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STEEL FALLING OFF
Apprehension Felt in Some
Quarters
BUYERS ARE CAUTIOUS
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Important Development in Agricul
tural Machinery—Structural Con
tracts Only Fair—Resale
Iron at $13.25
New York, February 2ti.—(Special.)—'The
Iron Age will say tomorrow:
The reports steel manufacturers maks
as to business actually going upon their
books or in prospect are still in contrast
with sentiment expressed in other quar
ters, In which there are some notes of
apprehension. It is expected that the
steel corporation's unfilled orders will
show a somewhat greater falling off in
February than in January, but the extent
of the gain on piled up contracts has
not abated in the least the clamor of
consumers for material.
An important development of the week
1s the appearance of inquiry from agri
cultural implement and machinery com
panies, for their bar requirements from
July 1 on.
The prosperity of this industry, which
reflects agricultural conditions, added to
the record demand from the railroads,
confirms steel producers in the predic
tions they have been making for later
months of the year.
(Canada has been a heavy buyer of
plates, shapes and barH in this country
In the past week. More Canadian rail
Grip Prostrating
Thousands
The severe and unreasonable weal her
believed to be responsible for
(he increase
Reports from all over the country indi
cate a great increase in the number of
cases of grip and pneumonia, and tne un
usually dangerous form that grip is
taking this season.
Grip and pneumonia attack quickly the
system run down from overwork, from
exposure and from the strain of worry.
They are especially dangerous at this
season of the year, when people oft times
neglect to prepare themselves for the sud
den and severe changes of weatner and
prevent tho consequences of unexpected ,
exposure.
Duffy’s Pure Malt Whiskey has been re
cognized as the most effective remedy
and preventive of grip, pneumonia,
coughs, colds and diseases of the respira- 1
tory organs. Physicians use, recommend
and prescribe it in private practice and in
hospital work.
The secret of the marvelous success of :
Duffy’s Pure Malt Whiskey in relieving
and pieventing throat and lung troubles
lies in the fact that it is one of the great
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known to medicine. Tt not only checks i
the ravages of the disease itself, hut pre
sents the waste of tissues, and helps the
stomach to more perfectly digest and as
similate food.
ANNISTON BELIEVES IN
CONSERVATIVE CLAIMS
IN SEEKING INDUSTRIES
Secretary L. C. Watson of Chamber of Commerce, Says Many
Southern Cities Boost Themselves So Extravagantly That
the New Resident is Disappointed When He Arrives
By RICHARD F. LVSSIER
Anniston, February 20.—(Special.)—In an
interesting interview today, Secretary L*.
C. M atson of tlie Chamber of Commerce
talked of the work of the local civic
chamber and its general plans for the fu
ture. According to Mr. Watson the An
niston chamber is not seeklpg by exten
sive advertising to bring people here who
might come with the idea that they might
find the streets of beautiful Anniston lined
with gold, and upon finding that they
were merely well paved streets start to
knock the city. Mr. Watson does not be
lieve in that kind of advertising, and his
opinion is upheld by the majority of his
associates in Chamber of Commerce work
in Anniston. Secretary Wilson said:
“What we want in Anniston more than
anything else is pay roils, and in a quiet,
unobstrusive way we are getting them.
We are not advertising Anniston in the
large northern papers as some commer
cial clubs of southern cities are doing,
for the simple reason that we are of the
opinion that Anniston should stand on
its own feet and the people should recog- j
nize its merits and colne to settle in this i
locality of their own volition.
"Advertising would of a certainty bring
in a lot of people to Anniston, but the
most of these would go away again, as
settlers brought by advertising usually
expect a great deal of the city to which j
they emigrate. We believe that we have
a better method of keeping informed on
the industrial condition of the country,
and the moment information readies us
of some industry which is seeking other
claims we get after it hammer and tongs
and usually induce it to settle in our
midst.
"Pay rolls are the thing wanted in any
city. If we increase tlie pay rolls the
people will come to us. As the pay rolls
and the population increase the demand in
all commodities and goods will increase,
and soon reports will be spreading about
the state that Anniston is a good place to
start in business, as it is a live town.
Of course, tile industries w'e are seeking
to land in Anniston are industries that
would be suitable to tills .locality, such
as pipe works and other industries that
would manufacture the raw pig iron into
the tinishe product.
“The manufacturing of pig if on into
the finished product is coming to he the
chief industry of Alabama cities within
100 nples of Birmingham. It looks to me
as is Birmingham is to become the Pitts
burg of the south in the output of pig iron
while the smaller cities in the environs
will become manufacturing centers of the
finished product.
“Anniston with its excellent railroad fa
cilities and natural resources seems to be
in for an era of prosperity, and as our
method of being always on the job after
new industries to locate in this vicinity
is constantly showing excellent results,
the wish for prosperity in Anniston ap
pears closely aligned witli the actual
fact.”'
inquiries have come up also, the mills
there being practically sold for the year.
New structural contracts have been of
only fair volume, but the total of work
actually In sight is again above 250,000
tons. This fact may help to stiffen
fabricator’s prices, which have been wob
bling lately, with evidences of keener
competition, particularly in the Chicago
district.
Pig iron producers are not yet ready
to say that the increase in inquiry in
the past week Is the forerunner of the
new buying that lias been aw'aited for
two months. Buyers are still cautious
and not less so in vlewr of the lower
prices developed by the week’s inquiries.
Southern resale iron can be had at $13.26,
Birmingham, for No. 2 and some Ten
nessee quotations figure back to $1* at
Birmingham.
Cleveland. O.. February 26.—(Special.)—
The Iron Trade Review' tomorrow will
say: Steady maintenance of tremendoui
consumption of iron and steel products
strengthens the hope that highly pros*
perous conditions will continue through
out the year.
Weakness w hich developed In some spots
during the past week is not more pro
nounced ami the general sentiment of
the market is stronger.
Heavy buying by large consumers of
finished materials, such ns the agricul
tural Implement manufacturers, is confi
dently expected to increase largely the
volume of orders on the books of the
mills, many of which are in very com
fortable condition, while others are so
filled that they cannot promise deliv
eries in less than six months.
Many mills report that they are unable
to satisfy the insistent, demands of cus
tomers for prompt deliveries. Numerous
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makers of plates, shapes and bars re
port bookings in excess of shipments,
while in other lines there is no decrease
in new business shortage of cars in the
Chicago district has caused some delays
in making shipments. Jt is estimated
that a quarter of a million tons of fabri
cating steel are now pending in the coun
try. '
Careful observers believe that if the
present heavy melt of pig iron is main
tained for a few wee«cs longer a heavy
buying movement will set in and the
present weakness of the pig iron market
will quickly disappear. This seems a
reasonable expectation, but on the othe^
hand the market shows a decided ten
dency to soften with very little provoca
tion. Now price continue to be made on
Cleveland iron for shipment outside of i
the city.
In the Pittsburg district inquiries for
basic amount to about 25,000 tons, includ
ing one for 15,000 tons for second, third
and last quarters of the year sales of No.
2 foundry have been made at $17 valley,
but some makers are adhering to $17.50
as the minimum quotation.
There is apparently more resale iron
and at present in southern Ohio than in
the south. It lias developed that the
recent sale of 40,000 tons of pig iron at
Buffalo was of hot metal to be delivered
from Suquehanna furnaces to the Lacka
wanna .Steel company. A Delaware river
pipemaker is figuring on 15,000 tons of
low grade iron for delivery prior to July 1.
It is estimated that 50.000 cars have
been ordered since July 1, and pending
inquiries include several lots of from
2000 to 6000 cars. The supplement order
of the Pennsylvania for 2300 c^rs requir
ing 46,100 tons of steel, makes the total
lecent order of the Pennsylvania 12,305
cars of various kinds. There is a fair
amount of rail buying in lots of moderate
size. The International and Great North
ern has ordered 13,000 tons. The Illinois
Steel company has taken G000 tons from
a number of line?. Several , imler.s ol
good size for tailway bridge material hat
been taken in western territory.
Keeping up Appearances
"Extravagance rots character; train
youth away from it. On the other hand,
the habit of saving money while it stiffens
the will also brightens the energies. If
you would be sure that you are beginning
right, begin to save."—Theodore Roose
velt.
Irving Batcheller, the northern New
York novelist, wrote a good book entitled,
"Keeping Up With Lizzie,” which is a
strong but subtle arraignment of Amer
ican extravagance.
"The matter of our exertvagance out
ranks any problem of the time,” says the
author. "We are all trying to keep up with
Lizzie, and it is far too hot a pace for
us to follow. How many are falling by
the wayside.”
This is the kind of thing that keeps
people poor. For the sake of "cutting a
good figure” in society many people cut
no figure at the bank. They sacrifice fu
ture comfort and independence for the
sake of a little present satisfaction.
Don’t try to "keep up with Lizzie.’’ Y'ou
can’t do it, because there will always he
somebody just a little ahead of you in tne
race of extravagance.
Cut it all out and save some money to
day for the time when you will need it
a good deal worse than you do now.
Trying to match your neighbors who
have more money to spend than you have
Is not a sensible policy. Sometimes it re
quires courage on the part of members
of a family to say, "We can’t afford it."
because at the present time the tendency
is to get things just because somebody
else has them.
There is no more valuable lesson for a
newly married couple to learn than tlie
lesson of doing without# now for the sake
of having comforts and a competence later
on. It is a hard lesson, perhaps, but a
necessary one. There are countless men
and women throughout tne country who
are thankful they learned it.
On the other hand, one reason why there
is so much want, failure, distress and
often ruin and disgrace, is because so
many persons never deny themselves, but
continually live beyond their means to
keep up appearances.
If you want to succeed, young man or
young woman, cut out extravagance. The
qualities of honesty, energy and frugal
ity are more necessary than ever today,
and there is no genuine or permanent suc
cess without them.
Cijon, Spain, February 26.—Upwards of
200 people were killed or wounded by tin
ill timed explosion of a charge of 7000
pounds of black powder which had been
laid yesterday by government engineers
with the object of razing an enormous
block of rock. An immense concourse of
townspeople had gathered to witness the
demolition of the hill separating (JiJori
from the coaling harbor of Musel, a mile
and a half distant. The object of the
operation was to cut a roadway and thus
avoid the present long detour. At the
hour fixed, the fuse w as lighted and the I
explosion occurred. Instead of the* rock
being blasted, however, hundreds of tons
of clay and small stones were hurled like
artillery projectiles among the assembled
spectators. Whole families were mowed
down. Many of the engineers and mu
nicipal officials were killed.
GOING TO PALESTINE
--
Rev. E. H. Jennings, Pastor
of First Baptist Church
Granted Leave
Dothan. February 28.—(Special.)—Rev. |
E. H. Jennings, pastor of the First Bap
tist church of this city, has been granted
a three months’ leave of absence in order
that he may visit Aiirope and Palestine.
Mr. Jennings left this week for New
York, from which place he will ^ail.
March 4.
Another negro implicated Iit the killing
of Edgar Ivillingswortli and the serious
wounding of his brother. Tom Killings
worth, February 17, near McGilvray’s
mill in Henry county, has been arrested
and placed in jail at Abbeville.
It now appears that there were only
five negroes instead of seven, as first re
ported, implicated in me affair, all of
whom have been apprehended but one.
It is said that the negroes admit taking
part in the killing, but say that it was
at the instance of one or more white men.
who supplied them with guns. So far no
white men have been arrested in the
case.
Crop preparations in this section are
progressing well.
LETTERS TO EDITOR
Observance of Sunday Law
To the Editor of The Age-Herald:
I see by this morning’s paper that
the moving picture show men have
stirred up a terrible mess in your
little city by desiring to have the
“show go on of Sundays.” If good
and instructive pictures, something
that will educate the mind, by a rest
from everyday routine of business and
elevates one's thought heavenward and
to Bible thinking and heavenly things,
what a blessing it would be for the
poor overworked drug and soda water
clerk and thousands of other poor
overworked mortals *in the world. But
I speak of the drug and soda water
man because he is now the most over
worked class in the world. And the
good preachers, pastors nor anyone else
ever thinks of him or his comforts.
And the proprietors and owners of
drug stores and soft drink stands never
once think of paying him extra to keep
open store all day Sunday. Oh, no;
they have eased their conscience so
long on the belief that a drug store
has the right to sell everything on
Sundays just because it is a drug store,
that they actually believe It is true.
And they have made the preachers all
believe they have this right, which is
the worst feature and I know deacons
and stewards of different churches
which own and conduct drug stores on
Sunday for the special purpose of
making money. Yes, actually make
special arrangements for Sunday work
by ordering extra supply of Ice cream,
lemons, limes, etc., for the Sunday
trade, as that is the best day in cash
sales in the week. And after all ar
rangements are made the proprietors
march off to Sunday school and church
and leave the clerk to sweat and fume
all day up to 10 and 11 o’clock Sunday
night, boss gleeful and happy next
morning over the large sales. Clerk
has bad Sunday. Poor clerk: worn out,
tired and discouraged, but plods along.
Meets his pastor asks: “Why were you
not at Sunday school last Sunday?”
“Had to work." “Well, come around
some time,” and that is the last of it.
Cut the cigar, gum, soda water and
all other unnecessary sales out of the
drug store and one clerk could keep
the store open all day Sunday for the
real necessities of the sick and the gen
eral public and this clerk would have
plenty of time to rest, read and study
his Sunday school lesson if so in
clined, and keep up with his class. And
where there are two or three in the
store his Sunday would come so seldom
to stay on duty all day he would not
mind it, and if not allowed to sell any
thing but medicine the day would not
be deprived of a day of rest, as it is
now. And if all the druggists thought
the state would be forced out by law
to do this lots and lots of them would
close up Sunday altogether because it
would not pay to keep op^n just for
prescriptions and what medicine they
sell.
And why shouldn’t they be forced to
do this? The grocery stores are not
allowed to sell soda and cigars and
candy on Sunday and this is about all
the majority of druggists keep open
for or sell on Sunday. Isn’t this partial
legislation to allow the drug stores more
privileges than other classes? r am
sure they do not pay for more.
1 had an old time boss when I was
a boy who closed his drug store Sat
urday night about 10 o’clock and would
not open or allow any clerk to open it
for anybody under any circumstances,
but in case of sickness, and there were
two other drug stores in the sa? e town
that kept open on Sunday ah day. 1
have heard people many times ask him
why he didn't keep open on Sunday?
the other drug stores did. and he in
variably said: “Six days are enough for
any man to work. I am running my
business, not the other fellow's.”
Nowadays a druggist sayti if the
other fellow will close on Sunday I
will. In other words, if trie other
fellow will do right I will, but if he
does not, I will not. Poor fellows have
not got the grit to do what is right.
How I wish I owned a drug store,
I would show them I could close on
Sunday and do the right thing. How
I wisli some of the preachers would
take up our cause, keeping open drug
stores.
Which is the greater evil and more
harm, to keep people away from church
and Sunday school or picture shows—
even if allowed to show Sundays.
WfULdAM RICHARD.
Huntsville, February 21, 3 9115.
Sunday Moving Pictures
To (lie Editor of the Age-Herald:
l would like to have a small space in
your most valuable paper in regard to
the moving picture movement that has
now the attention of the public.
I am heartily in favor of it ami I think
it would he indorsed by the majority of
the people and it would be by the travel
ing men 1 know, and they have a great
deal to do with the making of a great
city like Birmingham.
A picture show is a very good place to
spend an hour of spare time as the pic
tures are both interesting and instruc
tive. I don't see how they are any more
apt to corrupt the morals of the com
munity than lots of other tilings we have i
at present. Take East Lake park for in
stance, they have moving pictures and
gambling games on Sunday, and still
everybody goes there and there is noth
ing said.
Captain White said in Monday's paper:
“Why not have bull fights, hall games
8nd, open saloons?** With all due respect ]
to Captain White, this in no old time
frontier town, but an up to ‘date city,
with all modern improvements, so why
not have Sunday picture shows, like some
of our larger cities? Only let them be un
der the jurisdiction of the city and let
the city commission say when and boa
they may lie operated. C. L. WILSON.
Birmingham. February 25.
Progressive Taxation in New Zealand
To the Editor of The Age-Hrrald.
I should appreciate the privilege of re
calling to tb*> attention of your readers
Exactly 3 Days More
OF THE PORTER SALE
All Suits and Overcoats
Do you know that our critics of fine clothing are giving us
our best advertising right now? Fact. They tell other people
when they get just what they want at Porter’s—at a reduced
price.
But three days more of the sale.
Up to $18.00
$n
Up to $30.00
$19
Up to $22.50
$13
Up to $35.00
Up to $28.00
$16
Up to $40.00
$25
Men’s Shoes, All Prices Cut
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up to $4.50.
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a system of taxation which, as it seems
to me, might well serve as the model for
progressive legislation in our own state
and country. I do not hesitate to go for
material to the very antipodes; for New
Zealand is after all nearer akin to us in
habits, customs and tradition than our
neighbors, Mexico and Cuba. And per
haps New Zealand is the only people
which has overthrown monopoly in a
pitched political battle.
"Land monopoly," and here I quote H.
D. Lloyd’s Newest England,” wras the first
to be attacked, and the first means of at
tacking it was that ancient, constitution
al and inalienable weapon—the tax.
There are six special features in the new
taxation:
"1. Land and incomes, esnecially those
of corporations, are taxed for national
purposes.
“2. This taxation is progressive, and
heaviest for the rich.
”3. Improvements are exempt.
*'4. Small estates and small incomes are
not to be taxed.
”5. Mortgages are deducted from the
property of the small taxpayer.
“6. Absences are penalized."—Newest
England, page 112.
“The New Zealand income tax follows
the same lines of policy as the land tax.
The small man is exempt. The rates in
crease as the income increases." But
"corporations, joint stock companies, are
not allowed the exemption." "They must
pay on all their income.’’. (Page 118).
As to the purpose to be achieved by the
rew taxes, "the premier was explicit; the
graduation of the taxes was to check
mcropcly. He did not shrink from rais
ing the issue between the rich and the
poor.” ‘‘In closing the debate, he said:
T care little for the mere capitalist. I
care not if dozens of large landowners
leave the country. For the prosperity of
the colony does not depend upon this
class.’ ” The question of constitutionali
ty. apparently, did not trouble the New
Zealanders as It should have done.
"There is no contract, expressed or im
plied," said the premier, "which is su
perior to the safety of the people. The
safety of the people is the supreme law.’’
Mr. Lloyd found it "universally avowed
in New Zealand that the present taxes
are only the beginning." They are to be
"increased until they have done the work
for which the icform was begun." (Pages
106-1101. All this took place before 1900,
the date of Mr. Lloyd's book. Whether
there has really been progress since then
I do not khow.
1 think one can feel perceptibly the dif
ference in the political climate of this
far distant paradise and our own. Inti
mations are not lacking that in “Newest
England” some of our methods were tried
and found wanting. To quote again
page 109:
“Taxattion (in New Zealand) had been
one of the most effective instrumentali
ties of the monopolists, especially the
property tax. This property tax, like that
still in vogue in many of the common*
weallrs of tiie United Htates (sic) had
become exceedingly unpopular, and its
abolition was made one of the chief Is
sues of politics.” “When the election
was held, tiie tax was buried forever.”
Tills is the New Zealand achievement.
What have we by way of camparieon in
America? A chaos of futile and abortive
efforts to ref arm. Everywhere the pa
triotic leader becomes entangled in a
web of constitutional restrictions. There
are state commissions to fix the rates of
railroads and federal courts to annul the
samp; income taxes which were perfectly
constitutional in time of war (when tiie
government needed the money), but are
declared null and void when passed In a
spirit of social reform. Finally, we have
telegraph companies which are agents of
the federal government—whatever that
phrase may mean—for the purpose of re
sisting local municipal taxation, but which
are unquestionably private corporations
in the division of their profits. How long,
one wonders, w ill the old evasion work? If
the administration at Washington is rad
ical. argue strenuously for states' rights;
if the state governments turn progres
sive. appeal to the federal constitution.
It is only New Zealanders that possess
an “inalienable and irresistible power of
taxation which the monopolists cannot
withstand, and which the state can never
lose.” In brier, they are freer citizen:*
than we. Yours very truly,
M. C. BURKE.
Tuscaloosa, Ala., February 25, 1913.
Automobiles on Streets
To the Editor of The Age-Herald:
Now comes a big kick against auto
mobile standing in front of certain
stores.
Automobiles are like sniofr; they
are absolutely necessary for business.
If we have no automobiles and no
smoke, we will have precious little
Farmers’ Institute, Rural
Conference and Teachers’
Institute To Be Held
Jacksonville, February 26.—(Special.)—
The bulletin announcing t lie summer
school of ttie State Normal school of this
place has just been issued. In this session
special provision will be made for those
students who will take the July exami
nation for teachers, while there will also
be a normal training course. In connec
tion with tbe summer school, a farmers'
institute, rural conference, and teachers'
institute will be held.
For the debate between student repre
sentatives of the Jacksonville and Flor
ence Normal schools, the following have
been selected by the Jacksonville faculty;
T. K. McCoIlough and C. C. Dally, with
K. P. Houston and P. \V. Capps as alter
nates. The debate will be held at Jack
sonville about Faster, and the subject is,
"That the President of the United States
should be elected for nix yeai%» and bo
ineligible for re-election." The Jackson
ville students defend the negative.
business. Tf the automobile shopper is
not allowed to stand in front of any
particular store, or stores, the shopper
will naturally go where there is no
such objection t*» them; and the same
way with new industries, if Birming
ham objects to their smoke, they will
go elsew'here.
I>t ns bear with the automobiles,
ami minimise Uie smoke an much as
possible within four or five blocks
of First avenue anil Twentieth street;
let us get all the business wo can
through the automobiles and industries,
ami induce as many new industries to
come to our city as we possibly can.
and take the smoke with them. Other
cities are pulling for them. Very truly
yours. W- OU.V\ loS.
Birmingham, February 26, 1913.
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