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The Winslow mail., 1923-06-22
VNyHAT is your opinion OF
w daylight saving" and OF
the efforts In various states,
sometimes successful, to pro-
hibIt it by statute2
BY EDWARD w. PIckARD

y ERMANY almost surrendered last
" week, but still did not come near
enough to surrendering to suit France
and Belgium. Chancellor Cuno sub
mitted to the allies and the United
States new set Of propositions, ask
ing that another reparations confer
ence be called which, after consider
ing the estimate of it's resources which
Germany would proffer, should fix the
total sum to be paid. Cuno promised
Germany would abide by the decision
rendered. In his note the chancellor
suggested that Germany could pay an
nuities not in excess of 1,5O0 100000
gold marks and named these guaran-
tees to be placed back of such an
nuities.
First, monopolies on tobacco and
brandy and tax on sugar and luxu-
ries plus a customs revenue to the ex-
tent of 100000 gold marks ($10OO,-
00O) yearly.
Second, a pledge Of 5OO,OOO,OO0 gold
marks ($125,O0O,000) yearly from the
earnings of the railways, to secure
which railway bonds with a total value
of 10,OOOOOOOOO gold marks $2500,OOO,-
OOO) with interest at 5 per cent will be
offered.
Third, a pledge of Germany's indus
trial and agricultural wealth to SIM
liar amount, plus new tax on mate
yial values, which is estimated to net
orlY
yearly.
Cuno's note made no mention of the
Ruhr or passive resistance and said
nothing Of politics, international guar
antees or moratorium.
To this note Frances reply, at this
writing unofficial, is that the new Ger
man proposals will not be even ex-
amined by France until passive resist
ance in the occupied regions has
ceased, and that the Ruhr will not be
evacuated until Germany pays the
reparations. Belgiums adherence to
this was obtained by Premier Poincare
In q lively conference in Brussels, but
Premier Theunis and Foreign Minister
Jaspar induced Poincare to try hard
TO have combined and Identical re-
ply to Cuno made by the allies. Pom
care also outlined new coercive meas
ures to be applied in the Ruhr and the
Rhineland, and Belgium agreed to
these with the understanding that she
should send no more troops. These
measures include the establishment OF
an air-tight Gordon cutting off the oc'
cupied areas from the rest Of Germany
the wholesale expulsions of persons re-
fusing to work or interfering with the
operations of the forces Of occupation
the creation of new money, the confls
cation of further stocks and renewed
attempts at the operation of certain
kinds of industry.
Because the Krupps have not paic
the 40 per cent coal tax imposed by the
French their steel mills and furnaces
at Elgers and Neuwied were seized OF
Wednesday and the French officials
said unless the tax of twenty billion
marks were paid the properties woul'
be sold at auction.
The Winslow mail., 1923-06-22

OF course, we
care to go
IN record as claim.
ng that smoking a
AN of Edgeworth is
rs good as a two
weeks rest cure in
he mountains; but
, we would like to
81 Aregister very
81 strongly the opin-
I ion that smoking
any pipe makes
life seem more
worth living and
that smoking a
The Winslow mail., 1923-06-22

pipe filled with Edgeworth helps lot.
At least, smokers from all parts of
the country write in to tell how much
Edgeworth helps them in the general
pursuit of health, happiness and sew
eral good pipefuls day.
If you are interested in finding out
more about Edgeworth, the most SEN
sible plan is for you to let Larus &
Brother Company send you some free
samples so that you can try the to-
bacco for yourself.
Just write your name and address
down on postcard and you will re-
ceive Immediately generous helpings
both of Edgeworth Plug Slice and
Ready-Rubbed. If you will also in
clude the name and address of your
tobacco dealer, we will make it easier
for you to get Edgeworth regularly.
For the free samples address Larus
& Brother Company, rs South 21st
Street, Richmond, Virginia.
ToRetail Tobacco Merchants: If your
jobber cannot supply you with Edge
worth, Larus & Brother Company will
gladly send you prepaid by parcel post
one or two-dozen carton of any size
of Edgeworth Plug Slice or Ready
Rubbed for the same price you would
pay the jobber.
The Winslow mail., 1923-06-22

grounds and few have come forward to
question seriously the soundness of the
decision. But there are many Amer
leans who hope some other way can
be found to remedy the conditions, ex-
listing in numerous parochial and other
schools, against which the state laws
were directed.
The Winslow mail., 1923-06-22

CTRICT conformity with the de-
- cision OF the Supreme court Is de-
manded by the Treasury department in
Its new regulations concerning hquor
On ships. All intoxicating beverages
The Winslow mail., 1923-06-22

A CCORDING to decisions rendered
"A last week by the Supreme court OF
the United States, the laws passed by
various states prohibiting instruction
in schools in other languages than Eng
lish are unconstitutional. Justices
Holmes and Sutherland dissented. The
question was decided OF constitutional
The Winslow mail., 1923-06-22
NEWS review OF
CURRENT EVENTS
Germany's New Offer of Annu-
tiles Is Not Satisfactory to
France and Belgium.
SHE ASKS new CONFERENCE

Treasury Order Applies Dry Law Rig
idly to Foreign Ships-Smith Now
Wet Democrats First Choice for
esidency-America's Qualified
Victory in Opium Conferences.
By EDWARD w. PlCkARD
The Winslow mail., 1923-06-22

THE Chinese cabinet resigned in
l. body Wednesday and went to
Tientsin, leaving President Ii Yuan
hung alone in Peking to run the gov
ernment. The ministers issued a state
ment accusing the president of acting
unconstituticnally in the conduct OF
public affairs, but their resignation Is
believed really to be part of a con
spiracy to drive Ii from office.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-02-05
CHAOS IN THE AIR

The rapid expansion of wireless teleg-
raphy has made it household word, if not
household necessity. Radio sets are COM
peting with Photographs as adjuncts to the
up-to-date residence or apartment. With
thousands of amateur operators and an ex-
mention the practice of broadcasting enter
tainment for all who care to listen in" the
air is filled with conflicting wave lengths
and it has become necessary to eliminate the
confusion. That is the purpose of the fed
eral radio-control bill whcih has been passed
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-02-05
GRIM WINTER is HERE

Poets are il the habit of going into costa
sizes about the beauties of snow and slant
ing sleet that comes with the mighty blasts
of Boreas, and they rhapsodize over the
frozen tracery of trees creaking with ice.
Even ordinary people sometimes look out of
their windows when all nature is gripped
by arctic cold and admire the lovely Christ
mascara effects they see. But the poets
advantage is that he can warm his toes in
the glow of his tropical fancy and the av-
erage person views the wintry landscape, it
is safe to say, through window just above
a toasting radiator. Perhaps he enjoys it all
the more because there are persons outside
buffeted by the blasts and slipping pictur-
esquely across the shivery scene
To have spring, sunshine and strawberries
snatched right away from us, and in the same
second cold-douched in this fashion, does not
exactly add to the joy of life. Still, there is
comfort in contrast. We of the south, at least.
are not in St. Paul, Mimi, where the temper
ature is 25 below zero, or in other parts Of
that western region where it is lower still by
20 and 80 degrees. The east, too, is shivering
ten times worse than we are. And we are
better off than we would be if we were some
where near Honolulu, where the seas are ris-
ing up and shifting those smiling islands with
relays of tidal waves.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-02-05
PROBLEMS OF A PRINCE

Because Albert, the young Duke of York
is soon to be married and has no fortune in
his own name, his future wife being also
without riches, some expressions of concern
are heard as to their financial affairs when
they start housekeeping. The British gov
eminent does not grant Albert stipend, and
so far as is known he is not trained to make
a living. With his older brother, the Prince
of Wales, the situation is different. His
is a title that finances itself. prncelv
income is derived from his estates. How
much is required for the duke to maintain
himself has heretofore been a matter be-
tween the duke and his father. But people
are suddenly curious. Now that he is com
ing in for publicity and is to set up domes-
tic establishment of his own, they are ask
ing what he will do to raise roe necessary
funds in the future. But when did prince
with his father on a throne ever show any
signs of suffering for want of sustenence !.
Should the kingly purse ever close its golden
lips against him, there would still be plenty
of sources of supply. There would still be
bankers and tailors and grocers in England
and who of them would deny royalty!
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-02-05
IF THE ROLES WERE REVERSED

In spite of her assertions that she is being
grievously oppressed" by the French, there
is great difference between the French
Germany towards France and Belgium dur
ing the World war 1t is true that the cir
cumstances are not the same, but the mem
DRY of German ruthlessness in Belgium and
northern France is still too fresh in the
public mind to permit much sympathy be-
ing felt for Germany, who is alone respon-
sible for her present plight. The fact tina.
Belgium and France suffered more than
any other nations from the wanton destruc-
ton of the German armies makes their mod
Grafton in the Ruhr. under extreme provoca-
ton, all the more remarkable. France has
wrecked no German factories and destroyed
no coal mines. The rights of the civil popula-
ton, SO far as is compatible with the purpose
of the occupation, have been respected The
Germans, and not the French, are respon-
sble for the disorder that has occurred and
the strikes which have imposed hardships on
civilians.
France might be excused for saying, eff
you won't work, you may starve,'' but on the
contrarysshe is endeavoring to provide food
for the Ruhr and has assumed the task OF
feeding the civil population, as we'll as her
army. Every obstacle the BerliH govern
ment and Germary's disgruntled war prof.
teers could devise has been interposed
to hamper the French and make their posi-
ton more difficult, but they have kept their
heads and show no desire to retaliate with
excessive severity. The sole object of
France is to keep the Ruhr industries in OPP
Grafton and collect the PREPARATIONS due her.
Such measures as she has adopted have been
designed to bring the German government
to terms and prevent outbreaks of violence
1t cannot be denied that her conduct in
the Ruhr has been characterized by fore
bearance, rather than brutal exercise of
power.
1t is interesting to speculate what course
Germany would pursue if the positions were
reversed. Suppose Germany had invaded
France because France was in default IN
her PREPARATIONS payments. Would she hest
5 tate to put into force policy of fright
fitness" if France resisted? Judging by past
history, dating back to the Franco-P russian
war, Germany has far less to fear from the
French occupation than France would have
to fear from an invasion of her territory by
a victorious Germany.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-02-05

Paris, they add another chapyer to the tribu-
lations of the luckless Emperor Charles
heir to the once mighty domain of the
Hapsburgs, who died in poverty on the is
land of Madeira. 1t is said that $4,000
was all that was ever realized by the sale
of gems worth $10;000,0 900, and TINS
money was gobbled up by charles cred
itors. Neither he nor the former Empress
zita received a penny
1t is stated that when Charles and Zita
fled to Switzerland they took the crown
jewels with them. Hoping that he would
regain his throne, Charles lived on credit
and kept possession of the jewels to use in
an emergency. Just before the failure Of
his last coup he gave them to Baron Steiner,
trusted member of his household, with in
structions that they were not to be disposed
of without written authority from Charles
When the news came that Charles and Zta
had been placed on board British bat
tleship and would be sent to Madeira, the
Hapsburg creditors swarmed around Baron
Steiner. According to the story, he agreed
to sell the jewels on the authorization of
Charles aunt, and pay the family bills.
This was the opportunity international jew
elers had been waiting for. Three of these
dealers got possession of the jewels by Of
fering to find purchasers and making de-
post of $4,000. The baron was left with
the bag to hold. When he complained to
the Swiss authorities and on inquiry was
started the three jewelers. swore they had
been swindled by Intermediates. There
were accusations and counter-accusation
but no evidence was brought out to hold the
guilty persons or recover the property. The
$4,000 had long since gone to insisten.
creditors. Of the royal houses that went
down with crash as result Of the World war
none Jared worse than that of the Haps-
burgs, who were less to blame for the war
than the Hohenzolerns, and there is grim
irony in the thought that their spoliation
was completed by international sharpers.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-02-05
THE DISTRICTS BAROMETER

The feat of breaking ten monthly produc-
ton records in as many departments OF us
activity during January by the tennessee
Coal. Iron and Railroad company is an
achievement not only reflecting the superior
management of that iron and steel pro-
Queer. but it also mirrors the districts in
dustrial status. There is not weak INK
in any of them. All have order books war
ranting approximately capacity production
for months to come, and this production has
been financed. The orders placed by the
railroads are based on cash in hand. WIRE
mills reflect the structural activity anu
prosperity in rural sections. Farmers are
purchasing more farm implements than IN
three years. Every branch of industrial
production is on a sure foundation.
The Tennessee company is the DISTRICTS
barometer. The position occupied by this
district in the period of depression was
measured by the company's operations.
While the other steel centers were barely go
ing at 20 to rs per cent, the tennessee
company was~on SO per cent steel pro-
duction base. That difference is due to the
situation Of the district with reference to
the EXPORT trade The domestic market was
stagnant for a year, but during that time
japan and China took rails, plates and
other steel products continuously, and they
moved steadily out of Mobile in ships that
were built of Alabama steel, three-tourtns
fashioned in shops of the Tennessee COM
pany and put together at Mobile. Australia
and South America also took steel shapes via
Mobile, and large tonnage was sent as Tar
as Alaska. to which an additional tonnage
will move this week.
Z The Tennessee compny rs able to make
new high records from time to time because
its policy of plant improvement is continuous.
1t now has at Ensley blitt furnace that
turned out $50 tons of iron day in Janu-
airy. This is far cry from the original fur
uaces there with their $50 to zoo tons
day. No small contribution toward these
new high productions is the work done to
surround employees with sanitary and pleas
ant home conditions. The modern policy Of
/, large corporations in that respect has been
Of material benefit to them as well as to their
workers.
The most pleasing feature OF Birming-
hams industrial progress in the past rev
years has been the expansion and improve
ment of what the district already had. Es-
! sentially and fundamentally this districts
welfare is tied up in coal, iron and steel, and
it is the development of their uses and
manufacture that has counted most IN the
march of progress. The district has adj
vanced beyond the production of raw ma
terials only, and is now attracting the at
tention of the oldest industrial centers as
a maker of the finished product also.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-02-05
ANOTHER OUTLET PROVIDED

The interstate commerce commission has
granted the request of the Tennessee, Georgia
and Alabama railroad to make an extension
connecting the line with the Seaboard Air
Line at Odenville, which will afford it an
entrance into Birmingham and will give Biz
mngham another line through this city and
Chattanooga. There was no valid reason
against granting this permit and the com
mission did well in quickly dsposing of
academic objections by allowing the extern
sion. The road now runs between Gadsden
and Chattanooga. The extension will ge,
it out of its bottled-up condition at Gads
den. This district and Gadsden will alike
benefit from having another outlet for their
products.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-02-05

railway and the Louisville and Nashville. 1t
means that both these important southern
lines are again on good footing, and that
each has practiced the art of overhead re-
duction. The traffic bureaus of the country
have served to stimulate more care in
freight handling by prompt pressure and col
lection of claims and there has been heavier
loading of cars and more scientific use of
fuel. These economies are showing their
effect in the increase in net operating ex-
penses on practically the same or even
smaller gross returns
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-02-05
MOBILE BENEFITED
Mobile News-Item)

Any increase in industrial &C
tivity in Alabama is Of interest and
advantage to the entire state. OF
special interest anu exceptional adj
vantage to Mobile is any advance in
production in the upstate manufac-
turing district, because the develop
ment of port business depends Iii
large measure upon the capacity of
northern and central Alabama, as
we'll as localities at greater dis
tances, to absorb and deliver larger
volumes of sea-borne freight at the
port. Hence, announcement that
the Chickasaw Shipouilding and Car
company has received a second order
for equipment from the Central Of
Georgia railroad, which brings the
total of cars now under contract to
the Fairfield shops OF the Chicka-
saw company to LOO, is important
from the local, viewpoint. There is
no way of knowing at this time what
quantity of supplies required IN
manufacturing these cars will pass
through this port, out the fact is
established that there is an increas-
ing volume of freight going to points
in the Alabama industrial district,
via Mobile and Warrior river, as a
result of growing activity in manu-
featuring, and it is reasonable to
believe that the cars building at
Fairfield will bring more business
to the port.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-02-05
The Peoples Forum
Xive La France!
To the Editor of The Age-Herald:

10 the Editor OF Ihe Age-Herald:
The editorial coIumns OF your
paper frequently carry sympathetic
references to the French occupation
Of the Ruhr district, but the good
effect of such statements is NULL
fled by the overwhelming pro-Gcr-
man propaganda so literally DIS
tributed by news agencies. The at
tempt of such propaganda to lilSen
the French occupation of the Ruhr
to the German invasion of Bel
GUM and France, Is puerile in the
last degree. The German invasion
was marked by outrages and aroci-
ties characteristic of the Huns of
1000 years ago (the leopard has
not changed his spots), and it
should not be forgotten that they
have periodically and without justi-
fication invaded their unoffending
neighbors about every SO years since
that time. Their incursion into Bel
GUM and France was in keeping
with the record of the invader.
By what reasoning can it be
claimed that Germany should not
pay for the destruction wrought in
France? Germany's unprovoked
aggression was nothing less than
wholesale murder, and the leaders
of her forces, from Wilhelm down,
should have been put to death as
punishment for their monumental
crime. The Gold Star Mothers in
America can tell you where the
blame lies, and are not willing to
forget the heroes sleeping in France
for the sake of a revival of ."busi-
ness" with Germany
If the indemnity payments impose
burdens on the German people who
shall say that these burdens are I'M
deserved? What proof exists that
the German people are mild and
GENTLE" as their apologists would
have US believe? Did any noticeable
proportion of them fail to support
the invasion enthusiastically, much
less protest against it? No. The
German empire should be dismcm-
bered and the separate states re-cs-
tablished, in the interest of Euro
pean safety. Once this is done,
France can turn from war to peace.
and with safety beat large pro-
portion of her swords into plow-
shares. On to Berlin! Vive la
France. A. j. JONES.
Bessemer, Ala, Feb. 2, 1923.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-02-05
A Timely Editorial
Drunken Drivers
louisville Courler-Journal)

louisville Coufer-Journal)
In Pennsylvania 2o3 licenses
were revoked III 1922 as the penalry
for driving automobiles when urunn.
Revocation OF licenses seems to be
the only means of coping with
the obstinate adherents or the the
DRY that the rlgnt to lite, llbelty and
the pursuit of happiness is enjoyed
by those VINO drive when drunk.
If there were private speedway,
with disreputable roadhousea at in
tervals, over which She drunken
drivers could drive without killing or
injuring anybody but drunkel;
drivers and passengers who elect to
ride with drunken drivers; and II
all habitual or occasional drunkards
would confine themselves to Tie
anti Volstead speedway, the rights
of the public on public roads would
not be abridged. AS matters are,
every sober citizen has right to
demand of the city and state govern
ments protection of life and prop
erty against drunken drivers.
In Detroit the driver who kills a
man, a woman or child IS con-
Quoted to the morgue, to have
Closeup" of his victim. Whether
anyone callous enough to form the
habit of driving to dives and driving
home drunk would be impressed hy
the spectacle of victim upon
slab in the morgue, who can say
And if the Detroit plan is IN "a ]
way serviceable to the public it is
at least revolving.
Judge McDevitt of Philadelphia
in an address to the City Business
club, in which he recommended the
Detroit plan, declared that he had
heard citizens, cuscomarny law
abiding, say that they would take
the law into their own hands and
declare an open season for drunken
drivers.
That would be impractical, in adj
dition to being otherwise objection
able. Who would undertake to keep
vigil, by day and BY night, par
ticularly after midnight and before
daylight, to pot the drunken driver.
w no Is sufficiently q - -
to kill upon the wing drunken
drivers whose cars have the speed
of wild pigeons and the zlgzag
course of jacksnipe? II
The practical way to deal with
drunken drivers is to revoke their
licenses. Many, many persons who
like whisky like still better the priv
ilege of using motor vehicles. AS
an effective means of Kidding the
roads of persons convicted OF driv-
ing when drunk, and as a warning to
persons who may be tempted to do
so, revocation of license recon-
mends itself. as against an open
season which coulc not be 100 per
cent effective in the matter of
killing the drunken drivexa.s and
which would result, inevieGhy, IN
killing a bridegroom late for his
wedding, a physician answering
hurry call, a traffic cop chasing
speedster or a prohibition enforce
ment officer following the tail light
of a suspected whisky runner.