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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-06
The Model Detective
From the Brooklyn Eagle.

From the Brooklyn Eagle.
 It is easy to imagine Sir Arthur Conan Doyle turning green with envy when her eads that Edmond Lo- card, director of the great technical school for training policemen, at Lyons, has instructed all his pupils to make Edgar Allan Pees Dupin their model-not Sherlock Holmes Tt takes a poet to catch a poet" Is Locard's theory. Tn dealing with be as Poe's hero was, reasoner and an analyst" Imagination is a vital element. The bulldog tenacity of a Javert is no substitute. We are not prepared to offer 6. census of the writers of detective stories who will share in Doyle's jealousy. Their name is legion. "Old Sleuth, the Detec- tive" who was long a useful member of the Brooklyn board of education, has gone to his long rest and is not concerned,
 
 fered to French policemen as model, Francois Vidocq of Arras, but our own Commissioner Enrlght will un- derstand why he hesitated to do so. To win a good job Vdocq consented to serve a term in prison to get in touch with the criminal classes. The habit of crime grew on him till he ac- tually arranged 8 big robbery. and discovered" the criminals after the other detectives had given up the job. But the frameup was not long con cealed. Vidocq lost his grip and died in deep poverty.
 There is good reason for believing that a real person, c. Auguste Du- pont, who often assisted the Paris po- lice gave to Poe much of the ma terials used in The Murders in the Rue Morgue." The Mystery of Marie Roget" and one or two other stories. Poe made the name c. Auguste Du- pin. It is said that when the Charles Baudelaire translations into the French his hands M. Dupont smiling ly refused to make a statement. Nor did Poe ever directly clear up the identity question.
 So "Dupin" was as good a French man as Vidocq, and very much more of a gentleman. That he is preferred to Sherlock Holmes by the Lyons ex- pert should cause no surprise since blood is thicker than water. Never theless M. Locard may learn some thing from Conan Doyle, The fact is that not all, not majority, not a one- tenth minority of modern crim- inals" are reasoners or poets. As in the past, the bulk of criminality is due to the criminal classes, and the chief work of the police is to keep those classes in check France still has the advantage of the low drink ing places where most crimes are plotted and where much loot is di- vided-where stool pigeons" may get at the bottom of things, an ,ad- vantage which our police lack under prohibition, or will lack when pro- hibition becomes fully effective. Also she has not yet to deal with criminal classes free from the slips and the inaccuracies due to drunkenness. We are sure she will not wholly abandon proved methods to indulge the high brow ambitions of her aspiring de- tectiyes
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-06

SN COihAiSASS W NSNiiSouiJ , were these headlines:
 Demand for Iron Increases in Pittsburg." Several Furnaces to Resume This Month" "Finished Steel Gains'
 Pig Iron Buyers Show In- creasing Confidence" Belief Spreading That Prices Are at the Ebb and That the Market Is Due for a Rise" Demand for Round Lot Tonnage Improving"
 The Steel Situation Looking Better" Improvement Has Been Slight But Real and Gives Prom ise of Steady Increase" Pros poets for Export Trade Are Also Encouraging"
 These items are side by side 1T the iron and steel section of one o1 the highest authorities in the nation Industrial and commercial papers like the Journal of Commerce coulc not exist if they printed "hot air stories of iron, steel, wool and cop per. Business houses take papers like that to get the facts, not the dreams of trade.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-06
Dirty" Coal Has
 Hurt Foreign Trade

A s might have been expected, N and as thoughtful men in and out of the coal trade predicted, the dirty" coal which we sent to for eign countries in 1919 and 1920 has given us black eye. A leading Danish coal importer recently said to correspondent of the Associa- ted Press at Copenhagen:
 The United States lost . great
 opportunity to sell her surplus
 coal, because in 1919 and 1920
 when American sellers had the
 European markets at their mercy,
 they made the mistake of send
 ing to Europe coal of very poor
 quality and charged exorbitant
 prices for it.
 As result of this policy, dur
 ing the recent British coal strike,
 when practically no coal was ob- taiudbiS IT VIII diCdt ioiltdliis
 hardly any Scandinavian orders were placed in America. despite
 the fact that stocks on hand were nearly exhausted.
 Alabama was not guiltless of shipping inferior coal abroad. The excuse made was that eastern coal buyers came down here and did that business. Whether some of our southern coal producers winked at the inexcusable traffic or not, it was done and the reputation of Ala bama coal suffered.
 | It has been suggested that there should be some sort of official guarantee of exported coal. Ger tainly there should be regulation to prevent the importer from being swindled.
 In no coal producing section quite as much as in Alabama is this nee
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-06
-.... - CHILD'S COURT LIKE HOME

From the Manchester Guardian
 For the first time in London two Justices of the peace have sat v,th the stipendiary magistrate to hear the cases in a children's court. The juvenile courts (metropolis, act which was carried in the face If much opposition last year and nro- vides not only for the attendance of lay magistrates but for the boIdiry of the courts in buildings separate from police courts, has come into or- eration, and 1t happened that the tirst new court was held in the Lam beth town hall at Brixton.
 Technically the spacious room with it's pale-blue walls, white enam- eled woodwork, and curtains, was a court of justice, but it was very successfully camouflaged. Pictures in gilded frames hung on the walls the table behind which the small de linquent stood instead of in a dock, was bright with green tiles. The policemen. unmistakably drilled men wore plain clothes and natty colored ties.
 The one most successfully disguised wore gray flannel Norfolk coat cal culated to make any youngster feel at home. At the end of horses shoe arrangement of tables sat the mag S. trate, who from time to tune con suited with the woman justice on iiis right and the man on his left.
 The homely atmospheric had been secured and it was rather a shock to hear the magistrate ask the mother of small boy charged with theft from sweet shop, whethervshs wished him to be tried in this cour: or by jury at the quarter sessions
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-06

Wilson thought Plume should go to Jugo-Slavia. It has also been said that Colonel House succumbed to social attentions bestowed upon him in Great Britain and advocated the Japanese claim to Shantung. Ac- cording to another story, Colonel House left Paris without consulting Mir. Wilson, which the latter re- garded as a desertion, and still an other report attributed the break to the appointment of A. Mitchell Pal mer to be Attorney General.
 Whatever the cause, no man was closer to Woodrow Wilson than Colo nel House, unless we except Mir. Humility. As confidential ad- wiser and personal representative abroad, Colonel House was all-pow- erful, but as -mouthed as a clam, until the relations between the two men were suddenly broken off, to the astonishment of the Ameri- can people who had learned to re- gard Colonel House as fixture in the Wilson regime.
 If these two distinguished Ameri- cans have really composed their differences it isn't likely that either will ever tell why their minds didn't run along together" during that trying period when everybody's nerves were overwrought.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-06
Save on Bread

While we don't expect to save thousands of dollars by the establish- ment of county bakery, we do ex pect to save small amount of money" said w. B. Copeland. mem Der of the board of revenue.
 practically all of the work will be done by prisoners, with the ex- ception of one man. We feel that we county institutions for less than we aye paying for these things now from various barkeries. We believe that at least $2,O0O annually can be saved the county by the establishment of this bakery"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-06
Interest in Birmingham

We get all manner of inqIries about Birmingham daily said Paoli Smith of the Chamber of Commerce. Yesterday, for instance. there was one from Albert J. Black of Powell. O., evidently c dairyman, or deal CT in milk. He wished to know what milk in Birmingham are. and how much is handled by milk producers, and how much Sy middlemen.
 His questions were plain and to the point, showing keen interest Many newcomers have been located in Birmingham in quiet manner through our daily answers to in- quiries."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-06
1.4 Charges

Tt is interesting to learn from the general minutes of the Methodist Episcopal church, south, that it now has more than l24 pastoral charges with more than 1000 members" says Dr. l.. c. BPanscomb, editor of the Alabama Christian Advocate. Thirty three of this numDsr being in Texas.
 The following have more than 2,00o members: Centenary, St. Louis. with 2.561 members; First church. Birmingham, 2,52S; First chruch, Houston, 2,17S; First church, Dallas, 2,147; First church Fort Worth, 2,143. It will be seen that there Is only one church in southern Methodlsm which has larger membership than the First church, Birmingham.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-06
CONSISTENT. ANYHOW
the Atchison Globe.

We wish to say kind word for Jude Johnson: He is not one of those hyposrites who have beautiful front yards and very dirty and unsightly back yards. His front yard is every bit as dirty as his back yard.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-06

how the book affected him when he first read it. He said he was obliged to send his wife off to bed, so that she might not see him in tears, and that he shut all the doors lest he be interrupted by some of his friends before he could finish 1t. F. R R
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-06
ANOTHER ONE HEARD FROM

From the Arkansas Gazette.
 The Birmingham Age Herald re- ports that an Alabama man has q cane to match every suit. We have . cane. too.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-06

essary, because we depend more on foreign markets for increased pro- duction and expansion of our coal trade. A
 American exporters should realize that people are not ignorant sim ply because they do not live under the Stars and Stripes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-06
,Amr1MMaAauefH
POINTED PARAGRAPHS

From the Chicago News.
 Trouble sometimes visits a man who isn't looking for 1t.
 No attention is paid to chrome liar when he utters an occasional truth.
 Experience teaches people lots or things they would rather not know.
 Why do some men swear to love before marriage and love to swear afterward?
 There is usually more danger in an elopement than In any other kind or run away.
 It's an impressive moment in girls life when a masculine arm first encircles her waist.
 Every singer in quartet can point out three good reasons why the or ganization isn't perfeet. Some men owe their position Tn society to their wives. and everything else they have to their creditors
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-06
Caruso Saved One-tenth
 of Millions He Earned

MF the $10,000,00O said to have " been paid Caruso during his opera career, he left an estate esti- mated at $1,0O0,O0O to $1,50O,0O0 He had an income reported to be $500,000 year, and while he spent his money lavishly and lived luxu- riously, he gave with liberal hand. It would be interesting to know just how much money Caruso, with the generosity which characterized him all his life, bestowed on his needy compatriots, as we'll as nearly every body else who ever appealed to him for help. If he spent recklessly, he gave in the same way.
 Thrifty souls who worship the almighty dollar and put the accu- mutation of riches above every other consideration may shake their heads over the discrepancy between $10,- 100000 and $1,OOo,Oo0, but Caruso would have laughed at them for their pains. No one will begrudge him the enjoyment he got out of life, nor a single dollar he received. He might have died a richer man, but he could not have died more uni versally beloved. Many a tear shed for him came from the eyes of some one who had been the recipient of his bounty.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-06
ONE OR THE OTHER

"There's stranger without" What does he want?
 He says his name is opportu- ity"
 "Bootlegger or stock salesman7"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-06

MUST BE MORE THAN ONE From the Tampa Tribune.
 Maybe it's the Flying Hoochmar off Hatteras
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-06
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cleegyman favors one-p piece bathing suits for women, because they permit greater freedom of movement. But what is a hard worked censor going to do if the women won't swim?
 + < # A contemporary says the Harding administration is drifting. Cue for old-fashioned editorial entitled, "Whither Are We Drifting?"
 # # # An outdoor caterer says the Ameri- can people have a weakness for hot dogs" That isn't a weakness. It's sign of strength.
 <. < #
 Tourists say there is great deal of moisture along the South Atlantic coast that is ignored in the weather reports.
 Secretary Mellon is no politician, otherwise he would not propose a tax on the flivvers of the common people.
 # Ts #
 Jane Addams is popular in Ger many. Even in this country we real ize that her intentions are good.
 # < x Nations who take part in the dis armament conference should check their hardware" at the door.
 # x < If Lord Northcliffe were on his way to Mars without a return trip ticket. Curzon wouldn't care.
 # # q;
 Americans who have been released from Russia are convinced that there's no place like home. < # # If Americans are unpopular in France, 1t can't be because they won't spend their money. * x < Senator sBorah wants to reduce the army to 100000 men, barely enough for parade purposes.
 * * *
 Even if Governor Small merely followed precedent. It's bad pre- cedent.
 #
 The time is coming when every lit tie home will have garage all it's own.
 # * <
 The airplane has not made the bat- tleship obsolete for dancing purnoses x x *
 Many man wears a furfive look who has nothing on his hip.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-06
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A MORNING PRAYER

A MORNING PRAYER My God, when, through blind ness I cannot love thee, let me never forget that in my blindness thou dost love me! Amen.---M. s. H.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-06
NO BRAINS.

NO BRAINS. You discharged your new sales man?"
 Yes. He's not suited for the au- tomobile business" "How's that?" He tried to sell a s7,ooo car to a school teacher"
 GOSH. They say this town is very dry, It's hard to get a sup; Yet every evening after dark The streets are all lit up.
 Cincinnati Enquirer. The towns so very dry men seek The stuff sold from the boot; Yet you will find that once a week he band goes on a toot.
 Canton News. This town is also dry, but still You will find very few Domestic kitchens where you will Not see some sort of stew.
 Newark Advocate. And if you wander down, swear! Beyond the farthest house, You Il run into the river where You soon can get souse.
 II G., Newark, 0. On keeping everybody dry This town is sure a crank; Yet scarce an auto passes by That does not bear tank.
 q Akron Times, Game hunters cross the rolling foam And jungle terrors dare; What need to roam when here at honfe Are tigers" everywhere?
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-06
Cheering Items in
 the Trade Journals

NNN the same page of the Journal NJ of Commerce Wednesday were these headlines.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-06

Experience teaches people lots Of things they would rather not know.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-06

Washington bureau, 6O2 Davidson build lns. nAs..
 Eastern business cffice. World bulldmk New York city: western business oiilSe' Tribune buidinR ChicaSo. The ;. C- Eeckwith speclnl Asn-HcJ. agents TOT A'A aIKn adVertIsipR.
Evening star., 1921-07-17

President Harding and of the Great Council
proved Order of Red Men who Washington initiate
President into the order Insert A. Rutherford Nashville
Tenn the Great ncohonee head of the Improved
Red Men, who conferred the degree of adoption
Harding recently.
Evening star., 1921-07-17
National Photo Co.

President Hdng military and aides photographed the
White House. all wearing their uniforms Of white
right: Capt Lemuel Shepherd c. Maj H. u S.
cavalry Lieut. Col Clarence c. Engineers:
Holmes Lieut. Commander Robert NJ Griffin u s. n;
Maj. O. NJ. Badnger U. S. A.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-12-13
SuStenls OF Stake

nctoning prisoner
liberty but is difficult
operation
The columns the last few days have carried thrilling stories
time would exd their crimes
gaow successful from supposedly
snatched the law.
of
jail buried
landing
realizing that he die probably will fight to the death
of
lives well
Slaughter,
time Had pal" whom he befrnded
killed undoubtedly would
of bandry.
discipline elsewhere we'll
probably fatally
given their
Punitive built evolution
against the defy and the rights
theory
times
Undoubtedly,
Slaughter the rng
degree to the management of the institutions.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-12-13
AirpLdneS and Gas

The theory advanced
that its will illogical
since those battles depicted his
every
the Belgium
there slight military
leaders horrible years
de it.
Fries advocates the
his
against development
development aanes
unprotected peoples
against
and think what
dsboca of
%
the city with poison? Does he think
horrible that the
poison surprise
easily possible pontaity
opportunity
becoming and
the possibility becoming
the airplane
ansPacifc warfare this character
would in the
with which this
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-12-13
HigIltUay Specifications

controversy material Of which indiana highways are to
lying dormant since the
highway
roads and the controversy
dividing inheritance of that
specifications being built
H Wright
resigned fire at the
opening 4 McCray administration.
specifications favorable road
material specifications for
brick asphalt roads
comply contended that the
specifications the commission the brick
highways the highest quality
of asphalt
condition marked
specifications
that
altered being made
majority this
hold for brick roads asphalt roads
against certainly material should be
that given square
O
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-12-13
She Gets Divorce
on Way to Wedding

RENO, New, Dec. 13.-When Nathan
Bentz. aged 65. went to the county
clerks office recently with Winifred Rob
erts, aged g. to secure a marriage license
his soon-to-be bride was compelled to
shout in his ear so that he could under
stand what was expected of him in the
way Of responses. fees and signature.
Mr.. Bentz gave his residence as Santa
Barbara, Cal, and. told County Clerk
E. H. Bemer that his divorce cost him
100000. The divorce was at Santa Bar
bara Feb. 4, 1916, Mr.. Bentz alleging that
his wife had deserted him.
Until about an hour before securing
the license Miss Roberts name was Mrs.
Winifred Wanderleach. She was divorced
in district court, upstairs from the clerks
office. on the grounds Of extreme cruelty
on the part Of her husband, who was
served in Shanghai. China. with the
necessary papers. She gave her address
as Reno in securing the license.
Her divorce was not contested, and
tbe court granted her petition for the
restoration Of her maiden name, which
She kept Just long enough to get the
license and find a minister-about an
hour.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-12-13
TUESDAY.

Mrs. Hooper had promised to go up to
the city with the Bride and advise ner
about the purchase of the new washlnS
machine that she seemed determined TO
have. They we're to have gone yesterday
but on Sunday some friends of the Bride
in the city had sent her word that they
were coming to see her so there was MOTH
ing for her to do but stay home and en-
terrain them.
Il don't believe it will be necessary
for us to go up to the city anyhow
Mrs. Hooper had told her when she had
telephoned to say that they would not De
able to go as they expected.
"Oh l don't think 1 can get what
want in Mayheld," objected the Bride.
saw one in the window Of shop In the
city the other day that was advertiser
for use in apartments that didn't take
up any room hardly and l could use II IN
the kitchen because l haven't any Iauh-
dry"
Il can't imagine one as small as that,
said Mrs. Hooper skeptically. wv nat
was 1t like?"
Just like big double covered pan
and it seemed to be set up on peg
EXPLAINED the Bride, and when you
hitched it to the electric light socket
it wobbled around like top that is
spinning out but it kept whirling slowly
and rather unsteadily until the clothes
were clean"
The principle sounds all right, ac-
knowledged Mrs. Hooper, although I've
never seen anything like it in action, but
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-12-13
PUSS IN. BOOTS JR.
By David Cory

bI O6VAu SVES
Now, when the Robber Kitten com
manded Puss Junior and Tom Thumb to
hold up their hands, our two small trav-
elers just looked at him. Hold up your
hands!" he shouted again and this time
You may be sure Puss and Tom obeyed,
for they didn't want to run the risk Of
being shot, you see, and the muzzle OF
the pistol which the Robber Kitten held
in its right paw was close to Puss Jun
iOr's head.
why haven't you got more money 2"
cried the Robber Kitten, angrily. III
try to oblige you the next time" an
swered Puss Junior, with a grin.
Yes, I'll wear diamonds when l come
through the 'dreary wood again." said
Tom Thumb 1--WE didn't expect to have
the pleasure of being robbed"
Well, this made the Robber Kitten
laugh, and after putting the money in
his pocket, he looked about him. And
then, all Of a sudden,
He climbed tree to rob a nest
OF young and tender owls;
But the branch broke off and he fell
down.
With six tremendous bowls!
Howls bowls, bowls!
With six tremendous hoWls!'
"That just serves him right" whis-
pered Tom to Puss Junior land I'd tell
him so if it weren't for that pistol"
$50 would l." said Puss Junior, "but
he has the better of us, for we have only
our swords"
Well, by this time the Robber Kitten
had gone away, but Tom Thumb and
puss Junior were so angry at being
robbed that they followed him, hiding
behind a tree whenever he turned around.
Goodness, gracious me!' whispered
Puss Junior from behind the tree where
he and Tom were hiding. That kitten
Is getting to be a terror"
isn't he, though" replied Tom. Just
look at his whiskers. They are bristling
like bayonets. "-Copyright, 1921.
ITO BE Continued0
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-12-13
Giant Ginseng Root
Found in w. Virginia

IARLINTON, W. Va, Dec. BE. NJ.
Smith, a well-known hunter Of this city,
discovered the largest ginseng root ever
found in this section Of the State while
hunting for pheasants on Red Lick
Mountain the other day. Mr. Smith be
came entangled in some sort OF plant
and after Investigating found 1t TO be a
giant ginseng stalk four feet high. He
dug it up and sold the root to a local
grocer. There were between seventy and
eighty marks or scars on the curl Of the
root, each showing an annual growth.
which indicates that the plant had been
unmolested for well on toward one hun
dred years. A large quantity Of GIN
seng is dug in this section of the State
for shipment to China. where the natives
have great faith in its medicinal quail
ties