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The Winslow mail., 1920-12-17
RELIEF WORK AMONG SPANISH.
SPEAKING PEOPLE

Last February was organized, among
the Spanish speaking population OF
this town, under the direction of Rev
Ed. Albouy, the Society of st. Vincent
de Paul, the object of which is to
give material and moral help to the
destitute.
Since then this Society has taken
care of many INDECENT cases, and to
carry on this good work, it has OBJ
tanned funds chiefly from the mem
bers only. 1t is the wish of these to
give Christmas help to the poor
Mexican families, and thus bring some
comfort and joy in the homes Of the
poor.
We therefore appeal to your gener-
osity asking of you to give us some
help in money or clothing which will
be distributed to the needy.
The Winslow mail., 1920-12-17
KEEPING UP PROPERTY

Whenever anyone starts movement
to improve the appearance of a town,
he always finds some people who will
do nothing to make their property at
persons who rent dwellings for other
people to live in. Many landlords say
they can't afford to improve their real
estate, since tenants are so careless.
If they put new paper on rooms, the
disorderly children will soon get it all
marked up. Likewise with other i'm
provements. So some neighborhoods
tend to look worse, and landlords will
do nothing more than they are COM
PEELED to to keep their dwellings rent
ed.
1t is hard to make good citizen
out of man who lives in a dreary
looking place. He feels the disorder
and it promotes discomfort. If you
could give that man a nice looking
little cottage with lawn and shrubs,
he would take pride in it. 1t would
help him do better work But as long
as his surroundings are squalid, he
gets discouraged and feels it is use-
less to do any improvement. work. His
surroundings affect his point of view
on everything and tend to make him
rebel against the social system.
If landlords would only try to have
their property kept up, they would
find that their places would rent for
more money. Their home town or
city would show higher, level of at
tractiveness.
Tenants could be greatly encourag-
ed to keep their places looking we'll
by charging those who keep disorder
ly places little more, and offering a
discomfort to those who do minor re-
pairs themselves and who are willing
to work at beautifying their places.
The most squalid looking neighbor-
hood would respond Every family
who lived in it would acquire more
self-respect, more determination to
accomplish something in life.
The Winslow mail., 1920-12-17
BAPTIST CHURCH

The Sunday school will have it's
contest New Years Eve, December 81,
at he church, All Warren Avenue. The
contest will be a Bible Down." the
questions based on the Old Testament
All the members of the church, and
any others interested, are invited.
Attend the Sunday school sessions
at 9:45 a. m. each Sunday and become
familiar with these questions, and en-
joy the contest with us.
Preaching service, Sunday at II a.
N. and 1880 p. M.
B. Y. P. U. at 80 p. m. Sunday.
The Winslow mail., 1920-12-17
WHY EXEMPTIONS

There is no more excuse or reason
for exempting Federal Farm Loan
Bonds from taxation than there is for
passing law authorizing tax exempt
Federal Merchandising Loan Bonds
or Fedtral Industrial Loan Bonds or
any other sort of federal bonds for the
purpose of selling government backed
securities to raise money to loan for
private gain on specified class at the
expense of the taxpayers.
The Winslow mail., 1920-12-17

alton systems for a few years. Fix
federal taxation first.
The people. voted down single tax
and nearly all forms of changes in
taxation laws wherever presented
Why take up new theories?
Most of the taxation systems in the
western states are very far from be.
ing bad ones or requiring to be made
over. They are easily made worse.
The general tendency has been for
the past few years to make unnecessary
and sometimes very ill-advised ex-
penditures and tax burdens on indus.
try must be cut instead of increased
at this time.
The Winslow mail., 1920-12-17
NOTICE

I wish the parents of children who
are going out on the range and riding
burros into town and turning them
loose to get into the nice yards Of the
citizens, would at once assist me in
putting stop to this practice.
ED. GARDNER, City Warshal.
The Winslow mail., 1920-12-17
GIVEN OUT

Information given out here?" ask
ed an excited traveller as he rushed
up to the bureau of inquiries.
The tired attendant looked at the
traveller and replied:
"It has"
The Winslow mail., 1920-12-17

Christmas music. There will be a
Christmas tree and other Christmas
decorations.
The Mems claas and Bethany (Wo-
men's) class are preparing for New
Years Eve social and will watch the
Old Year out and the New Year in.
The Winslow mail., 1920-12-17

One of the most vicious and de-
moralizing by-products of the war is
the boosting of the tax-eater's pro-
fession.
The Winslow mail., 1920-12-17
TAX TINKERING NOT WANTED

Western legislatures are not going
OF get much credit for ripping up tax
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-22

iture Y, Our Entire Stock

fur
 These applied the purchase of article desired discount fo only eh mored
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-22
NEW AUTO SUPPLY
 COMPANY OPENING
Interstate and Electric of New Orleans Establish
 ing Branch In City

The Interstate Electric and Auto Supply Company of New Orleans an- nounces the opening of. branch in Birmingham. The new company is To- cated at 2104 First avenue, occupying the building that formerly belonged to the Electric and Auto Supply Com pany.
 During the past few years number leading cities of the south and in each case the Interstate Electric Company has met with unusual success. accord ing to Percival Stern, president.
 The general manager of the Birming- ham branch is Sol Altmont, who has been connected with the company for several years both in Mobile and New Orleans. & c. Neuberger. also of Mo- bile. is manager of the automobile sup ply department, and C.. L. Mcbride of Birmingham is manager of the cleo trical department. MT. Stern says that he is well pleased with the selection of officials.
 We have great faith in the prog ress of Birmingham" said Mir. Stern, who was recently a visitor here. Tt is our greatest desire in opening 3 branch here to assist in the develop ment of this city and to take part in the civic life. We are planning, as soon as conditions are more settled to buy a lot and erect our own building. as both myself and the managers Of this branch believe that we will meet with the same success here that has greeted us in other southern cities"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-22

ist many genuine, supernormal phenom-
 ena aof a remarkable character, well worthy of serious, scientific study and investigation. We believe that the ma iority of these are probably due to un- known biological and psychological pow CTS within ourselves-whle admitting that certain smalI percentage of the phenomena point to the exercise of an independent intelligence-that is, a spirit. But that we should accept as gospel everything coming through a medium is absurd. Of course, there is the remp- tation, when once one has been convinced of the realty of the spiritual world, and the possible-if rare-communication with tito believe what comes from that source-i. C.. what we are told. And 1t is woven into new philosophy and a new religion. Personally, I think this pre- knature. But there are all kinds of minds to make a world" and we must not deny the right to any one else to believe what he chooses. Undoubtedly there is much fraud, error and deiusion in spiritualism. There is also in it a pro- found problem, calling for solution-and for the application of impartial, scientific and critical methods of investigation
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-22
PsychicaI Researchers

Hereward Darlington, in Seslie's.
 I fully agree that the vast majority of the communications received through or dinary mediums are utter drivel but then we physical researchers do not be- lieve that these messages" emanate from Spirits at all in the majority of cases They are the products or the mediums subconscious mind. Only very rarely are genuine traces of spirit com municatioa obtainable, and every ex- perienced physical student would admit this We physical researchers have all most as great a quarrel with the spirit ualists as we have with the materialistic scentists We believe they are both wrong, One says: Tt is all fraud and the other, Tt is all spirits" We do not believe this. We believe that there ex-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-22
Kexstone of An Empire

From "New Trails for Old, by Ciair
 Price, in Asia.
 Haifa is like Atlantic City in the wash of it's surf. It is like Florida in the wide white streets of it's German colony. It is like Manitou in it's green slopes ol Mount Carmel It is like the Orient m the narrow, vaulted streets of it's native quarter. The war has made 1t the key stone of that vast arch of empire one column of which rests on South Africa ana the other on India. It is the peak of the British o-Cairo-Calcutta proiect which waits on the Turkish peace treaty to become an accomplished fact Under British rule. it is to De- come a second Bombay and Mount Car mel is to become the Gibraltar of Pal astine The open roadstead off the reef at 1Jaffa is no longer to be the port of Palestine; the British have ready $lo'- GOO. 900 harbor scheme to convert the pay at Haifa into port and naval base. Haifa's present population is @ooo, put I. is predicted that it will be loo,ooo witnln ten years. It is to become the port. not only of Palestine, but of Mesopotamla as we'll for it is the sea-terminus or the nroiected Syrian Desert railway to Sag dad which is to be conveyed by a pipe- line carving Anglo-Persian oil direct to the British navy in the Medlterranean. Refore the war, the Suez canal lay pacR of the highly uncertain barrier or the Sinai desert. Hereafter. the canal hes hack of Haifa Jerusalem is the pet ol the British foreign office, but it is Haira which interests the British war o11ice and the British admiralty.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-22
THE BIRMINGHAM AGE-HERALp SUNDAY, AUGUST 2z 1gzo

explore the dirty little streets. The peo- pie were sitting and chatting drowsily on the tea-house porches in the open fruit shops heaps of melons were spread out on the ground; outside the meat-shops raw legs of lamb with flies sitting on them two deep were suspended to tempt the buyer. A local medical man was treating a pale and shivering patient under an open shed by means Of a mas sage accompanied by monotonous ges- lures and magic sentences repeated three times. As accessories to his learned pro- fession, he wore long strings of date stones, beads, teeth and dried berries. Indescribably filthy water was running through the narrow channels on either side of the street where the refuse is usually thrown, hands and feet washed, and children bathed, dogs quench their thirst and water IS taken out for innu- merable other purposes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-22
Three Hours Great Sport
 Landing Mountain Trout

weighed fifty eight pounds. They were all caught with four and three-quarter ounce fly-rods, nine feet long and, No. e12 Royal Coachman and Paramaehenee Billie dry flies. The altitude where th catch was made is 1000 feet above sea level and the temperature of the wa ter was 42 degrees. The largest trout which was caught by Mrs Gunter put up a twenty one minutes battle before brought to the landing net.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-22

The above picture shows a three-hour morning catch of thirty mountain. or brook trout, taken on July 21 by MT. and Mrs. Peyton K. Gunter of Great Falls. Mont, and Robert G. Hiden Of Birmingham. from swift stream flow ing from snowfields into Two Medicine lake in Glacier National park. in the Rockies of northwest Montana. The largest trout weighed little over four pounds. the smallest nearly two pounds The catch, when dressed for the broiler
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-22
Oueered the Whole Business

The superintendent of sunday school out west though it would be good idea to have the children quote scriptural texts as they dropped tneir pennies into the contribution box.
 On the first Sunday this plan was tried one little fellow, as ne dropped ;n his coin ouoted:: "The Lord low eth a cheerful giver." The next boy said: Charity covers a multitude or sins" and the next: "It is more blessed to give than to receive.
 All went well until it cane to the turn of the seventh boy, who, evident ly with thoughts of other uses for h,s penny. rbawled out as he dropped, It into the box: "A fool and his money are soon parted"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-22
Timber for Sale

I will on Tuesday, September ', 1920. on the premises eight miles north of Monterey. Tenn, in Overton County. Tenn. sell to the highest bidder three million feet of hardwood timber. eight miles from railroad. For information in regard to same, write w. B. Ray, Monterey, Tenn.
 N G. ROBERTSON, Lebanon. Tenn. Agt. and Atty. for the heirs of Jack
 Ray, deceased
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-22
Not EncnIlraginp

From the New Haven Register.
 T would like to get another suit said slowpay "I am paying attention to an
 Paying attention, hey?' said the tailor scornfully well, if you are as slow paying that as you are paying my bill. ybur wedding will be chronicled: An other sOctogenarian Married.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-22
Life in JeIal-Abad

From "The Land of the Sun,' by Helen
 Varnec, in Asia.
 One more intermediate stop was made at a large village, Jelal-Abad, where the usual picture of q Mohammedan crowd, iazily living it's everyday life, once again awakened my interest and I set out to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-22
ExDerienced

Sweeping his long hair back with an impressive gesture. the visitor faced the proprietor of the film studio ac- cording to a current story. T would like to secure place in your moving picture company" he said.
 You are, an actor?" asked the film man.
 Yes"
 Had any experience tacting without audiences?"
 A flicker of sadness shone in the visa itor's eyes as he replied: Acting with out audiences is what brought me here"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-22

Mosquitoes are found everywhere ex- cept in the polar regions.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1920-01-22


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declines
Claire the Of Mrs Dao whom she had met
subsequent When they reach New York where Claire to have
confusion the sps carries
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The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1920-01-22

promise to keep this 10 himself
"And you went-and the boys threw
you In. sash and curls and ALI And
found you and took you home and
lroned you and curled you up fresh
and saved you from"
"A lickin'-and good one." he fin
ished for me. "Those were the ma.
ter's lickin' days-before she lost the
girls. And 1t wasn't the only lick.n'
you saved me FROM" he added, In the
grateful way I'd always loved him for.
even when l Just couldn't love him
he was so bad.
"Billy. dear" said, pressing my
hands on his shoulders. "it's yom turn
now. Do you nderstand?-and you've
got to forget that you're a reporter
and remember only that you're my
friend and that I need one; for I'm
In a lot Of trouble and I simply can't
explain"
Don't say any more" said Billy
with fine air. taking up his hat. :.
remembered then that he had CONT
for papers-George would be looking
for some evidence Of my truthfulpess
and snatched up the first sizabls
book I saw-my German dictionary.
though / didn't notice what 1t was
and a bunch Of odd papers and thrus
them into Bllly's hand and got him ou'
and George up In spite Of protests thA
I ought not to stay alone after that.
/ closed the door and put up tn
chain-bolt, and seeing my clothes all ii
heap. went In and hung them up and
threw the blankets on the bed. J
turned out all the lights but one. And
throughout all these operations kept
asking myself. "Did he get the dia'
monds?"
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1920-01-22
M M M Is M Us " y!

"Gee whizi believe you're right"
he cried, looking about again, with n
new light in his eyes.
81 say-the plot thickensl This Is n
real mysteryw
''Don't you see why It mustn't be
knownT"
"And do you know who searched
and what he searched fort"
IL think So"
Billy stared at me for some seconds
before he brought out, II believe you
know more about this than you're tell
ing me. You're concealing something.
well-tell me this-did he get it?'
~ don't know"
Billy whistled and stared. "Say--
this begins to be romantic"
"Romanticw I snorted. "You don't
know what romantic isl"
] managed to stop there. However
much 1 respected Billy in general, !
hadn't much confidence I'm his discre-
ton.
"Bllly, do you remember the time
your mother put on your brand-new
Fauntleroy suit and told you not TO
go to the swimming hole and you
went?" l asked desperately, trying to
get at him somehow and bind him to
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1920-01-22
CHAPTER VIl-Continued.

Clammy sweat broke out all over
me as 1 thought of what he might do.
Tie might have twenty accomplices--
he evidently had money enough to play
the game to finish. Where could
20 tonight7 To hotel? didn't have
any luggage. To friends house2 i
should have to explain-and couldn't
I might go over to Philadelphia to my
brothers but I didn't have money
enough in my purse to pay my fare.
And could / go off and leave the dia-
monds In my fiat? Or could I take
them with me, and perhaps be kid
naped, robbed and then murdered to
keep my mouth shut After what I'd
seen Of him now felt him capable of
anything.
With these thoughts staggered out
into the street. / noticed the clock as
: passed-five minutes to eight, and
I had come In at a quarter to six.
saw spies everywhere. 1 was afraid
to 60 home and I didn't know what
else to do. / knew l ought to commu-
nicate with Mrs. Delario, but I didn't
dare-even to try to reach her on the
telephone might make 1t the worse for
her.
In this frame of mind reached
Broadway-here at least felt tempo.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1920-01-22
ART AS THE FRENCH SEE IT
In Their Eyes II Is the Direct Antths-
sis Of Artlfice as Generally
Understood.

No one can understand this French
conception OF art, as no one could un-
derstand the similar Greek conception.
without distinguishing clearly be-
tween art and artlfice. The first
comment of the Anglo-Saxon on all
art is likely to be that II Is ARTIFICIAL;
his comment upon the French life. IT.
self an art. is that II partakes too
much OF the quality Of artifice. The
difficulty is that such comment as
sumes civilization as natural thing.
said Prof. Erskine In recent lee
ture to his soldier students In France.
The Frenchman knows better. When
our mothers sent us to childhood par
ties and cautioned us to behave. nat
urally they did not mean what they
said; they meant that we should wear
our acquired arts OF courtesy as
though they were natural.
In that sense all civilization Is not
natural, and French life. being the
most highly civilized, has most the
character of art. But the French
themselves are even more severe than
we are in condemning artifice, which
70 them is not art. but Its most per-
verse enemy. Art for them must be
frank and sincere. a quite open con-
troll OF means to reach an intelligible
ideal. There is nothing secret about
II; Its glory is the large part that
reason and calculation frankly play
In it--as any choice between good ana
evil should be calculating and reason
able. Artifice. on the other hand, Is
the putting on Of disguise, the as
sumlng of methods which do not har-
monize with the genuine purpose; II
is too great emphasis upon means and
too slight valuation Of the noble end.
Art Is, as II were. the contrast or other
pole to nature; 1t is the conditions
which Is reached when man has given
an Interpretation and direction to
the chaos OF crude experience. In be-
tween these extremes is artifice, par
taking OF the quality of both-half d.
rected, half meaningless.-New YorA
Evening Post.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1920-01-22
Did the mysterious bur-
gIar get the diamonds7
(TO BE coNTINUED.)
Arabian Physician.

Then there is the Ktab-al-Mansuri
o: All Rail. the most eminent of the
Arabian physicians. the Rhazes Of Eu
ropean writers, Of whom It is said that
wien In his old age he suffered from
cataract and was asked to have his
blindness removed by an operation. he
replied:
II have seen SO much Of the world
that am wearied of It."
or whom also 1t Is said that when
called upon to select site for hos
pital In Bagdad, he cauued pieces Of
meat to be suspended In various 10.
celities. and chose that one In which.
alter a given time. the meat showed
least putrefaction, thus anticipating
the knowledge Of microbal infection
To him 1t Is said that we owe the ole
eS. account extant of smallpox A.
measles.-Asia AagasinA
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1920-01-22

rarily safe--and staggered right into
the arms of-Billy Riversi
"Bnly" I cried, as soon as saw
who It was. "My rescuerw For next
TO having thick policeman to take
care Of me I'd rather have thin re-
porter. Billy might not be able 10 save
my life now, but he and his paper
would at least avenge my death.
"Billy. where are you goingf"
"Just come. Left the mater at Cliff
ton Springs this morning. Meeting
you now is what you might call"
"Flndlng your aunt from home." i
suggested.
"Much better than any aunt I ever
had" returned Billy ghllantly; which
didn't mean much. since all he had In
the world was an OILY mother. He
added: "Say--I was Just thinking Of
you, too. ! was coming up to see you
and get some really. truly advice
While / was over there In Paris sort
of got the idea that I'd try my hand
at the literary game"
"Don't" cut him short. "Stlck to
the daily news and live things" !
was at the moment thinking Of the
things was living. Also that was
living SO much l was afraid to go
homei BILLY. take me to a show to-
night-any old show"
He swung me into hotel--I haven't
the remotest idea which, for had lost
all sense of place-and was back In
ave minutes with tickets, and we went.
II was musical show. and of all
things In the world l detest musical
aAow About the noat Rilly. however.