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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-08
S23 O'CLOCK" IN
 BRITAIN URGED

London. January 2o.--( (Reciprocal News service.)-It is understood that the committee of the home office, ap- pointed to consider the adoDtien of the French 24-hour clock system for rail- way time tables. abandoning the use of "a. m and ID. m.." has decided to report in recommendation. 1t may even be suggested that the system be generally put in use in national life. although nothing is said of clocks tolling the second dozen of hours.
 Midnight is 70" hour in the sys- tenn. and 1 o'clock in the afternoon is 13 o'clock. Railway time tables with their light and bold face type for a. m. and 5. m. hours. respectively. have caused considerable confusion that would be abviated with 24-hour clock.
 ~ The British navy. army and air force have officially adouted the system, and have benefited bv the practice. It is said to be vastly easier to express and calculate time on s4-hour basis; and especially in telegrams and fire less it has brought simplification.
 Nothing further has been done to re- form the British coinage system, based on 12 pennies to the shilling. and 20 shillings to the hound. a difficult sub division for quick calculation It is generally believed that decimal coin- age will be adopted when conditions have become normal. For time there was considerable agitation for the adoption of the metric system of weights and measurements English measurements are not equivalent to. American standards: for instance. a hundredw is eight stone; each stone being 14 pounds: 112 pounds in all This makes the English ton 2249 hounds
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-08
HOPE AND SORROW
 FOUND IN WANT ADS

London, January 5.-(Reciprocal News Service. .)-You cannot beat want ads for romantic interest In the news colmns Of the London Times today there is nothing to stir up emotion like the following "personals'' in the same issue:
 Two destroyers for sale, for breaking up or conversion, with suitable land ana storage shed; cheap labor available owner going abroad.
 Would any one like to subscribe to my wedding? I have the girl and nothing else I work hard, but unless miracles happen marriage is hopeless Will any one help "busted'' warrior?
 Telephone for disposal Victoria ex- change. What offers?
 Gaisha Girl. Fox trot Q7th). My little jewel so fair and rare. you have excited my admiration.--Corsican Brigand. E Gentleman fruit grower. Kent, has va cancy for pupil. All up-to-date methods employed.
 seal.--Splendid, immaculate; lips red. ears small.-Key.
 The Lawyer-Politician is Britain's s great est Menace. The Anti-Lawyer-Politicia Association is now organizing. Its object is the immediate reduction and ultimate elimination of lawyers-especially baris- ters- irrespective Of patty, from the House of Commons. If in sympathy and pre- pared to cooperate, write.
 The anvil will ing and the sparks fly out. and then shah be forged that which will more than compensate me for all have endured.
 Perarnbulator for sale. Beautiful W guinea model; absolutely new; IS pounds 10 shillings.
 These 'agonies' are mixed up among two columns of similar ones Many peo- pie read them daily before they start on the news pages.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-08
Nuid Vanps of History
 Vamp9 etc Handkerchief and Departed With Trunks, andA Alexander Berkman

classed as ultra smart. and she found anarchy a most remunerative calling. She was even invited to tango teas and puffed anarchy into~1her partners ear while Swaying to the Jschottische
 But a chap named Czolgosz heard her address her subterranean night class and became over enthusiastic. He shot President Mckinley and Emma was arrested again There was not enough evidence to implicate her and she was released but she lost most of her par1or bolshevik trade as a result She retired again and lived under the unassuminE name of Miss Smith.
 At last she was emboldened by the reappearAnce Of Alexander Berkman, who immediately swapped his creaking prison shoes for anarchy sneakers. and after fond reunion they started magazine. With the war of 1917 white paper became scarce and anarchy unpopular. Emma and Alex had gotten away with so many things that they were bold enough to preach open sedition sand advised the youth of the land that they ought not to stand for conscrip- ton.
 America's answer to this attitude was to immediately back the, Black Maria up to their front door.
 Emma stepped in. propped her feet carelessly on the seat opposite and told the driver:
 Home. James"
 It was in again, and out again Emma and Alex got so much free advertising that they felt it was shame that they were in jail so much that they couldn't capitalize it.
 They had expressed such undying ad- miration for the soviet government of Free Russia that the attorney general conceived happy hunch. Why not give all the reds free ride across the sea to that frost-bitten land they loved so much? The transport Buford was ft- ted up as an ark of the radicals, and Emma and Alex went aboard hand in hand, admitting that after all it was lots better than they would have gotten if their trial had come off in Russia.
 When Alex first piped the shore of Finland, he turned to Emma and said
 Well, at least Russia is red and wet. We can get glass of beer and revolute in peace"
 "But there are so many others revolut- ing that we'll never be the whole cheese" stormed Emma ''I shall make America free after all. see if I don't''
 As a matter of fact, indications are that America feels freer and easier, too now that she has gonA
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-08

establish an air line for passengers and cargo between' the principal cities Of Brazil, Tut no British machines have yet arrived. It is said that e2,OOO0oo has been set aside to develop air routes by this con cern along the eatire coast from Pernam- buco to Buenos Aires, with stations at eight lsomts op the way. It is stated that powerful machines of the four-motor type capable of carrying a ton of feight ana % passengers will be used. The British company proposes to operate the tnes until Brazilian companies are organized to take over the business and buy the airplanes.
 One American company has two expert aviat0rs and -Four machines here, but it is not known that they have done any thing other than to give some exhibition flights. Application has been made to the government for permission to establish limited passenger service in the vicinity of tkis city.
 A representative of a large Ameri-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-08

It all depends upon where you're born, and who you choose for ancestors, how you turn out in life.
 If Emma Goldman had been born in Hawaii, she might have been different. But she was advented in Kovno province. Russia, in 1869. amid an atmosphere or bomb explosions and thunderstorms. AS a vampire she was rather of the hard boiled, shouting variety, who vampeu more in theary than in practice. But she found number of apt pupils for her free love and atheist doctrines before she departed from America on the good ship Buford, surrounded by Alexande Berk- man and choice collection of other rad icals.
 When Emma was young, her amiaoie old father lavished care on her early education. teaching her to stab the snow man just back of the droshl1y garage with icicles, and giving her Nihilist car
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-08
Yellow Mustard
 For Rheumatism

A good hot mustard plaster or poultice is pretty sure to overcome most rheumatic
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-08

can financial institution who recently the possibilities of com in Brazil said that this country did not at present offer profitable market for American air plane manufacturers. but he added
 'rhe foreign manufacturer who re mains on the ground during the lean years and aids in the development will eventually receive financial reward, and what is more important. he will place the nation he represents in a position of greatest influence in South American aeronautics."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-08
KEEN RIVALRY FOR
 BRAZIL AIR TRADE
British Have Obtained Concession for Lines Between Principal
 Cities
nu A.,nelat.A er.m

By Esioelated VFeti
 Rio De Janei-o January 19.-There is a keen rivalry between airplane manufac- turers of the United States. France Great Britain and Italy for the. privilege of de- veloping commercial aviation in Brazil. All of them have had representatives here for months endeavoring to interest the government in their projects or to obtain concessions permitting them to operate aerial freight and passenger lines,
 The British Handley-Page Company has obtained a government concession tC
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-08

Don't take sickening, saliyatinE Calomel when a few cents buys a large bottle of Dodson's Liver Tone-a perfect substitute for Calomel.
 It is a pleasant vegetable liquid which will start your liver just as surely Cal ofnel. but it doesn't make you sick and can not salvats.
 Children and grown sfolks can take bod 3on's Liver Tone. because it is perfectly harmless
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-08

atica and gout, but it's a mussy affair and generally blis- ters.
 Heat is abst ly necessary if
 want permanent re- lief. Begy's Musta- rine, made of true yellow mustard with other pain relieving rredients added is jl as hot. is cheap cleaner and more eft tive than the old fas toned poultice or plas' and cannot blister.
 Besides rheuma pains and. swellin
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-08

speedily effective for lumbago, bzekache neuritis, pleurisy, bronchitis. sore throat, chest colds and all aches and pains because heat eases pain---30 and 50 cents at drug gists or by mail. S. c. Wells { Co.,. LeRoy. NY.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-08

bait. The October "drive" netted 100000. 1t is believed. In midwinter the rats vital ity is at its lowest and he never hesitates before poisoned bait. There will be an other campaign in February.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-08
''Cure Your
 Rupture Like
 Cured mine''
Old Sea Captain Cured His Own Rupture After Doctors Said
 Operate or Death"
His Rsmedy and nook sent rree.

His Remedy and Book Sent Free.
 Captain Ceilings sailed the seas for many years; then he sustained bad double rupture that soon forced him to not only remain ashore, but kept him bedridden for years. He tried doctor after doctor and truss after truss No results! Finally he was assured that he must either submit to a dangerous and abhorrent operation or die. He did nsikheyi He cured himself instead.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-08

Fellow Men and Women, You Don't Hev@
 To Be Cut Up. and You Don't Have
 To Be Tortured By Trusses."
 Captain Ceilings made a study. of himself, of his condition-and at last he was rewarded by the finding of the method that so quickly made him we'll, strong, vigorous and happy man.
 Anyone can use the same methodB It's simple, easy, safe and inexpensive: Every ruptured person in the world should have the Captain Ceilings book. telling all about how he cured himself. and how anyone may follow the same treatment in their own home without FREN. They will be sent prepaid to any rupture sufferer who will i'll out the below coupon. But send 1t right away = now before you put down this paper.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-08
Heavy Ton In English War

London. January .-Cspeciall7rhe board of agriculture doubled It's efforts in the second national rat-killing week, and it is believed that more than 20,o00,o0 rats were destroyed, mostly by poisoned
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1920-11-05
Organized Campaign in the Senate for
Direct Election of Presidents.
By EDWARD G. LOWRY in Saturday Evening Post

As the suffrage out of the way
there Will begin the senate organized campaign abolish the
tora college The proponents the plan from direct primary
They represent the political thought brought direct
election OF senator's Now they take the step bring
the direct election of presidents They seek to make easy possible
to have Independent candidates for the presidency when
both the two great parties dissatisfied nominees
the national conventions They know they will have popular support
their plan will be strongly urged the and before country
quote OF the senator's who prepared to active part
in the campaign to abolish the electoral college:
Everybody knows that nearly all political conventions manipu
lated and controlled by powerful influences that have selfish
rather than the benefit of all the people We practical illustration
before this If able existing
to control the nominations of two great parties they
recently without consulting the wishes the of the
the only right given the that of choosing two
samples which set before him. This reality denial of the right
of suffrage At least the right of suffrage given is absolute
IF the electoral college out of the all that would
would be to the the independent candidate
comply the different states with the method provided by putting
the the ticket would nexpen
and perfectly practicable Every the Union which has
official ballot provides for method of putting the ticket which
not nominated by political parties Such machinery already pro-
vdd for every and applies every Office except those of pres
dent and president and the apply these positions
is because the electoral college stands in the way"
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1920-11-05

land. / soon forgot what a mother
and home were like. Nothing but
work, work, work.
II came to California in 1866. For
time l worked on Ross ranch at
San Jose. Most of my life here has
been spent about San Jose and the bay
cities.
II was not afraid of any tomor-
row that might come. l felt / had
my two strong hands and could work
But the years went on, and at last l
found that the world had little use
for its old helpless men. l began to
be afraid.
"One morning 1 awoke in a cheap
lodging house in San Francisco. My
left arm was paralyzed. do not
know why it should have come upon
me so.
'Well, that was the end. l tramped
about, grinding scissors. 1t was all
| could do. 1t is all l can ever do.
81 was old and homeless and lonely
There was little wanted, yet
I coul6GbOt get even those few things.
The homes l tramped by, the people
turned me from their doors.
zone day raised 81 bill to so.
"When I was caught l had to serve
a year at Mcneil island Then / was
turned out on the world again. What
can an old man do? l struggled for
a time, then raised more bills. Even
there are nights in winter when /
have TO sleep out of doors in my rag
ged blanket.
eff they send me to Jail will die.
am near my Maker, very near. /
was treated better in jail than ever
before in all my hard life. But oh,
l don't want to go back into the
JAIL"
The sad old mouth quivered and
the pale blue eyes sickened with fear.
81 want to be free" he whispered,
choking. "Oh God. every one wants
to be free. don't want to die-in
there"
Smith was asked If he would like to
be sent TO home, or charitable in
stitution. This seemed to terrify
him as much as the mention of Jail
had DONE
ST am afraid of those places" he
said, 'Tve heard stories that brighten
me. Just want TO be free. I'm too
old for anything else"
When arrested Smith had in his pos.
session $27, the result of much pains.
taking work on the part of his one
hand.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1920-11-05
eve Find That the Thing That Mankind
Is Hungry for Is Illusion"
BY W. L. GEORGE. British Novelist.

Why do people stories? Is there fundamental story hunger
people the craving for good afcay stimulated
do not believe that the question be answered simply that
down fundamentals find that the thing that mankind
gers for illusion We labor and do like it. and
ourselves invent illusion about the nobility of labor
be great be noticed to have stirring adventures and
commonplace the illusion of omance-hence STORYTELLING
art.
If should anayze the old craving of Te story should
divide it into three primary illusions First there the the
glorious bright beautiful wordhe world that
with roseoored pecac 1t escape from the which
plans do not work smoothly situations pat ambitions are
frustrated
Second there the illusion of the world of adventure which
things happening thick and which women are lifted
of their bright paths Of stimulation achievement
And this illusion works out story the commonplace sees
himself the person Of the bawny handsome hero course
galops gloriousy through all the adventures
The third type of illusion the illusion humor II represents
the philosophy of the with good deal of gesed experience who
finding that things will he pae deliberately builds up for
his intellectual life world of cheerful cyncsna world Of laughter
and doings which the blows life are soened bv re-
fusa to take them seriously
And the kind Of illusion that person seeks depends
it. upon the kind Of treatment he has had from life
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1920-11-05
COUNTERFEITER AT
81, FEARS PRISON
Graves Freedom for the Few
Days Of Life Remain
ing to Him.

San Francisco, CaI.-'aThere isn'u
any place left in the world for me.
Even il did have home it wouldn't
be any use. I'm too near the end"
The white head of William Smith,
ninety-two years of age, held In the
county Jail at San Jose on counter
feiting charges, was sunk in bitter
grief. -
He was ragged and dirty and old.
His white hair hung in shaggy, I'M
kernpt locks about his pitiful, fright
ened face. His paralyzed arm in the
ragged oyercoat sleeve hung limp at
his side.
Il have worked for eighty years.
My father died when / was two. and
at twelve had to leave school and
go to work. ] feel as though / had
lived for centuries, always toiling.
Il was apprenticed as carpenter
and sent away from my home in Eng
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1920-11-05
DODsON SOUNDS
GAL0MEL' S DOOM
The silver Tone Man Warns
Folks Against the Sickening,
SaIivating Drug.

Ughl Calomel makes you sick. It's
horrible! Take dose Of the danger
Gus drug tonight and tomorrow YOU
lose day.
Calomel is mercury! When it comes
into contact with sour bile. it crashes
into it, breaking it up. Then is when
you feel that awful nausea and cramp-
ing. If you are sluggish, If liver is
torpid and bowels constipated or you
have headache, dizziness, coated
tongue, if breath is bad or stomach
sour. just try a spoonful of harmless
Dodson's Liver Tone tonight.
Here's my guarantee-Go to any
drug store and get bottle of DodsOn's
Liver Tone for few cents. Take
spoonful and if it doesn't straighten you
right up and make you feel fine and
vigorous, go back to the store and get
your money Dodson's Liver Tone is
destroying the sale of calomel because
it can not salivate or make you sick
Adv.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1920-11-05
Jailed for Kissing.

Madrid-A severe reprimand and a
warning not to let the misdemeanor
occur again has Just been admins
tered to visitor to Madrid. VINO,
when he assisted his wife into cab
at the door of his hotel on the Puerta
del Sol. kissed her good-by. A pc
liceman led him off TO face his cap
tain. who informed the offender ig-
norance of the law was no excuse. but
that he had violated law of Madrid
which forbids a man to kiss any WON.
an while in the streets OF the city.
with or without her consent.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1920-11-05
Important to all Women
Readers Of this Paper

Thousands upon thousands of women
have kidney or bladder trouble and never
suspect it.
Women's complaints often prove to be
nothing else but kidney trouble, or the
result of kidney OF bladder disease.
If the kidneys are not in healthy con-
dition, they may cause the other organs
to become diseased.
You may suffer pain in the back, head
ache and loss of ambition
Poor health makes you nervous. irrita-
BILE and may be respondent; it makes any
one so.
But hundreds of women claim that Dr..
Kilmer's Swamp-Root, by restoring
health to the kidneys, proved to be just
the remedy needed to overcome such
conditions.
Many send for sample bottle to see
what Swamp Root, the great kidney,
liver and bladder medicine, will do for
them. BY enclosing ten cents to DIR.
Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y, you
may receive sample size bottle by Parcel
Post. You can purchase medium and
large size bottles at all drug stores.-Adv.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1920-11-05
TWICE ECCED,
HE TOTES Gun
Connecticut Parson Declares
He's "Not Afraid Of God
or Man."
BOMBARDED IN HOME
Arcuses the Village Against Him by
His War on Lotteries and Public
Gamblino-Gun Loaded With
Ammonia.

Stamford, Conn.--They threw fresh
Eggs at him and tomatoes that were
ovenfpe and 1t made the minister sore
he has been paying 81 dozen for
eggs-sO he has declared war on STAN
ford and on Darien, Conn.,, too. And
his chief weapon right now is a squirt
er-gun filed with ammonia--the Sc
lectman wouldn't issue him a permit
to carry real one.
The Rev. G.. e. Richter, the minister
In question, has open enemies in the
volunteer fire department, the knights
OF Columbus, the Eagles and the Red
men of these two communities. These
organizations have been having carni.
walls with lotteries, which the minister
charged was open gambling.
Bombarded In HE Home.
His ire aroused, he made his feel
lngs publicly known. The aforesaid
enemies, being bit piqued-as they
had lost much money because of the
minister's condemnation-gave him
vegetable bombardment during two
nights. And early one morning they
serenaded him, but it was not the kind
Of serenade one expects TO hear-also
1t was unprintable. Moreover, the
remarks that greeted Rev. Mr.. Richter
while on his way from his home to
Stamford cannot be repeated.
II am not afraid of God, or man, or
the devil, Or" Doctor Richter
paused during a recent address, his
voice choking-"or the baptism of eggs
that has greeted my efforts to purge
these communities Of low gambling
and drinking. And / shall carry
gun, no matter what the officials Of
Darlen say.
"a Shall Carry a Cum"
II will not kill anybody, merely
want to defend myself against the
rowdies of Darien-the low gambling
element that jeered me and threw eggs
at me and p!astered my roof and my
windows with tomatoes. I shall carry
A guni"
But the gaunt, gray-haired crusader
failed to tell his audience that his gun
was water pistol, charged with am.
monia. Furthermore, at nights his
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1920-11-05
this WOMAN oUTDoES PoNzl
Uses 800 Per Cent Profit
In Ten Days.

Butte Mont.--Charles Ponzi was
'tightwad compared with Mrs. Mary
F. Phillips of Fort Worth, Tex, who
has Just been detained here by the
police following her public offers Of
800 per cent profit in ten days on an
investment of 500.
Mrs. Phillips admitted that she had
told Milestone (Mont) woman that
she was a member of prominent de-
tective agency seeking counterfeiters.
She said, according TO Chief Murphy
that she was selling valuable oil royal
ties to locate the counterfeiters.
"She makes Ponzi look like. o
piker," Chief Murphy said.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1920-11-05
What God Renuires

What God requires is an undivided
villa yielding will. desiring only
what he desires, rejecting only what
he rejects, and both unreservedly.
Where such mind is, everything turns
to good. and its very amusemehts be-
come good works. Happy indeed is
such q one.-Fenelon.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1920-11-05

pistol protrudes from under his frock
coat as he hurries from his duties in
the city to the adjacent village Of
Darien, where he makes his home.
Moreover, since Selectman John Fl.
Selleck has refused 10 permit him to
carry a revolver, he has injected all
OF his feet inches into a political
battle in his efforts TO defeat him al
next weeks election.