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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-01
By Webster

marked benefits, now fully realized in railway circles, that result from null tiple tracks connecting related or con- tigiOus areas wherein large tonnage is produced. 1.--s
 '.The advantages of an alliance of the Mobile and Ohio railroad with Y the Frisco makes material the cOnsidera- tion, familiar to the informed in \ the realm of oceanic shipping, that affects the routing of ships, in inter-coastal and foreign service, to ports of the United States, particularly to the Gulf ports.
 These considerations may be thus summarized:
 Il. Ships elsewhere sailing desire and seek ports where an outgoing cargo may be promptly, efficiently, econom- ically received for the return voyage.
 '2. Ships profitably operated require balanced cargo, that is, a cargo com posed, in proper proportions, oesintrin- sically heavy commodities and of in transica1ly light commodities, thus so filling requirements with respect to weight and freight space as to fully load the vessel.
 "A combination of the Mobile X Ohio with the Frisco system would certainly promise, if not definitely assure, such volume of classified cargo at the port
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much less anticipate, that this commits sion will not readily recognize that need, and realizing it, will promulgate a judgment that, it is reasonably con- ceived, might impair or hinder the serv- ice this port will be completely equip ped to render the commerce of the country.
 The main line of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad company extends from the port of Mobile to St. Louis, Mo. Seventy years ago the purpose was con- ceived and was later executed to con- stitute this railroad a rail ally-Of un- qualified allegiance-to the port of Mo- bile. The state of Alabama earnestly insists that this executed conception to the long maintained advantage of the great sections served by the Mobile and Ohio Railroad in connection with the port of Mobile should be accorded af- firmative influence in the commission S process of assigning the Mobile and Ohio Railroad to appropriate member ship in a group of retail lines. Indeed, the state would respectfully urge the commission to so assign this rail line to a group membership as to promote the motive and effect the design its con structors executed 70 years ago.
 '|The tentatively proposed grouping of the Mobile mad Ohio railroad with the Southern railway is alone suggest ed by, is solely attributable, to the fact that the Southern railway owns the Mobile and Ohio railroad.
 'The existence of carrier bargaining in other days-oftentimes referable to consideration not conservative or pro- motive of the purchasing carriers if nancial or administrative welfare should not be accorded any such pre- dominance as a grouping, so singly sug- gested, manifests.
 ''The state of Alabama is advised that the Southern railway has not authori- tatively avowed preference, one way or the other, in respect of this pro- posed grouping of the Mobile & Ohio railroad. No property right of the Southern railway in that line would be affected by the grouping of the Mobile X Ohio railroad otherwise.
 The state is confident that from a grouping of the Mobile & Ohio rail road, with q northwestern rail line interesecting the Mississippi river, the Southern railway would not disent. The Southern railway affirmatively sympathize with Alabama's endeavor to improve the port of Mibile, and has but recently illustrated it's commendable interest in the ports expension by un- mistakable acts of a most helpful character.
 ''The Southern railway systems na- tural interests, with due reference to the typographical locati of the maj elements of its units, are allied pri- marily( with Atlantic ports, and because, perhaps, to the extent of invested docks capital, with New Orleans but neither the areas served by the South ern railway nor those related to ter ritory served by Mississippi lines that bear any relation, physical or otherwise, to the Southern railway present even one practical factor that
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invites a grouping of the Mobile & Ohio railroad with the Southern. The Mobile & Ohio railroad, itself, serves a diff ferent area from any served by the major clements of the Southern rail- way system. The main unit of the Southern Railway System, in the Mississippi Valley, is an east and west line, not otherwise related, as is the Mobile & Ohio railroad, to the port of Mobile, to the territory that, with ap- propriate railway combination, is prop erly, in the interest of commerce, tribu- tary to the port of Mibile.
 Tt appears from the record in this proceeding, as well as in the tentative groupings, formally proposed to the commission by its own expert, that the Mobile and Ohio railroad-phy yhsically, soleley related as it is to the port of Mobile-should be allied in a group with a line serving Mississippi territory, line that is without present gulf port competitor and is of sufficient territorial opportunity and tonnage prospects to reasonably justify the ex- pectation that the Mobile and Ohio railroad would afford the shippers over sich trans Mississippi line a convent ent, economical and prompt means for transporting water-bound tonnage for movement in inter-coastal and foreign commerce. Such an alliance would af- ford this territory a very desirable com petition in service to the gulf coast
 ''The Frisco system is the trans-Mis- sissippi line that offers the very best opportunity to make practical, efficient, public-serving application of this idea for feasible grouping of the Mobile and Ohio railroad. These lines intersect at Tupelo, Miss, 115 miles southwest of the Frisco's Mississippi crossing at Memphis. The Frisco serves a great ter ritory, producing large tonnage that should seek the benefit of foreign and Pacific coast distribution, a distribu- tion over the Gulf of Mexico and the seas that would be facilitated and pro- noted by the fact that nearly all the Frisco's trans Mississippi territory is much nearer the Gulf, through the port of Mobile, via the Mobile and Ohio railroad, than through any other gulf port.
 The Mobile and Ohio railroad, is, we are advised, a self-sustaining unit. However, even if it was not self-sus- taining, the FriscOs own interest in ndNInB uArecJ COunecILOn W1Ln IlrSL class gulf port at Mobile and the Fris- co.'s financial ability to successfully maintain and operate a system of which the Mobile and Ohio was a part, coupled with the excellent, deserved reputation the Frisco's presente management is universally accorded confirm the view that the Mobile and Ohio railroad should be grouped with the Frisco, this and thereby allying units having obvi. ous mutual interests and constructing a combination of manifest advantage to the people, the shippers of<-Fast, pro- gressive, productive and growing areas
 Furthermore from such a combina ton, the public served by the Frisco ! from St. Louis, South, would derive the
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SHIP NEVIS OF
 MOBILE PORT

MOBILE, Ala, tune 30.-tSpeciai Leased wire.)-The port experienced one of It's busiest periods over Sunday and early Monday, with the arrival of six steamers and tho departure of five. Two fruit boats came up during Mon day and discharged, and cargo vessels piled up in port, with several out fin cargo. Two sailings are scheduled for Tuesday. One of them, the American steamer Luckenbach (Mobile Liners) for Pacific coast ports via New Orleans at daylight this morning, and the Nor wegian steamer H. c. Flood Aluminium Lines) for Kingston and way ports dur ing the afternoon.
 Saccarapha United States Shipping board, Waterman corporation) arrived Sunday from Havre with print paper in transit for Houston, and will repair here, later picking up a cargo from the Clemence c. Morse. The Saccarapha was in stream yesterday and will shift to the plant of the Alabama Dry Dock and Shipbuilding company.
 The Italian steamer Ardea (van Hey nigen Brokerage company arrived Sunday from Gulfport with a cargo in transit and will complete here for Mont video and Buenos Aires, sailing about the end of the week. This, with the Ida Zo, on berth for Genoa and Naples, the Italian steamers Maddelina Odero is due July 15, Van Heynigen Broker age company announces, to go on the Genoa-Leghorn berth. The Transma- rine corporation had the Suspearco in from Port Arthur to occupy the berth of the Sucarseco, which sailed for Port Newark via Pensacola with lumber, etc., laden here. The Suspearco will sail the latter part of this week.
 The American steamer Steeiworker Morton, Lilly & Col cleared and de- parted yesterday for Yokohoma and Manila with ammonia sulphate and steel bars and rosin laden here. With cargo laden at Baltimore before com ing to Mobile, the Steelworker had more than 5000 tons ofseargo aboard. The British steamer Freshwater (Nor- ton, Lilly & Col was sailed for Cette and Gran with a cargo of slaves.
 The New York and Porto Rico Steam ship company will have the American steamer City of Philadelphia in here this week to load for Ponce, Mayaguez, San Juan, etc., and other ports as cargo offers, with the steamer scheduled to sail July 10. Following the City of
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RI(ES IN CURB
 RISE SLIGHTLY
Oils Moderately Strong On Reports Of Steps
 To Curb Output

NEW YORK, June 30.-Stock prices moved irregularly higher in today's curb market, the oil shares displaying moderate strength on reports that de finite steps had been taken to curb production in the mid-continent field Prairie Oil and Gas led the advance with a gain of IF points.
 National Tea which moved up eight points to record top at 205; was the outstanding strong spot of the indus trfaI list. Public utilities were mixed with price changes narrow.
 Speculative interest in the mining shares was confined to the Penny stocks with the strength and activity of 1n- dependent Lead was one of the few features
 s Trading in bonds again was in large volume, but price changes were small.
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Philadelphia will be the American steamer Marianne, scheduled to sail July 21.
 The Norwegian steamer Vera and the British steamer Miaraflores both ar- rived to the United Fruit company from Central America with bananas, the Vera coming from Tela and entering 1S,000 stems and the MiarafIores from Puerto Barrios.
 The Norwegian steamer Ravnanger (Munson Lines4, which cleared Satur- day. sailed yesterday for Cienfuegos, etc, with a general cargo, and the Nor. wegian steamer Svartfond Aluminium Lines) cleared and departed for Port au Prince and Georgetown with gen. eral cargo. coming here from New Or leans to complete and sail.
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EAST ST. LOUIS, Iii, June 3o.-- Hogs: Receipts, 14,000. Slow; steady te Sc higher; most good butchers, 200 pounds and up, s7.40@7.46; pigs and light lights were slow, steady to lower at s5.75@7; packer sows. $6.s5@6.4o.
 Cattle: Receipts, 5000. Native beef steers and two loadslof fed Texas steers were Sc to 10c higher; fed natives, $7.40 0S; beef cows, strong; bologna bulls, 25c higher; bulk, $4@4.75; vealers, $7.6O sheep: Receipts. 5000. Fat lambs were mostly 25c higher; sculls and aged sheep, steady; Missouri lambs, $12.5O 612.75; culls, $6; choice southern lambs, SIS.
 CHICAGO, June. 3o.--Cattle: Receipts, 14,O00 Fed steers and yearlings. steady to 25c higher; top, 1.10; bulk fed steers and yearlings, $s.5O@1o; most grades fat cows and beef heifers. l6c to 25c higher; bulls, 25c up; vealers, steady; stockers and feeders, scarce; bulk fat cows, $406.25; desirable beef heifers, $s.75@s.s5.
 Hogs: Receipts. 5S.00o. Desirable grades, mostly 10c to 15c higher, clos ing dull; part of advance was lost; bulk good and choice 250 to 310-pound butchers, $7.30@7.40; top, $7.40; better grades 160 to 225-pound weights, largely $6.95@7.25; bulk desirable 140 to 150- pound averages, $6.5o06.9o; bulk pack Ing sows, $6.4o06.70; killing pigs, strong to 25c higher; bulk good and choice strong weights, largely $5.s00 6.25; estimated holdover, 24,000.
 Sheep, Receipts. 17.000. Active; fat lambs, 25c to soc higher; sheep, scarce; 1; feeding lambs, steady; bulk desirable fat native lambs, $13@13.25; bulk rangers. $13.75Q14.25.
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heavy, $7,75; packers and butchers, SITS; medium, $7.25@7.75; stags, Ss.50 @4; heavy fat sows. s5@s; pigs and lights, $4@6.60.
 and strong: grassers, lower and ui1- changed; steers, $4@9.15; heiferss s4@9 cows, S2.50@575; calves, steady $36gk
 Sheep: Receipts, 700. Steady; q)cGS6A lambs, steady, $4914.
 LOUISVILLE, Ky, June .-&attie: Receipts, HOO. Slow and weak; Aeayy steers, $s.50@9; beef steers, s698.5n; heifers, $5@6.5o; cows, $s96.50; feedsfssN $5@6.75; stockers, S3@6.
 Hogs: Receipts, 2,5o0. Steady to 1oc higher; 165 pounds up, $7.45; 120 to 165 pounds, s6.10; pigs, $5; throwouts, S5.65 down.
 sheep: Receipts, 1.soo. Steady; top lambs, $13@13.5o; sheep. $5 down.
 NASHVILLE. Tenn. June so.--Cat- tie: Receipts, 400. Steady; heavy steers, S7.50@s; beef steers, $6.5007; heifers, s6.5o07; cows. $6@650; feeders, s6.5o@6.5o; stockers, $3.5o@5. Hogs: Receipts, 500. Medium aud up, $7.5o; 165 to 200 pounds, $7.50s.1so to 165 pounds, s6.25; pigs, s4@5; throw-
 sheep: Receipts, TOO. Steady; choice spring lambs, $10@11; seconds. $5.500 $50; cull lambs, $405; choice fat sheep. $3.5044.50; medium sheep. s20s; cull sheep, $1 down; bucks, $25o down.
 KANSAS CITY, Mo-, June s0.-Cat- tie: Receipts, 13,o0o; calves, 5000. Slow; fed steers, $7.50@9; beef cows, $S50@6; fed heifers, up to $s.15; bulls were steady; claves, steady to strong; bulk best veals, $707.50; stockers and feed- CTS, $5@6.50.
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MERMITAcE PORTLAND BoNDa

HERMITAGE PORTLAND BONDS
 NASHVILLE, Tenn, June 3o.-- Caldwell and company, investment bankers, announce the offering of s5e0. GOO sAond issue of the Hermitage Portland Cement company at Nashville, Tenn. The bonds are offered at 9Z and yield over z.15 per cent. The Hermit age Portland Cement company was es- tablished about a year and half ago and the new plant was placed in opera ton last February. It is now operating at capacity production on a 24-hour-a- day basis. The purpose of the bond is- sue is to retire outstanding short-term obligations incurred in the purchase of machinery and to furnish additional working capital.
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CINCINNATI, O., June ss0.-Hogs: Receipts, ,4.O00.. Mostly 1oc higher;
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RED LEATHER ACCEssORIEs
 Red leather bags of all sizes and shapes and uses are enjoying a con- siderable amount of popularity at pres
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VEGETABLES

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 CHICAGO, June 30.-Cantaloupes. California salmon tints, standards, S2.76@3; flats, $1.10@125.
 Cabbage. Kentucky pointed types, crates. s202. 25;- Missouri, crates, $1.50 61.75; illinois, crates, $2@225.
 Cucumbers, Carolina white spines, hampers, s1@I50.
 Potatoes, Oklahoma, Alabama ana Arkansas Bliss Tri1mphs, sacks, $2.75 63; Virginia Irish cobblers, barrels, s47664S5; North Carolina cobblers, $4.506465.
 Strawberries, 7c higher; Michigan fz quart crates, various varieties, $1.25@ 1.40.
 Tomatoes, Georgia originals, siX-bas- ket crates, $2.25@2.50; repacks, $S25Q $50; Mississippi and Texas originals flats $1@1.25; repacks, $3Q3.2o.
Milford chronicle., 1924-10-03

Besides the payment of pension
money by check from Washington
there is also the payment of pension
money to those veterans living in
National Homes for Disabled Volun-
teer Soldiers. This money is paid by
the treasurers of the individual
Homes. The money comes to the
treasurer of each Home by check for
the total amount, according to the
payrool he sends into the Disbursing
Office at Washington. The treasurer
then writes out checks for each man
in the Home.
"In addition to all this there is
little post Office in the Pension Bur-
eau with several postal clerks sent
there b ythe Postoffice Department
who are busy all the time in post
marking letters to pensioners and
routing them so that there is no de-
lay in getting them to their destina-
tions.
you see what a big job it is to
take care of our veterans of wars
the Great War. AS you
know, the men who fought in the
last war are taken care of in diff
ferent way and I shall tell you all
about that some other time. For the
present, Goodnight!
Milford chronicle., 1924-10-03
HAIR BOB ONLY HALF OF IT,
HARRASSED WOMEN LEARN

Once more the world is confronted
with weighty question, and on the
answer hangs by a hair, as it were,
the fate of thousands.
Time was when the anguished
query, ITO bob or not to bob?" oc-
cupied the entire attention of har-
ried wOmanhOOd, and in tea rooms,
business offices and polling places
there was no other subject of con-
VersatiOn.
Today, however. all is changed.
True, there still is a more or less
steady stream of girls and women,
with long hair on their heads and
grim determination on their faces,
flowing through the doors of hair
dressing establishments. to emerge a
short time later with shOrn locks
and beatific expressions. They. at
least, have solved the minor prob
lem. But alas, alas, their troubles
are by no means over!
For no sooner is that question
safely settled than the latest and
most important problem presents it
self Is the bob going out of style?
to one and One-half bushels of rye,
Milford chronicle., 1924-10-03

rors! To have crossed the Rubicon
to have burned all bridges behind
one, only to find another bog of in
decision and uncertainty before
that indeed is cruel trick of Fate!
81 told you not to do it. Now per-
haps you'll listen to me next time"
So remarks Husband after reading
the report that shOrn tresses are
about to become passe.
Your hair is falling out, Madame
l have noticed it among so many
women who have bobbed their hair,
for the stimulation caused by the
tugging that goes with the brushing
and cOmbing of long hair is absent
and circulation becomes slow and
sluggish as a result"
So speaks Milady's hairdresser.
And Milady, thoroughly alarmed,
feels that pleasant complaceny of
hers slowly slipping away. Has she
indeed made a mistake? Is long hair
after all more beautiful? And, most
of all, is short hair going
out of style?
Well, only time will tell.
Milford chronicle., 1924-10-03

dow above the doorway OF the home
which his country had supplied for
him, and spoke quietly
Where Lincoln Walked"
1t would be wrong to DESTROY
that hall in which Lincoln walked
in the darkest days of the Civil War;
he said. AS he paced that hall he
looked through this half inch win
dow to the Potomac. l like to walk
there now and think of him.
His words carried me I'D the
great flight of stairs and through
the mist of years into that upper
hall where Lincoln paced slowly
back and forth-struggling with the
problems which beset his day and
his people.
We re-entered the White House
and passed out on the southern
veranda which overlooks the Po-
tomac and the Virginia hills. Over
the iron balustrade, a mass OF
honeysuclIle had flung itself, its pale
yellow blossoms drenching the air
with exquisite perfume. Just be-
yond a magnificent monument shone
wanly through the mist. Faint
lights afar suggested Virginia, Ar
ington, the resting place of our Un-
mown Soldier.
I'VE talked quietly, the two boys,
heir mother and l. The President
lat apart in the shadows, notion
ess, silent, his exes fixed on the dim
'utline of Virginia. Thus had Lin.
oln watched that shore in the peril
us COS.
"'The White House Is America.
'alk Of a newer, a more elaborate
to take its place is desc
rating I said suddenly and wa4m-
=, to President Coolidge and then
dded-
eve must pre- >rve for the peo-
lie for all tir- this place where
dams, Ma on, Lincoln and t.e
theirs hav lived and solved r OBJ
ms thu, have made America the
reatcst nation on earth tOda ,"
Milford chronicle., 1924-10-03
UNCLE TED'S
BEDTIME STORIES
THE FARMER-THE REPUBLICAN
PARTY

"OH IS THAT SO?" said Jack as
he and Freddie were found by Uncle
Ted, in the middle of an argument.
Il suppose you think ! don't
know what I'm talking about. What
did your old party do for the farmer
that you should get so excited about
it? l KNOW what the Republican
Party has done and it is more than
was ever done before" apparently
concluded Jack.
That's the boy" said Uncle Ted.
Il don't want to get mixed up in
your little friendly argument but I
do have some interesting facts and
figures upon that subject that I
know you both would be better off
to know"
Let's have them, please" said
Jack.
Eyes, Uncle Ted" said Ruth.
Maybe Freddie will give in when he
knows what the truth is"
you see, kiddies, the Republican
Party has always protected and
helped to develop agriculture, know
ing that without it our country
would go to pieces. From the very
beginning it has been the Republi-
can Party that has aided the farm
er. He has always looked to that
party for his legislation. AS far as
the present administration is con-
cerned, more time and thought has
been given to this subject than to
any other. The records show that
more needed agricultural legisla-
tion was passed from March, 1921, to
the present time, the period covered
by the Republican Administration,
than was passed in the last so
years! That in itself gives you fair
ly good idea of the Republican
thought of the farmer.
Everyone who knows anything at
all about farm conditions, knows
that the farmers of the United States
faced utter ruin in 1921. Grain was
sold for less than it cost to produce
it and live stock was rushed to the |
market at a sacrifice before it was |
ready to be slaughtered The Admin
istration realized that something
nad to be done and done quickly. |
Immediate action was taken, the |
irst relief being in the form of an
appropriation for 100000 to help
he farmers of the Northwest to buy
seed for the crops for 1921. From
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| school examinations of which h
! spoke. In the eyes of the bow
shone hope of good home cookery
after months of absence. RecallinG
the Chef in the White House kitchen
felt throb of pity for the expect.
ant lads.
But my sympathy was wasted
The main dish of the dinner was a
thick, juicy beefsteak, perfectly
broiled and entirely sorrounded by
French fried potatoes. And for
dessert we had custard pie-none of
your thin, French pastry pies, but
one whose golden custard was near
ly two inches thick and smooth as
cream.
"All four of the Coolidges dis
played a frank interest in this pie,
not because they come from New
England, but because the White
House cook used the recipe supplied
by Aurora" housekeeper for
Grandfather Coolidge on his Yer
mont farm.
1t is not yet as good as Aurora
makes, explained Mrs. Coolidge,
but each time it is better. We have
hopes
"Then, with each member of the
family contributing an anecdote or
/ scrap of description, heard the
story of Aurora who after years of
service on the Coolidge farm had |
)een persuaded by a widower-broth-
r to join him in distant town. He
vas a busy physician and his home
leeded a mistress.
"At the end of a year Aurora an
Iounced her desire to resume farm
ife. On her arrival at the Plymouth
arm, she offered this simp pie ex-
lanation.
Automobiles tearing by all the
While, footing their horns. Tele-
homes ringing every half hour or
o. Made me feel rushed and tired.
"Home Folks"
From Aurora, to vacation on the
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ed regional Offices. There were 18
of them located in various parts of
the country. But these offices were
done away with and all the work
brought into the Pension Bureau at
Washington where ever since that
time all checks have been signed and
mailed. The present system makes it
necessary for all checks be issued
over the name of the Disbursing
Clerk and they are countersigned by
clerks whose job it is to do that and
nothing else.
'"They use a wonderful machine,
Jack. with which they can sign ten
checks at one time. The machine has
ten pens and when the clerk writes
with one it works the other nine. In
this way one clerk can sign from
ten to eleven thousand checks a
day.
"Now just think, after all this the
checks have to be printed by ad-
machines which put on
the name of the pensioner, his GER
tificate number, the class under
which he is pensioned and his post
office address.