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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1922-09-18

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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1922-09-18

AS for Coats, never have they been more
beautiful! Such soft, deep-piled fabrics, rich
ly fur trimmed in the dressier styles; or man
nish--tailored in thick double-faced materials.
Smart frocks in tailored and dressy models
comprise selection Of varied charm.
We cordially invite you to see our opening
display of these new costumes for Fall and
Winter that we have assembled for your APP
prevail
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1922-09-18
BARRE DAILY TIMES
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER ia, 1922
The Weather

Fair tonight and probably Tuesday,
continued cool frost tonight; moder-
ate northerly winds, becoming vari-
able
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-30
Ladd Vigorous in Urging
 Tariff Duty on Graphite

One of the most vigorous articles yet presented in favor of traiff on graphite somes from ". B. Ladd of the Taliadega Foundry and Ma chine company.
 It is in the form of a letter to the Joseph Dixon Crucible company which has been active in opposing ''Talladega, Ala, April 24, 1922. Joseph Dixon Crucible company,
 Jersey City, New Jersey.
 "Gentlemen:-We have your circu- lar letter of the 17th instant urg- ing all buyers of crucibles to imme diately get in touch with congress- men and senators to oppose the pro- posed tariff on graphite and espe- oially the amendment offered by Senator Nicholson providing a Dc duty on No. 1 flake.
 We cannot comprehend you. First, I've would like to ask what is the difference between the selling price of crucibles now and in 1917- IS, when you were paying 15c and up for crucible graphite.
 We understand that you are able to buy foreign graphite, No. 1, at 5o per pound and that you use these quotations against the American miner.
 "The stock argument that for eign graphite is a necessity in cruc- ible making has been so thorough ly exploded by government test and commercial manufacture that we will not recount them here; and this fact leaves your opposition to a reasonable tariff resting solely upon the fact that your duty-free graphite is produced abroad by the most degraded labor known to the world.
 You are making a tariff protect ed crucible from raw material pro- duced by this unfortunate class of labor and you sell these crucibles to American business men who look upon their employees as men and not dogs.
 You go on grinding these unfor- tunate people deeper and deeper in poverty and you ask us to help you influence Congress to either exter- minate the American industry or level it's labor conditions to that of Ceylon, where the daily wage runs from 10c to 200.
 We have in mind q sad picture With HHtSn yOu aAG HUI AAA6AAAAo~ women, children, old men and cripples, crawling in and out of holes in the ground like human rats, bringing out this graphite in bas- kets; they are without decent cloth ing, food, shelter or homes; they are without joy, hope, happiness or edu- cation for themselves or for their children.
 "Is it nothing to you? that life like that is equivalent to death Is 1t nothing to you that your profits are based on their degradation? Is 1t nothing to you that. at the call of your government in her time of peril, your fellow citizens put mil- lions of dollars into the develop ment of the graphite mines of this country to meet government neces- sities, and are you now asking us, your customers, to combine and, through action of Congress, either wipe out these millions or degrade American manhood and womanhood to match conditions on foreign soil?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-30
By mIGNoN HALL

Somewhere up in the sky there are royal painters who make the colors of the rainbow and tint the pastel clouds
 Each day thay fling upon the en- circling bowl of the sky hues that mortal eyes or hearts have never thrilled to look upon before.
 The royal painters, being sorry for mortals, beg that now and then there be shipped to earth very wonderful duty of making little rainbow spots in the houses of earth folk which might otherwise be dreary.
 So comes to Mother Earth her troops of painters and artistsl
 But forget not that among them belong those artists whose materials are not smelly paints and rude can vases. Their materials are unwield- ly draperies. cloth, bits of braid, beads and shining tinsels.
 Their Duty
 And from these they must make perfect. artistic ereationsl
 Let me tell you of an artist here who confers happiness upon Birming- ham with the making of lamp shades IS exquisite as seashells. How suc- cessful she is can be attested by the hundreds of customers who yeaMy seek her out to design gorgeous, quiet or conservatiye-or even very gay shades for them; shades that are to make halls very radiant for occasions like marriages. parties, luncheons- or merely just to make home home.
 She is Mrs. Annette Portis, and so clever she is-so fetching and uncom- mon in speech-you'd know right away that she was one of earth's children-endowed and dispatched here by the master painters.
 Those little gods tucked her first away at the prosaie task of merely selling department store things, But like gods always do, they hid from her her present butterfly life within a dull cocoon of duty.
 Vivid awakening at the instance of Mrs. James Bowron, one of Bir- mingham's very loveliest and versa tile women, came to her The little gods had made hers the hand to wield the magic wand.
 Mrs. Portis. I want to buy here certain lamp shade. I like the lines but the colors are hideous. Do you suppose you could recover the frame for me?"
 Never Made One
 Now Mrs. Portis had never made Or dreamed of making-a lamp shade in her whole life. But she never has been once guilty of not daring to try
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-30

You have bitterly fought any graphite tariff from the start. while American mines have been caving in and American mills rusting in disuse and decay. You have used the misfortunes. poverty and degra- dation of foreign labor as bludgeon to beat to his knees the American graphite miner And now, as Con- gress evinces a disposition to give him a lighting show, you rush into the mails to corral your customers in a general onslaught to block such a possibility
 If the action you urge means anything. it means death to the American mines to live they must abolish our child labor laws; they must give up every comfort that distinguishes our free men from the serfs of poverty and degradation that dig your Ceylon graphite from holes in the ground by hand; they must teach their labor to live in novels instead of homes and to die a thousand deaths in the living of a single life. We must send our
  into the mines to work, unskilled, unclothed, unfed and uneducated, be- cause underpaid; we must debase our labor to the level of the far east; grind them in poverty, ignor- anee, hopelessness and death that you may buy your raw material of a people of that sort and sell your protected crucibles to a people Of our sort
 We write this to say that, if you are engaged in a campaign of that kind, you will have to go on with out us; if you think you can influ- enee Congress to kill the graphite industry of America for your trade benefit, go to it. we. for one, do not believe you can succeed. If you should succeed, bear in mind that the records are being kept and that more potent than the saving of few cents a number on erucibles Is the wrath of an outraged and de- vastated industry that has as much right to life as has the making of crucibles.
 Respectfully yours,
 "Talladega Foundry and Machine
 company.
 By W B. LADD."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-30
NEGRO INSTITUTION
 TO PLAY AT JEFFERSON

Central Alabama college, Mason City, the leading negro institution of education in this district, and of the Central Alabama conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, will rem der its annual commencement drama, "The Turn of the Tide" in three acts, at the Jefferson theatre Wednesday, May 3, playing a matinee at o'clock in the afternoon for the benefit of school children and at night at 8 o'clock for adults.
 The play is represented as being the best school performance of the season and cannot be easily sur passed. Tickets are on sale for the night performance a. the Peoples Drug Store, Penny Savings Bank building, and Mabry Bros. Dry Goods company, 1723 Fourth avenue. Tick cts for school children are on sale at the theatre Wednesday, May 3.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-30
AM|CROBE OF LOVE"
 PRODUCERS HERE
Begin Intensive Rehearsal For American Legion Per-
 formanCe at Jefferson


 Misses Ruth Strickland of Chicago and Beulah stanfeld of Boston ar rived In Birmingham last night to be- gin 10 days oe intensive rehearsing with the American Legion cast which will stage a musical comedy, The Microbe of Love-" at the Jefferson theatre Tuesday night, May 9.
 Mrs, Mortimer Jordan, Mrs. Walter Brewer, Mrs. Leon Bradley, Mrs. Crow, Headley Jordan. Crenshaw Chamberlayne and Dr. J. F. Hardin, constituting the committee in charge, announced through Post Commander Bailes last night that everything is in readiness for the first rehearsal at the Southern club Monday night at 7.S0 o'clock.
 At that time the present cast will be enlarged and all roles will be as- signed. There will be more than 100 persons to take part in the legion's show next Tuesday night.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-30
'ESSFUL BUSINESS WOMEN OF BIRMINGHAM

The way Mrs. Portis has succeeded Is, she thinks, by keeping everlast- ingIy at it"-but I feel the greatest reason lies in her appreciation and understanding of artistic line and curve. This is most strongly em- phasized by the fact that she origi- mates her own designs, her own color combinations. Blue over yellow" she observed, twill make you green light; blue is cold; yellow is good for dark places. But of all the colors, like rose best. It is very fine for the reason that persons of any age can sit under a rose shade and look well. l also am fond of yeliow-lt Ia lovely-but I sell 10 shades of rose color 60 one of any other hue. There is a thing one must be careful about in purchasing lamp shades. They must not only look well when your lights are on, but must be attractive for daytime Often shades that are beautiful in daylight are thorough ly hideous when the electricity is snapped on."
 Must Love Task
 Another secret of success. the nee dle expert said, is that you've got to like your work. She loves hers. It gives play for the imagination, she related--an outlet for ingenuity, and there is no limit to the different com binations one can employ.
 'I guess I could sell piece goods if had to; or labor in a sweat-shop- but wouldn't like it. Doing meehan- teal things annoy me frightfully- though I used to love the handling of beautiful gold encrusted glass, the frail and dainty French and Eng fish china turned out from some of the overseas factories now blown to atoms. Such fortunes of war have taken from the markets-probably for many years--the lovely designs, so profuse in the old days.
 Mrs. Portis is an al1-round, up-to- date woman as well as an artist and does most efficiently any task that falls to her hand at BeTnheim's. For instance she even sells electrical sup plies of all sorts when the store finds salesmen all busy-and she knows enough about the business to do everything but go out and wire a house.
 Some of these days. who knows. but what I might be called upon to do that? I can already put on sock. cts! So you see. already have a good startW
 For Happiness
 Mrs. Portis has a great panacea for keeping employees delighted with their jobs and happy at their work.
 Give them a holiday now and 'then-send them away from the shop. If women--or men-don't get little vacation now and then, lot of them get so mean you can't do anything with theml I know do. She laughed and then. confidingly: They just let me off two days last week."
 Mrs. Portis declared that most of anything in the world" she likes, she likes to keep house. and if she didn't have to work, she would be right at homei
 But the little gods keep on stamp ing their feet and saying mo, no, mo- The thimbie and the needle and the gorgeous threads must keep her there at her butterfly work.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-30

be in the parade. For the best dec orated baby buggy, as well as for the best costumes, first, second and third prizes will be given The May Day fete will be put on by Woodlawn Central, Gibson and Kennedy schools, each giving a minute feature. Mrs. I. R. Obenchain is chairman of the dances.
 Miss Pearl sandifer and Mrs. E. O. Sanders are to have charge of the model library for the care and train ing of children. The best posters and panels sent out by th- United States government and the Woman's Chris tian Temperance union for baby saw ins campaigns will be on display.
 Five thousand bulletins are being distributed-a gift of the Duncan Drug company-through churches, stores and schools, the aim being to set as many people to take part in the show as possible.
 The State Federation of clubs rec ommends Baby Saving Week." and, in carrying out its program, the Woman's club is very efficiently do- ing great public service.
 weighing Kia6ses
 Mrs. R. c. Alexander of the home economies department of the club, is VI lhe lSSlolNAAHEt WCAS ing and measuring of babies.
 The club will give first, second and third prizes in money each day in order to encourage thrift. These prizes will be presented in little saw ings banks, donated by Dr. A. w. Bell of the woodlawn Savings bank.
 Doctors will give short lectures each on prental influences and the care and training of babies. Mrs. La Forge, of the city health department, will be present to assist hostess com mittees. Each baby will be presented with a health certificate. Mrs. F. O. McClathery of the social service com mittee, will have charge of booths displaying the proper food and cloth ing for babies. A model breakfast, dinner and supper for the different ages of babies will be displayed. Doctor Northington will have a booth displaying baby foods, also bath and toilet articles. Drennen company will have a display of amusement features. including jumpers. walkers and swings Saks will have dis play of proper baby clothing. L. w. Burt will give certified milk each day. The National Biscuit company will serve crackers and cakes and the Batteron Coffee company tea and coffee for the visitors.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-30
Births--Deaths

Births
 Birth reports received at the health office April 2s. 1922;
 Mir. and Mrs. William B. Ladner, 4o1 First avenue. north. April g. boy. MT. and Mrs. k. E. Rich, Star Route, Lewisburg, April 26, boy
 MT. and Mrs. ". B. Worthincton. Fulton Springs, April 27. boy.
 Mir and Mrs. B. c. Walker, Gov ington, April 23, boy.
 Mir and Mrs. L. Caldwell Chase. south Highland infirmary, March 20, boy.
 MT. and Mrs. R. John A. Macspsr- ron, South Highlands infirmary, April 1S, boy.
 Mr. and Mrs. Frank II. Roy, Park wood, Route 2, Bessemer. March 2B, girl.
 MT. and Mrs. John c. Duval, s7O2 Avenue D. April 21. girl
 Mr. and Mrs. Luther T. worsham, 1000 Thirty-fourth avenue, April 25, boy.
 MT. and Mrs E. H. Mitchell. Wood lawn infirmary, April 21, girl.
 MT. and Mrs. L. Hendon, 1lsO Twen- tieth street, April 21, girl.
 Mir. and Mrs. B. V. Towner 19201S Avenue D. Ensley. April 24. boy.
 Mir. and Mrs. E. R. Blount, 3001 Ridgsway avenue, Ensley. April ls girl.
 MT. and Mrs. James J. Hawkins 1908 Fifteenth street, south, April 14, girl.
 MT. and Mrs. Carr Mccormick, New Castle. April 27, boy.
 MT. and Mrs. ". NJ. Evans, I157 Eleventh avenue, south, April 27. boy, Deaths
 Death reports received at health office April 29, 1922: Mrs. Mary B. Thornton, St. Vincents hospital, April 27. aged 35 years.
 MT. James A. Wilson, Hillman hos pital. April 2s. aged 4S years. ---.R.---
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-30

The baby show Is to be a regular plume in the hat of the Woodlawn Woman's club, and 1t will be staged at the Woodlawn infirmary
 Displays of All Sorts
 Oh my, at the various and sundry displays of baby foods, kiddies cloth- ing and other essentials for the care of youngsters whose lives consist of one clean dress after the other, the lugging around of pet cats, the screeching out of shining scissors or fathers razor and the tumbling off of front steps in their eagerness to walk right out on the airl
 Would you know what Is to be the very climax of this baby show. It's to bet costume parade which will as semble on the Woodlawn Hospital lawn, and which will end at the Woodlawn park. Youngsters in pink and blue, white and speckled frocks will trudge one after the other like a row of baby dolls, and then will lineup with beating hearts, to be adjudged as to costume. There will be fine prizes for the most unique dresses. Following this May Day dances, in which the children will sway as beautifully as a field of pastel shaded speet peas. will form an entrancing picture.
 Three Day Affair
 The baby show, which will mark Baby Saving Week, will go on from May ? to May and from o'clock in the afternoon until $500. All babies will be welcome; they will be weighed and measured; you will learn how to take better care of them and prizes will be awarded.
 Do not forget that the main slogan the biz idea-behind the whole col orful, enjoyable event will be this fact:
 Save the babies They must not needlessly die in Birmingham. We need them every one. and the Wom- ans club wants to help you rear your youngster, and give him the right physical start"
 So much interest centers in that costume parade, of which Mrs. Roscoe Brown of the civic commit tee is chairman. It will be led by three little clowns. One division will be composed of decorated baby bug gies Forty have already been prom iseo. Mrs. Joseph Vaughan has charge of this feature.
 Good Music
 The Woodlawn Central High school band will furnish music. Ministers and doctors of Woodlawn will also
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-30

particularly If she could oblige or give pleasure.
 T am sure I don't know-but could make the attempt, Mrs Bow ron"
 Her customer smiled: That's all anyone could askw
 And so pretty quickly Mrs. Portis found her little thimble on her fin- ger, and she was settled right in the midst of a gay splendor of flimsy, butterfly material Out of 1t with in- genuity she must fashion a glorious thing! For lamp shades are not pro saic commodities-they are made to be admired, fluttered overI They are one of the "pretties" of life, like strawberries are to a garden.
 Of course the little gods lowered around to see that the job did not faill
 From that time on," laughed Mrs. Portis merrily-"and that has been Il years ago--it's been a hopeless
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-30

This ia twenty-fifth of a series os stories about sueceaHful business women in Birminsham. The arti- eles will appear each day In The Ase-Herald. Few people realize how many are the highly succeag- RuI examples of women who have seized the business opportunities offered by great and growing Bir- mingham and have won places of esteem and confidence in the busi- ness world.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-30
NEw TRAFFIC MRsBERs

The Birmingham Traffic bureau Is receiving new members avery week. following it's activities in reduction of freight rates in and out of Blr- mingham and dts other services for shipper members The following new members were enrolled last week: Harris Warehouse and Transfer conn pany, Welded Products company, Hill 6 Griffith Foundry company and c. E. & D. E. Jones company, the last named being a Scottsboro firm.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-30
GETs s5OO AwARD

A jury in Judge c. B. Smiths di- vision of the circuit court yesterday returned a verdict of $500 in favor of M. B. Cowart in his suit against Lee c. Bradley as receiver for the B. R., l.. & P. Go.
 s5,o00 but was later ammended to read S10,0O0
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-30

case with me. I've never been able to do anything else!'
 And there she was--as you will see her any day--at Bernheim's Electric company-snowed under with rose brocade, gauzy Iaces, golden braid, oriental cloth designs-chiffon in gorgeous red, blues, yellows, faint ambers and amethysts-her thimble still upon the middle finger.
 She Knows
 She shook my hand with that thim- ble on. It's most part Of her thoughts.
 Oh. how she knows what shades will make your living room dearly restful; how she can give your re- ception halls a stately or a hospital ble appearances; how she can tell you whether or not your. lamp shade will transfuse the proper light to con- form to the draperies, the carpets, the Individuality of your dwelling housel
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-30
MRS. SMELL RETURNS

Mrs. AIyrtelle Whitney Shell, city inspector, returned to her office in the city hall yesterday after spending several days in Atlanta, where she attended the Southern Bet ter Films conference. Mrs Shell stat cd that she was delighted with the results of the meeting and that sew sral important steps i'm the crusade for better films were taken by the conference.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-30
REPORTS HoLD-UP

Bill Bailey, negro. 4SO2 Thirtieth street, reported yesterday to the police that he was robbed at sun down Friday by two negro hold-up men at the Louisville and Nashville and Frisco crossing. The robbers got $54 in money and a watch.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-30
the store. Joe Loveman. and Let
st0rics They'll Tell

Stories They'll Tell
 Maybe they'll tell you of tho times when MT. Loveman, and later Mir Joseph, used to sweep out the little store and did everything from the buying of goods to It's sellingi O, these were magnificent times--thoso pioneer days!
 Don't forget while you are at the party to hurry to the show windows where you will see the costumes that dainty ladies of 1887 wore-bustles and everything. and number of very interesting 86-year-old relics that have been sent in by townspeople, and which have been lent for the oe- casion, There Is one especially in- interesting thing-a piece of brocad- ed silk braid, which was the first thing ever sold Tn Loveman's first emporium" here. It ia brown. and re- tains It's original color. It was given to the store, which cherishes 1t very highly and keeps 1t in a glass frame. by the customer who purchased the fo-de-rols.
 Keep your eyes open, and you can't help but see many people-old friends Of 85 years ago-who have gone down to shake hands and speak, one with another. just for "Auld Lang syne"l And then the tears may kind of fill your eyes and you will rush to remind yourself:
 Hey, didn't I come down here to buy something?" and In Is seconds you'll be hidden amidst a mass of adluring merchandise,-and you won't get home till black dark.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-30

Bed all this laughing gugng sucking thumbs expanding their 
 The there be baby show May hundred or them expect to cooed ped death and be told the beautiful the word spectators get from home and the magnificent
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-30

Glimpse of Loveman's store 55 years ago, and which was the fore runner of tke present magnificent es- tablishment of Loveman, Joseph & Loeb. The show windows at the de- pertinent store this week will exhibit some of those old styles the women wore in that year of 1887. They will look funny to you now.