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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-04-21
WASHINGTON COUNTY
OFFICIALS PUSHING
GOOD R0ADSP PROJECT

Meridian, Miss. April 20 Especially
Word has been received in Meridian
from c. w. Thomas, president of the
Meridian Mobile division Of the Mssis-
sippi Valley Highway association.
whose home is in Chronicle. Ala, that
the Washington county, Alabama, board
had passed resolution, making the
Mississippi Valley highway its second
good road project. considered step
necessary to secure state and federal
aid for highway construction.
Mr.. Thomas adds that the slogan Of
the association is now ION to Mont
gomery," for recognition and help from
the state highway commission. Wash
ington county has furnished one OF
the most difficult problems for the
Mobile Meridian extension Of the Mis-
sissippi Valley Highway projects
1t would appear from Mr.. Thomas LETT
ter that the problem is in a way to be
permanently solved and that the high
way will be built in a substantial way
through Washington county which lies
between Mobile county and the Mis-
sissippi line.
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tended that America must be in position
on land and water to carry the war
through to victory, even If the allies
were forced to abandon it.
STAY THROUGH TILL VICTORY
This extreme possibility, he envisaged,
and when we entered the war he had re-
solved In his soul that whatever might
oefall Great Britain, France, Italy or
Japan, the United States would stick I'M
til autocracy was beaten. 1t was this
resolute purpose which made his leader
ship so inspiring to those of us who
served with him through days which
were always anxious and not infrequent =
ly discouraging.
In matters affecting the navy, he was
as wise and as forceful as in military
matters.
he saw at once the vital Importance of
making egress for the U-boat difficult, ii
not impossible. If it was not practicable
to go into the rat holes and kill all the
rats, the same end might be attained by
stopping the holes up, or failing even
that, by setting traps so thickly around
the holes that rats attempting to get
by would run serious peril of being
caught.
WILSON'S GENIUS IN WAR
Newton Baker could tell many an Incl
dent to illustrate the almost inspired
genius of Woodrow Wilson in dealing
with army problems. / have no doubt he
will some day. Naturally, am more
familiar with his gift of strategy as dis
played in the solving of naval problems
Before l relate some incidents from my
own experience which throw light upon
this phase of the former President 8
many sided character, I want to outline
more fully the general situation and cir
cumstances which form the basis for the
assertions 1 have made concerning his
military leadership in the opening para
graphs of this article.
Almost Immediately following our dec
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THIRD PLANT PROBABLE.
SYLACAUGA POWER PLANT
MAY REMOVE TO ROCKFORD

Rockford, April 20 Especial - Rockford
Is now supplied with electric current from
two power plants. being operated by
Charlie w. McEwen and w. J. Prator
The power plant operated by McEwen
has just been recently put into opera
ton while the plant Of Prator has been
supplying current for over three months,
mostly to the business section
There are some prospects Of Rockford
securing the Sylacauga power plant at
satchet creek, three miles north OF
Rockford, and then supplying the bust
ness and the resident sections from one
plant Up to the present no definite steps
have been taken toward securing the Syi-
acauga plant. Sylacauga has for some
time been attempting to dispose Of the
plant inasmuch as they desire to secure
electric lights from the Alabama Power
~ornnany.
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ARTICLE z.

z.
President Wilson left my office and left
White House conference during the years. without the
Election shaping itself in my mind that the world had lost
great military leader when gained great educator and
executive
1t President Wilson, who, before entered the war
that the only hope of the allies lay achieving unity
command. -
1t President Wilson who advocated this policy when we
gained the right the military councils of those who
fighting the central empires.
It President Wilson who resisted the strong urging of
of his American advisers and of the British and French
military authorities to permit American soldiers to be used
merely replacement troops for the allied armies
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To The People of Alabama:
Huntsville, Ala, April Is, 1921.


ing his nails pulling governor length upon
the fact that the of 1920 approximately IS cent of the
think the paid
speak Of knowledge the raise Madison which
was raised under this municen law and million dollars max
ing tne assessment OF this particular county nearly twen and nan
The governor when by Madison county delegation
that Madison assessed the Of 40 cent We knew better
wenoyn fact not only the but else that
accent cotton When the Madison and Taladega county deega
oo wd on the % for relief a s @ e @
was bringing than Of
@sfns sG as G sy
his u and sgsb % Ieisf q ss
1d yS6 x n sPsss 5sss 80
not not afford the % costs and and rec be
has no bearing his Section a% S The pay
pa s sda bd % %ss
~ear ee s aa and Ss no ee eos @ s
5 "a @ m Sa s @ the
the heads wins tails taxpayer
0 R e 40
WITH this esg rs mors
to % All And be sn M r ] o % @
the situation had been the that
all ordered Montgomery given orders raises should
hs s @
ing G5 make f6e pe
sbed raise you'll lose job and another besides yourself will faen
the Taldega delegation mentioned this
an w s 4e TO he v m an pu s a go back
will presume leo @
exceencys when that have heard the heard
mighty good that would
profan denial The charges all who do with
dodgers Mud slngng) there Alabama except
ency who would charge the Honorable B. Ellis of Selma Mr.
Whitfield Of Montgomery DR. L. uddleston Emore Hon. G. Far
of Dothan Mr. A. Vandeg of the Sixth district Mr. Bales
W. Lester Jackson Judge VIM Skegg Decatur Mr. c.
Pennington of the Sixth district Hon. T. McEdey Taadega,
Judge James Baenne Of Huntsville with being dodgers and will
county as to whether the writer is tax dodge
In his reckless spleen upon high office prostitutes
him.
tempt of his fellow citizens will fail The when appealed
the the small him from the sherfs sale lodged
stand for When smoked that
shelter himself behind the
little their amounted
ec himself behind the school children Of the state when he knew that
would than meet the soldier the salaries of the school
teachers.
He before the public the caoer
Others did when
World Business needed Alabama off the upon
which Charles Henderson had the ship Of
abuse won't work tey and ay won't You have hit the people
where they live Twisting and lodging calling people plain amn liars and
their lands
inflated taxes with debated cotton They justice
going to get it.
Shades Of George Houston Johnston upon
Executive of Alabama
"How did it happen?"
23d April assembled
Mon condemning the law with its myriad Of hghaed
as demand the recovering of the legislature that such
lief commensurate with the value of land
with which financial obligations Select dele
for the state meeting the city Of Montgomery
This your fight and supe yield to the tyranny the existing
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Daniels Tells of Wilson As
Great Strategist in Naval War

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1t was President Wilson who in
sisted that the American forces must
be organized as American army units
under American command, and who
sustained General Pershing at the
earliest possible moment.
1t was President Wilson who con-
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By JOSEPHUS DANIELS

Copyright F.
including Unauthorized
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COULD NOT REST
DAY OR NIGHT
Pimples and Blisters on Neck and
Ear. ltched. Cuticura Heals.

My trouble started on the side OF
my neck and In my ear. Il broke
New-York tribune., 1921-02-28
Rockefellers Give Half
Million 10 China Fund
Donation Will Be Cabled, So
That Death Rate in Famine
Area Be Checked

Rockefeller gifts, totaling $500 ,O00,
were received yesterday for the relief
of starving millions in China. The
American Committee for China Famine
Fund announced that John D. Rookie
feller jr. had subscribed $250,00O and
the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Fund
similar amount. The half-million
gift will be cabled at once to the
American committee in Peking for i'm
mediate purchase of supplies for dis
there is heavy death rate.
The total fund for Chinese famine
relief, as reported by the American
committee and nine Protestant denomi-
nations, is now $2,710,758 This does
not include $500,000 contributed early
in the campaign by the American Red
Cross, nor does it include individual
contributions sent directly to China
by the donors.
Chinese "life-saving stamps" and
cards are being sold successfully in the
United States, and the idea of having
housewives give up the proceeds Of
one course of each meal, or one entire
meal week, is being taken up in every
state. Such funds are being Forwarded
to Vernon Munroe, treasurer of the
American committee, Bible House, New
York City. The play, emu Ian" bv
Chinese students from Columbia Uni
versity, which netted d considerable
sum at benefit performances in New
York, probably will be repeated in
Washington and Baltimore
New-York tribune., 1921-02-28
Clergyman Urges Unity
of Church and State
The Rev. S. C. Weeks in Times
Square Address Says Uni
tarians Can Solve Problems

The Rev. Frank S. c. Wicks, of In
dianapols, spoke at the Selwyn
Theater last night on "The Underlying
Unity of Church and State,' inaugurat-
ing series of five Sunday evening
meetings to be held in the Times
Square theatrical district under the
auspices of the Unitarian Laymen's
League.
Mr.. Wicks said Church and State
were one and inseparable. One reason
why the Christian Church had done so
little toward the correction of evils,
he said, was that it never had func-
toned as part of the body polite.
The Unitarian Church. in the speakers
opinion, is in q position to solve the
problem of united Church and State.
Under such a union, he said, no de-
nomination need pass out Of existence.
There would be q diversity in the form
or worship, the speaker said, but all
would be built on the common founda-
tion of American democracy. Before
the war, he declared, religion in busi-
ness was looked upon as IAN inter
loper interfering with the laws of COM
petition. A Toledo Jones in business
and John Hay in politics, talking
about the Golden Rule in business and
diplomacy, were regarded as having
very novel views Under the union
which the speaker foresaw. business,
religion and patriotism will be one.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-28
Mime. Curie Thanks u. S.
W omen for Radium Offer
Discoverer Says 100000 Gift
Would Be of Great Aid i'm
Continuing Exnerirnenfs

Mrs William Brown Meloney, of 33
West Twelfth Street, chairman of a
committee of American women who are
raising a fund to buy a single grain
of radium, which will cost $4,000, for
Nine. Curie that she may resume ex-
perimentation with the precious sub
stance, yesterday made public letter
which she received from the dfscoverer
of radium.
In her letter Nine. Curie says:
Permit me to thank you very sim
cerely for all the trouble taken with
the object of securing for me a gift
which would permit me to increase my
work. l can assure you that this gift,
if it be realizabte.. will be of great
help to me in my labors.
"The French press has announced
that projects are being formed by the
city of Paris for the acquisition of
radium, but as have already informed
you, these projects only related to the
radium which is necessary for the
treatment of the sick in the hospitals.
1t in no way concerns radium to be
used for scientific research and, there
fore it is not probable that this prof.
ect will be soon realized"
The committee of American women
who have charge of raising funds for
this gift have headquarters at 3 Mac
dougal Street.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-28
Miss Morris Engaged To
Dudley Holbrook Mills
Bride-elecf Is Junior at Vassar
and Made Debut Last Winter;
of Distinguished Family

Mr., and Mrs. Dave II. Morris an
nounce the engagement Of their
daughter, Miss Louise Morris, to Dud-
ley Holbrook Mills Miss Morris is a
member of the junior class at Vassar.
and made her debut last winter In the
same season in which her cousins Miss
Louise Schieffelin, Miss Emily Ham
mond and Miss Muriel Vanderbilt were
introduced to society. She is a great
granddaughter of Justice Hennen, of
Louisiana, and of William II. Wander
bilt, of New York. She is a descendant
of Governor Bradford of Massa-
chusetts, who also is an ancestor of
her fanc6.
Dudley Holbrook Mills is son Of
John T, Mills, now retired from busi-
ness, but formerly actively Interested in
the Chase National Bank and asso-
ciated with General Samuel Thomas
in the International Silver Company.
Mr.. Mills is a graduate of Princeton,
class IS, and received masters de-
gree in 1917 from Harvard. During the
war he served SIS a first lieutenant in
the air service. He is now assistant
secretary of the Discount Corporation
of New York
New-York tribune., 1921-02-28
W omen Physicians
VIII Sue TO Dust
Men From Hospital
Dismissal of Old Board of
Trustees by State Regents
Will Bring Legal Fight TO
Control $500, 900 Plant

Jubllant over their first victory in q
long battle to regain control of the
New York Medical College and Hospi-
tai for Women, women physicians are
preparing to turn legal guns on their
colleagues Of the opposite sex, who,
they allege, ousted them from the man
agement of the institution.
Following the announcement Satur-
day Of the alumni association of the
college that the State Board of Regents
had dismissed the old board of trus-
tees, representing the male phys clans,
DR.. A. S, Boyce, chairman Of the asso-
citation said yesterday litigation short
ly will be begun by the women to have
restored to them the property and
equipment at 10 West 10lst Street,
SAID to be worth approximately $5O0,0O0
The action OF the Regents. accord
ing to Dr.. Boyce, places the women in
legal position tn sue for damages,
and the skirmish is scheduled to begin
with the appointment of the new
trustees.
The charter of the New York Medi-
cal College and Hospital for Women is
stul in existence" said DR.. 'Boyce,
and we propose to bring the institu-
tion back to it's old home under the
active management Of women, for
which it originally was intended"
According to those interested in the
movement to restore the college and
hospital to its former status, the
squabble between the women physi-
clans and the board of trustees had it's
beginning in 1917 with the dismissal
of the medical board and dispensary
staff of women. The alumni associa-
tion offered to assume the financial
obligations of the Institution if the
trustees were dismissed and others ap-
pointed. In 1919, it is said, the col
lege and hospital were put up for sale
because interest had not been paid on
second mortgage per cent bonds to
the amount of $4,000.
The board OF trustees outbjd the
alumni association, took over the prop
critics and incorporated under the name
of Community Hospital, In order to
carry on their fight to regain control
the alumni association succeeded last
year IN having the Legislature pass a
bill providing for the rom val by the
Regents of any board OF trustees
New-York tribune., 1921-02-28
Miss Ridgway to Become
Countess de Breteuil
Betrothal of Children of For.
mer New York Girls An
nounced i'm Paris

PARIS, Feb Announcement of
the engagement of Elizabeth, daughter
of Mrs. Henry Ridgway, to Count
Jacques, son of the Marquise de
Breteuil, is made in the Paris edition
of The New York Herald The bride
elects mother is former American
girl, while the mother of Count
jacques was formerly Miss Lita Gard
uer, of New York. Her husband, who
died several years ago, was close
friend of King Edward VII. of Eng
land, and the present Prince of Wales
was guest at. her house during his
educational visit" to Paris before the
war.
Miss Ridgways mother was Miss
Ellen Munroe, sister of John Munroe,
a New York banker Mr.. Ridgway mar
ried her in Paris in April, 1891. Among
the guests at their wedding were the
father and mother of Count jacques,
the Marquis and Marquise de Breteuil,
who had been married the preceding
month.
Count Jacques's mother was one Of
three young daughters orphaned in
1876, when their parents, Commodore
Gardner, of the New York Yacht Club,
and Mrs. Gardner were drowned off
Staten Island, when their 150-foot
sloop Mohawk overturned in q storm,
Count jacques is one of three chill
dren. Both his father and his mother
possessed large fortunes at the time
of their marriage and he was sup
posed to have increased them in sub
seuuent years
New-York tribune., 1921-02-28
HUGH A. BRADY

GREENWICH, Conn, Feb. 27.-Hugh
A. Brady, forty years old, widely known
as a vaudeville artist in the United
States, as we'll as in Australia and Can
ada, died at the Greenwich Hospital
this morning after an operation which
he underwent last Thursday for ulcers
Of the stomach. Physicians said that it
was a remarkable operation, in that the
patient was not put under any an@s-
thetic and was for three hours on the
operation table
Heart disease was the immediate
cause of his death. Mr.. Brady was for
merly with T. H. Sothern, George Prim-
roses minstrels and jefferson De
Angels. He was singer, dancer and
comedian. He was a member OF the
Elks and Knights of Columbus. His
mother, Mrs. P. H, Brady, sister and
two brothers survive.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-28

from which You CLEANED the inforrna-
tion which you make the subject matter
of your letter.
81 cannot answer your objections
about public spooning and the sugges-
ton that | take official cognizance of
the same without also speaking as lust
a private citizen. As such | wish to
say do not sympathize with your
complaint.
Dear Pro Bono Publico, have you
no sentiment or human sympathy ?
tlave you never been out in the country
IN The springtime and watched the
birds in the tree tops bill and COO
Ot course, If you have not there is not
much use in pursuing this subject fur
ther. But apparently U judge from
your present address, New York is
only your temporary domicile and very
likely you come from outside How
ever, no matter where you come from
you have observed that most beautiful
exempllfcation of spooning, when a
fond mother holds her offspring in her
arms and the two exchange sweet,
;atectionate salutations; heart to
heart talk as it were. Such observa-
tion, my dear sir, should have given
you more sympathetic view of life.
1t seems to me that man must be
either n grabbed old bachelor or man
who has been disappointed in love who
viii seek to invoke official aid in put
ting an end to heritage of nature
that is as old as the world. Certainly
there is nothing clandestine in spoon
ing atop of bus. Perhaps you know
the old proverb, 'Honi SOFT etc
My advice to men who cannot stand
the sight of the loving meeting OF
minds and eyes-and in some cases
lips-on Fifth Avenue bus is that
they ride in the subway. A trip or tive
IN the rush hours there ought to cure
them, for in the subway men and
women, boys and girls are thrown to-
gether Unfortunately and even with
out the formality of an introduction
or acquaintance. They are compelled
to occupy about the same proximity to
each other that the lovers do on the
busses, sometimes more so. The differ
ence is that in the subway this atten-
tion is forced on them and instead ot
billing and cooling one hears bicker-
ing and cussing. Let the spooners
spoon. They always did. They always
will.
Now, talking to you as Sheriff,
want to say that | must refuse tt
designate deputies or appoint a posse
comitatus to stop what they call nui-
sance. That statement by you, think
represents only a conclusion-a state
of mind,
Sincerely yours,
DAVID H. KNOTT,
Sheriff, New York County"
New-York tribune., 1921-02-28
Silk Week Transports
Chinese Festival to u. 5,

National Silk Week was inaugurated
in New York to-day in commem orat ton
of the Assist anniversary Of the in
ventlon Of silk manufacture by the
Chinese Empress Sizing chi in 2640
B. C.
Local merchants, rom department
store proprietors &c owners of small
shops, will feature silk and silk prod
ucts for the entire week. This idea
Will be carried out 10 large extent by
stores throughout the country.
In China there is an annual cere-
mony commemorative of the discovery
by Si-lingchi, who is known there as
the Goddess of the Silkworm"
The United States leads the world
in the manufacture of silk with an an
nual output of approximately S7I5 ,0o0,-
600, buying TO per cent of the raw
product in the Orient and italy. This
spring there is greater accumulation
Of silk novelties in New York than ever
before
New-York tribune., 1921-02-28
Spoon On! Says Sheriff Knott;
Nary Deputy to Ride Busse
'nly Grabbed Bachelor Man Tilted i'm Love Would
Object; Try the Subway and You'll Change
Mind, He Writes to Protector

Until New York elects a Sheriff who
was born on Blue Sunday, who eats
Goldfish four times week and pie for
breakfast seven times, and who fur
nlshes other outward evidences of hav-
ing Puritanical training and inclina-
ttions. the spooners in New York's pub
nc places seem to be reasonably safe
from official interference.
80 much was indicated Yesterday
when Sheriff David H. Knott, being
called upon to stop the spooEing On the
Flfth Avenue busses-- something which
PRESIDENT Richie, of the Fifth Avenue
Coach Company, last week declined to
attempt-not only refused to accept q
mandate over the bus tops, but wrote a
letter giving his reasons in detail. The
letter was called forth by an anony-
nous communication received from a
correspondent at the Pennsylvania
Hotel, Generally such correspondents
nave their efforts thrown in the waste
basket, but in this case the Sheriff de-
termined that an answer was necessary.
spring catalogues were being dumped
IN the mails everywhere, baseball play
ers were starting for Southern training
camps, and goif jokes were beginning
20 appear IN the comic publications.
So, even though snow happened to be
piled in New York's streets, it ap-
peared to be time for the declaration
OF a spring policy with regard to
benches on busses, in parks, or any
where else.
The letter, which brought such a dec
laratlon from Sheriff Knott is as fol-
lows:
Dear Sheriff: I have read in the
daily papers that the Fifth Avenue
Coach Company, which, operates the
busses on Fifth Avenue, refuses to heed
the objection made about the spooning
that is indulged in on top of their
vehicles. AS citizen, wish to prote st
against continuance Of this public
nuisance. If these young people must
spoon, let them do so in the privacy of
their own homes. 1t seems to me that
this is a matter meriting public at
tention. There is no hope that the
police will do anything about it, for the
traffic policemen on Fifth Avenue are
witnesses to the public spooning that
goes on atop the busses, but take no
action. Therefore, I write to you as
Sheriff and ask that you appoint some
deputies to take this urgent matter in
hand and see that it is remedied.
''Sincerely yours,
"PRO BONO PUBLCo."
Sheriff Knott's reply to the foregoing
follows:
Dear Sir: Since you continue to
hide your identity, I am unable to ad-
dress you as courtesy would demand
know you will accept my apology for
addressing you through the newspapers