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Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-02-15
ACTION
. IS PROMISED
La Roe's Kick to Interstate
Commission Handed Over
to Inspector at New York

Edgar L. Clark. chairman Of the
Interstate Commerce Commission. Is
giving the communication of Wilpur
IaRoe. ,Jr., formerly connected with
the commission, prompt attention
according to his reply to his letter
with regard to the service of the
staten Island Rapid Transit ferry
between this city and Tottenville.
which Mr.. LaRoe called 10
last week.
director of the commission, In a
communication sent Mr.. LaRoe, a
turned the matter over TO a senior
Inspector of the commission in New
York for investigation and to take
the subject up with the officials OF
the Rapid Transit Company.
The following is the letter sent
Mr.. IaRoe in answer. to his COM
munication of February ?, which
appeared in the EVENING NEWS
last Friday:
Mr.. Wilbur la Roe. Jr., .
Southern Building.
washington. ID. c.
Dear Mr.. La Roe:
1.-THE chairman has referred to me
your letter of February ?. concern
ing the apparent inadequate service
rendered by the Staten Island Rapid
Transit railroad in the operation OF
their ferry boats between Perth Am
boy. ". j.. and Tottenville, S. l.
81 have taken the matter up with
our senior inspector at New York
with the request that he investigate
and. il necessary. take the matter
up with the proper officials of the
Staten Island Rapid Transit Rail-
road company. with the thought that
in this way the difficulties about
which you complain might to some
extent, at least. be overcome. l
will be glad to let you know the re-
suit of the investigation.
yours truly.
(Signed) IF. G. ROBBINS,
Director"
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-02-15

wish to announce TO the public that
I have opened a c~oppersmlthing and weld
ing shop where l will do all kinds OF new
and repair work. Through knowledge and
experience gained during the last sixteen
years at the Du Pont Powder and Chem
ical Works where I have had charge OF
all coppersmithing. sheet metal and weld
ing work, / feel confident to guarantee
satisfaction. cheerfuily given.
n. Z. Hilliard, Residence SO Madison Ave.
Perth Amboy. n. J. Phone 1T76-R.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-12
Watermelon Movement
 Is Large This Season

1.-THE Alabama Markets Journal ~U in it's June issue forecasts the carload shipments of watermelons from Alabama points this season at 2,000. Fifty communities are listed as being in the carload shipping business this year.
 The largest shipments are from communities where growers have CO., operative organizations. Slocomb leads with 800 cars, which were shipped through the agency of the Southeastern Alabama Melon and Fruit association. For Kellyton, which will ship 150 cars, the Corley Melon Growers association has been the medium, while the Thorsby growers have moved their crop in 200 cars through the Thorsby Fruit and Truck Growers association.
 It has been good year for the watermelon. The fruit has been large and sound, and the demand brisk. It was just as easy to put a few acres in watermelons as in cotton and corn. The difference is that the watermelon brings in cash with which to handle the later crops.
 But the satisfying feature of the watermelon business this year is the manner in which it has been con- ducted. Far better returns have been achieved by associational car load shipments than would have been possible by individual effort.
 Farmers this fall will have cash on hand for their fruits and vegeta- bles, for their cured sweet potatoes placed on the spring market, for their butterfat sold to the creamer- ies. They will also have more food and feedstuffs than ever, accord ing to present crop forecasts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-12

and kicks and throws back her head disdainfully. She bangs things down on the floor and shrieks and hollers- I can't"
 Really. sir. this sounds most dis tressing," wisely remarked the great detective.
 'sYes," continued the distracted fath- CT, land that isn't all. She cries out to ina aginary people: Go Go,' and then points to the door and cries: oh, come back! Oh, come back do not mean it! Mercyr'
 The great detec(He smoked his pips in silence for few minutes.
 And does your daughter do all this before a large mirror?, he asked at last.
 Yes, come to think of it, she does
 @And does she go to the movies every evening"
 "UhA yes, every night"
 "Tben cheer up. Your daughter is only training herself to become a movie actress. My fee is s1OO."
 Thank you" said the father fer vently, as with great pleasure he paid up.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-12
Humble Start of
 Biz Railroad Men

U7NHE Illinois Central railroad pub l fishes a little sketch of it's chief officials, showing where they began their climb to the places they now occupy.
 Here is the record of some of the officials of the Illinois Central:
 President c. H. Markham began as a section hand.
 Senior Vice President Kittle was a station clerk.
 Vice President Baldwin was a chairman. / Vice President Bowes was office boy in the general auditors office. Vice President Blauvelt was clerk ina a freight office.
 syice President Mann was a ste nographer in a commercial agents office,
 General Manager Gift was call boy, then brakeman.
 These men reached their present positions of trust ad importance by doing well the humble work in which  they were first engaged and con tinuing their faithful service as they advanced.
 During the war beardless boys not out of high schools received $7 and S1o a day for driving motor trucks at Muscle Shoals and large salaries for getting in the way of experi- enced men in the commercial and industrial establishments of the land. That has changed. The young man of today is facing the same hard conditions his father did.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-12
Hclped Somebody

"A fire, no matter how big it is CT how serious the loss, is nearly all ways the scene of many amusing lit tie incidents said l.. T. Ellzey yes terday. Tt was during the fire which burned the building occupied by the Rhodes Carroll Furniture company on Second avenue that l saw some thing which kept me laughing for quite a while.
 As everyone knows, l suppose, the wall of the big five-story building fell westward and crushed the little one-story building occupied by tea store This tea store had lemons, potatoes and many other things be- sides tea in stock When the fire and the wall tumbled in on it these things, being lighter than the brick wall, were, blown clear across the street Immediately after the wall fell I saw young boy eating boiled potatoes. He said he found them cut in the street and that he guessed they must have been cooked when they were blown through the fire"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-12
-fo THE REsTLEss ONES

c. T. Davis. in the Arkansas Gazette. To the unlaid Viking spirit and the Viking men who wander Down uncharted seas to seek
 some goal; To the urge of high adventure. to the when the old ties snap asunder And the wind raves through the cord age with the lee rail foaming under; To In urge of high adventure, to the lure Of loot and plunder-- Skoa! To the rowing blood of Romany that hears the greenwood calling When the wreathing wood
 smoke scents the twilit
 vale; To the mystic. magic hour when the shades of night are falling And the dim roads run to nothing ness. enchanted and enthrall- To the beekon of the breeding hills half friendly, half appalling Haill O men who may not finger when she beacon fires are burning Cleaning lights of coast
 and camp that flare and All.
 o the glamour and the hazard of the Land of No Returning And her sons who will not brook the ties of love or lands Or learning; Here is to it. I have known it---achs and kmptinesss and yearnins--
 All.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-12
THE woRkMAN's IDENTITY

From IseSlle s.
 For years the Erie railroad has been something of joke to the American public. One of the oldest American railroads in point of serv- ice, with terminals in New York and Chicago. and rich trunk line territory in between, it has never theless been limping behind its com petitors in most of those things that hitherto have spelled railway devsl- opment Jay Gould knew the reason why.
 But now that the most important problem confronting our railroad is the improvement not so much of phyyical equipment as of the rela- tions between employer and em- the head of the procession.
 Possibly the reader has heard of the order of the Red Spot. It is composed of Erie engine drivers who have achieved and maintained cer- tain fixed standard in the matter of promptness. appearance of their en- zines, necessary repairs, and fuel consumed. Each member of the or der is entitled to red spot on the locomotive he operates, and/election to membership is coveted honor.
 But the second degree of the or der provides still more satisfac- tory distinction. This is the substi- tuition of the engineers name in gold letters for the number plate on his cab. No longer is he mere cog in a huge machine but definite per sonaiity identified before the world by the work of his heart, brain and hands. It is not dlfficultt to imag- inc that no locomotive named for it's driver ever suffers from carelessness or neglect.
 What q simple expedient, after all, to give men the incentive necessary to excel in their calling. It has been said time and again that the in- dustrial unrest from which the world is suffering has it's roots in the lacl; not of material but of physical re- wards for toll. Every human beins is seeking to express his indiyld- uality in his work and yet the great ma jority are condemned to machine like anonymity.
 The Erie has hit upon fundamen- tai remedy, so far as it goes, ont which deserves the attention of ev. cry employer of labor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-12
Jitney Operators Attack
 the New Citv Ordinance

TIT is unfortunate that the filing U of an injunction suit threatens to bring on another prolonged wran- gle over jitneys in Birmingham. The jitney operators propose to fight the regulation ordinance put into effect recently, on constitutional grounds. They claim that their business has been hurt by what they allege to be a discriminatory law. In fact, they attack every section of the ordinance and are particularly bitter against the new routing provisions which
 have helped materially to prevent
 traffic congestion in the business
 district.
 The extraordinary feature of the
 jitney controversy is the ability of a few jitney operators to keep the whole town in turmoil, take up the time of the city commission and bluff that esteemed body of off cials up hill and down dale. If the iitney operators had their way the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-12
cAm!EzMMdAauttl
TINo AS A WAR HERO
From the Manchester Guardian.

From the Manchester Guardian.
 King Constantine's determination to place himself at the head of his ar mics against the Turks will not cause too much enthusiasm among those of his subjects who remember certain incident during the Greco Turkish war of 1897. On the morn ing of April 24 in that year, when the people were fleeing from Larissa in terror of the advancing Turks, one of the trains which Was about to leave, crowded with refugees. was stopped by the staff of the man who was then crown prince and comman- der-in- chief All the civilians were bundled out; the staff with the prince, took possession. and steamed off by roundabout route to Phar- salos. leaving town and army to care for themselves. The fact that Con- stantine was in danger from the rifles of his own soldiers hardly rendered the assertion more becoming.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-12
Invitation to World
 Disarmament Conference

E10HE President has gone further
 ll than the Borah resolution in promoting disarmament of the prin- cipal nations by international agree ment.
 The Borah resolution, adopted with practical unanimity, would ex- tend an invitation to England and Japan to confer with the United States with regard to limitation of naval armaments. The President has invited France and Italy, as well as Japan and Great Britain, also asking China to attend the confer ence. His invitation speaks of Tim itation of armaments" without re- striction to sea or land.
 In taking this step the President has given expression to what seems to be the' prevailing sentiment of his own country and Great Britain. Japan has expressed her willing ness to enter the conference. France and Italy are wisely included in the invitation, having been our allies in war and being as much concerned as we and Great Britain are in maintaining peace. China is in cluded on account of the seriousness of the far eastern question.
 There seems little doubt that the nations invited to this conference will attend. It is well that the con- ference be held in this country, be- cause this nation is primarily peace loving and entered the World war only when it became necessary for the preservation of our commerce, our self-respect and our future safety.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-12
ANpY.s Goun LICK

From the Philadelphia Evening
 Ledger.
 Roscoe c. Mitchell is veteran newspaper reporter andssays that he constantly marvels at the subjects in which readers show most interest.
 or all the stories he ever wrote. he says, the one that las been remem bered longest by most readers had in it nothing whatever of importance.
 It was the story of small incident at a banquet of the Civic Federation MT. Carnegie was there and he felt in his pocket for a dime for the hat boy. He found the dime, but dropped 1t. It rolled under the table and he pursued it. Whom he came up his face. wore the most pleased expression imaginable. He had not merely found the dime. but an additional quarter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-12
Bobbed-Hair Advocates
 Fighting Against Odds

r7FHE bobbed-hair controversy
 J rages with intense fury. A young woman is said to have stood right up to the official of large insurance company and told him she had as much sense with her short hair as she had when it was long. And as for blonde hair being a mark of inferiority, perhaps sniff would have expressed her opinion on that subject about as well as anything could.
 Here in Birmingham, one of The Age Herald's fleet-footed news gatherers learns that young women with bobbed hair and artificial blondes are taboo. The superin- tendent of one of Birmingham's largest department stores says their minds are not on their business. We can stabe from personal observation that some of them frequently have a far-away look in their eyes, as if they were dreaming of California or a husband with a private yacht and flock of automobiles. There is also some objection to flashy clothing among the employers and dischargers of female help in Bir- mingham.
 Thus far the legitimate" blonde who got that way at birth is not discriminated against in favor of the brunette, although the impression will always obtain among mem who flatter themselves that they know something about feminine psychol- yfy that the brunette if trifle hlore steady and capable of closer application to the job than blonde
 The advocates of bobbed hair yho, by the way, seem to be all members of the bobbed-hair sex,
 
 have several forceful arguments with which to answer their detract-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-12
ALL GENTLEMEN
inc Nashville Banner.

From the Nashville Banner.
 William Butler Yeats. writing of 'Paradoxical William Morris" in The Dial says that writer was sometimes a blunderer and relates that he once had said to the only unconverted man at a socialist picnic in Dublin. to prove that equality came easy, I was brought up a gentleman and now, as you can see, associate with all sorts and left wounds thereby that ranked after 20 years"
 That was not in America, but it serves to show that in America, even more than in the old world socialism is not possible. The so-called "dicta- torship of the proletariat," like the bolsheviki, profess in Russia, is for the same reason still more so.
 The reason is that it would be im- possible to find an Americoh who con fessed himself one of the proletariat. We are all born gentlemen" over here and will not stand for any inn putation to the contrary.
 You may find many in America who will proclaim the grievances of the "lower classes" but few or none will ing to admit himself one of that class.
 This is not snebbery, but the com mendaple desire of every self-respect- ing free born citizens to be respecta- ble.
 There may be proletariat in the United States. but to- find a man who confesses he belongs there is another question. A woman who would so confess doesn't exist.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-12
ALL THE SYMPTOMS

From the PittsburE Chronicle.
 She rlock Bones, the celebrated detective. looked at his visitor.
 What can do for you?" he asked kindly but severely.
 My daughter Phyllis is worrying me. She has lately been in a highly nervous state. She throws her arms
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-12
A SIMPLE ERA

Life was not so complicated When the caveman, seeking food Slew the prehistoric monsters, And was rather rough and rude. He was quite content with weapons That would now evoke smile, And wore skins the good wils
 stitched him
 Quite unlike the modern style, And he doubtless gave cave parties That his neighbors used to brag
 on,
 Which were never interrupted By the clangor of the wagon And a band/of bold intruders Who observed his moist condition And conveyed him to the hoosegow Charged with seorning prohibition
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-12
IN HOTEL HOBBIES
 AND ELSEWH HERE
An old Relic

T ran across an interesting relic the other day" said Judge Richard H. Evans. My wife's father was tre late William Berney. pioneer Blr- mingham banker. In his effects we have found many old memoranda and newspapers bearing on the early days. One Is hapd-bill announc- ing a celebration of his birthday in Linn's park by Charles Linn, founder of the First National bank.
 Ut was in 1881 and Linn's park was then situated where the Louis vile and Nashville terminal station now is.
 The circular mentions the inter esting fact that a premium will be awarded the best lady housekeeper' in Birmingham by Mrs. William Ber- ney. The foot-note on the circular announcing the event naively states that the entrance fee is good be- havior,'
 "They had simple festal events in those days, but l know they also had ghty good times at them"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-12
Building Picking Up

Building is picking up in the east" said w. Fl. Kirkland, sanitary pipe broker. Labor and other costs have been gradually liquidated un- til building has come within the means of those wishing to build.
 Already building has picked up in the Eastern cities and in those of the middle west and the trend ap- pears to be for further impetus dur inE the next few months
 Building in the south is also mak- ing a good showing. There are some inequalities yet, some of which are not beneficial to the pipe business, but it seems to have begun to work out better than it has been."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-12
THE REPUBLICAN FAILURE

From the Boston Transcript.
 Already at the executive end of Pennsylvania avenue the whispered admission is heard that the admin istration would find much easier the job of keeping it's campaign prom ises If the republican majorities in the Senate and House were not so large.
 If popular sentiment here can be accepted as barometer of popular sentiment elsewhere. we think we can safely promise the President that the next congressional elections will result in a considerable reduc- ton in the republican majority in each house. But the congressional elections are more than year away, and the new senators and members of Congress then to be elected will not take their seats un- til 1923. That is too long for even a patient people to wait for relier from the shortcomings of Con gress so blatantly callous as is the present House of the country's cur rent needs.
 The failure of the republican ma jority in the House to raise up q leadership capable of doing the work that the republican party pledged it- self to do fronts the President with the obligation of facing the facts and acting in their light. If he is unwilling or unable, through the ex- crcise of the vast influence of his office or through the attractive suitability of his own personality, to bring order out of chaos in the House, it is high time thatAhe made a public confession to that effect. By going directly to the people and telling them in plain language that the republican party in the House has failed him. he would evoke from the country popular protest against the record to date of the re- publican Congress that would make it's every member read, and at least Fsome of them heed. the handwrit- ing on the wall.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-12
Denn Pest

The bean pest has invaded my garden and is rapidly eating up my pole heans and damaging my butter beans,' said H. A. Schimmell, but am glad to have been able to have gotten good messes off of each varie- ty before the little yellow striped bugs got in their work.
 'I do not understand how some of my neighbors have had such suc- cess with tomatoes, as | have splen- did vines, we'll fruited with large specimens, but somehow they have failed to ripen.
 For the benefit of any growers l wi Il state that while the frost nipped the early shoots after the clusters had formed, by cutting them back to the original vine have saved the day and Will have good yield
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-12
rs. They say that bobbed hair is

ors. They say that bobbed hair is cooler, easier to manage and more hygienic. Maybe that is true. The trouble, as we see it from a dis tance, as there isn't bobbed-haired damsel on the premises, is that bob ping her hair seems to make a young woman who may be quite intelligent look as if her mental process didn't rise above a ragtime photograph record or the latest dance step.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-12
sEpILING A WORKER

Next year we won't take any simmer boarders," announced MT. cobbles.
 Why, what's wrong. father?" asked Mrs. Cobbles.
 "Our boy has an idea he ought to slick up an sorter play tn part of hotel clerk. Tn first thing we know he'll be wearin' diamonds an standin' around with a pencil stuck behind his ear. After that he won't be of any more use on tn farm"
 UNCERTAIN PUBLICITY "The fair stage star says she is engaged to Il men and is afraid to land"
 She's making trouble for her press agent
 How so?"
 Suppose the police prevent him from staging love riot at the pier?'
 NORMAL
 What kind of woman is Mrs. Cad der?"
 Normal I believe"
 "Yes?"
 Shed regard a trip to Europe as a total loss if 1t wasn't mentioned in the society column"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-12
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
LOST FACILITIES

Sam Bing, whose ills were cronic, Used to buy certain tonic And never did regret the money
 spent. don't believe straight whisky Would have made him feel more
 frisky
 Or with life as he found 1t more
 content. But those days are gone forever And though sam is very clever, . And glibly runs his dreadful
 symptoms OCT, or the "grp," the flu" the collie, He gets nothing alcoholic. For he cannot fool the doctors any
 moro
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-12
EASY STAGES

How did you happen to become burglar" asked the welfare worker.
 By easy stages" replied No. 9s76. 'T first bought a soft drink conces- sion at county fair, then 1 drove a taxicab awhile. After that I pro noted wrestling bouts and almost before I knew it l was breaking into peoples houses"