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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-11
For Good of
 the Community

A mentions statistics. The tTSt important statement connected with the history of the race was statistical. The earth and all it has was created in six days, the Good Book declareth.
 Statistics are golden when they recite progress, because progress is the law of the healthful human. Industrial Blr- mingham," recent booklet of the Cham Der of Commerce, shows 689 Birming- ham district manufacturing and mining industries now compared with 348 three years ago when the last preceding com pilation was made
 It shows us that 1900 articles are man ufactured in Birmingham. He who doubts will find the articles and their makers listed in this enumeration; then he will not doubt.
 One has heard so much about unem- ployment and the like that he has prob ably sensed the wholesale withdrawal of savings accounts. But three Birmingham banks report total savings deposits of S17,914,OOO, which is S771, ,000 more than was in savings in these banks year ago and S1,884, 1000 more than was in their savings deposits in March of 1920.
 This is the same as to say that the thrifty Birmingham citizen came to the dull period prepared for the siege. This ] accounts for the building of more than 700 homes this year, as we'll as invest ments in local and other securities bear ing high rate of interest
 In the week we let the contract for the S75O,OO0 Masonic Temple and for the . initial work on the S1,000,000 high school. We are almost ready to move { into our S1, ,O00,000 marble postoffice. Tn two blocks on Fifth avenue 10 brick and hollow tile stores are being built { simultaneously and two others near con- pletion.
 Contract has been let for building road from Talladega to Calhoun county line to cost S250,000.
 The Unit Stove company has begun the manufacture of hot air heaters, the first manufactured in Birmingham. A poor week that does not bring new industry. The Herndon knitting mill, established two months ago, has already more than doubled it's capacity by addition of ma chimes.
 Alabama's port at Mobile has attract ed another steamship line to ply between there and the Pacific coast, the J. H. w. Steel company of New Orleans having found it the wise thing to enter at Mobile on account of the lower freight rate. Bir- mingham and Alabama now have five steamship lines catering to the growing business that we are doing with the Pa cific coast.
 On Saturday we launched the twelfth of the Chickasaw freighters at Mobile. The Memphis City will now load with Birmingham steel products for the far away peoples on the heels of the Atlanta City, which is doing that now.
 If we are making little pig iron now, there is little in stock. When buy they must, the Birmingham "pig" will be found in healthy state
 If we operated only nine furnaces in June, Tennessee and other states operat- ed none, New York only three, New Jer- sey two and Maryland and West Vir- ginia, which were in the iron business be- fore Alabama knew it had iron ore, only one.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-11
TAKING soUNDINGs BY ECHO '

TAKING sOUNDINGS BY ECHO \ The Prince of Monaco, in the Worlds s Work.
 If we had not more rapid system for taking soundinEs than that which requires each time the stop ping of the ship to send a lead to the bottom, many years would still be required for the completion of all the ocean charts: but the method of M. Marti, a Photographic engi- neer in the French navy, will doubtless soon enable us to take lines of soundings with the average speed of a ship under way.
 M. Marti obtains the marking upon very sensitive recorder of slight explosion produced always under the same conditions. This record being repeated in like manner by the ecno sent back from the submarine floor allows of a measurement of depth with greater precision than by any other procedure.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-11

Malone. N. r., has a publicly owned forest in which 45,000 trees were planted last spring.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-11
TO URGE BLUE LAW

Nashville, Tenn. July 10.--Noah W cooper, chairman of the Methodist central Sabbath crusade committee, representing 12 southern conferences. Will leave here tomorrow morning for Washington, D. C., where on July 14, a petition urging the enactment of q so-called Sunday blue law" pro. hibiting the publication of Sunday newspapers and the operation of Sum day trains will be placed in the hands of every senator and representative in Congress.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-11
EMPLOYMENT E HELP wANTED-MALE As
OFFICE MEN

We secure positions for capable, experi- enced office men. THE COMMERCIAL EXCHANGE,
 403 Empire Bldg.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-07-07
At one spot near New Zealand the

At one spot near New Zealand the
ocean is more than six miles deep.
Dark-haired people are more sub
ject to insanity. than the fair-haired.
Suicides in the United States during
1920 numbered GIL, including 707
children.
Italy leads in the construction of
airplanes of huge size.
Green is a color much disliked in
China, for it is thought to be unlucky.
Wall paper too bold or bright in
pattern is said to be had for the
nerves.
Rice paper is not made from rice
but from the membrane of the bread
fruit tree.
According to a recent estimate, cats
in New York state destroy 3,50O,OOO
birds a year.
London dentists who cater to the
wealthy class frequently charge 500
for Il set OF false teeth.
In Luxembourg there is a penalty
for those who do not record their
votes at elections.
For the best method of using coal
gas as motor vehicle fuel British au-
tonobile association will award sub
stantial prize in cash.
At the present time the production
of gold in the district of Temiskum-
ing, in northern Ontario, which en-
braces the Porcupine and the Kirk
land lake fields, according to the
Canadian Engineer, is at the rate OF
$4,000 a day, or equal to more thar
30 per cent of the total current yielG
ofthe United States
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-07-07
MUCH IN LITTLE

Hand spinning wheels are still made
in London for export to the Far East.
At dinner the king of Englands
personal attendant waits on no one
else.
Aluminium is the only metal that
will not rust.
A cubic foot of air weighs little
less than an ounce.
The COW of the water buffalo gives
exceptionally rich milk.
japanese farms average TWO anu
one-half acres to the family.
In France the maximum penalty for
crueltv TO animals is a fine of So.
Queen Sophia of Greece, is reported
to have become a convert to woman
suffrage. =,
shelley wrote the Revolt of Islam"
living in the bottom of boat on the
Thames river.
The regulation prison dress for men
in Iapan is kind of strawberry red
colored kimono.
The emperor of China has never alb
dicated. and still holds court, though
he does not rule.
Indus. Ganges and Himalaya re-
caived the names they bear today In
the ancient Vedic age.
The Oldest tree in the world is be-
loved TO be in CeylOn, and now is in
its twenty-second century.
The highest post office in the world
;s at PharjiOng, in Tibet, situated A.
3OO feet above the sea level.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-07-07
NEWS REVIEW OF
CURRENT EVENTS
Government Is Trying to Solve
the Mystery Of the Twenty
81 Missing Ships.
may Be WORK OF PIRATES
Admiral Sims, Home, Tells Secretary
Denby He Was Misquoted-Britain
Determined to Crush Irish Re-
IA VoIt--Dawes Made Direc-
y tor Of National Budget.
BIZ EpwARp WI. PIcKARp.


The interest Of the world was excit-
ed and its imagination stimulated last
week by the remarkable story of the
20 lost merchant ships, the mystery of
whose disappearance our government
is toying to solve. Not since the days
of the German U-boats has there been
any such series of maritime disas-
ters, nor was there any such before
the war. A number of these 20 ves-
sells which have disappeared within
few months were American or sailing
from American ports. The most mys-
tifying Of the instances was that of the
American schooner Carroll A. Deering,
which ran ashore off the North Caro-
lima coast last January with all sails
set and every member Of the crew
missing, as we're it's small boats. More
than two months later the following
message In a bottle was picked up
near Cape Hatteras:
"Deering captured by oil-burning
boat, something like chaser; taking off
everything, Handwriting crew. Crew
hiding all over ship. No chance to
make escape. Finder please notify
headquarters Of Deering."
Naturally the favorite theory con-
cerning these events is that a pirate
craft IL operating In the Atlantic. Rear
Admiral Mutton, commandant of the
Philadelphia navy yard, inclines to this
view. He says:
4 ut would be possible for an outlaw
craft to run wild for a short time, and
it could do considerable damage to
shipping. If there Is pirate craft, it
was or is operating with forged ships
papers. 1t Is always necessary, when
a ship enters port, to have its papers
examined, and this craft could operate
for a short time with forged papers,
but in the end it would disclose its
Identity.
: ut is true, also, that by stripping
vessels Of provisions and fuel the out
law could continue operations a long
time, but eventually 1t would have to
put into some port for repairs. Machin-
cry, you know, cannot run forever
without being overhauled and repaired.
"f such craft is operating it will
have to return to port at some time.
and when 1t does, assume there will
be interesting developments"
Another theory is based upon the
fact that about year and half ago
the New York police seized documents
which revealed a plot which the Uni
ted Russian Workers Of the United
States and Canada were forming to
get their members to Russia. Those
members who,w out of work were
being instructed to ship on vessels in
sufficient numbers to seize the vessels
at sea and steer them into soviet Rus
sian ports.
The Departments of State and Com
merce, however, hold to the plain pi-
rate theory and worldwide lookout
for the missing ships and their crews
has been ordered.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-07-07
Possible Oil Formation.

Distilled herring oil, mixed with
Japaneses acid clay has given K. Ko-
bayashi. a japanese chemist, an oil
resembling crude petroleum. By-prod-
ucts included various fatty acids. 1t
is suggested that Japanese supplies
of petroleum and oil gas are similarly
formed under natural conditions,
these products resulting from the de-
composition of the oils yielded by the
putrefaction of fishes. The vast guam
titles of fish life concentrated in
schools would explain the accumqla-
ton of large deposits of fish remains.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-07-07

garbed in faultless European clothes,
present strange contrast to the poor
ly garbed Muscovites. The Afghans
and other Near Eastern delegations
also occupy luxurious quarters, give
elaborate banquets, and otherwise
carry on with all the pOmp of the old
eastern courts.
Besides this, NJ. Lenin has so ac-
commodated himself to the psychOl-
ogy Of the East that he now exchanges
presents with the rulers of Turkey,
Persia, etc, as did the rulers of an
cient days
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-07-07

preparation of the report, which is to
be submitted within few days to the
council of the league at its session
In Geneva.
Already, it is understood, many mes
sages have been dispatched by Amer
lean organizations to Geneva, urging
favorable action on the recommended
iions as the only means of preventing
ing revival of the opium traffic.
The report includes two principal
recommendations
/. The council is requested to seek
permission from the central govern
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-07-07

The japanese and Bolsheviki in ST.
IBERIA, who have been ON the point of
hostilities for some time, are reported
TO have had fight near Nikolaievosk.
The government of the Far Eastern re-
public at Chita has mobilized its forces
and has been promised active aid by
the Moscow government. 1t reports
the complete defeat of a body of
troops personally commanded by Gen.
Baron Won Ungern-S -Sternberg, anti-Bol-
shevik leader. This is denied by dis
patches from Hardin, which credit I'm
gern-Sternberg with repeated success
es. japan has presented to the Chita
government eight rigorous conditions
as basis for recognition-so harsh
that they will be hardly acceptable.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-07-07

In writing where he was misquoted
and to tell me, if he could, what he did
say in that speech"
At this writing the outcome Of the
affair, so far as the admiral is con-
cerned. is not known. What is known,
however, is that the incident of his
speech, the attack on him by some of
the Irish-Americans and the possibility
Of his being disciplined for what he
said has aroused a general feeling
against hyphenates In America CON-
parable to that that existed during
the war. Senators, representatives,
Secretary DENLY and even President
Harding were almost swamped with
letters and kilograms protesting
against any punishment of the admi-
raj and indorsing the sentiments he
had expressed. The pro-Irish were
not silent, by any means, but the COM
munications from admirers of Sims
were largely in the majority. Neither
side was permitted to make a demon
stration in New York when the ad-
miral landed, fully a thousand police
teing massed to prevent such action.
The Ulster parliament, which was
organized recently, was formally
opened Wednesday by King George,
who, with Queen Mary, journeyed to
Belfast for the purpose. NRleast part
of the elaborate ceremonies usual on
such occasions was omitted, the, Irish
republicans created no disturbance
and everything passed off in orderly
manner. The king in his speech from
the throne said he spoke from a full
heart" but he uttered nothing but
platitudes, to the disappointment of
those who had expected some sensa-
tional pronouncement on the Irish
question.
In the parliament In London more
important statements concerning the
Irish troubles were made. For the
that there is real war in Ireland, and
Worthington Evans, secretary of war,
more than intimated that it would be
a war to the finish. He said the gov
ernment was sending troops continu-
ally to the island and would continue
to send them as quickly as possible,
and that these troops would be given
every support. Lord Chancellor Bir-
kenhead spoke to the same effect, and
even more emphatically, making it
plain that unless a settlement is
reached and the southern parliament
functions, there will be a military
domination campaign much like that
employed against the Beers in South
Africa.
The most spectacular exploit of the
Sim Feiners last week was the kid
naping Of Earl Bandon, for many
years the kings lieutenant of County
Cork, and the burning of his castle in
Bantry. Colonel Lambert of the crown
forces was killed near Knockroghery,
and in-feprisal the entire village was
burned.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-07-07

A Moscow dispatch today reads like
IA paragraph from what might have
oeen an ancient tablet of hieroglyph-
les describing the visit of a Babylon
ian envoy to King Cyrus of Persia. 1t
runs:
1.-The representative of the soviet
government has made his first official
visit to the shah of Persia, presenting
to the shah on golden saiver an al
bum with photographs of soviet lead
ers OF the whole of Russia as a per-
sonal present to the shah from
LeniR-"
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-07-07

ment of China for consuls in that
country of the nations members of the
league to address themselves directly
to the leaders of the Chinese military
forces in their respective localities
urging them TO refrain from the culti-
walton of the poppy.
2. The. council is requested to. ap-
point a special commission of inquiry
TO personally visit the provinces in
China where the poppy is grown to
ascertain the extent of the cultivation
and the methods OF marketing the pro-
hibited drug.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-07-07
! ~

!
Admiral Sims, recalled from Eng
land by an order from Secretary Dem
by that sounded especially severe, ar
rived in Washington Wednesday and
reported to the head of the navy
Thursday. In reply to Mr. DENLY, he
asserted that he had been misquoted
in the reports of his London speech,
and the secretary called on him for a
correct text Of what he said. Mr.. Den
by said to the correspondents:
admiral Sims has denied the ac-
curacy Of the statements attributed to
him. He stated that he was incorrect
ly quoted. / gave him a written men,
orandum setting forth those state
meuts and asking him to inform me
x4-<saagnsAs-A-s
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-07-07
SEEKS FRIENDSHIP OF EAST
lenln said to Be Exchanging Pres
ents With Asiatic Rulers in Old
kinuIy Fashion.

Riga, Latvia.-Recent arrivals from
Moscow declare that the world little
realizes how closely soviet Russia is
pushing its friendship with the Near
East.
In Moscow the Turkish legation oc-
cupies one of the most sumptuous OF
the old palaces and the personnel,
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-07-07
TO RESTRAIN OPIUM TRAFFIC
American Organizations Urge League
of Nations to Take Drastic Action
in the Matter.

washington.--Supp for recon-
mendations In the report of the COM
mission on the opium traffic of the
League Of Nations has been urged in
conferences with government officials
and others by Mrs. Hamilton Wright.
Mrs. Wright, who recently arrived
here from Geneva. assisted in the
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-07-07

The allies, while still determined
that the Turkish nationalists shall not
get possession Of Constantinople, have
now requested, or ordered, the Greeks
to defer their offensive against Ke-
mails forces until an attempt has been
made to mediate between the two ma
tions. King Constantine, it is said,
consented to wait until some time in
July. Lord Curzon, Premier BRAND
and representatives of Italy arranged
for this postponement and promised
that If Greece were amenable the three
big powers would lift the financial EN-
barge and permit Greece to arrange
its fiscal affairs. The French under
took to persuade Kemal Pasha to make
concessions leading to an amicable
settlement.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-07-07

Velma Tilden of San Francisco
bought a buck and two does of the
Himalayan fur-bearing breed Of rab-
bit for $35. Within a year she had
raised enough rabbits to make this
mOck-ermine fur coat and hat. The
Himalayan rabbit fur so resembles
ermine, but for the lack of black tips,
that only an expert can detect the de-
ception.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-07-07

These two French youngsters were
photographed just after receiving each
a gold medal and 100 francs for brav-
cry in life saving. Nathalie Colo,
aged ten, who last Christmas rescued
at great danger to herself a little girl
friend who was drowning in the sea
off the Coast of Brittany. Louis
+, Cariou, aged eleven, saved the life of
one of his playmates last September
under similar circumstances. Both
the children hail from Lesconil in
Brittany.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-07-07
keeninn Pa Silent

Chollie-Do you believe that silence
gives consent?
Nollie-I certainly do.
ssther for your hand in marriage
nanage to have your mother in the
r,om,-YOnkers Statesman.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-07-07
China REGULATES Its FIappers.

Chinese "flappers" must not bob
their hair or bind their feet, and must
uot marry without their parents con-
sent, according to regulations issued
by the Chinese ministry of education.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-07-07
Lard LIN for comnanx.

'Biithersby must be a lonely man."
"Does he say SOY
NO, but he seems to regard visit
from hill collector as social diver
don. Birmingham Age-Herald.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-07-07
Little. Punv Man.

When man puffs himself up and
points with pride" to the wonders he
has accomplished in the field of cleo
trical invention and development, old
Aurora Borealis comes along and puts
the whole business out Of business
Florida TimeS-Union.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-07-07

Three anchored submarines were
destroyed by the United States forces
last week-but the layman will not
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-07-07

Secretary of the Navy Denly has
taken steps to check the tendency to
introduce soviet methods into the
navy, believing them to be subversive
of discipline. There have been two
known instances of this so far, and in
both cases Mr.. DENLY has removed
from command the chief officer respon-
sible. In the first Capt. G. D. Stearns
has been detached from command of
the battleship Michigan for permitting
the enlisted men to form committee
to pass upon disciplinary measures
among members of the crew. In the
other case, the crew of an unnamed
vessel was permitted to express it's
preference by vote as to where the
ship should be taken to 60 into dry
dock; the commander, also unnamed,
was detached from his command.
In disappearing the sentence of dis
missal imposed by a naval court-mar-
tial on Lieut.. Commander Athol H.
George, United States naval reserve
force, convicted of disobeying an order
of the commanding officer of his ship,
who is a medical officer of the navy,
Secretary DENLY has established the
rule that no line officer is subject to
the command of a staff officer of su-
perior rank.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-07-07

With its mind set more firmly on
present economy than on adequate ma
tional defense, congress last week
about made up its mind that the Uni
ted States could get along safely with
very small army and navy person
mel. Despite the utmost efforts of the
advocates of preparedness and con-
trary to the known wishes of the ad-
ministration, the army is to be reduced
to 10000 men by October 1, and the
enlisted personnel of the navy is to be
cut to 100000. At least $4,000 men
must be discharged fyom the army, re-
gardless of their enlistment terms, in
addition to the normal discharges,
which are estimated at 10000. Senator
New of Indiana declared the $4,000
can sue the government for their sal
aries If the terms of their enlistment
contracts are thus ignored.
The senate in this yielded complete
ly to the demands of the house, and in
return received assurance that the
Borah disarmament amendment would
be adopted by the house In substitute
for the Porter resolution. This, too,
will be distasteful to the administra-
tion. 1t may be President Harding
can and will do something to prevent
this return to a state of unprepared-
ness by interposing his veto.