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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-12
Cist of the News
GENERAL

Railroad strike spreads to new lines. Labor leaders state demands in re- spOuse to republican Questionnaire. League of Nations council discusses Armenian mandate.
 Legal action against CreeI and Bab- sou recomns ended by joint eonEres- sfoaaI committee.
 Peace resolution gees to Senate. Americana looked upon as quitters, Fosdick says.
 France desires aid Of allies in Ger man problems.
 Trained nurses holding convention in Atlanta.
 Ma deg bites ds.~. persons in Mo- bile
 LOCAL
 Dr. Brown to represent city at meet ine of social workers.
 Young girls at work here unable to 6nd modest hone~.
 Veterans of sixth divis10n fern post ana d<nOunee De vs1era.
 Social usit plan weII feature civic f0vum.
 Postal delivery truck to arrve out lying district.
 J.aunrhisx of towboat Csrdevn set for next Thursday.
 Marine corps offers exceptional op- pertnnity for vocational training. Well known citizen te be hs .ored at reception and dtPner.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-12

An announcement from the general postoffice in Manhattan today declared the service here both on incoming and outgoing mail had been deranged, all though through mail trains were going out much better than was expected.
 Milk trains will be brought in tonight and early tomorrow at all costs, railroad managers declared today. Whatever food stuffs can be moved here will be cared for, although all systems, except the New York Central and the New Haven, an- along their routes. The New York Central announced that war specials" of solid food trains were on their way from Chi cago to New York.
 Passenger service was generalIy oper- ated below 50 per cent of normal today. The New York Central and the New Haven managed to operate virtually at normal. Local trains on the Erie and Lackawanna railroads were shut down completely, it was announced, although through trains were operated and brought in nearly normal numbers of passengers on long delayed schedules. On the Penn I sylyania, Southern and western trains | were reported to be running about 50 per l cent normal.
 | The importation of loyal brotherhood l switchmen. yard workers and fremen began unofficially today. with number
 of union men coming in from outside , points to relieve the pressure here. No non-union strike breakers were used and
 announcement was made by the railroads | that none would be used for the pres | ent.
 Ferry service between New York and
 New Jersey was materially improved to- day and tomorrow it will be extended to
 it's utmost to care for the rush of com
 muters. railroad officials said. The Hud-
 son and Manhattan tubes were still shut
 down today, with no prospect of being l operated tomorrow.
 l New York is in no immediate danger of a food famine, railroad managers said. l although the coastwise longshoremen' s
 and harbor strikes have shut off food
 shipments by water. Supplies arriving by 1 the New York Central and New Haven
 roads, they said, were sufficient to still
 the gravest fears.
 1 The Lehigh Valley and the Baltimore
 and Ohio were the only lines terminatin z
 on the Jersey shore that managed to
 bring in freight yesterday and early to- 1 day, but their officers reported faint hope
 of adding more until conditions improved
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-12
Guards Will Not Surrender
 lx AassciatA1 Peees

Munich. Bavaria. April 10.-Bavarian citizen guards will not surrender their arms. and declare if the French wish to disarm them they must come here and do it.
 "We will not surrender our rifles, rot even to the devil" asserted Lieu tenant Colonel Woermer, at a meeting of the guards here today.
 Other speakers, among them lieu tenant general. seconded Woermer's statement declaring the dissolution of the citizen guards would be "equiva- lent to suicide.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-12
LEGAL ACTION AGAINST
 CREEL IS RECOMMENDED BY JOINT COMMITTEE
Director of Publicity Charged With Dispong of Govern ment Publications Without Compensation of Nations and Anti Prohibition Propaganda Car
 ried in Army and Navy Papers, It Is Alleged
nx A,sasistsa Prs.

Washington April of Hills, Mass and others concerned the qualifications the Official Bulletin Babson by Shoot
  of the sonalp printing committee Babon obtained the Bulletin March isS the be brought to obtain "ustco ation"f government
 
 Many these favorable the League of Nations the liquor asserts and political propaganda improper
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-12
Belsians Join French

Arlon, Belgian Luxembourg, April IT.. "A battalion of Belgian troops, 500 strong. with bands playing and flags flying. left here today by way of Co., blenz for Mayence. The troops win arr rive at their destination Monday evep- ing and be officially received by the French army and then will proceed to the occupied cities
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-12
Killed In Airplane Accident
 By Asseeiated Pres

Newark. N. J., April 11.-Clarence Sta pleton, clerk at Seller field. near here, was killed and Fred ". Robinson. United States aerial mail pilot, is dying as the result of an airplane accident late today,
 Robinson, with Stapleton as a passen-' ger, was giving exhibitions before a large crowd when the airplane went into nose dive at 5000 feet and struck the earth near the spectators
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-12
Germany Sees Danger
 of Troop COlissiOEs
By A.soe,a,ea Press

! Berlin, April H.-The German goVern-
 Aent has notified the French government .ccording to official announcement today nat it has received reports that French ttoops are advancing towards Aschaffen- burg, twenty-three miles southeast or Frankfort, and if that is true, Germany is obliged in all earnestness to point out the danger of collisions with the Ger man troops.
 France has replied that it has no lnten- ton of occupying Aschaffenburg, ana adds that neither was Stockstadt occu- pied, though 1t had been necessary on military grounds to push forward ad- vanced posts in the neishborhoel cf Stockstadt.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-12
'RORS CHTRCHGOERS: |LYNCHING ATTEMPTED
sy Associated Press

New York. April H.-An attempt TO lynch man accused by worshippers in Russian church in Brooklyn of having picked the pockets of two persons ateehu- ing services there, was frustrated early today by the police. ~ho LOOK nm ironi mob as he was beins drasseo ,o q mark A rope had been procured and the man was badly beaten before the police arrived
 After his rescue he gave his name as Jacob Helpern. He is alleged to have taken s9eo from the pocket of one wor- shipuer and s65 from another. He is heli by the police OF two charges of grand larceny
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-12
Paderewski In Diet Dv Assselatsd Prs.a

Geneva April 11.-Ignace Jan Paderew- ski. former premier of Poland. will re- sume his duties as member of the Polish Diet at the special request of the Poles. N. Paderewski today made thjs statement to the Associated Press.
 The date of the return Of M. Paderew- ski to Poland has not yet been definitely settled
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-12
Great Herds of Seal

Juneau, ALASKA. March g.-ResIuents of Sitka say that the herds of seal mi grating northward toward Boring Sea this spring are greater than they have seen in years and that the migration is three weeks ahead of it's usual time. Countless thousands of the seal have been passing Sitka. Government officials say the great size of the migratory herd is evidence that the governments pro- tective measures have been effective.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-12
French Force Reach Main
 Rx

London, April 11.-French. forces are extending the zone of occupation in the main region. according to a dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph Company from Berlin. quoting the L-okal An xeiger. Stockstadt. in Bavaria, and Ba- denhausen have already been occupied, and it is understood French troops are marching toward Aschaffenburs' from Darmstadt.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-12
Qualifications for President

warsaw, March 1b--The cOnstltutlohdI commission of the Diet adopted resolu- tion recently providing that to be elisl- ble to the presidency of the Polish re- public candidate must be of Polish na- tionality, at least 70 years old and Roman Catholic or Protestant in religion. The commission began it's task of framing the Polish constitution nearly year ago.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-12
PICTURES OF PRETTY GIRLS

Another extravagant publication issued by the Greet committee, the report con- tinues. was the so-called National School Service which was distributed free to teachers It's underlying purpose, the re- port declares, seems to have been to convert teachers to the idea of the league of nations and to urge them to teach that doctrine to their school children"
 Regarding the army and navy pub- 1ications the report says that the Camp Merritt Dispatch and The Mess Kit were Conspicuous examples of the utter disregard of public funds by of ficers in charge
 .tThe Mess Kit the report states, ex- celled sensational theatrical publica- tions with pictures of fascinating girls and frothy literature. The Dispatch was said to be larger and more elabor- ately illustrated than one of the most popular women's monthly national magazines.
 The Recruit the Great Lakes Maga- zine, the report goes on to say, was a good rival of any up-to-date maga- zine in the million copy class and de- voted much of it's space to the exploits of the officers in commando
 LEAGUE PROPAGANDA
 The government publications were used extensively by propagandists, the report charges, declaring articles fla NNoring the League of Nations appear Wing in many with no articles in oppo- Ysition.
 This propaganda extended as far as the Amaroc News printed at Coblenz Germany, the report adds.
 Even the wet propagandists,@ the report continues, got good start in army publications"
 Articles and editorials boosting the liquor interests appeared before the committee suggested that further dis cussion of this subject was not es- sential to army vocational training oi operation of army hospitals
 Some of the camp and hospital pa pers carried extensive advertisement o. wildcat oil and mining companies. urg- ing the soldiers to squander their bonu: and savings in get-rick quick specula tions.''
 The report says that the committe. ordered all advertising contracts can celed by last April 1.
 4. Numerous curtailments in printing \ H4ordered by the comrpittee have resulted VI in saving of many millions of pounds ot precious paper and many thousand of dollars. the reIort says. and it ask passage of legislation extending tn (Contiaaed Sn Page EIevenl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-12
CRAVING FOR LIMELIGHT


 While conceding that many war pub SI5cations were necessary and helpful dur ing the war, the report says other crav- ings for the 1imelight undoubtedly were inspired by the bombaStic activities of the committee on public information, headed by the master pubficist. George Creel''
 The law giving the printing committee control over government publications. the report declares, 'nipped in the bud the greatst propaganda scheme the country has ever escaped
 There is no doubt,a the report says, that a certain clique both in and out of the army and navy had their prepara- tions well advanced to cover the country with an al1-enmeshing chain of newspa- pers and magazines for the purpose or spreading and fastening their military and internationalist doctrine upon the United States
 Regarding the transfer of the "Official Bulletin,' when it's publication by the government ceased, to R. Babson, the re- port charged that with the evident as sent of Creel'' and through Edward S Rochester, former editor under CreeL Babson came into possession of the Bull letin's name, good will, pres1ge and value as a going concern, staff and office and even was permitted to copy it's mailing lists and subscription accounts without paying the government one cent" Babson and C. T. Clayton continued or the department of labor pay roll, the report adds, while devoting much of theil time to the Bulletin and BabsoA took .Advantage of his position ito give tht IfSIsuIIafin an official status
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-12
WILL END SOON-GOMPERS

By Associated Press
 cleveland, O.. April 11.--Samuel Gom2ers, president of the American Federation of Labor. who arrived her. today to attend the convention of the Cigar Makers international Union. expects to confer with the chiefs of the three transportation brotherhoods to- morrow, he said. and expects to urge the striking switchmen aid yardmen to return to work. possibly in address at a mass meeting.
 Gompers declared the walkout of yardmen mistake and promised the weight of the American Federation Of Labor influence to support the broth erhoods in their struggle with the re- Noltins strikers, but asserted that tho strikers have grievance. and that 1t rust be adjusted without any more de- lay. He said he predicted trouble at the time the Cummins- Esch bill was before Congress and blamed Congress for bringing the trouble on.
 Mir. Gompers expressed confidence that the strike soon would be ended Snd declared he had no fear of it's ef- feet on the union labor movement gen orally.
 STRIKE A MISTAKE
 The strike is d mstake,p he said. These men don't realize the millenum cannot be made in Q day Progress
 
 and labor.
 When their anger is over they wifi realize this and will return to work and to their established organizations. This strike has not real leadership and has not real plan"
 Of his support of the railroad broth erhoods and established union leaders among railroad workers by every prac- tic means, MT. Gompers gave emphatic assurance
 The full force ofs the American Fed eration of Labor is behind them." he said.
 T saw this trouble coming on.v he continued. "1 testified at Washing ton 1t would happen. It was inevita- lie. It is the protest of the men against the effort to legfslate away their rights.
 BLAMES CUMMINS
 Tt is men like Senator Cummins and Governor Allen of Kansas who are to blame for th:s situation with their legislation to deny man the right to quit work to enforce a legiti- mate claim or redress an injury. Tt is the policy of getting out in- functions both prohibitory and manda- tory, and so keep men at labor ur- der grievous conditions which has brought on this wave of uncomfortable resentment.
 ~It isn't the brotherhood officials all they could at all times to hold their men within bounds but they are times when human nature will assert itself. This is one of them.'' W. c. Lee. president of the Brother hood of Railroad Trainmen. said to-
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FEDERAL ARBITRATION BOARD

Other phases of the industrial situa-,
 ton include the principles of the Kan
 sas court of industrial relations, the
 function of the secondary strike or
 boycott. right of government employees
 to orga nize and to strice. establish
 ment of a federal arbitration board,
 end encouragement of thrift among wage earners.
 The general principles in what is known AS the Kansas court of indus trial relations law the labor commit tee asserted. sare principles that are so anti-dem as to be reprehen- slble in the extreme and regugnant to every "American concept of justice, freedom and democracy"
 The secondary strike or boycott, the reply stated, has been resorted to and will be resorted to only when tactics Of employees left to labor no other course.
 Defending the right of government workers to organize. the labor commit tee said the right of such workers to strike should be maintained but there should never be occasion to use it
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-12
REGARDED BY
 EUROPE AS CUTTERS, SAYS
 FOSDICK DISCUSSING PEACE
Defeat of Peace Treaty Places Rest of World In Alliance Against United States, Returned Secre- tary Says
By Asseeiat,s prs,s

New York. April 1l.--Failure of the United States to ratify the peace treaty and join the League of Nations has made us regarded abroad "as a race of quit ters, while ''our professions of ideal ism and disinterestedness are marked down for sham and hypocrisy" Raymond B. Fosdick, who recently resigned as under secretary general of the League of Nations, declared here tonight. Mir. Fosdick, who arrived here yesterday on the steamship Baltic, has spent the last month in London and Parls finishing up his work in connection with the organiza- tion of the league.
 "Our isolation is complete and we face the rest of the world in alliance he a5- serted. Tt is foolish to assume that the situation has elements of danger for us. Our position is one of peril. a fact that is evidently realized in Washingtoa, judging from the plans that are being made for the biggest navy in the world. The price of our isolation will be arma- ment.
 For it must not be forgotten that the ghastly business in Washington has left us without friend anywhere. All that we won during the war we have delio- erately thrown away. The influence that we had our position Of leadership, the affection in which everything relating to America was held, have all gone by the br,a rd
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-12
DEMANDS STATED IN ANSWER
 REPUBLICAN QUIZ
Recognition of Eight-Hour Day, Right to Organize and Strike and Elimina-
 ton of Injunction
By Associated Press

Washington, April 11.--Organized la Dor views on industrial problems likely to enter into the coming political cam raign are presented in detail in reply, to a questionnaire supbmitted by the advisory committee on policies and platform of the republican national committee. The reply made public to- day at American Federation of Labor Headquarters, is signed by Samuel Gompers. Matthew Wohl and Frank Morrison, as members. of the platform committee of the national non partisan campaign of the federation.
 Acceptance of the principles enun- ciated in the reply was regarded by political observers here as determining organized labor's support of candi- dates in the November elections These principles include:
 Acceptance of the eight-hour day and the six-day week with Saturday half horday.
 Recognition of American wage earn CTS right to organize in accordance with their own judgment.
 Continued exemption of labor organ- izations from antitrust laws.
 RIGHT TO STRIKE
 Acceptance of the right of employees to choose their own representatives from within or without the plant
 Recognition of the right of employees to strike.
 
 Establishment of free federal em- Tloyment agencies in the administra- tion of which labor would have a voice
 Payment of such wages as to render old age and retirement pensions un- necessary. Equal pay for equal work. Minimum age of sixteen years for empoyment of children. Extension of the federal workm en' S compensation act to all wage earners not protected by state compensation acts.
 Elimination of company welfare and uplft organizations and substitution of welfare work as conducted by labor f,rpa pizatjous
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-12
CHANGE OF OPINION

The last three months have brought about a complete change of opinion. Oniy one who has been in Europe recently can realize the depth and the bitterness of the feeling against us. We started some thing that we failed to see through. We left Europe in the lurch in the middle of the game after imposing on her our rules and procedure. We threw the league out of the window to satisfy a miserable political quarrel That is the way Europe looks at it.'
 Mir. Fosdck expressed the opinion that the wave of bitterness against the United States will pass. He declared Americas position as creditor nation while Europe is bankrupt is a danger ous relationship to which the obvious inability of Germany to pay the large indemnities that were expected will fur nish an additional strain.
 s'As a member of the league" he said, The United States could help enormously to tide over a dangerous and difficult period, to introduce sane and steadying counsels into the tangled affairs of Eu- rope and to re-establish the economic and industrial life of the world. If she stays outside the league and cuts herself of from any rela tionship with other nations except that of creditor. she must be per pared to arm to the teeth as the price of safety against world alliance"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-12

in government publications.
 Another alleged abuse of alleged tunos charged by the report was printing or 90 ,3s2 speeches of federal officials at an expense of SAP, TBS to the government. Paper consumed totalled 1.4Si 900 pounds. .> As members of Congress must pay for IScopies of their speeches, the report says, the gross abuse from the free printing of other federal officials speeches should stop.
 The report says under it's power to sl- pervise government printing investigated 22S journals, magazines and periodicals and discontinued Ill at a saving of a,-
 MAGAZINE SUSPENDED
 Eight army and navy newspapers and magazines were suppressed at a saving of $400,0 600.
 This has been done,s the report states, without single protest from any man in the ranks, chiefly in whose interests it had been urged the publications were printed The objections to discontmu- ing came entirely from high ranking of ficers
 'srhe committee has no desire whatever to hamper or discourage the men of the army or navy in publication of their own magazines and newspapers. In fact, il heartily indorses and approves such ex- pression of Americanism. Government controlled. censored or subsidized news papers are utterly un-American and the committee earnestly hopes this Prusssan idea will find no root or favor here
 Many of the war service publications, the report declared, were established largely for the self -glnrification of cer- am interests and to provide comfortable and safe places for a large number of I-1sen who found such occupation more congenial than active service in the~front
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Sceati.ses 2a P.ss EIeyenl
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1920-05-19
FOWLS OPEN DOOR OF HOUSE
Fitting Platform Arranged 60 That
Hsas May Lahsrass Thsmsasaee
~ eAsppanW ca It.

The relieving fs one Of the simplest
methods Of enabling hens to open the
nenhouSe door in the morning, there
Dy relieving their owner Of the neces-
slty OF rising at daybreak to let them
out. The door Of the henhouse Is
hinged at the top. so that it opens out.
ward, and the lower edge catches
against the floor, so that it cannot
swing inward. Near the lower edge
on the outside a cord is attached,
which passes upward over two small
pulleys hanging from a beam. The
other end Of the cord supports a tin
can weighted with stones, so as to be
just heavy enough to pull the door
open and keep it so. On the floor of
the henhouse, right in front of the
door, is tiltfng platform, with hook
in the front edge, which fits an eye
screwed into the door. The door can
therefore be locked at night by catch
ing the hook in the eye, and the pull
of the cord against the door on the
outside has the effect of making the
hook hold securely. When the own
er has locked the door in the evening
after the hens have gone to roost, he
sprinkles few grains of feed on the
outward end Of the fitting platform,
which is now in horizontal position,
and leaves the henhouse by the large
door, which he locks. behind him. On