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New-York tribune., 1921-06-01
Mines Exploded i'm Cork
Road Kill 6 Soldiers
Others Injured as Troops Are
Proceeding from Bar
racks to Range

CORK, May 81 (By The Associated
Press).-Three soldiers were killed in
stantly, three mortally wounded and
others badly injured when mines were
exploded this morning under a party
of soldiers who were proceeding from
the Youghal barracks here to the rife
range, says statement issued by the
military authorities this evening. The
men who exploded the mines escaped
after firing them.
DUBLIN, May 81 (By Associated
Press. MILITARY headquarters here
issued statement this evening that
rebels electrically exploded a land
mine under the band Of the Hampshire
Regiment as it was playing at the
ranges near Eoughal this morning. Six
persons were killed, according to this
statement, including two band bows
riously. Four OF the wounded were
band boys.
BELFAST, Ireland, May 31.-An Of
fcer of the Royal Irish Constabular,
was shot to death last night during I
hours fighting between number Of
constables and an ambushing party
The constables were cycling from
Blarney Castle to Monaghan, when the
ambushers attacked them. The am
bushers were routed.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-01
Chance 10 End
Y per St1'iik I,
l1l Mediation
Brotherhood Delegates 10
Meet Representatives OF
Ten Manufacturers il,
Secrct Conference To-day
Proposals MOI Definite
Tentative Suggge =tions Con-
template Return 10 work
at rs p. C.. OF Old Scale
Special pisnc,ch 10 1he Tribune

ALBANY, May 81. After an cxccu-
tive session of several hours, repre-
sentatives of the International Brother
hood of Papermakers, 10000 of whom
are on strike, adjourned here to night
to go into a secret meeting tomorrow
morning to consider a proposal Of rep
re,entatives of ten manufacturers to
arbitrate their differences.
No statement was Forthcoming to-
New-York tribune., 1921-06-01
Boss of Peonage ] arm
Given Life for Murder

CONVICTION, Ga, May a1.-clyde
Manning, negro farm boss on the John
S. Williams plantation in Jasper
County, was found guilty of murder by
Ia jury late to-day in connection with
the death of Lindsey Peterson, one of
the eleven negroes alleged to have been
held in peonage and then killed on the
farm few months ago. The jury was
out thirty-five minutes. Manning was
entenced TO life imprisonment
New-York tribune., 1921-06-01
Bone for Alaskan Governor
Fsem The Tribuness Wesanaton Bureau

FfRn, The Tribune's Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, May 31-Scott C.
Bone, former publisher in Washington
and Western cities, will be named
Governor of Alaska, it was said on ex-
cellent authority tonight. 1t is ex-
pected that his name will be sent to
the Senate tomorrow. Mr. Bone was
director of publicity for the Repub-
lican National Committee during the
campaign which elected Harding and
New-York tribune., 1921-06-01

work ON June (to-morrow) unless a
new agremeent was reached!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-30
PLEAS IN PARADISE

To the New York Herald: Our most popular writer has written am other book on the South Seas, and we are glad. We were fearful that, after what happened to him in Tahiti in July, 1920, he might not love us any more and would neglect us. But it is all right; he has forgiven us and we have another lovely book about ourselves. He has painted a wonder full picture of beauteous princesses star-e eyed houris eagerly awaiting the advent of the god-like white man.; of broad acres of cocoanut groves. the rich dowry of daughters of mighty chiefs, ready to be hurled into the receptive lap of the pale faced stranger.
 Now, if we had only known of this before, what a life we could have led Instead of wasting the precious years of our youth in the plebeian pursuits of buying and selling and planting we might have been reclin- ing on flowery beds of ease while the daughters of kings grilled peacocks tongues for us and fed us nectar from golden spoon.
 But then of course it is quite pos- sble that we have been numbed all these years with lotus honey and have not been competent to see what has been going on around us; and it has needed the fresh, bright eyes of the author to see the islands as they really are.
 Anyway, he has written so enchant- ingly about our isolated abode that any number of old drunks, bolshe- viks, I. W. ", tourists and fat old satyrs from Long Acre Square are coming to our shores, relieving us of one of our most pressing problems We have long felt that our mosqui- toes urgently needed a change or diet. They have subsisted so long on our diminished bodies they have be- gun to look thin and scrawny and anaemic and we were quite worried about them. And, too, our fleas need a tonic
 But now with this new immigra- ton in progress our fears are at rest We thank our distinguished author friend. His works delight us. They recall the long vanished days of our youth when we used to burn the mid night oil reading the travelogues or that fascinating old Dutchman, Baron Munstein or Munhauser--or some such name as that.
 JOHN l.. STEVENS.
 Tahiti, Society Islands. June 5.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-30
GERMAN COMPETITION

From Forbes Magazine.
 Although you have seen little about it in the newspapers. Germany is sending an increasing volume of goods to this country for sale at prices radically below those demand ed for domestic products. The news papers have featured a few spectac- ular instances of under-b bidding of American, British and other compet. itors for large foreign contracts. but ment than misunderstanding which is developing inside our own borders. The truth is that Germany can today produce practically all of her export lines of merchandise at very much lower cost than is possible here, Why? Because of the drop in the value of the mark to F cents as contrasted with pre-war value e. almost 2i cents; and the industrious ness of her workers. Wage rates paid in Germany. measured by dol lars, are phenomenally low--any where from 50 cents to s1 day. This places a most formidable weapon in the hands of German manufacturers and exporters. In fact, it is suspected in international banking circles that the German government and German industrial interests arc quite satis. ed to have the mark remain at 'ts present low international value. Hers is problem of great gravity for ;ae serious study of our tariff-ma kel,s at Washington and the business in terests of this country
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-30
WHERE WE GET RUBBER

cred their bodies with the latext and scraped the rubber off, after there had been sufficient evaporation, and nodded it into cubes, but at the pres ent time excellent machines for CO., agulating the product have been put into use.
 Though it's properties have long been known, rubber has just within tAo AAst century come into everyday practical use. Macintosh, canny Scotchman, in 1923 dissolved some rubber in naphtha and spread the so- lution on a marble slab to dry. He then fastened his rubber sheet be- tween two pieces of fabric and intro duced the world to the raincoat.
 But 1t was left for Charles Good year, an ardent enthusiast ever the possibilities of rubber. who plunged his fortune into the game and died discredited, to make possible the overshoe and the automobile tire. He had mixed some rubber and sulphur, and while dissertating on the wonder- full qualities of the substance, he let some of the mixture fall upon the door of the red-hot stove near which he was standing. Casually looking down on what he had spilled, he noted with amazement that it had hardened without melting.
 s~-
 "Frantically grabbing a knife he 1 scraped the residue from the stove His friends thought that they had
 seen him suddenly become insane, particularly as they already regarded him more or less unbalanced on the subject, but he had discovered that it was possible to vulcanize rubber--a process which makes it no longer sem sitive to the changes of the seasons and increases its strength and elas- ticity,"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-30
1.-THE CAT CAME BACK"

But Independence of thought and retary Denby finds that Soviet meth ods" are demoralizing the navy,SUn- der the Daniels regime two com manding officers had permitted the crew to vote on matters of discipline. and to elect disciplinary commit tee to pass on punlshments. They are vigorously rebuked. Tt is contrary to the long, esta ablished custom of the navy to give the crew disciplinary authority"
 Probably the shade of Admiral Nell son and the shade of John Paul Jones applaud Denby. But the fact remains that if Americans, young men who are worth while in the navy, are to be recruited without draft compui- sion they must be guaranteed some thing more than the sailors of the war of 1872 had in the way of free dom as Americans, and the Danieis plan worked out we'll. So popular was the service that 1t needed no draft law to keep it's force up to any point desired, and the grade of men enlisted was worthy of the United States Daniels protested against any application of the selective ser vice law to the navy. He was over ruled, but his analysis of the situa- tion was irrefragible.
 Secretary Denby's plan will be watched with keen interest. Il suits Annapolis. Whether it suits Amer ica OF not is vet to be determined.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-30

~ HICAGo has more than 5000 NJ vacant apartments listed. Landlords who formerly turned a deaf ear to the pleas of tenants for a reduction in rent or needed i'm provements, are now in a chastened frame of mind. They are out look ing for tenants, but they are not finding them.
 The explanation is simple. Peo- pie who could not pay high rents or refused to be exploited any long CT have doubled up." Others have bought or built homes of their own. Many family man will have cause to bless the rapacity of his landlord which forced him to get a home and be independent of rent hogs.
 The greed of landlords has over reached itself and building boom has completed their discomfiture. No one will shed any tears for them or waste any sympathy on a class of property owners who exacted the last penny from their victims. Rent profiteering in America has been a national scandal.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-30
From the Brooklyn Eagle.

From the Brooklyn Eagle.
 N YNICAL navy officers have ( been inclined to liken Jose
 " phus Daniels to Sir Joseph Porter, K. c. B., in the matter of Daniels attention to the welfare and dignity of the rank and file sailors in our navy. One could imagine him asking tar, How does your cap tain treat you?" and commenting on the answer, "A better captain don't walk the deck, your honor." in the words, Good. I like to hear you speak well of your commanding off, ficer. I dare say, he don't deserve 1t; but, still, it does you credit. Can you sing? Then hum this at your leisure. It is a song that I have com posed for the use of the American navy. It is designed to encourage independence of thought and action in the lower branches of the service, and to teach the principle that an American sailor is any mans equal, that Ion the seas the expression, If you please particularly gentleman ly tone implants." Naturally, the An napolitans were annoyed.
 The chapter Is ended. Daniels is out of office. Denby is in. One can't quite say with Gilbert, "the cat came back" "The merry cat-o'-nine- tails and the tar" are kept apart by stat ute law since a commodore named Stockton happened to be United Stotas Sapator and forced the change,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-30
WORLD GRAVES THE MYSTIC

From the Forum
 Moses Caster, the famous English Zionist and writer. speaking of the tendency of the times towards spir- duality, remarks:
 "We are living in a similar period just now when faith is waning, when science is beginning to lose it's hold Moral disintegration on one side and the failure of science to keep it's promise of finding the key to the final problems, have profoundly shaken the world. Minor details have contributed towards this de- cay: a. wild criticism of the sacred scriptures has sapped the belief, and the use to which science has been put in destroying humanity and civil izaton has robbed the world of al happiness and joy.
 Tt is the period known in Teuton mythology as the twilight of the gods We are in an epoch of transi- ton, and who can say whether it is for better or for worse? This is pre- cisely the time when mystical specu- lations arise, and mystical practices reappear They had apparently long been forgotten or assigned to the lumber room of what is called the middle ages. Yet it is quite natural in the light of historical investiga- ton that we should again be face to face with them, and try to under stand the riddle of the sphinx which they present. Essenes and Gnostics and other Hellenistic mystical schools and speculations flourished at the time when Christianity was born, and all the practices recorded of that period, magical conjurations, the an- pearance of ghosts, the casting of na tivities, palmistry and astrology, all reappeared at the break up of trc middle ages.
 With the end of the eighteenth century an era again begins to set [ in which has not yet reached it's cul- minating point, and the old familiar spectres fit across the human stage.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-30

and the governor. Three phases of the transaction that bring the coal from mine to cellar are the cost of coal at the mines, the cost of trans portation from mines to retail yards and the cost of operating a retail yard. t
 The operator who gets out the coal has nothing. to do either with freights or the operation of a re- tail yard. When the coal leaves his mine his part has been com pleted. Whatever is added to the price charged by him at the mine mouth is not under his control, and he is not responsible for it.
 The freight from Che mines to the various municipalities is a charge fixed by the federal govern ment when it was operating the railroads and by the i>..erstate commerce commission since the re- turn of the roads to private man agement. The operators have noth- ing to do with the freight which, however, must be added to the price of coal before it gets to the retail yard,
 The cost of operating retail coal yard depends on what is charged for labor and materials, rentals and the relative difficulty or ease of delivery.
 It is important to the consumer that he learn something about the different grades of coal He does not need the few fancy brands and should know the difference between them and the average domestic coal costing several dollars per ton less.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-30
ROMANTIC BAGDAD TROUBLED

From the Nations Business
 The right-hand drive has stirred Bagdad Of romantic memories. but now so nearly up with the times that it has newspaper printed in Eng fish and with a weekly column de- voted to automobiles
 Bagdad is apparently a pretty good place from which to view the rest of the world, and perceive just how it should wag. This is an obvious con clusion from the comments of the Bagdad journal about the right-hand drive. "The controversy which has been raging so long on the subject of right and left-hand steering" it says threatens to become world wide. The protagonists on either side are pretty evenly matched. Britain and most of the British empire prefer to pass on the left and therefore plump for the right-hand steering wheel; Ame.- ica and the continent of Europe, with their dependencies. take the opposite view. Some countries show an enter taining diversity in the matter. For instance, in Italy one keeps to the right except in Rome and certain other towns, where one keeps to the left In Canada one keeps to the right east of the Rockies, put to the left west of thcm It would he an immense advantage to the world If some general agreement all the world, say, could be persuad- ed to keep to the left. then the right hand steering wheel could be stand ardized once and for all. It seems a suitable subject for committee of the League of Nations!"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-30
WHAT DID HE MEANs
From Forbes Magazine.

From Forbes Magazine.
 merchant na Wisconsin town who had a Swedish clerk sent him out to do some collecting. When he re- turned from an unsuccessful trip he reported
 '.Yim Yonson say he will pay ven he sells his hogs. Yim Olson he will pay ven he sell his wheat and Bill Pack say he will pay in Yanuary."
 '.wel," said the boss, that's the first time Bill ever set date to pay. January?-'
 well. aye tank so,' said the clerk. ..he said it bane dam cold day ven you get that money. Aye tank that bane in Yanuarv
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-30
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THE CABINET sPHIN xEs

From the Los Angeles Times.
 The Vice President and the Secre- tary of the Treasury are the silent men of Washington. They move noiselessly but efficiently. If they each had d bass drum they couldn. catch up with Josephus Daniels in a thousand years in personal pub licity way. The Vice President com tinues to sit in at cabinet sessions. He is said to give his opinions when they are asked for. but he does not press them. When the announce ment was made that the Vice Presi- den would attend cabinet meetings the members of the Senate thought they would get the first-hand "gos- sip" of that eminent group. But when Calvin Coolidge comes away he retains all the condolences under his hat. He is about as loquacious as a bar of pig iron. He is as gossipy as Mount Baldy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-30
Rural Folk Busy With
 Their Community Fairs

~UT in the country people are " preparing for community fairs to be held this fall when the crops have been laid by. Sometimes it is . one-community affair, some times that of two or more.
 Five or six are being arranged in Jefferson county, half dozen in Colbert and EtoNah and numbers in other counties of the state. They have the combined support of the county and home demonstration agents and the local farmers and housewives. They will reflect the years progress on the farms of the communities where they are held.
 Community fairs are instructive. Wherever one is held that township will improve its farming methods and raise it's standard of living, be- cause men and women. exchange views in conmendable rivalry and all will profit.
 These fairs are rural schools. They are schools in the conduct of the farm and in life on the farm. They bring about common pur- pose and a common aim. They re- suit in business-like marketing and selling. They establish commu- nifty esprit de corps.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-30

NR 7 ASHINGTON, June 2s.- (spe- WV ,- cial2.rhs The, United ans'l., States sass Der tires during the year ending June 20. 1920, to supply the millions of cars that are skimming over her splendid roads and also to ship about $40,00o,oOs worth of them to ports the world over from bonny Scotland to volcano torn Java.
 Crude rubber comes to our shores free of duty from places equally as divergent In latitude" says a bulletin from the Washington, D. C., head quarters of the National Geographic society.
 Brazil contributed more than 5s.- O0O,O0 of the 575,0o0,0o0 pounds which we receive each year, the Dutch East Indies an equal or slightly larger amount, and the British Straits Settlements nearly five times as much as either of these, while sundry con tributions of balata, guayule gum, gutta- jelutong, gutta percha, and In dia rubber come from Japan. Belgian Congo, French Africa, Venezuela,
 Mexico, Panama. Peru, the British possessions and many other countries.
 "The discovery of rubber or caout- chouc is attributed to~Columbus. who reported that he had found the na- tives of Haiti playing with balls that bounced Priestley, the great Eng fish chemist, found, while experiment. ] ing with the substance, that 1t would erase lead pencil marks. For want of better name, he dubbed 1t rubber, and the name has stuck and is used i, almost exclusively in English speak | ing countries.
 "The large balls or leaves of raw rubber imported to America are made not from the sap, as is ordinarily sup
 posed, but from the milk of the rub
 Der trees. The hydrocarbonous sub
 stance when it first comes from the
 trees reminds one of the juice that 
 The Para rubber. one of the best of the grades of raw rubber. which
 got it's name from the port of Brazil from which so much of 1t is shipped
 is obtained from trees that thrive in
 the hot. damp forests of the Amazon. Many of the trees measure from to
 10 feet in girth and 60 feet in height. l The leaves are three-lobed and the 1 flowers small and inconspicuous.
 Rubber collectors go through the
 forests and pick out the trees to be
 tapped cut several notches in each 1 and fix below the notch a cup to catch
 the milk. which immediately begins l to flow. After few hours the flow
 ceases and the cups are emptied into
 a larger receptacle. A fire is lighted and the nuts of various kinds of palm trees are thrown on it in order to l make a dense smoke. Then the na- tives dip paddles in the rubber later I and hold them in the smoke until the | fluid coagulates and forms thin llayer on the paddle. The paddle is i dipped into the latex again and again and smoked until assufficiently large quantity of rubber is collected. It is then removed and rolled into leaves I for export. It comes to the manufac- ttursr in this form, brown or black on the outside, gray on the inside, and with peculiar smoked fish odor. In- ferior grades of rubber usually have very disagreeable smell
 Natives of Africa frequently COW
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-30
E E E Romance of a Prince
 and an American Girl

T1HHE death of former Attorney
 U General Charles J. Bonaparte, in Baltimore this week, recalls to mind an international romance.
 In 1903 Prince Jerome, younger brother of the Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, visited America. In the city of Baltimore he met Miss Eliz- abeth Patterson, the young, hand some and ambitious daughter of William Patterson, a wealthy mer- chant. The Frenchman fell a vic tim to her charms and they were married in the city of Baltimore by John Carroll, bishop of Mary land and first Roman Catholic pri- mate in America. The bishop was a brother of Charles Carroll, of Car rollton, signer of the Declaration of Independence.
 Young Bonaparte resided with his wife in this country one happy year and then undertook to carry her to France. But the stern emperor brother prevented her landing. He was placing his brothers on Euro pean thrones and had other ambi- tions for Jerome. He forced him to marry the Princess of Wurtem- burg.
 The American wife was not al- lowed to put foot on French soil and left her husband at Lisbon, go- ing thence to London and after wards returning to America. The pope declined to give his consent to the annulment of her marriage with Bonaparte. Mrs. Bonaparte held her head high, declaring to the end of . long life that her son would be King of France.
 This son was Jerome Bonaparte and Charles J. Bonaparte was his son. The Baltimore Bonapartes have been distinguished and useful citizens, serving city and state in important capacities.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-30
A CHAUFFEUR DISGUISE
From the New orleans Item.

From the New Orleans Item.
 The way of the transgressor seems to be rocky in Polk county, Iowa. where the sheriff, who is also a min ister. disguised himself as taxi driver the other day, picked up girl on the streets for a joy ride and then charged her with unbecoming conduct. A jury manifested it's dis approval of that sort of reform by acquitting her. We don't know how the Rev. Sheriff disguised himself as taxi driver, but presume 1t wap done in the usual way by borrowing cap and suspending cigarette from the right-hand corner of his mouth.