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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-10

of 50 cents each provides fund of $750,000. In July of this year there were 2,700 members in Alabama paying county dues ranging from S to $10 and state dues of $5. There are 64,000 members in Texas and the federation is rapidly extending it's organization in the south.
 A glance at some of the items on the pay roll may prove instructive. President J. R. Howard is paid $15,- 900 year; Secretary J. w. Cover dale, $12,000; Director Gray Silver, $12,000; Clifford Thorne, general counsel $12,000. Salaries ranging from $3,600 to $8,000 are fairly nu- merous, while a staff of clerks, ste nographers and other employees re- ceive from $1,200 to $2,400 year. There are 39 names on the list pub lished by The Age-Herald.
 In addition to the salaries it is said that about $150,000 of the year ly contributions received at fedora tion headquarters are expended for rents and personal expenses.
 Possibly the American Farm Blu reau Federation fills a long felt want, although there were already two other organizations, the Ma tional Farmers union and the Ma tional Grange, in existence before it was organized, but it throws light on the high cost of maintaining Hobbies in Washington.
 The national capital is crowded with representative of every con- ceivable interest and it is even whis- pered that some of the professional lobbyists are drawing fat salaries for doing nothing in particular.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-10
AMERICA,s OLDEST RUIN

From Westward Hoboes," by Wlni-
 fred Hawkridge Dixon. Published
 bv Charles Scribner's Sons.
 Once w enade days excursion to Casa Grande. 40 miles away, over the Maricopa reservation.
 No spot could look more untouched by human life than this wind-ribbed and desolate palimpsest of sand on which layer on layer of history has been scratched. The old Santa Fe trail, from armored Spaniard to Wells-Fargo days, ran directly over q corner of ruins since excayated. Be- fore 1700 Father Kino came upon this remote house of the Morning Glow, as the Indians called it, and held mass in it's empty rooms for the tribes Of the region. Coronado the Ubiquitous. may have seen it, since he speaks or a Great House built by Indians. Even then. the place lay in ruins. and TOT how much further back? NoDooy knows, and guesses are millennium apart. It is Americas oldest ruin.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-10
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

stituents to call on me today said Senator Snortsworthy. "and-er- naturally don't want them to know that I ever take a drink" t Have no fear, sir" replied his sec- retary. You can rely on my dissre- tion.''
 "of course. my boy. but they'll probably ask you confidentially where they can get one, so you tell them confdentially where they can, but make it appear that you would die of chagrin if knew about it."
 ANOTHER SMART TRICK. What was he arrested for?" Nature faking."
 "Eh?"
 He converted hot water coil into a worm
 COUNTRY CORRESPONDENCE.
 wei Il nave 10 get a new cOrreSponl dent down at Blobbs Junction" said the editor of the Chiggersvil Clarion.
 Whats wrong with the ore we have?" asked his assistant.
 "He starts off his letter. Local news scarce then writes column of personals and crop predictions. and concludes with casual reference to murder"
 AN APOSTLE OF D1sCoRD. My brother" said the solemn in- dividual, "are you trying to make life a grand sweet song?"
 I'm afraid you've tackled the wrong person, sir"
 How is that, my brother?" My speciality is jazz"
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-10

It was a simple and direct path general suicide.
 If Lvof and Miliukoff had con tnued in power Russia by this time would be recovered so far as con
 cerns essentials. If Kerensky had not not been driven out Russia today would be reasonably happy. If Kol- chak or Yudenitch or Denikine CT
 Wrangel had overthrown the bol- shevist power there might have been
 the loss of crop along the Volga,
 but other parts of Russia easily could
 have supplied the shortage. Ire cause of the famine is political. This truth should never be forgotten The results show what harm cruel a;-d vain men, their heads filled with false doctrines, can do in short time. But some measure of responsibility lodges outside of Russia-with those who, on one excuse or another, have prevented real relief being given.
 They have had enough maleficent in- fluence to bring the Europeah troops home from Archangel and ts prevent effective aid going to those who sought to save Russia by reye sr We have never seen the inside Of the head of one of our bolshevists; put were sight granted it would be or
 strange tumble. There would
 weakness of moral perception. hard ened dullness of intellect, insensate
 indifference to human misery The bedsides of our bolshevist must also
 have grim visitors.
 Callous aloofness has been fVo-
 cated. It was said that Russia, With
 out molestation, should be allowed .Y carry through her great experiment..
 A vfyisection was in progress With which none should interfere. Now that the vivisection IS com nleted and the final convulslVe snasms are watched, how do our c;;- rious ones who wanted to satisfy their curiosity like what they pe- hold?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-10
THESE CHINESE ARE POLITE.

From the St Louis Post Dispatch.
 The Chinese do some things bett r than we do. Take the regulation of the automobile. Over here we re- qure automobiles to have horns Some say this is not necessary, as being essentially satanic in gin but that is. Aggression. The idea of a horn is to have something to blow after hitting somebody. while speeding away, so as not to neec- lessly multiply the fatalities, it be- ing generally conceded that any mo- torist should be content with killing one pedestrian at time.
 The Chinese method is to have a bell on one of the front wheels, to ring all the time and thus notify all Chinese abroad that day that dead- ly automobile is approaching which desires to take their lives A chauf- feur must wear a big brass badge on his breast. showing that he is author ized to drive over all Chinese who do not get out of the way. And there must be an assistant chauffeur to sit behind to inform persons that they have been run over and that the job was done according to ordinance by an authorized chauffeur with a Lrass badge.
 We are not as ceremonious in this country as we might be. Of course we are in hurry. but we might take time to be a little more polite te people we are about to run over oi have just run over. By emitting suitable amenities we give the i'm pression that we are hard hearted when we are only in hurry.
 Assistant chauffeurs sitting behine would serve another purpose. Front end chauffeurs would derive so mucf amusement from knocking off the hack -end chauffeurs of other cars that they would lose interest in run ming down more pedestrians.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-10
CHEMISTRY OF LIFE
By Science Service.

By Science Service.
 New York, September Especially The chemical manufacturer of today uses expensive labor, expensive raw materials, and costly sources of high potential energy. such as coal oil, and water power, to produce the fin- ished products of commerce, but when 1t is possible to understand and util- ize the chemical methods like those of the plant and animal organism, chemical technology will be an en- tirely different proposition from what it Is now This is the belief of Sir William J. Pope, president of the Society of Chemical Industry of Great Britain, expressed in an address be- fore the joint meeting of that society and the American Chemical society here.
 We must foresee the advent of en- tirely revolutionary consequences which have wide bearings upon hu- man affairs. The task of the chemi- cal manufacturer has generally re- solved itself into the conversion of specific raw materials. with the aid of expensive' human labor and the use of coal, oil, water power or other costly source of high potential ener- ey, into finished materials market able at an enhanced price, which
 
 ergy. In only a few instances has the technologist been able to avail himself ofAthe activities of the living organism in the manufacture of his product; and in these, such as the production of alcohol, acetic acid, glycerol and acetone by fermenta- tion, labor and fuel have generally to be introduced as costly auxiliaries. When we possess full working details concerning the plant leaf process for converting carbon dioxide and water into formaldehyde and oxygen by utilizing the suns energy, when we can make indigo and quinine by the identical methods adopted by the plant, chemical technology will be an entirely different proposition from the one which it now represents, he s&id.
 Tt seems plain that modern science 's caile3 LrCn to find means, for cur ia!ling the expenditure ce high po- tential forms of energy as human aber and mineral matter The so- iution cf this problem must come friin 'he proper utiliza tion ui the ra- diant energy which comes to us from the sun. We require efficient meth ods for or4etransporting solar energy from the tropics for use in our more temperate climes. It is perfectly pos sible that the scientific study of oil bearing plants in tropical regions may .ead to such improvements in yield ard cost of production that veg etable oils will replace the ordinary fuels, coal and petroleum, now used the whole world over"j
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-10
President Appoints
 Senator Underwood

l m PRESIDENT HARDING will re- lS ceive congratulations from all parts of the country for naming 1 Senator Underwood from Alabama to be associated with Secretary Hughes, MT. Root and Senator Lodge as Americas "big four" at the com ing international disarmament con- ference.
 Washington dispatches state that the selections were made not only with q view to the natural ability of the members, but with the belief that the four men were chosen who can wield more influence than any others in moulding the sentiment of the nation and in having the irdorse- ment of the country in any action which they may take.
 The conferees will have no plenary authority. Whatever they do must be ratified by the peoples chosen representatives. But the confidence such men as have been chosen will inspire will go far toward getting their recommendation accepted by the lawmaking bodies.
 A wonderful responsibility rests upon the shoulders of the. ''big four No subject is more intricate or more far reaching than that of disarma- ment. The nations interests must be protected, and at the same time il agreement can be reached among the \ great allied nations in the reduction of ornaments, the billions now spent in that way might be turned into other channels in such way as tc have momentous consequence to al the peoples of the world.
 !. The selection of Senator Under.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-10
Ignorance in High Places

You never know where you are going to strike ignorance" said w. D. Nesbit. One would think that every Atlanta shipper would by this time know about the Warrior river as that city takes large amount of freight through port of Birmingham and saves 20 per cent of the freight rate by doing so. Many Atlanta shippers do, burt some do not know about the Warrior at all.
 II was in Atlanta recently and talking to prominent business man there, who is generally alert to every thing that happens, I mentioned transportation on the Warrior and he asked me if it were true that real barges came up that stream. He had vague impression of having heard that this was done, but did not know that Atlanta gets a large amount of her sugar, coffee, salt and rice from New Orleans by the Warrior
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-10

wood will be especially gratifying to Alabamians who take pride in the lustre he has already shed upon his state. The Alabama senator has not yet signified his acceptance, but if his duties as leader of his party in the Senate will permit, it is assumed that he will be glad to give his great ability in seeking a solution of a problem facing the whole world.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-10
MORE SMOKING IN SUMMER
New York Sun

From the New York Sun.
 The percentage of tobacco consumed during the summer months greatly exceeds that used during month in the winter. according to figures com piled by prominent tobacco man.
 II can only explain the increased sales in the summer season by the fact that smokers are outdoors much during the warm weather and have more opportunity to smoke" said the tobacco man. "In the winter time a man. won't always smoke when he's outdoors.
 .On a chilly day he prefers to pu. his hands in his pockets instead of holding a cigarette or cigar. In the summer time a man lying on the beach or out in the country may smoke to his hearts content"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-10
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LIGHTING THE MODERN HOME

 From "Construction of the Small
 House-Lighting and Electrical
 Work" by V. H. Walsh. in Archi-
 lecture. Charles Scribner's sons,
 Publishers.
 When we talk of lighting the mod ern home, there is generally but one idea that enters our minds-elec.ric lighting. Even those dwellings, re- mote from any power house, are i'm stalling small generators in prefer ence to the oil or gas lighting sys- temS
 Then, too. when we refer to good lighting, we no longer think of the glaring bulbs of light, exposing all the harsh glow of the white, hot fil- aments, causing ones eyes to squint and strain-to find things in the cor ners of the room: but we picture room flooded with mellow fliumina- tion emitted from the fixtures which shield the direct rays of light from our vision.
 Another. change has come about in our conception of good illumina ion, in the quantity and intensity of the light we expect from the incandes- cent bulb It was only a few years ago that we marvelled at the yellow light given off by the 16-candle-pow- CT, carbon filament bulb. But today, if a bulb gave off as feeble an at- tempt of lighting as did these old ones we would think 1t on it's way to the graveyard of lightning-bug We cannot talk of 16-candle-power lamps when the glow of modern Mazda light is around. We used to specify on the plans so many 1s-can- die-power lights for the dining -oom or living room fixtures, and it is ard to- change our habits to refer to the modern 40 or 50-watt lamps which 1 Thus within a period of not more of illumination has been jolted cut ' of rut.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-10
From the New York Tribune.

From the New York Tribune.
 6N HE newspaper correspondents who have at last penetrated S darkest Russia and are send | ing out the firA&auncensored descrip- tions of the effects of the bolshevist vivisection transmit dispatches that make the throat choke and bring gooseflesh to the most insensitive. Never in modern days has there
 been such a horror. It is as if the
 black death had returned, but with difference the thought of which further sickens the imagination.
 The great pest of the dark ages was visitation of nature, not pre- ventable by the science then known
 The starvation pestilence of present.
 day Russia was not only preventable
 but was brought on by the specific acts of a particular group of men. | They, of course, did not consciously plan for famine, but they pur- sued a toxic policy whose necessary consequences OBVIOUSLY WouiC po famine. The millions now dying and the other millions who are barely able to keep themselves alive owe their sad fate to bo1shevism, and to it alone. About the curtains of Lenine I and Trotzky must troop dolorous shadows. The procession that scared the eyeballs of Macbeth must be nothing to what they see if here
 remains in their bosoms a spark of
 humanity.
 | Morrow is the capital of an empire of hunger because of the rulers '. 10 now hide themselves in the Kremlin, not daring to look at the work of their hands. They broke down the complicated machinery of civilization
 which must regularly revolve if pop ulations that exchange their products are to live They achieved the de-
 struction by decreeing the repeal of the law which says that what man produces shall be his own.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-10
Business Barometer

"cotton's advances of the last few days have made the business situa- ton in the southeast look much bet eral manager of the Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph company who is in Birmingham for few days.
 Our long distance revenues, a wonderful barometer of business, have picked up from way below our estimate and reached the figures we set at the first of the year. This shows more than anything else that business is reacting and getting out of the sloughs of depression. Con ditions apparently are due for a good brace"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-10
LUCKY GERMANY.

From Golfers
 If the allies had intended to cripple Germany beyond repair they should have seen to it that she was com pelled to so ahead maintaining a huge army and navy. Out of every dollar we have appropriated for the fiscal future wars. The year before, wars share was 9S cents on every dollar. Germany is, by order of Versailles released from all that. And thereby she got a huge advantage which the rest of us hope to acquire after the coming disarmament conference.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-10
Expensive Organization
 Maintained By Farmers

eIrHE AGE-HERALD'S Washing u ton correspondent finds the American Farm Bureau Federation showing evidences of prosperity rather disproportionate to the finan- cial condition of many farmers whose walls have reached the sympa- thetic ears of Congress.
 Established in luxurious quarters in Washington and Chicago, the fed eration membership of 1,500.OOo farmers, whose annual contribution
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-10
PERIL OF THE PAUMOTus

From Sky-PilotS in the PaumotuS, by
 Frederick O'Brien, in Asia Maya-
 zine.
 rowly escaped a more serious acci . dent than the disaster of the reef, for only the warning of my com panion stayed me from treading upon a nohu. the fish that the French call La Mort-"The Death" It lay on the coral strand. where the tide lap ped it. looking the twin of battered messy rock, so deceptive that one needed the sight of the aborig,ne to recognize it. If 1 had put a foot on it. before I could have moved, the nohu would have raised the bony spines of its dorsal fin like a row of hatpins and pierced my flesh. sim ultaneously injecting into it viru- lent poison. The nohu's mouth is very large, and brilliant lemon color inside, so that if 1t parts its lips it betrays itself, but it keeps its mouth shut xecpet when it swal- lows the prey for which it lies in wait.
 If you can spit on the nohu be- fore he sticks his taetaeNlnto you, it will not poison you" sagely said my savior. as he stabbed the wretch with his knife, and I was reminded oi i Pliny, who. as translated by Hol-
 land, says:
 All men carry about them that which is poyson to serpents; for if il be true that is reported, they will nc better abide the touching with mans spittle than scalding water cast upon them; but if it happen to light within their chawcs or mouth, especially ii it come from a man that is fasting it is present death.'
 Pink in his day may have known of quick -witted people. who, wher assailed by snake. had presence ol mind to expectorate in it's chawes but the most. salivary man coul6 1 hardly avail himself of this trophy tactic against the nohu, unless he recognized the fish before treadinr upon him. And treading upon ths nohu is no light matter. If the venom is not speedily drawn out oi
 neutralizcd. the feet of the victim turn black and coma ensues.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-10
THE POMPADOUR's FAN

By Austin DobsoE. Chicken skin, delicate, white,
 Painted by Carlo vanloo, Loves in a riot of light,
 Roses and vaporous blue,
 Hark to the dainty frou-trou! Picture above, if you can.
 Eyes that could melt as the dew. This was the Pompadour's ian! An. but things more than polite
 Hung on this toy, voyez-yous! Matters of state and of might
 Things that great ministers d'
 Things that. maybe. overthrow Those in whose brains they began
 Here was the sign and the cue This was the Pompadour's fan! C. Envoy. Where arc the secrets it knew?
 Weavings Of plot and of plan? But where is the Pompadour. too?
 This was the Pompadour's fan!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-10
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
IN MExIA OIL FIELD

To the Editor of The Age-Herald:
 I am now in Mexia, Tex, oil field and would like to correspond with anyone who will write and inclose stamp. I lived in Birmingham 30 years ago, was carpenter there, came to Texas in 1893, married in 1895
 We have some great wells, one 1S,00O barrel capacity per day; con ceded largest field in Texas.
 M. K. SHUTTLEWORTH Mexia. Tex. September !, 1921.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-10
IN HOTEL HOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Goose worth nO Ccnts

Back in 1878 when we were oper- ating a railroad to get to the newly opened mines at Pratt City, we ran over d goose" said Col. T. H. Aldrich.
 We thought little of 1t until next day when, as our train slowly ap- preached Pratt City, an angular woman appeared in the middle of the track just ahead and refused to budge. We stopped the train and inquired the cause of her action. Her reply was that we had killed her goose and that the train was no, going step further until she was paid for it.
 We debated the matter few mo- ments and then asked her the value of the goose. She named 50 cents. I took the coin out of my pocket, she stepped off the right of way and our first suit for damages was thus set tied out of court"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-10
HIS LONE ACHIEVEMENT.

Has Sam Donfling ever done any thing to attract the attention of his fellow citizens?"
 We'll" replied Squire witherbee, about 20 years ago Sam wrote a testimonial for patent medicine concern and got his picture published in all tn county newspapers next to pure readin' matter, as havin been snatched from tn grave, but ever since then Sans been content to rest on his laurels. MORE THAN HE BARGAINED FOR. I've had hard day in the office, my dear" said MT. Clipping, as he sank with assumed weariness into lis easy chair.
 You didn't stop to tell single funny story, I suppose?"
 Not-ahem-more than half dozen."
 You must be completely worn out. Get right into bed, and if any of your friends call you up to ask if you can come downtown and talk over important business matters I'll say you can't lift a finger"
 ACCEPTABLE.
 T don't know whether I'm accept able to her or not.'
 Does she ever look wildly about the room after you've been there for about half an hour and then start the photograph"
 NO"
 You're making progress"
 A DEEP LAID PLOT.
 I'm expecting a party of my con-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-10
POINTED PARAGRAPHS

 From the Chicago News.
 The faith that does not revive you needs revising.
 The most exclusive people in the world are either in society or in jail. We should strive to love our neigh bors. We can get more out of them that way.
 The average man no sooner does a kind act than he begins to feel big over it.
 No matter how great the frontage of house, the background is only a yard wide.
 When man sneers at a woman's talkativeness xhe makes noise like sour grapes.
 Some have hard time picking out car to heaven because the lower berths all seem to be taken.
 There is nothing that can influence man to take a present home to his wife so strongly as guilty con- science.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-10
NATURE PARKING
n the Tampa Tribune.

From the Tampa TrIbune.
 The Birmingham Age-ilerald says that as the superdreadnaught Wash ington slid down the ways the peace bird crooked" plaintively. There! We've suspected all along that this Harding separate peace bird was Il raven or a crowl