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HUNTSVILLE
Huntsville, November 18.—(Special.)
Col. J. W. Worthington of the Alabama
Power company, and one of the best
posted men In the country on the sub
ject of water power development, will
address the people of Huntsville Fri
day night on the present status of the
Muscle Shoals development. Arrange
ments have beep made for him to de
liver an address In tho county court
house.
Mrs. W. E. Garrett died yesterday
' afternoon at her home in Madison.
W. R. Stobaugh, teller at the Hen
derson National bank, was called to
Humboldt, Tenn.t yesterday by the deatt
of his father.
A Statesman’s Response
From Puck.
“Do you take this woman to be you:
lawful wedded wife?” solemnly inquire<
the officiating clergyman.
“Yielding with reluctance to the earn
est solicitation of my many friends,
do,” sonorously answered the Hon. How
land Hoopmore.
Not Guilty
From the Boston Transcript
Mother—Sometimes there are rude boy
in Sunday school who giggle and smll
at little girls, and sometimes little girl
smile back at them, but I hope my littl
girl does not behave like that.
Small Daughter—No, indeed, mamma
I always put out my tongue at 'em.
SHOWING PROPER
GRASPOF DUTIES
Personal Equation Already
Felt in Way Pleasing to
Students of Finance
MANY STATE BANKS
EXPECTED TO JOIN
New System Looked Up6n as Incon
ceivably Great Influence in Stim
ulating and Regulating
American Business
By HOLLAND
New York, November 18.—(Special.)—bo
far the human equation, so-called, which
has sometimes been spoken of as a pos
sible weak place in the federal reserve
system, has not revealed any weakness.
In tftls city the judgments and the direc
tions of the federal reserve boarft at
Washington have inspired a confidence,
I which, if the board is aware of it, must
t be gratifying to its members. This is
due in great measure to the evident clear
ness of the understanding of the reserve
board of what the principle if not ex
clusive purpose of the new national bank
ing system is. The recent rulings and
diiectlons that have come from the board
are spoken of here as excellent demon
stration not merely of the technical abil
ity of the members, but also of their
statesmen-like conception of what the re
lation of an American banking system
she uId be to American business and in
ductrial life.
The attitude of the board is that the
new system must facilitate in every reas
onable way American industrial, agricul
tural, commercial and financial life. This
does not mean that the banks are to be
prohibited hereafter from lending as
sistance to those who contemplate estab
lishing great commercial or business ac
tivities. On the other hand, there will
be little opportunity, and presumably lit
tle disposition, to utilize the new system
fo* the purpose of promotions that are of
no value to anyone excepting the pro
moters.
The attitude of the regional bank in the
largest and most influential reserve dis
trict of the United States, that of this
city, is spoken of as in perfect sympathy
! with the formulated rulings of the federal
reserve board and also with the spirit of
purpose which is now so conspicuously
characteristic of the board. The human
equation will not be found wanting so
far as this regional bank is concerned,
and presumably so far as all of them
■ are concerned. The attitude taken by Ben
I jamln Strong, Jr., and his associates in
!«hc management of a regional bank for
| this district is one which suggests both
| conservatism and caution at the begin
ning and yet conveys a promise of reas
onable assistance as soon as practicable
in stimulating and facilitating business
not only in this district, but throughout
the United States.
Apparently t ie purpose is tc proceed
cautiously at the beginning. There are
3 some experiments to be made. Ine ma
!! chinery of the new system must be fare*
s fully adjusted, so that there may be as lit
} tie "friction as possible. This regional
i bank will not encourage at first new un
; dertaklngs which involve investments ol
large capital. But the time is surely
Save the Babies.
INFANT MOBTALITY is something MghtfoL We can hardly realize that of
all the children bom in civilized countries, twentytwo per cent., or nearly
one-quarter, die before they reach one year; thiityseven per cent^, or more
than one-third, before they are five, and one-half before they are fifteen!
We do not hesitate to say that a timely use of Castoria would save a ma
jority of these precious lives. Neither do we hesitate to say that many of these
infantile deaths are occasioned'by the use of narcotic preparations. Drops, tinctures
• and soothing syrups sold for children’s complaints contain more or less opium, or
morphine. They are, in considerable quantities, deadly poisons. In any quantity
. they stupefy, retard circulation and lead to congestions, sickness, death. Castoria
operates exactly the reverse, but yon must see that it hears the signature of
Chas. H. Fletcher. Castoria causes the blood to circulate properly, opens the
pores of the skin and allays fever.
Letters from Prominent Physicians
addressed to Chas. II. Fletcher.
Dr. A. 7. Peeler, of St Louis, Mo, says: "I have prescribed your Castoria
In many cases and bare always found it an efficient and speedy remedy.”
Dr. Frederick D. Rogers, of Chicago, HL, says: I have found Fletcher’s
Castoria very useful in the treatment of children’s complaints.
Dr. William C. Bloomer, of Cleveland, Ohio, saya: In p»y practice I am
glad to recommend your Castoria, knowing it is perfectly harmless and
always satisfactory.
Dr. H. Down, of Philadelphia, Pa, says: “I have prescribed your Cas
torla in my practioe for many years with great satisfaction to myself and
benefit to my patients.”
Dr. Edward Parrish, of Brooklyn, N. T, says: T have used your Cas
toria In my own household with good results, and havft advised several
patients to use it for its mild laxative effect and freedom from harm.”
Dr. J. B. Elliott, of New Tork City, says: "Having during the past six
years prescribed your Castoria for infantile stomach disorders, I most
heartily commend its use. The fcrmula contains nothing deleterious
to the most delicate of children."
Dr. C. O. Sprague, of Omaha, NelMsayp: "Tour Castoria Is an Ideal
medicine for children, and I frequently prescribe it. While I do not advo
cate the Indiscriminate use of proprietary medicines, yet Castoria Is an
exception for conditions which arise in the care of children.”
□ Dr. J. A. Parker, of Kansas City, Mo., says: “Tour Castoria holds the
esteem of the medical profession In a manner held by no other proprio
tary preparation. It Is a suro and reliable medicine for Infanta and chil
dren. In fact. It Is the universal household remedy for Infantile ailments.”
Dr. IK F. Merrill, of Augusta, Me., says: "Castoria Is one of the very
finest and most remarkable remedies for infants and children. In my
opinion your Castoria k-s saved thousands from an early grave. I can
furnish hundreds of testimonials from this locality as to Its efficiency
and merits.”
GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS
Sean the Signature of
Hare Always Bought
In Use For Over 30 Years.
♦ ■■ ** . THB eiNTAUN OOMI*ANV. N«W VONR CITY.
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TO FORM ATHLETIC CLUB IN
PRATT CITY FRIDAY NIGHT
An athletic club will be formed in
Pratt. City Friday night for the pur
pose of advancing the interest in ath
letics among the members of the play
grounds. It Is understood that tho
contemplated organization of the Pratt
City club is but a preliminary to sim
ilar organizations 'throughout the city.
Speakers will be present froWi the
Birmingham Athletic club, the Young
Men’s Christian association and other
organizations of a like character.
Ladles will be invited to attend the
meting Friday night, for it is the
purpose of the organization to inter
est girls In the athletic events which
v.ill form a part of the club’s work.
It is understood that the city hall will
coming when, if the conditions are fav
orable in other respects, capital will be
sought, probably in enormous amounts,
for the purpose of developing our natural
resources and particularly for the expan
sion of our foreign trade, and this pur
po^^tho banks of the new system will
encourage.
How far-reaching and profound is toe
confidence already felt in thia» new sys
tetm was illustrated by the statement
made public at Philadelphia a few days
ago by the influential representative of
the Investment Banking Association of
the United Spates, who said that it was
his earnest hope that speedily a majority
and ultimately all of the state-chartered
banking institutions of the united States
would seek membership In the new sys
tem.
The attitude of the state-chartered in
stitutions toward this new system has a
parallel in the disposition manifested by’
the state-chartered institutions after the
old national banking law went into effect
In civil w ar days. Slowly, reluctantly, |
one after another of the stnte banks sur
rendered their state charters and reor-:
tranized under national charters. Four or
five years passed before a majority of
the state-chartered institutions gave up
those charters and took out federal char
ters. In all probability the great major
ity of the state banks of the United
States would have been operating under
federal charters long ago but for the fact
that state charters permitted some trans
actions which the federal banks were
prohibited by law from undertaking.
A Modern Evolution
Many of those who see beneath the sur
face are Inclined to predict that the es
tablishment of the new fedora! reserve
system and the demonstration within a
short time that it is to be of inconceiv
ably gTeat influence not only in stimulat
ing American business, but also, indirect
ly, at least. In regulating it, will serve
to put an end to the political agitations
! which have been directed against Amer
ican business life. No one who has been
I In touch with business or financial activ
ities in this city since the beginning of j
I the European war has railed to observe j
’ that while optimism respecting our bus
I iness and industrial future has been grow-,
ing since about mldfl&eptember there Is j
1 also the belief that the American people
j are beginning to understand that we are
entering upon an era which will be char
acterized by new views of the relation of
business to the public and also of the
public to business.
When Roswell P. Flower was governor
of New York he spoke, not officially, but
personally, of a certain contemplated leg
islative attack upon one of the great vol
untary business organizations as “peanut
politics,” saying that this was a charac
teristic of the times. He then said that the
American people would have to peps
through an experience perhaps long con
tinued and drastic before they fully un
derstood that the attitude of the public
toward business and that of business to
ward the public should be that of the
freest and fullest co-Qperation.
Tt is co-operation of this kind, accord
ing to the frequently expressed opinion
j of some of the leaders In this financial
i and business district, that' the new fed
j oral reserve banking system will encour
age and aid greatly in establishing. Some
times a comment is made by those who
are informally discussing present-day
conditions that it is an extraordinary co
incidence associated with the contempo
raneous establishment of the new bank
ing system and the progress of the war
upon the* continent of Europe. The Eu
ropean conflict changes completely the
center of industrial and commercial grav
ity of the world, at least for the time
being. The United States is the only great1
industrial, agricultural and financial na
tion of this time which is industrially and
commercially free. The other day one of'
the leading investment bankers of the i
United States stated publicly that we are
creating each year $10,000,000,000 of new
wealth, approximately, by the harvesting
and marketing of the products of the soil.
Nothing but adequate hanking facilities
stands in the way of our command, par
tial at least, of some of the great mar
kets of the world. The federal reserve
hanking law has made it possible for the
largest of American banks to establish
a branch institution in that republic of
South America ^ith which we have al
ready our greatest trade relations, as
compared with other countries on that
continent, and the suspicion is Btrong
in this country that with the approval
of the federal reserve board other branch
Institutions are soon to be established
elsewhere than in South America.
As the federal reserve system identifies
the bginning of a new era in American
banking, po it will presumably also Identi
fy the beginning of a new era In Ameri
can industrial, agricultural and com«
inercial life and in the development of the
natural resources of the United States.
The Human Factor
The spirit of democracy which has
been leveling down castes and classes
within nations has now invaded indus
try, with the result that the skilled me
chanic has ceased to be the industrial
aristrocrat he was a few years ago,
says the Chicago Tribune. There are,
of course, a number of trades in which
the human factor is still In the as
cendency; where individual skill in
recognized and paid for. In the ma
jority of industries, however, perfected
machinery takes the place of industrial
skill. The unskilled, Ignorant laborer
is on a par with the man who has had
years of experience.
These facts need to be looked square
ly in the face., need to be emphasized
Just now. especially because of the
false construction which is being put
in certain quarters upon the movement
for a better and more thorough educa
tion of the working people. Many ad
vocates of continuation courses for
children between the ages of 14 and 17
who are obliged to go to work convey
the impression that industry is clamor
ing for more educated, more skilled
workers; that it is accepting the un
skilled, uneducated laborer under pro
test. Educate yourself a little more
and employers will grab you and your
wages will go up automatically. That
is the gist of their arguments.
The danger of such assertions lies in
the fact that there is some truth In
them. We are suffering from a want
of properly trained men in a few highly !
specialized occupations. In these occu- i
pations a boy with a good training may
be given preference over a boy with a
poor education. In the basic industries
of the country, however, the education
of the worker is not taken into ac
count. His health and strength are.
The skilled work in the Iron and steel
Industry, for instance, is done by ma
chines. The man directing the machine
needs no special educational qualifica
tions. In ether words, the unskilled
man is not there by accident, but by
design. Industry needs him.
To make children believe that a two
or three years’ attendance at an even
ing school gives them a passport to
higher wages is to mislead them. Bet
ter, more enlightened citizenship is ar
gument ^enough for a more prolonged
and thorough training of the children
of the masses.
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be used as a gymnasium until permu- 1
nent quarters can be secured. There
probably will be meetings three nlgh'-s
a week.
One of the athletic sports which will
l*o stressed by the club will be asso
ciation or soccer football. This game
has oeen undertaken by the 20 play
ground organizations in the city and
two leagues formed. Games will be
ployed every Saturday.
In addition to the interest in soc
cer football evidenced by the play
ground leagues there is a league called
the Alabama Association Football
league.
There will bo games of soccer foot
ball in every part of Birmingham ev
ery Saturday between now and Jan
uary 3.
STATE BAPfiSTS.
VISIT MARION
Special Train Carries Visit
ors to Inspect Judson
College
Marlon, November IS.—(Special.)—More
than 200 memhers of the state Baptist
convention came over from Selma on a
special train at 2 o’clock this afternoon
and ate dinner at Judson college, hold
ing a short session in the auditorium
and returning to Selma tonight in time
for the regular session.
The business under consideration was a
discussion of the reports on education In
which Dr. P. V. Bomar, president of
Judson college, welcomed the messen
gers to Judson and spoke briefly of the
expansion of the institution during the
past 20 years.
Dr. H. O. Murfree, president of Ma
rion institute, welcomed the visitors In
behalf of old Siloam Baptist church, from
which the present homo and state mission
boards had their beginning.
Shelburne Responds
Dr. Shellburne of Howard college ro
spcr.ded and gave a short outline of
Howard’s wrtrk and advocated tho broad
principle that all the colleges and schools
of the state were ours regardless of the
denominational or secular management;
that all good schools belonged to all
good people, and demanded our support
and interest.
The Rev. L. O. Dawson of Tuscaloosa
responded for the female college located
at that place, and showed tho splendid
work of this institution.
The report coming from the board at
Healing Springs was read and adopted.
Dr W. B. Crumpton spoke of the in
creased Interest being manifested at New.
ton school and appealed to the convention
for a liberal Bupport of this institution.
A telegram was read from Dr. Sherman,
at one time the president of Judson col
lege, and the first president of Howard
college, expressing his gratefulness to
t’10 convention for their remembrance in
the very last days of his life.
Women Hurt in Attack
Naco, Arts., November IS.—One Mexi
can woman was killed, three others
wounded and three men hurt on th«
American side toduy as tho result of
the attack on Naco, Sonora, made by
Governor Moytorcna's Yaqul Indians.
Three of Hill’s wounded were killed
in their hospital beds by shrapnel. Hill’s
casualties were 18 killed and 60 wound
ed. Maytoi^ia'a losses are not known.
There was heavy fighting all morning
but cannonading In tho afternoon was
intermittent.
Seven Smart "Eoydens” $f*
That Were $6.50 and $7.00 . . U
The size range is not complete in
all numbers and we’d rather “clean-up”
the balance than replenish these
numbers.
Hence the reduction in price, which
brings this footwear and its good
qualities to the particular attention
of the economically inclined.
Vici, Russia Calf, Pat
ent Blucher or Gun
metal in the wanted
styles. $6.50 and $7
values at
Get your fingers “Crossed” at
Porter’s. Luxurious, perfect
fitting Mark Cross Gloves for
men and women. $1.50, $2, $2.50
Everything Men and Boys Wear
1922-1924 First Ave.
Wireless Station Found
Tampa, Fla., November 18—Humor
that representatives of one of the Eu
I ropean nations at war has ostabllslie
a wireless station near Bayport on th
j Florida coast were believed to hav
4#"
In the Heart of Birmingham
been explained here tonight with the
t announcement that a small wireless,
erected and operated by amateurs, had
been found four miles from the coast
* town. The station has a limited wave
3 length and would be of little practical
s use over any distance.
it requires good tobacco
to make good cigarettes,
and good tobacco is expen
sive. Only the inexpensive,
practical wrapping enables us to
offer 20 Fatima Cigarettes for
15 cents.
i '*Distinctively Individual’*
dr.
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Ratify Peace Treaty
Washington, November 18.—The Chil
ean senate's ratification of the new
peace commission treaty with tho
United States was announced In a ca
blegram today to Minister Satires. This
treaty was ratified by the United states
Senate sometime ago.
Merkle Married
Grand Rapids, Mich., November 18.
Fred O. Merkle, first baseman of the
New York National league baseball
club, wras married last night to Miss
Ethel Brownson of Tecurnseh, Mich.
Announcement of the wedding was
made today.
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Cotton From A to Z
THE UNDERLYING CAUSES OF
THE CONGESTION AND THE
PROSPECT OF THE FUTURE
[ Hefe are facts vitally concerning every farmer, busi
ness man and banker in the South.
Experts say the “buy-a-bale” movement can do no
more than take up last year’s surplus. What will become
of the 16,000,000-bale crop of 1914, the men who pro- v
duced it, and the people who are dependent upon its
f being sold? This discussion of the cotton question is j
so big that it touches every cotton district, every cotton
interest, and every cotton home. It’s called
COTTON
Viewed From All Angles and Slants in tbe IVar Crisis
By Barton W. Currie
In This Week’s Issue of
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