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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-07
People Must Know
 Before They Purchase

1T TINTED STATES Commissioner O of Education Dr. John D. Tigert declared in an address at Des Moines on Tuesday that adver- Using is the most important factor in modern business. In particular he said:
 Important as are the factors of
 1aber, raw materials, production,
 marketing and organization, none
 of them is as, significant as ad-
 vertising.
 The newspaper is the greatest
 medium of advertising, and it Is
 the only medium that can be used
 for immediate effect.
 This is so true the wonder is that men of experience find it matter that should be impressed on the business world. When a man has something to dispose of he wants as many persons as he can accommo- date to purchase what he offers. He also knows that they will pur- chase this commodity in precisely the degree that they know about it's merits. They cannot know until  he places it before them. The quickest and most effective method of informing the greatest number of persons is the newspaper.
 Do local manufacturers appreci- ate this as much as they should ? Is the retail merchant altogether to be blamed for not keeping on hand locally manufactured stuff of which the buyer is ignorant? Did the retailer or the manufacturer create the demand for nationally known commodities Who made Birming- ham familiar with certain brands of cigarettes and soft drinks? A manufacturer can no more af- ford to neglect the consumer than the retailer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-07
A NATIONAL TIME SIGNAL

By Scilence Service.
 New York, July 6.-(Special. "A dimming of electro lights each night nal is being urged as measure that will distribute the correct time regu- larly to all who are within sight of an electric light.
 In the same way that the conven- tional time ball is dropped down the staff at noon and clocks are regulated by telegraphic or radio signals from the naval observatory in Washington, it is suggested that power plants reg ularly flash the correct time daily over their electrical systems.
 This idea is actually working Tn Uruguay, according to James H. Col lins, who explains the Idea in the Jewellers dircular issued today. In that country, the lights are dimmed for about one second at p. m.
 "Electrical engineers say that the idea might be applied immediately in many small communities where the amount of electric current will not call for great lowering of voltage to communicate the flash" declares Mir. Collins. "In the larger cities, where immense power loads are also cnr- ried on circuits that furnish lighting current, the technical difficulties may be great"
 A national electrical time signal would call attention to the inaccura- cies of the clocks and watches in the average community. which vary five minutes at the least, it is declared.
 The housewife would have a re- liable source of time, and that old joke of waiting for a woman" may have to be sent to the land where most of the pre-prohibition jokes have gone if every woman can set her wrist watch by electric light Jewellers are interested in the move- hent because 1t fits into the ideals of the recently organized Horological Institute of America.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-07
HAS HUMOR ADVANCED?

strictest meaning of the word un- doubtedly was his.
 The period when whimsicality came in-the end of the eighteenth ana nineteenth century-was the period when, a return to nature in poetry was in gestation; a movement be- ginning subconsciously with Cowpsr and Crabbe and finding it's most elo- quent conscious prophets in Words worth and Coleridge, and its gospel in the preface to the second edition of the Lyrical Ballads in 1900. Cole ridge and Wordsworth were the great wave. Beneath the impressive sur face of the ocean which they crested, in the calm waters where letter writ ing is carried on eff may be par doned not the best of metaphors), the other development was in prog ress; correspondents were becoming more familiar.
 I would not allege that humor and the epistolary art were strangers un- til, say, 17S0--there is, indeed, very good evidence to the contrary-but it was somewhere about that time that a more conscious facetiousness crept in, and just as Wordsworths revolu- tionary methods held the field and busted the heightened conventional language of the eighteenth century poets, so did this new and natural levity gain strength. Hitherto men had divided themselves strictly be- tween their light and their grave moods. But now gradually these moods were allowed to mingle, and in course of the quite serious people let their pens frisk as merrily as the nrofassional wars
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-07

tured to cut down the cost of pro duction and maintenance. A com- position of cotton, formaldehyde and glue is being used to produce a material that will solve the prob- lem."
 The automobile as vehicle capa- ble of self-propulsion is no longer an experiment. Since steam and gasoline have been used for power, there seems no fundamental reason why coal dust may not serve the same purpose.
 As for the body construction of an automobile, that may be light or heavy. It may be of costly mate rial and it may be of cheaper but serviceable material. The first bicy- cles cost $20O. A good machine may now be gotten for less than fifth of that amount.
 The automobile has covered the face of the earth apparently, but it is still luxury to the average fam fly. It does not seem in the naMre of human enterprise that it should not eventually come within the means of every wage earner.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-07

sE. V. Lucas, in Harper's Magazine for
 July.
 N LTHOUGH the new humor com A\ prises the old. 1t has never e = reached its predecessors heights in certain of it's branches. Only in parody and nonsense have we gained. There has, for example, been no modern satire to equal Pope's and sDryden's and Swift's; no irony more biting than Swift's or Defoes, or more delicate and negotiating than Goldsmith's; no such cynical or grotesque humor as Shakespeare ex- ults in; no rough -and-tumble buff foonery like Fielding's and Smollett's. In nonsense and in parody alone we have improved, the old days having nothing to offer to be compared with Lewis Carroll or Calverley; but in burlesque we cannot compete with The Rehearsal,"g "The BeggarsN Opera" or "The Critic"
 But all those authors were im- personal. They suppressed them selves. We have no evidence as to whether Shakespeare was more like Falstaff or Prospero; probably he re- sembled both, but we cannot know. Goldsmith is the only autobiographer among them, but even he always af- fected to be some one else, he had not the courage of the first person sin- gular and Steele and Addison, emil nently fitted as they were to inau- gurate the new era, clung to tradi- ton and employed 8 stalking horse. Even Sterne only pretended to be hi mi self although WhimsicallY in the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-07
Nitrate Plant Is
 Ready for Operation

E7NfIE large nitrate plant at Mus ll cle Shoals is completed. This is strategic advantage pointing to the feasibility of some deal on the part of the government that will start it going on it's useful mission.
 The immense limestone quarry at Waco has been developed and con- nected with the tracks of the Southern railway. The transmission lines from the power plant of the Alabama company on the Warrior river have been connected with the plant so that this power may be utilized in case of emergency, pend- ing the completion of the Wilson dam. A steam power plant of 90,- 900 horsepower is also available.
 Secretary Weeks is bound to take cognizance of the situation and dispense with dilatory measures in arranging for the operation of a plant that cost many millions and whose idleness will cost more.
 Those favoring government opera tion of the plant might be recon ciled to private control by contem- plating what government operation of the railroads has cost the na- ton.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-07
THE AMERICAN FLAG

THE AMERICAN FLAG By Joseph Rodman Drake. When freedom from her mountain
 height
 unfurled her standard to the air. She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars of glory there. She mingled with it's gorgeous dyes The milky baldric of the skies, And striped it's pure celestial white With streakings of the morning
 light; Then from his mansion in the sun She called her cagle-bearer down, And gave lnso his mighty hand The symbol of her chosen land Majestic monarch of the clouds,
 Who rear'st aloft thy regal form, To hear the tempest trumpings loud And see the lightning lances driven, When strive the warriors of the
 storm, And rolls the thunder drum of
 heaven, Child of the sunl to thee 'tis given To guard the banner of the free, To hover in the sulphur smoke, To ward away the battle stroke, And bid it's blendings shine afar. Like rainbows on the cloud of war. The harblngers of victory. Flag of the brave, thy folds shall fly, The sign of hope and triumph high, When speaks the signal trumpet tone. And the long line comes gleaming on, Ere yet the life blood, warm and wet. Has dimmed the glistening bayonst. Each soldier eye shall brightly turn TO where thy sky-born glories burn, oc ,rir ct advance. Catch war and vengeance from the
 glence, And when the cannon mouthings loud Heave tn wild wreaths the battle
 shroud, And glory sabres rise and fall Like shoots 1t flame on midnights
 pail,
 Then shall thy meteor glances glow And covering foes shall shrink be-
 meath
 Each gallant arm that strikes be-
 low,
 That lovely messenger of death. Flag of the seas, on ocean wave Thy stars shall glitter OCT the brave; When death, careering on the gale, Sweeps darkly round the bellied sau. And frighted waves rush wildly back Before the broadsides reeling rack. Each dying wanderer of the sea Shall look at once to heaven and
 thee,
 And smile to see thy splcndors fly In triumph OCT his closing eye. Flag of the free hearts hope and
 home,
 By angel hands to valor given; Thy stars have lit the wellSin dome. And all thy hues were born in heaven. Forever float thy standard sheet. Where breathes the foe but falls be- fore us, With freedoms soil beneath our feet, And freedoms banner waving o'es
 us!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-07
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Sheffield Is o. K

sheffield will make her final ar- rival, and that at no late date," said Joseph Lee, formerly of that Tennes- see river city. Tt has lived on big expectations for many years owing to it's situation with regard to Muscle Shoals, and 1t has had it's ups and downs. but the big plants there are now complete and ready for opera tion.
 They are too important to be ig- nored by the big interests of the country, and I look for them to be taken over and operated by those fully capable of doing so.
 T would feel no regret if the gov ernment turned the properties over to private parties, as seems to be the intention of Secretary Weeks. Private operations have been much more eco- homie and efficient than federal, so far as the experience of America goes"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-07
WHAT'S BACK OF BoLsHEvIsM.

From the NatlOnS buSlneSS.
 The great conflict through which we have just passed has given im- petus to an idea perhaps as far reach ing as the Idea of political equality which the French revolution fathered. We are still too close to the event to be able to give exact definition to the new thought which is abroad in the world today. but we have seen it ex press itself so enthusiastically in so many quarters that it would be folly to close our eyes to its existence or to underestimate its significance.
 In Russia men call it "bolshevism.' ' In Italy they call it "syndicalism." In Germany they call it revolution" and in England Standardization" It is not sufficient for us to call this new idea 'bolshevism." and because of it's impracticability refuse to give if serious consideration. The idea is broader and deeper than the tragic nightmare which is Russia. If we recognize it as something which un- derlies Russian bolshevism, Hungari- an communism, Italian syndicalism and English labor strife, it is possi- ble for us to classify this thought as grouping toward some new form of industrial and economic equality as distinguished from the political equal ity which has occupied mems minds during the century now past.
 If, serene in our confidence in pres- ent conditions, we ignore the possi- bility of trouble, the new idea will ferment in dark corners, tended by those who neither love nor know America. until it becomes a menace which only our mightiest efforts can avert
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-07
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
rY TO CHOOSE FROM

A VARIETY TO CHOOSE FROM
 Conditions are different in some of the coast cities" remarked Mir. Bibbles. who had just returned from business trip.
 You are referring to-ahem- moisture in the atmosphere?" asked Mir. Jagsby.
 "Yes. There are places where 8 patron is still asked what he will have instead of being told what he can get"
 CLOTHES COMPETITION
 well. how's business?" asked the summer hotel guest.
 Poor" said the clerk. "A woman arrived this morning with nine trunks"
 Then business must be yickins up."
 -NO' Ildll d uOLcH WOneH WnO brought only four or five trunks apiece are going to leave"
 NOT A. SPARK OF SENTIMENT
 Let's sit here on the shore and lis- ten to what the sad sea waves are saying" pleaded the romantic young man.
 "No. thanks" replied the beach beauty. If that's the extent of your conversational powers we'll breeze along to the hotel.'
 SPEED IN THE COUNTRY
 Didn't we pass through a town just now?"
 T really can't say" replied the man at the wheel. q thought I saw blurred image of house or two and heard something like the yell of a constable. but It may have been just my imagination"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-07
Building Boom

There is a veritable building boom on at Forest Park" said John T.. Yeatman, land the lots are going like hot cakes
 "One entire block on which until recently there were only two houses is now covered with them, while just across the street they are springing up like mushrooms. Three new homes are being erected on Thirty eighth street, while quite number are being built on Clairemont avenue.
 "Every lot on Lakeview avenue has been sold, and soon there will be a half dozen or more homes in the course of erection. Home build ing is the thing in Birmingham at the present hour.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-07
How To sieep Cool

Usually Birmingham nights are so cool. no matter what the day has brought forth" said Charles E Jones, that one sleeps well. However, in this recent hot spell even the nights have been warm and sleep has not been won without struggle before midnight.
 "A mighty good scheme for those without sleeping porches is to put the head of the bed as close to the open window as it will go. In this way one gets the whiff of the outer air and it Is always cooler and more refreshing right at the window open ing than 1t Is even few feet away"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-07
THE UPLIFTERs
the Florida Times-Union

From the Florida Times Union
 The Birmingham Age Herald says: Paris experts say tobacco smoke kills germs. Respectfully referred to the anti-tobaoco crusade.'' But what do uplifters care for germs--or other people. They've got to go after something. or go out of businsss.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-07
Believes in Walking

"Yes, l walk home of nights, even in this warm weather" said Marc Linx' T do this although I must climb Twontlethe street hill in or der to make 1t to my home on Six teenth street. south.
 Warm or cold I believe in walk ing. and I feel none the worse for it no matter what the state of weather.
 q have been fond of walking all my life. It has appealed to me more than any other form of exercise. l have not walked because some one advised me to do it, but because l like walking. So I deserve no credit for using my feet this hot weather"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-07
No REPLY ExPECTED-

From the Medicine Lodge Index.
 William Timmins has found prop erty and is advertising it in the In- dex in the hope of finding the owner. Here is the advertisement: Found One burlap bag. Found near by chicken house. When found 1t had two of my chickens in it. Owner may have same by calling at my house, proving property and paying for this advertisement"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-07
DROWNING HIM OUT

Nothing delights MT. Grabcoin more than to tell his guests of the time when he was poor and worked In section gang"
 "Yes. and if any of the guests hap pen to be musical1y inclined that's the time Mrs. Grabcoin asks them to sing or play something" EVIDENTLY A GOOD RADIANCE "oh, dear" exclaimed Mrs. Jib- way, Mrs. Clipping next door has lost her little poodle"
 Are you sure it's lost?" asked Mir. Jibway. "oh, yes. She's looked every where. And when you go out you might speak a word of condolence to her"
 q can't do that" said Mir. Jibway, ''but I'll try to keep my face straight. and I promise not to jump in the air and crack my heels together until l get around the corner"
 HELPi The paperhanger has no sense, He isn't smart at all; For though his business Is immense, It drives him to the wall.
 Cincinnati Enquirer The plumber. many men attest Is of a moral type, But though his habits are the best He often hits the pipe.
 Detroit Free Press. The banker knows a way, you see, To keep business afloat; Although no barber he may be, He often slaves a note.
 Canton (Ohio) News. The surgeon likes to operate Upon poor helpless mutts; Unlike the butcher, sad to state, He has no cheaper cuts.
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-07
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DO YOU KNOW

In 13 seconds we receive as much light and heat from the sun as we do from the moon in a whole year.
 On an average 8 rough diamond loses half it's weight when cut into a brilliant.
 Platinum is so ductile that an ounce of 1t could be drawn into wire 1900 miles long. The wire would be so slender' that it would be practically invisible.
 The Croton bug is so called because it first attracted general attention in New York at the time Croton water was introduced. It is a species of world wide distribution, however, and is sometimes known as the Ger man roach.
 The hazard of firedamp is not. as generally supposed. peculiar to coal mines. Several firedamp explosions have occurred in recent years in the gold mines of the Far East Rand, South Africa.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-07
THE BURNING-GHATS

into the water. It leaped, sparkled, to receive the body. and it bedewed with diamond drops the two bearers, who, having performed their pious task, climbed back into the boat.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-07
Babson Foresees
 Cheaper Automobile

X CCoRDING to Roger w. Bab- EA son, the eminent statistician, automobiles built of composition of cotton and operated with coal dust for fuel are possibility. He says:
 Lighter cars must be manufac-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-07
Are Citizens of Birmingham Paying Too Much for Ice?

N0 UMEROUS complaints have lWbeen made about the quality of ice sold in Birmingham. The Age-Herald and the people of this city would like to know why ice is selling at war prices when the cost of many commodities has gone down.
 The Age-Herald publishes this morning interviews with proprie- tors of restaurants, drug stores and other consumers of ice, They are satisfied with the service given them, but there is quite natural desire to know why the price of this necessity is still about twice what it was before the war. The statement was made yester-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-07
F T Probable That Treaty Will Be Sent Back to the Senate

FT1 HE Harding administration is
 l haunted by the ghost of the Versailles treaty. It does not re- quire much legal knowledge for one to realize that the United States, as provided under the recently adopted peace resolution, cannot in -sist on all its rights guaranteed by the treaty without in some way be- coming a party to it.
 Woodrow Wilson in seclusion may get some quiet enjoyment out of the troubles of his successor in of flee. The peace resolution itself is "dud." It created not a ripple of excitement in America or Germany. It is merely the beginning of the task of settling our quarrel with Germany and deciding upon defin- ite foreign policy. Thus far our foreign policy seems to consist chiefly of "faelers." That sort of diplomacy may do very we'll as a preliminary to actual negotiations, but the real work is yet before the Harding administration.
 Predictions are being made by correspondents who are noted for guessing right that the Versailles treaty with qualifications will be sent back to the Senate. There can be little doubt that it will be rati- fled, regardless of the uproar that may be made by the "irreconcila- bles." This troubled world will never be restored to normalcy until America joins hands with Europe in working out the postwar problems
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-07

A MORNING PRAYER
 May this he the burden of my every prayer, o Lord; that my will may be conquered and made one with thine. Amcn--M. $. B,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-07
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The "meanest man. has been dis covered. He lives in Kansas City, Mo, and his wife says he not only won't work, but when he wanted to attend a dance he took the only pair of silk stockings she had and cut the tops off so he could wear them for socks
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-07

The employment manager of large insurance company isn't hiring girls with bobbed hair. He says, "We want workers in our officey not circus riders" Now that we think of it. some of them do look like circus riders.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-01-12
NATIONS BUSINESS

Importance of adequate protection
of the domestic chemical industry
from the standpoint of national de-
Tense was emphasized by many speak
ers at the opening of hearings before
the House Ways and Means Commit
tee on the general revision of the
tariff.
Complete elimination of all grain
and cotton exchanges was advocated
by Representative CaraWay of Arkan-
sas before the House Committee on
Agriculture.
Commodity prices at wholesale fell
g. per cent during the month of
December, according to Dun's index.
The Chile Copper Company is stated
to be planning the construction of
refinery at it's properties.
The tobacco planters charge the
manufacturers with forcing prices
down to ridiculous levels.
c. w. Patterson, president of Austin,
Nichols & Company, stated that bust
ness during the last half of 1920 was
very satisfactory Sales amounted to
about 50 per cent more than in the
same period of 1919.
Aost observers have believed that
the continued declines in the prices
of wheat will cause the growers to
release ut least part of their crop.
Staple canned goods continues to
show some movement, buyers being in
the market for canned corn, tomatoes
and peas in fair quantities.
Manufacturers, selling agents, job
bers and cutters-up Of wooden fabrics
are Interested at present in comparing
values with those ruling a year ago
and are discussing opening prices for
next season.
Wholesale sellers of silk goods are
not revising their prices downward as
are distributors of cotton fabrics