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EXPOSITION, PAGEANT CELEBRATE 50 YEARS BIRMINGHAM HISTORY (By Associated Press) BIRMINGHAM, Ala.. Sept. 21. Birmingham will celebrate its fiftieth anniversary Oct. 24 to 29 with an ex

position and historical pageant depicting the development of the South's leading industrial city from the building of its first house in 1871. Today the city has almost reached a population of 200,000. President Harding has arranged to visit Birmingham on this occasion, spending the entire day of Oct. 26 here. On his arrival he -will ride at the head of a parade in which all the military units of the state will participate. His guard will consist of 1,000 members of the-American Legion in uniform.

Speaks at College Fresident Harding will also make an address at Birmingham-Southern college at exercises of welcome for the college's new head, Dr. Guy E. Snavely. . The pageant will be a record of Birmingham's remarkable industrial development. Its chief episode will show the mining of coal, iron ore and limestone within sight of the steel plants of the city, fabrication of plates for shipbuilding, their transportation down the river to a subsidiary of Birmingham's steel industry that builds great ocean liners, which in turn carry the city's iron and steel all over the world. No other city, it is said here, equals this combination of favorable circumstances.

MORALE OF TURKISH SOLDIER IS MYSTERY SAVE TO INTIMATES

(By Associated Press) Headquarters Turk Nationalist Army Sept. 21. The morale of the Turk soldier is a sealed book to any but those who have lived long with him. It may be summed up this way. If told to kill, he kills; if told to advance, he advances, and if told to retreat, he retreats. Seldom noisy, singing only now and apain monotonous airs, talking little after the manner of people who live in a country of vast distances, his enthusiasms and his depressions of spirit don't show in his face. The officers seem a different breed. Polite, anxious to oblige if they can do so without too much exceeding orders, open to flattery and willing to believe protested good intentions, they will put themselves to all sorts of personal inconvenience to satisfy requests of the stranger or guest. Friends Get Quick Action. Under the Nationalist government, where the organization is such as to get prompt answers, of "yes" or "no," lo any request, the stranger believed to be friendly has his way made easy. But if he is believed to be unfriendly, then he is sent the quickest way home, or if his intentions are regarded as dangerous he meets with the harsh treatment ever lurking in the Turk, and especially reserved for those who have violated his confidence. One of "the curious sides to the present war is the propaganda campaign against the British, regarded as political enemies, yet for whom the Turks have often a high personal regard, established through pre-war relations. This regard is frequently returned by the British.

REVOLUTIONARY RELIC FOUND BY WORKERS ON OLD PRISON SITE

(By Associated Press) NEW YORK, Sept. 21. A Hessian soldier's belt buckle has been found by historical workers excavating the site of the Revolutionary war prison camp on the old Dyckman farm, near 203rd street. The buckle, of bronze, is In a perfect state of preservation and officials of the Field Exploration committee of the New York Historical Society, say it is one of the few Revolutionary relics of undoubted Hessian origin. The buckle has been identified as part of the equipment of the Furest Frederick or Erb Prinz Regiment of Hesse, mercenaries brought over by the British to fight Washington's continentals. On the front of the buckle is engraved the -monogram "F. F.". surmounted by a crown. The original hook or belt holder is on the back. Was Active In War. The Fuerst Frederick regiment, originally 6SS strong, took part in many engagements in the Revolution. It participated in the battle of Long Island, and was assigned to the left wing of Earl Percy's force at the battle of Fort Washington. Later the regiment was sent south and eventually was captured at Yorktown. Upon the declaration of peace the survivors were returned to New York to await transportation home and during this period they were quartered in the hut cantonment on the Dyckman farm.

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The Flood Problem By FREDERIC J. HASKIN

WASHINGTON. D. C. Sept. 21. Re- ( adequate protection, and that the only

solution of the problem is to protect these cities by adequate engineering works for flood prevention. It seems clear that forest conservationists have contributed a great deal to the popular misunderstanding. Their sincerity is not to be challenged. Neith er is the importance of conserving the forests we have and of .planting others to be questioned. But the condition of the forests does not have the decisive effect on floods which the public has been led to believe. This seems to be established by all the scientific studies that have been made of the matter. Fairly complete flood records for the Mississippi River at St. Louis have been studied from 1830 to 1910, with some earlier records. During all that period the whole Mississippi Basin was being deforested. Yet the greatest floods occurred in 1844 and 1785. and a diagram shows that great floods have occurred at regular intervals since the beginning of the observations, with no general increase er decrease in either size or frequency. The same thing has been found true for the Ohio, Missouri and Connecticut Rivers. A study of floods on the Merrimac River has shown that a deforestation of 25 per cent had no effect on them. Studies of floods on the Seine and the Danube in Europe for much longer periods corroborate these conclusions. The Real Cause of Floods. The real cause of our flood disasters is that civilization has drawn the cities and homes down into the path of the floods, and that we have not given them protection. Railroads have followed the bottoms of valleys because the easiest grade is there, and the cities have been built down by the railroads instead of up on the hills, ' where more primitive men generally built their homes and cities. Our valley cities, are sure to be destroyed at regular intervals until all of them have been properly protected against floods. This is the fact which must be driven home. Floods are one form of history which may be confidently relied upon to prove it. Any dweller in an unprotected city or towo in one of our great valleys can study a chart of the floods that have occurred in the past and predict with accuracy when he will next need a

rowboat or a life preserver. At leas.

peatedly during the past summer the

tront pages of the papers have been filled with the news of flood disasters. Hundreds of lives have been lost and millions of dollars worth of property destroyed. Two good-sized American cities have seen floods tear the hearts out of their business districts, many smaller places have been damaged and countless farms have been floodswept. Any one can see that a great engineering problem faces the country. Leaving out the question of human life needlessly destroyed, the loss of property is enormous. The floods of 1913 are estimated to have done damage to the amount of $163,546,793. In Dayton alone the damage done amounted to $73,249,040. Between 1900 and 1908 the damage done by floods in the United States, as estimated by the Geological Survey, varied from a minimum of about $45,000,000 to a maximum of about $237,000,000. Plainly enough such losses are intolerable, and large expenditures lor flood prevention would be an economy. The facts of this large loss and of the need for doing something about it are generally recognized. Wide publicity has been given to both. The House of Representatives has recently created a special committee on flood control, which may be taken as reliable evidence of the popular demand for some action in the matter. Millions of Americans have had the flood menace impressed upon them, not only by publicity but by actual experience. The number of American cities that have been flood-swept at one time or another is surprising. Adequate action is of course dependent upon this public recognition of the need for it. The trouble seems to be that a great deal of misfortune has been disseminated as to the cause of floods and the means of preventing them, with the result that there has been no public demand for a really sound method of flood control. A Public Illusion, Briefly, the public has been led to believe that floods have been on the increase for some years past, and that this increase is due to deforestation of the land, and to methods of cultivating it. Hence it is generally believed that reforestation and proper agricultural methods are the real methods of flood prevention. As a matter of fact studies of floods made by scientific men both in this country and in Europe seem to prove conclusively that neither the Bize nor the frequency of floods has generally increased with deforestation and the cultivation of lands; that our flood disasters are due to the fact that we built our cities on flood plains without

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SPECIAL EDUCATION BUREAU IS LAUNCHED

(By Associated Press) OPORD.. O., Sept.21. With - its laboratories now fully equipped as the result of a $10,000 appropriation made by the last legislature, the newly created Ohio Bureau of Special Education, located at Miami University, has begun its work in the training of teachers for subnormal and delinquent children. The organization of this bureau, which, according to experts, is one of the most thoroughly equipped of its kind, i3 said to put Ohio well in the lead in the development of this new science aiming at the perfecting of methods for the education of subnormal children. There are four other similar bureaus in the United States. Nw York has one, New Jersey, Michigan and Minnesota. Miami University, it is announced, has secured Dr. J. E. W. Wallin, of St. Louis, to head the new department. Dr. Wallin has been the director of the psycho-educational clinic in the St. Louis public schools for the past several years. He has written some 200 books, pamphlets, etc., on the subject of subnormal psychology. Dr. Wallin will be assisted by Miss Mildred Rothar, of Dayton. Hamilton and Lima will be used as field laboratories for the present, Dr. Wallin said. In a short time he expects to include several other Ohio cities.

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District Attorney Mathew Brady. To secure capital punishment or at least a long "prison term for "Fatty" "Arbuckle i3 one of the present ambitions of Mathew Brady, district attorney at San Francisco. He is prosecuting the case against the film comedian with great vigor.

but must also take into' account its effect on the whole system. It is prob

able that retaining, basins, many of which will also serve other purposes, such as irrigation or power production, will be the solution of the problem.

Supreme Court Considers

V Mexican Oil Decision (By Associated Press) MEXICO CITY, Sept. 21. Private discussion of the formal decision to be rendered in the Amparo suit brought by the Texas company against officials of the MexicaW government was begun yesterday afternoon by the supreme court.

Charles Kendall to Give Barn Dance Thursday DUNLAPSVILLE. Ind., Sept. 21. A tarn dance will be given on the Charles Kendall farm in the New Hope neighborhood, 6ix miles south of Liberty, Thursday, Sept. '22. The affair will dedicate a new barn which has been erected to replace a structure which was destroyed by lightning last June.

CHICAGO REMEMBERS DATE OF GREAT FIRE CHICAGO, Sept. 21. The semi-centennial of the great Chicago fire of 1871 which almost wiped out this city, then with a population of close to 350,000, will be observed here next month. The fire and other events in the city's history will be told in pageantry. A stadium is to be built on Chicago's downtown lake front park and the play given from Oct. 3 to 15. The anniversary of the fire falls on Sunday, October 9. The pageant's climax will be a scene depicting the future under the Chicago Plan, which already -has resulted in great progress toward improving the features of the city. ,

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lie may preaici now onen ne win i;t;u,wa3 banded down on Aug 30 and it in a given period of years. Scient-jwas revised as holding that article ists have even made formulas for pre- 27 of the Mexican constitution naturdicting floods. Itmay be calculated I alizing petrolem deposits was non-re-that floods of the greatest size on ajtroactive and did not aonlv to oil nrnn.

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able stretch of time, once in every 25

years on an average. Those of the next magnitude will occur: half as often on an average, and so on down. In the diagrams which have been prepared, it is remarkable how regularly the high-water marks occur. There is no space in this article for an adequate discussion of the methods of flood prevention. There are two chief methods dikes or leavees and retaining basins. We have one of the greatest examples of the former in the jetties of the lower Mississippi. These have shown the limitations of such works. They afford local protection,

but often serve to back the waters up j in other places, causing floods where otherwise there would be none. ' An excellent example of retaining basins is seen in those on the hea of the Mississippi River, which were j

uuni primarily as aias 10 navigation, but have had a most important use in preventing floods. There are no retaining basins in this country primar

ily for flood control, but numerous basins created for irrigation purposes, i or to produce water power, have j shown the great possibilities of this j method of control. In Europe retain-, ing basins have been used for flood I

control for a long time. The" best engineering opinion seems

to be that what the United States j needs is a great unified system of flood control, especially for the Mississippi drainage. Most persons do not realize . what a large part of the United States j this embraces. Waters rising to the 1 surface as far west as Montana and j New Mexico and as far east as Penn-1 sylvania and West Virginia ultimately j reach the Mississippi. It is in this j great system of rivers that most of, our floods occur. The Pueblo flood j was. a Mississippi Basin flood. Obviously flood control in this great area must be handled as one problem. ! The methods adopted in each locality j must be suited to its individual needs, j

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MURRETE. At the fag end of the great Klondike gold rush is laid the scenes of "Bucking the Tiger," the Selznick picture which comes to the Murrette theatre next, with Conway Tearle as star. Opposite the star the winsome Winifred Westover plays with all her accustomed wistfulness and appeal, as the character of Emily is one which gives her scope for the display of her

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Dancing Labarbes Late features of Eddie Cantor's "Midnight Rounders" Co., from the New York Century Roof. French Novelty Dancers and Pantomimists.

Correan Kirkham A former Richmond girl in "MILESTONES" A five-reel Goldwyn feature Coming Thursday KHAYM, the India Man of Mystery; Frank and Gracie DeMont; Lester and Company; Jack and Jessie Gibson. Neil O'Brien's Minstrels, Wednesday, Sept. 23, matinee and evening.- Seats Saturday morning. .

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