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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-18
SOME MORE GOSSIP
 ABOUT COUNTY QUEENS

State papers are filled these days with news of the various contests that are going on for the choice of the county queens,' who are to come to Birmingham for the semi centennial celebration, and who will meet the President and his wife and who will be accorded every honor after they reach the city.
 Clubs will vie one with another to give them happiness, and if they had time 50 many social events would be crowded into their busy lives that they would be compelled to rest a solid month after getting back home again.
 However, they are to be entertained as much as girls should be to get the proper beauty sheep" and commit tees over the counties are seeing to it that youth and beauty par excel lence will make up the "67 varieties" as they are now popularly and very appropriately dubbed because there are 67 counties in Alabama.
 Here is an excerpt from the Tus- caloosa News, which shows with what spirit that county is entering the contest. With this spirit, and with their beautiful bevy of girls as tcos luotaiOOSdHS VIII nave o difficult time in making a choice.
 If all the other counties enter into the contest with their spirit, pretty soon Alabama will begin to feel the thrill of 'getting together" as never before. Why shouldn't every county in Alabama have a real heart inter- est in President and Mrs. Hardings s coming? Why shouldn't they be on hand to help out with the semi-cen- tennial spirit? This kind of oneness will help the state, and set an ey- ample for other states to follow.
 Here Is the Tuscaloosa News poppy" way of helping to make Bir- mngham's birthday party success for the city, and for Tuscaloosa and Tuscaloosa county. It is headed, "Nomniations in Full Foree':
 "Enthusiasm reigns supreme! Ev- erybody wants to have his favorite in the big contest for representing Tuscaloosa county as queen in the semi centennial at Birmingham. It's the greatest honor of the age, and up to today the following have been nominated by the citizens of the county: Missss Lillian Rose, Anniella Abbott, Frances Denny, Eieanore Barnwell, Katie Mae Shirley, Jeanette Foster, Kathleen Foster. Lillian Cum ningham. Virginia Doty. Ida Har- grove. Annalee Fitts, Jean Harris, Mary. Evans Harrison. Louise Jones, Beulah Hill. Mary Amanda Little. Bertha Mitchell. Dorothy Monnish. Susie Mosely. Anna Dora Patton, Sudie Beck Powers. Annie Wallace Hayes, Mary Gulley Elizabeth Searcy, Bessie Sloss. Curtis Parr, Sara Maude Taylor, Olive Werner, Lena Holtzstein, Theo Wrye, Stella Brown, Betty Hood. Where are the county representatives? Let their friends nominate them without delay. for on Wednesday, the coupons will be published and surely everyboey wants an equal chancel No nor " can buy this contest, no influence can be used. but every candidate has the power to enlist her friends, and after all it's up to the people. Get in the race. It's well worth the effort"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-18
LEEk HAYS
 WEDDING ANNOUNCEMENT

MT. and Mrs. George Willis Hays announce the engagement and ap- preaching marriage of their daugh- ter. Gladys Price, to MT. John Bannis- ter Leek of Atlanta. The wedding will take place October l9 at o'clock in the evening, at the Church of the Advent
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-18

for the best in music. given for the 1 least money.
 Because the club is putting on membership drive this month for 1000 members and expects you to renew or became a member"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-18
PAGEANT TO BIc GIVEN
 BY BAPTJST WOMEN

A pageant that will call out large number of people in Woodlawn will be put on Monday afternoon at 8 o'clock at the Fifty-sixth Street church. The pageant will show the missionary work being done by Bap- lists. and 20 local women will repre- sent the various states of the union. The regular meeting time will be oc-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-18

And for Mothers all know this outftng the boys for the service for which this store particularly qualified by of it's broad knowledge of boy likes and dislkes-carefully considered when ected the splendid stocks showing today. As bright beacons in of doubtful quality direct very particular attention to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-18
BOX PARTY
 AT LYRIC

Miss Mabel Afford and Miss Marga- ret Afford entertained at box party Friday afternoon honoring their cousin, Miss Martha Hale of New York. After the performance, re- treatments were enjoyed at a down town shop.
 Those In the party besides the hon. 3oree and hostesses were: Lucille Las sitter of Memphis. Miss Robbie Wylie of Syiacauga, and Mrs. Dan Monroe.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-18

cupied by the programme, to which the congregation is especially bidden.
 The programme will be led by Di- vision No. 2, and special music will be heard. Much preparation has been spent on the spectacle, and 1t is ex- pected to be very attractive. At the end of the regular programme, so- cial half hour will be a feature, during which refreshments will be served
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-18
nANDLEY-KIRTLAND
 uEcA(.EMENT ANNOUNCED

MT. and Mrs. J w. kirtlaho nounce the engagement or , daughter, Gladys Rountree, .o lawrence Erskine Handley, the we'd ding to take place in october
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-18
FARISH-PAYNE
 ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCED

MT. and Mrs. C. B. Wilson or orr, vile announce the engagement ana approaching marriage of their nlece, Ida Wilson Payne to MT. Floyd fora Parish, the wedding to be solemnizeo in November.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-02
Peking School Teachers, Unpaid
Since june, Threaten to Strike
Demand for Salaries Causes Ministries of Finance
and Education to Scurry for Funds in Effort
to Prevent Immediate Closing of Institutions

on the state Of things Chinese that in
the nation characterized preeminently
for 1000 years by Its respect for learn
ing the schools should be threatened
with closing because the government
will not pay salaries. Extenuation
lies in the fact that in the past edu-
cation was private rather than a
public charge, but in the main the re-
Election is accurate The COVE rnment
has millions to squander on So
called military establishments which
does not even pro,ec, the people
against organized robbery. but it has
no money foY schools. Half the
Chinese governments revenue goes for
IN Military expenses, not per cent for
schools. And there IL no need among
al Chna's pressing needs go great as
that Of education.
The educational system has been
sighted ever since military rule act l.
a few years after the founding of the
istry of Education have shrunk to a..
most NIL even the budgetary estimate
being a mere euphemism The cost ii
maintaining the schools and college.
Of Peking Is the equivalent Of $1,000
600 year. Inst year that was met
by a loan made by the Ministry ..
Education on it's own auth ority The
interest paid was something Ike ~
per cent. This year at so low an ehh
are the governments finances that even
that rate does not tempt lenders. Not
even loans can be made
For much of the blame tho presen;
government ts to be exculpated, for /.
is n"yina for the sins Of the last gov
ernment tho bi.king Anfu party'a cab.
met. 1t has all that governments
prohigatc debts to pay. But its own
skirts are none too clean. For. Will,
s2.0t0o00 cannot be spared for tn,
schools for whole year, single paw.
merits OF twice thst sum CON Be mad
to swaggertng general hurting threats
from some provincial stronghol,. B.t
thss. military, not the scholar Ia t..
ruling figure Of republican China.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-02
therefore the need for haulaee ha. ,;te.

therefore the need for haulage has like
wiss been diminished, but at the sama
time there has not by any means been
a complete interruption of merchandise
selling. We have but to stop along anv
Of the main arteries of traffic and note
the procession of loaded trucks 30 real
ize the truth Of this assertion.
Motor trucks do not last forever
They have their periods of useful exis.
tence the same as their fellow steam
or electric tractors, which haul their
burdens of the worlds goods on narrow
steel rails instead of over country roads
or city streets. The replacement of mo-
tor truck equipment, therefore. In tn.
course of time becomes necessary: and
THIS replacement is just as urgent in
dull times as it is during the buster
periods. Therefore, though it is true
that the demand for motor trucks has
fallen off considerably during the last
SIX months, il is not true that the pur-
chasing Of motor trucks has been alto.
gether discontinued. The situation :s
simply one which requires more inten-
sive selling, and one in which the buyer
Will receive more courtesy and consid-
Grafton than was possibly extended
during those days, not so long ago.
when buyers were plentiful but trucks
were scarce"
New-York tribune., 1921-01-02
REQ Will Make Full
Display of Trucks

What is considered one of the most
complete lines Of commercial vehicles
sver disp aged, will be on view at the
exhibit of the REQ Motor Car Company
NJ New York at the Highway Trans
portation Show in the Twelfth Reei-
nent Armory. Among the types to be
shown will be jitney bus, stake plat
orm truck. canopy top express wagon,
field dump wagon. panel-side delivery
wagon, and hearse.
"The speed wagon chassis is in no
sense a converted passenger car" says
]. j. Hunt general manager Of the
REQ Motor Car Company of New York.
This will hs made evident by COM
parison with the REQ passenger car
chassis, which will reveal that it has
different engine. frame, axle. wheels.
tires, etc. The Jobs differ wherever a
truck should differ from passenger
car. Pneumatic tires and full electric
lighting and starting equipment are
standard on all speed wagons, which
have record Of six years Of use in a
thousand lines Of business. More than
10000 Of these vehicles are now In
service. Some have run In excess of
400, 900 miles and are still in opera
ton"
New-York tribune., 1921-01-02
Price Factor Has Not
Been Active in Trucks

THE local motor truck situation has
not escaped the waves Of depression
that have been sweeping over the coun-
try since the early part Of last sum
mer," says G. V. Lyons, manager of the
motor truck department OF John Sim
mons Company, Eastern distributors OF
Jumbo trucks. at is grave question
in the writer's mind whether the de-
sired results were obtained by those
few local distributors whose factories
announced price reductions during the
past few months. The buyers timidity
or shyness, Tor their refusal to buy
essentials can hardly be given any
other term. was strengthened, if any
thing, by the price reductions an
nounced. The doctrine of waiting for
still further and more general price re-
ducti.sls has been tnsidiously incul-
Gated, and from the writer's viewpoint
this has been the only real tangible re-
suit Of the few reductions that nave
already been announced.
Price reduction, to many factories,
during the past few months has been a
physical impossibility, and the situa-
ton to-day remains practically un-
changed. Labor has not altered its at.
titude toward high wages to any
marked degree, and this is the one big
element that controls prices at our fac
tories. Certain raw materials, it is
true, have been reduced, but through
the various stages of unit assembly
there can be no final cost red ction un-
til labor elects to give its services at a
lower wage together with longer
working period.
"The reason for the present motor
truck selling depression might better
be ascribed to under consumption rath.
er than to overproduction. It is true
that fewer commodities are being sold
to-day than were sold year ago. and
New-York tribune., 1921-01-02
Boston Women See Great
Future RS Bank Clerks
Many of l.0O0 Now Employed
Quickly Show Adaptability
to Business

BOSTON Jan. l. - One thousand
women are employed in the banks of
Boston. This would not be surprising
but for the fact that large proportion
are employed as expert clerks-an
elastic term--in all departments of the
Institutions
The women were employed, in many
cases with reluctance, as a war emer.
gency when the boys went marching
away but they are said to have shown
adaptability to the banking business
Miss Caroline F. Sickle, in charge Of
the woman personnel in an institution
employing 318 women says that last
year 200 women bank clerks occupied
much Of their spare time obtaining
afdcd knowledge of the principles and
details Of BANKING afforded by the
evening conrsoa conducted for the
American Institute Of Banking. OF
women in the banking world she says:
Until within few years most po.
sitions open to women within banking
irstltuticns have been largely in the
nature Of stenorraphlc work At rres-
ent you viii fnd women in almo 81
every department, and when the de-
nartmNnt hoad is consulted he win tell
you that the woman clerks work is
satisfactory indeed
occasionally, we hear of some
woman who has attained an executive
position within the conservative circles
OF banking. although such attalnments
have not been at all general This is
not a bit discouraging, however. when
VIC realize that what we have been
riven to do we have done satisfactorily
We need to realize that the future may
bring greater opportunities and to be
ready for these we cannot have too
great knowledge relating to the princi-
Piles and details of banking"
New-York tribune., 1921-01-02
Disorders i'm Erin Make
Insurance Market Brisk
Policies Provide Sufferer Must
Show He Il No, Responsible
for Disturbances

DUBLIN, Dec. l6 (By Mail) -1nsur-
ance companies, mostly English, have
done b,isk business in Ireland in IS
suing policies against loss due to civil
ccmmotion.
Everybody has IN uneasy feeling
that his house is rot saf; from the
tie government and its enemies Many
persons have suffered whom nobody in
t. nded to in.iure. The market for in
su"ance policies, therefore, has been
active
The ordinary fire and accident poll
cies expressly exclude damage from
the results of civil war or distu Dances
OF public order which the nov poll
t.ta are meant to cover. 1t - been
discovered, however, that a Cause in
many Of the new policies might make
them valuelcss and leave victim who
bad paid his premium no better of
than before.
1t is provided that in order to recover
a loss the sufferer must be able to show
that neither he nor any Of his servants
has been a member of an Illegal or
ganization responsible for disturbance.
On the face Of it this seems reason
able, hut there are many individuals
and still more important firms who
could not answer for the political
affiliations of all the members of their
stats.
Recently some Of the most respecta-
bic firms 10 Dublin owned by Unionists
and wealthy men unconnected with pol
itics have been raided by the forces Of
the Crown in search Of suspected EN-
ployees whose private affairs were en-
tirely unknown to their employers If
these employers starting roofing out
the Sinn Feiners from their stats the
unpopularity thereby provoked might
easily ruin their business The facts
throw an interesting sidelight on The
ordinary conduct Of life in Ireland
under guerilla warfare
Trouble has arisen by the Naction Of
the British commission which since the
v orld War controls the sugar supply.
1t has issued instructions to English
wholesalers that they must not while
the present disturbances continue, SUD-
ply Irish sugar retailers With any sugar
except for cash down, and this order
applies even TO firms whose solvency
is undoubted
New-York tribune., 1921-01-02

preventing motor vehicle accidents.
Another special feature Of this day
will be a tug-of-war between teams Of
Traffic Squads A, B and C of the New
York Police Department.
The main speaker on Thursday,
January 6, Transportation Day." will
be Ex-Governor Alfred E. Smith, who
has just Joined the United States
Trucking Corporation. On the educa-
tonal program E. S. Farr, chief of the
flrestone Ship-by-Truck Bureau, will
talk and exhibit his unusual film en-
titled "The Neck Of the Bottle" In ad-
dition. James W. Brooks, director of
the Federal Highway Council, will
speak on the necessity for adequate
truck highways and exhibit his film,
Trucking Through Dixie"
Farmers Day." Friday, January z,
will be featured by the principal ad-
dress by E. T. Meredith, Secretary of
the United States Department Of Agri-
culture, and by a complete educational
end motion picture program on the
Use of. the Motor Truck on the Farm ~
David c. Fenner, past president Of
the Motor Truck Association of Amer
icA, and Harry G. Mock, general man
ager of the NationS Automobile Deal
ers' Association. will be the principal
SPEAKERS on saturday evening, January
Motor Truck Association Day"
Twanty-six different makes of motor
trucks, three makes OF trailers and a
great array of parts and accessories
exhibits have been secured to date and
others will be added before the show
opens. The latest list of exhibitors
forlows:
Trucks-Adams Trailer American Truck
and Tractor Company Ressener Motor
Truck COMPANY, Rrockway Motor Truck
Company. Clinton Motors Inc. Clydesdale
.I T,otor Truck Corpany. Corbitt Motor
Truck Company. Fayette Motors Corpora
ion WardIa F~ance) Federal Motor
truck Company, Fulton Motor Truck Com
rany, Gary Motor Truck Company Geof-
frey. Motor Sales Corporation (Parker).
Highway Trailer Kuehn g. Motz (Atter-
burO, Lazal Motor Company (Service),
t.ocomobile Company {Riker and Kelly
lGramm Bernstein), Manhattan Motors
Corporation tSelden) Moline Plow Com
pany New Jersey Motor Truck Companv
tR"idgeporD, New York Motor Sales Cor.
nortlon Qndia1a). Rain er Motor CorDo-
ration. REQ Motor Car Company, Sandow
Irpck COMPANY, John Simmons Company
tJumbo): Transport Motor Truck Com
Sales Company. Vim Motor Truck Com
pany. and Warren-Nash Motor Company
(Nash).
ccessories-American TaxiYneter Com
pany. Automobile Journal Publishing Com
pany Automobile Electric Service Corpo-
ration. Chadwick Delamater Corporation
Commercial Vehicle. p J. Durham Com
pany Joseph G. Corey & Co., Hercules
BODY Manufacturing Company, Heroues
New-York tribune., 1921-01-02
By Nathaniel PETER

PEKING, Nov l4.-The barometer
Of China's affairs Is Its schools AS
Western peoples In times Of strin-
gency econorize on luxurics, so the
Chinese government economies on its
luxuries, and in these times the schools
are accounted China's most dispensable
luxury.
There has been hanging over Pek-
ing's head throughout this autumn
therefore threat Of strike that will
close down the schools. at least in the
capital district. The potential strik-
ers are the teachers and their demands
are pay-ccnot more pay, but just pay.
1t is FIVE months now since the
teachers in any Of the government
educational institutions Of Pekinx
have been paid. Their last salary was
FOX the month Of juno. The schools
have now been open two months this
term and as yet there has been no
sign Of pay.
The teachers have been getting
restive. They have had to thresten n
before TO get their money. Once last
year they actually struck, at that time
as a protest against the governments
practice Of paying educational salaries
in deprecated currency. Their de-
mands were granted then. but since
then they have not received even de-
prcciated currency.
Az result, meetings Of representa-
tives Of all schoola have been held
and a strike meeting WAS called for
to-day. Yesterday there were frantic
scurryings by the men Of the Minis
tries Of Finance and Education. A
strike for lack Of pay would be a seri-
GUS blow at the prestige OF the govern
mcnt, which has been In Office only a
few months. From some source little
money was raised and the teachers
we're sent notice they would be given
one months salary Immediately, thus
bringing them up TO July The strike
has been averted for few moro wesks.
II NAV ha Italian - snA ~.Nn~+I~ -.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-02

81 600 for each of his soldiers to be
set at liberty. The offer being refused,
Cardenas asked permission to rest.
whereupon he wrote in a memorandum
book, which he carried, few lines ad-
dressed to the woman with whom he
had been living, giving her his money
ard jewels and requesting her to oury
his body in event of his DEATH
The soldiers brought Cardenas to
the Central Plaza of the city, where
Cardenas suddenly drew a small re-
voyer wrapped in handkerchief and
shot at one of the soldiers, only wound
ing him slightly. AS the other soldiers
closed in on him he placed the u.uzzle
Of his pistol in his mouth fired twice,
and fell to the ground mortally
wounded. He was conveyed to the
general hospital, where he soon died.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-02
in Need Of Doctors

WARSAW, } Dec. II (By Mail POLAND
est 400 doctors from typhus fever last
population of 2o, ,0Co 900, or one for
every 1000, according to on official re-
port made to the American Red Cross
by the Ministry of Public Health. The
American Red Cross is constantly re-
enforcing it's medical men in Poland for
the purpose of helping the local health
authorities to Offset their losses in ma
tive physicians.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-02
Motor Manufacturing Company. Hinklsy
Mofors CounanY Iafarhoro Hnisf ana Roax

..SeOs sst3 VI f<eS <rOt5tP&uys t1JuNIby
Motors Company. Iaterboro Hoist and Body
Company. Kilbourne g. Jacobs Manufactur-
ing Company. Lobes Body Company. Inc,
Lutz Company. Master Carburetor Com
pany. Metropolitan Hardware Company
Metropolitan Body Company. Michaels &
Mourree. McCord Manufacturing Company
Parish Manufacturing Company Pruyn
pany, Inc, Ryan & Hughes Inc. Shultis
Automotive Company. John Thomson Press
and Manufacturing Company, Truck Body
Corporation. Tru-Matic Tire and Tube
Company. wellman- -Seaver Morgan Com
pany. Roberts & Monroe. Inc. Sunderman
Corporation, Hcbson OH Company. Fred
erick A. Smith Body Company. Ben-Wat
Corporation. Martin Cushion Wheel Com
pany. C. K. Seymour & Co.. Halstead Spe-
cialty Company.
St. Paul tidende. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1902-1928, 1921-05-13
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ring og 8ep1antning.
SSSn6ebelien al &antater finder
@teo UNDER Mr. @inar Msffiers Sc.
6elie og gaar fer6eles go6t.
St. Paul tidende. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1902-1928, 1921-05-13
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