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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-04
GADSDEN

Gadsden, April 3-(Special. .)-Trafffe on the Tennessee, Alabama and Geor- gia railroad from Gadsden to Chaua. nooga has been completely paralyzed as a result of the floods. All train service has been annulled. Bridges and trestles are entertainments washed away It may
 be several days before service can be resumed.
 There was no change in the situation at the Gadsden Car Works today, where 800 union men walked out yesterday after the discharge of one of their mum Der. Superintendent Bradley of the car works today stated that the men could get their jobs back if they will return to work. The men are awaiting the arrival of headquarters representative to settle this and other questions be- tween the union and the company.
 The Coosa river stood at 25.2 feet early this morning and was still rising. A a thirty-foot stage there aid said the Coosa is still rising. This will mean further rise here.
 Residents in Jacksonville. negro sec tion of the city are complaining to the police of the visitation of some animal, which many of them belitve, from its tracks, to be wolf. Many hogs and chickens have been killed by this un- welcome visitor. White people corro- borate the. story told by the negroes.
 The condition of Miss x.ucy Hoffman, daughter of c. E. Hoffman, prominent jeweler, who was thrown from buggy and severely injured about the head. is to be improved, although it is thought she was still in an uncon- seious condition this afternoon
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-04
BUDDY" BECOMES
 STEPFATHER BY DOUBLE WEDDING
By Assooia,sd Pres.

Baltimore. April 3-The relationship of two soldiers at Fort McHenry was strangely changed from that of ''buddies' to one becoming the step-father-in-la to the other by double wedding, in which they married widow and her daughter. The double wedding occurred when Harrison O. Lamb was married to Mrs. Ida c. Phoebus and George A. Reams married her daughter, Miss Mary NJ Phoebus.
 The soldiers were boyhood friends in St Joseph, Mo. and met by chance al Fort McHenry. They met the widow and her daughter at a dance St. Valentines s day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-04
ALABAMA ID HAVE PLACE IN THE SUN
T. P. A. Workers Meet to Plan States Pageant at
 Portland

The Travellers Protective Association movement to give Alabama splace in the sun" by widespread advertising of the states resources will be aided by the civic clubs of Birmingham, it was made known at well attended meeting of Post R. held Saturday afternoon in the Chamber of Commerce auditorium.
 The Rotary club and the Civic Asso- citation, through Dr. Percy Woodall and Charles L. Harold respectively. prom ised their cooperation, and similar as surances were received from Dr. Court hey w, Shropshire, president of the Civ itan Club, and Thornton Estos, of the Community Club, and the Automobile Club
 Howard Peak of Fort Worth. Texas, formerly national president of the Tray elers Protective Association, and l.. C. Cardinal of Montgomery, chairman of the board of directors of the Alabama division, were visitors, and spoke en- thusiastically of the campaign plans
 John Sparrow of the Sparrow Adver- Using Agency. discussed the possibilf- tes of national advertising campaign in various publications. T. P. Hay, Jr, chairman of the agricultural committee or the Chamber of Commerce, told how some much needed missionary work might be done by the special train that will carry Alabama boosters to the na- tional T. P. A. convention at Portland, in June.
 George Plaisance discussed plans for Alabama's float which will lead the r. F. A. parade at the convention. He said It was proposed to have a squadron Of automobiles instead of the usual float. each machine being fitted out symbolic or some Alabama product as coal. lu,n Der, corn, etc
 COOPERATION
 Col. F. l.. Higdon reported on behalf Of the committee that was instructed to ask the cooperation of political candi dates in the T. P. A. movement. He said all candidates would be asked to boost the travellers plans in their speeches, both before and after election in order that this medium of publicitv may be used to advance the states in terests
 It was announced that the personnel of the reception committee to be appointed Tor the state conference called here on Aprll Is would be announced shortly.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-04
.DR. THOMAS IS ID DELIVER LECTURE University Professor Is on Programme of WOodIawn
 Lyceum

Next Tuesday evening at 7:sO o'clock at the W'oodlawn City Hall Dr. J. S. Thomas of the University of Alabama will deliver an address on ''The Educa- ton of the State of Alabama"
 rms lecture is the third in the iyceum course that is proving so at- tractive and popular, given under the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-04
Join the Satisfied Throng-Be a Home Owner

in letter to W. c. McAuister. secre- tary of the state election board.
 An old election law providing that no party may be placed in the state ticket unless it boiled at least 5 per cent of votes cast in the state at the previous general election, or 10 per cent of votes for governor or Presi- dent at previous general elections in other states was cited by the assistant attorney general.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-04
GET TT

In a great book we are admon- lshed to lay line upon line and precept upon precept.
 We have one line of three
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-04
Bar Labor Candidates
 From Oklahoma Ballot

ol1lahoma City. April s.-An opinion that the new national labor party can rot have Its candidates on ballots in Oklahoma was rendered today by As- sistant Attorney General R. E. Wood
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-04
Jemison's Realty Review

With the passing of Easter and the usual settling of the weather, the inquiry for vacant residential property, which was very strong last week, should be in full tide.
 People are looking at lots and in the mood to buy. The fact that residential property with improve ments made-sidcwalks, sewers, etc.--is becoming scarce is appre- ciated, no less than the fact that the property is usually offered on the basis of cost of improvements made before the war. It is esti- mated that in some localities the improvements alone, if made to- day, would exceed the prices at which the improved lots are off, fered. These prices will not re- main on that level, however. The housing demand will naturally make for higher prices of lots. If ever there was time to buy prop erty of this class in Birmingham or of any other class, for that mat ter-it is now.
 Home owners are showing dis position to acquire vacant proper ty next to their residences. The psychology of it seems to be this: A man who built $5,00O resi- dence on a $2,000 lot five or six years ago estimates that his house has increased in value to $10,000, and he can afford to invest an- other $2,000 in ground which will give him more room and privacy.
 Bargain hunters are indus triously looking around for pick ups in business and near-bus- mess property. Merchants and other business men are equally ac- tive in their search for well locat- ed property which they can pur- chase for permanent occupation.
 And Birmingham continues to grow and prosper
 JEMISON Real Estate and Insurance Company
 211 North goth Street
 Phone M. 528O
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auspices of the West woodlawn Ep- worth League.
 A large crowd is expected to greet Dr. Thomas, who is a speaker of wide repute. Tickets will be on sale at the door of the hall and the public Is in- vtted
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-04

three words which we have been repeating and pro- pose to repeat until the people of this city are awake to it's meaning It
 GET THE LOT'
 In doing this we are not concerned in the sale of our residential property so much as we are in aelplng to create that home-owning spirit which IS to make our city truly great
 We are stressing only one point today, and that IS the sound common sense of GETTING THE LOT NOW. Real estate is one of the very few things today which the dollar can buy for one hundred cents of it's face value. GET THE LOT. Your Judgment, your con- science and your wife will concur in approving your action
 Birmingham Realty Go.
 21l8 First Avenue
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-04

There will also be committees on enter tainment. hotels and railroads and cleo tion of workers for these committees win be in charge of Frank Means, Lucien C. Brown and Eugene Ware
 Another meeting of Post B will be held next saturday and important details of the state conference will be thresbed cut
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-07
AMERICAS PENSIONERS.
Seventy. one Widows of the Soldiers
of 1912 Still Survive.

From the annual report OF the Secretary
of the Interior.
There We're on the pension roll at the
end of the fiscal year 592.190 names. a
net loss of 32.237 from the total of 624,-
427 on the roll at the beginning OF the
year.
The number of civil war soldiers on
the roll June 80. 1919. was 271,391, and
on June 80, 1920, 243.52o. showing de-
crease of 27,s71. The number of deaths
of civil war soldiers In 1920 was 1851.
as against 27,703 in 1919.
The number of civil war widows on
the roll June 30, 1919. was 293,244, and
on June 80, 1920. 100000. showing de-
crease OF 3,144.
The deaths of widows, minor children
and dependents In 1920 numbered H.
752, as against 2o.0s9 in 1919.
The highest number of civil war SOL
diers on the roll was in 1898. when
there were 745,s22. The highest number
of civil war widows on the roll was In
1912. when there were 304,373.
OF the war Of 1912 there were surviv-
ing on June 80. 1920. II widows.
OF the war with Mexico there were
on the roll June 80. 1920. 14S survivors
and 2,423 widows.
OF the war with Spain the total num-
Der of original claims allowed by the
bureau IL 4i427. The number on the
roll June 80. 1920, by reason Of the war
with Spain is 3o.432.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-07
OLD BLAST FURNACES.
An Orange County Relic Which Is
Well Worth Visit.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: In regard
TO your account of the last OF the OLD
blast furnaces in Tennessee 1t may in
terest some of your readers to know
that In New York ard New Jersey, ala
most within our metropolitan district,
thsre still remain some of these old
time relics.
One of the best preserved is at Queens
boro, Orange county, only forty-five
miles up the Hudson. and two miles back
from the inn at Bear Mountain. AS a
tablet on the structure indicates, II was
b tilt before the Revolution and was
standing when "in October. 1877, Brit
ish detachment of 900 men. on their
way from Stony Point to attack Fort
Montgomery, forded Popolopen Creek at
this furnace"
This old structure of cyclopean ma
sonry was so well put together that 1t
could be used to-day.
About two miles west of the furnace
Is the iron mine OF the Fort Montgom-
cry Iron Company. which supplied the
ore used, and which has been worked
for nearly $50 years and is still work.
ing Both mine and furnace will repay
visit. WILLIAM II. CoUoHLIN.
BROOKLYN, December 6.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-07
THE HINDENBURG LINE.
1t Was Long Enough TO Let Many
Yankees Have a Whack mt 1t.

To THE New YORK HERALD: How
either the Twenty or the Thirtieth
Division can claim sole credit for the
breaking OF the Hindenburg line. when
in reality they went through only q
small part of II is something have long
been trying to understand.
The Hindenburg line was not merely
the small strip OF German defences To-
Gated In northern France, but 1t was the
name applied by the Germans IL ,neir
main line of defence that extended from
the North Sea to Switzerland.
Every American division that took
part in the first two phases OF the
Meuse-Argonne offensive and several OF
those that took part In the reduction of
the st. Mihiel salient broke the linden
burg line" German maps of the Verdun
sector bore the names of the linden
burg, notwithstanding and Volker-
Stellung lines.
American divisions broke tnrough
these positions on September &c and p
as they did at St. Mihiel two weeks be-
fore. The Twenty-seventh and Thirtieth
divisions got through the line on Sep
TENDER 80.
The Southern Congressman may have
to buck the arguments Of several other
divisions besides the Twenty-seventh II
he ever gets things fairly started.
JULIAN II. SALoMoN.
ice-Commander, Lorraine Cross Post.
BROOKLYN. December 9.
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Francis Lynde St,tJOn.

While FRANCIS LYNDE SrETsoN.
who died on Sunday, was one of the
ablest corporation lawyers this coun-
try has ever known, it would be un-
Just to the memory of this distin-
grlished and useful citizen If at his
passing his fame were assumed to rest
entirely or even in major part upon
his professional accomplishments and
engagements. Mr.. STETsoN was too
great intellectually, too courageous in
his citizenship, too useful In his
Americanism to be classified merely
as q member of the bar of unusual
scholarship, address, and erudition.
Mr. STETsoN occupied place in
New York and the nation which only
a man of vision, courage and imagi-
nation could have won and held. The
letter Of the law did not circumscribe
his interest in the problems he was
called upon to solve. The imneuIate
question was always presented to his
mind against an enlEhtening back
ground of phllosophlc understanding.
Effects interested him as deeply as
processes he was not one of those to
whom an apparent advantage quickly
achieved obscures remoter and sec
ondary consequences. His trained
curiosity and Unsuitable desire for
knowledge prevented him from the
easy acceptance of cut and dried opin.
ions and led him to fruitful excur-
sions in original Investigations.
There are men who should not
count the cost of any adventure, be-
cause II they do their courage will
fail them and they will never move
in any direction. 1t takes courage to
start on course which involves the
possibility of ruin, no matter how
worthy and how desirable the pur-
pose to be attained may be. Mr..
STETsoN had this courage. He was
one Of those whom knowledge did in
deed set free. And this knowledge
and freedom were made manifest In
his fearlessness in all the controver-
sizes in which his talents were em-
ployed. Nobody got from FRANCIS
LYNDE STETsoN advice that was not
based on information, conviction and
reason.
Mr. SFETsoN was one OF the most
valued, as he was one of the most in
telllgent, correspondents Of this news
paper His keen interest in all that
went to the upbuilding and strength
ening of American institutions i'm
PEELED him to participate in the dis
cusslon of many important public
matters In our columns. Whether he
wrote over his own signature or over
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-07
Astounding Demands of the Gov
eminent Spenders.

The armlstiee was signed about two
years and a month ago, but the Gov
ernment spenders of the American
peoples money act as IL it Is all news
to them.
The department heads Of the ma
tional Government. who are still liv-
ing in the smoke and tumult of the
war which is long past and still
thinking in terms of billions, ask from
Congress to cover army spendings In
the new fiscal year S270,000,000 more
than was appropriated for the present
fiscal year. 70 cover navy spendings.
exclusive of the building programme,
they ask $175,000,000 more than was
appropriated for this year. For the
building programme they ask $S6,00O.-
600 more than was appropriated for
this year.
On July l, 1921, when the new fis-
cal year begins. we shall have had
peace for the better part Of three
years, but the department plungers.
who act as If they didn't know the
war was over, want for all items of
military expenditure a round billion
and q half Of dollars. This is $685.
100000 more than the $S25, 100000 APP
propriated for the present fiscal year.
The Shipping Board wants $147,-
100000 more. This, that and the
other department want more. Alto
gether, with what they probably will
want for deficiency and other pay
ments overdue but not met, the Gov
eminent spenders will ask about a
billion dollars more than the appro-
priations for the present fiscal year.
What Congress needs to do with
these military estimates, what Con-
gress needs to do with other estima ties
by department heads OF the national
Government who don't yet know the
war is over, Is not to go at them with
a knife or an axe but to run them
through a sawmill.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-07
c0LUMBUSS VOYAGES.
Arguments 10 Show That He Discoy
cred America Before 1902.

To THE New YORK HERALD: Your In
teresting article OF November rs or
Professor Steensbs's location Of Kari
sefni's route from Greenland TO the ST
Lawrence River. about A. d. 900. indl-
Gates that the professors evidences be-
gan with the two inscribed tombstones
on the island of Kingiktorsoak. in Baf-
fins Bay. discovered 1924. full de-
scription OF which. with latitude and
longitude. appears In my Ancient Bit
ain" page rs. Thence Karisefni's route
must have been southwest through the
Eskimo country to the ST. Lawrence.
AS the Eskimos do not appear to have
occupied the Atlantic seacoast until a
later period these people seem to have
been pushing from west to east. while
the Mortimer were exploring westward (;
a circumstance which suggests that
Professor Steensby's evidences would
consist In part Of exchanges of commod-
tiles or language between the explorers
and the natives. Evidences of both Of
these kinds have been detected and pub
lished by Stefansson and others.
When Columbus visited Iceland in
1877 the evidences recently discovered
by Steensby must have, been known. and
much more recently and freshly known
In Iceland and 1t is inconceivab'e thar
being then within two or three days
sail of the Eskimos, now settled on the
coast. this prince OF navigators failed to
visit them during the two years which
he Is believed to have spent on the
North American coast.
He certainly visited Nova Scotia, for
he mentions its extraordinary and Pc
culiar tides Of twenty-six arms lengths
translated 'fathoms' Beazly
("Prince Henry" page i6) evoked
suggestion that in following the Vikings
Columbus may have explored Long
Island Sound. from Leif's Booths to
Manato (New York; in the hope OF
rnding western strait to the zipangu
and Cathay of Marco Polo.
ALEXANDER DEL MAR,
Ex-Director Commerce. Navigation
and Statistics. United states
Treasury.
NEW YORK. December 8.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-07
EVENTS TO-DAY.

Grover A. whalen, Commissioner of Plant
and Structures. will speak at meeting OF
sembly room of the Merchants Association,
Wooworth Building. 8 7. M.
New York Chapter. Military Order of the
World War. meeting. Hotel Aston, r. NJ.
Senator George w. Cartwright will speak
on 1.-THE Worlds Greatest Blunder' at the
dinner Of the Rotary Club in the Hotel Me
Dr. Henry De Man will speak on "Tbe
Future OF Industrial Europe" at Cooper
The Association of Life Insurance Counsel,
annual meeting, Bar Association Building
~ West Forty fourth street. 2 p. M.
DR.. Gilbert Reid will speak at the public
forum In Broadway Tabernacle, Broadway
and Fifty street. s:15 p. M. -
goth Infantry POST American American Lssiopp
West Twenty-fifth street. +. M.
Laurette Taylor win participate in the
Jean Baptiste in the parish hall, Lexington
avenue and Seventy -sixth street, this evening
American Society OF Mechanical EnSineeSrs.
beginning 10 A. NJ
There viii be O public conference on the
nacle. Broadway and Fifty-sixth street. this
afternoon and evening.
schonI 10 Fifty-seventh street, between See
ond and Third avenues, : p. NJ
Prof Leon Duguit Will lecture on The
Political and Social IhTtitutions of Franco
Since 1889" at Columbia University, 5;io
L. NJ. ~, .
The mems work committee of the Presby-
terial General Assembly will hold meeting
and rally In the Hotel Pennsylvania' begin
ming with luncheon at 1890 Y. M.
Mrs. Douglas Robnson viii speak on
Theodore Roosevelt. Citizen" before the
women's League of -. Flatbush Congrega-
tional Church, Dorchester Road and East
Eighteenth street, 80 L. NJ.
The American Society OF Refrigerating lsh.
eineers, meetings, Hotel Astor, forenoon and
afternoon: dinner, I r. M.
There will be n dinner In honor Of Con-
gressman-elect Meyer London at Beethoven
Hall, 10 Fifth street. this evening.
Dian Gopal Mukerji will speak on Tire
Ideal OF Freedom" before the League Tor
Political Education at the Park Theatre
New York Academy of Medicine. section ,of
cermatology, meeting, II West Forty third
street, S;1h +. NJ. 49,
The Knickerbocker Civic League VIII give
n congratulatory dinner to state SENATOR
elect Nathan Straus. Jr., Hotel Majestic
l.. NJ. - ,,s,.
tuners, meeting. Hotel Aston, 10 a. M ano
Grand S street Boys, meeting. Hotel Penn
sylvania. =. NJ.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-07
PERFECT I'M ONE TONGUE.
A Linguist Makes Errors I'm Fifteen
Languages, but Not In Esperanto.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: my
self can understand sixteen languages.
OF which | can speak we'll only eight.
but even In these ! am quick at making
mistakes not even excluding my mother
tongue. Only one language l speak In
common with your correspondent POLY
glot." In which l cannot make a mis-
take. whether In speaking or writing.
l hope Mr.. Polyglot will agree with
me that both OF US can never make
mistake In the universal language called
Esperanto. The simple reason for this
lies in the ingenuity of the author Of
Esperanto. DR.. l.. L. Zamenhof. who
based the entire grammar on sixteen
rules. allowing no exceptions, therefore
no Irregularities 1t Is just the irregu-
lar verb In the different languages which
makes IL so difficult 10 learn foreign
language.
Knowing for thirty years Italian and
German. for twenty-five French and for
twelve English did not help me to be-
come perfect In these national languages.
and l give up all hope TO be ever per-
feet in them. Born as Southern SlaV.
it was easy for me to acquire an under
standing In the ten Slavonic languages
in existence.
Esperanto Is the best aid to the study
of foreign languages. and therefore every
American should try to learn first Es-
peranto. and then by the help ~ Esper-
Artists belonging to the language which
he desires to acquire he can learn much
quicker the desired foreign language.
because Esperanto is the centre OF all
languages and the sixteen rules are the
embodiment OF each grammar In any
Language. d. MARKANovIcH KLAJIN.
New YORK, December 8.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-07
Moving Plymouth Rock.

Plymouth Rock is to be moved
again, for the fourth time in its
history. The contract has been let
for taking II back to It's original posi-
ton on the great granite base on the
shore level, which is seven feet below
the present site.
1t was in 1774 that the Rock was
first moved from its original site on
that occasion twenty yoke team of
oxen was hitched to the stone and It
was hauled up to the Town Square OF
Plymouth TO serve as base fer a
flag pole. In 1923 occurred the second
moving day, this time the stone being
taken to Pilgrim Hall, where 1t re-
manned until about forty years ago,