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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-05-24
THE OLD HYMNS

If1E OAD n NhA~S
By Frank L. Stanton.
There's lots of music in 'em-the hymns
Of long ago,
And when some gray-haired brother
sings the ones l used to know
I sorter want to take hand tninh
Of days gone by
ION Jordans stormy banks l stand ano
cast wistful eye"
There's lots of music in 'em-thost
dear, sweet hymns of old,
With visions bright OF lands of light
and shining streets OF gold;
And l hear 'em ringing-singing where
Memory dreaming stands,
From Greenland's icy mountains to In
dia's coral strands"
They seem to sing forever of hoier
sweeter days,
When the lilies of the love of Goo
bloomed white in all the ways;
And I want to hear their music from
the old-time meetin's rise
Till II can read my title clear to man
sions in the skies"
We never needed singin' books in them
old days-we knew
The words. the tunes of every one-tht
dear old hymn book through!
We didn't have no trumpets then, M
organs built for show,
We only sang to praise the Lord, from
whom all blessings flow"
An so I love the good old hymns ant
when my time shall come
Before the light has left me, and m,
singing lips are dumb
If I can hear 'em sing them then, II
pass without sigh
To "Canaan's fair and happy land wher,
my possessions lie."
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-05-24
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LUKE M'LUKE SAYS

Women exce, q. .n;,,., +rairers
That is why most husbands are so meek
and obedient.
Every married man should behave
himself For ~ aa.a.sa. - IT. s;r :
do not find him out, his wife will.
We do not know much But we do
know that cheat 80 .a,aor, ~
as they are painted.
When daughter gets 10 he 1s wears
old she doesn't tbink n,uch ~ tbat mir.
ture of which she posed in the alto
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-05-24

Washington, May 2S.-tSpecial.)-
The danger of the typhoid or house
fly in the carriage of disease has been
abundantly demonstrated, and yet i.
is allowed to breed unrestricted all
over the United States; it is allowed to
enter freely the houses of the great
majority of our people; it is allowed
to spread bacteria freely over our food
supplies in the markets and in the
kitchens and dining rooms of private
houses
Thus writes DR.. l. o. Howard in a
communication to the National Geo.
graphic society. He continues:
Even If the typhoid or house fly
were q creature difficult to destroy,
the general failure on the part of com
munities to make any efforts what
ever to reduce its numbers could prop
erly be termed criminal neglect; but
since it is comparatively an easy mat
ter to do away with the plague Of flies,
this neglect becomes an evidence OF
ignorance or of carelessness in re-
gard to disease producing filth which
to the informed mind constitutes a sa-
rious blot on civilized methods of life.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-05-24
SURVEYING FROM THE AIR

Harold B. Say, in the June Popular Me-
chanics Magazine.
IN EvELOPMENT of the airnlane
II N from device that Simply proved
man could fly, to a machine vital
H. peace and war, and the advances in
aerial photography achieved during the
recent war, have combined to furnish the
surveyor of continents with new and
highly valuable set of Instruments For
the first time the annual report OF the
director Of the United States coast and
seodetic survey devotes pages to this
phase in map-makinE.
Probably the work which most strik.
ingly demonstrates the possibilities OF
aerial surveying is that done ON tho New
Jersey coast between Cape May and Sea-
bright. single flight was made over
the distance of 10 miles of coast line.
Two hours were required for the trip. A
total of 1888 photographs were taken. De-
veiopment of the films and the printing
required two days of one mans time. The
work of interpreting the photographs
assembling the mosaics, comparison with
Topographic sheets. and reduction to the
scale Of the chart of the outside shore
line, consumed 10 days of office work
by enc engineer
Had the work been done by land and
beat party, several men and several
weeks would have been required to dc
the actual field work, to say nothing OF
the drafting room labor. Most pertinen,
OF all the photographs taken during the
two-hour trip are now being used to re-
wise the charts of the coast of New
Jersey.
While thei Photographic experiments
were being conducted at Atlantic City
aerial photohydrographic work was un.
der way at Key West, Fla. OF this phase
Of the work, Director Jones reports:
"A well-surveyed area near Key West
vas chosen, and the vessels proceeded or
parallel courses over this area at full
speed. the plane flying forth and back
above the course. The courses and posi-
tons Of the vessels were recorded as y
ordinary sounding work. Tie s..-1s
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South Lectured for
Misfits in Office

6NHE Baltimore American seizes
il upon the plight of former Gov
error Cats of Florida to give the
south a mild lecture on permitting
"mental bolsheviks' to administer its
public affairs.
Mr.. Cats in Florida, Tom Watson
in Georgia and Cole Blease in South
Carolina are a few examples cited,
but the American compliments Ala
bama for having the good sense to
keep Senator Underwood in office,
and Mississippi which canned Var
daman and stood by John Sharp Will
Iiams. Virginia and Texas are other
states which the American thinks
have suffered at the hands of dema-
gogues and second-rate statesmen.
The American attributes this sad
state of affairs to the after effects
of the Civil war, (which forced the
south to let education go largely by
the board" but is of the opinion that
we a.e doing better now and IAN
improvement ought to come within the
next few years" That's encourag-
ing.
The many able southerners who
have served the nation and the south
since the Civil war seem to have
been forgotten by the American, but
the demagogues and the mental boil
sheviks" make SO much noise during
their brief stay in the spotlight that
one is apt to become confused and re-
gard them as typical of southern
craftsmanship, rather than isolated
cases and political accidents.
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NO AVIATOR

From the Interborough Bulletin. :
"A stalwart Swede stepped into cor,
ner drug store. II bane Sick" he said
to the clerk, and want some visky.
Nothing doing" answered the clerk
Don't you know the country's dry
But" he added, you might be able 10
get some squirrel whisky over there a
that saloon
Across the street the big swede made
known his wants.
squirrel whisky!' yelled the aston
ished proprietor. I'VE don't have such
a thing. but"-in a whisper-'T can az
you up with little Old Crow"
The Swede shook his head
Il no want to fly" he answered. n
yoost wan to yump around While"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-05-24
Birmingham Has Faith
and Is Going Ahead

~ HARLES M. SCHWAB has an
" nounced that the Bethlehem
Steel company will spend $25 100000
on engagements and improvements
at the Baltimore plant. The Balti-
more Manufacturers Record makes
use of this mark of confidence in the
future of Mr.. Schwab's part to preach
optimism, saying:
We are now in an upbuilding period.
The time has come for men who have
faith in America to go ahead and,
to the extent of their ability, follow
the example of Mr.. Schwab. Those
who believe that America is headed
downhill to ruin and destruction are
justified in doing nothing except to
bewai, their i'll fortune; all others
should be up and doing with faith
in their county, faith in themselves
and in an overrulng Providence,
which has made America the Won
derland of the ages.
To which Birmingham can answer
that lot of this spirit may be found
here. The city is building two high
schools and is about to build an au-
ditorium. County and city are paw
ing streets and building permanent
roads.
The pressed steel car plant at Fair
field will soon go into operation. The
Masons are to build handsome tenn
pie. Several churches are rising. The
Young Mems Hebrew association
building is under construction.
At North Birmingham a sewer pipe
plant has just completed the largest
walled building in the south and a
large structural steel plant nears COM
pletion, while at Tarrant City a new
rolling mill and automobile works
announce their readiness to start July
1. Two independent steel plants are
making extensive engagements.
We are setting the record for the
country in the building of homes.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-05-24
AN OLD DUEL

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger
Behind the present Anglo-French
clash over upper Silesa is the back
ground of two ancient and opposing
ideas. France, taught by the terrible
lessons OF the last half century, the
F'ranco-Prussian war and the Great
war, would be strong that she may be
safe. For the same reason she would
make her implacable enemy weak. She
would lop off from Germany the
! sources of Teutonic strength. In order
to be safe and serene, France should
be the strongest of the powers of west
ern Europe.
England, however, has never quite
forgotten those great days OF France,
when the giant shadow of Napoleon
fell across all Europe and doomed
across the channel. England fought
with desperation, side by side with
France, to stop the German, but she
fought no more desperately than she
did 100 years ago to cage the Corsican
The tide of affairs is giving tc
France her old, strong and proud place
in Europe. She has alliances with Po-
land, Belgium, Hungary and the little
anti bolshevist states that have
sloughed off from western Russia. She
is the military power of western Eu-
rope, and has placed Germany in wise
between herself and Poland
| Satisfactory as this may be to the
rest of the world, it is somewhat dis.
quieting to England. Great Britain
does not object to strong France, but
she is nervously contemplating a
France that might have the last word
in all European matters. SO, while
France pushed hard for drastic action
against the Germans a few days ago
England held back. The unspoken fea,
of growing French power caused Lloyd
George to take the curious, shifting
time-killfng course that gave Germany
another and final chance. Paris want
ed to go straight into the Ruhr, but
London baked and shifted.
AT a time when the English empire
is straining in the currents of unrest
Ireland rebeilious, Egypt mutterine
South Africa troubled and India seeth-
ing England is watching the growing
French dominance in a disquietet
mood The balance OF power in Eu,
rope is shifting, and England is MOI
its sole guide in the shift.
In this renewed, but as yet unac-
knowledged duel, upper Silesia is a.
incident although it may prove to bs
the important incident. In the mean,
time, the cunning brains of Berlin are
probing and searching, anxious for the
breach to widen SO that a wedge. may
be driven deep and firm between
France and England.
Berlin has hopes, in the light of re-
cent days and recent developments
that Germany, although unable to de-
feat the allies in battle. may yet b.
able to evade the just penalties of Teu
tonic crimes.
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THE FIFTY-FIrrIEs
from the Montgomery Advertiser.

1t appears that physicians who are
prohibitionists are in substantial agree
cinal properties wNile physicians who
are not prohibitionists are agreed that
beer is very good medicine Who is
it that first conceived the idea that
physicians are less paxtisaD than other
people?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-05-24
THE ZERO HOUR

From the Great Bend (Kan.) Tribune 4
Book agents could greatly aid in REL
storing peace and harmony to this
country II they would cease ringing the
doorbsll when the housewife y In tie
bathtub.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-05-24

LIGHT EXERCISE.
you must take more exercise" said
the doctor play little golf"
But 1 don't like golf DOCTOR" said
the corpulent patient That sort of sport
would be the worst kind of drudgery for
me"
"Ahem! What is your favorite outdoor
sport?'
"Dominoes on a veranda."
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masks while passing a prosperous
looking, silk-hatted gentleman who
looks like a physician and is smok-
ing cigar; cigarette fiend bound
to wheel turned by a person who
bears a close resemblance to the
devil and is labeled "Old Nicotine;"
the devil saving kindling wood which
by some new process becomes cigar
cites; a sweet little girl who says she
wants to be like her grandmother and
will never, never smoke, and other
forceful drawings pointing out that
the abolition of tobacco is the logical
sequence to the downfall of John Bar
leycorn.
One has no idea of the horrors of
tobacco until well-paid workers in the
ranks of anti-tobacco reformers rush
into print. Similarly, a devotee of
the weed doesn't realize what bless
ing he enjoys until he hears the other
side.
At a dinner given to the French min
lister of agriculture by the Alsatian wine
growers 1879 varieties of beverages were
served, and the guests drank steadily for
two hours. A pleasant time seems to
have been had by ALL
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Opinions differ regarding the future of
the League of Nations, but the unwary
who bought stock in the League of
Nations from smooth strangers might as
well begin to unload.
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Will some enterprising Washington cor
respondent please find out what Secre-
tary Hughes and Herb Hoover think
about Colonel Harveys speech to the Pill
grim society?
A cafe proprietor in Greenwich Village
who tried to draw the color line was
hailed to court and lost her case. We had
no idea Greenwich Village was so par
ticular.
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Contrary winds were encountered by
Birmingham Saturday. That's a time
when a balloonist signs for a propeller.
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TT must not be again. said President
Harding, at the funeral services for 5000
war dead In New York. Make it strong
or and say, 1T shall not be again"
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Mr.. Dempsey is SO rough with his spar
ring partners that one has already left
in this emergency?
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! If Ex-Governor Cats of Florida has
ever read Shakespeare he's in position
to remark. Sorrows come not single
but in battalions"
| British troops and German volunteers
| fighting side by side in Upper Silesia is
spectacle to give France another attack
of nerves.
! Carpenters objection to crowds Is in
comprehensive to an American pugilist
who adorns the stage as we'll as the
ring
| Fitting from transatlantic liners to
Paris will enable Americans to establish
contact sooner with the sources of sup
ply.
| To oppose man simply because he
happened to be on board Henry Word s
peace ship is carrying prejudice too far.
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| America will not disarm until she can
be reasonably certain that 16-inch guns
are no longer useful except for salutes.
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| Succumbing to an onslaught of spring
fever, New Work stenographer yawned
so widely she dsocated her jaw.
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The Kentucl1ian who asked a divorce
"by return mall probably has his eye
on friend wife's successor.
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Outside of Boston, Mr.. Hardng's split
inhntives are accepted merely as an &C.
centricity of greatness.
INEFFICIENT
From the Kansas City Star.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-05-24
Some Horrible Examples
in War Against Tobacco

n COPY of the Youths Instructor,
&N published in Washington, which
styles itself the "anti-tobacco annual"
has reached The Age-Herald office.
Studied through the haze of tobacco
smoke that is found in most, if not
all, newspaper offices, the Youths In
structor may strike chill to hearts
weakened by indulgence in the PERM
cious weed. The cartoons alone are
depressing enough to bring on night
mares, night sweats and other dis
agreeable symptoms of a disturbed
mental condition.
One Of the first illustrations to
catch the eye is a cartoon entitled,
eff They Advertised the Truth" 1t
shows billboard on which appears q
CHASTITY victim of the cigarette habit.
Just to the northeast of this unfortu-
nate person is a skull, presumably of
someone who smoked 100 cigarettes
day and went up in smoke-or per-
haps down. when you see a cigar
cite think of furfurol, one Of the
deadliest poisons known, produced in
the burning cigarette" the advertise
ment reads. ASK Thomas A. Edi-
son. He knows"
That cartoon in itself is enough to
cause grave misgivings about the
little white slaver," as Brothers Ford
and Edison call the cigarette. But
without asking Mr.. Edison, who would
probably tell us that furfurol is "a
colorless, aromatic, volatile oily COM
pound, gradually darkening, formed
by distilling bran, starch, sugar, ETC.,
with sulphuric acid" let US hasten on.
Page two is largely taken up with
picture, of the corpulent Mr.. Taft,
a shining example Of what a man
looks like and the honors that will
come to him if he abstains from to-
bacco. The equally healthy and prom
inent Mr.. Harding smokes cigarettes,
but his picture does not accompany
that Of Mr.. Taft. On another page
is an English centenarian who has
never used tobacco. The centenarians
who have used tobacco practically all
their lives, male and female, are fair
ly numerous. There should be some
way to get their pictures published.
The succeeding pages Of the annual
are filled with such illustrations IS a
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-05-24
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH.
This authority says home brew is
poison" HN
when did he make that observation
81 don't remember. Is the time impor
tant?"
Very. I've heard number of men
who were not authorities say the same
thing after attending home brew
party"
ECHO ANSWERS "HoW?"
Here's a pretty economical problem"
Lets have it,
How can tired business man whose
income is only $4,000 year provide a
stage beauty with fur coats and the last
word in limousines?"
NEW TYPE OF DIPLOMAT.
What's the news from abroad?'
From London?"
THAT will do
Colonel Harvey still has the Britishers
exclaiming, Ny word!
NO ESCAPE.
He went upon houseboat cruise
And hoped to get away from news
or strikes and politics and wars,
Crime waves and vamps and movie stars
And thus to leave dull care behind
And cultivate q peaceful mind.
Canoeists briskly came aboard
And frae,y ouaffed his liquid hoard,
Cav campers jeered him as he passed
And when he moored the natives massed
Upon the shore and asked him how
He learned to navigate scow.
Although he from intruders shrank
Book agents hailed him from the BANK
Until he quit and had to own
The world won't let a man alone.
PAUL COOK.
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Bride Path

Il don't think l ever saw so many
horseback riders in Birmingham as
there are here this spring. 1t would
be splendid thing If they would
make a bride path through the large
acreage just over Red Mountain" said
Erie Pettus, United States district at
torney. This area is availab BILE and is
Just off the paved road and in my
park has them in New York. This
could be done at very little cost and
with the natural beauty would make
an ideal bride path"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-05-24
A RARE BIRD

What have we here?"
"A letter to the editor
But it's more than column long"
Our correspondent says he has never
written letter to the editor before, and
he thinks he's entitled to some consider
alton
There's something in that"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-05-24

LE1,s GIVE HIM A REST

From the New Orleans Times-Picayune.
Kansas City minister says satan
never takes vacation" That must
account for the expression. poor
tdevil!"
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AN ARTIST NOW.

AN ARTIST NOW.
"Gladys says her art Is everything.
"Why, she used to be care-free
chorus girl
"She has a speaking part now-two
lines in a new girl show-and she's all
ten,perament"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-05-24
HAS SUGAR IN IT

From the Arkansas Thomas Cat.
Mrs. Mickie Hunt says that her little
daughter, Amy, has such sweet voice
that when she sings she draws flies.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-05-24

A MORNING PRAYER
There are dark years behind me-
Lord:. Forgive their selfishness and
their sin. Strengthen me now that
with thy help 1 may make the COM
ing years glorious. Amen.--M. > b.
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In Position to Get
the Out-of- Town Trade

r71HE Merchants and Manufacturers
u association of the Chamber Of
Commerce, incident to the dinner
which members will have on May 81,
will form plans for a campaign to
bring out-of-town merchants to Bir-
mingham this fall and winter to trade.
This association sometime ago in
augurated rebate system, by which
out-of-town merchants patronizing
them are refunded their transporta-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-05-24
TRUE REALISM.

TRUE REALISM.
The death scene in this play is quite
realistic"
at must be-"
"Yes?"
81 sat next to an undertaken last night
and it aroused his professional interest"
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Hanks Everett writes.

Il have a letter from Blanks Ever
EFT writing from Oakland, Call" said
Paoli Smith. Mr.. Everett is secretary
of the Oakland Chamber of Commerce,
1000 and is after one of 5000. Mr..
Everett wishes to refresh his memory
on the Birmingham chambers system
of card indexes and the like for use
In Oakland. 'In his letter he says the
feels compelled to come to the Birm-
ingham chamber for information be-
cause its system is the best of any"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-05-24
Sumter's County Agent
a Paying Investment

1f1HE board of revenue of Sumter
II county earnestly debated the
matter of employing county agent.
That was several months ago. The
benefit of having one being strongly
urged, they employed an agent. A
news item from Livingston to The
Age-Herald of Monday, says:
Last week the club of truck growers
organized by County Agent Arnold
got out five cars of beans that
brought $2.25 per hamper f. o. b. cars
ut Cuba, and two cars of potatoes
that brought cents per pound +. o. b.
The saving to the farmer on beans
alone was around 80 cents per ham
per, or about $3.50 on the five cars.
and the same proportion on potatoes.
At this rate the county agent will
soon have more than paid for his serv-
ices. Nothing could be simpler than
employing a man to do the marketing
for a neighborhood. The marketing
has to be done if the farmer is to
realize on his labor. 1t can be done
with more efficiency and economy and
with higher cash return cooperative
ly, in car lots, by common agent
in touch with the markets than by
each farmer coming to market and
peddling out his stuff.
The time will soon come when every
farming neighborhood in Alabama
will buy and sell in no other fashion.
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IN HOTEL LOBBIES
AND ELSEWHERE
For Good Roads

On leaving for Washington to ar
range for the committee meeting on
federal aid to be held May 26, j. Asa
Rountree, director general of the Bank
head Highway association, said: THE
meeting is to be before the committee
on postoffices and post roads OF
which Senator Charles Townsend Of
Michigan is chairman. The Bankhead
highway and United States Good Road
associations will both have strong
committees to urge the Townsend bill
which has for its object an appropria-
ton OF oo.ooo,0OO annually for fed
eral aid for roads.
The Townsend bill has new pro-
vision, one that obllgates the states
receiving federal aid to lay aside a
maintenance fund as condition of re-
ceiving aid. All the states embraced in
the two associations will have repre-
sentation at the committee meeting"
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All unavoided In the doom of destiny
--Richard III.
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