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The Washington herald., 1921-03-11

Co. Members Hsw Yerf Gotten Exchange }
In an endeavor to assist Ameri-
can firms which desire to export
their products to Mexico. the Bu-
reau OF Foreign and Domestic Com
merce has collected a large amount
of trade information which Is avail
able TO interested manufacturers.
The Washington herald., 1921-03-11
Additional Capital Is
Required for Expansion

president of the American Electric
Railway Association. public utilities
of the United States will require
sS52.50o.O00 properly to equip the L.
25o.0oo houses and apartments which
this country now needs.
The Washington herald., 1921-03-11

STANDARD OIL ISSUES.
900 Anglo Am OIL. 17k 16IS 1914
20 Standard Oil CAL. 297 296 296
'iS stand Oil Ind, new COX 60 50
10 Standard Oil Y. a29
The Washington herald., 1921-03-11
BOSTON MINING STOCKS
(W B. Hbbs Co.. Hbbs Stock Exch.,-.
COTTONSEED OIL.

NEW YORK. March 1o.-cotton-
seed oil was weak. Spot. $50 bid;
crude. AS sales. Futures-March,
6.50a7.0O: April. 6.70a71o: May. tbs
a7.S5; June, 7.25a7.6o; July, 7.eSa
I72; August. 7.s2a7.S6; September,
7.s5a7.96; October, 7.90as.30.
The Washington herald., 1921-03-11
TURKISH CAPITAL
DEPICTSPI PITIFUL
ASPECT, He SAYS
Guaranty Trust Head
Finds Miserable Condi-
tions in Moslem City
FINANCES ARE WEAK
Meager Customs and Excessive
Bureaucracy Present AL
most Insolvable Problem.

In an interview regarding condi-
tions in the Near East. Sigmund
Metz. assistant vice president Of
the Guaranty Trust Company Of
New York. who has just returned
from Constantinople. where he was
instrumental in establishing a
branch of the Guaranty several
months ago. said in part:
Life in Constantinople today is
by no means easy. The city Is
crowded to overfiowing. and a large
proportion of the population Is
without visible means of subsist-
ence. The city presents a depress-
ing aspect-Russian refugees, with
the imprint of privation stamped
upon their whole appearance; Tur-
kish prisoners. returned from
Egypt clothed in rags: a host OF
small Turkish government en-
ployes. eking out a miserable exist
ence on fraction OF their normal
pay. already none too substantial,
give one an idea of the suffering
of the masses. which even the de-
voted efforts of the numerous
American charitable organizations
are only very partially able to re-
lieve.
Turkish Finances Critical.
"As for the Turkish government.
its financial condition Is critical.
With its revenue practically con-
fined to proceeds of the CONSTANT
nople customs and a bureaucracy on
it's hands excessive even for it's
former size. il Is faced with what
appears to be an almost insolyable
problem.
Foreign Element Exempt.
The taxable capacity Of Tur-
keys population, impoverished
through long periods of war and
unsettlement. is reduced to the
vanishing point, and. up TO the
present. the foreign element-the
only one able to bear the burden
has been exempt. Nor are the
government finances alone in a
condition of bankruptcy. The city
of Constantinople is likewise re-
duced to dire straits. and is unable
to provide properly for some of the
most essential public services. with
the result that the city presents a
neglected appearance.
From commercial point of
view. present conditions in Con-
stantinople present a more or less
complete analogy to other parts OF
the world. possibly in somewhat
aggravated form, due to the COM
plete exhaustion or inaccessibility
of its chief outlets. Losses incurred
by the trading community have
been very severe, but failures OF
Importance have. in comparison
with other markets, been few in
number. mainly due to the assist
ance rendered perforce by the
banks. As a result. however, the
local banking position Is strained
Early Recovery Unexpected.
mo recovery can reasonably be
expected until the political horizon
clears, world conditions generally
improve, and until the natural mar
kets, both of supply and of con-
sumption. are again accessible to
the merchants of Constantinople.
When this is achieved. II seems in
evitable that Constantinople will
again occupy its former position as
the distributing and banking center
of the Near East. for, as Gibbon
puts It: The single spot united the
prospects of beauty. safety and of
wealth formed by nature for the
center and capital of a great mon
archy.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-03
M FEN, WOM FEN
 A N D T H N G s

This is to be the story of town which re- fused to be down-hearted even though great railroad system which had cut it in two for more than a half century for certain reasons which seemed wise unto the management, changed it's main right of way and left it on branch line.
 The town is we'll named Warrior, for it's made up of warriors filled with the battling spirit, men who did not turn craven when it appeared to some that the directing powers of the great corporation which furnished them the means of transportation found it to their interest to side track them.
 Some of the leading citizens admitted that at first they were bit groggy over the blow which was dealt them, but the more they studied it out the quicker was their recovery, for they saw that they were able to get freight in and out as speedily as' before, and that so far as travelling themselves, there was no very serious handicap
 But the thing which pleased me most was the remark of one man who seemed to voice the general opinion of all that the good road into Birmingham had given the "jitneys" chance, and that as Birmingham was the place most of the Warriorites wanter to go, it was easier 
 and Nashville flirted with Warrior.
 Warrior, while not dependent entirely on it's mines, yet is blessed with having some profit able ones within it's borders and surrounding it. Beltona, Black Creek, Rogers and Seloca all, when running full time, have large size pay rolls and, by the way, they have been op- erating on full time in proportion as any in the district. I was told that Warrior was sec ond in importance as cotton market in Jeff ferson county to Birmingham, and that in the old days before the boil weevil got in it's work, it received around 5000 bales. I saw several wagonloads come into town while l was up there.
 Warrior could have had it's semi-centennial soon if it had cared to celebrate the event, it came into being in 1872, and ever since then has been a thriving town. l was surprised to find conditions at Warrior so favorable, for it had weathered the financial storm and busi- ness depression as well any place of its size in the Birmingham district.
 In addition to the money which flows into it's stores and bank from the mines is the pay rolls from two going brick concerns, one mak- ing building brick and the other paving brick. Then back of it is farming section which each year is learning diversification and at present is much given to trucking. It seems hard to believe, yet was told that some days
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-03
MOBILE HAS BECOME GREAT
 INDUSTRIAL CITY

Birmingham welcomes Mobile into that city's position in the industrial world. Mobile has made an increase of TIP per cent in capital in- vested in manufacturing plants in five years, 369 per cent in the value of manufactured products and 300 per cent in the number of men employed.
 Mobiles percentage of increase in manu- factures is the largest of all Alabama cities in the past five years. Birmingham remains the chief industrial center, but Mobile has easily pre-empted second place. The city on the gulf in 1919 employed 9,812 men in manufactures, capital invested was $48,553 ,O00, and the value of manufactured products was $27,411 ,0O0.
 During the war Mobile became great ship building center, where the freighters of Bir- mingham were built that carry Alabama prod ucts the world over.
 Alabamas export trade depends on Mobile It is the states only port and the sole gate way to the outside world. All Alabama will benefit by Mobiles progress as an industrial city, just as it will profit by the development of Muscle Shoals.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-03
LIKES THE AGE-HERALD

"It is very noticeable the improvement that The Age-Herald has made during the past few months," said H. Blacklock. "The manner in which the editorial page is now displayed gives the paper very metropolitan air, while the reading matter is fine
 q regard Paul Cook as one of the best writ CTS whose work have ever read, while Henry Vance's Old Town Pump with his baseball and other sports news, is the best writer on such matters in the south.
 "Pm proud of our home paper and long may it live to wield wholesome influence as well as giving the people all the news in a clever concise manner"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-03
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
CHILDRENs SOCIETY POPULAR

q had never realized before what tre- mendous appeal the Alabama Children's Aid society makes to all classes until we started our preliminary plans for the campaign, which opens tomorrow," said H. D. Cullen, secretary of the society.
 "Ghe first surprise was an automobile fully equipped and ready for use, which was pre- sented to the society by friends, placing us in a position where could do our work much more conveniently and quickly than ever be- fore.
 "The second surprise was when the mail was opened yesterday and we found letters from five different Sunday schools out of Birming- ham, contributing $8 each to the society.
 q went down to Montgomery last Monday and the campaign was in full swing there and, usual, Montgomery responded generously to the movement. In less than three hours the quota for Montgomery was raised"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-03
4,OoO INCREASE

There are nearly 4,000 more children en- rolled in the Jefferson county schools so far this year than there was last year." said Dr. N. R. Baker, county superintendent of education
 ''In the high schools there is an increase of 500, and I attribute this increase to the facv that the high schools have been erected within the reach of the children. At the present time there 15 senior high schools in the county which have four years work and 20 junior high schools which have only two years work.
 "It has been my observation that people send their children to school more regularly when conditions are dull and work is not so easy to get and in my opinion this is one of the reasons for the large increase in attendance in the county schools so far this year."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-03
eAn4K1IaMlAasssfl
INTERIM

Leslie Nelson Jennings, in The New Republic. I can conceive of Silence as it creeps Over the world at evening, as it falls On marbles marred where Desolation keeps Court among crowns usurped and sunken
 wsils
 can imagine how the dead might come Back to The splendor of their old estate, Regal no less because their lips are dumb, No less desired, no less ipsportunate. Such things have been; such things will ever be- And yet cannot think of you as one Welded so early to Antiquity
 A wind, mist, a rainbow in the sun. Silence and Sleep! -. Who knows what
 unforeseen
 Departures and tarewells must come
 between!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-03
RATE DETERMINATIONS AGAINST BIRMINGHAM REMOVED

Birmingham has come into it's own so far as the removal of freight rate discriminations is concerned. So little remains to be done in the elimination of artificial barriers to our trade expansion that nothing formidable stands in the way. Birmingham enjoys equal advantages with competitors formerly having rail rates that gave them an opportunity to invade Ala bama territory.
 The recent action of the interstate com merce commission in abolishing the water based rail rates to New Orleans, Memphis and related points and raising class rates from the east to these points, while Birmingham rates from the east remain as they were and lower than the new rates to Memphis and New Or leans, removes the last real discrimination
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-03
THE CHIMES ARE COMING

''We have received word from the McShane factory in Baltimore that the chimes for our church have been cast, unsteady tested and are ready to be shipped to Birmingham" said Dr.. w. R. Hendrix, pastor of the Highlands Meth odist church. "I feel assured now that the chimes will be in their place in our belfry and will ring out the Christmas tidings.
 "When the chimes do ring, I shall not only think of the message which they bring to our little fold but to that of the entire community, of which we are part Their music is for all and am glad that it can be heard by all"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-03
as many as 20 wagons and trucks pass through Warrior on thier way to Birmingham

as many as 20 wagons and trucks pass through Warrior on thier way to Birmingham.
 Warrior, while looked upon as a mining town, covers the best things in the way of churches and schools. It has four churches, Methodist, Baptist, Pentecostal and Catholic; while it has just added handsome up-to-date high school building, which in conjunction with a commodious grammar school edifice is quite a credit to the town.
 Principal F. S. Self, who met me at the door of the high school, most cordially and asked me if I wouldn't talk to the student body. did. It was good to find that modern school structure approved by the state board of education and recommended by the county school authorities had been built at Warrior. dences On my visit I had the privilege of dining in the home of Mr. and Mrs. G. N. Ham, ilton, sitting on high hill, which is claimed to be the highest point in Jefferson county, got a wide view of the surrounding country.
 Warrior clings to the old democratic sys- tenn of town government and runs it's affairs with mayor and board of aldermen w. R. Gibbs occupies the majority ehair( while Messrs J. T. Whaley, Ben F. Baldwin, W. J. Carlisle, Jonah Yessick and Dr. S. w. Cox act as the city fathers. used to go to Warrior in the old days when things happened lively and it was easy to find trouble if one was looking for it, but at present, while full of life, it is thoroughly sober and peacable.
 put in mighty pleasant day talking with it's business and professional men and came back home feeling that hereafter I would al- ways be in closer and more sympathetic touch with the brave little town on the northern fringe of imperial Jefferson.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-03
SERGEANT SAMUEL WOODFILL
 A WORLD WAR HERO

Drawn from comparative obscurity to rep resent the infantry branch of the army at the Armistice Day ceremonies for Americas un- known soldier, Sergt. Samuel Woodfill has been placed by General Pershing along with Ser geant York of Tennessee and Maj. Charles 5. Wittlesey of the "Lost Battalion" as one of the greatest heroes of the World war;.
 Sergeant Woodfills heroism was rewarded by promotion, bestowal of the congressional medal, the crox de guerre of France and army to a peace footing evidently reduced him in rank from captaincy to non-com- mssioned office and although his exploints did not escape the correspondents, he had been almost forgotten when General Pershing chose him as the army representative at the Armis- tice Day exercises in Washington. On the con- trary, Sergeant York and Major Wittlesey have been much in the public eye.
 The story of the way Sergeant Woodfill silenced three machine guns, killed 19 Germans and captured three others during the Meuse- Argonne offensive would read like fiction, If it were not characteristic of the impetuous bravery of the American soldiers in France who had never learned caution in trench warfare.
 It is related of Sergeant Woodfil that when he attacked the last of the three machine gun nests he finished the job with pick. It was just such rough and tumble fighting as this, contrary to the German idea of decorum in bat tie. that filled the Kaiser's legions with aston ishment American boys charging a machine gun splitting death as if they were trying for
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-03
THE ROAD SUPREME

q think the superlative in bragging was chroncled in an issue of a magazine picked up the other day." said Billy West. "It seems the Katy and the Frisco lines cross each other somewhere in the west, and there's a great rivalry between porters on the two lines.
 According to the magazine, Frisco train and Katy train pulled up at the crossing for few minutes wait the other day, and two Senegambian porters got to joshing each other. Finally the Katy porter said: I tells you, nggah, de Katy hauls mo people dan de Frisco do.' The Frisco porter yawned, looked with disgust upon his rival, and replied with heavy tonnage of sarcasm: 'Pshaw, niggah, de Frisco kills mo people evah year dan de Katy hauls. "
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-03
THE UNAssIMILABLE INDIAN

"The negro out of the heart of Africa has taken on the white mans ways," said Dr.. Charles Whelan, "but the Indian seems obdu- rate.
 q spent several months at the Pappahoe reservation in Arizona, living with the Indians An Indian girl, who had graduated at Cali fornia university and returned home educated and dressed in modern style, lapsed into moe casins and discarded her corset inside of two weeks. Indians educated civil engineers and practicing that profession, live in adobe huts as the untutored Indians da
 "The Indian just will not get away from na- ture; they revert to type at first opportunity"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-03
A MORNING PRAYER
NO NEED TO HAMMER" AT
 DOORS OF CONFERENCE

There is a strong public demand that the disarmament conference be as open as possi- ble, but it is in rather bad taste for members of Congress to begin noisy campaign just at this time in favor of the utmost publicity. The American government could not, without being discourteous to the representatives of other nations, lay down any hard and fast rule of procedure. That will have to be worked out when all the delegates arrive and will be the re- suit of an understanding among them, as to the manner in which the conference shall transact it's business.
 If public opinion in the United States ard abroad, but particularly in the United States, has any weight, the conference will unques- tionaby mark wide departure from the Euro pean style of diplomacy where decisions are reached behind closed doors and diplomats tel! the public as much or as little as they want 1t to know of what has beer done.
 Obviously, the Washington conference will not be, sort of ''free-for-all" debate, with the public crowdng in to hear every word spoken. Even if the American representatives could do their work under such conditions, the foreign diplomats could not adjust themselves to Buch an arrangement and instead of expe- dting business, it might have just the opoo- site effect.
 Possibly certain intimate discussions of tional affairs will take place in secret, for much will be brought out that is being jealously
 
 guarded by all the nations concerned, includ. ing America, but there will be no excuse or justification for shrouding the whole confer ence in secrecy. Such course would only add to the dstrust that has already been created regarding its purposes. The people entitled to know from day to day what is being done, what decisions are reached and what under standings are arrived at and they should be inc formed through the press, which should be given every facility, not in conflict with na- tional interests the objects of the confer ence, for obtaining accurate information.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-03
MANDY PREPARING

"When Vanderbilt meets Alabama on the stripped field Saturday afternoon, the follow CTS of the pigskin from the Tennessee city are going to present the hardest fighting ma chine it has turned out in many years," said William J. Slaughter, of the Vanderbilt com mittee arranging details for the game.
 "Every man on the team knows the game from Alpha to Omega. The Vanderbilt alumni going to make the biggest showing that has been gotten together for many year. There will be addresses by men prominent in the university and active in the alumni work. :"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-03
LETTERS TO EDITOR
FOR THE SUFFERING POOR
e Editor of The Age-Herald:

To the Editor of The Age-Herald:
 want to call the public attention to the sit uaton among the poor families in Ensley, Wylam and Pratt City. While I am going around visiting this people, some of them ask me for something to eat and others for clothes and shoes. One family has seven children. None of them have shoes on their feet, and they are covered with rags. And there is one family with eight children and mother sick in bed. I sent the doctor myself and something to eat, but beg the public that those that can send old or new clothes of any kind and also food, to the Italian M. E. church, every Mon- day, to 4 p. m. at Avenue H and Sixteenth street, Ensley I promise to do my best to distribute same to those that need.
 Don't forget, Remember the poor" If you cannot send what you have, write and I will send for it. s. G. CERAVOLO,
 Ensley, November 1, 1921. Pastor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-03
FROM LAWRENCE COUNTY

To the Editor of The Age-Herald: I am taking advantage of my first oppor- tunity to express to you my appreciation of your recent able editorial espousing the cause of Judge w. W. Brandon for governor. There is no one in the state who has done more for democracy than Judge Brandon. Cap able and honest, he deserves the honor. Thank ing you, yours very truly
 HECTOR D. LANE. Courtland, October 31, 1921.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-03
A FAMOUS JOKE

From the Springfield Republican.
 The famous English comic weekly Punch's famous "advice to those about to marry'' was Don't" This has been quoted thousands of times by persons who have not stopptd to con sider that in itself, while humorous and pes simistic substitute for serious exhortation, 1t does not fully measure up to the requirements of joke But joke it was in the beginning In a letter to the London Observer, M. H. Spielmann, author of history of Punch, ex- plains the jokes origin. When Punch was in it's infancy there was in London firm of house furnishers, Eamonson & Co.,, who began their advertisements with these we'll displayed phrases:-
 Worthy of Attention.
 Advice to Those About to Marry-Then fol- lowed an appeal to prospective couples to in- their future happiness by furnishing their homes at Eamonson's. While this advertise ment was in every Londoner's mind, Punch came out-at Christmas 1841-with its lad vice to those about to marry" The perverson of a familiar phrase, the element of surprise made the joke.
 That the injunction Don't" has survived by itself, bereft of the association which gave it point on it's first appearance is a subject for
 
 immortality, and it's authorship has been sub ject of almost much speculation as the birth place of Homer. It has been publicly attributed at different times to six more or less humble persons-and all Scotsmen. This last fact may excite some surprise, for, while Scots- man might be expected to know whether mar riage good bargain or not, tradition denies Scotsmen a sense of humor. It can be said that the history of Punch authoritatively disposes of this slander In Punch's early days large proportion of it's best jokes, particularly those Illustrated by Charles Keene, came from north of the Tweed.
 Perhaps the truth is that Scotsman cannot appreciate joke about his own race. And for this view the history of Punch also affords some evidence. One of it's most famous jokes was the remark, Bang went the saxpence," an exclamation actually uttered by Scotsman to express his horror at the rapidity with which he had to spend money in London. Scotsmen are said to regard this as a taunt, but for a Londoner, as MT. Spielmann explains, the fun consists in the suggestion that the sudden spending of this small coin (the equivalent of 12 cents in United States money) should have assumed the importance of an explosion.
 As is now revealed, it was no outside contrib utor, but Harry Mayhew, one of the founders of Punch, who gave the famous "advice to those about to marry" This fact has been ascertained positively after days of laberious research, in which even the British postoffice contrary to rules and precedents, cordially par ticipated by searching for and finding the ad- dress of one elderly woman who was errone- ously reported to have been the author.