the Unit
ed States.
The convention which nominated
Ferguson has set of electors in
structed to vote for him for presi-
dent. He is running on beer and
wine platform in Texas. His cleo
tors will be on the ticket in no other
state except Texas. @
~ will guarantee, if beer Is
brought back, the price will never go
above five cents" says Ferguson.
1.-THE brewers would not have been
out of business Its .@
Ferguson was impeached as gov
ernor of Texas three years ago be-
cause he would not tell the source of
S156.000 he received. 1t was later
proven the money came from the
breweries.
Following his impeachment he
was defeated for governor. Now he
Is running for the presidency on
the American Party, which he organ
Had ..
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-10-14

he put it, "a little peaked" His
| children had married and there was
nothing to hold him to the little home
he had occupied at Eagle Harbor,
Wash, for fourteen years So there
was no reason, if he couldn't find
health in Eagle Harbor, why. he
shouldn't hit the open road in search
of it.
And that is precisely what he did.
He was embarrassed for the mo-
ment for a means Of carrying his
lsleeping and cooking |equipment-but
not for long. He trundled out an old
wheelbarroW, packed bed and stove
and cooking utensils into it and VEN
tured forth. And, since June 80 he
has been continually on the wheel
barrow route"
Through Tacoma, Everett, Airing
ton, Big Lake, Bellingham, Mount
Vernon, Anacortes and Marysville he
has passed, and finally he reached
Seattle. That there really Is some
thing in his panacea was betokened
by the healthy flush in his cheeks
and his virile stride. He says. he's
feeling twenty years younger today
that he was when he started out. He
is accompanied by his faithful shep-
herd dog, Master. and he says Master
mas enjoyed the trip as much as he
JenlSon has not finished his wan
behring's, for, incidentally, he is look
ing for a place where he can feel
well without his wheelbarrow. When
he finds it he will buy little tract
of land and settle adown.-Seattle
Post Intelligencer. 49,.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-10-14

'Tanlac is the grandest medicine
on earth, and 1 just wish 1t was so
every woman who suffers like I did
could know what it will really do"
said Mrs. Rose E. Tuttle. of 293 Con-
gress Street, Portland, Maine, re-
gently.
mo one will ever know how I suf-
fered," she said. MY stomach was
so disordered 1, had to be very care
full about what 1 ate. Potatoes and
other starchy foods would complete
ly upset me. Frequently after meals
would have terrible pains in my
stomach, my breath would get short,
and I would have a depressed and
uneasy feeling about my heart. Often
was troubled with pains under my
shoulder, blades and l frequently had
bilious attacks.
II also suffered with rheumatism,
and this, together with my other
troubles, was simply wrecking my
health, 1 felt weak. nervous and
rundown all the time, and seemed to
beAlosing weight and strength every
day. My sleep was poor, and often
1 was in such misery I wouldn't close
my eyes all night long.
Before I finished my first bottle
Of Tanlac ]. realized I had at last
found the right medicine. My con-
dition improved daily as continued
taking Tanlac, my appetite picked up
and I was soon eating three hearty
meals every day without suffering
in the least afterwards. That horri-
BILE indigestion has disappeared, 1
am no longer nervous, I sleep sound
ly all night and feel splendidly all
been Increased until can now do
all my homework with ease. I am
praising Tanlac every opportunity
have"
Tanlac is sold by all leading drug
giSts.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-10-14
COTTON MEETING
SCHEDULEDHERE
FRIDAY,SATURDAY

Plans for the annual meeting OF
the Georgia division of the American
Cotton association were announced
on Monday by R. w. Mattux, state
president The meeting is to be held
IN tho house of representatives, In
the state capitol, next Friday and
Saturday, and will be attended by
delegations representing every coun-
ty in the state.
Importance of storing cotton In
bonded warehouses, as distinguished
from non-bonded warehouses, will be
a leading subject of discussion at the
meeting. For several months the
cotton ASSOCIATION, with cooperation
by the state, market bureau and the
state department of banking, has
been advocating the use of bonded
warehouses by farmers storing tnelr
bottom. AS a result, large NUMBER
OF warehouse owners have complied
with the terms of the United states
bonded warehouse law and bonded
themselves. A bonded warehouse re-
cetpt makes better piece of col
lateral for a bank loan than non
bonded warehouse receipt.
Other subjects to be given prom
inent place on the program OF the
meeting are county organization, CO.
opera tive marketing societies, organ
ization of an export corporation,
warehouse construction, etc.
Senator Thomas J. HEINZ OF Al
bama; Senator E. D. Smith, OF south
Carolina: Ex-Governor r. l. Manning,
o Of south Carolina. and Senator Hoke
Smith, of Georgia, will be among the
speakers. J. S. Wannamaker, OF 81:
Matthews. c., national president
president of the American Cotton as
ISOLATION. will also be on the pro-
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-10-14
Seven Men to Pay
Death Penalty in
Chicago This Week

CHICAGO, Oct. 12-With the time
set for their death only a few DAYS
away, seven men convicted of murder
and sentenced to hang here. today
were fighting desperately for their
Unless they succeed in obtaining
court ord@s staying execution, or
are reprieved by Governor Lowden,
five Of the men, will be placed in
death cells tomorrow. The other
two, scheduled to hang Friday, will
be sent to the death cells Thursday.
The five scheduled to hang Thurs
day are:
Nicholas viana and Frank Cam
phone. members of an alleged gang
of murderers: Sam Ferrara and Joe
ConstaQza, convicted of numbering a
hold-up victim, and j. H. Reese, ne
gro, who killed his wife with a
Ratchet.
The two to be hanged Friday are:
Frank Haensel, convicted of killing
his wife, and Frank Zagar, convicted
of killing two men in a hold-up.
Originally twelve men were SEN
fenced to hang on Thursday and Fri
day of this week, but reprieves and
communications have cut this down to
seven.