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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-24
Auburn Summer Session

Auburn, May 23.-(Special)-Th Auburn summer session opening on Monday, June ' promises the best attendance in the history of the school Every mail brings inquiries and requests for reservations from ambitious teachers and students in tent on self improvement.
 In anticipation of record attendance, forecast in the inquiries being received, Director Zebulon Judd, announces for the first time the opening of the college dormitory and dining hall. Through the willingness of the college practically to donate the use of it's buildings to the teachers of the state, room and board for the entire six weeks session can be had for the sum of $30 It will be cheaper to attend the summer session this year than to stay at home.
 At no time in the year is the Auburn campus the scene of more varied activi- ties than during the weeks of the sum mer session. There is first of all a host of teachers, men and women from all over the state. Then there are the col lege students pursuing regular college studies. Then comes the regular high school division made up of boys coming here to work off college entrance condi- tions or to pass off certain subjects for high school credit. Additional groups are attracted by the courses offered in the training of both men and women for work as farm and home demonstration agents of the extension service; also for courses in the commercial and indus trial world as stenographers, typists and private secretaries, all of whom are now receiving high compensation.
 Health. sanitation and play activities are receiving new emphasis in our schools and the summer session provides corps of competent instructors for these newer subjects. All through the course ample provision is made for enjoyment and relaxation of mind and body from too severe application to study. This feature is In charge of a physical director and use of the we'll equipped gymnasium, with it's beautiful swimming pool, adds much of real value in well considered pro- gramrne
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-24
SOCIAL EVENTS and FEATURES FOR WOMEN
AndrelU and Inogene
Little Life Condolences the Experience of Couple, Phl osophic, Though Married
 By ROE FULKENsoN
By ROE FULkENsON

ners downtown till you are pacK. od7 rah can get my. breakfasts for me ana then 1 won't come &2me until l 1. Ia c had my dinner for it woUId seem more e lonely and l would miss you more II came home here at dinneTS nN found your vacant place at the
 Then, of course, any tim Ia am a little lonesome at nigh ce> get one of the boys and go tV one of the stag theatres and see wrest- ling match or a boxing bout and Pre in the time that way.
 And listen. honey" He was grow ing enthusiastic. Some night l VIII get Billy Sands and few of the boys and have them out here to sure enough Dutch dinner. Sarah can cook sauer kraut and pigs feet and we VIII have fine timei
 T don't see any reason in the world why you shouldn't go whenever you please, honey. Nellie is fine girl and you will have a dandy time Do you think $50 will be all that you will need?"
 q think I can get along all right, don't you?"
 "Yes. said Imogene, frigidly. T guess you could, but I am not go- ing"
 ''Not going?' echoed Andrew. Why, I am perfectly willing"
 "Yes, said Imogene, witheringly! "Entirely too willing, I should say anxious was a better word! l thlnk I would better stay at home"
 Well, what do you think of that%" asked Andrew of the world at large and no one in particular. Isn't it exciting to be married?'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-24

s5Oe'
 This is not pay day" said Andrew, cant you mark 1t down to $49?'
 am in earnest" said Imogene. "I have just had a letter from Nellie and she insists on my coming to New York on that visit l have been promising her. If 1 go now l can wear all my spring frocks and will not have to buy anything new, while if I wait month will have to buy a lot of new sum- mer clothes and you know you prom ised me l could go. Now don't start lot of talk about being short of money for you know I am going and
 now will be the very cheapest time for me to go."
 "Oh, that will be all right he re- piled in good humor. How long are you going to stay?'
 About 10 days, I guess, said Imo- gene. Will you miss me?' "Of course, l will miss you! said Andrew. You know l will, but at the same time, Imogene, I think it is a good plan for woman to be separ- ated from her husband for little while at times.
 I believe we should make it habit
 to go away separately instead of with 1 each other. Now, of course you know | I will be lonesome without you, but with my clubs and lodges l can fill 1 in the evenings and of course my days | are taken up with the dull grind of , business.
 "Of course if it gets too dull for me the baseball season is on and I ! can go to the ball game. I guess it
 would be best for me to take all dim
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-24
BurgessBedtin1eStories
Social Little Yap Tap
 By THoRNTO W. BURGESS Give me the friendly chap who likes To have his fellows round Who shares his meals or even his bed If need thereof be ound.

Zap Tap. the Prairie Dog, is the smallest of the Marmot branch of the Squirrel family said Old Mother Ma ture, and Johnny Chuck hitched a bit nearer so as not to miss a word. "In a way, he is about as closely related to the Spermophiles or Ground Squir- rels as he is to Johnny Chuck and the other Marmots. They have only four toes on each front foot, but Tap Y5S. has five, just as the Spermophiles have. He looks very much like a small Chuck dressed in light yellowish- brown. Most of his tail is the same color as his coat but the end is black. It is rather short by the way. In each cheek is a small pocket, and this is another thing which shows how close. ly related he is to Seek Seek the Sper- mophile he is. He is a sort of in- between cousin. but is generally looked on as belonging to the Mar mot branch.
 "Yap Yap is very social by nature.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-24

one of them sees an enemy he at once gives a signal Then every Prarie Dog scampers for his own hole and dives in head first. Almost at once he pops his head out again to see what the danger may be-
 How can he do that without going clear to the bottom to turn around?' demanded Peter Rabbit.
 q wondered if any of you would think of that question" chuckled Old Mother Nature. Just little below the entrance Tap Yap digs little room at one side of his tunnel. All he has to do is to scramble into this, turn around and then pop his head out. As l said before, his tunnel goes down straight very deep. Then 1t turns and goes almost equally far under ground. Down there he has nice lit tie bedroom. Sometimes he has more than one"
 'If 1t is so dry out where he lives how does Tap Yap get water to drink?"
 He doesn't have to drink" replied Old Mother Nature. Some folks think he digs down until he finds water but this isn't so. He doesn't have to have water. He gets all the moisture he needs from his food. He eats grass and any other gheen plants he can find"
 .(Copyright. 1920, by T. w. Burgess)
 The next story-"A Dog That Isn't a Dog.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-24

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-24
More Moderate COunsels For Ireland Are In Sight
 RY Assnniatah Press

London. May 23.-Announcing the retirement of Sir John Taylor as under secretary in the office of the chief sec retary for Ireland. the London Times says his knowledge extended to the turbulent days of the eighties and it is believed the advice which he ten- dered has been in favor of drastic measures. His retirement, adds the Times. will be regarded in Ireland as evidence that more moderate counsels are likely to prevail in the future.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-24

residence of her daughter, Mrs. w H. Dennis.
 T. J. Hayes is at the Birmingham infirmary, where he is suffering from an injured hand the injury being re- ceived at the Grasselli chemical plant.
 Miss Willie J. Hollingsworth will re- turn from the Womans College at Montgomery this week and will go to Florence, where she will attend the graduating exercises of the State Nor nal College, from which school her cousin, Miss Emogene Maxwell, will be a graduate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-24
Date Is Postponed
Bv Associated Pres,

Berlin, May 22-The Wolff Bureau. the semi official news agency, an rounces that the British charge d'af- fsfpes on Saturday presented a note to the German government proposing a. rostponement of the conference at Spa. Belgium. between representatives of the entente and Germany. The date originally set for the conference was May 3s.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-24
Greek Troops Now
 Relieving the French
By Associated Pres.

Constantinople, May P. = Greek troops began relieving the French forces in Bulgarian Thrace this morn ing occupying the coast area north ward from Xanthi to the Frederick line. The occupation thus far has been carried out peacefully. The local ad- ministration is being replaced by civil officials from Saloniki.
 Bulgarian peasants evacuating the affected territory are congesting all roads northward with their OK carts
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-24

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-24
For the Good of
 the Community

CIR ISAAC NEWTON rested one day under an O apple tree
 An apple fell to the ground Why did the apple fall to the ground instead of travelling to the zenith?
 Newton asked this question and out of it evolved the answer, the theory of gravitation, new and great scientific law. But do we owe the discovery of this law to the falling of that particular apple? Not at all, but to the equipped and busy brain of the observer.
 John J. Ingalls, said he and friend were ac- customed when boys to get at either end of log and communicate vibrations to one another by tapping it. Yet neither discovered the telegraph The brain of Morse working arduously fc1 years did @ss r~ The New York Sun suffered Scoop" by rival paper Editor Dana summoned the city editor and asked how that had come about. "Well, the other paper happened to have man there'' was the excuse. "Why didn't our man also happen to be there?" was Danas curt dismissal of the city editor. xa I'd The assassination of the Austrian heir was the occurrence from which the world war was dated, but the German military machine, prepared for fifty years, was the cause.
 There were more accidents in mills and ese- where when more men drank heavily than when fewer men did.
 The driver of an aeroplane would not dare make an ascension unless under perfect nerve control.
 The Chicago fire was caused by COW kicking over lamp. That occurrence is popuarly termed accidental It was not an accident. It inevitably followed habit of placing lamp where it was liable to be kicked over.
 There is pile of trash in the bottom of an elevator shaft, or in box behind store counter. The butt of cigar or cigarette or still burning end of match is thrown in this inflammable mass Hundreds of thousands of dollars loss is the net result Is that accident? It is not It is the direct outcome of the trash accumulation and smokers slovenliness
 Accident means to ''fall." Yes, to "fall down." Accidents do not just happen. They follow im- mutable laws.
 It is we'll to think of this during "Non-Accident Week." and thereafter
 Oodes of automobiles pay no attention to the dinner law In the very heart of the city their bnding flashlights endanger human life. When loss of life actually occurs from that cause it is the outcome of criminal negligence and criminal negligence in law is next to murder.
 Are the beautiful elms that grace ali resden- tia Birmingham a mere happening? Mo- they were planted by an intelligent citizenship thought full of the future.
 Whether for construction or for destruction what takes place is not accidental, but the product of static and contributory causes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-24
.COL. SHELLY MET
 |. BY TARTAR BANDITS
Alabama Man Has Lively Time for Few Minutes In
 Armenian Wilds

New York, May 2S.-( -(specia1.)-When Lieut. Col. James E. Shelley, Cavalry, United States Army, of Tuscaloosa, started out from Nakhichevan, he was to all purposes, prepared to play the role of rescuer to the Armenians in Akoulis.
 Instead of which he took the part of a regular Graustark here on lonely high way, with a band of tartar brlgands cast as the composite villain.
 Colonel Shelley had been commissioned by near east relief headquarters to take several million transcaucasion rubles to the Armenians in Akoulis, on the Arax river. Akouis is an Armenian village in the very heart of the tartar country. whose inhabitants have suffered consid- erably during the past two years of lh- termittent fighting between the Tartafs and Armenans in the Arax valley. SeV- eral efforts have been made by the near east relief to succor the inhabitants or
 this district, and it was for this pur- pose that the Tuscaloosa man was sent there.
 He started out from Nakichevan, in the tiny republic of Aserbaidjan, with his money belt heavy with the treasure or rubles Probably the narrow, rocky high way stirred his memory to thoughts or old Harold MacGrath and McCutcneoh novels, where gallant Americans met with fierce, whiskered bandits who hld them in donjon-keep until princess of the blood mysteriously interested. Probably, too, there were spots here and there along the roadside that re- minded him of Tuscaloosa. He hadn progressed very far with these thoughts however before a group of tall, ominous looking men-regular stage highwaymea of middle nineteenth century melodrama stepped softly out from clump ol bushes, and silently surrounded him. The moon was just rising and the brigands made use of it's mellow light to relieve the American of his belt Colonel Shelley made the best use possible of his
 military training and managed to give the Tartars a considerable fight for the money, but there were too many for him, and he was fortunate to get back to Naxichevan with his life.
 The robbery netted the Tartars several million rubles, but inasmuch as tho transcaucasion ruble is worth only about third of cent, the sum total was not so enormous as 1t sounds Colonel Shelley may make another effort to aid the Ar menians in Akoulis. but when he does ne
 is doing to go prepared to give chance highway robbers thorough punishment.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-24
BESSEMER
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Bessemer, May Especially )-The commencement sermon of the Besse- mer High School was preached by Rev. l.. F. Stansell Sunday morning at the First Methodist Church, the pastor taking for his subject "The Perfect Man" Rev. Stansell appealed to the young men and women at the real commencement of their lives to aim at perfection, physically. mentalts and spiritually.
 The church was filled with the reg ular congregation and the number of visitors attracted by the commence ment service. Superintendent L. l.. Vann, tile board of education, the faculty, the graduating class and many of the high school pupils marched from the high school to the church and occupied the central sec tion of the church. A special musical programme was given by the choir un- der the direction of Mrs. L. L. Vann and the service was altogether impress sive.
 Following visit of the county tax adjusters, it is stated that drastic raises in realty tax valuations will re- suit. It is estimated that some of the WILL dHlOull u IuV per cent more than the former valuations, and that the total amount rated will be over $5O0,000
 All property owners affected by the raises will be notified of the action of the adjusters and will be allowed to appear before the board to present their claims for the raises not going into effect The adjustments affected only business property, as the resi- dential sections were not canvassed at that time. but will be gone into later by the board.
 A civil docket has been set for this week in the Bessemer division of cir cult court, and several cases will come Up for trial. During the week of June ' capital eases will be tried and those cases set for trial are William E. Stewart and Robert Kendriek, charged with the killing of Henry Popee; Lee Jones and J. H. Braswell Bessemer of ficers. charged with killing Allie c. Steagar. and Johnnie Umbles, negro, charged with the murder of his wife, Maggie Umbles, and his sister in-law, Sarah Banks.
 The boys of St. Aloysius School will give a minstrel at the school audi torium on Friday, May 2S. The public has been invited to attend, the pro- ceeds to go towards the building fund of the school
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-24
BABY NAMED
 LYDIA E.
Because Her Mother Was Made Well by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
 Compound.

Brooklyn, N. Y.-'I could not write all my thanks for your blessed medi-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-24

The Age Herald maintains spea cial repres entatiyes in Besseaer. Mrs. H. L. Bains is correspond. ent, to whom news items should be given. Phone BasseUer 612-J- Phone Bessemer 697.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-24
CULTURE CLUB

The members of the Culture Club will give their annual open meeting at the Elks hall Friday efternoon, June 4. Each member will be given the privilege of inviting two friends and an interesting programme will be gwen. This will be the last meeting of the Culture Club for this season and the club will resume meetings the first Thursday in October.
 Tie Wednesday Music Club will en- certain their associate members at an open meeting at the residence of Mrs. T. l.. Huey Wednesday, June ?. A de- lightful musical programme is being arranged and several visitors from Birmingham prominent in musical cir cles will be among the guests.
 Mrs. Norah Golson is quite i'll at tho
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-24

The boys of St. Aloysius School will give a minstrel at the school audi torium on Friday, May 2S. The public has been invited to attend the pro- ceeds to go towards the building fund of the school
The Washington herald., 1920-10-16
PLANS CHARITY
BUDGET FORD.C.
Group Of Citizens Could End
Drive" Believes Com
missioner Boardman.
CONFERENCE IS HELD
Different Relief Bodies to
Submit Needs and Funds
Be Raised.

Organization of a central group
of Washington citizens, composed
OF committees from various trade
and civic organizations, to compile
an annual budget for District chari-
ties, is contemplated by District
Commissioner Mabel T. Boardman.
Miss Boardman believes that such
an institution would eliminate all
drives" for charitable purposes, of
which business men have complain
ed. With this end in view, Miss
Boardman yesterday conferred with
Edward Stafford and NJ. A. Leese,
of the Charities Endorsement Com
mittee, and Walter Ufford, of the
Associated Charities.
The tentative plans outlined yes
terday for the formation OF the
citizens group include the submis-
sion to the group OF the budgets
Of the different charity organiza-
tiOns. The central body would look
into the merits of each case, ana
make an appeal to WashingtOnians
to subscribe to the causes cOnsid-
cred worthy Of attention. One check
from each person would be his en-
tire contribution to the charities OF
washington for year
The Washington herald., 1920-10-16
DENTISTS WHISKY
RIGHT BEFORE COURT

The right of a dentist to carry
whisky from his home to his office
to use for medicinal purposes will
be argued next Wednesday before
Judge Mcmahon in Police Court
when DR.. Felix Mountouri, a dentist
of 1924 I street northwest, will be
arraiEned.
DR.. Mountouri was arrested Octo-
Der by Policeman Milton D.
Smith, Of the Third precinct. The
policeman stopped an automobile
which DR.. MOuntouri had borrowed
from another dentist, while the
machine was in front of his home
and, it is alleged. two quarts of
whisky were found in the car.
The Washington herald., 1920-10-16
GRAND JURY TOLD
OF SHOOTING AFFRAY

The shooting OF Detective Frank
Alligood, the wounding of Edwin
Monk and the robbery Of William
Gilderhorn, three offenses which the
police have fastened on William
Randall and Joseph Homer, were
presented to the grand jury yester-
day for investigation by Assistant
District Attorney Paul B. Cromelin.
Cromelin stated last night that he
was sure that indictments charging
the two alleged hOld-up men with
assault with intent to kill in con-
nection with the wOunding OF Monk
and for robbery would be returned
shortly. The other indictment de-
pends on the outcome of Alligood's s
injuries.
The detective is still in the hos
pital. but is said to be steadily i'm
proving.
The Washington herald., 1920-10-16
Court to Decide
On Parking Right

The legal authority of the Dis
trict Commissioners to construct a
parking system in the center of
Louisiana avenue northwest be
tween Ninth and Tenth street. will
be passed upon shortly by the Court
of Appeals. which heard arguments
on the case yesterday.
The Appellate Court will decide
just what Congress meant by the
word plan" in the appropriation
act authorizing the expenditure of
funds to carry out the parking
scheme.
Thirty-four wholesale and retail
merchants, comprising Wholesale
Row." fought against the parking
plans and carried their case to the
District Supreme Court.