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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-02
CONTINENTAL HALL

From the Washington Post.
 The United States government and Ameri- generally owe debt of gratitude to the Daughters of the American Revolution for their generosity in lending Confidential Memorial Hall for the plenary meetings of the conference on limitation of armaments. The national capital is fortunate in having such building It is admirably adapted to the uses of the con ference. The delegations are seated where all can see and hear well and there is ample room for the advisory delegations that are in attend ance. The balconies afford additional space for the diplomatic corps and for the general public The lighting of the auditorium is excellent and the acoustic properties all that could be de- sired The corridors enable visitors to meet and mingle without confusion. The sessions of the Conference have been marked by dignity and simplicity. The audience is keenly respon- sive, but always orderly, The delegates, some of them men of worldwide fame, are always in view and can be easily heard by everyone with in eyesght. No other building in Washington would have been suitable for this interna- tional gathering.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-02
M EN, WO M EN
 A N D T H IN c s

Birmingham Is carrying peak load when it comes to dynamic educators as the big men 1n the south at the head of the great colleges and universities are in session here at the Tutwiler
 The Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools of the Southern States with Chancellor J. H. Kirkland of Vanderbilt university as it's president is threshing out and settling some of the perplexing problems in administration as well as in standards.
 The body is here for business and is getting things done with dispatch. Wednesday was featured with a ! number of confer ences, but Thursday opened with public ses- sions, the address of welcome being made by Dr. c. B. Glenn, in which he gave some inter- esting data about the public schools of Br- mingham.
 It matters not how many conventions one has attended, or the personnel of them, it is impossible to attend meeting of the body now in our midst without being impressed by the members, as well as by what they represent, for their hands are shaping the educational policies of the south It is tremendous sponsbty and requires the best thinking of trained thinkers.
 Usually one president of college is able to impress his personality in most forceful way on me, but when in the presence of more than hundred the atmosphere becomes oppressive and dare not breathe audbly let alone speak out my thoughts. The overpowering weight of their combined knowledge amounts to an obes- sion, and strange as it may seem I sit speech less Ct is relief to know that their stay will be short otherwise my favorite pastime of talk ing might be seriously hindered.)
 It takes gray matter and an abundance of it to qualify as the head of great college, and more and more it is becoming necessary that the president shall be an administrator as well as scholar; for any institution which is lead oy mere business man will fail in it's ultimate purpose of turning out men and women of cul- ture in addition to any aptitudes and special
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-02
LETTERS TO EDITOR
THE "HAM0 I'M oBIRMINGHAM,
To the Editor of The Age-Herald:

To the Editor of The Age-Herald:
 I note that one of The Age-Herald's bright young humorists uses a title line Around the Ham" for column in which he chronicles his meanderings around Birmingham.
 This use of Ham" for Birmingham offers suggestion of immense sentimental value. Ham pronounced with long a, is one of the oldest and purest Anglo-Saxon words in our Ian guage and was the original spelling of 'home." This beautiful modern English word has gone through the various spellings, ham, hame, hom and home
 The word Birmingham itself is of pure An glo-Saxon origin. The original Birmingham which was in the possession of the Berming- ham family in England at the time of the Nor conquest is recorded as having been trading post at least 200 years before the Nor mans invaded England in 1066. The word Br- mingham has passed through more than 100 re- corded methods of spelling during it's history and yet it's derivatives are three pure Anglo Saxon words. Its form "Brumwychham" shows these three words. "Brum'' was the Saxon word for broom, "wych' means de- scent while tham" meant home. One mans opinion is as good as another as to how these three words came to be combined. Perhaps some applied the name affectionately to humble home with sloping roof of thach or broomstraw.
 At any rate the word Birmingham is full of homely sentiment and some day perhaps some artistic soul will design a seal or shield for Birmingham which will represent a humble home with broom rampant somewhere in the background to typify various things-among others hopiness, aggressivcness and cleanli- ness. c. If. STARLING.
 Birmingham, December 1, 1921.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-02
PAUL COOK.

training for industry or the professions Edu- cation is not trade.
 Year by year there has been forward and upward movement among the southern colleges in the way of standards both as to the things taught and to the qualifications of the teachers. Not only is this true, but the movement to in- crease endowments to size necessary to meet the growing requirements both as to equipment and salaries is an evidence that at last the southern people are beginning to realize that if the south maintains itself in the educational world it must be willing to pay the bill in one way or another, by gifts or taxes.
 It has been pleasure to meet number of old friends at the conference and to learn from them the growing demand among their constit- uences for real colleges in fact as well as in and claim. It is well for state private and denominational colleges to get ready in a big way for the boys and girls out of the high schools who are going to camor at their doors for admittance. It was a significant fact brought out by Dr. Glenn at the Ensey High school before the educators, the guests of the school, that 46 out of the last graduating class were attending college.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-02
WORLD LOVES GOOD COOK
l the San Francisco Chronicle,

From the San Francisco Chronicle.
 Maggie Maloney, cook par excellence, has received $25,00o under the will of the widow of Mark Hanna which was probated a few days ago in Washington. Maggie is famous in fic- tion, reminiscence and legend as the cook who brought corned beef hash to perfection. Con- gressmen, diplomats and noted soldiers join in rejoicing with Maggie in her good fortune, which proves that all the world loves good cook.
 From 1897 to 1900 Maggie Maloney easily was the most noted cook in the country. Pres iednt Mckinley, senators, congressman and dip lomats of all nations were numbered among the "hash- eaters' who gathered in Senator Han na's home. Maggie is the original cook made famous by David Graham Phillips as one who influenced legislation. She likewise is the cook in Sam Blythe's recently published article, "The Manikin Makers" The legacy is said to be the largest ever willed cook.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-02
MINIMIZES ILL FEELING

My experience at Florence, where go oftea on business, had led me to believe that there is no accentuated dislike for Birmingham" states Mason J. billiard, Sr., who has recently returned from the Muscle Shoals vicinity.
 Outside of unfriendly expressions from some newspapers, have heard no condemna- ton of the spirit which Birmingham has shown to the developments already completed and those in prospect.
 Everyone thee was interested in finding out when Henry Ford and Thomas Edison would visit Florence, but one seemed to know definitely when this would happen, but thought they might come without much attendant pub licity in order to be able to do more effective work when they did arrive."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-02
SNIPE HUNTING TIME

"It's getting around that time of the year for some bird thrashin's," says William J.. Thornton, whose pet hobby is his white chicken farm near Roebuck Country club.
 q remember once when another lad and held the sack in swamp for the snipe and the thrashers left us to our own resources in the dark.
 "We didn't know how to get out of the swamp but were equipped with a sawed-off shotgun and accidentally ran into flock of ducks in some back water.
 "We killed enough ducks to half fill the sack so we had the laugh on the joke mongers after all.
 "No matter how many years they pull it, the snipe hunt joke always works for somebody"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-02
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS

From the Chicago News.
 Things above criticism are never beneath notice.
 Some married men are not home long enough to get homesick.
 Much of the charity which ought to begin at home doesn't begin anywhere.
 Why women cry when they are glad is still on the unanswered question list
 Give the average man chance to talk about himself and he will deliver the goods.
 The hero is all right as long as he can keep his feet firmly planted on top of the pedestal
 What picnic farming would be if each tiller of the soil could regulate the weather to suit himself!
 lot of valuable time is wasted by trying to make people into what you think they should be, instead of taking them just as they are.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-02
TOO MANY TOYS TO PLAY

Ellen Burns Sherman, in The North American
 Review.
 Let the psychologist, especially the paidolo- gist, visit the toy departments of any store, or the playrooms of pampered children in ultar- luxurious homes. For little girls he will find duplicates of almost everything in the way of clothes and household furnishings that the girls parents have, including the dolls bedroom and kitchen furnishings, dolls manicure sets and credte experto !-dols powder puffsl For all these things the father of the family, unless he has inherited wealth, must add many an extra hour of labor, perhaps in some stuffy city office.
 The small boy, also, has toys without end; :; a kiddie motor car, with all its outfit, engines innumerable, and metal, wood and wool re- plcas of most of the animals mobiized by Noah If the child is not strong, his poor little thing sated mind is wearied by the over-stimulus, made upon it. "I don't let my little son play in here, "a room packed to the ceiling with toys,-"because it seems to tire him." was the confession of wealthy father whose small boy had been literally smothered with play things that it had robbed him of his play-spirit and devitalzed him, as many adults are de- vitalized by the mere attrition of things sy,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-02
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Co.oPERATIYE MARKETING

"one of the greatest economic problems now confronting the Alabama farmers and business men is the establishment and successful opera ton of cooperative commodity marketing organizations of the products produced by the farmers of Alabama" said Prof. L. N. Duncan of Auburn, director of the Alabama extension service who spent yesterday in Birmingham.
 Continuing, Professor Duncan said that the county demonstration agents and other mem- bers of the extension service have been assist ing the farmers in the cooperative marketing of their hogs, cattle, peanuts and other prod ucts since 1917 and that nearly 1000 carloads were marketed this way in 1920 alone.
 Tt has been demonstrated over and over in Alabama and other states" said Professor Dun- can, "that it is necessary to have an effective business organization of real dirt farmers to handle these big marketing problems. When the farmers themselves are ready to tackle their marketing problems the extension service with it's agencis will heartily cooperate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-02
CLOTHING FOR CHILDREN

"We are having many calls for shoes and clothing for children from 5 years up through the school age," said Rev. Walter s. Brown, superintendent of the city department of re- lief and correction "These appeals come from mothers who working in an effort to take care of and educate their children and they need the clothing and shoes in order that they might be kept in school
 "We had call for help the other day from woman with four children between the ages of and 12 years who living in a tent in Norwood. The father of this family has been without employment for several months and short time ago obtained work in plant in this vicinity and had only worked two days when he was killed and his body sent back to Birmingham for burial. They need everything and we will appreciate any clothes which have been outgrown or that people no longer use and we will see that they go to people in need and deserving"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-02
BIRMINGHAM IS FRIENDLY TO
 MUSCLE SHOALS

If there is feeling in the "Tri- Cities" that Birmingham is lukewarm toward the Muscle Shoals project and it's future development, it is not justified by the attitude of the Bir- mingham press.
 All three of the local daily papers have car ried on an editorial campaign in behalf of the Ford offer and have devoted their news col umns unsparingly to keeping it before the public. In fact, there has been so much printed about Muscle Shoals and the subject has been discussed so often from every con ceivable angle and at such length that it is hard to understand how the impression could have been created that Birmingham is not in- terested.
 Maybe some of our neighbors to the north are suffering from an attack of ''nerves." Mus cle Shoals means everything to them. It much as it does to the "Tri- Cities" Citizens in the Muscle Shoals neighborhood have talked of this project and dreamed about it until they may think Birmingham should do likewise, to the exclusion of all other matters. Brming- ham can sympathize with this point of view but feels that charges that it is indifferent are due to misunderstanding.
 .. The people of Birmingham it's newspapers and its civic organizations realize what the development of Muscle Shoals will mean to the south, to Alabama and incidentally to this city. No more sweeping ndorsement could be given than the Ford offer has already received
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-02
THE GUILLOTINE AWAITS
 M. LANDRU.

The "Bluebeard of Gambais" has been con victed of murdering 10 women and a boy. Ironically he thanks the jurors for sending him to the guillotine and with theatrical air promises in month or two to shew~France "how .an innocent man dies"
 We in America lack the French peoples sense of dramatic. values. We have our celebrated murder trials, but in their most exciting phases they are drab affairs compared to methods of French courts, where such criminal as Landru becomes famous public character, the actor In drama whose every word and gesture is followed with breathless interest by the celebri- ties of Paris. He is immortalized in ballads, his career is theme for dramatists and the whole French nation waits with tingling nerves for the verdict
 How different are the court room scenes from the progress of an American trial! The judge denounces the prisoner, the prisoner pocks the judge and at times veritable pam demonium reigns, while the stars of the French stage and everybody else who can gain admit tance look on. It is in truth cause ceebre No demi-mondaine, lady of fashion, no statesman or artist, writer plain business man is at loss for topic of conversation while the fate of the accused hangs in the balance.
 In dingy room in Montmartre the deserted wife of Landru weeps for him but protests that she still loves this grotesque Lothario, with n bushy black beard and bald head, who left her to begin an astonishing series of amours. In her fashionable apartment young actress, the latest love of Landru, fondles her poodle, says she believes the man innocent and prepares to capitalize her notorety on the stage. She even talks of making tour of America!
 The guillotne may cut off Landru's head, but he has had his day, and his exploits will live after him in the Paris music halls.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-02
CHAN

Carolyn M. Lewis in the New York Times The leaves have fallen, bitter winds do blow, The days pass slowly, gray cavalcade And he that took delight in hunting so,
 A silken head upon his paw was laid. With anxious eyes he guards the picket gate, Where, long ago, soldier bade him wait" Once with swift feet he ranged the farthest hill With love and service filled the longest days; Now in the faint sun, watchful-eyed and still, He waits the master who so long delays. The squirrels, once fearful, mock at him, Who needs them not with longing eyes grown
 dim.
 Oh, faithful friend, there is field, know, Where tired soldiers dream amid the flowers Forgetting wars despair. and pain, below,
 Content through time that feels no binding
 hours.
 Old dog, twill not be long, in that far land, Your eager tongue shall lick his loving hand.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-02
HAD TO OMIT A FEW

Edward Doty of Tuscaloosa, publicity direc- tor for Judge William Brandon and Senator Charles Mcdowell, who has been in Birming- ham for several days, left yesterday for Mont gomery and Mobile.
 "It might interest you to know that for lack of space, more than 50 newspaper clippings were omitted from the advertisement I am inserting in The Age-Herad Thursday morn ing" says MT. Doty.
 "The omitted newspaper clippings are just as good as the ones published. So far as the race for governor and lieutenant governor is concerned, it is all over but for the formalites of attending the primaries"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-02
WHEN FLATTERY FAILED

"Fine town you have here, judge" said the motorist who had been haled before Squire Witherbee on the charge of exceeding the speed limit.
 ''Yes,p said the Squire. "We think so."
 "A fine, progressive little city; broad streets, attractive homes imposing public buildings and an air of prosperity everywhere. I dare say you have excellent school system, pure drinking water and all that sort of thing. And Constable Perkins here, who arrested me, is one of the most alert public officials I've ever seen. If I may say so, in the circumstances it's a pleasure to make the acquaintance of man who has such keen sense of duty and to appear before judge whose intellectual powers and integrity could never question after one look at his honest, yet kindly features"
 "A fust rate piece of oratory," said the Squire, dryly, "but if you're quite certain you've finished I'll just slap on tn fine an adjourn cote. It's pretty close to my lunch hour an I'm hungry
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-02
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
NO KIN. EVIDENTLY

What's the proper way to address women who are on the police forces"
 T don't know, really, but they seem to be as sensitive about their age as any other mem- bers of the more less fair sex"
 Flows that?"
 ''I one arrest an inebriated man the other day and when he called her Mother the way she slammed him into the wagon was inspiring to witness"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-02
SIZE MOST IMPORTANT

"The one outstanding requirement of an au- ditorum is size," said J. M. Dewberry. "That is first and foremost. An auditorium seating less than 1000 to 5000 would be misnomer in city where we have plenty of small audi toriums and two seating $500 now being built
 'T am opposed to the location on the Frisco railroad yards. No worse one could have been chosen. Get it away from the noise and build it big is my view, but build it big wherever it is located. This is big town and growing big ger every day"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-02
IN SPORTING TERMS

"You recall the story of David and Goliath, I hope?"
 q have hay recollection of having heard it somewhere" said the race track frequenter. 'It must have been when I was small boy and went to Sunday school David was the little chap who upset the dope by killing the big fel- low, wasn't he?" "Yes.''
 "Ahl That's one of the few cases on record where hundred-to-one shot brought home the bacon."
 EARLY SYMPTOM OF SPEED MANIA
 They couldn't leave the baby, yet
 They wished to motor, too;
 Which led to a discussion as
 To what they'd better do.
 At length they bought motor crib,
 Which serves them very we'll,
 But every time they stop the car
 That baby starts to yell
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-02
THE MIDDLE MAN

"Your still is rather inaccessible"
 ''Yes," said the "moonshiner." "We do a strictly wholesale business and it's expensive to move on short notice."
 q sec"
 "It's up to the distributor to keep within easy walking distance of the trade"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-02
COULDN'T PASS BIRMINGHAM

'I had to run down to Montgomery, my old home," and took occasion to stop off in Bir- mingham," says Judge Joseph Carthel who for Il years did such excellent work as secretary of the Alabama Sunday School association ''I moved to Tennessee Is years ago to take up in that state the secretaryship of the Tennessee Sunday School association but after serving the entire state for number of years it was thought best to divide the work between east and west Tennessee and took over the work in the western division and make my head quarters at Memphis. I always take great interest in the work in Alabama and am g.ad that it is prosperng"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-02
DIVERSIFICATION BEST FOR THE SOUTHERN FARMER

Farmers of the south will soon face another crop planting season and must decide on adher- ing to the acreage control plan successfully carried out last year of breaking from it un- der the lure of larger exports, larger mill con- sumption and dwindling supply. Through the American Cotton association they are pledged to plant no more acreage in cotton than in 92l That about 27 per cent reduction under the 1920 acreage
 There is little doubt that the southern cotton planter has learned his lesson. Those who planted the largest cotton acreage in 1920 were the greatest sufferers that fall and until the present time Those who diversified suffered least. Diversfication is doubly safe, because it means living at home and chance fayors hign prices for one crop as much as another. Meat may be up when cotton is down. So may sor- least can be used for home consumption.
 It has been series of educational steps First the farmer practiced diversificaton and found it good. Then came reduction of the 
 marketing. That is the present slogan.
 Room in the hall of fame for Farley ?. Christensen, erstwhile farmer-labor candidate for the presidency, who claims to have slapped Nfeolai Lenine on the back in Moscow.
 
 Three French war brides, with tears in their eyes, begged Marshal Foch to take them back to France. The Marshal showed his usual strength of mind by refusing, kindly but firmly. Correspondents agree that President Hard ing has been a lucky man so far. He has three years more in which to test the staying quail ties of Lady Luck"
 Battling Bill Borah talks like statesman who holds a commission from Gen. George Washington to keep this country out of for eign entanglements.
 A movie star denies she has instituted divorce proceedings but admits that she is living apart from her husband. The lawyers can wait.
 If the French "Bluebeard" had not talked so much he might not be facing the prospect of having his head shipped off.
 
 The prohibition party will continue to func- tion. That being the case, prohibition must still be an issue.
 Members of the Little Entente" occasionally hear an echo from the arms conference, but they keep right on drilling.
 
 Some of the shows knock about the country two or three years, yet they all come to us "di- rect from Broadway"
 Hoboes who stick to freight trains, known to the profession as "rattlers," will run no risk of being shot by marine.
 The "two-gallon" hat is your only wear in Washington. Life in small town has its com- pensations.
 The Sim Fein seems determined to prevent Lloyd George from entering fully into the spirit of Christmas.
 Admiral Horthy and Charley Hapsburg are not expected to exchange Christmas cards this year,
 Lenine predicts war between America and Japan. The wish may be father to the thought.