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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-12-11
FLETCHER BILL WOULD
FORCE APPOINTMENT
OF EX-SERVICE MEN
BY HUGH w. ROBERTS
Washington Bureau, The Age-Herald.
500 Davidson Building.

Washington, December 1o.-tspe7
cial.)-To prevent discrimination
against ex-soldiers applying for po-
sitions in the postal service, Senator
Fletcher has introduced bill which
will probably expire in the commit
tee on post offices and post roads.
During the Wilson administration,
any soldier making the necessary
grade, though not necessarily the
highest grade, in competitive exami-
nations was given a certificate oil
preference by the civil service com
mission, and his nomination followed.
President Harding has taken the po-
sition that presidential appointments
are not within the scope of the civil
service law. AS result he is not re-
quired to appoint ex-service men in
the event they are democrats. There
have been in consequence certain
notable alleged discrimination against
democratic ex-service men who have
actually scored the highest marks in
examinations. 1t is also charged that
in southern states where republicans
are few, newcomers, residents of linn
tied years. are appointed. This has
given rise to charge of carpet bag
ism
The Fletcher bill would force the
appointment of ex-service men who
make the necessary grade. But it Is
predicted generally that republicans
will prevent its adoption either by
committee or Congress-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-12-11

They are still operating under shadow
OF the beer mug. These derelicts are
moving towards the discard of unused
things.
1.-THE chief offenders in this re-
spect however. are federal Judges
who ought to be impeached for the
manner in which they deal with Grim
inalss The utterances of some of them
from the bench, together with nominal
fines which they Impose constitute
fines which they impose, constitute
DR.. Baker also took crack at the
friends of prohibition in Congress,
the most unkindest' cut of all such
friends regard tt. He said; TT must
be evident to careful observers that
We are not being well led In Con =.
gress, Whether it be for lack of men
competent to lead or because of the
old moss covered rule of precedence,
it is very clear that there is now no
one on the horizon who seems to COM
bipe the elements of real. aggressive
leadership"
He referred to certain judges de-
clared to be doing their duty as "un-
perjured" judges.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-12-11
FORDS RUN "a MILES ON
GALLON GASOLINE
Start Easy in Coolest Weather
Other Cars Show Proper
tionate Saving

new carburetor which cuts down
gasoline consumption OF any motor
and reduces gasoline bills from ono
third to one-half is the proud
achievement OF the Air Friction Car
buretor company, 253 Madison street.
Dayton. 0. This remarkable invention
not only increases the power Of mo-
tors from 30 to 50 per cent. but en-
ables everyone to run slow on high
gear. 1t also makes 1t easy to start
a Ford or any other car in the coolest
weather You can use the very
cheapest grade OF gasoline or half
gasoline and half kerosene and still
get more power and more mileage
than you now get from the highest
test gasoline. All Ford owners can
get as high as "a miles to a gallon
of gasoline. So sure are the manu-
facturers OF the immense saving their
new cerburetor VIII make that they
offer to send II on 30 days trial 70
every car owner. As 1t can be pue
on or taken off In a few minutes by
anyone all readers of this paper who
want to try it should send their
name. address and make of car 10
the manufacturers at once. They
also want local agents, to whom they
offer exceptionally large profits.
Write them today.--Adv.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-12-11
OBSTINATE MULES
THINK RAILWAY Is
FINE RACE TRACK

Decatur, December 1o.-tSpecial.)
Hotel arrivals here are telling an in
terestfng story regarding the obsti-
macy OF the ohdurate mule. In this
case there happened to be couple
of mules. and their obstinacy delayed
the arrival of a Southern railway
train nearly an hour.
The mules are said to have gotten
on the track at point a couple OF
miles or SO east of Swan lake. In
stead OF pursuing the ordinary course
and getting off the track when the
train approached, the mules began
marathon with the train, acting
themselves as pacemakers and keep
ing Just to the fore of the train In
mad scramble down the track.
The train couldn't make any prog
ress anywhere but on the track the
mules wouldn't make progress any
where but on the track, so botn made
considerable progress thereon until
Swain lake bridge was reached.
Here the mules slipped through the
bridge structure and the race was
stopped. Train officials then had a
more perplexing problem than the
original one, however. for consid-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-12-11
ROAD C0MPLlMENTED
Central of Georgia Makes Fine
Record in Handling Hogs

Troy, December t0.-(special)-
The Central Of Georgia Railway com
pany is receiving congratulations on
the rapid and efficient manner oil
handling the hogs sold each wednes-
day at cooperative sales here. Last
Wednesday 447 hogs we're sold. bring
ing price of $5.35 and above per
cwt. The hogs were sold in the aft
ernoon and the Central held train
here and one in Union Springs to
handle the cars. The five cars OF
hogs left here at $3.50 In the after
noon, were transferred In Union
Springs and reached Montgomery and
were being unloaded at o'clock that
night
The hogs arc always shipped the
day they are sold.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-12-11
Bars to Be Put Against
All Who Did Not Support
Party In General Election

Other Matters, Including EIec-
ton of New Chairman to
Succeed NeSbitt, to Come
Up at Executive Committee
Meeting In Montgomery
January II
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-12-11
FoUR STILLS DESTROYED

Montgomery December 1o.-(Spe-
cial)-Reports OF the destruction OF
three stills In Cleburne county and
one in Houston county were received
by the state law enforcement depart
ment from field agents today. Tween
ty-five gallons of liquor were eonfis-
Gated and 5000 gallons of mash were
poured out in the Cleburne raids,
while four persons we're arrested on
a charge OF operating stills In viola
tion of the bone-dy law. Twenty gal
Ions of beer was confiscated and one
person arrested in the raid in Hous-
ton countv
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-12-11
BAKER ASSAILS
N0RTHCLIFFE IN
PUBLIC ADDRESS
Ry HUGE w. RonERrs


500 Davidson Building.
Washington, December 1O.-1Spe-
cial.)-Bitterness as well as earpest-
ness characterizes the meeting in
Washington of the Anti-SaIoon
League of America. The general SUI
perintendent of that organization. DR..
Eerley A. Baker. formerly of Ohio,
now a resident of Alabama, was es-
recially critical. He spoke his mind
In a public speech regarding many
people and things. from certain news
papers to Lord Northcliffe.
Regarding newspapers, he declared
that the freedom OF the press
stopped where prohibition begins. Re
garding Northcliffe who while in
America, asked, when does prohl-
bition begin?" DIR. Baker said. pub
fishers of his type will greatly add
to the moral standards of this re-
public by staying at home.p
Continuing his structures. he said;
There are judges. sheriffs prosecut
ing attorneys. mayors and solicitors
who have not learned that the eie-h-
teenth amendment has been adopted
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-12-11
GETS GOvERNNIENT JOE

Troy. December 1O-Cspecial)-
Joe Mcclure, son of Mr.. and Mrs. r.
U. Mcclure of Troy has Just received
an appointment to a position in At
lanta in the cotton department of
the bureau of markets of the United
States department of agriculture. Mr.
Mcclure has been representative of
the CeiIerstedt-Hend Cotton
company In and around Luverne. His
friends are very proud of his APP
pointment to the government posi-
ton.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-12-11
MOON GOES TO WASHINGTON

Montgomery December 10.-(Spe-
l)-Col. Hartley A. Moon, head of
the state military department. left to-
day for Washington, where he will
attend the annual meeting of the
heads of state military departments
of the United States. which will be-
gin Monday and will continue through
Friday. Among the important sub
jects which will be considered at the
conference will be the further extern
sion of the national guards. appropri-
atoms. organization work and regu-
lations,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-12-11
FEW PAY POLL TAX

Troy December 10.-(speciaL)-
Pon tax payments are coming In very
slowly now. Up 20 the morning Of
December . only IS voters had paid
their poll taxes. The state and coun-
ty taxes are coming In better than
they did last year. but the bulk of
the taxes remain to be paid.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-12-11
ARsON rs CHRAGED

MONTGOMERY, December IU.--ISpe-
ciaL)-Cecil Gibson of Brewton has
been arrested on a charge of arson
In the first degree as result of the
destruction of store building at
Dixie following an investigation COM
pleted by w. ]. Williams. state fire
marshal and assistants. Gibson
waived a preliminary hearing and
his case will be considered by the
grand jury of Sumter county the third
Monday In March
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-12-11
MANY HOGS KILLED

Ashville, December 1o-(special. }
During the weeks cold spell a large
number of citizens here and in tbs
surrounding country have slaughtered
their hogs. and are now feastlng on
backbones and ribs and sausage. r.
r Nunnelly killed two large ones,
each weighing in the neighborhood
of 400 pounds dressed.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-12-11

opposed for lieutenant governor, and
no one believes there will be any Sc
rious fight for the state Offices. This
condition is regarded as excellent
for comfy and good feeling in the
party, but it will not fail to leave
crimp in the treasury of the demo-
cratic party.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-12-11

cradle difficulty was experienced in
getting the animals off the bridge.
All other means having failed. tho
mules finally were dumped into the
lake and. aided by their rescuers,
SWAN to safety.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-06-25
CONCERNING the GUTTER

When you're lost in the wild, and
you're scared as a child,
And death looks you bang in the
eye,
And you're sore as a boil. it's accord
ing to Hoyle
To cock your revolver and-die.
But the Code of a Man says: flight
all you can."
And self-dissolution is barred
In hunger and woe, oh. it's easy to
blow,
It's the hell-served -for-breakfast
that's hard.
you're sick OF the camel Well, now,
that's a shame.
You're young and you're brave and
you're bright.
you've had raw deal!" I know
but don't squeal;
Buck up, do your damndest, and
fight.
It's the plugging away that will win
You the day.
So don't be a piker, old pard.
It's the keeping your chin up that's
hard.
Just draw on your grit; it's so easy
to quit
It's easy to cry that you're beaten
and die;
Its easy to craWfish and crawl;
But to fight and to fight when hopes
out Of sight
Why, that's much the best game
Of all!
And though you come out of each
gruelling bout
All broken and beaten and SCARED
Just have one more try--it's dead easy
to die;
It's the keeping living that's
hard.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-06-25
M-H0UR WEEK won
BY sioux City men

SIOUX CITY, Iowa, June 1e.--
Peace and prosperity again reign in
the printing industry Of Sioux City.
The Typographical union finally
succeeded, after two months effort,
employers, which seems satisfactory
to all concerned.
Job printers who were forced to
striker on June 1 in order to resist
pay reduction and adoption Of the
44-hour week. returned to work in all
offices Wednesday morning under a
new contract which calls for the A.
hour week and an increase in the
minimum scale from $24 for IS hours
to $3.50 for a. hours. It is also
understood that employees who have
been drawing over the scale will not
be subjected to any reduction of pay
at this time. 1t was pointed out that
should there in the future be a re-
duction in the cost of living and con-
sequent reduction Of pay in other
cities, that the employers could then
take up the question of pay with
their men,. Under the present agree
ment the minimum is set at $3.50
and any employer is at liberty to pay
his men all they are worth.
The 44-hour week does not affect
the daily newspaper men and those
printers will receive $44 for night
work and $41 for day work, which
is an increase of 81 per week over
wages previously paid. The new
scale of wages actually calls for only
$38 and Sal, but at the time of the
signing of the wage agreement, the
publishers also agreed to pay So a.
week bonus. The former schedule of
wages, which expired June /, set pay
for day workers at $33 and pay for
night workers at $36. During the
greater part of the year, the men have
received Sc week bonus.
Besides an increase in scale, the
job printers were successful in MAIN
tanning their rights to the 41-hour
week, which had been agreed to by
! the national joint conference council
of employers and employees. 1t was
on this point that most of the diff
| ficulty arose in a settlement Of new
| working conditions, the employers in
sisting that pay reduction take
place to offset the reduction in hours.
| This the mon refused and were forced
on strike for one week.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-06-25
RAILROADS Net BIG PROFITS
BY LAYING OFF employees

The railroads appealed for an in
crease in freight and passenger rates
to increase the wages of employees
and received $1,340.000,000 in addi-
tional revenue while the increase in
wages amounted to $558,000,o0O. a
difference OF, $576,000,o00, said for
mer Congressman William Schley
Howard, in an address to the conven-
ton Of the Georgia State Federation
of Labor.
1.-THE roads have been enabled to
obtain fabulous net profit on the
increases given them by laying off
their employees" said the speaker.
Doesn't it. stand to reason, there
fore, that railroad operator. given
from IS to 40 per cent increase in
rates is guilty Of cheating and swim
ding if he reduces wages SO per cent
out OF the increases allowed him and
doesn't reduce freight and passenger
rates so per cent of these increases?"
The speaker declared that the
manipulations of Hunting, Morgan
and Hartman have done more to
retard the progress of the roads than
anything else. He referred to the
purchase of the Central of Georgia
railroad by Hartman who poured
$l6,O00,000 worth of watered stock
into this property and then sold it
to the Illinois Central railroad for
$S2,000.000. The railroads, since that
time. he said, have been using SUBJ
terfuges to avoid the payment of more
wages to employees.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-06-25
OLD MANAGER SPEAKS
BY BERTON BRAf1EY.

BY BERTON BRALEY.
I've handled pick and a shovel,
I've sat at a bench in my time,
I've done heavy work In the heat and
the 1nurk,
I've known all the sweat and the
CRIME;
And SO, when some frosty-eyed expert
Talks Labor as if it was coal,
"A commodity"-well. just choke
for a spell
Before l regain my control
Plague take all this dope economic
That plats human toll in its charts
l tell you that "Labor's' your friends
and your neighbors,
It's Folks that have bodies and
hearts
It's fathers and brothers and hus-
bands
With mothers and sweethearts and
wives,
Who love and who hate and who
dream and who wait,
It's real people living their lives.
Now maybe I'm moss backed and
rusty;
But here's how it lines up to me-;
Statistics will aid in the plans you
have made
They're useful to quite a degree,
But all of your lore scientific
Will fall down again and again,
Unless in your brain this one fact
you retain,
That Labor means flesh and
blood. Men.
In brief, it's a problem that's Human,
No soulless Commodity stuff,
And the very best plan have hap
pened to seen
Is just to be human enough;
And when it is finally settled
q fear I won't be here by them
1t won't be by art Of a book or a
chart,
But by Men dealing fairly with
Men.
Forbes Magazine IN. W
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-06-25
FREEDOM IMPOSSIBLE
IN ANTI-uNION SHOP

In pamphlet on 1.-THE Open shop,
the American Plan of Employment"
the Methodist federation for social
service says:
You think it means freedom for
the non-union man,
Does it? In many places it means
that he must sign contract never
to join union; it means that he
is continually watched by spies to
see that he never becomes q union
man; in the Alabama coal mines it
means that he must live behind a
stockade and get q pass every time
member, Of his family goss out.
In West Virginia it means that he
must be protected from talking to
union organizers by gun men and
machine guns; it means that he must
sign lease. giving the company the
right to come into his house at any
time and throw out any guest, lest
union men should come in.
rs this the kind of freedom the
American flag stands for?
"You think we are talking about
the open shop at is worst! Well,
take It at its best.
1T means the absolute right of
the employer to hire and fire. No
Discrimination! He is to run his bust,
ness without dictatton. This Is in
dividual bargaining In pioneer days
it worked, but the employers are now
almost entirely organized to bargata
collectively ...5 A d Z. . =. . VI.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-06-25

bitrary method Of fixing steel prices
according to the "Pittsburgh-p plus"
system. We know that jobbers and
manufacturers in industrial centers re-
mote from Pittsburgh are battling for
the overthrow Of the Pittsburgh sys-
tenn. But we have heard very little,
thus far, concerning the attitude of
the steel worker himself o. this per-
nicious "price fixing' system'
The following extract from an ad-
dress by union official at Pittsburgh
shows to what extent continuance of
Pittsburgh plus will affect wages of
the miners who dig iron ore from the
bowls Of the earth and those hundreds
of thousands Of others who labor that
the steel trust may pay dividends:
"Of all schemes evolved by the steel
trust to fitch the people, it's "Pitts-
burgh base" is entitled to front rank.
"Under this system, if contractor
in Duluth, for instance, bought steel
ct" beams at Duluth steel mill, he
would be charged the same price as
charged by Pittsburgh steel mills al.
though Duluth is but 60 miles from
the trust.owned inexhaustible Mesaba
iron ore range. In addition to this
charge, he would pay an added cost
equal to the freight charge Of the steel
from Pittsburgh to Duluth.
"This charge on imaginery freight
totals millions of dollars annually and
increases with every freight increase
that the railroads are permitted to
charge.
"Cheap production, nearness to raw
material and markets for the finished
product mean nothing to the public
under this system.
"For years the federal trade CON-
mission has considered complaints
against "Pittsburgh base,' but the
dollars roll into the trusts Golfers
while the public is kept in the dark
by those who insist that q lower iv-
ing standard for the workers will
I cheaper production and bring pros
perity.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-06-25
BREAK DOWN GAMBLERS.

Down in Texas young farmer and
his wife lost an $4,000 equity in a
farm because they could not raise the
money to make a payment on the
property. The cash was not available
for the reasons that local banks did
not loan to farmers, the freight rates
were too high to ship farm products
to city markets and get money back
and the riotous work in grain gambling
brought the value of crops down to
less than the cost of production. Every
farmer and worker, able to read and
write the United States language,
knows or at least suspects the causes
of such conditions. The farmers have
lost an estimate of 100000 on the
1920 crops on account Of deflation, said
to be due to the fact that not less
than 1l9 reasons why farmers should
not get credit were sent out by money
changers from sources that should have
been behind the farmers and ready for
protecting them at every turn of the
road. The remedy lies in the. break
ing down of the gambling system.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-06-25
THE GLORY OF EARNING.

We are only owners Of those things
which the toll Of our hands or our
brains have entered into. We may
indeed possess-but possession is not
necessarily ownership.
The things that mean the most to
anyone are those things which have
come through sweat, long toll, worry
maybe, backaches, and sacrifice.
But there is divine cast to the
process Of earning!
Earned things arc appreciated. And
when, they are given away, the Garner
gains greatly increased happiness over
that which gave him his gain in the
first place.
I always like big, rough hands on
man. They mean that he takes
pride in what they are able to do.
10 earn, you .ust think, read, OBJ
serve, work.
What thrills one gets from taking
home a book that he has earned, OF
from giving some appropriate thing
to friend whose tastes are akin.
There is sense Of security about
having something earned.
Your home, or automobile, or bust.
ness, the position in which you work
or the we'll known name you bear
to have something very close to you
all the time that you have earned, is
to keep your power vibrant,
The boy who earns his way through
college has something OH the one whose
way is paid for him.
Earn what you get-or don't take
it!
Every day get new glory out OF
earning. And try to distribute this
glory by stimulating other people to
honestly earn.
Never mind the long hours, the tired
body, the carloads Of discouragements
big events happen for those who take
pride in earning every bit Of the way
George Matthew Adams.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-06-25
TO DEVELOP THOUGHT IS
REAL AIM OF COLLEGES

Eastern educators have taken up
the cudgel against Thomas A. Edi-
son, who sneers at college graduates
because he has discovered most OF
them do not know. for instance, where
the largest zinc mine in America is
located or what is the longest river
in China.
" DIR. Ernest M. Hopkins, president
of Dartmouth college. says these in
situations develop processes of
thought and intellectual capacity and
are not intended to merely fill the
students head with facts. The pos
session of the latter, he says, is no
measure of intellectual capacity.
1T would be as unreasonable to
estimate a. mans material wealth by
the money he has in his pocket as it
is to measure a mans intellectual
equipment by the number of facts
that he carries in his mind" said the
"The man of qualities, of outstand-
ing leadership, in this world Is the
man who kpows where lie the sources
OF knowledge and where may be found
the springs Of incentive. The latter
Fmay have resources q thousand-fold
those of the former man whose ca
pacity is limited to what any COM
mercial memory test would afford
him. e.3*.l, s,3Hs.sf Al: ! L. z4<sa.5,s.:>
President Hopkins concludes by
saying that in his judgment "the pre-
sumption would be against q mans
large mental capacity whose mind
was encunb ered with . litter ot such
detailed information a. that for which
~ Edison asks. = s$ 81
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-06-25

fortunes are no respectors Of persons
and travel on no advertised route or
schedule. In these days, the surplus
fund for emergencies is life. pre-.
server. Every prudent man seeks to
provide for the contingencies Of life
SO that those dependent On him will
not suffer in case Of death or disaster.
Every business has some risk. Real
izing this the wise man will put aside
in the safest possible form an emer.
gency asset. That asset should be ab-
solutely safe and convertible into cash.