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The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-11

"Nitrates for Military Purposes"
 E. A. Yates of Woodhouse, Jates & Co.,, will lead, a discussion, speak ing on ''The Utilization of the Muscle Shoals Power" Francis E, Froth- ingham of Coffin & Burr, New York, will discuss The Muscle Shoals De- velopment from a Bankers Stand point"
 Manufacturers of great value to the country would spring up through the efficient working of the Muscle Shoals plant Col. J. w. Joyes of the army ordinance department declares in a survey styled "The Engineering Resources and Possibilities of Mus cle Shoals" and prepared for the American Society of Mechanical En- gineers.
 The development of the Muscle Shoals plant, Colonel Joyes states would bring to the vicinity Muscle Shoals section of Tennessee river, ex- tending some 35 miles up stream from the cities of Florence and Sheffield, many electro o-metallurgical industries and many electro chemical industries other than nitrogenous- fertilizer. Col onel Joyes asserts that the nearby iron ore coal, limestone, phosphate, bauxite and other minerals would at tract many large manufacturing plants.
 The actual physical situation and reasonable possibilities of the Mus cle Shoals plant are obscured by misstatement and exaggeration, &C., cording to Colonel Joyes. who says that picturesque and imaginative prediction has made 1t difficult to visualize the situation"
 Much Cloudy Reasoning
 MT. Moore, in a statement to the American Engineering council said that ''the question of the com pletion and utilization of the Muscle Shoals water power development give rise to mass of cloudy reasoning and appeal which leaves the merits of the different propositions now before the government without being accu- rately and definitely stated or under stood by the public to whom 1t be- longs and who are deeply concerned
 Various rumors exist as to the trend of the advice from distinguish. ed experts already before the govern ment. There Is no understandable recommendation before the public fro mthe engineering department of the United States army. The Ameri- can Engineering council, formed for the purpose of rendering public ser
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through the Valley of a Thousand Hills, to the home of a widower, a friend of Elliot's.
 Just as they are about to go into dinner that night late guest, who is to be Camille's partner, arrives. It is Reggie Van Tuyl.
 At dinner Reggie tries to give the impression that there is an under standing between himself and Cam ille, and he denies her assertion that she has seen him, in South Africa. saying he has only that morning arr rived.
 They all take the same Sleeper for Johannesburg. As they are going to bed that night Reggie, as if by acci- dent, gives Elliot a shove so that he falls off the moving train.
 Glyn lands in a pile of hay and is uninjured, and climbs back aboard the train. Next morning at breakfast Reggie seems upset.
 Today's Installment
 Camille's pretty eyes were con- stantly turning towards the door.
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Then her face urhtened.

Then her face frightened. For at last her lover came '
 Here's MT. Glyn." Then. with a little cry of pain: "Oh-h Oh-hl" For Reggie. muttering something that sounded like: Good God" has split right arm, and on her frockl
 In the profuse apologies which fol- lowed this mishap, his extreme agita- tioE passed unnoticed.
 I'm quite all right now. Only my arms a little burnt"
 A black attendant brought some ! baking powder, and gently rubbed 1t on the injured member.
 Glyn joined them at the breakfast table.
 Good morning. everybody@ His glance softened as it rested on Ca- mille. Then, turning to Reggie: That was a curious trick you played, last nfghtP'
 What trick?'' The young man had a grip of himself by now
 "Oh, showing me through the open gate out to the track belowi Wonder I didn't crack my skull, wasn't itys Nonchalantly he sprinkled castor sugar on Camille's grapefruit, and then helped himself
 The girls eyes widened. l onoVea you through the open gate? Impossb1ei You'd have been killed out right" Her gaze was startled.
 Good heavens! You've been dreaming!" calculated Dolly Morti- mer
 'Oh no, I haven't. Our friend op- posite--" he nodded cheerfuily to Van Tuyl-"will corroborate my story. He was with me at the time."
 Reggie scowled. He would brave things out
 "I don't know what you're talking about. The last I saw of you was in the corridor near the observation | platform. l thought you were be- | hind me, and walked on to my own compartment, but when I'd looked around, you were gone. Turned in, I thought, for the night. Wasn't that so?"
 Glyn wondered if the young man was as innocent as he seemed. There was no. definite proof to the con- trary., And yet
 He gave a short laugh.
 You don't happen to remember lurching against me in the darkness | and hearing me give a shout that would have awakened the dead? The gate was open. and T fell through. Luckily, I landed on a pile of hay
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{ beside the track, picked myself up and pursued the tram. which had come to halt about half mile along the line l thought you'd pulled the danger cord but discos- cred that you hadn't. and the guard merely laughed at my little story But here l am. quite safe and sound"
 "Ohi Ohl How terribler, breathed Dolly Then, furiously, toN Reggie; "You must have seen what hap pened But you surely weren't such monster as to push him outY"
 Don't be absurd" Reggie forced hearty laugh Hanging would be too good for me. if that were truep He turned to Glyn. T say, old chap. I'm most frightfuly sorry, but--lit- orally as well as metaphorically-I was absolutely in the dark as to what oecurredl If you called out, the train was making such d row ana buzzing that l didn't hear. And if you slipped, as you evidently did, it, was lurching so very badly that I'm not surprised And the gate was open, was it? Dyou know, just after we started. I passed two open gates on the train and cautiously closed em both. The attendants are dashed careless, that's what I've got to say"
 eOh. don't let's make. fuss about if. I'm as right as rain" Glyn def- initely dismissed the subject, after it had been we'll threshed out by the others. Let's talk of something pleasant What do you think of the scenery, Miss CamilIe?"
 its marvelfous!"
 The train had halted at the base of 2 bright. green hill. and horse and cart was winding it's way Up the lower slopes, on a. road of red sand stones, to gray block of buildings that looked like a highland farm.
 "The mountains exactly like Schis- kallion, in the Highlands,e Dolly cried, peering out of the window. Whats its sname2p ~
 juba Hill. expect you can just remember the Boer war7"
 "Oh no, can't. I was the merest infant atAthat time" Uttered the lit- tie lady. in self-conscious fashion
 Before this. statement could be challenged, she went on:
 We're 5000 feet above sea level. aren't we?'N
 "Yes. We'll be 5000 up. very soon." z
 Tomorow---A secret.
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hing, April 14, it is announced by the Metropolitan section of the Amor icRn Society of Mechanical Engi- neers. Engineering interests in the Muscle Shoals development has been greatly stimulated by the announce ment of Senator Norris. chairman of the Senate committee on agriculture, that leading engineers will be asked to aid in solving tho problem.
 The question of active. participa- ton by organized engineering has been formally brought before the executive board of the American En- gineering Council of the Federated American Engineering societies by Philip N. Moore of St. Louis, a lead Ing mining engineer and former chairman of the War Relief Minerals Commission. MT. Moore proposed that the council offer to the government the services of a committee. of skill ful and disinterested engineers for the investigation of this problem so that recommendations might be made to the Secretary of War and Con- gress as to the policy which the gov ernment should adopt.
 To Inspect Project.
 The engineering forum Is being ar ranged by the ordnance division of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, a delegation from which. it is announced, will make an inspec- ton of the Muscle Shoals develop ment following the big spring con- vention of the society in Atlanta, be- ginning on May 8 and continuing for five days. Cooperating with this so- cfety in the Muscle Shoals forum here will be numerous national or ganizations, including the American Society of Civil Engineers. American Institute of Electrical Engineers, American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, the New York Post of the Army Ordnance as- sociation and the New York Post of the Society of American military En- gineers.
 The forum, Major E. L. Sherwood. secretary of the ordnance division Of the Mechanical Engineers, said, would consist of four parts. Part one will show motion pictures DOT traying the beginning of the Muscle Shoals development and its progress to the present, with explanations by Theodore Nagel. Muscle Shoals as a Power Producer" will be the sub ject of the second part, Brigadier General Harry Taylor. assistant chief of engineers, U, s. A, being amonR the speakers.
 Many Noted Speakers
 ssMuscle Shoals as a Nitrate Pro- ducer" will be discussed in part three. Dr. w. S. Landis, chief technologist of the American Cyanamid company, will speak on Commercial Nitrates," and Major Gen. c. c. Williams. chief of ordinance, U. s. A., will deal with
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-11
TEXAN DESCRIBES
 MARKETING PLANS

Tuscumbia, April 10.-(Special.)- The story of cooperative cotton marketing. as is being done in other states and as 1t can be done in Ala bama to very great advantage to all concerned. was told at a large gathering of farmers by F. R. Shanks. Ia Texas farmer, here Saturday.
 In very forcefui way, MT. Shanks told how the farmers of Texas went about forming the Texas Farm Bu- reau Cotton Marketing association, which is made up of 10000 cotton growers representing an annual pro- duction of 6o0.000 bales. and how this association has efficiently marketed the cotton produced by it's members at price ranging from $10 to s15 per bale more than their neighbors. who were not members, received.
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e=sa SCAk yOuI CdI~OWhIAS neighbor his next tire. This inter- ests him but mildly.
 Price arguments are thread worn. Claims and promises have the same old ring.
 The makers of US. Royal Cords do not claim to be exempt from the great law of competition. But it is their firm belief that the time is here for a neav kind.
 No manufacturer and no dealer can much longer evade the chal. lenge of progress.
 The competition taking shape today was forecast many years ago in the US. Policy-the policy that makes U. s. Tires, at today's prices, the biggest moneys worth
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t'Muscle Shoals as a Nitrate Pro- ducer" will be discussed in part three. Dr. w. S. Landis, chief technologist of the American Cyanamid company, will speak on Commercial Nitrates," and Major Gen. c. c. Williams. chief of ordinance, U. s. A., will deal with
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-11
INSPECTOR IS
 CONVINCED II
 HAS NO EQUAL
He Has Found by Actual Ex- perience That TanlaC Does
 All Claimed For It, Declares
 Jacksonville Citizen.

q have found by actual experience that Tanlac does all that Is claimed for it and believe I am doing good deed when I advise others to try the medicine" said William Copeland, SS7 Delmar street, Jacksonville, Fla, air. brake inspector at the Union Station.
 q had been in a badly rundown condition for a number of months and just felt all out of sorts before l got hold of Tanlac. couldn't eat or sleep either to do any good and my back and shoulders hurt me almost constantly.
 "Tanlac put mo in good shape in a surprisingly short time. l feel just like new man now, full of life and energy and eat, sleep, work and feel better than in years"
 Tanlac is sold in Birmingham by Patton-Pope Drug Co.,, and Sellers Drug Co.,. Inc, and by leading drug gists everywhere.-Adv.
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Ishe has accepted, as security for a loan, from Reggie Van Tuyl, a young man about town always In financial South Africa attempts are made to get the ring from her and on the lawn after dinner at Lady Kilmornys at Durban, Camille one night, thinks she sees Reggie's face behind the hedge. Elliot sees her push through the hedge to investigate and thinks she is meeting Reggie and is hurt. How
 ever, they make matters up later on and then start on motor ride
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The Story Thus Far

Camille Westbrook has gone to South Africa with Dolly Mortimer, her little butterfly friends, who has made the trip from London to join her husband at Johannesburg. Elliot Glyn. in love with Camille, has made the trip with them. Camille has in her possession a valuable ring which vice. has In its power the means by which expert opinion can be placed at the disposal of the nation"
 MT. Moore said that the engineer ing committee suggested by him should serve without compensation, investigate the problem in all its fea- lures and proceed In such way that 1t would command public confidence and approval,
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Strength and Vitality
Follow This Advice


 Wallburg, N. CT wish to say that find Dr. Pierce's Golden Med ical Discovery and Favorite Pre- scription the best tonics on the market.
 My wife says she would be dead had she not taken Favorite Pre- scription. One bottle always puts her straight when she gets weak and rundown. I took bottle of Golden Medical Discovery and the result was a gain of one and one half pounds in weight. It's fine to tone up the system, better 1 think, than cod-liver oil."-J. Walter Futile.
 Obtain Dr, Pierce's Remedies now from your druggist. You will soon feel their beneficial effect. Write Dr. Pierce's Clinic in Buffalo, N. Y.. for free medical advice.-Adv.
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NATIONAL FORUM ONMUSCLE SHOALS
 SET FOR FRIDAY 
Engineers, Army Officers and Bankers Will Speak at Big Meeting in New York
 on That Day

New York. April 1O.-(special.)- Engineers, army officers, bankers and technologists will speak at a big national forum on Muscle Shoals at the Engineering Societies build ing in New York city Friday eve-
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-04-21

work, without cutting Alaska off
from our national scheme of things.
Two Methods.
Two simple business principles
will do it. In the first place, let
each federal bureau or department
place its business in Alaska under
a resident officer with authority to
act on the ground and with large
discretion in applying federal laws
to Alaskan conditions.
Let only transactions of special
Importance, large questions of poll
icy, and appeals from local decis-
ions come to Washington. In other
words, cut out long range admin
istration and red tape.
In the second place, provide for
constant and direct contact between
the different federal agencies by es-
tablishing an Alaskan cabinet Put
in it the governor of the territory,
the officer responsible for each ma
jor division of national business,
and one or two representative citi-
zens.
Direct Settlement.
Make it the duty of the cabinet to
correlate the different federal &C
tivities, to straighten out conflicts
or overlaps. and to collaborate in
developing the best means for all
round development of Alaska. Many
everyday questions in handling pub
lie business could be settled direct
ly by the cabinet.
We should not cut Alaska off
from effective help by each federal
agency in developing the resources
in which that particular outfit rep
resents the organized experience
and technical skill of the country.
We should not risk a breakdown
in Alaska of fundamental policies
which the United States has adopt
ed for the conservation of national
resources.
Without doing either, we can run
the public business of Alaska eff
GENTLY.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-04-21
70 WIDEN ROAD
At COLLEGE TO
7O-FOOT DRIVE
vain Highway Leading to Gymnas-
lam Improved to Avoid
Congestion.

widening of the main road lead
,,g to the Augustana gymnasium,
~s,ch has been used as commun-
- center, has been started and
rs,I be made an improvement
rbich has long been needed.
contract for the improvement
xss let to the Littig Construction
.omnany. Davenport, which has
sesn grading Zion hill for the
snlidi1g OF the new dormitory and
seminary buildings. The road.
rsieh will be doubled to 20 feet
tide is directly behind the main
snilding. between 1t and the gym
rssium. at a distance from the
~or1an's hall to the library.
from 5000 to 1000 cubic yards
~ dirt will be removed for the
wisening r. the road, and will be
rlaced in lne ravines behind the
main college campus. The road
which is only So feet wide now,
vas continually congested at times
vhen concerts or programs of any
kind were held at the gymnasium.
The new road will give ample room
for four vehicles to pass abreast
No action has been taken upon
surfacing the road. For the pres
snt. il is believed, it will be cover
I'd with cinders and at later date
I II may be paved with concrete.
sloping OF the Thirty eighth
street hill, where the new build
ings are to be constructed, is be-
ing finished by the Littig company.
The slope is being decreased to
eliminate any danger of landslides.
The Ber-ste Construction
company, Moline, which has the
contract for building the new DOR
mitory and seminary structures, Is
buying its material and will be-
Arin work as soon as possible.
Lille Taylor, a colored woman,
owns oil lands in Louisiana esti-
mated to be worth $20.000,000.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-04-21

W. De UTe6feys business.
The ground work for the develop
ment OF Alaska has been laid. Ex-
listing laws provide for the utiliza-
ton of her timber, her fisheries, her
agricultural lands, her metals, her
coal and oil deposits, and her wa
terpower. Additional legislation on
certain resources is needed, partic-
ularly to encourage the fur and rein
deer industries, to perpetuate the
supply of valuable fish products,
and to protect the interior forests.
Certain wrinkles of obsolete or in
adequate laws need ironing out.
But we lack unified policy for
Alaska as q whole There is a
government Of the forests, a gov
eminent Of the fisheries, one of the
reindeer and natives, another of the
cables and telegraphs," said Secre-
tary Lane. Something is needed to
bring these things together, to cor
relate the handling OF different
groups of resources.
At the same time, Alaska is part
of the United States. Alaska is a
future state in her own right
Alaska contains 6 per cent of our
native timer supply. Her enormous
food resources and her power and
mineral resources are part, an i'm
portant part of our national equip
ment. These several resources
ought to be developed in accord
with national aims and policies.
Here then is the nub of the prob
lem, to handle public business in
Alaska with efficiency and team
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-04-21

undeveloped a s.
sets of the United
States, and that
98 per cent of
{ b o s e resources
are publicly own
ed. On both counts
I b c development
of Alaska is a
matter of public
concern and, in
no small measure,
of public respon-
5 ! b ility. TIL e
7" p 70 b | e m . o I
Alaska is how to
a p p y common
sense to D u b Ii c
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-04-21
should Glue Alaska DUN Cabinet
Says Chief u. S. Forestry Seru;ce

In view Of the controversy now
IN progress between Secretary
OF the Interior Fall and Secre-
tary OF Agriculture Wallace as
TO how Alaska shall be develop
ed, this statement by W. B. Gree
ley. chief of the Forestry Ser
vice. takes on added interest.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-04-21
BIZ w. b. GREELEY
Chief Z. y. Forest Service.

Two things about Alaska should
pe clearly understood: that her re-
sources form one OF the greatest
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-08-01
COAL LEADERS
PLAN MEETING
NEXT TUESDAY
Expect A. That Time To Reach
Agreement. Miners WilI Stay
Out Pending Meet

PHILADELPHIA, August l. -
The joint conference of operators
and miners Of the central competi-
tive bituminous fields to be held in
Cleveland next Monday for the pur-
pose OF negotiating an agreement
designed to terminate the coal strike,
was called today by John l.. Lewis,
head of the mine workers.
Lewis also announced that the
general policy committee Of the Unit
ed Mine Workers will meet in Cleve-
land at the same time for the pur-
pose Of acting promptly on develop
ments as they occur in the JOINT
wage conference. All the men will
remain on strike until an agreement
or definite understanding is reached.
Representatives of the various gov
ernment departments and producing
operators cooperating under the ad-
ministration's distribution plan set
to work on the initial problems fac
ing operation of the scheme, such as
organization of regional committees
in the producing fields and formation
of coal pools. The personnel of some
of the regional committees is to be
announced tomorrow.
Members of the federal distribu-
ton committee also conferred yes
terday with Cleveland operators on
the question of supplies for the Greas
T..0eS rpgipn. bur no statement was
made as to conclusions reached by
the conferees,
In Cleveland, it was understood, a
meeting is to be held next Monday
looking to the settlement of the
strike in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois
and Indiana.
How extensive such a partial set
tlement of the miners strike would be
or whether such conference, lack
ing considerable number of en-
ployers of larger forces of miners,
would be successful at all remained
questionable in, official and semi-offic-
ial view
Ever since the strike began some
operators have expressed willingness
to negotiate with John L. Lewis,
president of the United Mine Work
ars, and the scale committees of the
union. The controlling majorityin
moss operators association has been
unwilling, however, to concede the
unions demands for a seml-national