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The Benson signal., 1920-02-14
PAID TRIBUTE
TO GREAT man

VT WAS on September 10, 1876,
that Washington issued his fare
we'll address to the American peo-
pie. AS Washington's second
term drew to close the public once
more turned to him with confidence
and affection and would have had him
take the presidency third time, to
keep the government steady in its new
ways. But he would not have the
hard office again. Then he issued his
final address, which, he said, was 'de-
signed in a more special manner for
the yeomanry of the country" and
spoke the advice he hoped they might
take to heart.
When the day came on which he
should resign his office to John Adams,
the great civilian who was to succeed
him, there was scene which left no
one in doubt, not even Washington
himself, what the people thought of
the leader they had trusted these
twenty years. A great crowd was as
sembled to see the second Inaugural
ton, but very few of the thrOng
watched Adams. All eyes were bent
upon that great figure in black velvet,
with light sword swung at his side.
No one stirred until he had left the
room, to follow and pay his respects
to the new president.
Then they and all the crowd in the
streets moved after him, an immense
company going as one man, "in total
silence" his escort all the way. He
turned upon the threshold of the presi-
dents lodgings and looked. as if for
the last time, upon this multitude of
nameless friends. No one ever saw
him so moved. The tears rolled un-
checked down his cheek, and when at
last he went within a great smothered
common voice went through the
stirred throng as if they sobbed to see
their hero go from their side forever.
The Benson signal., 1920-02-14
HIT
HARD BY WAR

vated owing to lack of fertilizers, and
the requisitiOning of rye, formerly
used as fodder, caused serious reduc-
tiOn in the number of cattle. 1t was
necessary to kill off the smaller species
of live stock in order to save food for
the more valuable species. War condi-
tiOns proved favorable to the fisheries
in certain periods. At other times
that industry was doomed to practical
inactivity. AS many as 135 fishing
perished
Dutch holdings of foreign securities
were affected. In 1918 the nominal
worth of Russian bonds held in Hol-
land amounted to 1864, 100000, and ad-
dtiOnal Netherland interest in Russia
represented {. value of $52,800,000. all
of which may be considered lost
Losses on securities of central Europe,
especially in Hungary, were very large.
Owing to the limitation of imports
by the allied governments, many of
the Dutch industries could work only
under heavily restricted capacity. 1t
was extremely difficult to obtain raw
materials, coal, oils and other articles
essential to the industries, which had
to shut down for varying periods, dis
missing their employees.
The Royal National Committee of
Assistance paid out 500 ,423, 800 from
August, 1914, to December, 1918, to-
ward the support of persons made in
digent by the war In the same period
the government allocated $107 100000
toward expenses of the food supply
and $27, $4,000 to assist the needy and
to combat unemployment
Cannot Be Expressed in Figures.
Disadvantages connected with keep
ing under arms all the able-bodied part
of the male population for four years,
taking many of them from their studies
or their regular productive work, can
not be expressed in figures. The most
important single item was that of the
cost of mobilization, which amounted,
at the end of 1918, to $3.50, $50. 900
bringing the government expenses, due
to the war, 10 total of $411, 1910
Nearly $1GO00O,O00 was raised by
direct taxes and 1852, 100000 was oh.
tained by loans. Additional eXtraOr-
binary expenses have already alb
sOrbed $27, ,520O00 and the debt must
inevitably be increased to pay off the
original loans in from twenty to
twenty-five years. AS consequence
| taxes per capita must be raised to
about 500. .4S annually, an increase Of
| 15S per cent compared wifi 'o13.
The Benson signal., 1920-02-14
Washinqton as a Business Man.

Washington was man of extraordi-
nary activity. 1t was his custom to
rise at 4 o'clock, and he claimed that
a great deal of his work was done
while others slept. "My manner of
living" he wrote, "is plain, and / do
not mean to be put out by it."
1t was said of him, AT the time of
his marriage it is no great strain of
metaphor to say that Washington had
now his first chance to sit down since
the days when he had pored over his
school copybook." After the war and
his first term as president Washington
found his estates run down and un-
profitable, yet he so redeemed his for
tunes by his application to his affairs
and by good business judgment that
he died the second richest man in
America at that time.-Christian Her"
aid.
The Benson signal., 1920-02-14

with dictaphone ear pieces The he'll
met is also equipped with glasses
which are triple and nonshatterable.
The top of Mr.. Leavitt's desk boasts
miscellaneous assortment of orna-
mentS. Here is a piece of hardwood
brought up from wreck. The wood
had been 50 years beneath Lake HUI
ron, Mich, but shows no ill effect from
it's long submergence. Less pleasant,
if more interesting, is a strange old
black shoe with wide square toe.
"a piece of the foot of the girl who
had been wearing it slipped out Of
the shoe after we'd had it here a
WHILE" said Mr.. Leavitt.
SaIving Copper Cargo.
He wears a strange old ring fished
up during his salvaging operations.
This was found in connection with
the $50 tons of copper which went
down in the Pewabic in Lake Huron,
in 1865. The copper was salvaged
from a depth of 1S0 feet. Mr.. Leavitt
says other salvagers had tried to get
it and failed, and no less than seven
divers in rubber suits had lost their
lives in vain attempts.
ut is not possible to do salvaging
work in winter, except in southern
waters. Winter is the off season. "
said Mr.. Leavitt. "But next summer,
along about June, we propose to go
after the Merida, which went down
so miles off Cape Charles. She was
carrying $1,SOO,0O0 in. silver bars
alone. Silver then was worth only
about 40 cents an ounce, and it has
gone up lot since. Besides that,
there is 100000 in money in the safe
in the purser's Office
1t was pointed out by Mr.. Leavitt
that E1,OOO,0OO sterling had already
been recovered by British government
divers from the White Star Dominion
liner Laurentic, which was sunk in
1917 off Fasad Light.
When questioned about the possibil-
ity of getting good divers, Mr.. Leavitt
replied:
"GoOd men are scarce, as you know,
for diving or anything else. Still
you can usually get man, and, II
you direct him, he can do almost any
thing. But usually, if thrown on his
own resources, he will be almost help
less"
When asked about the possibility
of getting the cargo lost when the tor
pedOed Lusitania went down, Mr.
Leavitt said it should certainly be pos
sible.
''In my armOr. / can, if necessary
descend 1000 feet" he said. "The Lu-
sitania is in 2S5 feet of water. AS to
the value of salvage, there is $500
600 gold in her and $5OO0,OOO worth
of imperishable freight, such as cop,
per, brass, iron, etc. There are also
S., 100000 worth of negotiable securi
ties, quite apart from the valuables
iewery and cash of passengers.
'',rne Arabic, lying about sixty miles
from the Lusitania. has $5,OOO,OOC
gold in her. She is in about 80 feet
of water
Mr.. Leavitt said that the position OF
these ships would not change percepti
bly,, as there was at most, four-kno'
current at such depths.
The Benson signal., 1920-02-14
SEA TREASURE
LURETO DIVERS

II learned lot" he said; sin fact
| might say | learned more from my
first 10 minutes actual experience
down on the bottom, in my armOr,
than | learned from years of theoriz-
ing. Take the jointed strut rods down
the sides of the legs and both sides
Of the arms, for instance. They were
added after my descent.
Leavitt's Diving Armor.
Here he reassembled the armor to
show how it worked. The legs and
arms, which are very flexible, are
made of hard-rolled copper tubing,
guaranteed to stand 700 pounds of
pressure to the square inch
"These hinged strut rods down both
sides Of the arm" said Mr. Leavitt,
take the pressure from the wrist to
the shoulder. The shoulder is solid
casting of manganese bronze and has
a ball-bearing which allows the man
within to move his arms, which would
bearings" Here Mr.. Leavitt whir!ed
the arm around freely to illustrate his
point. "At submergence of 361 feet
there is 6,664 pounds pressure here"
He called attention to the fact that
the cable attached to the top of the
helmet has a guaranteed lifting
strength of 10000 pounds. In the cen
ter of the cable is the telephone wire,
connected directly with small com
plete telephone in the top of the he'll
met. The diver is connected" simply
The Benson signal., 1920-02-14

Washington would not serve again the
merits of number of candidates were
urged and discussed, and upon his re-
tirement to Mount Vernon the OppOsi-
tOn to him gradually grew less violent
and finally his most bitter opponents
began to recognize the wisdom of
Washington as statesman, as well
as they had appreciated his services as
a soldier.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-03
CHURCHES AIDING IN
 NEAR EAST CAMPAIGN
Letters Received From Ministers All Over State Hedging Co-opera-
 tiom on February and 15

Sunday school and church days, Febru- ary and 15, respectively, have been set aside for holding programmes and talk ing contributions for the Near East cam .paign Letters have been sent to county chairmen instructing them to request the preachers in their counties to talk on this subject. and headquarters in Birmingham has already received letters from hun
 dreds of the ministers stating that on February 15 they would use the subject
 of the suffering in the Near East in place
 Of the usual sermon.
 In many Sunday schools throughout the
 city and in various counties programmes
 were held last Sunday by the Sunday
 school children and contributions were made. February also has been set aside for Sunday School Day and all those churches who have not had their Sunday schools conduct programmes will prepare interesting and vital subjects for that week.
 The small towns of Ala bama are pro gressng well with the campaign. The Methodist Sunday school in Greensboro, with an average attendance of 100 mem bers, has given $50 to the Near East fund and Uniontown has filled the required quota by the adoption of four orpnans. It is believed that a number of other towns will be heard from during the week.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-03
"Hail, Columbia! Happy Land''

Harvey G. Gunter of Andalusia passed through Birmingham yesterday on his way home from a round trip to England and Scotland. He was & fire- man on the s,OoO-ten oil burning freighter Ccshnoc, built at Pensacola and sailing from that port October Il, 1919, for Liverpool. As Harvey G. played the tuneyit sounded like this:
 Being fireman on an oil burner is not totally unlike being a lineman for wireless telegraph company. You sit In chair and read, occasionally talk Ing glance at the gauge. If you choose to make overtime by taking on extra hours that is your privilege.
 T went ashore at Liverpool with something like $75 spending money, but the main trouble there was the ale. The Liverpool ale is mostly Burton's, much heavier than the beer we used to have in this country, and with a flavor and aroma that suggests wine.
 This ale is served to you in glasses that hold about pint, hexagon shaped, so that the light falling on the amber colored contents makes it glow The foam is of close grain and creamy and when it is taken with sandwiches made
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-03
War On Unlicensed Dogs
 To Stop Rabies Spread
Fine of $1OO May Be Imposed Owners for Failure to Pay License-City to Kill Dogs to Prevent
 Epidemic of Rabies

Their day is soon to be realized by Birmingham dogs.
 There are 5000 dogs in Birmingham who have no license to run at large.
 There are nine people from the Bir- mingham district undergoing treatment for rabies.
 There are s1Oo fines awaiting the people who own dogs but have not paid the license, and they have but few days in which to pay.
 Unlicensed dogs and their owners within very short time are going to have cause to believe that the realm of Pluto has gone on the rampage.
 J. M Jones, IT,, city comptroller speaking of the situation yesterday said:
 If these owners of the 5000 unli- censed dogs think and care so little about and for their pets, the city must take hold The financial expense of feeding and caring for so many dogs cannot be borne by the city. When the dogs are caught the poor creatures will have short shrift. They will have to be killed very quickly in order to prevent their being great and unnecessary expense to the city.
 "Of course the fines imposed on the owners would net balance that would support the dogs a while, but the code does not provide that. misde- meanor fines taken in through the re- corder's court can be used for the sup port of ownerless animals, so the dogs
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-03

will have to be shot, or gassed or drowned. whichever is most eXpedient."
 A dogs head from the Birmingham
 district was examined yesterday in the local Pasteur institute and found to be a positive case of rabies.
 Reports from the State Pasteur instt- tute at Montgomery are interesting. The reports show that for the past nine months there has been a literal stream
 of mad dogs working toward the north west of Alabama from Houston county. In and around Dothan. Abbeville sam son, Grimes. Hartford and Ozark, on
 up toward, through and past Montgom cry, people have been bitten by the hundreds during last summer and this
 fall and winter.
 Now the presence of rabies has been 1 located in Birmingham and the sur rounding district, with, as stated, nine people here undergoing treatment to. day.
 The officials say that the school chil. dren and citizens on the streets whose taxes are paid entities them to every safety measure that can be thrown around them. and that if people care so | little for their dogs they won't pay a two-d dollar license and keep the anil
 mals off the streets, then the dogs and their owners must suffer the conse. ! quences.
 l Preparations are being made by the | city. to go out and get the unlicensed
 dogs and to prosecute their owners.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-03
EXEMPTION BLANKS
 FOR EX-SERV|CE MEN
Registered Ex-Service Men Will Be Mailed Blanks By
 Election Commissioners

Ex-service men who registered after they returned from the army or navy will not have to apply in person for ex- emption on poll tax was the information given out by Election Commissioner NJ. 'E Morris yesterday
 Every man that has registered in the last three months will be mailed the ex. empton blank, according to Mir Mor- ris. who said yesterday that he had been promised an extra clerk to do this work
 A notation was made on the certificate of every ex-service man who was regis tered by Mr Morris or one of his assist to some exemption and an exemption certificate Will be mailed to each one. The office of the election commissioner was not as busy yesterday as on the days Of the previous week. partly because the rush to pay poll tax was over, and on account of the weather The oommis- sioner and his force. however, re gistered over 100 voters during the day. The total registration this year, stated MT Morris yesterday has gone above 10000. which will make the humber of qualified electors so far approximately 2S GOO
 This number is expected to be increased to great extent. and the forecast of the election commissioner is that before he closes his office on March II that the total number of qualified voters will reach 3o.000 or above.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-03
FEDERAL AGENTS I AT DISPOSAL OF FAIR PRICE BOARD
bard to Be Reorganized to Investi- gate Costs and Percentage of Profits-Ipvestigation to Be Made Public

"A corps of auditors and special agents H the department of justice will probably \ assigned to the disposal of the local lr price board as a result of the plan I opted yesterday afternoon at a con zrehce of the board with J. G. Weatherly \ the department of justice. who is in Birmingham in the inNrest of the cam Iign to reduce the cost of living.
 }rhe active extension of the functioning the board was agreed upon and the bard will work under the Lever act, khich has been amended so as to include Eany commodities not included before. Fo allegations have been made against Birmingham, as compared with other Eties, but is in line with the policy Of Ie Attorney Generals office under these l " amendments of Congress
 frhe board will be reorganized and com Iittees composed of merchants and con-
 mers will be appointed to makeia thor fgh investigation of the manufacturing Ssts, dealers percentage of profit and all l Ictors going into the final price 10 the Insumer. The findings of the committee fll then be made public and they will
 bow whether or not they think thu faler is making a fair profit
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-03
JUDGE WILKINSON
 ID ANSWER ORDERS
Supreme Court Cites Jurist to Answer Motions Filed
 In Blackburn Case

The Blackburn case, which attracted attention in Judge Horace Wilkinson s division of the civil court last week, was again aired yesterday when Judge Will kinson received a second order from the supreme court asking him to show reason why Mrs. Monnie Moore who is seeking the custody of her child, should not be held responsible for the costs in the case
 The attorneys for W. W. Shuptrine of Fayette filed motion for mandamus pro- eeedings, which was served on Judge Wilkinson, and asking him in this case to show reason why the case should not be taken out of the Jurisdiction of Jet- ferson county.
 Headings in both of these instances were made when the proceedings in the case were heard before Judge Wilkinson about week ago, and he overruied both motions, settling the Jurisdiction of the case in Jefferson county and not holding Mrs Moore particularly accountable for the costs of the court
 Judge Wilkinson yesterday afternoon said that he would send answers to both orders, which are required to be before the supreme court February ..
 Judge Wilkinson stated that d non resident coming into the state of Ala bama to file a suit was by the law sponsble for the costs. In this case, how ever, he ruled that technically the case was a proceedings and not a suit, and that Mrs. Moore was not necessarily re- sponsible for the costs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-03
BIG DEVELOPMENTS REPORTED POSSIBLE
 IN GADSDEN VICINITY
Purchase of Large Tracts of Mineral Lands In Etowah and Marshall Counties Causes Much
 Speculation

Meagre information of the plans of the purchasers of the 100000 or more acres of lands in Etowah and Marshall coun- ties. recently announced. indicate that de- velopments on a mammoth scale will be undertaken there at an early date. The new owners of the mineral lands have purchased tract of over 100 acres of land near Gadsdan on which, it is stated, they will build industrial plants, possibly two or three pig iron furnaces. a steel mill and probably one or two others that will work the iron and steel into finished products.
 The same interests have also purchased a tract of land near by on which is a large spring from which they will be able to obtain supply of water sufficient to
 meet the requirements of several fur naces and steel mills,
 The lands purchased by the Chicago and Cleveland interests, it is stated. con- tain some of the best iron ore vet found in Alabama, while basin in the north west portion of Etowah co0nty contains
 a three-foot seam of coal that is four or
 five miles wide and about fifteen miles
 long This coal is said to be of a high
 quality both for domestic and steam pur-
 poses
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-03
INFLUENZA CASES
 ARE OF MILD TYPE
Personal Precautions Bet ter Than City Regula-
 tions, Says Bowling

pr. J. D. Bowling of the city health department expressed the opinion yes- terday that the slight outbreak of in- fluenza Birmingham has experienced will reach it's peak within few days and then start to decline.
 Cases reported from the large 9tes where it made it's appearance some Gays ago are now rapidly decreasing and from what s known of the character of the malady the same rise and fall is to be expected here.
 There have been only three or four deaths reported in Birmingham. The number of cases reported to the depart- ment Saturday was 25. on Sunday there were. 26 and yesterday A. The rainy weather of the past day or two is mostly held responsible for the jump in ehe number of cases reported. Dr Bowling says, because persons lower their vitality by getting their feet wet. staying in damp clothes in the rain, catching cold and otherwise laying the way open for influenza to get foothold.
 Personal precautions, he believes, ax- far more effectual in keeping immune than general rulings the city may lay down. Keeping out of the wet, avoiding colds. eating plenty of wholesome food are among the best preventatives.
 There Is hardly d time" he continued, when influenza is not present m q large community. It has been present in most big cities for years.
 Citizens have readily responded to the city's ruling about offices closing at o'clock and stores at D. m., neither opening before o'clock in the morning. Some places of bushes sare so con stftuted that these hours work hard ship, but co-operation has been in evi- deice all through the town.
 The cases that have appeared in BS mingham are not of a violent type, the main danger coming from carelessness that allows 1t to go into pneumonia.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-03

The commissioners held, after care ful investigation by the board of health that this standard can be main- tained by the dairymcn without hard ship.
 Rigid enforcement of the ordinance will be in order on and after April 15. 1920
 The commissioners and members of the board of health were in confer eEce yesterday afternoon for more than an hour. The newly drawn ordinance, which has been under bombardment by no few dairymen for some weeks, is adopted and stands practically as com piled.
 Officials of the board Of health as- sured the commissioners that a most exhaustive investigation had been made, with the result that they see no logical reason why the ordinance cannot be carried out as written. They made 1t quite clear that holding down the bacteria content of milk is funda : mentally but question of cleanliness.
 Sterilization of all milk containers and dairy apparatus will result in the sanitary condition of the milk the ordinance requires. There will be some expense for the dairymen to install, providing they have not already done