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The McCarthy weekly news., 1921-11-19

tery to some; but the answer i is that it seemed easier to Dry Congress- loose from needed dough through the Army Ap- propriation bill tntn in any Oth- , CT way. Then there is the Forest Reserve outfit which spends the reSul5s of the lle tim ber in AllSkt or a p.rt there of in building r,tJ> Ill the For est Reserve.
 Then comes the money Spe ] t under the apprnpriAt'on for Good Roads and finally the money appropriated by the Ter ritorial Legislature.
 The territory first attempted to establish it's own organization but soon found that the limited amount of money available would hardly support the salar- isS of the roed overseers, let a. lone the construction of any roads. As a consequence the territorial organization was a. polished and the money turned over to the Road Commission, whose organization was complete and must be maintained.
 The territory thus set a good example t, the national admin iStratiOn which is not being prof ited by, for the Forest Reserve spen Is it's money independently and the National Good Roads money will be spent by another organization. All of which rp- suits in plenty of offic, JobS < but little effective work being done.
 Now if we may be allowed in all humility and self abnegation to suggest something We would rise to remark :" Why in Sun Hill don't the government use as much horse sense as Wop peanut vender would and lump these sums under one manage ment."
 Such a course as suggested might cut out few jobs, but it might also result in the cOmDle tion of such vitally necessary
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-18
Need Co.operation

T am glad that there is an effort on foot by the city to regulate pedestrians as we'll as automobile drivers" says E. W. House, flor 1t is not always the fault of drivers when somebody is hurt in the downtown district. as many foot passengers take all kinds of chances.
 Tt is high time for people who walk to learn the traffic regulations so that they can cooperate with the drivers of cars. I am glad that jay walking is to be penalized, as it's against good judg- ment and traffic regulations, and is ex- tremely dangerous, for the automobile is permitted to pass cars with open gates. if they are on the side opposite to the open gates and going the opposite direction of the car.
 Tn attempting to board street car, especially in the safety zone or down town section, walk to the nearest cor ner, go out into the street at the inter section, until you get parallel with the car tracks, then go out to meet the car. If the car has not yet come, yod are privileged to stand there until it does come, but do not stand on the curb and then when the car is coming, rush out straight across the street"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-18
Wiley on the Income Tax

"The Age-Herald gave me credit for very fine piece of work this morn ing,' said E. G. Chandler yesterday, but I want to hasten to put the credit where it belongs.
 The author of the article on the in- come tax. which you published at my request was c. N. Wiley, secretary of the Birmingham Kiwanis club. and ap peared in the current issue of the club s publication.
 ''It struck me so forcib1y and as be- ing so apt that thought The Age-Her- aid should reproduce it. A good many of my friends assumed that I was the author, since I had requested it's publi- cation, but I want the credit to go to e. N for fine piece of work
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-18
New Hampshire Farmers
 Indorse Muscle Shoals

TE ARMERS of New Hampshire U have called on the New Hamp- shire members of Congress to press for the completion of the work at Muscle Shoals. This is a rebuke to Nicholas Longworth and other con- gressmen who have made this project a partisan issue.
 New Hampshire farmers have the b.a;ns to see that the manufacture of nitrates by the air process in this country should be as pronounced an economic achievement as it has been in Europe. In cheaper fertilizers they see emancipation of the farming in- ,terests of America from the high price of imported nitrates. They have no. wish to stop development at Muscle Shoals because it is situated in the southern states.
 It is a pity that some of the legis- lasors of America, instead of leading tseir people, insist on Keeping behind them. Constituents of northern legis- Iators did not send them to Congress t.. harass the south any more than the south asks it's congressman to im- pede and injure the north. If south ern congressman said one-half the mean things about the north that some northern congressman say about the south, a hue and cry would arise that would echo oyer the nation.
 Development of Muscle Shoals may be delayed, but it cannot be perma- nently sidetracked. The spirit of fair play in the nation will eventually com pei even the Longworths to bow to the will of the people.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-18
LUKE M,LUKE SAYS

The reason a woman knows what time it is in the evening is because she set the clock by guess that morning.
 Men like to talk about women being great gossips. But some of the biggest gossips in the world have to shave every second day.
 A husband is usually selfish enough to economize by telling his wife to quit buying the kind of things she likes to eat and he doesn't like.
 Some women never think of being dignified until they get their corsets on. and then they put on enough dig nifty for the entire supreme court.
 A boy seldom gets square deal. If he tries to state his side of the case he is licked for talking back"
 Father can sympathize with former President Wilson. The house majority in fathers home always overrides fathers veto of an expenditure.
 If there were law compelling sean dal to be printed in the smallest type known, we would all be wearing high power-lens spectaeles.
 It isn't a romantic thing to say. But it is a fact that if the rejected suitor doesn't commit suicide that same even ing. he is going to live to be glad he was rejected.
 And the bettin gis that if Eve had lad some other female gossip with over the back fence. the snake would never have had a chance to get word in edgeways.
 The reason why 1t is so easy for a girl to please fellow when they are engaged is because it is going to be so hard for her to please him when they are married.
 (Copyright 192l,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-18
High Cost of Living
 Unknown in Mexico

N WRITER in the Mexican Review HA says Mexico is the only coun- try in the world where living is still cheap. To prove his statement he quotes figures showing that rooms and meals for "plain folks" are con- siderably lower than in the United States.
 Several years ago prices in Mexico were even lower than they are now, but it is still possible for a person with moderate income to enjoy mod ern conveniences and eat his fill in Mexico at cost that would gladden. the heart of the average American who is mulcted by landlords and restaurant proprietors.
 In an apartment house, within a stones throw of the Y. M. c. A. build ing" in Mexico City stranger may rent room. clean and well furnished, with b:lh at hand and blooming plants in the window, for $17.50 a month. This room is more desirable because it faces the sun. A room of the same size and equally well fur
 
 nished, but opening on a patio or courtyard, costs SIP month. Houses of 6, 8 and 10 or more rooms may be rented for $20 to $100 month, ac- cording to location. In the most ex- elusive residential distrl-ts house rents aye "ridiculously low" in com parison wish the prices .harged in American cities.
 Three well-cooked and substantial meals may be had for $1.33 day. One of these meals would cost that much or more in many American restau- rants. A good cigar costs from 2h to 7h cents. If one desires to motor about the city. he can do so for $1 an hour.
 l The homes and apartments referred
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-18
WOOING BY FREE VERSE

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger. TIT is possible that when people want
 to woo any agency is found fit for . the purpose, love being as blind in the matter of literary form as in the matter of personal beauty, charm and the things that attract. But we seem to be long ways from Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Herrick, Marlowe, Raleigh and Sidney and all the sweet singers of the other days, troubadours and minnesing- CTS, when it is narrated that a Greenwich village poet, .albeit he is also an ex- football star and an aviator, won his free-verse bride by a poem in which he expresses himself as follows. The achromatism of the sky
 Alters the adagio tempo of my con
 sciousness. !! The avalanche of air inundating me and
 my plane
 Goes out again from me in coruscating
 graciouSneSs;
 And, the dissonance of my unrest soothed, Makes me devout before spaciousness There is debacle of various egoes within That refractory memory thrusts before
 me.
 Fascinated by the "debacle of the egoes,'' the lady succumbed and admits the soft impeachment. Of course, the Eliz- abethans ordered this thing differently. Herrick, for instance, in his "Night-piec to Julia'' essayed a picturesqueness that might win any one when he started out by saying:
 Her eyes the glow-worm lend thee. The shooting stars attend thee.
 And the elves also,
 Whose little eyes glow Like the sparks of fire, befriend thee. Then, again with Julia ever in his mind, he writes:
 One ask'd me where the roses grew;
 bade him not go and seek; Sut forthwith bade my Julia show
 A bud on either cheek.
 Irr addressing Electra" Herrick be- came rather rarefied when he said he
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-18
PLAYING THE GAME

From the Kansas City Times.
 Consider the case of Raymond Vittet, Frenchman. When the war came he was at the height of successful career as a boxer, a favorite of the welter- weight class. He went to the front. of course. After the war he returned to Paris and resumed his career in the ring, winning a good share of some to contests he has fought since his dis charge from the army.
 The other day he retired from hAs profession, being attracted tc other fields of endeavor, and not until that time did he reveal even to his closest friends that wounds received in 1s1e de- prived him of three fingers of his left hand and the sight of one eye. Handi- caps like these surely were serious to a boxer pitted against an opponent with two eyes and the regular number Of fingers. M. vittet would have been en- titled to some odds if he had mem |tioned his disabilities. but he chose to consider himself the equal of every fighter of his class and to ask TO fayors of fortune
 M. vittet took a view of life that ought to be applauded. It isn't much short of tragic to be incapacitated for the job one depends upon for liveli- hood. But to conceal the incaps j y
 from backers and-opponen.s ;-s...~ 4..'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-18
TROUT ANGLING DE LUXE

stitutions maintained for fish propagation at various points about the country by state authorities Its purpose however, is not that of stocking public streams and lakes, but to provide the trout which swarm through series of artificial ang- ling pools to be caught and creeled by visiting fishermen. Trout of different sizes and variety are transferred from the fish hatchery to the various pools. according to the requirements of angling activity. If one wishes to catch small eastern brook triut he has but to cast his fly in a designated pool. If rainbow trout are desired, the angler fishes in a different pool For him who feels that fishing for trout in concrete tank smacks too much of the artificial, there are series of willow pools," where one may angle to his hearts content amid surroundings stimulating those of nature
 To one who has never <fished for trout in their native haunts. angling in poor where fairly good catch is almost assured. and at the rate of half dollar per fish, might seem rather expensive sport But in reality it is not compared with the cost, time and effort of fish ing trip to any good natural fishing ground. Such trips frequently cost $l00 Tor more, and catching dozen. or, maybe. 50 fish would be the net result. At this rate 50 fish would cost 8 each. to say nothing of the investment of time ana equipment required for such a journey.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-18
Benson and Thompson May
 Remain on Shipping Board


 TIT will be good for shipping, espe- cially in the south, if Admiral Benson and Frederick l. Thompson are retained on the shipping board. Both are southern men and, although nei- ther has shown a disposition to favor the south over other sections, they have sought to give it an equal oppor- -tunity in rail rates to ports, alloca- fion of government vessels and other matters coming under the boards control. That is all the south asks, but that much it is entitled to.
 News from Washington to the eff, feet that unofficial reports from the White House indicate their reappoint- ment will be received with satisfac- -tion, especially in Alabama. MT. Thompson has been of conspicuous service to the shipping interests of this state. This service began as soon as he was installed in office.
 One of the most important acts of Mr. Thompson was securing all-water rates via the Mallory steamship line from the east to Birmingham, and up- river points. They go into effect April g, and mark the culmination of an effort of two decades. The 20 per cent freight differentials will cut 1deeply into Birmingham's annual zfrcight bill. Birmingham was en- titled to this rate years ago, but it remained for vigorous steps on MT. Thompson's part to bring it about. x All the south wants is fair play. Alabama certainly asks no more, be- cause her natural advantages will do the rest. But Alabama will feel safer with men on the shipping board who are not prejudiced.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-18
Galloway sIxit Goes on Stage

q was very much gratified to receive notice from Neil OBrien, the minstrel man, that he had accepted the skit I recently wrote for his minstrels," said A. A. Galloway, the we'll known Bir- mingham author.
 "Mr. o'Brien was kind enough to say that he was not only very much please l with the situations provided, but also with the lines which he seemed to think contained the genuine humor re- quired to make it success when pre- scented. He also told me that the pro- auction would be advertised with my name, so that I am much gratified to have had such success with the first production of this particular kind that I have attempted"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-18

to by the writer have water, electric lights, baths and modern toilet facili ties, while the food served is the best procurable. The salaried man who is struggling to make both ends meet could get as good, or better. accom- nodations in Mexico's capital for about third of what it costs him to live in America.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-18
Mis-. TayIor ,Iuch Enjoyed

T wish everybody in Birmingham could have heard Miss Angy Manning Taylor's Bible readings at Highlands Methodist church the past 10 days said Mrs. o. L. Drake. who is member or that church.
 T regret that they are over for they have been blessing to all of us. I hope that Miss Taylor's visits to BIZ mingham will be annual affairs and that we can arrange to have her here in the springtime of each year.
 Such exposition of the Bible as Miss Taylor gives is far reaching in its oen- efits and she has added many new friends to her list during her present visit"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-18
IN HOTEL HOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Religious Books

T was requested to read Dolly Dal- rymple's article in last Sundays Age Herald, entitled, Religious BOOK Week." before the Woman's Missionary society of our church." writes Mrs- Thomas E. Knight (Rebecca. Williamsl of Greensboro, land you may depend upon it that was more than pleased to do 1t.
 Tn some way the president of our society discovered that I was an olu friend of Dolly's, and ar ever present admirer, and for this reason consent ed. The Age-Herald is very popular Tn Greensboro, and everybody enjoys it's lfs Ss
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-18

John Edwin Hogg. in the April Popular
 Mechanics Magazine.
 NHEN the average angler goes to
 MW the mountains for trout fishing
 and figures the expense of his trip against the number of fish caught, he usually finds he has paid a dollar or more for every fish, or possibly, many dollars for fewer fish than it takes to odorize a frying pan. That every sports man desires actually to catch fish, and is willing to pay reasonable price for his pleasure is the idea that has been capi- talized by an enterprising Californian in the creation of an artificial nshing ground, where mountain trout are reared in captivity and retailed to the sporting angler at 50 cents a fish for as many as are taken with rod and fly.
 The artificial trout fishery combines the progressive ideas of the modern nsn hatchery with facilities for angling that make it a distinct innovation in the heid of outdoor sports. The institution is To- cated at the mouth of large mountain canon. wherc the roaring waters of Mill creek Dur down from the eternal snows of the San Bernardino mountains. through the angling pools, and thence on to the irrirated agricultural districts of the Santa Ana valley. At one end of the property there is a large barn-like struc- ture houring a fish hatchery. This IS not particularly different from similar in-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-18
.yERYr
rom the New York Tribune.

From the New York Tribune.
 Advice found in Putnam's "Minute-a- Day English" Is eliminate kind of and sort of" Use very and rather" it counsels. Well. this is bad advice. Years ago this Pisa of Puristics. but tressed by MT. Gelett Burgess. offered prize for ansinstance of the adverbial use of very" that made the qualified word stronger, As wearecall lit' Very Good. Eddie" and the Very Reverend Somebody were the only offerings. The use of very" in speaking or writing is confession of verbal poverty and mental incidence.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-18
"dare not ask kiss" anticipating Ben Jonson, and concluded:

"dare not ask kiss" anticipating Ben J Jonson, and concluded:
 No, no, the utmost share
 Of my desire shalle be
 Only to kiss that air
 That lately kissed thee.
 Naturally this brings in Ben f.imself whose .'Song to Celia" beginning "Drina to me only with thine eyes" has ever been held the model for amatory verse, the conceits of the last stanza being par ticularly fine example of the love lyric- ism of English verse at it's best. for it runs:
 sent thee late rosy wreath,
 Not so much honouring thee, AS giving it hope that there
 It could not wither'd be.
 But thou thereon didst only breathe,
 And sent'st it back to me; Since when it grows and smells, I swear, Not of itself, but thee.
 And so the happy Elizabethans and even the happy vctorians sang of love and. down to the veriest poetasters and writers of doggerel love and lyricism supposedly were one anu tIl6 Sefuc tiiiHE- But now, lyricsm is kicked overheard in favor of a loose use of words which define nothing, but which sound grand. And they are all in it and all at it. For only recently a well-knowns professor discussing the botany of the New England poet. tells how eloquently and beauti- fully accurate Lowell and Emerson and " f1Ifo were, while in quoting the recent experi- mentors he reveals Amy herself as pal pitating in a long-winded and seemingly accurate description of the dear little red mosaics of the sugar beet all to no re- suit, since the sugar beet is not the little red beet of the garden and the table. but is a white beet. But what is accuracy as to natural phenomena among the free-verse poets and what is the use of being lyrical if the "debacle of the egoes," plus an ''achromatic sky" does the trick
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-18
Montgomery's Claim

q do not make the claim that Mont- gomery built Birmingham" said J. Kirk Jackson, vice president of the Ameri- can Trust and Savings bank, and for mer citizen of the capital city. T leave that for others to argue out. although. in passing, it should not be forgotten that Josiah Morris, who financed the old Elyton Land company, was Mont gomery banker, and Daniel s. Troy and others were original packers of the in fant city.
 But I am willing to grant the other claim made by. certain persons as to Montgomery. They have said that one of the leading industries in Montgomery was raising beautiful and accomplished young women to become wives of the successful men of Birmingham. When it comes to the womanhood of my old home. I yield to no other place on earth"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-18
GREAT MANS LIMITATIONS.

GREAT MANS LIMITATIONS. Professor Diggs impresscs me as be- ing learned man"
 "He impresses everybody that way ex- cept his butcher"
 What does that worthy person think?" ''He says Professor Diggs don't know no more about buyin' meat than babe in arms"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-18
University of Virginia
 a Famous Institution

v1THE University of Virginia, which H seeks an endowment fund of $3,000,00O, enjoys unique distinction among American institstions of learn ing because of it's historic back ground. Founded in 1919 by Thomas Jefferson, man who turned his hand to many things and was astonishingly successful in most of them, it was sponsored by two other great Ameri- cans, Madison and Monroe.
 The university buildings are famous for their classic architectural beauty and being conducted along continental lines, which permit students wide choice in electing their studies, it has long been regarded as one of the nations most attractive seats of learning. Since it was founded the university's teaching staff has in creased from 8 professors and IF in- ,etructors to 80 professors and 75 in structors and assistants, while the student body has increased from 20 to 1,7o0.
 { Sinee 1925 more than 22,000 men have passed through the halls of the university, many of them later becom- ing famous. Such men as Woodrow Wilson, Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas Nelson Page, Dr. Walter Reed, John Sharp Williams, Senator Underwood md many other noted Americans at landed this institution, which claims more alumni in Congress sthan any university of it's size.
 The comparatively small sum of
 ,O0o, 900 will constitute the univer- sity's endowment fund, which will. be used to increase professors salaries, ''inpzpve its equipment and provide for ethsr needs. The whole country has
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-18
SORROWS oF WEATHER

By William Makepeace Thackeray. Werther had love for Charlotte < Such as words could never utter; Would you know how first he met hori
 She was cutting bread and butter. Charlotte was . married lady,
 And . moral man was Werther, And, for all tho wealth of IndieA
 Would do nothing for to hurt her. So he sighsd and pined and ogled,
 And his passion boiled and bubbled. Till he blew his silly brains out
 And no more was by it troubled. Chariotte.s having seen his body
 Born before her on shutter. Like q wel1-conducted person
 Went on cutting bread and butter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-18
LUCKY ESCAPE.

Was the 'mooashine' you bought from a bootlegger palatable?"
 No" said Mir Jagsby, it wasn't pal atable, and I'm now in a frame Of mind to accept congratulations because 1t wasn't fataLv
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-18
THRIFT THOUGHT.

q notice in the Clarion that you say some city 'Nimrods' are in this neigh borhood," remarked Squire Witherbee. ..Thats correct" said the editor of Chiggersville's leading paper. What do you call 'em 'Nimrods' for. Hank?"
 ''Nimrod was mighty hunter. don't expect these chaps to kill anything, un- less it's somebody's COW, but I've known a complimentary personal to sell as many as a dozen copies of the Clarion"
 SAFETY FIRST.
 I don't admire the bolshevik,
 He makes no hit with me. But if he held a bomb I'd quick
 Ly with his views agree.
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-18
UNFIT FOR HIS JOB.

UNFIT FOR HIS JOB. Why did you discharge your scenario writer?"
 We gave him one of Shakespeare 8 plays to read and teld him to jazz it up little for the screen," said the emil nent producer.
 "He should have been able to do that" "of course he was. but the confounded boob got interested in Shakespeare and said it would be sacrilege"