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Pm OPERATORS
ARGUE AT LENGTH
BEFORE COMMiSSION
But Fail to Touch on Merits
f or Demerits of Proposed
Ordinance—Other Side
Presents Case
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4 PROPOSED JITSEY ORDINANCE 4
► 4 4
4 The jitney ordinance as it now 4
4 stands proposes to regulate the cars 4
4 as follows: 4
^ 4 1 Permit required showing name, 4
4 address and age of person operat- 4
4 ing. 4
4 2. Fee for permit, $2. ♦
4 3. Statement showing type, horse 4 \
• power. factory number. state 4 i
•? 4 license, number and capacity and 4
4 character of car. 4
4 4. Downtow n terminus of jitney. 4
4 5. Fnlawi^ to— 4
4 <a> Operate without permit. 4
4 <b> Operate unless every passen- 4
4 ger is inside car. 4
4 *(c) Race with other jitney or pass 4
4 same to catch prospective passen- 4
♦ ger. 4
4 (d> Operate car at greater rate of 4
^ 4 speed than is provided by law for 4
4 other motor vehicles. 4
4 (e) To load or unload passengers 4
4 unless car is standing alongside 4
4 curb. 4
4 <f) For driver to smoke while op- 4
4 crating ear with passengers. 4
4 (g) To provide for inspection of 4
4 cars. *
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The statement on the part fbf jitney
owners that they were making no money
and would soon go out of business was
the only new development when for over
^ two hours yesterday afternoon the city
commission struggled through the depths
Silk Shirt Laundering
Is a Fine
Art
—The AMERICA* washes
and Irons silk and other
fine fabric shlrta by hand.
—And these fine shirts are
not scrubbed* torn or faded.
—The AMERICA* Is a par
ticular laundry for particu
lar men—so why not start
the new’ shirts In at the
AMERICA*?
3715 rtLS 3716
Th* Original "Rough Dry” Laundry
In Ordering Uonria I'iraar Mention
THE AGE-HERALD
1 IF THE BABY IS CUTTING TEETH
USE
Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup
A SPLENDID REGULATOR
PURELY VEGETABLE-NOT NARCOTIC
of jitney arguments on the part of va-J
rious citizens.
No action was taken and none will
be taken probably before next Tuesday, j
if then. The great flood of oratory yes- j
terday, however, was directed entirely
above the limits of the proposed jitney
ordinance.
Speeches were made by Walker Percy, J
Jack Wood*. Capt. Frank S. White, L,ee |
Bradley. J. P. h. DeWindt. W. P Wood
and others. All those wrho opposed the
jitney regulation made long speeches
against placing them under bond, fixing
an additional license on them, fixing
route* and so on, none of which is con
templated by the commission.
Mr. Bradley made a strong argument J
for the regulation of the jitney to put
them "on the same basis with the street
| car company." All the street car com
I pany asked, he said, was "fair competi
tion." He urged that the jitney either
| be made to pay a proportionate govern
I mental expense as the street car eom
| panv or else the basiH of equality be
i leached by taking off the street car
company its present burdens of taxation,
license*, and thus bringing it down to
the equal basis of competition with the
jitney.
The jitney owners argued that any
kind of regulation would put them out
of business. Xone of the speakers ar
l gued on the actual moritg or demerits
of the proposed ordinance.
The commissioners state that action on
an ordinance may be taken at the re
cessed meeting Friday and perhaps not
until Tuesday. It Is indicated that the
ordinance in the main will be adopted.
WILSON IS HOPEFUL
SITUATION WILL YET
CLARIFY ITSELF AND
WAR WILL BE AVOIDED
<Coatlnia#il from Pair* Cine)
the legation quarter if hostilities break
out. ♦
The situation is considered awkward for
some foreign legations, especially those
whose countries sympathize with the Chi
nese. but none could oppose the entry of
the Japanese into Peking.
Suspend Business
Telegrams from Mukden say the Japa
nese bank and postoffice there have sus
pended business; that the Japanese re
servists have been railed to the colors,
and that other civilians are concentrating
in the railway zone.
Dr. Paul S. Reinache, the American
minister here, expressed the opinion that
missionaries and other Americans in the
interior are in no danger. He said the
Chinese government would preserve order
in the regions over which the Chinese
hold control.
In spite of the belief which had pre
vailed in China for many years that
Japan coveted control of the country,
considerable surprise was caused by
j the report that Japan intended to issue
an ultimatum to the government as an
outgrowth of China's refusal to con
cede all of Japan’s demands. It is con
vlrtually all the articles contained In
virtually al lthe articles contained in
the 11 demands made on them and
enumerated to the powers, and a high
official said yesterday that it was not
believed that Japan would dare en
force those contained in group five,
which, he said, Japan had informed
Great Britain as well as the other
powers were merely regarded as de
sirable.
Many Profess Fear
Whether President Yuan Shi Kai will
concede all these points seems to be
an open question. Chinese officials
whose views are seriously considered
in Yuan Shi Kai's councils express
opposite opinions concerning this ques
tion Some officials express the fiat
that the Japanese military party, which
’hey profess to believe welcomes tin
present crisis, will increase the Jap
anese demands should a successful
campaign follow.
On tne other hand, It is considered
here that Yuan Shi Kai faces calam
itous consequences in China if he
yields to the Japanese. High men bars
of his own government are said al
ready to have voiced the suspicion that
he may accept an alleged offer from
Japan of military support and protec
tion for himself against foreign nations
and his own people in return for con
ceding control of the country in fact,
although not nominally, to Japan.
Lecture on Christian Science
Under the auspices of the Christian
Science society of this city a free lec
ture on Christian Science will he given
at the Lyric theatre Sunday afternoon,
May 9. at 3 p. m, by Will is F. Gross,
C. 8. B., of Boston, Mass., a member
of the board of lectureship of the.
mother church, the First Church of
Christ. Scientist, in Boston, Mass. The
public is cordially invited. There will
be no admission fee and no collection
taken.
\ \ VOID the Dealer
■lm- Who Tries to Sell You
“Something Just as Good”
>
WHEN you ask for
any article in a
store, whether it is for
soap, perfume, house
hold medicine, paint,
varnish, hardware, food
products, chewing gum,
corsets or automobile
tires, etc., and the dealer
says: “Yes, we have it,
but here is something
better,” be on your
guard; his special inter
est in the so-called “bet
ter” article is MORE
PROFIT.
THIS dealer is trying
to change your
mind. WHY? Because he
loves you? No! Em
phatically no! But be
cause he is going to try
to dispose of an inferior
article. This dealer is
trying to get rid of some
unknown, unheard of
junk at your expense.
PE_careful to insist
SggKfct you get what
vc i hok for; a good plan
wouid be to avoid sub
stituting dealers.
pATRONIZE dealers
who give you what
you ask for. Articles ad
vertised in this paper are
always meritorious.
II EKE AFTER say: I.
** want such and such
an article, and insist on
getting it. Ho not sav:
‘ ‘ Have you such an
artdet” The more you ;
emphasize “I want” this
or that you are helping ,
to undermine the worst
fraud in merchandising
ever foisted upon the
consumer.
WHEN you ask for a '
certain article, !
aake sure you get it. Re- \
member only meritorious ,
articles are imitated, ,
which is a double reason \
why you should insist on
the original.
| Get What You Ask For !
Nations! Anti-Substitution League,Philadelphia j
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I Why the Building Inspector Must Suffer For Disaster,
Although His Error In Judgment Was Shared By
Others of the Highest Ability
By RALPH B. SILVER
I Matthews has been made the ‘•goat."
The public cried for “blQOd" and the
, board of city commissioners has sac
tificed the official head of Building In
spector W. O. Matthews as the man
responsible for the Steelb-Smith wall
disaster.
For be it known that public senti
ment—or what Is believed to be pub
lic sentiment—no matter whether it is
right or wrong will never he over
looked by a politician. And the seis
mograph that would appear to be oper
ating in the offices of certain membe.a
of the city commission has again pro
duced official action by its gyrations
in answer to the public pulse.
Commissioners Weatherly and T^ar.c
have not set made formal and official
their opinions that Matthews should
be dismissed on the evidence of tin*
Steele-Smith wall disaster probe. Why
they did not take formal action by
their majority votes at the commis
sion meeting yesterday afternocn is
unknown. The matter came up but
they stated they desired that it be
postponed until Friday afternoon at J
o’clock. It would seem entirely pos
sible that the further performances of
the public sentiment seismograph an*
to be wratched in the meantime to sec
how the intended beheading is received.
If Mr. Matthews were able to tap the
wires somewhere and produce a change
of seismic waves on the register then
is no reason to doubt but what there
would be a change of commlssionistic
opinion before Friday.
^he tendency of members of the com
mission to play politics in the past six
or eight months is slowly seeping into
the public mind. There has pro *al lv
been no registration on the official
commission seismograph at the city
hall yet. Whether or not the Matthews
execution will have any effect, of
course, cannot be told, but there would
be small surprise if the sensitive needle
did not hum within the next few weeks
as it records the seismic waves fron.
an indignant public, whose fidelity is
as unstable as a woman's.
Politics is all right in its place, but
when an official as close to the public
as a city commissioner studiously
"keeps playing to the galleries" week
in and week out and caps the climax,
when acting in a judicial capacity, by
sacrificing the position and reputation
of a subordinate against whom has
been proven no more than ther:* has
been against Building Inspector Mat
thews is playing, no doubt, with a
fascinating fire but most assuredly a
dangerous one.
The disaster probe was a failure—
utterly, from beginning to end. In tire
enlightening opinion rendered by Com
missioners Weatherly and l^ane they
clearly admit (hat nothing came ol
the probe. Their argument Is that Mat
thews considered the wall safe. The
wall fell. Therefore Matthews was
wrong. Therefore Matthews should be
dismissed.
All this was known a half second
after the wall fell if anyone had
stopped to think of it. None of it was
brought out or proven at the prbbc.
Why the wall fell, the two execution
ers admit they do not know* and the
probe did not reveal. All they know is
that Matthew's thougnt it would no:
fall, that it did fall and that Mat
thews' official head must pay the pen
alty for his honest mistake in judg
ment.
in the Mattliews ease, contraiy to
others of the past few’ months, there
has been no occasion for a member of
the commisaion to wait and see "which
way the wind was going to blow." The
practice w’liich has come into vogue
more or less of "sitting on the fence"
until it was seen through the oflicial
Hcinmogrnph where public sentiment
w’as going to settle, in this case whk
abandoned. It was perfectly natural
that there should be a great wave of.
public indignation following the tttede
Smith wall disaster. Seldom and prob
ably never has the public conscience of.
And It was only natural that the pub
And it wa sonly natural that the pub
lic indignation should seek to fix a re
sponsibility for the catastrophe on
someone and make that person luffer
in turn
It w’as In response to this public in
dignation, duly recorded by the city
ball seismograph, that the probe by
the commission was held and it was in
answer to this public indignation that
Commissioner Weatherly, assisted by
Judge l^ane, is sacrificing Inspector
Matthews.
The public, in answer to whose de
mands the building inspector is sac
rificed, knows nothing of the facts. It
cares probably ns little. It merely
feels indignation that such a disaster
should have happened and in its haste
to appease that great animal which
gives it life the majority of the com
mission behind the curtain of a far
deal investigation la\s on the dock
the official head of a subordinate.
If Matthews is responsible atnl
should be dismissed from his office
for his responsibility for the disaster,
what is the responsibility of Commis
sioners Weatherly and I^ane?
Hoes the sacrifice of Matthews' of
ficial head atone for their responsibil
ity?
They say Matthews made a mistake
in judgment. For that mistake/ in
judgment they propose to dismiss him
trom the office of city building in
spector. That mistake in Judgment
disqualifies him for the position, they
say. And that mistake in judgment
took eight human lives and Injured
man> others.
Now. by whose authority was Mat
thews—the man who made this mis
take in judgment—in office?
If that mistake in judgment unfits
him for tiie office now. should he ever
have been in there? It surely would
have been better to prevent the dis
aster if it had been possible.
Those are some questions grow
ing out of the line of argument pro
duced by Weatherly and bane in sup
porting their dismissal of Matthews.
Thej have fixed the responsibility o'l,
Matthews.
Now. how do they propose to dodge
it themselves?
Are they going to resign or how are
they going to atone for the responsi
bility they have in the matter through
the responsibility they have fixed on
their subordinate?
Ah a matter of fact. Building In
spector Matthews is not responsible
tor the disaster and not one bit of le
gitimate and fair testimony was'
brought out at the investigation to
show mat he was. He thought the
wall was safe. The wall wasn’t sai«
That everybody knew a half second
after it fell and that's all anybody
knowrH now.
Was he the only man who thought
the wall safe? He was supported in
his Judgment by many experts who had
examined the wall and passed on it.
And if they didn’t know' it was dan
gerous there is no reason to believe
anybody else could have known it was
dangerous.
people who knew the walls were not j
safe. Not one of them, however, ever
actually examined them. And not one of I
them ever reported to proper author-;
ities that they considered it danger
ous, because “they did not feel It was
their business to do bo." Vet that very
man who now says he thought it was
dangerous but did not consider his
duty to the community serious enough
to take some pains to bring his opinion
to the attention of proper authorities
is the very man who is crying for
the official head of ihe building in
spector w'ho thought tho wall wa.> sate,
supported in that judgment and hon
estly acted on it.
Was there one iota of evidence to
show that Matthews in his own heart
feaied tho safety of the wall and jet
let It stand through graft or improper
influences?
Was there any evidence that, know
ing the wall was dangerous, he neg
lected to properly brace it or have it
torn down?
Was there, anj evidence that lie
risked the lives of the people in the
adjoining stores foi the sake of pleas
ing the owners of the building or any
one else?
Was there any evidence that showed
he did not do what his own judgment,
supported by other experts, told him
he should do to make the wall safe
And finally, was there any evidence
to show that this judgment of “Bud'’
Matthews was a thing of little vaiue. a
fly-by-night will-o’-the-wisp sort of
thing that was not dependable, a judg
ment that had failed before?
Not a bit of such evidence was to
be found. All that is known now is
what was known w’hen the w’all fell
—that for the first time Matthew’s had
simplj' made a mistake about the safe
ty of a wall.
His judgment for the first time was j
w’reng He committed a simple error.
In this case the result was terrible. ^
But the distress and horror of the re
sult has nothing to do wdth the orig
inal error. 11 does not diminish the
distiess over the accident or heal ihe
aching hearts of those whose dear
ones were victims of the accident to
now dismiss the building Inspector.
But the seismograph commissioners
have decided to do so to appease the
public Indignation.
That they have decided to do so
for the best interests of the city and
the public is impossible. It will be
years and it is doubtful if ever a
man fills the office of building In
spector of Birmingham with the abil
ity and capacity of W. O. Matthews.
RENEW FIGHTING TEXAS FARM LANDS
AROUND TAMPICO ARE UNDER WATER
Washington, May 4.—Renewed fighting Houston. Tex., May 4.—Thousands of
in the Mexican oil regions near Tampico acres of thp best corn, cane and cot
waa reported to the state department to- ton land In Texas, located In the low
day in messages from Vera Cruz, which cr Brazos river valley, Is under wa
said Villa forces had captured Panuca, ter today as the result of the flood
about 60 miles southwest of Tampico. which for more than a week has been
Britisli embassy officials here displayed doing great damage throughout the
conilderable anxiety over those reports, *tate It was expected that the crest
recalling that shell fire during fighting of t,1r flood would pass tonight and
near Ebano a month ago had ignited some 1 kJipnnrtH Vrom The*
of the English-owned wells on which the . * ,, , th t th 1 _vJ,try t0"
British warships depend for oil. Further dJy
information was sought by embassy of- H f rene,we(j rainfall ™ ,nd c*'
ficials at the state department, but the tlon■ of rcneweq rmintmlL
department bed no details. n . mm ...mmm , OHici
Sumarlsing mail advlcee from San Lula HA 1 Cj UN LKuAobo
Potoal. a department atatement aald: ADni'DI'n P A Vntll r\n
"There now appear, to be an absence UIVL/Ij|Vr,U LAIl1, F. 1. r. 11
of the email bands of from 20 to 500 men ———
which formerly disturbed the state and Washington, May 4.—Proposed iti
aHacked plantations, towns and railways, creased rates applicable on Interstate
These bands have been absorbed Into larg- commerce traffic between New or
er military bodies or have been broken up. , __ .
Tt 1. said that the military force, are now ‘ o?h£0" omu'm
better organized and more distinct from th„ n_. I. points in
the civil life of the communities. At pres- Louisiana and Texas Mil, S !r*,n '
ent there I, no armed opposition to the company"^ oTh.Wallr’oau
PotoVt hLhT- systems, were ordered eanceled oSay
Potosl district.____ by the interstate commerce commls
ELMORE CITIZENS TO -,-.
INDORSE GOVERNOR iTST
Montgomery, May 4.— (Special.)—El- Burton- ot Ohio, and Judge Otto Bchoenn
more county citiaena will hold a big r*c*1» touring 8outh America to promote
mae. meeting Saturday to indorse Qov- wSrarrtve* “h^tJIjnil^w SChl“
ernor Henderson s policies and to call They will be met by American Ambasaa
upon the Alabama legislature to co- dor Stlmson ahd the embassy staff. Later
opeiate with the governor, according they will be entertained by President
to W. W. Jones, prominent merchant of La Plaaa.
Wetumpka, who was a caller at the -1
“We expect to have a rousing meet- Deaths and Fmterab
Ing and If the farmers are able to **■
come to Wetumpka Saturday It will be G. H. Baker
a monster meeting. We are expecting Greenwood Springe, Miss. Mav ‘
a number of visitors from Montgomery .ui ,_Q H Baker
and Autauga counties.” said Mr Jonas. V*„ *»** 81 yarI d,ad
___ here yesterday. He waa a Confederate
Democrats Re-Elected veteran and waa a member of Company
Baltimore. May 4.-Mayor James H. lppl.rf,">—mrving
Preston, democrat, was ra-al*otad today {,,, wfdow thmnTSL. !!!L*3 "urv<v*d by
by an estimated majority of 15.000 over n grandchild™*, 1b«sl'd»rnumeroue'othe?
HU republican opponent. Charles H. relatives. InuJm!Sr« midi In ml
Huntztmfen, The remainder of the deni- Baker cemetery the itev T k vanr.v
scratlc ticket was carried by about the officiating ** T‘ * TaBeay
earn, majorities and both branches of
the city council will be overwhelmingly —————., ■ , I
den^ooretie. _ 40HMB VatHfoBlM Oa,--T 1Mt j
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EXPERT SPELLERS
WIL MEET FRIDAY
Annual Contest to Be Held
at the Central High
School—Sixty-Nine
to Take Part
One of the most interesting events of
the school year will be held Friday aft
ernoon at 3 o'clock at the Central hlgrtl
school building when the annual common
school spelling match will be staged.
The three best spellers have been e
lected from each of the 23 grammar
schools of Greater Birmingham and
these will meet In final competition at
the auditorium of the high school.
Owing to the limited seating capacity
of the auditorium, tickets for admis
sion have been distributed through the
schools. T*p to 2:45 o'clock only ticket
holders will be admitted. After that
time, if there are any scats vacant, the
public will be admitted.
The words will he pronounced by Pr.
J. H. Phillips, superintendent of schools,
and Charles A. Brown, principal of the
Central high school; Roy L. Dimmit1.1
principal of the Ensley high school, and
C. R. G1 enn, assistant superintendent of
schools, will act as judges, Mr. Glenn |
being chairman.
The following expert spellers will take
part in the contest:
South Highlands school. John Vail.
Mary Allen Northington. Carol McCtry.'
Barker school. Perry Taylor, Lydn
Larkina. Othella Pearce.
rilman school. Eleanor Allen, Stewart
Livingston. Joseph Selkowitz.
Lakeview school. Virginia Jemtaon.
Ralph Webb, Mary Hewitt. ^
Powell school, Ruth Turner, Marie
Quinn. Leighton Trent.
Henley school. Ester Kahn. Dora Fein
berg, Thurman Jennings
Martin school. Rubv Goldstein. Richard
George. Eleanor Seals.
Avondale school. Dove Whitfield. Ev
erett Trask. .Tannette Bibby.
Cunningham school. Evelyn Frit*.
Stella Chapman, Willene Wofford.
Woodlawn school. Marie Martin, Lu
etic Mills. Walden Webb.
Gibson school. Ellis Walker. Carl Mus
grovo, Cyble Leverette.
Kennedy school. Iris Perry, Mabel Al
ford, Edith TInmner.
Barrett school. Arthur Mason. Nellie
Berger, Bessie Vines.
Robinson school. Carrie Toole. Cleo
Melcher, Owen Gasan way.
North Birmingham school. Bessie John
son. Mabel Cates. Ferris Hogan.
Graymont school* Carlton Edwards.
Winnie Williamson. John Levin.
Ely ton school, Frank Trechsel. Alberta
Jones, Amelia Jackson.
Hemphill school. Charles Ruff. Mary
Smith, ^ferle Tamblyn.
Pratt school, Ethel Shaffer, Ruby
Hayes. Hazel Routledge
Rush school. Ollie Wade. Bertha God
win. Louise Caillot.
Minor school, Tom Reichman, Joe Lo
gan. Kate Nelson Turnipseed.
Fairview school, Ltllign Evans. Luclle
Mayne, Jake Watkins.
Wylam school, Clay Brown. Grace Ca
gel. Gladys Olson.
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Blacksburg, Ya... V’. p. j. 12. Emory
and Henry 2.
At Jackson, Miss.: Mil Isa ps 3, Mis
sissippi College 1.
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It is built by the largest builder of
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it is designed by Howard E. Cof
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It shows the Light Six in j>erfoc
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And 12,000 owners in 43 countries
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In the past two seasons they have
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There have been many successful
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Sales last year—$11,500,000—near
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And never was a car so widely
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NEW RIFLE TRENCH
METHODS WILL BE
STUDIED BY MILITIA
Montgomery, May 4.—(Special.!
New methods of constructing rifle
trenches as practiced by the warring
nations in Europe, together with other
modern war methods, will be studied
by the officers of the Alabama Na
tional Guard at the officers’ school, to
be held lt» Montgomery dime 7 to l !
The Alabama officers* school this
year promises to be the most instruct
ive ever field In the state. Inasmuch ms
the officers in charge will use the most
up-to-date methods practiced by tiie
nat'bns at war in Europe.
The most Important change tha* the
course of study will embody, accord
ing to ('apt. Wiillam P. Screws, is the
new method of constructing rifle
trenches. The method practiced Inst
year is now obsolete, the warring Eu
ropean nations having discarded th#
ol«i plan and adopted a new system,
which experience lias proved to be the
best.
t'V plain Screws said today in an
nouncing the annual officers' school,
that he anticipated a full attendance
of the officers of the Alabama National
Guard. There are 150 officers and It
is exported that practically all of them
will be in attendance.
The officers' school will be in charge
of five army officers, who will b#
designated later.
Mrs. Judd Still III
Huntsville, May 4.-i Special.)—Mr*.
Klisshpth Judd, wife of S. W. Judd of
this city, continued very III today. Little
hope 1* held out for her recovery.
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