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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-29
LESSONS FROM THE R-ss
From the New York World.

From the New York World
 Since 1t was faulty construction that wrecked tho R-3s on the eve of the answer to the catastrophe is not an abandonment of the airship but 8 more deliberate and scientific effort to solve the problems of materials and design. If tho ship was teo lons. 1T the alloy of the sirders was too weak to bear the strain of fast fly ing, if hydrogen gas is entirely too inflammable for use in a dirigible, these facts should be accepted and conquered by chemical research and engineering skill. Perhaps aeronau- tics has come to look little too easy to the human race. With the lessons of many failures in mind, the builders of the next series of air ships will start with long handi- cap over their predecessors.
 There are difficulties and dangers in acronautics which only costly trials can reveal. The buckling of the R-ss calis attention to enough defects to keep corps of experts busy perhaps for years devising rem- | sdies. Nobody need doubt that reme- dies can and will be found. The first steel vessels shcared their rivets in heavy weather and many of them were lost, but new methods of brae- ing and riveting were found. Today steel Is the material for shipbuilding and the rivets are reliable. Airships will not always buckle. explode or dodge thunderstoYms.
 When the war was on, rapidity of production was essential. Airship building. which took it's rise durine the war. is still somewhat affected by the tradition of haste. There ia no longer excuse for haste; the need lis not for q machine that can drop be mbs next month, but for one that can carry passenEers, safely 10 yeari from now.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-29

 A 0o,o0o-a-year light opera tenor has been ordered to pay his wife s25o week alinony. We still maintain that the earning capacity of mu- sical comedy tenor has nothing to do with his right to live.
 # < # A New York beauty whose I15o wig was chewed up by a pup on board q rich mans yacht sued for dam ages. She might not have been go indignant if the rich man hadn't laughed.
 Springfield, Ill.,, bartender is sus- pected of having killed another bar tender in a street fight. This looks like another case of trade rivalry.
 # % x The movie men are said to be seek ing Ralph obenchaln's services. They probably feel sure of being able 10 sign up Madalynne.
 # # < Lucy Page Gaston has quit under fire. Her methods were "too dras- tic" Are the anti-ciAarette crusa- ders getting cold feet?
 4 F F Choice Jrizt urbisLv u-hicb is find = ing it's way to tho Birmingham curb market is creating no little sympa- thy for the Irish cause.
 + < & The bombing of a Chicago bur- against the comedians jokes, as the house was dark.
 Villa will be envled by many an American farmer. He has demanded that the Mexican government pay his farm hands.
 E % x The Chicago Tribune Is cutting down It's baseball stories. There may soon be, loud outcries from the circa lation department
 + % # Somebody stole Firsstone's snap shots of his outing with Henry Ford and President Harding. Suspicion points to newspaper man.
 < + F The Leviathan has had another mar row escape. The old reliable jinx is still at work.
 < x * In case you have forgotten the Same Old Bill' Sulzer, he is the sub- ject of a current magazine article.
 E q F Macon claims to have a three-story Ire department in a story town. That is considerable discrepancy.
 < E x Structural weakness covers a multitude of sins in building dirigi- bles,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-29
ROOM AND BOARD

From the Providence Journal.
 The manager of an Atlantic City hostelry predicts the return to pop ularity of the American plan - room and three meals covered by the per diem rate. This Is particularly interesting because members of the International Stewards association. in convention at Pittsburg, have just gone on record with the declaration that the American plan is thing of the past" predicting It's total dis appearance at no distant day.
 Neither the public nor the hotels want It," says one of them; adding: And that covers the whole ground" It does. of course, if the premises is correct. But the Atlantic City au- thority contends that the hotels and the public, both want it--or should If they don't.
 The arrangement, formerly the pre- vailing ono in our country, has visi- bly fallen into disuse except at 're- sorts" Its era, however, was notable. The American plan dinner at the em- affair of state. The scheduled bill of fare was distinguished for osten- tation and variety, the service was ceremonious. There Is a tradition that the famous old Fifth Avenue not only changed the table imple- ments at every course. but lad a spotless new damask.
 As cities expanded, spreading their attractions of their business quarters, the visitor was often out of pocket because of the inconvenience of be- ing at his hotel on time for every meal. So the proprietors offered a choice of the European plan" charging only for the, room. Running the two system together did not al- ways work well. and gradually the American plan dropped out of the competition.
 One of those who forecast It's ulti- mate abandonment nationwide, says 1t is bad for the digestion, because so
 
 many "eat everything on the bill of fare"--havinE paid for it. The lead Ing advocate of the plan, however, believes that | stipulated menu well balanced and well prepared" is more satisfactory to the guest than being required to make q choice from an elaborate card. He further holds that the cost of hotel living can be re- duced by the fixed meal. And hotel managers should favor 1t because "a kitchen in an American plan house can cook for 800 guests with less helr than ono feeding half that number la carte"
 1 It Is sometimes said that "revolu- ticns never go backward" But his tory teaches the contrary, putting ] emphasis on the law of cycles" n. newest fashion is apt to be q. reviva of one of the oldest in about every, thing that concerns human life al we'll as wearing apparel. The yer, fact that the American plan has al but completely gone out may be tn, surest sign that 1t is about to com, l back.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-29

WN HASHINGTON, D C.. August
 W\W 2S. - Especially -"Baranya
 threatens to give Europe a new Plume and a new Wilma ques- ton, and the rest of the world a new name to puzzle over" says a bulletin from the Washington. D. C., head quarters of the National Geographical society in regard to the section of Hungary which dispatches say Is at- tempting to seceds and form gov ernment of its own.
 The situation which has set the Baranya region clamoring to be it's own master Is not wholly the result of the World war" continues the bull letin, but has its roots far deeper. The southern Slavs, nearly all of whom are now gathered in the king dom of the Serbs, Greats and Slo- venes, were 'the owners of much of present Hungary before the Hun garians rode out of their Asiatic fatherland to settle in Europe
 hO NCAJ ltCdiI anu CSl1ttI Ol tho old Slav power was in the. triangular territory between the Danube, the Drave and the long, slender Lake Ba- laton. Gradually through the cen turies the Magyars or Hungarians have pushed the Slavs from this ter ritory forcing them south and west. Naturally bitterness has been engen- dered The Mur and Drave rivers became the racial boundary for 150 miles, but the peace conference rec ognized that the Slavs were strong in the southern point of Baranya near the junction of the Draye and the Danube and carried the Hun garian line north of the Drave river there. leaving tiny triangle instead of large one. But the bulk of Ba- ranya was incorporated in Hungary as 1t had been before the war, and looked upon by the Jugo-Slavs as sort of Jugo- o-Slavia irridenta.'
 Although Baranya was once Slav center, and even now has a considerable percentage of Slavs in it's population. 1t also contains one of the most historic spots associated with the life of the Hungarian na- tion-the twice famous battlefield os Mohacs. On this field in 1928 an army of Hungarians under their King was defeated by the Turks, who then overran the greater part of the king don, capt,Ired Ruda the capitaI,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-29

From tho New York Times.
 FNHE comment often heard upon
 the lamentable destruction of
 S the dirigibls ZR-2 takes. the form of criticism of our government for acquiring at great cost type of airship that has so often succumbed to storms and enemy attack. It IS said that the government should put all it's money into seaplanes, which are much moro useful and much cheaper. Why, ask the critics, did the United States contract to buy . British dirigible when there were so many competent American construc- tors and mechanics to build airships here? The answer is that the navy general board recommended that 10 rigid dirigibles be added to the fleet, and that as the British R-ss was in the market a beginning could be made with that ship at time when the British possessed the only han gar in which dirigible like R-ss could be built. The United States has since completed a hangar and will make It's own lighter than-air ships. One about the size of R-as or zR-2 is now building. It must he understood that when the contract was made in 1920 to take over zR-2 our design CTS were learning from the British. who previously had obtained the Ger man secrets of construction.
 The naval authorities believe that dirigibles as valuable huxiliaries. For coast patrol" says Woodhouse in his Text book of Naval Aeronau- 4ics." published in 1917. "ths zeppe- lin Is very efficient indeed. For sub marine hunting. conveying ships and patrolling ship channels . single zep- pelin can easily do the work of 50 alrplanes and can do work which nc airplane can do at present" Dirigi- l.bles are thought to be indispensable for "spotting" mines and signaling tho presence of submarines in the ! fleet. It must be considered that . ship like zR-s would have cruisina radius of 5000 miles. She could move in any direction and leave hei
 base for a long time. At night ths dirigible is matter of darkness. while the airplane Is uncertain of hsl course. The dirisible can carry man,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-29
Evidently More
 Scared Than Hurt

THEN days ago a leading whole 4 saler said "Our scare about collections during these past months of business pessimism was un- founded. Our collections have been satisfactory. We have no complaint to make in that quarter"
 4 day or so ago this same whole saler said: "We find that we have been over-cautious in filling our warerooms. We have been caught without the goods. Our August trade has asked for more than we had on hand. We have been penal ized for not having greater confi- dence in ourselves and our people" 1"
 Half of the battle is confidence. Half the depression in trade has been lack of confidence. The out standing feature of the conditions now facing business men is that none was hurt as badly as he thought he was. There has been as much fright as injury. It has been stag nation, not disaster. It has been a
 
 pause, not knockout.
 The surprises are pleasant ones. They go to show that the pextrava- gaIce of the period of plenty was more apparent than real, and that sound sense prevailed among the mssses at the height of the spend inS orgy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-29
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEW HERE
Beef Cattle

Beef Cattle
 Last Monday morning Phil Phil lips and left Birmingham on a trip Tn east Alabama 10 get a line on beef cattle" says F. C. Daddy Tar borough, and we got back Friday night The trip was made in an au- torobile and embraced CaIera, Co., lumblans, Wiisonviile. Kellyton, Jack sons Gap, Goodwater, Camp Hill, Alexander City, opelika, Lafayette. Roanoke, Wadley, Lineville and Ash land, and points in the country wher- ever we got wind of bunch of cat tic.
 We probably saw at least 1000 to i'6o0 head, but returned without buy ing single one, as we found out that the same grade of live stock could be bought through the stock yards cheaper than in the country"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-29
Steel Industries Are
 Increasing Production

TN the first week of August the ll steel mills of the Tennesset company were on a 50 per cent tasis of production. Today they are on one of 65 per cent.
 The rail mill has been speeded up On a night and day turn to a ca- pacity of 5000 tons a week. Pro- duction the first week of August was at the rate of 5000 tons
 Thirty-five thousand tons of Ems ley rails have recently gone to China and Alaska, the one the far- thest off point on the globe and the other the farthest point in this coun- try. Rails now being rolled are for the trunk lines of America.
 Structural steel is more active, especially for buildings. Farmers have commenced ordering wire fenc- ing again. We moved 1000 tons of our cast iron pipe and steel products to the Pacific coast inside of three weeks. .
 Face brick plants are operating at capacity. Stove works have added men and increased working hours and have bought pig iron to melt.
 Alabama iron is firm for the first time in many months, with an up- ward tendency.
 It is safe to forget the past and look forward with confidence.
 Until the superairship is perfected mankind will have to depend on ocean liners for getting about the world.
 Brother Hearst wants to know if Great Britain is Americas friend Gosh! Must wA tsH Ain asain.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-29
POINTED PARAGRAPHS
From the Chicago News.

From the Chicago News.
 s3ma mothers spare the rod and spoil the slipper.
 A man resembles a ball of twine when he .s wrapped up in himself.
 Bart of the world loves a lover; the rest 1.-the world considers him a chumr.
 It's when . girl thinks a man doesn't care for her that she begins to try to make him.
 If the husband makes . living by gambling the wife usually has to support the family.
 The marriage ceremony is fre- quently the hnal act of diplomacy previous to a declaration of war.
 Once upon a time there lived a man who eaid that he would rather be right than to be President--so his- tory says.
 The average man does just as many queer things when he isn't in love as when he is, but they are less conspicuous.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-29
On stare At Five

Miss Leila Shaw, who is playing at the Loew's Bijou this week, may be remembered as starring in the plays, The Great Divide" and "The Bird of Paradise" when on tour through the south during 1917 and 1e1s," said H. NJ. Brown.
 Miss Shaw began her theatrical cereer at the age of five, came to the United States from England where shc was born. with the Drury Lane Pantomines. She has many friends here who remember her for mer appearance in Birmingham with dramatic productions"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-29
An Unusual Capture

'Patrolman McWilliams and myself made rather unusual arrest about 2;30 o'clock yesterday morning at the plant of tho Southern Box Manu- featuring company" said M. r. Aber- nethy of the police department. We were at the plant making a report. with MeWiiliams, the night watch man present, and much to our sur prise a grizzly 'possum came march, ing upstairs into the building.
 "A merry chase ensucd about the office. but 1t was not long before the prisoner was ours. We experi- enced some difficulty framing up 8 charge against him, and compromised on that of 'tresspassing." Of course. though, the penalty was death, and certain members of the police force dined on the animal yesterday"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-29
THE GREAT DUMAs

From the Chicago Herald and Ex-
 aminer.
 An unknown writer sent play to Dumas, asking the great dramatist to collaborate with him. Dumas wrote back in rage. How dare you propose to yoke together . horse and an ass7s By return poat came the author's reply. .How dare you call me horsey Dumas was so much impressed by this reaay wit that he asked for the play agAin.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-29
Ei4F * + a Anti-C Cigarette Crusaders Find Miss Caston Too Draatic

A IL is not well in the ranks of A. the Anti-Cigarette league. The board of directors has an nounced the resignation of Lucy Pare Gaston as head of the league, because her methods were more drastic than the methods approved by the league board of managers. B."
 n casting Lucy adrift the direct
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-29
nIsrANcE TO ATLANTA

To the Editor of The Age Herald:
 I notice in this mornings Age Herald, in placing the post at the Tutwiler for the Bankhead highway, you state that 1t says, "To Atlanta Ill miles" I am glad to know that Birmingham is so near to Anniston- eight r,iies--as it is 103 miles from this place to Atlanta.
 Better correct your post to 16e miles. II. r. MONTGOMERY.
 Anniston, August 27. 1921.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-29
MONTGOMERY HELPED
From the Montgomery Advertiser

From tho. MoHtBoWsry AuverUsoF.
 Birmingham will cslebrats it's semi-centenniaI in October. Bir- minghsm Ia . great city which has achieved remarkable growth and prosperity in its short, brief lifetime. We like to think of Birmingham as . monument to tho Eenius and indus try of expatriated Montgomery cit- zens.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-29

Brother Hearst wants to know if Great Britain is America's friend Gosh! Must wA tsu Ain assin!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-29

Until the superairship is perfected nankind will have to depend on ocean liners for getting about the world
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-10-06
KILLING SONG BIRDS.

Recent prosecution in Barre on the
charge of shooting song birds calls at
tention to demonstration OF poor
craftsmanship as well as to infraction
Of the law Song birds are mans
friends; they have become accustomed
to mans presence to such an extent
that they will not fly until man APP
proaches within close distance. 80 1t is
a poor sportsman who viii take advan-
tage Of the birds trust in man by post
ing himself with shotgun in hand ready
to pick them off as they come within
range. It is even poorer craftsmanship
to do so at the present time when the
song birds are gathering in large fiocks
preparatory to their migration further
south and when they are more depend
emit upon man for sustenanee pending
their departure. Warnings by the fish
and game department, supplemented
bv statements of the wardens, that
similar acts of wanton slaughter will
b. prosecuted should have a tendency
to make law abiding people out Of poor
sportsmen.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-10-06
WATERBURY,

The lecture by Theron ;. Dean OF
Burlington on "Ten Days on the Long
Trail" at the Methodist church last
Friday evening was well attended and
full of interest. Mr.. Dean brought by
picture as we'll as word very wildly
the hike from Middlebury up through
to Smugglers' Notch and made many
determine within themselves that next
year would see them covering part OF
the trail. The fact that Vermont has
a Presidential range was new to many
and the wonderful scenery almost at
our door was revelation. Surely Mr..
Dean is doing much for the state by
his interest and push in the work and
Vermont as summer resort is COM
ing fast into prominence. Before the
lecture, Miss Stella Griffith, who has
been studying at the summer school
in Burlington this summer, sang
Twilight Mrs. Cooley accompany
ing. While Miss Griffith has always
been talented, there seemed an added
charm and ease with which she rem
dered this selection. Of course she was
obliged to respond to encore.
Daniel Orvis has moved his family
into the Richards tenement in Dux-
bury.
Philip Shonio remains very comfort
able at his home on Crossett hill.
The Hypatia club begins its meet
ings Friday afternoon with Mrs. b. +
Atherton, Mrs. Anterior nd Mrs. Wood
| Wood, hostesses. The club has an inte
resting pragram ahead and large at
/ tendance is wished for this first meet
ing.
! The church cabinet of the Congrega,
tianl church had sumptuous supper
in the SOCIAL room Of the church Tues.
day evening. This comprised baked
potatoes, warm biscuit, which fine
cooks and the new stoves turned out
to perfection. Rev. John G. Prince
acted as POSTMASTER and speerhes
were made by DIR. G. s. Bidwell, V. L
Perkins, G. B. Adams and Mrs. Adams
| Following social time, meeting wai
held. when lines of church work wer,
discussed and plans developed
Mr.. and Mrs. Willis A. Morse o.
Mill Village will celebrate their 50ti
wedding anniversary Friday at Their
home All friends are invited to cal
either in the afternoon or evening.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-10-06
Kidney and Bladder
Troubles Conquered
or Money Back

For 40 years, said DIR. Carey. ] have
been prescribing Marshroot for kidney and
bladder sickness and now that have re-
tirrd from active practice ! have made ar
rangements with leading druggists to as
pense this wonderful prescription at 2 mod
crate price. on the money back II dissatis-
fled plan. IL
Beware OF kidney disease thousands ore
OF il every year who ought to be enjoying
the blessings of life and health. Watch the
symptoms. If you have spccks floating be-
fore the eyes, puffy eyes, claInmy feet or
moist palms, backache or sideache. you
ought to get a bottle OF Dr. Careys Marsh
root right away
II has wonderfully benefited tens OF
thousands of cases of kidney and bladder
troubles and IL the medicine you can al
ways depend upon. Results are guAran-
teed.
NoTE.-Dr Daniel G. Carey was =
practicing physician for many years and
his great Prescription. Marshrcot aided
thousands of sufferers from kidney and blad-
der troubles. Hereafter you can always get
this effective prescription in both liquid and
tablet form at all reliable pharmacists tina
country over. Keep in mind the name. Dr..
Carey's Marshroot prescription No. III. NO
other medicine can take its place.--Adv-
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-10-06
REGULATING TIRE AMUSEMENT
DEVICES.


The collapse of an amusement device
at the Brockton, Mass. fair, with con-
sequent injury of serious nature to many
young people, brings out sharply that
there is little or no supervision or reg
uIation of these devices for ooaxing
coin and thrills out Of the persons who
submit themselves to the process The
possessors of these devices slip into a
town, set up their machinery, start the
motor and invite the public TO patron
ire them. They may or they may not
nav a license tax dependent upon the
custom in each town AT any rate. they
are under no regulation or control a.
to the condition of their devices; the
public Is wholly at the mercy Of the
operators Of the machines. The devices
may be reduced TO such condition by
constant use that they may be barely
able to hold together; yet they grind
away and hundreds Of people may
be subjected to danger inviting
". The public sees the devices operat-
ing and takes i for granted that they
are safe fer the purposes designed
This sort Of procedure j. wrong The
public needs proies ion- A way Should
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-10-06

That footpad's plea in extenuation,
after being arrested in Rutland for
North Attleboro, Mass, police, that his
act was done to secure food for three
small children actually in want and
for a wife was about to become a
mother again, deserves investigation
by the authorities in Massachusetts,
where the family of the footpad is
supposed to reside. If any such condi-
tons exist as the accused man claims
there surely will be means to rem
edy the situation.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-10-06

The Barre Times very properly com
mends Arthur w. Dow of Burlington
for several successful seasons Of good
music. When IL refers q JOIN McCor-
mack as great artist, however, some
music critics will Immediately take
issue.--Rutland Herald.
We confess that we are entirely de-
ficient when it comes TO the role Of
critic of music, and hence, while hav-
ing had the real pleasure Of hearing
Mccormack sing at Burlington, we
have been compelled to rely upon the
opinions of those who were considered
to be competent 10 judge Of good mu-
sic and great srtists--critics outside Of
Vermont. We have been of the opinion,
and still are, that Mccormack is held
by many Of them to be one of the lead
ing lyric tenors of the present day
which, in turn. entities him to be
called great artist" as we look t it.