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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-23
M'WANE DELEGATE
 FROM BIRMINGHAM
National Foreign Trade Council Meets in San
 Francisco May 12-15

J. R. McWane, president of the Amer ican Cast Iron Pipe Company, is an- nounced as a delegate from this city to the seventh National Foreign Trade Con- vention, which will be held at San Fran cisco, May 12-15, under the auspices of the National Foreign Trade Council the chairman of which is James A. Farrell, president of the United States Steel Cor poration.
 Four general sessions are announced for the discussion of the broader aspects of the general convention theme, which is. The Effect of Being a Creditor Na- ton:
 Fundamentals of Our Foreign Trade The relation of our productive capacity to foreign trade; the financial situation
 Imports and Exports-Function of ex- ports in our foreign trade; the future of our exports: the part played by our new merchant marine.
 Foreign Trade Policies-The need for a bargaining tariff; reorganization of the foreign service of our government; the value of American chambers of commerce abroad; the machinery for foreign trade.
 A National Programme for Foreign Trade-Reports of group sessions; the final declaration.
 
 with the National Foreign Trade Councif in the holding of the convention are the American Manufacturers Export Asso- ciation American Bankers Association the National Association of Credit Men, Associated Advertising Clubs of the World. as well as the American chambers of commerce abroad.
 Delegates are expected from sr1 the saading nations bordering on the Pa- cific ocean, as well as from all the prin- cipal foreign trade organizations in this country. The Pacific coast committee of the council is, composed of Frederick J. Roster president California Barrel Com pany, San Francisco: J. K. Armsby president California Packing Corporation San Francisco.
 Among those actively interested in ar ranging the convention are: A. c. Bed- ford. chairman of board. Standard Oil Company of New Jersey; Alba Johnson. former president of the Baldwin Locomo- tive Works, Philadelphia; Cyrus H. Mc- Cormick, president International liar vester Company, Chicago; William Cooper Proctor, the Proctor & Gamble Company, Cincinnati; W. L. Saunders. chairman ot board, Ingersoll Rand Company, New York; John N willys. president Willys- Overland Company, Toledo: Thomas F.. Wilson, president Wilson X Co, Chicago: |E. A. S. Clarke, president Consolidated Steel Corporation, New York city; Homer IL. Ferguson, president Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Docks Company, Newport News, Va; P. A. A. Franklin, president International Mercantile Ma rine. New York; Edward N. Hurley, wheaton, Ill.,. Lewis F. Pierson, chair man of board, Irving National Bank, New York city; John D. Ryan, president An aconda Copper Mining Company, New York; Charles B. Seger. president United States Rubber Company. N. Y.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-23
OF LYNNE STRONG INDICATION
 OF EXTRA SESSION
Decatur Man Is Asking Support of Members for Speakership of
 House

F. A. Lynne of Decatur, floor leader for the administration in the last house is sending out. letters to members of the legislature asking for their support for the speakership, for which he says he is candidate. Several of the letters have been received in Birmingham.
 MT. Lynne points out in his letter the likelihood of an extra session of the leg islature, and those receiving them inter pret the letter as a pretty authoritative statement that such session will prob ably come to pass. It will be racelled that Judge Merritt who was speaker during the recent session, has since been appointed a member of the court of ap- peals by Governor Kilby, so that the place will be vacant should the legis- lature assemble
 The necessity for an extra session, 1t is pointed out in political circles, IS ex- pected to arise from the possible action of the supreme court in declaring uh- constitutional the state income tax and the tonnage tax on coal and iron, im- portant items in the revenue bill. II these tax regulations are declared invalid it is believed that an extra session of the legislature will be called by the gov ernor to consider the emergency It is even hinted in some circles that a con stitutIonal convention may be necessary to open the way for further taxation, m the event these sources of revenue are closed.
 MT. Lynne, who is seeking the post Of sneaker of the house, is well-knoWn practicing attorney of Decatur
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-23
ARE OUT AIDING
 STORM SUFFERERS
Salvation Army Workers Supplying Bedding and
 Food to Stricken People

At the time the storm struck Alabama officers and workers were just closing a two-days' conference in Birmingham. Part of them were en route to their home fields, while others were still in Bir- mingham awaiting trains.
 Major Main wired all of those officers whose fields hy in the storm-swept ter ritory to get busy, but before the wires were received. many of them had al- ready taken steps to help the sufferers from the storm.
 Knowing that the corps officer at Flor ehce, was in St Louis on business, Coh1- mandant Grimshaw and two helpers were sent poste haste from Birmingham. Yesterday morning. Ensign Gus Abrams the divisional secretary. received tele- phone message from Commandant Grim- shaw asking him to ship him at once tw enty-f1ve mattresses, with bed linen. to help take care of those who were home less. These were shipped from Birming- ham at noon today by express, via the Frisco Railroad, and will be sent by truck from the railroad to the poUes where needed most.
 The suffering is apparently very wide spread, and the number of deashs high in that territory where the Salvation Arr(y workers are At work.
 Walter L. Shaddix. assvation Arml worker at Florence. left yesterday after noon for the storm-strcken territory in Franklin and Marion counties with med teal supplies and food
 Major Main, divisional officer, is now in North Alabama, directing the relief work in person in both Florence ano De- catur zones.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-23
Engineers VIII Spend Day
 Inspecting he Distnct

At a joint meeting of the Birmingham and Atlanta branches of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in the cafe room of the Civic Association to- night John R. Allen of Pittsburg, vice president of the engineers, will speak on Export Business in the Far East"
 MT. Allen speaks from experience. hav- ing been connected with engineering work in Turkey and other eastern countries for several years. His talk will cover the opportunities which are now before the United States for doing export business In Turkey, but will also touch upon the educational and political condition of that country.
 About thirty members of the Atlanta branch of the society will arrive in Bir- mingham this morning at s;s0 o'clock and will meet the Birmingham members at the Tutwler hotel. The men will then leave for trip over the industrial plants of the district. During the trip they will stop to look over the new by-product
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-23
MANY ATTENDED
 WOOD LECTURE

A large group of merchants and sales men were on hand last night at the Southern Club at the monthly meeting of the Merchants Credit Association, and were treated to an interesting programme.
 Many shopkeepers of the Birmingham district, members of the association, at tended. and in many instances the full sales forces of their stores were present as special guests of their employers.
 Two distinct features were offered an excellent address by Ralph L. Wood, principal of the school of salesmanship, Intentional Correspondence Schools, Scranton, Pa, and the exhibition of the four-reel picture, Heads Win.'
 MT. Woods address, Modern Salesman ship was we'll delivered and proved of much interest to the large group of sales men and women of local stores. He dem onstrated his knowledge of selling in his talk. MT. Wood was accorded much ap plause at the conclusion of his address.
 Heads Win, scenario by K. Lynn Sumner, advertising manager of the In- ternational Correspondence Schools was decided hit. The picture was well pro educed and the cast contained many of the leading screen actors and actresses.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-23
GOVERNOR BACKING
 NEW LAW ON DOGS
Civic Association Informed That Sheriffs Are In-
 structed to Enforce Act

In response to letter written py the Civic Association, Governor Thos' E. Kilby will take steps to see Una. the anti-dog law is rigidly enforced in every section of the state, accord ing to letter just received by .. l.. Harold, secretary of the Civic Asso- cia ton.
 The governor assures the association that he will write to each sheriff Tn the state to see that the law, par ticularly the parts about keeping the dogs up at night and muzzling ex- cept when accompanied by the owner, are enforced.
 The action of the Civic Association in writing to the governor was taken when 1t was brought to the atten- ton of the Farmers Cooperative com mittee that officers were very lax in seeing that this law was carried out
 The anti-dog law was passed by the recent legislature, and was designed directly as an incentive for sheep rais- ing in the state.
 The result of the law was that mum bers of people in other states who were interested in the production of wool are coming into the state to make their homes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-23
BURR POSTMASTER
 AT T. F. A. SPREAD
Leading Citizens on Speakers List
 for Dinner Friday Night

Borden Burr, well-known attorney, will serve as toastmaster at the all Alabama dinner to be given at the Tut wiler hotel Friday evening in the in- terest of the Travellers Protective As- sociation's campaign to give Alabama "a place in the sum-
 Delegates to the sttae conference here have been appointed from every county in the state, and a thoroughly repre- sentative gathering is expected.
 An organization will be perfected for the nationwide publicity campaign planned by the Travellers Protective Association. Prominent men in all parts of the state have volunteered their cooperation, so that every county in the state may contribute it's part to the big movement for the benefit of the state at large.
 Leading citizens will be on the speak CTS list at the banquet. among them being several candidates for the Senate who have accepted an invitation to at tend though they have agreed not to say anything about themselves or each other, but to confine their remarks to the publicity project of the Travellers Protective Association.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-23
THARPE TO ENTER
 REALTY BUSINESS
Popular City Official Will Sell
 Houses After May 1
of Birmingham, Ala Statement February 2Sth. 1920.
 QES0IIPCFC

So many transactions in real estate Tn Birmingham lately have loosened w. H. Tharpe from his post as secretary to the commissioner of public safety.
 As signs of spring began to appear about the middle of March, MT. Tharpe called Commissioner John H. Taylor to one side and turned in his resignation. He agreed to stay with the city until May l.
 MT. Tharpe has been identified with Birmingham for nearly quarter of a century, fifteen years ofs which he de- voted to real estate. taking the leading part in putting the pretty subdivision "Ivanhoe," on the North Bessemer car line, on the map, and developing "Tharpe Place." one of the home places of West End
 Besides these Mir Tharpe put several other subdivisions on the market, all of which proved paying investments for those who invested their money in the lands.
 Of the number of residences and pieces of business property in Birming- ham which MT. Tharpe has bought and sold for his clients, the great majority are strung through Greater Birming- ham from East Lake to Wylam.
 He was identified with the old firm of Champion < Tharpe for many years, later doing business under his own name, the firm being styled w. H Tharpe & Go.
 MT Tharpe has joined the staff of McConnelL Anglin, White, 2026 Third avenue, and will leave the city staff for his new activities May 1.
 Although MT. Tharpe's resignation was turned in month ago. 1t was not announced until last week. He leaves as his friends in the city hall every man employed by the city,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-23
Storm Sufferers Without
 Food, Clothing or Shelter
Witness Tells of Destitute People Maimed and Hungry, Who Need Supplies, Nurses, Medical Attention, Ambuances and Cooking Utensils-Man-
 gled Bodies Found in Debris

People in the storm-swept regions of Alabama and Mississippi are without homes. There is only a few days sup ply of food on hand, and many of them are going about without enough clothes to cover their bodies.
 That is what J. T. Brockman. who has just returned from visit to the storm swept regions, reported yesterday to the Birmingham chapter of the American Red Cross.
 The men have taken the twisted tim bers from the wrecked houses and have made shelters to protect their families from the rain and winds. Most of the shelters are about the size of an average room. In some of these I have seen as many as five families huddled together under the same roof.
 Everything has been swept away. There is not even a stove left on which to cook their food. Medical supplies and nurses have been sent from Birmingham At Hamilton, Ala. which is l6 miles away from the nearest railroad, the courthouse has been converted into hospital There
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-23
ODD FELLOWS PLAN
 BIG CELEBRATION
One Hundred and First Anniversary to Be Great Occasion in
 Local Lodge

Local Odd Fellows are making big prep arations for the celebration of the l0lst anniversary of the order at the First Methodist Church next Monday evening.
 The occasion Is expected to attract a large number of the Odd Fellows, the Rebekahs and their friends, while all of the subordinate lodges of the county will join to make the occasion a success. Jacob Burger, past grand master, will preside. The programme which has been arranged is as follows:
 Opening ode.
 Prayer, Rev. W. M. Crawford. pas: grand master.
 Song, E. P. Lee. choir director South side Baptist Church
 Address, "Odd Fellowship" Elliott G. Rickarby Mobile. grand master. Musical selection, Mrs. Mary Gillen. Address, ''Our Home. Fred J. Cramp. ton. Montgomery, home trustee and past grand master Address. "The Rehekah Degree. Mrs Victoria Hinkle. vice president Rebekah state assembly.
 Address, Jefferson County odd Fel- lows" Thomas R. Walker. Vivian lodge.
 Address. ''Young odd Fellows Roy F. Perkins. Mineral City lodge.
 Benediction.
 o. D. Allen will be the organist
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-23

is only one trained nurse there, and she has under her care nearly thirty of the injured people. The most seriously in jured are being sent to Birmingham and Memphis as fast as they can be carried to the railroad.
 When I arrived upon the scenes said MT. Brockman. T found everything in the widest disorder. The two nurses and myself, with a body of the men, went about collecting and trying to identify the dead. Many of the bodies found were so horribly mangled that 1t was almost impossible 70 identify them We found the body of dead woman. Be- side it lay her little baby, pulling at the dress of it's mother and trying to make her speak.
 That is only one of the many touch ing scenes tht we saw. That is why the people of Birmingham must come to tho aid of these stricken people. Any old clothes, shoes blankets or money that the people of Birmingham will give will be sent to the helpless people by the local chapter of the Red Cross, which has an office at Room 5lf, Jefferson County Bank building"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-23
BOYS
 ARE TO GIVE PLAY

Members of the Fraternity of Boys will take part in a blackface sketch, The Coontown Thirteen Club" in Birming- ham in the near future
 The boys conceived the idea of giving the play to raise money to carry on the activities of the tub, The Fraternity of Boys is organizel under the auspices of he Birmingham Sunday School Asso- citation, and has as it's members boys from all parts oj the city.
 This play is he given five times in churches in difJsrent sections of the city. Nc defirite da/as have been decided upoa yet. but vii. be announced soon.
 The story of the play is that of a negro suicide club. It is full of comic situationst and promises to be one of the best amateur performances given in Birmingham.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-23
WILL ADDRESS
 SOUTHERN CLUB
Capt. Cosby Will Speak on Universal Military Train
 ing Next Monday

Capt. Arthur F. Cosby. executive secretary of the Universal Military Training League. will speak at the Southern Club smoker next Monday night.
 These monthly smokers were insti- tuted about year ago by Dan B. Dimick. president of the Southern Club, but during the fall they were temporarily abandoned.
 The smoker next Monday night is the first to be held in several months, but it is the intention of MT. Dimick and the board of governors to have one each month in the future.
 Capt. Cosby is veteran of the Span ish American war and also was active in military work in the World War. He enlisted as a private In the First United States Volunteers at San An tonic. Tex, in 1898 and was with the contingent of Rough Riders that went to Cuba, taking part in the battles of Las Gausimas and Santiago. He was wounded at the battle of Santiago, July l, 1s9S in a charge on the block house at San Juan hill and was later promoted on the recommendation of the late Col Theodore Roosevelt, who was then commanding the regiment. to be captain and assistant adjutant gem eral of volunteers. and served through out the balance of the war.
 At the outbreak of the World War he was executive secretary of the Military Training Camp Association of the United States. This association was composed of the men who attend ed the civilian training camps at PIattsburg, Fort Sheridan and Fort Oglethorpe He helped in recruiting the first and second officers training camps held throughout the United States.
 Capt. Cosby was appointed to ex- anime into the qualifications of ap plicants of civilians to enter officers training camps for field artillery coast artillery and other branches of the service. and at the close of the war he was attached to the general staff of the army and he and others appointed with him were engaged in handling the entire personnel officer problem in assisting the war depart ment in securing proper officer ma terial
 Dan B. Dimick. president of the Southern Club, was appointed a. civil ian aide to the adjutant general dur ing the World War and was chair man of the committee of the associa- ton in charge of this work in Bir- mngham.
 Captain Cosby will discuss military training and legislation affecting the army instructions
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-23

Three new school buildings were ordered erected by the county board of education at It's meeting yesterday afternoon.
 The first of these is to be at Boy4es and another at Tarrant City. Both or these will be grammar school buildings. and will probably be ready by school opening time this fall.
 A school building for negroes was or dered for Bessemer.
 The board of education will go to Leeds Monday to select site for new col ored school building, and to prepare plans for the remodeling of the white school at that place.
 Contract for the erection of a neW school building at Morris will be sigpvd shortly, Smailman & Price, local con
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-23
GETTING TO WORK
 ON TWO-MILL TAX
Civic Association Committee Begins
 Campaign For Teachers

With enthusiastim and confidence tho two-mill tax campaign committee of tho Civic Association entered upon their work at luncheon yesterday.
 Sydney J. Bowie, chairman-o f'the com mittee, was unavoidably called out of the city on business, but left word that nc expected to take an active part in the campaign. and asked to be put down as one of the four minute speakers
 Others who were present wero Judge Hugh A. Locke, H. H. Shell. John C. Blackwell, H. Reeves Howell. Kelly R. Spencer. Jay Smith, w. SadleEs John R. Hornady. c. l.. Harold. Drs 1 B. Glenn and Dr. c. A. Brown.
 Commissioner J. R. Hornady explained the phases of the tax and the need for tx in the schools. Dr. c. R. Brown. assist. ant superintendent of the city schools. and pr. c. A. Brown. principal of the Birmingham high school. also.spoke oc the tax.
 Judge Hugh A. Locke N euFbe in charge of the speaking campaign Assuo- committee was appointed to arrange with the managers of the various theatres to have four-minute speakers ct each Of them In town between perfornancessdurs ing the last week of tho campaign
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-23
LETTERS TO EDITOR
Let DevaIera Quit MeddIing

To the Editor of The Age-Herald.
 Permit me to express my aversion to reading such sentiments as those of one Frank J. Thompson, as found in the col umns of your distinguished and influen- tial newspaper, in the edition of April q. This man, with the unbridled effrontery and audacity of his type, insults the governor of the proud state of Alabama because, forsooth, he does not welcome to our homes and hearths this hrebrand and imposter, DeValera, who would, with other pro-Germans. involve us in dan. gerous misunderstanding with our great ally and own mother country. England. And for the sake of what? For the sake of the roughnecks of south Ireland, who as our Admiral Sims says, stabbed our sailors in the back in the streets of Dub- lin and Cork, furnished all the comfort they could to our savage enemy, and base for such German submarines as sunk the Lusitania.
 All the world knows where the Eng lish were at this time. On the ocean holding back the Huns from our homes as well as from their own. dying by the countless thousands amid the poisonous gases. the wire entanglements, buried alive in mines, in the marshes of Fland- CTS, amid the unspeakable atrocities of the most savage foe the world has ever known, side by side with our own boys
 
 Did not our civil war rightly or wrongly establish the right of nation to coerce . recaleitrant member of the union, one and forever indivisible? Are we going to make war on Mexico because that country is in the act of coercing a recall citrant state? Soon there may be a ssPresident' of the republic" of Sonora touring the country, invoking war on our neighbors to the south Where is to end such officious intermeddling? Surely we have enough at home to claim our atten- ton, without meddling in the internal af- fairs of friendly nations.
 We fathers do not want our sons to throw away their precious lives (any one of whom is worth all that south Ireland and the state of Sonora contains. with those rascally Armenians thrown in) in ouarrels such as these. Let DeValera keep away from such patriots communities as Birmingham. which throughout the war set the country lesson in unseifish de- votion to the ideals of our forefathers, and to the stability of the Anglo-Saxon brotherhood.
 ROBERT A. MICKLE.
 Marion. April 2, 1920.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-23
NORMAL SCHOOLS
 SHORTEN TERMS
Will Eliminate Two Lower Classes That Duplicate High School
 Work

H J. Willingham, president of the State Normal School at Florence. stopped over in Birmingham for a few hours yester- day He is on his way home from Mont somery, where he has been attending a meeting of the state board of education ield for the purpose of reorganizfnE the curses of study in the normal schools of the state.
 MT. Willingham stated that the state normal schools would no longer compete with the first two years course of study in the high schools. Due to the lack of teachers at the present time. the state board of education has decided to abol- ish the first two years study required in the normal schools
 With the couse of study reduced to two years, it is believed by members of the board that the ranks of the 'chool teachers in the state will be in creased. At the present time there are only about HOO students enrolled in all the normal schools While the average that has been maintained has usually been 2.o0o. The new ruling will affect the schools at Florence. Livingston, Troy and Jacksonville. Only their freshman classes are dropped this year The sophomore classes will be cut off next year.