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.EXORB|TANT PRICE
CALCIUM ARSE MATT
PROBE NOW URGED
investigation Demanded in
Senate on Charge That
Spectators Control
Weevil Enemy
WASHINGTON BUREAU
THE AGE-IIERAID
Washington. ID. C.. Nov. sS

Inquiry by the department of JUS
tice and the federal trade commission
into the complaint from all southern
states that spectators for selfish
purposes had acquired control of the
supply OF calcium arsenate, the only
known insectcide for use against the
boil weevil. was demanded today by
Senator William J. Harris OF Geofe Ia.
Cotton producers, on the advice of
The department OF agriculture, has
prepared to make extensive use of
calcium arsenate when they found to
their dlsmay that the supply was
limited and the price relatively ex-
orbitant. Secretary Wallace OF the de-
partment OF agriculture, when sp-
prised OF the facts. replied to sena-
tor Harris. in part, as follows
Il do not see how | can take steps
10 increase the supply or decrease the
price. We have no Information as
10 whether combination exists
among manufacturers whereby the
prices OF calcium arsenate are con-
trolled. but IL there is such com
hination il would be a matter for
consideration by the department OF
justice, or, in a proper case, by the
federal trade commission.
Price Increase
Il am informed that there has been
a recent and quite sharp increase in
the price of white arsenic and very
large increase since last January.
This. of course, means correspond
ing rise in the price of calcium arsen-
ate. The claim is made that this Is
due to shortage of white arsenic
in the United States market. which,
to a certain extent might be true.
as a very short supply was produced
in United States smelters last year.
/ am informed that the Canadian out
put has been contracted fer by Aus
tra1ia. This further complcates the
situation"
1t was at tho suggestion Of Score
tary wallace that Senator Harris put
the case of prospective users of the
only insecticide recommended by the
department OF agriculture In the
handle or ths department. Of Justice
A quick Investigation was promised
j. NJ Moore, soon TO be commits
sioner OF agriculture in Alabama
was deeply Interested when appraised
today of developments in the Dol
weeviI ca mpaign.
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NJ { 7 HOD|STS SEE
VAST Be NEFIT IN
p PROHIBITION LAW
Head of Anti-SaIoon League
Says Drunkards Have
Decreased Many
Fold
STATE CAPITAL BUREAU
THE GE-H ERALD
Montgomery. Aln,. Nov. %

Methodist ministers and laymen
representing the cities, towns. high
ways and driveways of south Ala
Methodist church Thursday and began
the ninetieth annual session of the
Alabama conference. Methodist Epis-
eopal church, south. The first session
was devoted TO organization. with
Bishop William B. Murrah of Mem
phis as the presiding officer
Interest was generated from the
beginning but the afternoon session
which was devoted to a discussion of
the work for the eradication of
liquor from the boundaries of Ala
bama furnished the greatest interest.
This session was featured by an adj
dress by DR.. ]. Blbb Mills. the new
superintendent of the Alabama Anti
Saloon league. who told of the cam
paign which has been made in this
state by the league and law enforce
ment officers against the Illegal sale
of liquor.
Mr.. Mills said that national pro-
hibition Leg slation had brought In
estimable benefit to the nation. and
declared that during the three years
of national prohibition the number OF
drunkards in the United States had
been decreased from 100000 to
100000 He also said that talk that
as much liquor Is manufactured now
as was made before prohibition is
not true and stated that the manu-
facture of liquor is now no more than
5 per cent OF the normal before pro-
hibition.
400 In Attendance
About 400 ministers and laymen are
4 . H.. l..
time until noon Monday or later.
Bishop Murrah has held several con-
ferences of the cabinet of presiding
elders during which consideration
was given TO the needs of the various
charges in South Alabama during the
year. The list appointment will not
be read until the closing session
Some of the members of the confer
ence fear the work cannot be COM
pleted before Tuesday morning so a
majority believe the appointment can
lie announced and the conference
ended .soineti.ne Monday.
Featuring the first session was re-
election OF DR.. A. J. Lamar of Nash
vile as secretary. The Rev. e. L.
Crawford of Selma. DR. c. H. Motley
OF Eufaule and Dr. E. A. Childs were
named as assistants. DR.. II. p. Trout
o, Mobile was elected statistical secre-
tary.
Bishop Murrah Speaks
This session opened with holy COM
munion with Bishop Murrah presid-
ing. After the necessary prelimi-
naries were dispensed with. included
in which was the action that the
meeting would begin at 3 o'clock in
the morning with adjournment at
CONTINUED on Page Three.) s
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BIRMIN CHAM ACQUIRES
NEW WHOLESALE HOUSE

Birmingham has new mill and
mine supply house The Cotton States
Supply and Rubber company has been
organized and opened warehouses at
I'LL Second avenue. This firm will
be distributors for the entire dis
trict Of the products of the Republic
Rubber company, the Detroit Twist
Drill company, and the Detroit Oak
Betting company. in addition to
which it will act as agents for a
variety OF mill and mine supplies,
The president is r. S. Smith, formerly
Of the Cotton States Tire and Rubber
COMPANY. Harry Dean. who was for
meriy with the Young & Nann Supply
company. is vice president. Both are
known in the mime and mill trade
OF the district
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N'fpP9 iiSAAAf 49, W .sbflH AMERICAN
Newspaper Alliance and New York
s World Press Publishing company.)
ny FERDINAND TUoHY
Boston. November .23.-Clemen-
ceaus reception here far outstripped
New York's in enthusiasm After he
had slept two hours between New
York and New Haven, / visited hiin
in the observation compartment and
discussed with him repercussion Of
New York addresses. We were in
terruptcd by a train attendant in-
Producing himself as a firm adherer
of Wilson and the league. a profess
sion which caused the Tiger" to say
Mon Dieu."
He admitted that he mad wandered
in bis metropolitan address. but
said that the presence oil women II
frcnt had completely taken him by
surprise He had never spoken be-
fore other than to men.
The difficulties of Versailles, he as
sured me, were stependous. especial
ly the personal ones.
I'VE were all then in a quite diff
ferent frame of mind, Americans as
well as the Others"
| asked him whether his (tne
French) armies would have gone on
to Berlin If he (Ciemenceau) had
known that America was not going
to give France security pact. Did
rot Foch insist on an Immediate
armistice?
Clemenceau replied that the IA
points on which the armistice re-
posed contained clause giving France
PREPARATION. Had that clause not ex-
listed he never would have given
Eoch authority to sign the armistice.
If onls Tiger viii talk as ! have
heard him in his yendee. France.
cabin. j believe he stands q sport
ing chance of creating "a new frame
of mind toward France In America :,
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Feeble Minded Used In Pennsylvania Mine Is Charq'
THE CASUALTIES
The Dead
White

White
Clarence Anderson.
Anthony, viii, motor Inspector,
Dolomite.
Burchfield. Gail, section foreman,
Pleasant Grove.
Brill. Ed. check weighman, Fair
view.
Busby. D.. A. pumper, Cottage Hill.
Cornell, Hugh. mttor pit worker.
Cottage Hill.
crewder, Grady.
Virgil Dates. \,
Early. Cleve. Pleasant Grove.
Early, Hubert
Huey. Sam, master mechanic. Huey-
town.
Justice. Hobart, assistant mine
foreman, Mine No. ,. Cottage Hill.
knight, Herbert, Hueytown.
Robertson, Eugene COR Robinson).
bank boss. Dclomite.
Stanford, Ligc. motor boss, Cot
tage Hill.
summerlln. Jim, motor inspector,
Dolomite, Mulgs and Woodward
mines, Fairview.
Scott, Jim. Dolomlte
Maldrtp, Percy pipe filter. Bes
semer.
Herschel warnich.
Narnick. Tom electrician, Cottage
One unidentified.
Coiored
curley Mathews.
William Terry,
Jesse Avery.
sherman Lipseomb.
Bonnie Malone.
Tom Harris.
Marvin Brown.
Ben Smith.
Will Alexander.
+. Spencer
Bonny Lee.
VIII Anderson.
Lawrence Thurman.
Anderson Jones.
Jim Griffin.
Tim Brown.
Doc Byars.
Fayette Ward
Charles Davis.
cieVe Patterson,
Leroy Moore
VIII Bolton.
Willie Ward.
Pless Joes.
Arthur Davis.
Arthur Carlisle.
William Hatcher.
Layman claudin.
John GUN.
Lige Loekhart.
r. Davis.
J.. Smitherman.
Pete McGhee.
Two unidentified.
Claude Thurman.
John Dixon.
Rraziel Jackson.
John Bolton.
Cornelius Dixon.
Fred ZONES
Andy Ward.
John Chessom.
VIII Coleman.
Perry Givner.
/ Ernest Hobbs.
Haye Ephram
Luther Barnett.
Steiner williams.
James Mitchell.
Jim Malone.
Fifteen unidentified to be published
later.
The Injured
Anderson, Charles.
Anthony. Pope, electricians help
er, Pleasant Grove.
Beasley. Emmett.
Brown, Will
Brown. Lundy.
Bonner. Joe.
Baldwin, Gus.
Baldwin, Homer.
Barron, Homer.
Brown, Hall
Barnes, Charles.
Carter. Ike
Ellison, John.
Golden, j. u.
Hendrix, Aubrey.
Harris, Henry.
Hollis, Satholin.
Holmes, Charles.
Jones. A. D.
Jackson. Judge.
Jenkins. Sanmie
johnson, Gabe.
Jones, A. -.
Lecraw, Jim.
Mcdonald, Newman, Pleasant
CT owe.
Morris, George.
Mitchell, George.
Powers. John.
Reed. Jim.
Reese. william.
S.edmore. Henry.
Smith, Jasper.
Steeles, William.
Stedman, Henry.
Thompson. Ilie, Cottage Hill.
Trew, T. W.
Thompson. c, G.
Thomas, Dade.
Thomas, Dave.
Tickson, Judge.
Wilson, w. ID.
Wilson. Jim.
Watkins, Arthur.
williams, James.
Wright VIII.
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FORD COMPANY HAS NOT
BOUGHT COAL LANDS

Detroit, Mich, November 2s-No
definite ARRANGEMENTS has been made
for the purchase of any coal mines
in Kentucky. II was announced here
late today J5y William B. Mayo. chief
engineer OF the Ford Motor company.
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FORMER ITALIAN
PREMIER is DEAD

Rome. November 23.-B Baron SON
nino. twice prime minister of Italy,
and also foreign minister during the
great war. died tonight
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Hundreds Want
Employment
Put Them to Work

Hundreds Of earnest,
capable men and women,
girls and boys seek en-
ployment through Age
Herald Want Ads. Per-
haps the very helper you
need is among them. Put
him to work. Advertise
in the Classified. Call
344l or COOS and ask for
Classified Department.
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In the morning. if you like It's much
better for your than coffee. But boil
your eggs "soft."
We talk about grand old men"
from Gladstone to Clemenceau. from
Methuselah to Chauncey Depew. Con-
slider Mrs. FELTON,, that grand old
woman Of Georgia, aged 81. first of
her sex to take seat in the United
States Senate. She describes the in
'ident. her presence in the Senate for
ne day, as Historical fact and
omantic incident All the grand
men put together could not have
INFLATED better description.
his is practical race. What do
do in business office elevator
n women enter the car? The
DR. OF Cleveland says: Don't take
your hat because men with their
off take up too much room .
1ayor Of Cleveland doesn't think
of the bird who takes off his
windy street. to talk to a
That's matter of opinion.
gard to the elevator, If you
your hat at all. take ii off
y find woman running the
\ wait for some young lady
bsstockings to appear
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MRS. FRANCES HALL
WILL GET PENSION

New York, November 2s.r- Although
Mrs. Frances Stevens Noel Hall.
widow OF Rev. Edward Wheeler Hail.
slain with one of his choir singers
in New Brunswick. n. j.. has not APP
piled for pension. she will auto
lua,ically be granted one, II was an
nounced today at the offices of the
Episccoai church pension fund
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oday
Old Religions, New Ideas
Fifty Men Worth so, 900.
Dollars Work After You.
No Hard-Boiled Eggs.
By ARTHUR BRISBANE
By ARTHUR BRISBANE

Old, strange religions develop use
fitness in new, strange ways. The
world feared that Turkey and Rus
sia might unite. controlling the
Dardanelles between them. to con-
troll peace or war in the Mediter-
ranean. But the new caliph, ruler
of faithful Mohammed says the
Koran forbids communism. There
fore Turkey mustn't make a military
alliance with communist Russia.
Abdul Medjd, caliph, says the
Koran recognizes private property.
Mohammed certainly recognized it.,
for his wife, the thrifty widow. had
. great deal of it and he valued it.
Nevertheless, Medjid may live %
find that there are two or three ways
OF reading the Koran, as there are
of reading other ancient documents.
The British are building a flying
GaHshine TO carry SO armed men
Fhose so men will equal $4,000 ordi-
nary troops on the ground. Forty
eight Of the so could spray the troops
below with machine gun bullets and
INT. while one ran the machine and
the fiftieth dropped poison gas that
would destroy an army. Does any
body in Washington realize that all
warfare, on land or sea, will be
war from the air and that our bat
tleshfps are toys to flatter the. vanity
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TODAY

Arthur Brisbane's feature article
will be found in column below.
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BUY IN BIRMINGHAM

Goods advertised in The Age
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are guaranteed.
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III the morning. il you like. It's much
better for your than coffee. But boil
your eggs soft"
The Washington times., 1922-07-16

few deer are given to him, to serve as
nucleus of herd He in his turn instructs
new apprentices, who are entitled to
certain number OF deer on graduation, and
in this way knowledge is spread and the
animals distributed over the country. 1t
is believed that eventually there will be
at least 10000, 900 reindeer in Alaska.
OF the $4,000 reindeer now in Alaska,
two-thirds are owned by natives-Eskimos
end Indians. The natives are not allowed
under any circumstances to sell female
deer. In Summer, reindeer camps are es-
tablished and the animals are driven out
on the plains to browse. SO far as their
management is concerned, the most diff
cult thing to learn Is the use OF the lasso.
But, as already said they are very gentle
and tractable An odd thing Is their fond
ness for music, to which they will listen
like children.
Our wild American species Of reindeer,
the caribou, roams the Lake Superior re-
gion and also the wilder parts Of Washing.
ton, Oregon, Idaho and Montana. In Win.
ter Il feeds on MOSES, paving through
the snow to get at such provender when
Jack Frost has spread a white sheet over
the landscape.
The domesticated reindeer gets its VIM
ter food in the same way, the herders In
Winter time driving their antlered stock
The Washington times., 1922-07-16

Chukchis entertained a superstition which
forbade the selling Of live reindeer.
Nevertheless, by the use Of diplomacy
the officers OF the Bear did succeed in
buying a good many deer.
The Chukchs we're not above bit of
cheatery. 1t was discovered, after land
ing the first consignment in Alaska, that
the stays, by a simple operation we'll known
to medicine, were made sterile. Care was
taken on subsequent occasions that this
should not happen In the year 1892 the
Bear fetched III reindeer to Alaska, and
in the next year 127. In all, from the be-
ginning to the last importation, in 1902,
1880 deer we're brought over. The first
fawn was born at Port Clarence, April |,
1894.
Four Siberian deermen, brought across
for the purpose, were AT first placed in
charge of the reindeer at Port Clarence.
They became homesick and had to be
sent back, being replaced by Lapps, who
had had plenty OF experience in the busi-
ness. Under these Lapps, who acted as
instructors, a few Eskimo youths were
put. as apprentices, to learn how to care
for the deer
This system has been maintained up to
the present time, each apprentice serving
four years, at the end Of which time q
The Washington times., 1922-07-16

OF cattle are now being used by new own
ers for other purposes than cattle raising.
This land is not even put to seed, so that
the nation faces the ever-growing proolem
of supplying sufficient food for our rapidly
ircreaaing population.
With reindeer ranging over land too Wild
and rough and. unsuitable even for the cui.
tivatiCi Of vegetables. this problem may be
net il part Increasing herds may prove
the salvation of the white man here as
thoy did 20 the natives of Alaska not long
ago.
Tho history of reindeer breeding in
Alaska begins with the shocking death
rate of the natives OF that province fol
lowing a period OF years after our seal and
animal hunters had slaughtered such guam
titles Of wild game, as the whale, wslruS,
caribou and other fur.bearing animals,
that the Eskimo was unable to find a
means OF subsistence.
william Thomas Lopp, an American
official in Alaska, is generally given credit
for planting reindeer in Alaska I
The introduction OF these easily domes-
ticated animals in Alaska has already &C.
cofnplished marvels. 1t has literally lifted
the Eskimo out of barbarism into comfort
able, self.supporting civilization. Under
It's influence he has advanced to one of the
highest stages Of human progress-from the
The Washington times., 1922-07-16

and on the larger islands of the Aleutian
chain, to the great improvement Of the
inhabitants.
Working on similar lines of benefcence.
the Government is establishing agreeably
located reservations for the Eskimo, and
also for the Alaskan Indians, to which the
tribes are invited (only II they choose) to
remove from unfavorable sites Thus, for
instance, the people of an Eskimo village
at Deering, on the bleak coast of the Arctic
Ocean, where they dwet in novels under.
ground, we're asked If they would not like
to move to an uninhabited tract fifteen
miles square on the Kobuk River, abound
ing in game, fish and timber.
There they built modern town, with
we'll laid out streets, neat single.family
houses, gardens, sawmill, a mercantile
company-store managed on the cooperative
plan, and even a radio station to keep the
little colony in touch with the outside
world during eight months Of the year
when it has no other means of getting the
news.
The first reindeer ever brought into
America were brought from Siberia to
Alaska in 1892 on the United States reve-
nue. cutter Bear. Since then they have in
creased so rapidly that $4,000 now feed
on the tundra In that Arctic province Of
ours
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THANKED reindeer served with
onions and all the 'fixin's.'"


onions and all the 'fxin's'"
II our Governments plans for
tHe. conservation of beef is realized, flet
VI Santa Claus steeds will be novelty
on Broadway bills-offare in the near future.
Sixty reindeer, direct descendants OF
Dunder and Bitten, who visit us each
year over the roof tops at Christmas, were
sent from New York to Michigan the other
day.
They came from Norway, the first OF
their kind TO be imported into the United
States. They we're accompanied by Lap
renjesers," or reindeer drivers, dressed In
true comic-opera style, with red and green
turbans, gaily-colored smocks and long
legged boots.
After being fattened in the wild swamp
lands Of Chippewa County the reindeer
will be sent to New York restaurants.
Already reindeer steaks are selling in
Seattle for one dollar a pound. And the
prediction has been made that the day is
not far distant when reindeer ships from
Arctic and sub-Arctic regions will roll into
Seattle and other Western cities as the
big cattle trains roll into Chicago.
If, in the near future, you should see
sandwich man dressed as an Eskimo, lead
ing a reindeer down Broadway, you doubt
less will laugh. And if the sandwich board
bore the legend that reindeer steaks might
be had at some leading restaurant, you
might conclude that this was bright idea
to attract new customers. Then II you
learned that the sandwich man was merely
broadcasting Uncle Sans newest method
of feeding his people, you might inquire
what it all meant.
These figures tell the story. Twenty
years ago each person in the United States
ate 1S1 pounds of meat year-to-day they
eat 156 pounds a year. Not long since the
enormous decrease of 100000 head in
single year of the total live stock on
American farms was reached.
II the experiment of reindeer breeding
tust started in Michigan proves successful
and there is no reason to doubt that 1t
will-reindeer herds numbering many thou.
sands will soon be roaming our northern
border.
ne importance VI Iulo hOW Va
reindeer farming cannot we'll be over.
estimated Unlike the Italian, who has
learned to live on the products of wheat
with very little meat-as the Irish at one
time lived on potatoes-the people of the
United States have been the greatest meat
eaters in the world.
What part this played in the destiny Of
the nation is difficult to measure. But
science understands that in modern times
the progressive, conquering, forward-look'
ing nations have all been meat eaters.
Thus 1t may readily happen that the great
ness of Americas future may be linked up,
in no small measure, with the problem OF
supplying the people with the kind OF food
TO which they have become accustomed
During the past few years vast areas Of
land in the South and West Of our coun-
y, on which formerly roamed great herds
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they are kept in great herds num-
bering thousands. One herd may
embrace the deer belonging to
thirty or forty owners, who. take
turns at the work of caring for
them.
To primitive people like the.
Chukchis-or to the Eskimo, since
the introduction of the animal into
Alaska-the reindeer is food, cloth
ing, house. furniture, implements
and transportation. Its flesh fur
nishes a meat supply; the milk Of
the female is Of no great quantity,
but has the richness Of cream. The
intestines, cleaned and filed with
the fat, are eaten as sausages.
The skin is made into clothes,
tent-covers. bedding, reindeer har
ness. ropes, cords and fishlines.
The tough skin of the forelegs pro-
vides an admirable waterproof COW
ering for snowshoes. The sinews
make strong thread. The bones,
soaked in seal oil, are burned for
fuel. The horns are utilized for
various household implements and
for weapons of the chase.
Here, then, is the most useful
animal in all the world. How de.
sirable that it should be domesti-
Gated in our own country! Merely
for purposes of transportation it
would be exceedingly valuable, for
a swift reindeer can pull sled $50
miles in a day.