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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-28

ton of the skull on the spinal column is preserved at all angles of lnclination.'
 Let us note also that the physiological advantage of the rocking chair is sup plemented by its psychological advan- tage. Generally adopted it would go far to end the bad habit of worrying oyor how much work has been done ana how much is left undone. This Is still a dis- turbance to the minds of some workers. whose dreaming is unduly interrupted by materialism
 Europe attributes the rocking chair to America. But even here yachtsmsn smile at the rocking chair fleet on the piazzas of clubhouses and summer golf players and tennis players scorn the rocking chair boarders in the same way. The rocking chair is distinctly feminine. It probably has not done as much dam age to the world as the swivel chair. But whether tatting or embroidery or fine sewing would be the chief industry or America if everybody stuck to the rock- ing chair Is puzzle for philosophers to solve if they can
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-28
A NEW WIRELESS TELEPHONE.

Hereward Darlington, in Leslie's.
 Transatlantic wireless telephony, and chain of wireless telephone sta
 tions which wilr reach round the world--that is the object of electr- clans nowadays. Only recently. a number of remarkable experiments were successfully undertaken. by which wireless telephone speech was picked up between America and Eng land and from ships passing several hundred miles off coast; and there is every likelihood that in the very
 near future transatlantic telephony will replace the older telegraph sta tions. Not only that. but the stations and apparatus are constantly becom- Ing smaller and more compact; so that whereas a few years ago apparatus weighing hundreds of pounds would
 be required. in addition to aerials measuring hundreds of feet in extent, we now are enabled to employ only a couple of small boxes, which can be carried in handbags, and no aerial at all. By one of the latest and smallest of these devices, invented by MT. F.. o. Read. experiments are to be car. ried out in an attempt to talk from England to Australia. The apparatus can hs carried in the hand and meas ures only 11x5hx4 inches and is es. pecially adapted for use by amateurs The "audion" bulb, which has replaced enormous and powerful spark gaps. resemble a small nitrogen electric light and makes no sound at all when the key is pressed, or when incoming signals are received; and the remark able part of the device is that 1t is capable of transmitting or receiving signals over miles of intervening space. Also,> instead of the cumber. some aerials which used to be em- ployed. small square frame. wound inside with wire. Is all the aerial that is necessary for ordinary distances.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-28
PHYSICAL, NOT PSYCHICAL

From the Sun and New York Herald
 1M PSYCHOLOGY has been overworked JH by writers on the freaks the fren- = zied and the foolish, the soul has little If anything to do with such trash. It's the brain and the glands which nourlsh it. if you please. It Is physical. not psychical. phenomena which must re- ceive attention from those who seek ex- planation of all human caprices from bad manners to murder.
 Dr. Max c. Schlapp professor of neuro- pathology in the New York Post-Gradu- ate Medical School and Hospital. has been good enough to reveal to . reporter a lot of interesting facts about what makes reds, cranks and criminals and it Is comforting to learn therefrom that folks who boast of their temperament merely reveal to the knowing ones that their pancreas, liver. thyroid or "some other gland of less importance is out of or der. Let Greenwich Villagers moan.
 There is another life I long to meet. Without which life this life is incom-
 plete.
 as much as pleases them: tho truth Is that what they need is a pill.
 It appears, as a poet himself wrote, if memory serves. that poet suffers from three handicaps. rhyme, meter and pub lie disesteem. not because his soul 8 ignition is faulty. but because that part of his brain which conceives is oiled more -or less-than that part which pre- ceives. simple domestic illustration will plainly show how true this is. Father re- turns from the office a tired but easy mark. and his daughter. an early bird who wants to make sure of her winter furs. pins a rose on him. The sensory lobs of his brain preceives that the rosa is red. thorny and perfumed. The emo tional lobe forms no concept from it's neighbor lobe's precept; just passes it up. Not so with daughter; her starboard lobe has been slightly overlubricated with gland extract and its cells are exploding and whizzing like everything. Lo. she writes a poem. roses" closes. ''re- poses''-perfect. Mother is in rapture. but dad. he knows. and calls in the family doctor.
 So it is with those who bob their hair.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-28
HE MEASURED HIS HOUSE.

From Browning's Magazine. : The civil service commission re- quires that ever seeker after govern ment employment shall fill out a reg ular printed application blank. Tho following was received from a south ern backwoodsman:
 Question l. In what state or ter ritory do you claim actual bona-fids residence?
 Answer. Alabama.
 Question 7. Lenght of residence in such state or territory? Answer Forty.two feet nine inches.
 SUMMER SONNET Written on East Mountain. Hot Springs. Arkanaas. by Samuel Min- turn Peck. To sit upon q mountain side and
 muse Is aught more charming on . summer
 day? To let ones careless glances idly
 stray Till minifying distance bounds all Blends leagues of loveliness in purple And leads wild beauty like bride of
 May Into a vale of mystery far away To which imagination finds no clues! To sit upon a mountain side and lose Each city worry that you carried
 there; To scent the breath of flowers that
 mountain dews Have kissed a summer night to mako
 more fair; And then-that all may be more real-
 how sweet To cull and smell wild rose at onss
 feet!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-28
ncys Again

Boys Day of the Civitan Club. which will be celebrated next Friday. Is some thing different from any event yet put on in Birmingham" said Ivor w. Jones. And it is bound to result in good both for the members of the club and for the boys themselves. We are going to give them real good time.
 "The members of the club will be asked to forget their business responsi- bility and dignity for one day, for no ladies or visitors will be present at East Lake. The members will become big brothers to the boys and the boys in turn will make kids of the club members"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-28
Ont of the Rain

v heard so much about the sim plicity houses" said pr. Robert N. Simpson. pastor of the First Christian Church of Birmingham, that de- cided to build one for myself witN some modificatiohs of those being built py the Birmingham Realty Company. l bought a lot on Lakeview avenue. which faces the Country Club golf links, and have 1t well under way. am having a den, or study, in the high roof of the house. I found that 1t could be done without much extra expense and 1t adds much to the looks as well as the comfort of the cottage. l am glad the movement was started as 1t gives many chance to own home and escape having to pay high rents without any safeguard from having the rented place sold over their heads"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-28
-.e Direct Profit IS the Greatest


 7 INDICATIONS point to such
 profits on the direct employment of convicts in work for the state as to care for what might otherwise prove financial wrench when the convict lease system expires by law in January. 1923.
 The state will have an abundant yield from it's farm operations, ac- cording to the forecast. The profits on the cotton mill will be large. That plant is turning out one hundred and fifty thousand yards of cloth per week.
 The state of Minnesota is the bet ter off by four million dollars per annum through operation of its con- vict twine mill. It has been shown in Alabama that net profits from di- 
 rect employment of the convicts have been greater than those derived from lease of convicts. This is easily un- derstood.
 The leased convict must earn two profits, one for the state and anoth- CT for the lessee. The convict work ing for the state earns but one profit and that goes to the state in en- Itirety.
 Natural laws work more harmo- niously than the artifices of men. The most natural thing in the world is for the state to keep it's convicts occupied with healthful work and work that prevents their being dead charge on the community. It is the primary duty of the state to care for its convicts and see that they are properly employed. Every relin- quishment of that obligation, wheth- CT through. the lease system or other wise, is artificial and entails arti- ficial conditions.
 Omitting all question of humani- tarianism, the direct employment of eonvicts by the state promises great CT net financial yield than a lease system. There is so much potential profit in a 'convict's labor. If that is split between the state and third party, the state loses just that much: Alabamians Should Learn
 to Think in Terms of Ships
 A LMOST a perfect picture of the N possibilities of Alabama trade with the Latin Americas is afforded by considering two items of com merce between this state and Chile.
 Several months ago large cargo of Chilean phosphates was imported by a Birmingham explosives maker This phosphate came to New Orlean, and was brought up the Warrior river in barges and transferred al the Port of Birmingham to the pow der mills. The movement was suc- cessful and economical.
 Now on the high seas bound for Chile is a cargo of twenty-five hun dred tons of Birmingham coke for Valparaiso smelters. Chile sends ni- trates to Alabama; Alabama sends coke to Chile. That is real trade relation. That is actual barter and sals. It means a load for the ships
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-28
Richmond's Rapid Growth
 In the Last Ten Years


 TN 1910 Richmond's population, ac- u cording to the federal census, was only 127,62S. Atlanta had a pop ulaEon of 154, ,s39, Birmingham 132,- 6s5, and Memphis 37,105.
 These cities have had rapid growths in the last decade. Richmond has TOW population of I'll ,667, only a few thousand less than Birmingham, which has nearly reached 1S0,00O. In the census of 1900, while Birming- ham was a small town, Atlanta and Richmond were close together in cen s,s figures, but neither had reached the ninety thousand mark Up to that time Richmond beat Atlanta in each of the census enumerations, but the Virginia city was virtually at a standstill in 1900, while Atlanta went 5000 ahead of it. Richmond walked up, however, and added extensive areas. It has been growing ever s nee.
 Birmingham has not extended it's bt rndary lines since 1910. but the in- crease in population witl;in the city lii its was 34 per cent, while At lanta's percentage of increase was only 27. Birmingham suburban growth during the present decade has been enormous, and this will be shown in the census of 1880, when large extensions will have been made. Atlanta, with 100000, makes a good showing, but Birmingham will far outstrip it ten years hence.
 The census bureau is overworked. It had planned to collect the finan- cial data of each city and distirct and inlude it in the 1920 census, but it announces that this work will have to be abandoned because of lack of organized force. In 1922 or 1923 a special census will be made of the country's financial strength. It is a curious fact that in previ- ous decades the census was completed earlier than this year, notwithstand- | ing the earlier start. In 1900 the enumeration was not begun until the first of July. In 1910 the work was begun on April l, and this year it was moved up another six months. The apparent tardiness of the com pilation of the census figures may be accounted for by unavoidable clerical shortage. At the rate the work is going, good deal of speeding Up will be necessary in order to have the population tables completed in time for insertion in the New York World Almanac.
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 There may or may not be encourage ment for Lenine and Trptsky in the strike of grave disEers in Wales.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-28
JUsT LfKE THE LAplEs

rom tHe W dII Stttet Jouf HdI.
 A downtown bank recently advised one of its lady clients that her acs count was overdrawn. A few days later the bank received this reply:
 'Gentlemen: I regret to state that through an oversight on my part, my account was overdrawn I am inclos- ing my check to your good bank to cover same. Very truly yours"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-28
.Anu1I1l1lAaae<fI

P. S.-Until he tells us more about where he stayed and where he wont when he was forced by necessity to spend a month here. am loath to be- lieve that it must have been on the street corners. where ''mashers's are as much part of the fixtures as the lamp posts. But "mashers" never killed . city any more thas mash" made one.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-28
Among the Blessed

Judge J. T. Garretson, one of Bir- mingham's beloved octogenerians, is back from a visit of several weeks around McMinville, Murfreesboro and other Tennessee places. He is native of McMinJille. but settled in Birming ham after the war.
 Tt is certainly Gods country up in TennesseeS he said. They have raised this year or soon will have raised and gathered everything that man and beast ca eat and lots over. It Is a veritable land of plenty and made me feel proud of the state of my nativity. In fact. I am proud of the whole south and feel that everyone of us old soldiers have lived to see this grand and glorious day in Dixie should count himself among the blessed"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-28
testers do oft prove prophets.
 king Lear.
4 MORNING PRAYER

Give me wealth enough o God that penury may not tempt me to sin; give me poverty enough that wealth may not separate thee and Keep me in the way of cOn- ointment. Give me work and treDsth to do it. So shall I walk happiness with thee. Amen.
 M. $. B.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-28
A FAN SOLVES A PROBLEM

Arthur H. Folwell, in Leslie'A
 Puzzled baseball fan wants to know why there ain't room in the world" for both President Wilson's League of Nations and Candidate Harding's Association of Nations. Couldn't they divide up tho territory. just like the National League and the old American Association used to, he asks. Sure. why not? And have q world series war each year. held somewhere in the Balkans.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-28

Friends of Governor Cox feared he smoke in haste when he talked about a s15,0oo,ooO republican slush fund The disclosures he made at Pittspurg showed that he had not only thought the matter over carefully. but had the documentary proof. x + x Dowager Queen Alexandra of Eng land is having hard time making both ends meet on s375,Oo0 a year. still, at this distance, $375,ooo a year seems a lot of money to spend on a dowager queen, who is not even the whole show at social function.
 The republican quota for Birming- ham was twice as large as the quota for Atlanta. A dubious compliment, but nevertheless 1t may show the rela- tive importance of the two cities.
 Hardened sinners among the repub- ucans do not blush over a s15, 1000, 900 slush fund. On the contrary, their hides are so tough they actually boast of it.
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 The Wall Street Journal reminds negroes who talk of emigrating to Africa that they might thems elves become the slaves of superior tribes. That is point worth considering.
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 If a little surgical operation will cure payroll bandits, bolseviks and "parlor pinks," by all means let's have the little operation.
 Harding is welcome to the pro- German vote. What this country needs is a President who won't care a hoot what the Berlin papers are saying.
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 If the lord mayor of Cork refuses to take nourishment, the British gov ernment regards that as his own funeral.
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 Strategists of the World war have studying the minor hostilities between Russia and Poland.
 Intelligence from summer camps. houseboats and the like indicates that Ia large number of swivel chairs will soon be re-occupied.
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 Chicago visitor says whisky is cheap and plentiful in Birmingham. Famished club members would like 8 few particulars.
 When Russia Is full of American department stores, if not American bars. we may expect to get the truth about Russia.
 If Great Britain grants freedom to Egypt. there will of course. be a string attached to 1t which will lead back to Downing street.
 It is announced that the price of everything except food has come down. Yet food is the most indis- pensable of all necessities.
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 The fair sex is expected to brighten up the polls considerably. There's nothing like the feminine touch to refine and elevate. The bolsheviks. who set out to tell Poland where to get off. are now waiting to be told. * # x OLD TIME PRINTERS From the Talladega Home. Harding's old time printers who used to set type with him and for him long ago are bobbing up into notoriety since his nomination. We haven't been nom- mated for the presidential candidacy but if all the old style competitors who have stood at the cases and set type in The Home, established during our half century, could come back and line up. we could show as typicaf bunch of old school typos as ever filled a stick, all of them characteristically ec- centric; some somewhat inclined to be cranky. as printers are prone to be- come. and many of them brilliant and gifted.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-28
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
NO PoEsY THERE.

NO PoEsY THERE. The melancholy days will soon Inspire a burst of song From bards beneath the harvest moon, Whose teeming fancies throng. But more prosaic wights who lack What esthetics call a soul Will mourn the ratio of slack Found in their winter coal.
 A MERE LOCKER ON. What about the women's voter" I'm not considering it." replied the practical politician.
 But you can't afford to ignore It." "on the contrary, I can we'll afford to Ignore 1t. I'm retiring from public life with a competency"
 NO STIMULATES Doctor, what's wrong with me? Nothing but your imagination" Cant you prescribe for my imagi- nation?"
 Nope. I've written my last liquor prescription"
 ALWAYS SOME EXCITEMENT. NO more hunger strikes, no mill, tants with banners. no heckling. ns bitter enders,' no 'battalions of death.'" "well?"
 Life may be rather dull. now that the suffrage fight Is won.p "Cheer up. One reform wave bare- ly recedes before we're on the cres of. another"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-28

roll messengers; they arc nearly as easy D cure as poets. Dr. schlapp. without doubt, is graduating young geHtlemsn who with a saw and few knives could transform Lenine into respectable wagesearner. Trotzky into . reliable psychical
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-28
All Money Looks Alike

T expect all of us have been hit by easy money at least once," said M. H. Sterne, broker. When I was quite a young bank clerk, we had a local chapter here. A prize was offered for the best paper on certain subject. Un- fortunately I won the price, which was $25 in cash.
 T had a Kind of idea that this partic- ular $25 was quite different from any other variety, especially that which came from salary earned by hard work. So I spent 1t freely. In fact before l had we'll conceived conception of having spent the s25. I footed up my small books and discovered that my easy money $25 had developed into s75 out of pocket. After that all money looked alike to me-.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-28

NOT DEAD BUT SLEEPING
 This seems to be snow town said the stranger in Chiggersvine
 "only on the surface said Squire Witherbee. There may not be any. thing movin' on Main street but a pig or two an a stray dog, but you can start an argument about the League of Nations. bolshevism or the next world series just as easily in chig- gersville as you can anywhere else la America
 America" PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-28

There may or may not be encourage ment for Lenine And Trptsky in the strike of grave diggers in Wales.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-28
THE LAST RESORT.

'The Clippings have just made pub lio acknowledgement that they have been living beyond their income" Why, how could they do that?' Easily enough. by advertising their automobile for sale"
 EXCLUSIVE PRACTICE "Dr. Pliers seems to be 4 fashion able physician"
 T should say SO. He has patients at some of the most expensive health resorts in America and a waiting list of people whose health will give way as soon as they get money enough to consult him"
 COULDN'T MOVE IT. A trusted cashier disappeared. His first apparent fault; The bank hes robbed was greatly
 cheered-
 IL seemed he left the vault
 NOT DEAD BUT SLEEPING
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-28

TELEPHONE Bell tprivate exchange connecting all departments) Main 49OO.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-28

Did he go to the Bijou. the Jefferson, the Lyric or any of the motion picture houses? If so he is strangely silent about>them. Did he go to the Y. M. c. A or the Y. w. c. A.? It is not in the record that he did. Did he go to the Rirminghan Athletic Club. or the Chamber of Commerce. or the Civic Association? Evidently not. Did he go to Howard College or the Birmingham Southern. or any of the public schools? I fear he either overlooked them or skipped them purposely.
 Did he walk to the top of Red noun tain and look on the wondrous pano- rama unfolded before his eyes? A city with beautiful homes, a city with hand : some churches. a city with fine school system. a city with great stores. a city with mammoth industries. A valley into whose lap God has poured bounti- fully among the richest material gifts to man-coal. iron and limestone-all three of which are being utilized by as fine a set of men as can be found in inc county to build a Birmingham which. in spite of James Owen O'Con- nor's diatribe. Is one of the best towns in America in which to live and do husinesS
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-28
EXCLUSIVE PRACTICE
COULDN'T MOVE IT. trusted cashier disappeared,

cheered- IL seemed he left the vault.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-28

A Chicago visitor says whisky is cheap and plentiful in Birmingham Famished club members would like 8 few particulars.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1920-07-08
COOPERATION GIVES
GREATER POWER

See that bunch of horses over yon-
der2" asked the farmer, indicating six
or seven animals which were impa-
tiently crowding against fence in an
endeavor to nibble some corn growing
just beyond the reach of their noses.
There's a marketing lesson in what
those horses are doing. IF they only
knew it, little pushing in unison
would lay that fence flat, but the trou-
Bile is they don't understand, and so
won't Push together"
Then, after a pause: Human folks
are good bit like those horses. A
lot of them don't know how to push
and pull-in unison. Think of the UNI
utilized power those animals have, and
think of the infinitely greater power
we intelligent humans have, when we
learn to cooperate. That's the word:
Cooperation! A good many farmers
have learned its advantages. but their
number is still small besides the mil
lions who might benefit from it. !"
Mansfield Enterprise.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1920-07-08
FARM PRODUCTS

Out of the war there came the agi-
tation by former Secretary of the In
terror Lane favoring back-to-the-land
movement. But M. Houston, whoawas
then Secretary Of Agriculture, was moi
in sympathy with opening more farms.
It was his idea that the present farms
if properly worked would supply
enough crops to meet all demands.
This latter view is the essence Of the
idea embodied in the farm loan act
which has proved itself an excellent
method for man who owns a farm
to purchase another one. But the
whole policy of the Government has
furnished but very little aid to the
man with few or no assets to engage
in farming. .