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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-11
PLAYER HIT BY BAT

Gadsden, September 10.- (Special) Eugene Ellis of Attalla was severely injured at the ball grounds Friday afternoon when a bat slipped from the hands of batter, striking him on the head and producing serious but not a fatal wound. The boy was given prompt attention and 1t is said he will be out in a few days.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-11
FIVE

some, while others will prefer the afternoon classes, and still others will prefer the evening classes. So. let Us get everything in readiness. so when the bell rings Monday. Septem Der 1a let's all be In line ready 10 go
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-11
MONTEVALLO BOY NAMED AS WEST POINT CADET

Washington, September 10.-(Spe- cial) - Representative Jeffers of the Fourth Alabama District, today an- nounced the appointment to West Point of Thomas Edward DeShazo of Montevallo. The alternates are William Joseph Donovan and John Dinkins. both of Selma.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-11
FonMER T. P. A. HEAD DIES

1ndianopoIis, September 10.-P. J. O'Meara. aged 62, a former national president of the Travellers Protec- tive association, died late yesterday of apoplexy. it was announced today. Tho funeral will be held here Mon- day
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-11

A Dutch meteorologfst has studied the winter temperatures in western Europe from 760 to 1916. 7. D. He has found thAts krpater activity ef sun spots is accompanied by winter setting in harder and earlier than usual, while Jess activity of the spots correspoad to late mild win [ters.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-11
OFFICERS

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-11

Ty Cobb has had his name in the paper more times this season than Hughey Jennings-at least in the De- troit papers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-11
THE REALTOR NEWS
DIRECTORS

j. L. vANcET DAVID 6 MEYER A ?. AgssEa C H. ESTES X. KEY AILHER R AecoHHELL A. N. THRocKMoRron FRANK [. BUTLER ". O, oLIvER '. x. aotToN t4. 4. hosELEY 4. C MoNTeoHtRS
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-11

After nearly everybody else broke a bone on the Cleveland club, Ray Caldwell broke out on suspension.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-11

When 1922 begins, there will be the same seven or eight managers who will tell the home town that while they never predict winning a pennant, the home boys have a chance. It will all depend on the pitching.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-11

Once they hooted Wagner in Pitts burg. That was the ultimate hoot.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-11

When manager is quoted as say ing he does not know enough about his hitters to know which is the greatest pinch hitter, it is time to dispense with the pinch hitter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-11
Bunts and Bingles
Rx BILLY BINGLl
 speejal Correspondent of The Age-Herald. (Copyright, 1891, by The AsG-Herald.)

New York, September lO.-The or namental pinch hitter has no place in baseball. If few of the artifi- cial ornaments of the. game were abolished, the sport would be the better for it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-11

The Pittsburg fans who hooted the Iron Town team after a remarkable exhibition of leadership are gradu- ates of the school of betting, which never ceased operating in the south end of the Pittsburg stand. One could not take a step at one time without falling over a bet.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-11

Gibson of Pittsburg says Babe Adams has a fadeaway, which is as good as that of Mathewson. Gibson is a Solomon Come to Judgment but he is making a mighty pow'ful as- sertion.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-11

No club is likely to be century blooming plant in baseball this sea son. Ninety five games won may land the championship in either league.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-11

Birmingham's Oldest Investment Bankers
The Cordova daily times., 1921-11-03
ON WEDDING TRIP
 TO PORTLAND
(From Portland Journal)

Mir. and Mrs V. B. Bennett are Port land visitors. They are on their honey moon and after visiting friends in Portland and Salem they will go 10 Walla Walla to visit Mir Bennet's rela' tives Mir Bennett is a railroad man and has been working on the Copper River & Northwestern railroad, run. ming from Cordoya to Keunecott. "This road" said MT Bennett. "is l9S miles long It was built in 1920. It taps what is probably the richest copper country in the world. The cost 1f con- struCtion of the road was abuat $%t,- O0O,OOO More than enough copper hPs already been taken from the district to pay for the building of he road a?d I am told that more than S20 000,0C0 worth of copper has been blocked out on a slide on the mOuntainsidC The copper ore runs from 7O tc IS high as S5 per cent pure copper The high price of copper during the war made the owners of the copper mines and of the road a lot of money. They ar not marketing more than certain amount of copper.
 "I don't know whether my wife and I shall return to Alaska or whether shall take run between Pasco and Ellcnsburg Alahka has wonderful na- ural resources but it is a discouragng game staying up there waiting for a chance to develop them Alaska has an unlimited supply of oil It has vast resources of timber, particularly of spruce. It has coal enough to supply the fleets of the world as well as our own for long time to come Its fish cries, it's furs and it's other resources are almost limtless. Speaking of furs | want you to meet my wife and let her tell you about the fur industry"
 My maiden name" said Mrs Ben. nett was Amanda Lilegren. My fath
The Cordova daily times., 1921-11-03

tIOn has been Killed without euuiyoca- tion by two or three-at lcast-formaI and official denials, four or five-at least cabinet ministers. iu the course or speeches.. subsequently have re- opened the subject The last member Of his maJestys government to do SO Was Winston Churchill, in a speech in Dundee on September 24.
 It is significant also that the Daily Chronicle, known as the Lloyd Gaorga journal, has been at the forefront f, bringing debt cancellation to the front as Washington subject while the Pail Mall and Globe. the evening ueys paper owned by the controlling inter. ests Of the Chronicle. in a strongly ar" carefully worded editorial, warns America that her appeals to the worlds spirit Of philanthropy. in the Washington conference. "can scarcely sound convincing if they are to ba taken as from nation that insists upon it's frll financial right over an exhausted and impoverished world"
 Turing the war there was developed In Fleet street a very effective system of unifyng through the Newspaper Publishers Association, the journaIis. tic policies of the nation by mere word passed along the line of Officcs in Fleet street Since the war it is still possible to obtain a definite and fixed reaction. or a withholding of comment. Within limitations the press of Great Britain. government press and opposi- ton alike. can he "irspircd"
 Tn" press reports on the Washing ton conference rroIfmiuortos have had a certain suspicious similarity. It may bo coincidence It may be something else
The Cordova daily times., 1921-11-03
SoweYs ma Sw'sfTs eo Yffrsen SaOfs'
cloths monthly.

cloths monthly
 3. "A sad chapter in the history of the occupation is made up of the daily assaults on the population by Americans. especially after the first of the month. when they have re- ceived their pay. Too free use of alcohol is in many cases the cause. The American authorities have it in their power to put an end to this undisciplined and barbarous condi- ton by energectally punishing the guilty parties. Perhaps the insig nificant penalties are responsible for the fact that there has not been i'm provement"
 The Germania goes on with de- tailed picture of how difficult it is for German hausfrau to get dinner in kitchen where the American officers wife is also doing her cook ing, and tells of one case where the German woman installed her cook stove in a toilet room as the only place she could cook in peace.
 After the superlative adjectives the German press for two years has lib erally expended in describing the conditions in the French area. es- pecially in the small towns where. cOlored troops have been quartered the attack against the American fore as seems u'iflc rcdiculous The battle of the kitchen range" may be serious during the conflict. but after all, it is not as dreadful as the of ficial book of atrocities which the Foreign Office has given out. in which not a single American case is mentioned
 The Gcrmania finds the American punishmcnts of it's soldiers too light. Only a few months ago another Der lin writer attacked the Coblenz fore os. declaring that in the worst days of Prussian militarism the Kaiser's officers had never dared lay such severe sentences on soldiers as the American military courts are met ing out to offenders in the Rhine army
The Cordova daily times., 1921-11-03
!. 5. TROOPS IN GERMANY ARE
 LAMBASTED
tRy InternntIonal News seryIcel

Berlin. Nov. 3.-Frequent lauda tory articles in the German press contrasting the behavior of the Am erican troops Of occupation In Cob lenz with that of the French and British forces have proven too mpch for the Germania Chancellor Wirth 8 organ. to bear. In leading article by staff reporter, the Germania tries to show that the Americans aren't as angelic as they have been painted.
 "It is a common impression that the conditions in America occupied terri tory are more favorable and bearable for the German population than in the French or British areas This belief that Americans hGve not caus- ed tLc population in their zone 2s much annoyance as it has suffered in ncighboring areas is far from true. Unfortunately one must say that the case is quite the opposite"
 Gcrmana then follows with a long article on the incxorablc: the leading indictments in the list of atocritios run as follows;
 | "An American officer demand ed that one of the rooms in his lodg- ing br refinishcd with new wall paper His wife picked ont the wall paper. which cost 250 marks a roll, which any German would consider expensive and luxurious After a half year the American woman de cidcd that the tails of the Birds of Paradise printed on the wallpaper were of an unpleasant yellow color She demanded that the City Com mandant order a painter who re painted the tails; the question of the cost naturally. meant nothing to her
 9. "AnOther landlady complains that a family consisting of two pers- ons requires no less than thirty-two
The Cordova daily times., 1921-11-03
CANCELLATION DEBT MAY BOB
 AT CONFAB
By International News servIce)

CBy International News ServlceJ
 LONDON Nov. 3. - Whether we plan 1t so or not; whether we like it or not, the question of debt cancellation is going to be crowded onto the floor of the disarmament conference in Washington"
 Here is view taken by certain British writers and economists A view that has led to reasoning along the following lines:
 All signs. printed and spoken the latter obtained by personal contact in official and unofficial quarters -poiut to a campaign of discussion which will bubble along during subsequent weeks and give an appearance of world demand for a world financial review. with adjustments.
 The only possible adjustment is one that shall start with an American sacrifice which shall be passed on to Britain, France, Belgium and Ger many by cancellation of debts owed England and by decreasing the indem- uity burden on Germany
 Officially the treasury and foreign office position k that they received n debt cancellation suggestion from France many months ago. forwarded it on to Washington, where it was promptly turned down. and that that ends it The British government I"al- i2es that the subject of debt cancclla- tion is unpopular with the rank and file in the states and desires noth- ing so much as that the subject be dropped once and for all Britain is willing to discuss cancellation of debts owed her on the continent, but can. not propose reopening of the American debt question,
 So run the official handouts" ob- tained when, regularly, the question pops up again and again in some form.
 Although the debt cancellation ques-
The Cordova daily times., 1921-11-03

eT Is a N0TWegian Who Wsmr 10 E1Hg- ka in the early sos l was born and reared in the Prince William sound country. My father for many years has operated a fox farm on Storey island. This is small island about Is miles off the coast in Prince Will fam sound. The island has 10 miles of shore line, which means that it is about three miles across. Twenty. five years ago my father started with 10 pairs of foxes, which he obtained on Kodiak island. litter of foxes usual ly consists of two or three to eight foxes Five or six is an average litter. We raise blue foxes. My father sells 100 10 200 pelts each year at $l50 to $500 each The pelts of black fox sells for $50 to s1000. depending on quality. The foxes run wild on the isl and and are but little care. We feed them halibut or other Gea fish and in the spring we cook potatoes or turnips. with which we mix fish oil. The foxes will not eat raw cod. We have to cook the codfish, but any other fish they will eat raw This throw I am wear ing is made from the skin of land otter. Sea otters used to be abundant along the Alaskan coast. In the early days, when the traders first went in there, they could be purchased from the natives for from a few dollars to $50 or $6O Now a sea otter skin brings S2.5oO or more"
The Cordova daily times., 1921-11-03

There are about 34,OOO miles of pc troleum pipe lines in the United States
The Cordova daily times., 1921-11-03
TIRE BLOWS OUT AND
 TOWN HAS VEG VISION

POPLAR BLUFFS. Mo- Nov. 3. - Burglars are such oddities at Harris, near here that a posse of armed men quickly gathered in the public square following an explosion supposedly from the blowing of a safe, At hectic pace the posse searched the business district
 Hear my tire blow out?" Queried a man in overalls. unperturbed by the excitement, when the searchers passed bis car.
 Then normalcy returned
The Cordova daily times., 1921-11-03

Let The Daily Times figure on your job work
The Cordova daily times., 1921-11-03
NEW FALL
 FASHIONS

are here in Coats, Suits, Dresses, BIouscs, Skirts, Sweaters and the new Knickcr Suits.
The Cordova daily times., 1921-11-03

Just to think that the old-timc Rus sian Nhilist, in contrast with the ter rible Trotzky, used to give us a thrill
The Cordova daily times., 1921-11-03
New Dressmaking Parlor

Is being opened in connection with our store and will be able to take care of our patrons wishing Gowns, Bouses, Under wear Anything Made to Order. h this department we can also offer many valuable gifts
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-10-18
Simmons Grilled On Big Pay
Received By Kleagle
Clarke

WASHINGTON, Oct. 18-Thc pro-
posed investigation of the Ku KluX
Klan by congress blew up late Mon
day.
After ten minute session behind
closed dors, the house rules com-
mittec which at the morning and af-
ternoon sessions put William j. Sim
mons, the Klan's imperial wizard,
through rigid examination, voted
unanimously not to call any more
witnesses, certainly at this time.
Announcement of the committees
action was made by Chairman Camp
bell, and while the chairman and
members refused later to make any
comment beyond the bare statement
as to witnesses, it is expected that
an adverse report will be submitted
to the house on a number of resolu-
tions providing for an investigation.
Final action, however, will be taken
until several absent members return
to Washington, but house members
accepted it as settled that they were
done with the Ku Klux Klan, unless
the Department of Justice, conduct
ing inquiry of its own, comes for
ward with unexpected evidence
Colonel Simmons was questioned
on the stand about found of
$171,432.67 shown as KIan receipts
from limitations. He was asked who
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-10-18
TREATY TOPASS
SENATE TODAY
Watson And Reed Attack Peace
Pact-Georgissn Is
Bitter

WASHINGTON, Oct l8.-Final
vote on ratification of the German
peace :reaty was expected by both
Republican and Democratic leaders
in the senate today If necessary, it
was said, night session will be
held to assure action.
All efirts to amend the treaty
were defeated in the senate Monday
Attacks against the treaty were
dlivered by Senators Reed and Wat
son, of Georgia. The former declar-
ed the new treaty would take this ma
ton into the League through the
back door," while Senator Watson
asserted that it would bring the coun-
try no nearer technical peace than
the Knox resolution.
1T involves using all kinds of COM
plieationsS that may involve us in
war; said Senator Watson. Touching
on German property transferred to
American citizens by the alien prop
erty costudian. he declared that he
would 'lilSe to have a front seat
when A. Mitchell Palmer former at
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-10-18
RAILWAY EXECUTIVES
TURN DOWN PROPOSAL

CHICAGO, Oct. 18.-PresldentS OF
the leading Middle Western railroads
in joint statement last night, turned
down as impossible" the proposal of
the Railroad Labor board, jublic
group, that freight rates be reduced
Immediately as a possible means of
averting a general rail strike, and
charged that the proposed walkout
would be a strike against the gov
ernment, called by the unions pri-
marily for the purpose of multiplying
the transportation act creating the
Labor Board"
The statement said in part:
'The thing it is proposed to strike
against is the decision of the Rail-
road Labor board authorizing the re-
duction of IL per cent in wages which
the railways put into effect on July l.,
1921. There is at present no other
possible ground for STRIKE by the
railway labor brotherhoods.
THE wage reduction put into ef--
feet on July / was authorized by the
Railroad Labor board Therefore, the
strike, if it occurs, will be against a
decision made by a government body
acting in accordance with federal
law.
"While the railways complied with
the decision in 1920 for an advance
in wages, the labor brotherhoods now
propose to defy the law and strike
rather than accept a much smaller
reduction in wages,
"The railway executives decided to-
ask the Railroad Labor board for
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-10-18
OF
TOMORROW TO
BESM ALLER
So Herbert L. Bridg1nan Tells
World Press Congress, Look
ing To Future

~ HONOLULU, Oct. 18.-(By Asso-
ciated Press Herbert l.. Bridg-
man, business manager of the Brook
lyn Standard Union, told the Press
Congress of the World today he be-
lieved the newspaper CT tomorrow
would be smaller than those of the
present. On that point he asked.
"Why, in blind competition to print
everything which everybody wants,
print so much that nobody wants?"
Mr. Bridgnan asked, He expressed
the opinion that the size of the news
paper would resovle itself largely in
to a commercial and mechanical prob
lem, saying: IF the space can be
sCld for more than it costs it will
be. Otherwise curtailment will fol
low, depending upon price of news
Print, labor and other materials of
production.
"The retail selling price will doubt
les sfollow the same laws but both
size and price are the body, not the
soul of the newspaper of tomorrow.
Whatever may happen, it is my
belief that if they were smaller they
would be better, though this thing
must be pressed to the vanishing
point. But no wmany features, sup
plementaries, insets, juniors and 9th
er appendages could we discard with
resignation and advantage. i
"Thc New York ercury reported
the miraculous retreat Of the Ameri-
can army after the battle Of Long
Island which saved the Revolution,
in three lines; the London Times COW
cred the battle of Waterloo in two
sticks. We print first page tele-
graphed columns of the beastly orgy
of bcastly men and women in a San
Francisco hotel.
Mr.. Bridgman said he would not
admit that the newspapers have lost
thei rpower nor outlived their in
fluence even though the era of per
sonal journalism of which Greedy, !
Bennett and Raymond were the sig
nal lights"
Mr.. Bridgman declared that in adj /
yertising the future was bright, !
speaking not of qauntity but of quail |
ity. ''The newspapers of their own |
accord and by common consent, long
before laggard legislators awoke to
the situation, cleaned house and !
1t thoroughly, and if the business of !,
flee can secure response and coop
Grafton from the editorial rooms the |
job is finally and effectively complet- !
ed, he confirmed
AS to the advertising rates, those |
of the newspapers of tomorrow will
De higher than those of today and !
they ought to be. Not only will the
service be more valuable in respect |
to quantity but its quality and prest-
lge will be sensibly advanced"
In this connection Mr.. Bridgman !
suggested thai the newspaper estab-
lish unit of value.
Rates." Mr.. Bridgman affirmed, |
"will be maintained. Here there is
no middle ground. Integrity of rates, |
all things to all men, is to news
paper as credit to the banker, virtue
to woman and the newspaper which |
trifles with it is doomed"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-10-18

further reduction in wages and to
tons in rates all the benefits of any
give the pumlic in the form of reduc~
further reduction in wages granted.
This, however, afforded the brother-
hoows no reason for ordering
strike The strike vote was taaken on
the question of accepting the wage
reduction already authorized by the
Labor board, not on the quqestion of
future reduction.
'The railway employees have no
more legal right to strike against it
than the railways would have had to
refuse to grant the advance in wages
authorized in. 1920 by the Labor
board"
Concerning the Labor board public
group proposal to cut rates imme-
diately, the statement said;
In asking for further reduction
in wages in order that they may be
able to grant the public reductions in
rates, the railroads are acting only
in accordance with the laws and in
obedience to an insistent public de-
mand that they shall create condi-
tions which will enable them to re-
duce rates.
"A general reduction in rates with
out further reduction in wages
would be ruinous to many railroads.
Thus far in the year 1921, the rail-
ways have earned a net return Of
only 26 per cent, and although the
net earnings have increased recently.
owing largely to the recent reduction
in wages, a general reduction of rates
without a further reduction in wages
would put the railways back in very
precarious position financially
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-10-18
CONGRESS DROPS PROBE
OF KHAN AFTER HEARING

had authority to draw checks on this
fund, and named H. c. Montgomery
supreme treasurer.
Chairman Campbell wanted to
know the purpose Of the contract
between the Klan and Edward Y.
Clarke, head Of the Klan's publicity
bureau. Simmons said it was purely
for propaganda
Simmons admitted thai Clarkc's
organization received for its use So
out of every $40 initiation fee
Simmons said he could not say
now much CT the Klan's $171, ,432.67
fund was left in the treasury.
Simmons said he knew nothing
abou; how Edward Young Clarke
and Mrs. Tyler, his assistant, divided
d $111,000 fund said to have accrued
to them under their contract with
the Klan. He said ''for cause" he
could terminate The Clarke contract
at any time, but he had no informa-
ton upon which to base a conclusion
that Clarke and Mrs. Tyler did not
measure up to the high ideals" of
the order.
He said the fact that they re-
ccived 1926, 5,568.84 for their work in
one year did not appear to him as
improper and that they appeared to
him to be doing "a pretty good piece
of work"
Simmons was asked what assets
the Klan had to show for its re-
ceipts and work, and he named the
home office at Atlanta, partially
paid for.