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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-19
CATTLE RELISH sAwDusr FOOT

By Science Service.
 Madison, Wis.-Sawdust for live stock feeding has become a real pos- sibility through experiments which have recently been conducted at the forest products laboratory here, in cooperation with the state agricul- tural experiment station. While un- treated sawdust is of no value as a stock food. sawdust treated with q weak acid has recently been ted to dairy cattle with good results.
 Treated for less than an hour with chemicals that changed one-fourth of the wood to sugar. and made the woody tissue more easily digested by simple process known as hydro lysis. the new product was fed to dairy cattle during a four-week pe- riod as a substitute for a part of their grain ration. The cows thrived or the change in food, and kept up their normal flow of milk during the course of the feeding trial. Since the treated sawdust is 2 fattening food. other grain containing pro- tcin, or muscle-building substances. is included in the ration. Further trials are planned to find out the commercial possibility of utilizing timber wastes in this ma1per. and to ascertain the food value of the treat cd sawdust. but indications already show that cattle may be fed the treated sawdust in grain ration -rs~L ->>S pesn1ts
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-19
THE PACIFIC PROBLEM

"Asiatic Russia Is second with ap- proximately 2,5oo miles from Behring Strait to Chosen (Korea), counting the coast line of the sea of Okhtosk comparable in size to our own Gulf of Mexico.
 Across the southwestern corner of the Pacific. British territory stretches from Dutch New Guinea to New Zealand. distance of about $500 miles, but with break of over 1000 miles between Australia and New Zealand. In a way however, Aus tralia may fairly be considered en- tirely a Pacific land. giving Great Britain by far the greatest coast line The continent has for protection coast line of approximately 5000 miles, easily reached by neeNl from the Pacific, and 1t matters little from a naval point of view that half the water that bathes this long shore line is called the Indian ocean. Canada adds approximately 500 miles to Brit ish Pacific coast lines.
 The islands that constitute Japan stretch along Asia from near the tip of Kamchatka to the southern point of Taiwan CFormosa). and thus have a frontage on the Pacific of about g. TOO miles. The coast line of Japan Is much greater, however, due to the western frontage on the Sea of okhotsk, the Sea of Japan, and the Yellow and Eastern seas.
 screened by the Philippines and the British possessions in northern Borneo, the Dutch possessions have direct frontage on the Pacific of only about 900 miles; but their total coast line, counting that on the In- dian ocean is many times that figure. China's coast line, too, is screened, by Japan. It amounts to about 2,oo0 miles. French Indo China. behind the Philippines, has coast line of about 1000 miles on the China sea.
 "On the eastern side of the Pacific, Mexico has coast line of more than 2, 900 miles, while that of Chile is more than 2.5oo miles. The aggregate Pacific coast line of the remaining Latin American countries amounts 10 about $500 miles.
 But it is the small scattered islands controlled by these bordering nations that constitute the crux of the Pacific problem Practically all the islands in the Pacific proper arc under the control of Great Britain, France, the United States, and Japan. All of the French and most of the British holdings are situated south of the equator, leaving the United States and Japan in close comoeti ton above that line. Guam is prac- tically surrounded by newly acquired Japanese islands, formerly owned by Germany, and Japanese lands skirt the Philippines on three sides. The United States is not large holder of Pacific islands. but it owns the group which is by far the most important stra te tegically-Hawaii."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-19
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WHEN HUBDY's PLACE IS HOME

WHEN AUBBY'S PLACE IS HOME From the Linden Democrat Reporter.
 And this we mean to maintain, that discreet husband is the noblest work of creation. To our way of thinking Br'er Adam was the first of him. We don't believe he cared anything at all about the apple which, in those days must have been crab. But Eve said .eat" and Adam discreetly ate.
 Take the case of Mir. Franklin K. Woodruff, of New York state, who was nominated by the reg ulars' of his party to go as dele gate to the state convention. His wife pointedly advised him to decline, but he accepted; and day or two later it leaked out that the "irreg- ulars" had secretly nominated Mrs. Woodruff to run for the same dele gateship
 Franklin old boy. campasgned half-heartedly for few days against Mrs. Frank. and then gave it up. He discreetly withdrew.
 And when it comes to running for office against your wife, a husbands s place is in the home.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-19
Signs of Betterment
 In Pig Iron Market

N1 OR the first time in many U months the middle western states have begun asking for Bir- mingham pig iron. In the past week bookings were made for Ohio deliv- cry. The rise in price of northern iron is a contributory cause. It helps Birmingham iron to meet the high freight rates that have stood as q bar to mid-western business.
 The outflow of the small amount of iron on hand in Alabama is larg- CT than it has been and the close of the month will find stocks in a very bad state, both as to amount and assortment of grades.
 Another encouraging feature of the iron trade has been the recent tendency of southern melters to book their fall requirements rather than confine themselves, as they have done for many months, to pressing needs. This is due to confidence in the general conditions of the south.
 Improvement in the iron market is coming slowly. There is so far no indication of sudden and spectacu- lar increase either in price or in melt, but the improvement is steady.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-19
CAN WE CONTROL WEATHER?

Hereward Darlington, Pm. D., in Les lies.
 T ROM the earliest times man has l1 sought 10 control the elements. 2 For, of all the powers of na- turc. these seemed to be the most powerful and the most terrible. Therefore, if @ man could control these, he must be wonderful indeed, and possessed of real powers of magic.
 Accordingly, we find our rain makers and witch doctors" who claim that they are able to make rain, in times of drouth, or cause its ccs- sation, in times of flood, who claim that they can cause the wind to blow from any quarter of the compass, who can create lightning or command the dreaded thunder! In Africa, Asia Australia, and in our own country. such men have always existed. and their power has rarely been ques- tioned by the natives among whom they lived. Only, in some localities, they forfeited their lives in case Of failure!
 One of the earliest scientific at tempts to create rain" was that made by M. Baudouin. who stated that he had employed a kite to obtain an electric connection with cloud at the height of about 1000 feet. As soon as this connection was made. he says, few drops of rain fell and q local fog formed. This disappeared on breaking the connection-presum ably by withdrawing the kite from the cloud. Further experiments in this direction have failed to produce any conclusive results, however; and in fact, during the war. Sir Oliver Lodge succeeded in dispelling fog. to a certain extent, by means of electric
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-19

l It reaches any such obstacle to navi- gation as a waterfall, a rapid, or a
 shallow, it leaves the water and traverses the obstacle on a perma-
 nent single-track railroad.
 The vessel Is composed of twin hulls. connected with overhead plate girder brackets that retain the hulls rigidly and permanently parallel to each other, with a space between them of about half the width of each hull. When afloat, each hull is pro-
 peiled by it's own power plant, each
 having . propeller and rudder in
 the space between the hulls. and sup ported by the plate girder brackets
 that connect them. are tuoth~l wheels that, by means of train of gears. can be switched into driving connection with the power plants.
 which are thrown out of connection
 with the propellers. These toothsu
 ,sheels are for running on rail in
 the form of rack. the teeth of
 which fit those of the wheel. Thts
 rail Is the means of converting the
 twin boat into what might be called
 q twin coach balanced on either side
 of . mono-rail so as. to make 1t
 somewhat like the coach of a mono
 rail road. of which many are in use
 in various places. In the same man ner this mono-rail road Is in the form
 of trestles, suitably spaced and con structed to support the rail at a
 grade and in q direction that enables
 the boat 10 leave the water at the beginning of any obstacle. and enter lit again at the end of it. These
 tracks will be permanently installcd at every obstacle to nayiEatioip and
 traversed as if 1t were one ok Bel. gium's many home canals
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-19

waves, transmitted between anten- nae. Electric forces have not as yet yielded any positive results; never theless here Is most interesting field for research, which has not as yet been explored by any means. It is possible that decisive results may some day be obtained.
 very generally accepted belief is that explosions, or concussions, cause rain. It has been said that after every great battle heavy rainstorm has res-lted; and 1t has also been contended that the incessant rainy weather along the western front, dur ing the late war. was caused, in large part, by the terrific explosions of the big guns. which never rested" So far as experiments have been carried 1t may be said that there is no. conclusive exidence that violent concussions will produce rain. except in cases where the upper atmosphere is already charged with water vapor. In such cases it is thought that cloud particles may be driven together until brought into contact, when they are united into larger particles, and fall as raindrops. Various experiments with high explosives have failed to produce rain, provided this prelimi- nary condition was lacking. It cam not be said, therefore. that we can make rain'' by resorting to this ex- tremely interesting method-contrary to general belief!
 It is possible, however. that dense volumes of smoke (such as would be released by big guns) might assist in the production of rain-again provid- ed the air be in a moist condition. Condensation is thereby greatly fa- cilitated, and fall of rain might in some cases be determined.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-19
Lloyd George Refuses
 to Alter His Position

m REMIER LLOYD GEORGES H latest message to Devalera leaves the door open for further ne- gotiations, but it is firm state ment of the British governments position and has besides a warning tone. Mir. DeValera is told once more that no meeting can be held with the Irish delegates if they in sist that they represent an inde- pendent and sovereign state. Some other basis must be found on which to confer.
 The matter is now up to DeValera and his colleagues. If negotiations are broken off the responsibility will rest on them, and not on the British premier, who has adopted from the first tolerant and conciliatory at- titude. It is rather difficult to un- derstand DeValera's course, unless it is due to pressure from some of the more radical Irish. If he is willing for Ireland to enter the British com- monwealth with dominion status, it looks like mere quibbling to demand that Ireland be first recognized as an independent nation. As Mir. Lloyd George has already pointed out, Ire- land would then be in position to break away from the British em- Yire, if she so desired, and to form an alliance with foreign power. Such possibility will never be con sidered by the English people, al- though there is strong sentiment in England, as we'll as in Ireland, for an amicablc compromise.
 The interchange of notes between the British premier and Mr. DeVa- llera is getting to be tiresome and no progress is being made toward a settlement of the controversy. Lloyd George says ae is w.1ins = meet
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-19
LETTERS TO EDITOR
TIE MOVING PICTURE BUSINESS

To the Editor of The Age-Herald.
 It goes without saying that the movies are doomed unless they exc cute a mighty house cleaning stunt A while back some folks kicked on the nature of the films themselves and we discovered a board of censor for the occasion, and since then the film companies have been pleading for clean plays written by clean minded people, in defense of them selves, but they'll have to go us one better and ask for clean writers when they furnish us with actors of tho same type. The airings in the newspapers for the last two years or so have not been 8 good advertise mcnt for the moving picture busi- ness, and unless we can think whole some thoughts about those who DOT tray the things seen on the screen we don't want to see the pictures at any price.
 We are not looking to see angels depict human affairs, put we nave d right to demand that those who ap- pear as human characters on the films at least show in their private lives that they are also human In thought and conduct. Why should we uphold 8 business built of such fabric, or permit our children to wit ress plays of pathos and beauty when portrayed by creatures which are not better than the spawn of the pit?
 The parents of girls who contem- plste entering screen work had bet ter look into this phase, before it is too late to remedy an evil which mi ght have been avoided if taken in time LOUIS A. WEAVER.
 Birmingham, September IT, 1921.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-19
< x 4 Chairman Lasker Makes Some Roseate Predictions

~ LAD tidings come from the VI shipping board. Chairman Lasker says it "is getting in sight of the end of the need for asking great sums." MT. Lasker doesn't express himself in the best Harvard English, but we get the idea.
 However, the board will need a trifling additional sum of $26,500,- 900 in order to continue operations during the fiscal year and Mir. Las ker may have made a few roseate promises to prevent Director of the Budget Dawes from starting some fireworks when the latest estimates were submitted to him for approval.
 We are told that next year the operations of the board should not cost more than $50,00O,000, or half the amount necessary this year. When business improves Chairman Lasker hopes that the entire oper- ating expense will be wiped out" Smaller appropriations will be asked for and some day-in the dim and distant future-receipts and ex- penditures may balance.
 Outstanding claims against the board amount to 15,000, ,000 to $20,- 100000, but millions of dollars in back debts are owed to the board which it is hopeful of collecting" Operations during July cost $5,700,- 900, about half what they cost few months ago. In fact, MT. Lasker is so chockfull of cheer that he pre- diets the board will be able to get along during the remainder of the fiscal year at loss of only $5,000,- 900 month.
 The government, which has found the shipping board the worst white elephant" it ever had on it's hands, and the American tax payers who failed to register enthusiasm when informed that it cost the country ap- proximately three and half billion dollars, may find some difficulty in sharing in MT. Lasker's optimism, but if they will stop to consider that a deficit of s5,ooO,ooo month is small compared to the huge sums that have already vanished, no man knows whiteher, they may be re- signed to wait until Mr. Lasker is able to make both ends meet.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-19
POINTED PARAGRAPHS

From the Chicago News
 Some people are 50 funny that they make others sad.
 Anyway, we never knew & man to marry woman to reform her.
 When Satan employees idle hands the work is always we'll done.
 It takes a wise women to transform . good fellow" into model hus- band.
 In the majority of cases the sad look on a mans face is due to over eating.
 Few men ever live long enough to discover why their neighbors dislike them.
 When a man owns but one suit of clothes he Is in position to laugh at the festive moth.
 Some women jump to conclusions because they want to see how the story is going to end.
 The average mans idea of good sermon is one that goes over his head and hits one of his acauaint. a-~>s
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-19
Copper Kings Follow
 Raisin Growers Example

TN 1913 raisin growers of the H Fresno district raised 10000 tons, sold what they could at three cents a pound and found themselves with a large surplus. They were about to abandon their vineyards. In their extremity they called in an efficiency expert. On his advice they began campaign of educating the nation to use more raisins.
 Bakers of the country were in- duced to make raisin bread and raisin cookies. Experts wrote trea- tises on the use of the raisin in salads and evolved nearly 100 re- cipes.
 The demand grew. In 1920 the Fresno raisin growers marketed 170,Oo0 tons at 1S, cents a pound. From a staggering Industry it has developed into one worth, millions of dollars per annum. :.
 Copper went down afser the World war and has not recovered, the price being now under thss of 1914. A news item from Bisbee Arizona. is to the effect that the ls.ding copper producers Of the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-19
HURDLING THE sIERRAs

Arthur Ruhl, in Lesiles s.
 Five minutes after laundering up from the field Salt Lake City's inn pressive checkerboard was left behind and we stretched out on our course far above tho blue lake. The bars brown mountains slept below, or squatted, 50 many wrinkled toads, on the blazing white salt flats.
 Across this white desert ran thin black, twisting line and at wide fn- tervals along this line crawled, with unimaglned slowness, tiny worms of trains. less visible by themselves than through their black horns of smoke. At other intervals were wider, more irregular spots-the places of sta tions, water tanks and roundhouses- and these, too, were black, and from the sky it seemed as if man had merely brought dirt into the soft har mony of this austere desert world.
 The plane dropped with the sensa- tion of an elevator suddenly de- scending, oscillated bit like a small boat lying In steamers swell. Bumps? No--only Monty signalling that thero was something to see. He was waving with his right hand. and behold, there, beside us, SO near that you could almost have tossed a bali into it, was the other plane. The two hung there, suspended In that fright full roar and rush of air. scarcely ad vancing, apparently although they were flying at 100 miles an hour. like two toy dragon-flies hung on strings.
 Suddenly, through the pale blue haze that yelled the west, we raised & wall of snow-capped mountains. Their feet were wrapped in the brown desert shadow, their heads shining clear in the morning sun. There was no sensation of climbing, except now and then a slight and sudden lift as when an ascending elevator starts unexpectedly. but gradually the air grew cooler. then frosty and cold. The range dropped, dropped. and pres ShtAy eh- aAAt0 SASSto anu WHllS patches of snow were underfoot and drifting backward. far below.
 Time flies as 1t does when the mind is centered on something else and was startled to find. on pulling a watch out into the gale, that it was 8 o'clock. The quickly changing al titudes, the incessant beating of the wind began to be felt in ones ears The leather of the tight-fitting hell met was slit into flaps over the ears, somewhat after the fashion of fishs s gills. and into this crack, which on tho ground would not have been mo- ticed, the wind bored like & cork screw until 1t seemed to strike on the eardrums like little hammers. I coughed and had curious sensation of paralysis when I could neither hear nor feel the cough. tried to ducking down into the comparative stiffness and strange metallic hum of the cockpit could one little regain ones sense of personality. There was a bit of paper down there under my shoes---a cartoon. Gasoline AileY.'' I was reading the captions--This Is What People Laugh at on Earth when finger of wind, suddenly twisting down, whipped it up and away into space.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-19

country have formed an association known as the Copper and Brass or ganization, whose object is to "cre- ate new uses for copper so that the surplus now on the market may be cleaned up and demand established for the ore still underground"
 Among other plans suggested is adapting copper for use in the man ufacture of automobile license plates and markers for automobile high ways.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-19
STRANGE RAILWAY IN CONGO

Henry s. White, in the October Pop
 ular Mechanics Magazine.
 6H HE most inaccessible of the
 earth's wildernesses are easily
 0 accessible as far as their rivers are navigable. If the rivers were continuously navigabie, the re- motest depths of their wildernesst s would be readily reached. But in all such territories the rivers are of a very unaccommodating nature. being interrupted at intervals by water falls, rapids, shadows and other ob- stacles that make continuous naviga- ton impossible.
 It Is obvious, therefore, that any means of making the journey along such rivers uninterruptedly in the same vessel would make transporta- ton very much more rapid and eco- nomical. Such a means has been de- veloped experimentaliy in Belgium for use in the Belgian Congo, that African colony that is sS times the size of Belgium itself. The products of this vast undeveioped territory all have to be transported from the in- terior to the coast for export. and 1t is now proposed to adopt methods on the great river Congo that will make possible uninterrupted transports ton. The work has been done un- der the direction of the Belgian gov ernment. and several schemes were tried out on the canals near Ant werp. The main feature of the fa- vored scheme is . vessel that will travel by either water or land. Thus. where the river Is easily naviEabie 1t runs along, propelled like any other ordinary steamboat. and when
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-19
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Coiumhu. Centennial

Everything in regard to the big centennial and homecoming week at my homo town, Columbus, Miss, scheduled for October 17-22, is boom ing. At least it was when I left home a short time ago to take lit- tic vacation in order to be able to do the tremendous amount of work which must be done before the ceu- tennial opens" said R. F. Johnston. chairman of the Columbus, Miss, who was a visitor for few hours to Birmingham en route home from Virginia and other points, where he has spent the past two weeks
 T have never seen anything like the interest that people are showing in the Columbus centennial," MT. Johnston continued. Not only in Columbus proper, but all over the south. Everywhere I have been peo- plo have inquired all about our plans and I am really quite happy over the interest and cooperation which Is being shown.
 There are so many ex-Columbus people who live in Birmingham and whom we want to have with us dur ing tho centennial that I'd like to pay a personal visit to and extend an invitation, but that being impos- sible the invitation must just be con- sidered as already extended"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-19
MY sTRIP OF SEA

From Waysidc Tales. Only a fragment of sea is mine,
 Distant and dark and blue Only a breach in the stubborn hills
 Where the river rushes through. A little rift in the beetling crags,
 With the pine trees bending o'er- Beyond it the ocean's endless tides, And the call of foreign shore. I watch sail in the twilight
 Watch till it fades from sight; For dreams are mine when ships
 go by
 On the marge of the summer night. But the soul of youth is a vagaboAd. And little enough care we For hand in hand, the river and
 Go down to the waiting sea.