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Correspondent Declares President Wilson Protest ed on Use of Dirigibles Against Populous Cities (■(all Cemipnlnt A Maria ted PreM.) GENEVA, Feb. 19.—The Zeppelin campaign against London ha* been found to be unprofitable. The cessa tion of German attack* on the British metropolis after the latest appearances of the bis dirigibles over the city last fall, has been due not to fortuitous circumstances, but to the deliberate de termination .of the German leaders to abandon these attacks, as has long been done In the case of Paris. The correspondent, who was then In Berlin, was informed from a trust worthy source a few days after the final London raid of the decision to send no more Zeppelins and sister ships of the Schuettelanx type against London. Raids Rot Abandoned, Air raids against England, the corre apondent was told, would not be aban doned entirely. They were considered to-be of great service in holding at home guns, airplanes and men of the British aerial defense which otherwise would be freed for service In France, but In future the attacks would be di rected against the provinces. Instead of London. The next and final expedition of the year, on November 27, was directed against the midland counties, In ac cordance with this prophecy, and re Bell-a ns Absolutely Removes Indigestion. One package proves it.. 25c at all druggists.1 WHAT IS LAX-FOS LAX-FOS is an improved Cascara (itoilc-laiatlie) pleasant to tike In LAX-FOS the Cascara is improved by the addition of certain harmless chem icsls which increase the efficiency of the Cascara, making it better than ordinary Cascara. * LAX-FOS is pleasant to take and docs not gripe nor distnrb stomach. Adapted to children as well as adults. Just try one bottle for constipation. 50c. 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Price 2T*r. at all drug stores or by mall on receipt of stamps or coin. Agents wanted every where. Write for particulars. Kxeflento Medicine fo„ Atlanta* I Ga. % Committee Appeals to Citi zens to Assist in Wiping Out Deficit in National Body i | The democrats of Montgomery coun ty, and Alabama, as a whole, have not yet responded to the call of the Na tional Democratic committee as they should have done. The deficit of the National Demo • Comm*ttee is approximately 1300,000 (three hundred thousand dol lars). Alabama has been asked to raise $9,000 of this deficit. Montgom ery county's share of this burden has been apportioned at the small sum of $400. Call For Funds. Surely there are 400 democrats In | our county who feel sufficiently grate ful to our National Democratic Com mittee, to part with one dollar in aid of this cause. Shall it be said that there are not even 400 democrats in Montgomery county, Alabama, who 1 feel loyal enough to the Democratic National Committee and to President Wilson to part with erfe dollar to help the committee to meet this debt of honor? It is to be remembered that this debt of honor was incurred for the good of every democrat in the na tion, for the good of the nation as a whole. Every good democrat -should speak of the National committee as^he com mittee of his party, and should feel a personal interest in the actions of the committee, and certainly should feel willing to help the committee to meet a debt of honor incurred In his behalf. All the other states in the union are coming to the rescue of the democratic National committee, but what's the matter with Alabama? In yesterdays1* Advertiser a commit tee of 153 men was designated to raise the fund. That committee will becofne active, and a great deal will be accomplished. Committeemen in collecting should keep a list of names of those who pay dollars, which names with amounts collected. Should be reported to It. Al ston Jones at his office in the Bell build ing, and he will in'tourn, report the namesof contributors to the press, and remit the amounts collected to C. P. Mc Intyre, chairman finance committee, representing the National Democratic Committee. THE COMMITTEE. suited in the loss of two Zeppelins. Defenses Strengthen. The predominant reason for the de cision to discontinue attacks on Lon don probably Is the Increasing strength and efficiency of the air defenses of the city but the efTect of the raids on neutral opinion, in view of the then contemplated peace overtures, may also have been a factor. It may be Interesting In this con nection to record a bib of dnwrltten history of the war. Wilson Protests. In' the early days of the conflict, when the air raids were Jiftt begin ning, President Wilson caused to be conveyed to Emperor William and the German government a personal and un official message which set forth that airship and airplane raids upon popu lous cities were looked on with dis favor by the American people, and con tributed largely to stirring up anti German feeling in the United States. In view of this the wisdom of their discontinuance was suggested. The message did not fall entirely on deaf ears but the view* of the military party prevailed and the air attacks, then the only German means of bring ing home the realities of war to tne people within the British Isles, con tinued. Element Displeased. Later they ceased for a time, to the displeasure of an element which openly accused Chancellor von Bethmann Holl weg of sheathing hie weapon In def erence to neutral opinion. * This ele ment was appeased but little by Count Zeppelin’s published letter to the Chan cellor, wherein the Count disavowed responsibility fof this accusation. The raids were resumed with the ob ject of tteing up within the islands and eliminating from the Somme of fensive as large a number of antl-air shlp guns, airplanes searchlights and men to eauip them as possible. Aside from this service, which is of considerable military value, the role of the Zeppelins In land warfare ie now regarded In expert circles in Ger many as decidedly secondary to their great value as scouting agents for op erations of the fleet. The Quinine That Does Not Affect Head Because of Its tonic and laxative effect. Laxative Bromo Quinine can be taken by anyone without causing nervousness nor [ ringing In the head. 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I tried every thing I could find but couldn't get' any relief and I don’t know where I would be now if it hadn't been for Tanlac. ‘‘This medicine certainly did do the work for me and I know it*s every thing that's claimed for it. It has re lieved me of all my stomach trouble and I can eat anything without the | least trouble and my appetite is Just l splendid. It just drove those headaches rlpht awav and they haven’t come back and I would praise Tanlac for that alone, the longest day I live, but my health is Just perfect In every way now. All my nervousness Is gone and I sleep fine all night long. I have gained ba^k my weight until I- now weigh one hundred and twenty-eight pounds and am as strong as I ever want to be. I tell you, I feel like a different woman and I want everybody to know that Tanlac deserves all the credit. Tanlac Is sold in Montgomery ex-, clusively by E. G. Fowler. —Advertisement. WHEN THEIR LINES ARE OVERSHADOWED German Airmen Effective ly Direct Fire Against Welt-Planned Defenses in Champagne Regipns (Associated Press.) BERLIN, Feb. 16.—(Via Sayvllle, Feb. 19.)—Details of the fighting in I cident to the German attack on the French lines In the Champagne on Feb ruary 15, are given today by the mili tary critic of the Overseas News Agency. ‘•The fighting south of Ripont,** he writes, “took place on the same ground where General Joffrc in the autumn of 1915, sacrificed thousands of French soldiers in fruitless attacks. By a bold thrust on February 15, the Ger mans ejected the French on Hill 185 from a trench system almost one kilo metre deep and more than two and one-half kilometres breadth—a system I which had been maintained by the I French since September 25, 1915, and I fortified after the most modern methods. Many French Killed. The French, In addition to losing a large number of men In prisoners, kill ed and wounded, lost important ob servation points. At dawn the Germans bombarded the works, the fire being directed with excellent effect in the clear, bright weather, by German airmen and ob servers. In a brief time the hostile trenches were levelled and the French artillery silenced. The barbed wire entanglements had been cleared away by the fire, the dug-outs penetrated by heavy shells, and the entire trench sector crushed. lland-to-Hand Fighting. “At a given moment the German at tacking forces sallied from their» trenches and pushed irresistibly ahead, capturing four lines of the French position. At several places stubborn fighting with rifles, hand grenades and the bayonet took place. Cut off by the German fire, and buried in their trenches and dugouts. the French were compelled to surrender in groups. The German losses were small in view of the complete success of the careful artillery preparation. “French counter attacks which were launched in the evening and on the following morning in an effort to recapture the lost height broke down with the heaviest losses.’ ECONOMY Economy is. great stuff. But if you are married don't pick up a hairpin when you see one on the street. King of Breakfast Foods There’s a Reason” Has wonderful nourishin value •in these days of high cost of living A flavor—sweet and nut-like, that appeals to every taste Declares, Germans Slow In | Realizing Advantages of Sending Out True Stories Correspondent, Now in Switzerland, Tells of Things Writer Was Forced to Buck Against BERNE, SWITZERLAND. Feb. 19. —-JProm a staff correspondent of The Associated Press)—According to state ments made to the correspondent, be fore his departure from Berlin with former Ambassador Gerard, by public men In Germany, the German govern ment did not awake until long after the beginning of the war to the de sirability of making a favorable im pression on public opinion In neutral countries, or at least of having its side of the case* given a hearing in the neu tral press. An outlay of untold hundreds of thousands of marks has been spent since, with the employment of not'in considerable staffs of officers and men and with constantly chunking systems. In the effort to achieve the desired ends. Correspondents In Bad. Correspondents from neutral coun tries have experienced constant diffi culty 'since the beginning of the war in attempting to report facts in an un biased manner. In the thirtieth month of the war Germany applied the same newspaper . methods to American, Dutch, Scandinavian and Spanish news papermen ns In the first months. The censorship has been the main source' of trouble, largely because it has been working at cross purposes with the very officials who have had it in their power to adjust the difficulties. These officials usually have recognised faults which have been pointed out and have made the most earnest efforts to facili tate the gathering of news, but never have altered materially the censorship system which set at naught all they and the correspondents did, effectually damming sp the streams of news which had been opened. , 1 Shortly after the outbreak of the war the foreign office mobilized con suls who supposedly were familiar with foreign languages and Installed them as censors. In reality, few of them are well versed in any language except German. None of them has any conception of newspaer work or any military or political knowledge which gives especial qualification for the task. TJie correspondent speedily came in to conflict .with these censors and the government, discovering something was amiss, attempted to remedy the trouble. However, its efforts consisted of opening up additional channels of news which the censors stopped. Create Ceatral Bureau. The foreign office created the so-call d central bureau for foreign service, vhich flooded neutral countries with Photographs and with literature wrlt en from the German standpoint, mere y translated into Dutch. Swedish -or loumanian. This literature damaged, ather than assisted, the German ause in Holland, for instance. It was .mended when Dutch correspondents old the foreign office that Holland lestred real news. , The constantly increalsng number or ;orrespondents In Germany, all eeek ng an opportunity to see something >f the war and to obtain news, led to he establishment of what was known is the neutral war press bureau. The pretlcally. this bureau was headed by ilajor Deutelmoser, a man well qual fled for the position, but he was so jccupled with other things that he rel ^ated this work to a subordinate. Bureau Failure. This bureau existed from October. 915, until last summer. Under its tusplces correspondents traveled to va •ious fronts, submitting all dispatches or censorship. It became apparent puickly that the bureau was at odds vlth the foreign office. It sought to •xtend its jurisdiction so as to censor ■verythlng written, and while its cen ,ors clashVd with these In the For ■ Ign Office, the correspondents got the vorst of things. As the weeks passed the newspaper nen found it almost impossible to vrite of the Interesting things they paw. - Furthermore, the tendency of he bureau was to send them to points >n the front where they saw little of mportance. Everything they did write vas censored, in each Instance accord ng to the Individual ideas of the man o whom the dlspatc^ was referred, ’orrespondente of whatever nationality ,vere not disposed to protest as sup pression of military Information, but hey did Insist that some degree of 'airness be applied to their dispatches. The government eventually dlscov ■red that the bureau was not a success jnder Major Deutelmoser’s subordi late, and also that its own press bu •eau for German newspapers was not pperatlng as It should. In consequence here followed a reorganization of the mtlre press system. 01(1 I rnHOm nriumru. The men from the Foreign Office were displaced, although the old cen sors were retained. The neutral prfcss bureau was shelved, except for the old censor*. There was created a so-call ed military department of the Foreign office, under Colonel von Haerten, a keen and wide awake man, and Baron l’lettenberg, both of whom have an understanding of foreign viewpoints, i They were ruled by the conviction that neutral correspondents themselves were the best Judges of what they desired. | Colonel von Haerten provided facll I ities for obtatnlng the economic as I well as the military news insistently I asked for, and acted on suggestions made to him. ' He was able to eend correspondents to active points on the front. Nevertheless, he or those above him retained the same censors, who up to the present haye acted In an arbi trary manner Inexplicable to neutrals. For example, they frequently held back the very information which had been furnished by the military depart ment itself, and refused to pass appar ently innocent news items published In the Herman press which were picked up and telegraphed from Holland. Den mark or Switzerland. In some cases one correspondent’s dispatch on a giv en subject would be passed while an identical article from another would be held up. Stories Held l>. The military department succeeded in having an order issued on all. fronts that correspondents were to be shown everything there was to be seen and that all possible courtesy were to be extended to therp. but the censors were then permitted to blue pencil the re sultant dispatches. On the first trip arranged by the department, two Amer ican newspaper men flew ovef the en tire Sotnme sector in an aeroplane, in accordance with the order to show cor respondents everything. Their reports of the battle seen from the air were suppressed. The air plane staff was brought up on the carpet and all but cashiered. The in cident was closed when one corre spondent's story was released while the other's was held up and is stHl among the archives at great head quarters. There were no indications of favoritism, however, as is shown by the fact that the correspondent whose account of the airplane flight was held up succeeded in sending another' dispatch unchanged which, when pre sented In Herman ty the correspond ent of a German-Amsricnn newspaper was not permitted to pass. Ernest Efforts, These and countless similar cases In. dlrate that genlnunely earnest efforts have been made by the German auth orities to put newspapter men In poses Federal Trade Commis sion Will Withhold De cision on Question on a “Fair Price” (Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, Feb. 1».—'The fed eral trade commission will withhold Its decision on the proposal by a large group of American and Canadian news print papermakers that the commis sion flx prices tog their products until other manufacturers were heard. There Is a general belief, however, that most of the manufacturers will support the suggeotlon and that the trade commission will approve It. It was learned today that manufac turers who did not Join in the pro posal have been requested by the com mission to come here Friday to pre sent their views. . After the/ are seen in announcement will be mhde. If the proposal Is accepted the commission Immediately will take up the question of cost of production ass a basis for prices, and at the same time probably will call hearings at which both manu facturers and publishers may present their _ ideas concerning reasonable charges. Has Cosot Flarares. The commission already has coat figures obtained by lbs Investigators last summer and fall;, and without a great deal of work could-bring them up to date. It would endeavor to reach a consluslon before March 1, No price can be set, it was said to day, until a most careful examination of conditions has been made. The commission la anxious to avoid setting prices that will force manufacturers to make paper without profit as It la to see that publishers do not pay ex orbitant charges. Reforestratloa Discussed. Reforestration as means of conserv ing the country's wood pulp supply was discussed at a luncheon given here today by Frederick W. Kellogg, publisher of the San Francisco Call, to government officials, news print mak ers and newspaper publishers. A more serious situation than now confronts publishers will have to be faced the speaker declared, unless the federal and state governments adopt a com prehensive reforestration policy. Planting of faist growing trees on cut over forest land was held out as the on-ly hope of paper pulp supply for the future. slon of real news, but their efforts as often as not have been partly or entirely nullified by the censorship against which every neutral corre spondent In Berlin has complained repeatedly. By a curious coincidence It was a man unacquainted with newspapers who early In the war told the Ger man foreign office that It could hope to Interest neutral and specially Amer ican, public opinion only if It offer ed new*- qf. such value that American newspapers would willingly pay for It. Gradually, officials in the foreign of fice and elsewhere have adopted this view, but only to a limited degree. The foreign correspondents In Berlin are still flooded with quantities of lit erature written In Germany by Ger mans from the German viewpoint, while each day news which th» corre spondent desire to transmit Is sup pressed and must find Its way out by the medium of German newspapers or by word of mouth to be distorted or pilsunderstood. Censorship Severe; As relating to the German press, the censorship Is very severe. It Is the more effective because there are no blank space In the newspapers to Indicate to the reader what has been eliminated. Protest has followed pro test against the muzzling of news papers in regard to political as well as military news but the only let up has been along economic lines. Newspapers flow are able to dis cuss with some freedom food and sim ilar conditions, and even to criticise1 the economic administration. Criticism of the government, and specifically of the party of Chancellor von Bethmann Hollweg, Is still forbidden and a num ber of newspapers still remain under the socalled preventive censorship, le Ing obliged to submit political articles to the censor before they are published^ Greek Legation Gives Further Information on Suffering in Greece (Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.—Further In formation about suffering In Greece, re sulting from the entente blockade was submitted to the State Department to day hy the Greek legation. Cases of starvation were reported from various provinces and the poor quality of flour available was said to have brought on A TEXAS WONDER The Tnaa Wonder curn kidney and bind* der troubles, dlssolvss gravel, euros dlaboten weak and lams back, rheumatism and all irregularities of the kidneys and bladder In both men and women. flegulates bladder troubles In children. If not sold by your druggist, will be sent by mall on receipt of |1.00. 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