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La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1920-04-02
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| los impuessos a la industrial Y al CO.
mercio.
Ello do por resultado que las in
dustrias ~neoionesas, las principales,
empezaron a cerrar sus ~puertas, en-
la imposibilidad de pagan ell impucs-
to.
Asi pues, ell procedimiento de los
hacendistas de Nuevo Leon, para
"hacerse" de recursos, era mas o
menos, el empieado por el ~personajc
del cuento que resolvio matar a Ia
g%allina de los huevos de orc.
Gracias a que en- Nuevo Leon, hui
DO tempo y manera de r~evivirla, o
medic revivirla por 10 nenos.
FL gobie-no del Estado de Duran
go, Sc VIZ en- Ell mismo caso que de-
jamos apuatado: las areas v~acias, los
compromises amoRtonandose, los suel
dos sin pagan, los servicios publicos
a medals, y las 'entradas," incapaees
de resolver ell problena.
Los hacendistas duranguenses, CO.
mo los neoloneses, Sc dieron a pensar
en- la manera de arb~itrarse, en- plazo
breve, los nccesarios recursoS y CO.
81 cur;oSa, encontraron como mejor,
eli m;smo procedimiento usado COZ,
tar mala ventura por sus colegas de
Nuevo Leon: el de aumentar, de una
mancra terrible, los ~impuestos al
concrete y a la industrial.
Y. aSi como la industrial protesto
en- Nuc~o Leon, Protesto en- Duran,
go ell concrete.
Que el procedimiento era peligro-
so, que e~quivalia, como decimos an
ties, a saerificar a la gallina de los
] huevos de orc, Sc cncargo de demos
trarlo p~rcnto, a los gobiernos de
Nuevo Leon y de Durango, Ell Gobier-
no de Coahuila.
A las quejas dc los industriales
~necloneses, contesto Espinosa Mirc-
les desde ell Palacio de Gobierno de
Saltillo. con una llamada tcntaGora:
En- Nuevo Leon los recargan a uste-
dos de impuestos, les ponen trabes,
10 aprecian su esfuerzo en- 10 que
vale: vengan u.tedes a CoahuiIa, dom
1c no les cobramos impuestos, les
daremos ~facilidades de toda especic,
Y les patentizaremos nuestra estima-
tion.
Aprovechando el hondo disgusto de
los concentrates duranguenos. una
comision de concentrates de Torrcon
va en- SUI busca, Il ofrecerles, en- nom-
bre dc las Camaras de Concrete y
del Gobierno del Estado, ell campo
coahuilense para sus opcraciones. pa
ra sus sctividades. para su e~nriqueci-
miento, sin ~inpuestos gravosos y sin
trabas odiosas.
FL pcligro, pues, estaba eercano, y
no tnrdo en- ~apuntar. Fue, a la inver-
sa, el case Cue fineo el ~cngrandeci-
miento de Monterrey. En- Saltilio Sc
neSabsN facilmente a las empresas
industriales, sc les imponian fuertes
g~ravancnes, Y entonccs ell General
Reyes les ofrecio, sin impucstos, sin
~exigencias, sin gravamenes, la ciudad
de Monterrey. Y hacia ella Sc ~fueron.
La historic Sc reptile.
Pedro RECIO
La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1920-04-02

das principalmente por los diaroS
britanicos, m;smos que solemnementc
aceptau como justas las aneXiones
britanicas en- TODD el mundo.
TODD 10 cua! nos l!eva a una conclu-
sion. 4 los ojos del Continente. los
Estados Unidos aparecen como IN
instrumental dc In~Claterra o como IN
socio dc los iNglescS. en- un gran
proyecto de exploitation murdial. Los
~franceses Y los italianos Green que 81
intervenimos Ell sus negocios fut bus
cando nueStra propia v~entaja pecu-
maria; que 81 hemoS puesto nuestro
veto a sus aSpiraciones de se.uridad.
nos hemos abstenido de hacerlo en-
todos aQuellos casos en- que pudieran
comprometerse los intereses britain.
cos. \ el ano paSado hcmoS visto null
tip'icarse las cauS2s de Ia dcscon-
lara europea Y del d;SguSto h&cia
ei pals que en- noviembre II De 1918
era tenido como a!go venerable por
milloncS Y millones de ~europeos.
Hoy los griegos Sc preguntan. ma
~raviilados, por que la nacion ameri-
cana Sc opuSO 2 cue conServaran Ia
Tracia Helenjca. Y por cue Sc les ME
gan koritza Y i fronteraS en- Epi-
70, mientras que. sin v~acilar. Sc con-
ceden a los inGlescs, ~colonias cuyos
habitantes 0 son alemanes 0 son indi-
genaS. Los rumanos Sc pregurtan a
que obedece la firme hostilidad anne
rlcana para Ia ocupaci6n de Besara-
bla, que es rumana por el ,idioma '
(Pasa a la Pag. 81
La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1920-04-02

Decididsmente. es cosa diticil y
hasta peligrosa, la bu5ca del dinero
cuando ,u neeesidad es urgente, i'm
Periosa, iEaplazable.
A 10. individuos, la "arranquera'
les aqua del magin, les multiplied
las a~etividades, los hace mas habi-
les y mas audaces, les revela facul-
tades ~isnoradas; pero en- los gobier-
nos, la necesidad de dinero, imperiosa
c ~inaplazable, obra de dis.inta ma
ners: los cerebros administrativos Sc
ofuscan, las actividades hacendarias
van dando traspies, y caen de uno en-
otro error lamensable. E
Y como no queremos que Sc crea
que escr;5imos a tontas y a locas,
vamos a cisa- dos casos tipicos de
error gubernamental, en- este de la
busca afanosa del dinero.
Uno, ell case de Nuevo Leon.
Ell gobieruo de Don Jose Santos,
un general de la revolution llegado a
sobernador po. obra y gracia de una
buena fortuna verdaderamente loca
v de una combination politica inespe-
rada, Sc encontraba, y debe encon-
trarze todavia, urgido de dinero.
Esto no es privativo del gobicrno
de Nusvo Leon: pocos son los que en-
la RePubiica no sc encuentraH en el
mismo case, por la razon sencillis;ma
dc que en- todas parties las entradas
han disminuido en- la misma proper
cion en- que han aumentado las sa-
lidas, sobre TODD en- el concepto de
gastos de pscificscion y de extraor-
dinarios de los generates y de los Po-
hticos y de los g~obernantes, que Sc
han hecho ei cargo dc que la vida cs
corta y de que hay que ~vivirla 10
mejor possible.
Ell gobierno. o mejor. los hacen-
distas del gobierno de Nuevo Leon.
Sc p]usieron a pcnsar en- IN plan de
arbitrarios que, en- efecto, les permit
ticra arbitrarse en- brevisimo plazo
los nero que tan urgentemeUte
neecSitaba la administration publica,
y no encontraron mejor para
que ell plan resultara definitivo, GU
cl acrecer de una manera formidable,
La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1920-04-02

Finalmente, el candidate de la llamada "LIsa
Democratica' intempestivamente sale del 'pru-
dentc" mutismo en- que Su %caraCter 10 habla ence-
rrado. V declara terminantemente que Sls elemeh-
tos Sc incorporaran al obregonismo para oponerse
a la IMPOSITION. 81 no Sc llega q un acucrdo "a
cional.
No concedemos a este Gltimo hechO mas mpor-
taacia que In que tiene. Natural es que QUEEN sc
siente sin alientos Y tamahoS para %colnbatir, sc in
corpore haSta a los que eran sus antagonlstas para
dcfenderse del enemigo comun-Las declaraciones
de csc candidate pueden considerarse como cl pun
10 final de suS pretensioneS 10 cual robuStece los
SentimientoS opoSicioniStas pOrQue los unlflcara.
Luis Cabrera. que ha venido desempenando ei
papel de PitOmisa o agOrerO, V que eS, de todos mo-
dos 81 director intellectual del mismo Carranza. Y
por conSiguiente quicn dirije ia polltica Official eS-
tina iusTamente las declaracioneS del candidate dc
la "Liga', como indicio SECURE de que ha reSuelto
clininarSe de Ia contienda < de que. en- consecnen-
cia para 10 successive no habra mas candidates que
el inlcrendicnte Y el de impoSici6n.-
AlgunoS AFRICAN Ia esperanza de que otro Par
lido o grupo. funcionando como yalvula de escape
de In opinion publica, emitiera una candIdatura IN
dependiente. completanente independents del ca
rrancisma ' de la opoSici6n actual. que slrVlera
para dar nueva orientaci0n 4 Ia politica en- un sch
lido que obligara Acknowledgement al Poder Y al
Partido oDoSicionista a una franca evoluclon Y
transaction one Sa'lStaciera 4 uri"S ' Troy "'oS'
ESta esperanto casl Sc ma deS'ahe''"o' peru u
nay ueInPo ue oar t>'e P'So
Quedan pueS' por i" P'o"'' 'e"' " %
an,enazadores. al carranciSmo que pugna reSuelta
' descaradalhe"'e Por hHPoNel " '""'C r,
tSrlo Gel pals ' Ct F"!l"" v" ID I'S1
choqHe nos parece e'i'"o ""i" ~
SeamoS por los lnteFeSeN "''''""'S f1
pFcE!"teF2h en IL "u''a PaN"" H" "
estaIIara 81 no Sc evita leal ' patri"ticamente P"r
amaaS parties. SerElra P"r Il "r""> 'o"o - 80
n1eh'" "'IIH'"'" !. - .aroris;uos Ioc.
u'oS' cue aPFS""e['" " iu'I~, "'
ciohrS i reSPe!@' : ro' P'P""l. 49,. uo+,Llos
FL senior "ra.. i'"@. " P'>'I :. ., aaur;%os
II" =" - ,,arro artranioro. do II
q|: q ~ ~, 80, DEMONSTRATION. cav6 ruido-
N fa - o,orir 81 evtraniero dehifo = que
.5.a:.:s !, ;n,nosici6n do Corral.
~ H.. c,ar,, d;,oso II nun
D'SPue> u,i , al fro,,Ie electoral
= W." 90 ~. rns,,Itodos fraron mas
,"' 80 = nor. 81 naiS y fatidicos para clos.
oato,o7ar+os se,.i nosihIe one Bo-
r-Saa. .oon ma ,for+anadosa No 10
"ln"> .na : - g., y al caho. como decian los
80 n,n r nna, nnrns /, Iefra con sanrre cntra. cs
,,o,ostnr 80 ,rrnaut,. qup de una bucna ycZ pnr 20
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CPasa a la Pag. O.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-24
BLACKWELL PAYS
 DEATH PENALTY
Thousands Witness Hang ing of One of Slayers of
 Robert and Nancy Davis

Mobile, July 23. Special. )--Over three thousand persons, among whom were many women, witnessed the legal hanging of Robert Blackwell, a young man, at Crestview, Florida, for the murder Of Robert and Nancy Davis, at that place today. The killing of the couple occurred four years ago and was done by Robert and Viii Blackwell tenced to die on the gallows. Will wells, while in the Pensacola jail in 1918, escaped, but were recaptured ten days later in northern Alabama. Blackwell was led to the gallows af- ter eating a hearty breakfast this morning and kept his nerve until the trap was sprung. He talked thirty minutes to the crowd and confessed the crime for which he was convicted. The condemned man answered many questions from the crowd concerning the details of the killing.
 He requested that a collection be taken up for his funeral expenses. This was done and $s5O realized. The man advised boys and girls to keep away from crime. Mrs. Violet Moore of Pensacola, who met the prisoner in the Pensacola jail mounted the scaffold with Blackwell and remained singing and praying until the drop fell. Blackwell died in fourteen min utes. Mrs. Moore with the money col lected, took the body to Pensacola for burial.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-24
MILLER SERVED 13 l l DAYSAS GOVERNOR
Members of Pardon Board Begin Consideration of
 Caldwell Application
By FRED H. GORMLEY
 Montgomery Bureau The Age Herald 22I.2 First National Rank Building

Montgomery, July 23.- .-(SpeciaD.-Lieut. Gov. Nathan L. Miller's unlucky period as acting governor of Alabama ended Friday. Investigation developed the fact that Governor Miller had served thirteen days, that his leaving was on Friday, the twenty-third, and that he was be- seiged to take action in three cases in- volving death penalties during the thir- teen days.
 Governor Miller commuted one sen- tence, let another stand and passed the third to Governor kilby, as the date of the execution did not come due during his service. This is the case of Edgar Caldwell, negro army sergeant, under sentence to hang at Anniston next Fri day for the murder of Cecil Linton, a street car conductor Shortly after the governor reached his office he directed that CaldwelIs petition, with the com plete record, be submitted to the board of pardons for it's recommendation.
 Two members of the board began con- sideration of the record during the day The third member, J. Q. Smith, attorney general is not in the city, but probably will not feel that he is qualified to handle the case, as he prosecuted Cald- well when he appealed to the supreme court of the United States, and has fixed opinion as to the negro's guilt Many letters have reached the execu- tive department from Calhoun county, urging that no communication be granted while large number of persons re- siding in the north are requesting that the sentence be changed to life impris- onment.
 fs~
 til the board of pardons has made it's report
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-24

her growth Is Sf7a1 her property owners are not being continually branded as profiteers, as is the case in Birmingham. The Atlanta property owner is encour- aged to improve his property. The Bir- mingham property owner. instead of being stimulated by an appreciative public spirit. has to meet hostile and unjust criticism.
 Birmingham cannot grow unless there arc houses to take care of the new popu- ls tion. Atlanta is wideawake to the situ- ation and is meeting it.
 This difference in public spirit toward property owners will ultimately, in my opinion, have telling effect on the rela- tive population standing of the two cities.
 As long as Birmingham property own CTS are stigmatized as profiteers, when they get a to per cent return on their property, so long will they continue to feel that it is better to put their surplus money into securities which will yield them up to per cent without any criti- cism whatever.
 If we are to grow we must show more liberal spirit and quit going off half cooked" on matters of public welfare. Very respectfully,
 w. CARSON ADAMS.
 Birmingham, July 23 1920
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-24
GIVES THE
 MODES GOOD TIME
Many Alabama Boys Among Those Entertained at Private Homes
 This Week

Seattle. July 23.-(SpeciaD.-- In enter
 taining for the first time in the history of any port on the Pacific coast the
 midshipmen of the Annapolis Naval
 Academy, Seattle decided Upon 2. unique and distinctive programme, and when ,53S naval cadets came ashore July 21
 and "A they bore cards giving automo-
 bile number of some Seattle host or hostess who has agreed to entertain them while they are in port.
 The midshipmen, marching ahead of 4,50o jacks from the battleships Minne- so.a, Michigan, Kansas, New Hamp- shire, Connecticut and South Carolina and auxiliary supply ships composing the second squadron of the Atlantic fleet, went up Second avenue and then spy out the machines for which ihcy hold the number.
 An automobt:s r,de and inner i.l q private home ZIG introduction there to som, Seattle young ;ady. and grand bal at the ar1o'.;, sre ..;.rt of the fed- t;.es of enterta nmcnt.
 The midshipmen arrived in Seattle harbor July 20 from Honolulu and will spend six days here and at Bremcreon navy yard, sixteen miles away. Mid shipn.en from all states are being enter tanned by former residents of those states in many cases. The mitishirmen 1 to be thus entertained from Alabama | are:
 l J. T. Acuff, F. McK Adams, c. l.. C..
 Atkeson, Jr., w. w. Barr, J. R. Bell.
 Charles R. Brown, J. T.. Brown, Jr., c. | J. Cater, w. Craig; J. G. Crommelin, Jr.. J. c. Cronn, W. c. Cross. R. C.. Culli, F. M. Fletcher, J. s. Freeman, L.. Hambrick, F. M. Hughes, w. F. Hurt, 1 W. D. Johnson, Jr., w. l.. Lancaster, A. B. Levrett. M. N. Little, F. W. Long, T. L. McCann, A. H. McCollum, R. B. | M M IT i Mizell, H. E. Morgan, F. Nicholson, A.
 C. Olney, R IL. Pickens, M. M. S. Ste-
 phens. c. W. Stevenson, F. R. Walker l and O. M Walker
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-24
LETTERS TO EDITOR
Depression In Cotton Goods


 To the editor of The Age Herald: My attention has been called to an editorial in your issue of July 13. en- titled Producers Should Watch the Spinner Closely" The meat of your editorial is the statements that there is only pre- tended slump in the demand for cot ton goods and that 1t is engineered by the cotton manufacturers for the pur- | pose of lowering the price of cotton. You sit in your office and make seri- ous charge of this kind, whereas you can go to any cotton mill in Alabama and buy goods and yarns at from 10 l to 50 cents per pound less than the l same goods could have been purchased three months ago, and you could also find that practically every mill has ! an accumulation of goods that cannot be readily sold even at today's prices. | Standard sheetings have declined more than 20 cents per pound, and it I is certain that nobody expects de- cline of 20 cents per pound in the price | of cotton.
 | Fine combed yarns. made from the 1 long staple cotton of the Mississippi delta have. due to the competition with low price silk yarns since the crash in the silk market, dropped more than $1 per pound, or as much as the entire
 
 | There is real period of depression in the cotton manufacturing industry. but I do not believe that it will con- tinue. for the world is still short of cotton goods. In my opinion business I in cotton goods will radically im- prove early in the fall. but it is ab- solutely absurd for any sensible man to claim that there is no depression today.
 I In cyaftA Nf Is tselling at 42h cents on the streets of Charlotte. whereas last fall the ruling price was from 32 to S2 cents. If, as you state, the cotton manufac- turers have reduced operations to only 1 four days a week and have cut the 1 price of their yarns 20 cents or more per pound in order to reduce the price of cotton, they have failed in their object.
 l It is not improbable that cotton will sell from 30 to 35 cents. as it did last year, when the first rush comes. but lit will be the fault of the farmer and not of the cotton manufacturer. When cotton is high the mills make more profit, because goods are usually higher in proportion and the cotton mills of the south have been the great est of all forces in securing a good price for the cotton of the southern farmers. When there were half the number of spindles in the south and the market was controlled by foreign buyers. the price of cotton remained around and cents per pound. A comparison of the prices of cotton goods and yarns will convince you that la real depression exists and there is absolutely no evidence that the cotton manufacturers desire lower cotton . great paper such as The Age | Herald should investigate the facts and not seek to stir bad feeling be- through editorials based solely upon imagination. Yours very truly. DAVID CLARK, Editor Southern Textile Bulletin. Charlotte, N. C.. July Fl. 1920.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-24
JOINS THE MARINES
Ensley Boy EnrolIs for Complete
 Course In Automobiling

Washington, July Z.-tspecial)-Joseph L. SkeIding, whose parents live at 23S6 Sixteenth court, Ensley, is now a United States marine at Paris Island, S. C., and is taking advantage of the marine cc>:5s happy combination of practical education with military training, according to- ad- vices from their headquarters here.
 Young Skelding has enrolled for the L. c. S. course in complete automobiling with the Marine Corps Institute, unique school at Quantico, Va, which teaches marines a wide variety of subjects. either in the classroom. workshop or by mail.
 Skelding joined the marines in Birming- ham on February le, 1920. He is a grad uate of the Birmingham grammar school.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-24

From slips to potatoes in fifty eight days is the record made by w. H. Moody, a farmer who resides north Of here, with an early variety of sweet potatoes. MT. Moody dug basketful of medium sized potatoes out of his patch exactly fifty-eight days after the slips were transplanted according to his own testimony.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-24
ATLANTA BUILDING WHILE BIRMINGHAM
 IS FINDING FAULT
Carson Adams Tells Why Men Hesitate to Invest in New Buildings in
 Birmingham

To the Editor of The Age Herald:
 In your issue of Wednesday morning are two significant articles. One is on local news page and quotes a county official as saying that renters should organize and bind themselves with an oath not to pay any increased rent, but to stay on and fight the matter through the courts
 The other article is in the form of an editorial commenting on the fact that building operations in Atlanta for the first six months of this year aggregated over sS,000,o00, while those in Birmingham for the same period were only s2,0O0,0Co.
 Ire crux of the matter 1 have in mind is in the facts contained in the editorial; tho local article is merely sidelight.
 The reason Atlanta is providing more housing facilities and thereby assuring
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-24
MINISTER
 IS TO PREACH HERE

Dr. William States Jacobs of Houston, Tex, will arrive in the city today to take charge of the pastoral duties con- nected with the Independent Presbyte- rian Church during the vacation of pr. Henry M. Edmonds.
 Dr. Jacobs comes to Birmingham her aided one of the ablest preachers in the United States. Birmingham, already fortunate in having some of the biggest men in the country occupying local pull ability.
 Dr. Jacobs will preach at Temple Emanu-El Sunday morning on the sub ject, "The Five Great Themes of Re- ligion.'' Sunday night at the Lyric the atre he will speak on "The Five Prob lems of Society That Only Christianity Can Solve" The public is invited to hear him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-24
MERIDIAN DOCTOR
 SHOT BY NEGRO
By Associated Press

Meridian, Miss. July 23-Feeling is the shooting and seriously wounding last night of Dr. B. l.. Robinson, prominent physician of this city. by Jesse Edwards, a negro, at local ice plant. The bullet passed through the face and lodged in the back of the physicians neck.
 The shooting is said to have occurred as result of an argument over a piece of ice at the factory. Edwards escaped and is still at large.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-24
Board Considers Sale
 Six Concrete Tankers
By Associated Press

Washington, July 23.-Sale of six con crete tankers now hearing completion was considered today by the shipping board. The tankers have been char tered with option of purchase, but if the options are not exercises, 1t was said, the board planned to call for sealed bids.
 Four of the vessels are on the Pacific coa st and two at Jacksonville, Fla. They are 42O feet in length and have dead weight tonnage of ' 7500.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-24

BIRMINGHAM IS THE , IRON CENTER OF THE SOUTH - ALSO HAS THE BEST DRY CLEAN ! ING PLANT IN THE s O U T H = N A M E D FOR THE CITY. THE PHONE IS MAIN 5199.
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