The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-26
For Assistant Secretary Of War Brands Remarks As
 "Impudent"

| lTUTgW T sary fer him to fulfill his engage ment to speak, it may be intimated l to him that the expression of such | opinions concerning a great Ameri- can statesman is distastefu1 and in- 1 tolerable to any self-respect1ng l American audience" Lord Birkenhead, in Saratoga to- | day for the races, declined to com ] ment on the criticism of his address, 1 l in which he asserted that MT. Wilson l went to the peace conference with 1 i hope as his principal equipment; that l the world was not ready for his l idealism, and that, by misjudging his 1 own countrymen, he became the agent of postwar developments from which his mind would have recoiled. MT. Davis declined to indicate what, if any, action would be taken in connection with the Minneapolis address Lord Birkenhead is sched uled to make.
 ways we practically governed our selves. As it is now, the chief pow CTS of the world have recognized our independence, and I feel that we have come to stay as a live, active force in the society of nations Industrial Finland. In the meantime, Finland is grow ing industrially and agricLlturally. Much of the land belongs to the ! into farms. The forests are prac- tically all government property. The 1 government owns more than one- third of the whole country and out | of thirtytwo million acres of woods ! more than thirty millions belong to
 the state. The water powers are being developed and most of the :! homes of the people are lighted by them. Even in the country districts electricity has taken the place of l rf fap m In a chinery grain mills and saw mills, !, and thousands of pigs and cows eat rneir evening meals by the electric ]! light. Large power stations are now being erected which supply cleo tricity to country places over a dis | tance of hundreds of miles,
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 Railways Which Burn Wood.
 l spent a part of this week in Tammerfors, one of the lveliest or | the manufacturing centers. It Is . situated about one hundred and six teen miles northwest of the capital and l went there by rail. l was about the only first class passenger, although the second class was well Z1led The railroad is excellent and the service is good. The gauge is the same as that of Russia, and the rolling stock is made here in Fin | land. The stations are of wood painted white, with platforms of DaN6Q CODDleS a6lQ III BldCG D5 el coping of granite. My ticket was printed in Finnish and Swedish, and all of the signs al the stations were in these two languages. Our loco motive burned wood, and at every stop we found cord wood. piled up for the trains.
 Finland has a good railway sys- tenn. Nearly every town can be reached in that way, the roads be- ing laid out with a view to the de- velopment of the country The rail ways are owned by the state. They are economically operated and they bring in about one-fourth of the na- tional revenues.
 The railway stations are good. Nearly every one has it's restaurants and connected with them are little stores for selling newspapers ana books The local industries are often displayed at the depots, each having a sort of museum as it were, advertising the community
 A Lunch For 2 Nickel.
 The food in the restaurants is good and cheap. One is expected to help himself at the counter Tea IS served in glasses just as in Russia, and coffee in cups. Cream Is sup piled from a pitcher that stands on the counter. The man who wants some in his coffee or tea takes as much as he pleases. My last lunch consisted of sandwich and some rolls, cakes and coffee and the Who4e cost nickel.
 The bread and butter here is es- r, pecially good Finland is noted for it's butter, and it's dairy industry IS growing. A great deal of butter Is shipped from here to Denmark and thence to England as Danish butter. The chief butter-eXportng city is 5HanEo at the southwestern end of the peninsula where there are many large creameries. Much of the cream is frozen into a mush in Hango by rail. Most of the dairy business is cooperative, and this feature of farm indr stry is rapidly growing. The Manchester Of Finland.
 Tammefors is the Manchester of Finland. It is a textile center hay- ing large cotton factories, linen mills and plants that make paper out of pulp and rags. It has steel plant which turns out locomotives and rolling stock for the Finnish rail ways and smaller industries of varl- ous kinds.
 The town is perhaps the manufac- turing center farthest north. It is about 100 miles or so from the Baltic, and fits latitude is about that of Mt. Mckinley, Alaska. Surrounded by forests, it lies at the junction of two long, narrow lakes connected by the Tammerkoskl river. This has a fall of 60 feet, with a drop of about 2c feet right here In the city itself. This fall gives a great water power which is added to by the steam produced from the cord wood of the forests floated in on the lakes in barges and boats.
 Cotton Mills Run By Cord Wood
 The cotton mills of Tammerfors are especially interesting. There is one of 30,000 spindles operated with wood and another of 90,000 spindles run by electricity generated by water power. Think of running a big cotton mill with cord wood. Let the wood be birch and pine sticks cut in the win ter and sledged over lake 120 miles long to the factory. Let 1t come in on barges and be thrown into the fur naces by hand and you have one of the wonders of this Baltic republic.
 During my visit to this mill looked at its wood pile. It covers an acre and is as high as 10-story flat. It takes about 10000 cubic yards every year and the managers figure that six cubic yards equal one ton of coal.
 This cotton mill has 800 employees. mostly women and girls They get wages of 50 cents a day and their hours of work are from to II and 12 until f. The spinning rooms are a maze of belts and moving machines.
 Thirty thousand spindles are whirl- ing around, and scattered among them are these blond-haired blue eyed daughters of Finland. Some are young and many are good looking. They wear bright handkerchiefs around their heads, shirt waists and short skirts and almost all are barefooted. The mill owner told me