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will close
Saturdays at 9 P.M.
Aye, and gladly so, because Ibis early closing
movement is just another step forward in our
great city’s progressiveness, and Blach’s is al
ways a staunch supporter of anything that
works to the good of our people.
In stores like Blach’s, whose employes are
men, no direct benefit is attained, but there ex
ists in Birmingram an army of salespeople,
particularly girls and young women, whose wel
fare is of vital importance to all good merchants
and all good citiens. Not only this, but the Sat
urday evening shoppers themselves will reap a
benefit, and will ultimately join us in thanking
the good women who worked so earnestly for
the inauguration of this excellent movement.
YOU can help the cause by
shopping early on Saturday
EMPLOYERS’ LIABILITY BILL
UP IN THE SENATE TODAY
Measure Generally Regarded as Most Drastic and Far-Reach
ing of All Which Pend Before Legislature—Senate to
Consider the Bill as a Special Order
By HUGH W. ROBERTS
Montgomery, September 1.—(Special.)
As a special order for Thursday, the
senate will be concerned with the em
ployers’ liability bill, regarded by those
who employ labor as the most drastic
and far-reaching of all which pend be
fore the legislature. For the purpose
of opposing the passage of the bill, a
large- and militant delegation from Bir
* mingham came to the capitol tonight, and
it is said that in addition to heads of
corporations, representatives of practic
ally all other business enterprises will
be included.
REAL HOT IF YOU
LIKE ITTHAT WAY
Natural Vitalitas Will Be
Found Wonderfully Bene
ficial for Many Ills
As a morning draught, 15 minutes before
breakfast, a teaspoonful of liquid Vitalitas
In a half-glass of hot water has tonic
and curative effects different from any
other medical product. There is noth
ing else in nature like it and no man
made medicine is to be compared to it.
It is pleasant and you know w’hen you
take It that it will benefit you. Vitalitas
Is usually taken in cold water after meals
and at bedtime, but many find it more
agreeable and its effects more pronounced,
particularly as a laxative, by substi
tuting hot water and taking it before
meals. Either way. the results are won
derfully beneficial for those who suffer
with indigestion, sour stomach, bilious
ness, rheumatism, liver, kidneys, bowels
and blood.
Vitalitas is a heavy golden liquid ex
tracted from an earth substance that is
rich in chemical properties and forces
that are essential to life and health. Mul
titudes who have failed to find relief in
ordinary medicines are being healed and
cured by Vitalitas. It is all good.
Talk with the demonstrator and sample
Vitalitas at Averyt’s Drug Store, 109-111
Twentieth street, or write there for in
formation. Also for sale by Pegram
Patton Drug Co., Bessemer, Ala.—Adv.
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60 Similar Neal Institutes in Other Cities
The sections of the bill which are said
to be especially objectionable are those
which provide that the employer shal
be held not immune from responsibility
for damages inflicted upon one employe
through the carelessness of another, and
which deny judges the right to modify
verdicts for damages in which the sum
ordered paid is considered excessive oi
to modify verdicts which were rendered
through ignorance, malice, or prejudice.
The bill, in part, folows:
SECTION 1.
He it enacted by the legislature ol
Alabama, That every master or em
ployer shall be liable in damages tc
any person suffering injury while be
is employed by such master or em
ployer or In case of the death of such
employe, to his or her personal repre
senttive for the benefit of the surviv
ing widow' or husband and children oi
such employe; and if none, then of such
employe’s parents, and, if none, then tc
the next kin of such employe for such
injury or death resulting in part fron
the negligence of any of the officers
agents or employes of such master.
SECTION 2.
That in all actions hereafter brought
against any master or employer under
and by virtue of the provisions of thi;
act to recover damages for persona!
injury to an employe, or where such
injuries have resulted in his death, the
fact that the employe may have beer
guilty of contributory negligence shal
not bar a recovery, but the damage*
shall be diminished by the jury in pro
portion to the amount of negligence
attributed to such employe; provided
however, that no such employe whe
may be injured or killed shall be held
to have been guilty of contributory
negligence in any case where the vio
lation by such master or employer ol
any statute enacted for the safety oi
employes contributed to the injury ol
death of such employe.
SECTION 6.
That no action shaM be maintained
under this act unless commenced w'ithir
two years from the day the cause of ac
tion accrued.
SECTION 6.
That any right of action given by this
act to a parson suffering injury shall sur
vive to his or her personal representa
tives for the benefit of tlie surviving
widow or husband and children of sue!
employe, and. if none, then of such em
ploye's parents; and if none, then of the
next of kin of such employe.
SECTION 7.
It shall he competent to prove, the
age. the health, the habits, the earning
capacity and the condition of the family
and next of kin of sutd employe.
IRON AND STEEL
__
Important Advances in
Many Lines
HIGH PRICES RULE
American Steel Foundries Purchase
Basic—Feverish Activity in
Tool Market
Cleveland, O.. September 1.—(Spe
< ial.)—The Iron Trade Review tomor
row will say:
With demand for iron and steel pro
ducts in many rases running appre
ciably ahead of supply, prices are in
creasing steadily and past week has
witnessed important advances in many
lines
Following heavy sales of steel mak
ing pig iron, basic has jumped to $17
delivered in east and many valley pro
ducers are asking $15.
Sales of Bessemer have recently been
made at $15.75 valley. In east also
very high prices rule on semi-finished
material, forging billets being held at
$38 mill. Increased figures are quoted
on many finished products.
For large rounds, suitable for shells,
as high as $3.50 eastern mill has been
paid for early shipment. Galvanized
wire has been boosted $2 ton account
recent sudden turn in spelter market,
cold rolled strip steel has been ad
vanced $3 ton, structural rivets are
now being held at minimum $1.60 Pitts
buig, representing increase of $2 ton.
Some galvanized sheets sales have been
made as high as 4 cents Pittsburg for
No. 28 gauge. Shapes and bars are
firm at $1.35 Pittsburg and in east $1.40
Pittsburg has appeared.
Iron Bars Advance
Iron bars have advanced $1 ton in
New York territory to $1.30 Pittsburg
basis.
In Chicago light rail prices have
been increased and eight-pound sizes
are now quoted $1.25 to $1.30. Alloy
metals entering into high speed steel
are exceptionally high, tungsten being
quoted $3 to $3.50 per pound of con
tained rlloy.
American steel foundries have pur
chased 13,000 ton8 basic for shipment
•uring remainder year to plants at
Sharon. Pa., and Alliance, O. A Bridge
port, Conn., buyer has closed for 12,
GOO tons basic which will be shipped
from Pennsylvania furnaces during
early part of 1916.
An inquiry for from 50.000 to 75.000
tons steel making iron has appeared in
Buffalo. Two eastern Pennsylvania
steelmakers are negotiating for their
requirements ranging from 40,000 to
50,000 tons. Foundry market also is
fairly active. An international steam
pump company has put out inquiry for
various plants aggregating 11,500 tons.
The Westinghouse Electric and Manu
facturing company has purchased 9000
tons for second and third quarter ship
ment to Its Cleveland works. Export
inquiries aggregating 15,000 tons are
before eastern market.
Feverish Activity
Feverish activity continues to char
acterize machine tool situation. Buyers
:ue unable to obtain deliveries before
next year on many classes tools used
in manufacture war munitions and
complete units of rifle-making machin
ery cannot be secured before March.
Babor troubles show no tendency to
diminish and additional strikes have
recently appeared in Bridgeport. Conn.,
Edgewater, N. J., and South Bethle
hem, Pa.
SECRETE AITCUS OF
PROHIBITIONISTS IS
WITHOUT RESULT
(Continued From Page One.)
would Insist on the passage of his bills.
“I was at the conference,” he added,
“just a moment. I know that the sub
ject of more prohibition legislation
was discussed pro and con, and that
difference of opinion among the lead
ers was pronounced. However, I will
insist on the passage of the bills, and
I am confident that w’hen the members
of this legislature wdio have declared
internecine-warfare against the liquor
traffic are called upon to vote, they
will walk up to the trough and stand
there. I introduced the bills, and I
have never yet started a movement
and abandoned it before its comple
tion. I hope to secure for the new
measures a place on the calender
which will make them the paramount
order of business for tomorrow.”
CERTAIN HOUSE LEADERS
OPPOSE NEW MEASURE
Nevertheless, it is true that certain
leaders who In other dayst fought and
woii battles for prohibition are not danc
ing to the weird music of the tom-toms
which would in the present call the
present call the “faithful” to arms.
Mr. Merritt of Macon said this morn
ing that he did not attend the confer
ence of last night and that while he
would take any sane action tending
to prevent the consumption of liquor,
that he was not urging the passage
of the Davis-Bonner bills. Mr. Merritt
has taken the position that the prohi
bitionists by amending their January
legislation would materially injure the
cause of prohibition and that he would
not be instrumental in further arous
ing the people in opposition to statutes
which to all practical purposes they
have accepted.
Mr. Brindley of Etownah declared it
ids opinion that it would be unwise
for the prohibitionists to attempt to
,nake their January legislation more
stringent. “It is my belief,” he added,
• that the legislature in passing pro
•ioition laws last January did not in
tend that a man every two weeks
I could secure whisky and beer and wine,
but did Intend that he could secure
whisky or beer or wine in limited quan
tities. I would vote so to amend that
the original Intention of the legisla
ture might be carried out. But I do
not believe that it would be expedient
fri the prohibitionists to reduce the
supply as is proposed in the Davis
Bonner bills.”
FITE OF TUSCALOOSA
AGAINST THE BILLS
Mr. Fite of Tuscaloosa did not at
tend the conference.
"I was not Invited,” he said. “This
was probably due to the fact that it
«s generally known that I am against
the Davis-Bonner bills. In January we
enacted state-wide prohibition and the
laws are stringent and constitutional.
I am entirely satisfied with the work
accomplished. I think our duty was dis
charged satisfactorily. For that reason
I do not believe it w'ould be the part
of wisdom to attempt at this early
date new measures and thus without
according the old a fair trial, abandon
them as failures.”
As has been reported in The Age
Herald, the Davia-Bonner bills would
i educe the supply from two quarts of
whisky and five dozen bottles of beer
and three gallons of wine every two
weeks to one quart of whisky or three
dozen bottles of beer or one gallon
of wine; would make delivery impos
sible after 4 o’clock In the afternoon;
would prevent all aelivery on holidays,
or later than three days prior to
Christmas. When the bills are called
up the prohibitionists, differing among
tnemselvcs respecting the political ex
pediency of the proposed regulations,
will Join, it Is anticipated, an inter
esting debate.
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BIRMINGHAM TRUST
MONTHLYLETTERON
TRADE CONDITIONS
Immense Reserve in Banks
for Handling CropsShould
Bring Prosperity to
the Farmer
The* monthly letter on trade condi
tions for August, issued by the Bir
mingham Trust and Savings company, j
follows in part:
The purchasing power of the people 1
of this country is greater today than |
ever before in history and will be j
steadily increased each month for the j
next few months at least. Our financial
ability to handle our tremendous crops
Is a vitally Important factor. That our
crops will be tremendous is generally
conceded and the total farm production
will exceed in both quantity and value
all previous records. On the other hand
corn, oats and some of the smaller
crops will probably fall far short of
present estimates but a decline of sev
eral per cent from present expectations
could not be considered a calamity as
even with such reductions our com
bined crops will be record breaking.
The surplus reserves of the banks,
all of which can be used to help move
the crops, exceed $710,000,000, while last
year at this same date we had only
$14,000,000 in our surplus reserves. It is
apparent that moving the crops this
year will not be felt in commercial cir
cles ns the hank position for the whole
country is such that while the crops
are being moved ample funds will be
available for all legitimate commercial
needs. This will be a novel situation
as crop moving has always brought a
considerable financial pinch In manu
facturing circles.
Business failures for July numbered
1591 compared with 1315 a year ago
and 1117 two years ago. The failures
were of less importance, however, as
the liabilities totaled only $17,000,000,
compared with $25,000,000 a year ago
and $38,000,000 two years ago. As the
assets of the failed concerns for tills
July amounted to over $7,000,000 the net
liabilities of failures were less than
$10,000,000, compared with $11,000,000 a
year ago and $16,000,000 two years
ago.
Disbursements of dividends and in
terest for August will almost reach
1x21,000,000, nearly $*>7,000,000 of the
amount being dividends and more than
$61,000,000 being interest. This com
pares with dividend payments of nearly
$59,000,000 last year and interest
payments of nearly $60,000,000 last
year. Dividends on railroad stocks will
be $27,000,000. only slightly less than
last year: on industries nearly $26,000,
000. more than $1,000,000 less than last
year, and on street railways, slightly
over *4 000.000 or a trifle less than a
year ago. Total disbursements for the
month of August of nearly $121,000,000,
compare with slightly over $11S,000,
000 a year ago. No dividend Increases
Have been announced by other than
mining companies and only one rail
road company announces a reduction in
dividends. Maturities of corporate se
curities for September will be about
$55,000,000. most of which has already
been provided for.
Full report on July foreign trade are
not yet available, but the 13 principal
customs districts handling over 90 per
cent of the foreign trade showed im
ports for the five weeks ending July
M of $4 7,000,000. and exports of $240,
000,000. The same districts for the first
two weeks of August report imports of
157,000.00 and exports of $100,000,000.
Cotton exports during .July were 24 4,
000 bales, compared with 126,000 bales
a year ago, and Imports were 36.000
bales, compared with 24.000 hales u
year ago.
The production of gold in the Trans
vaal during July was 770.000 fine
ounces compared with 755.000 ounces
a month previous tnd 732,000 ounces
a year previous. The value of the
July output was approximately $16,000,
0U0 compared with a value for July
h year ago of something over $15,
000,000.
Commodity prices on August 1
showed a fractional decline as com
pared with the month previous, but
are still higher than at any time pre
vious to July 1 of this year.
So far as reported gross earnings of
steam railroads for July show a de
crease of about 10 per cent as com
pared witir a year ago. the grain
movement having been iar below that
o4 Inst year. The movement of cotton,
while light, was somewhat ahead of
July, 1914. The gross earnings of all
steam railroads for the first six
months of 1915 were 1388 million dol
lais compared with 1430 million dol
lars for the same period last year, a
decrease of 41 million dollars or nearly
J per cent. Gross earnings for the same
period last year showed a decrease
of nearly 6 per cent as compared wtih
the year previous. Net earnings are
not yet completely reported but on ac
count of economies in operation they
will make a much more favorable show
ing than did gross earnings.
On the first of the month idle cars
numbered 264,000 compared with 276,
000 a month previous and 197,000 a
'jear ago. An increase in idle box cars
was largely due to lighter grain ship
ments but a considerable decrease was
reorted in idle coal cars and flats.
Mill shipments of western pine for
June were 89,000,000 feet compared
with 84,000,000 feet in May and 86,000
feet In June of last year. No figures
are available for the production and
shipments of lumber since March, in
which month the cut was 790,000,000
leet compared with 737.000.000 feet a
year ago and shipments were 772,000,
ilOO feet compared with 669.000,000 feet
a year ago.
July domestic consumption of cot
ton amounted to 498,000 bales com
pared with 448,000 bales a year ago.
1 he number of cotton spindles active
during July.was 31,194 thousand com
pared with 30.677 thousand in July of
last year.
There will not he a failure this
year of any individual crop, although
we will perhaps have about 20 per cent
less cotton, 19 per cent less apples and
10 per cent less sugar cane. We have
.>11.000.000 acres in the 14 principal
ci ops this year compared with 301,000,
000 acres a year ago and 300,000,000
two years ago. Crop conditions on Au
gust 1 were 4 per cent above the 10,
year average and the average of all
farm prices wras 1 per cent higher than
a year ago and 11 per cent higher than
tw’o years ago.
General domestic trade is Improv
ing as the results of our tremendous
exports are, through the expenditures
for raw materials and labor, finding
Llieir way into every branch of domes
tic trade. Heavy shipments of gold
already arrived, in transit, and in pros
pect from Europe to this country, are
putting us in a strong position from
a monetary standpoint. The general
stock of money In the United States
now exceeds *4,000,000,000.
Business conditions generally arc
good throughout the country and will
Improve as soon as the movement of
crops is well under way. The best
conditions are found . In the western
and Reeky mountain states and the
poorest conditions In the southeastern
states, in central New York, central
Pennsylvania and on the western edge
of the Pacific slope.
British Los* Heavily
Berlin, September 1.—(By Wireless to
Sayvllle.)—The semi-official Mllll News
agency at Constantinople baa received
advices from Bagdad that the British
lost more than 2000 In attempting to take
Bender Buchlr. The excitement ef the
natives la declared to be increasing.
——
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/Governors, statesmen and financiers wear Knox hats. Such
men, upon whose judgment rests the vital questions of
national significance, have no hesitancy in indorsing Knox
hats and Knox quality with the prestige of their personality.
and Knox Hats deserve it!
Knox Hats are at AA
Porter’s only.
Everything Men and Boys Wear
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1922-1924 First Ave. In the Heart of Birmingham
In Ordering Good* I'lense Mention TIIF AGE-lIKIlA 1.0
"The Municipal Court of
_Marital Hope and Good Will
SOCIAL SERVICE DEPARTMENT
Bj MRS. SIDNEY M. ILL II AN
"Ten years ago a moment arrived in
Chicago when it was found impossible to
put up any longer with ‘her manner of
handling crime, it had become ludicrous,’’
says Ida Tarboll, in writing about the
court of domestic relations. So the whole
structure was razed to the ground and a
substitute devised. The municipal court
of charities was the substitute and has
been in operation for six years. Ninety
per cent of the cases are disposed of in
24 hours, and the end of each year secs
the docket practically clear. This is the
only court in the United States that fur
nishes full statistics of its transactions.
Thirty-one Judges make their own rules
of practice and procedure, they decide on
the number and the salaries of the bailiffs
and clerks who assist them, and once a
month they meet to discuss and criticise
their own work.
The court was established by a group
o' women under the leadership of .lane
Adda ms. This court became the agent
to keep men and women together in tlie
marriage relation find thus give the chil
dren the home Influence they should
have, just as other courts heretofore had
been the agent in separating them.
This court haH furnished two of the
great needs of men and women in
trouble, a confessional and a hand of
authority. The chief confessional is a
woman, called the social secretary. Since
per cent of the cases come up from the
woman’s side of the family, frequently
the story can be told only to a woman
from a woman, and through a woman’s
understanding and sympathy can best be
determined whether a warrant shall be is
sued for the husband or whether the com
plainant shall be persuaded to "try
again.’’
The evidence gathered as to the causes
of marital infelicity Is impressive as
given out by the court of domestic rela
tions in Chicago.
"Excessive use of liquors (intoxicating).
4<i per cent; immorality of husbands, 12
per cent; immorality of wife, 2 per cent;
ill temper and abuse by husband, 8 per
cent; ill temper and abuse by wife, per
cent; venereal diseases of husbands. 12
per cent; interference of mothers-in-law,
<» per cent; Interference of fathers-in-law.
1 per cent; youth of parties. 4 per cent;
lazlm ss of husband, 3 per cent; sickness.
1 per cent."
Chorlott Perkins (Tillman In commenting
on this list of "reasons” and offenses
,says:
"On the face of it the offenses ‘of hus
band' loom up; but we must always re
member that a man does not like to com
plain of ‘ill temper and abuse by wife’
unless it is pretty severe. The proportion
of the sexes In "excessive use of intoxi
cating liquors" is not given; but in this
country it is pretty genera’ly 'by hus
band.’ Mothers-In-law hold their old
place as mischief makers apparently: this
by virtue of tfie fact that resident
mother-in-law Is ‘an elderly woman out
of a Job.’ She has to live In tin- house
of another woman, where the work is
done according to the older one's methods;
and whether it he her own daughter or
her own son with whom she lives, it takes
phenomenal self restraint not to biter
fere. If an elderly man had to give up
his business and live In the workshop or
office of his son or son-in-law, seeing Die
work he had done all hs life go on before
his eyes in ways dlstateful to him, it
would be a very wise old man Indeed who
never interfered. When the mother’s In
tense affection is added to this business
annoyance, and also the parental habit of
. — - — .. —
dominance well, we have the facta be
fofe us."
Judge Ooodnow who presided over the
'ouri for the first year, was able to keep
1000 cases out of court. Over one-third
is many as were tried. The second year
2462 cases were disposed of without war
rants. to 3699 heard and disposed of other
wise.
A good index of the results obtained
is the amount of money the court is able
to collect from men brought in for non
support. In the last report of the court
in its second year. $7500 had been paid the
•ourt and as much more paid directly to
wives and children. Its what Miss Jane
Addams .'ails, 'Getting something
from nothing."
When a man says. "Can't do It,
judge, no work." the answer comes ov
ary time promptly, "We’ll get you
work." and they' do.
The good results tile court's efforts
neat is due in a large measure to the
'o-oporation of the Chicago people.
In Birmingham, the Juvenile court
pels largely as a court of domestic rela
tion. It has been found that many
iMses of dependents and often delin
nuent children can be helped byf tho
rc-eatablishment of the family relation
and the home. Often assistance is roll •
:lo. red by communities, neighborhood
interests and church welfare work.
To Hun Against I.ea
Memphis, Tonn., September l.—M. K.
Patterson, former governor of Tennes
see, tonight formally announced his can
didacy' for the I’nlted States Senate. Ht*
Reeks to succeed Luke Lea. himself a
andidato for re-election. Other candi
dates are Theuts \V. Sims and K. D. Me
Kellar. present congressmen.
Bell Telephone Service in
the New Home
THE Bell Telephone is the first require
ment in the new home for newlyweds
and all others who keep house. It
brings the stores and market to your elbow
and, best of all, friends and relatives are
within the reach of your voice day and night.
In planning for housekeeping or changing
your residence, do not fail to arrange for Bell
is Telephone service. Notify us in advance so
this great convenience will be at your dis
posal the day you move in.
During the hot summer months you will
find thousands of uses for it that will save
you from worry and heat.
Keep Cool and—Telephone
SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE
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