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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-19
Children's Fatal Diseases

Worms and parasites in the intes- tines of children undermine health and so weakens their vitality that they are unable to resist the diseases so fatal to child life. The safe course is to give few doses of Whites Cream vermifuge. It destroys and expels the worms without the slightest injury to the health or activity of the child. Price 35c. Sold by Alleys Seven Stores.-Adv.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-19
MISS WHEELER ILL
 AT ALABAMA HOME

WASHINGTON, D. O., Dec. 1S.-- Especial. )-Mrs. William J. Harris left last night for Wheeler, Ala, hay ing been called to the bedside of her sis- ter, Miss Lucy Wheeler, whose condi- ton is very grave. Miss Wheeler is the eldest daughter of General Joe Wheeler.
 Senator Harris and daughter, Miss Julia Wheeler Harris, will leave for Wheeler Saturday. Harris is remain ing here until that time so as to be pres ent in the senate vote on the Muscle Shoals bill
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-19
MAN AND WOMAN
 HELD AS FUGITITES
Held Under Guard In Bacl
 Woods Of Lawrence
Tennessee Valley Bureau)

ALBANY-DECATUR Ala, Dec. IS. A man and woman, who moved quietly into a vacant house in Poplar Log cove, one of the most inaccessible localities in Lawrence county, where placed under guard by self-appointed vigilance com mittee three days ago on suspicion of having fled from justice. An answer to telegram from Grand Rapids, Mich, was received Thursday morning asking the guard to hold the man, who is said, to have given his name as Ralph Wood, saying the Michigan sheriff held a war rant for him on charge of embezzle- ment,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-19
THE BIRMINGHAM AGE-HERALD
DALLAS PHYSICIANS
 ELECT DR. L. '. LEE
Lumber Mill Resumes Operations
 At Ackerville

SELMA, Ala, Dec. 1S.-(Special.)- Dr. Samuel G. Gay was elected presi- dent of the Dallas County Medical as- sociation at the meeting held Tuesday evening. Dr. W. W. Harper was elected vice president. Dr. l.. T. Lee was elected secretary last year for a term of three years. Dr. Gay is also
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-19
SHEFFIELD IS IN CUERNAVACA

MENICO CITY, Dec. IS. = The American ambassador, James B. Shef- field, is leaving today for Cuernavaca, hoping a change in climate will help him recuperate from the atactk of jaun- dice with which he has been suffering. The ambassador will spend Christmas at Cuernavaca.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-19
WOMAN EXPOSES
 DAKOTA INPOSTER

SIOUX FALLS. S. D., Dec. 18.- Pictures of a youth who claims to be Arthur Frazier, war veteran, who, ac- cording to the war department. was killed in France, were identified here today as those of an Osage Indian by Mrs. Claude Smith of this place. The real Arthur Frazier was Sioux.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-19
DUKE IS ELECTED
 TO HEAD TRUSTEES
Tobacco Magnate To Help In
 Administration Of Trust

NEW YORK, Dec. 1S.-James B. Duke, tobacco and power magnate, who recently established a $40,00O,000 en- dowment for educational purposes, has been elected chairman of the trustees who will administer the fund, it was an- nounced here today.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-19

a member of the state board of medi- cal examiners on which he has served for many years.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-19
SOLICITOR TO SPEAK
Davis To Address Cosmopolitan Class
 Sunday

Solicitor Jim Davis will address the Cosmopolitan Bible class at the regular hour Sunday morning at the Strand theater on "The Spirit of Christ vs. The Spirit Of Crime" George Lewis Bailes, regular teacher of the class, will address the men of the First Baptist church of Ensley at that hour.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-19

Five Daily Trains to Atlanta
 Leave Birmingham $50 a. m., 10:30 a. m., 2:30 p. m., 11:50 p. m.
 Southern Railway System
Imperial Valley press., 1924-08-26
Better View OF
Mars i'm Fifteen
Years From Now

DENVER, Colo, Aug. 26.-Pre-
dictions that better views of Mars
may be obtained fifteen years from
now than at present were made at
the Chamberlin Observatory here
today by DR.. Donald Ii. Wenzel.
"'The boiling of the Earth.'s at
mosphere is the greatest difficulty
with which astronomers have to
contend,' said DR.. Wenzel. Gift
teen years from now at Mars' next
approach to the Earth, the planet
will be farther north than at pre-
sent, giving scientists an opportuni-
tv for clearer vision, since they will
not have so much of the Earth S
atmosphere to- cope with
Dan Wenzell said that at pre-
sent astronomers are obliged to
point their telescopes along fthe
Earth, and that years from now
they can point them more direct
ly into the air.
A difference o, rew million
miles in the distance separating
Mars and the Earth is not ;s i'm
portant, as far as vision is concern
cd, according to DR.. Wenz2ll as the
Earth s atmosphere.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-08-26
Woman Will Sail
Freighter Ov er
Pacific Lane S

PORTLAND Ore, Aug. 2a.-The
BIG freighter Atlantic, of the Pan
Pacific line, is somewhere ON the
Pacific ocean with a woman at the
helm-for part of the time, mt least,
Miss Helen Olsen, comely, 81 year
old daughter of Captain o. Olsen
skipper of the big steamer, is sea-
man on board the vessel, and at
times takes the wheel with the
other quartermasters.
She is on the ships payroll, too,
and therefore is a full-fledged sea-
man in the eyes of the United
States.
"Commodore" Montgomery, vet
eran shippil&g commissioner who
has grown old in the service at the
customs house here declared firmly
that "'nar va woman had ever be-
fore signed on as a sailor in his
experience.
The pretty young mariner will
sail with the vessel from here to
west coast ports of South American
and return to Portland via New
York.
"I'd like to.sbe captain some
day, just like my daddy" she said,
when asked whether she thought she
would like the trip.
"I'd never be> anybody S stem
ographer when ! can get JOB like
this
Imperial Valley press., 1924-08-26

weighs four or five thousand
pounds. While it is not expected
that those to be captured for ex.
hibition here will be the largest
of the herd, it is intended that
they shall be full grown specimens
with fully developed proboscides,
the peculiar characteristic from
which the elephant seal is named
Guadalupe island is one of the
most rugged and picturesque islands
on the west coast of North America.
It's total height from sea bottom
to peak is over 10000 feet, and it
is described as being ga mile above
and a mile below water There are
few landing places and those few
are precarious. The beach where
the elephant seals congregate is
narrow and steep, backed by al
most unscalable, mile-high cliffs.
Only surf boats can land through
the heavy, surges that constantly
beat upon the rock shore, and the
task of capturing the sea elephants
is accomplished by no little hard
ship and danger.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-08-26

As guests of the United States
navy and the u. S. Naval reserve
force in particular, representatives
of the San Diego Geological garden
will sail tomorrow for Guadalupe
and Cedros Islands, off the south
west coast of the Mexican PENN
sula. The expedition will be con
Quoted in the interest of Zoologi-
cal research and for the capture of
elephant seals for the San Diego
geological garden and the geological
garden in Chapultapec park at Mex
leo City.
Lieut.. f. w. bort, U. S. n. r.. f.,
will be in command of the local
naval reserves, who will go south
on one of the eagle boats assigned
| to the local reserves, who will as
sist in capturing and Grating the
! enormous seals to be exhibited here
later.
On the naval tug that will take
the crates and bring the. seals back
will be DR.. Raymond Lee Ditmars
of the New York Geological socl-
| ETY., Sr. Prof. Jose M. Gallegos, spe-
cial representative of the depart
Imperial Valley press., 1924-08-26
S. d. Sr. High
School Girls to
Wear Uniforms

The San Diego Senior High
school uniform for girls, which was
adopted by ballot vote of the par
ents, will continue to be worn by
senior high school girls this year.
The regulation uniform may be
purchased ready made in the dry
good stores here.
Directions for making the uniform
may be obtained at the pattern
counters Of the department stores.
Parents are requested to provide
more than one skirt, as 1t seems
quite impossible for a girl to be IN
uniform every day and present a
neat appearance if she has to de-
pend upon one skirt. If she comes
to school in non-regulation skirt,
she must apply in the vice prlnci-
pal S office Tor a permit, WHICH not
only takes the girl s time but the
time Of a busy office The co
operation of the parents IN TINS
respect viii be appreciated.
The regulation tie is either the
sailor tie of black silk, which is
triangular, or the broad straight
Windsor tie of black silk. The
price of the latter is 75 cents. The
masculine fourin- hand tie is not
regulation.
Girls who have difficulty in OBJ
tanning uniforms viii see Miss
Freese, girls vice principal, or
Mrs. C. w. Hartsough, chairman of
the PIT. A. student aid committee,
residence 1857 Union street, tele-
phone Main 1866. Girls in the last
graduating class, who do not care
to keep their uniforms, are asked to
bring them to the vice principal 8
office.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-08-26
MEMBERS OF BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY
ARE GUESTS OF NAVY, TO SAIL FOR
GUADALUPE FOR ELEPHANT SEALS

ment of agriculture of the Mexican
federal government; Dr. Harry M.
Wegeforth, president of the Zoo
logical Society of San Diego; Dan
iel Danciger, geologist, and Harry
Flenner, motion picture photogra-
pher.
Rapidly Disappearing
The herd of elephant seals on
. Guadalupe island is said to be the
last of rapidly disappearing
species. SCARCELY a generation ago
they existed in thousands among
the west coast islands, and records
of; whaling vessels show that they
were slain in great numbers for the
valuable oil to be obtained from
them. Since whale oil was sup
planted b,t kerosene and mineral
oils have come into general use,
the whale and the elephant seal,
as well as numerous other denizens
of the sea, have lost their CONNER
cial value, and many species have
increased.
The elephant seal, however, be
cause of his gentle nature and fear
lessness, has continued to decrease
until scientists assert that there are
less than five hundred now in ex-
istence. During the past two years
the Mexican government, through
the solicitation of Senator Gallegos,
has maintained guard on Guada-
lupe island for the protection of
the elephant seal, and it is hoped
that the count taken on this eXpedi-
tion will show some slight gain in
their numbers.
Owing to the strict laws of the
Mexican government ,and in no less
degree to the difficulties attendant
upon capturing and shipping them,
there are no elephant seals in cap
tivity anywhere in the world. One
was captured last year by the naval
reserves for the San Diego Zoolegi-
cal society, who later sent it as a
present to the Geological Garden
at Mexico City, where, after a few
months, it succumbed to poison
supposedly ptomaine in nature.
A permit was obtained from the
Mexican government to secure two
elephant seals for the San Diego
ZOO this summer, and Senor Gal
legos was invited to accompany the
expedition. The San Diego zoo men
hope to secure two other seals for
Senor Gallegos to send to Mexico
City, after they have been placed
in the lagoon at the San Diego zoo
to become acclimated and accus-
toned to fresh water along with
the zoo s own specimens.
Take Four Crates
The crates built for this expedi-
tion are four in number, and weigh
in excess of one ton. Each crate is
Is feet long, five feet wide and five
feet high, built of two-by-four lum-
ber and securely braced to with
stand the heavy load and rough
h ladling incident to towing the
seals through the surf and placing
them aboard the tug.
The elephant seal attains q
length of Is feet and sometimes
Imperial Valley press., 1924-08-26

Jf you don It believe people still
eat onions stick your nose lnto
cheap picture show and sniff.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-08-26

Doing nothing is hard on you af.
ter you finish it.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-08-26
San Diego Greets Imperial Valley

In Poland, Pole 133 years old
stin lives, making him almost as old
as some telephone poles.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-08-26
Body of Child
Found Wrapped
in Heavy Paper

portland, Ore, Aug. ga par
eel, done up in heavy paper and
checked at the union station parcel
room a week ago, then carelessly
thrown into one of the pigeon holes
there was found this afternoon to
contain the dead body of tiny
baby.
Employees Of the checking room
have no memory of the man or wo-
man who left the package.
Records show only that it was left
in the union Station at 1910 last
Monday.
No call was made for it and when
an odor was noticed this afternoon,
an investigation was begun which
resulted in the package being un
done.
Evening star., 1924-09-14

ideas of mutual defense and even of the main
tenance of their own proper defense systems,
nation takes advantage of this condition
and attacks, as Germany attacked Belgium
in 1914? How can nations exposed to such
perils, nations which have suffered frequently
from such invasions. how can they run the
deadly risk?"
Today in Europe Rumania and Poland
perpetually menaced by attack coming from
Russia which does not accept the settlements
of the recent war and is committed to funda-
mental principles which seek to overthrow the
systems of government in all the west of
Europe, in all the western world. What then,
, can Rumania and Poland do save to pool their
resources against the menace? France, Bel
gium. Poland and Czechoslovakia are all
threatened by an eventual German war of re-
vanche, preached necessarily by powerful lead
in German political life. What more in
, evitable, than that these nations should con-
sort for mutual assistance?
Insurance Against AEgTeAiSA
There exists in Europe today system of
insurance against aggression In reality there
are several systems the asressments OF the Lit
tie Entente-Rumania, Czechoslovakia, Jugo-
slavia-to support each other against any Hun
garian disturbance; special agreements of Ru-
mania and Jugosavia against Bulgarian at
tack-and Bulgaria has attacked both nations
in recent years; contracts between Jugoslavia
and Greece, and, above all, the great combna-
tion of the neighbors of Germany-France, Po-
land, Czechoslovakia and Belgium-whfch more
or less specifically insures that the military
strength of all these states will be mobilized
against any attack by Germany upon any one
of the nations.
France invites Britain to join this combi
nation, to add it's strength to that of the. four
contracting nations. Then. and only then, she
argues, will it be possible to reduce arma-
mcnts and rely upon arbitration. The British
reply that this is resort to old-fashioned
alliances, and that in the end the result will
be war just as it in 1914. In the last
analysis the whole debate is between those
\ who argue that insurance is necessary to pro-
tect property owners and those who argue that
insurance policies a temptation to arson.
France argues that there must be insurance
against fire, in view, particularly, of the fire.
uuency Of fires but Britain argues that the
frequency of fires. despite insurance, proves
that insurance does not prevent conflagration.
And the debate is further complicated by the
fact that France has property-her main prop
erty-in the fire district, while Britain has not.
France is concerned with saving her own
property, Britain anxious to avoid being called
upon to fight fire to the property Of
France or anybody else.
Back to Paris Conference.
One must however the thing in its his
torical perspective. The present debate goes
back to the conference of Paris when Clemen-
ceau, under the advice of Foch. insisted that
Evening star., 1924-09-14
The Real Issue In Europe

the Rhine should be made the military from
tier of France and Wilson and Lloyd George
offered, If France would abandon this de-.
mand, to give her the guarantee or. tneirs
military aid in case Of aggression. That ts
the special claim of France to some KIND OF
assistance, for the French paid In advance.
They did surrender the Rhine barrier program,
but the American Senate rejected the treaty
of Versailles, and the British escaped, because
their support was contingent upon American.
Nevertheless the British government did not
Immediately claim immunity from RESPONSE
bility. Lloyd George throughout his perlod
of power continued to offer France assistance
pacts, although with steadily diminishing at
tractiveness. Toward the end of his regime
he offered Poincare a very definite 10-year
pact which Poincare rather cavalierly re-
jected. But the sentiment in Great Britain
gradually cooled, and the Ruhr affair really
put an end to the possibility of British guar
antee of French and Belgian security.
Locked to Own Security.
Meantime as I have said, France, Belgium,
Poland. Czechosovakia began to construct
systems of insurance-alliance, 1T you please
which were designed to insure security and to
combine the strength Of the various states for
the maintenance of the treaties which closed
. the war And this system was not only baseo
upon military strength but inevitably centered
in the military strength of the greatest contl-
mental power, namely, France. At the con-
ference of Genoa two years ago, the conti-
mental states, allies of the or issued from
the war and associated with the allies, stood
solidly with France, with the single exception
of Italy, which by the war had abolished all
contingent frontier dangers
Deprived of the British guarantee. France
has with little skill constructed system of
mutual insurance in Europe. By loans she has
provided for the equipment of armies with
French material, by instruction missions of
French officers she has provided for French
training in armies. BY separate treaties with
Belgium, Czechoslovakia and Poland she has
covered the future in case of German return
to the prewar spirit and methods and within
limits this European system thus evolved
has given France a position Of power and in
fuence which the country has not enjoyed
since the fall of the third empire" more than
half century ago.
Association BAKED Fear.
The basis of this association is fear, based
upon experience: fear of a later attempt to
upset the existing situation and restore that
of 1914 The combination represents on mobili-
zation more bayonets than the combination of
the central powers in 1914. and, unlike that,
it has no balancing set of states at the present
moment Moreover, on such questions dis
armament, revision of treaties, etc, this COM
bination is certain to stand with France and
to prevent any change. the Genoa confer
proved.
Evening star., 1924-09-14
GREAT RAIL PROJECT
TO OPEN NEW EMPIRE
Proposed Linking of New York and
Buenos Aires to Bring Development
of Vast Resources.

ica, run through the lower lands on
the east of the Andes 1t is claimed
that route can be found there which
will permit of the building of this
great South American transconti-
mental road in that part of the con-
tinent; on land high enough to pro-
tect it from the flood waters of the
mighty Amazon and its tributaries,
and at the same time near enough to
territory which would furnish in
creasing business for the road.
The other members of this commits
sion are: For the United States,
Charles NJ. Pepper, director of the
Chilean-American Association; Minor
c. Keith, Central American railroad
builder, >and Verne L. Havens, en-
gineer. all of New York; Francisco
P. de Hoyos of Mexico, representative
in the United States of the National
Railways of Mexico; DR.. Tobias
Moscoso Of Brazil and DR.. Santiago
Marin Viauna, engineer of Chile.
U. s. to Play Big Part.
If the proposed railroad is carried
through to completion within the
next few years, as it is hoped it will
be, engineers and builders and. con-
struction companies from the United
States no doubt will play a large part
in the great enterprise. 1t will be in
the nature of the opening Of the West
in this country, for it will go through
an undeveioped region; through the
heart of wild and densely overgrown
tropical forests; across raging streams
and around waterfalls and other OBJ
stacles and past other difficult en-
gineerinE points -
But the difficulties will be no
sreater-probably not as great-as
many of those met by some of the
American engineers who went to
South America about the middle of
the past century and helped to open
up and develop transportation facili-
ties. In this connection the names
of Wheelwright, Meiggs and Church
come to mind.
Wheelwright, a citizen of the
steamship to South America, and aft
er he had established this service he
interested himself in the earliest rail-
road projects in that part of the
world. A Chilean historical writer
points out that a locomotive was
taken to Chile for the first railroad
opened there in June, 1851. OF him
it was said: "The figure Of Wheel
wright serves as a type Of those per-
sanalities that South America re-
Quires in order that her rich soil may
bloom, for he exemplifies the judg-
ment, honor. and energy which are
requisite in the managers of great
enterprises in order that their efforts
may be crowned with success"
Henry Meiggs was the American
engineer who succeeded in building
some of the earliest, most daring and
most dificult railroads from an en-
gineering standpoint In the Andes of
Chile and Peru, and great Praise was
given to, him for his, monumental
work, which those countries still hold
In high esteem. -
Evening star., 1924-09-14
ny FRANK HI. SIMONDS.

~ NCE more, in the reparations dis
cussion at London, the speeches Of
the French and British premers at
~ Geneva bring two clear and distinct
national views into contrast if not into con-
nict- At London the issue was raised between
the British. who were not interested In Ger
man payments and were against the use OF
force to make Germany pay, and the FRENCH
who were vitality concerned with German pay
ments and resolved. in case of German default,
to force, as they had already done in the
Ruhr.
Now, at Geneva we have to consider the is
between two countries. one of which, nav
ing direct menace from Germany. advocates
the solution of security by the adoption OF
arbitration, the other of which. menaced by
future aggression and still showing the scars
of recent invasion, seeks to reinforce arbitra-
tion by some form of insurance in the shape
of mutual obligations. Agreed in principle as
to the value Of arbitration, agreed even In
fact that arbitration is the single wise solu-
ton, the French and their continental asso-
ciates insist that there must be some way or
protecting the weak against the strong just
as long as there is no certainty that the strong
will accept arbitration.
England Already Secure.
The whole question Of security is involved
in this divergence in fundamental condltlons-
England, on ar island. with the greatest fleet
In Europe, a feet which gives 1t absolute
tion of some form of guarantee of security
which will not involve 1t in any responsibility
toward the continent. Moreover, composed OF
self-governing and extra European dominions,
the British empire likewise undertakes to hnd
solutions without responsibilities.
When all is said and done. the Macdonald
address at Geneva was more than an ap-
pea, to the faith of his hearers against the
recent facts He asked them to do at obvious
risks. what alone the British could do with
impunity, namely, trust that a system of ar
bitration would be adequate, to run all the
, risks of invasion such as overlook Belgium
just ten years ago. despite the fact that Bel
gium was protected by. treaty of great pow
ers assuring her inviolability. and had re-
mained within the limits of this treaty. And
the British premier advocated this method.
despite all the deadly risks to the continental
nations, because it precisely the one
method which freed the British from any real
danger not of invasion, but of involvment.
Fear to Run Risk.
Herriot's answer was just obviously based
upon the situation, not of France alone. but
of most Of the European states. Suppose
this was the burden of his speech-"Suppose
that we adopt arbitration, which we all ad-
yocate and France suggested as the way out
of reparatons troubles at London recently:
and suppose that then. when some nations
have adopted this method and abandoned all