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Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1921-12-24
EAGLE HEWS[ LET'S

Fire in the Casino theater at Daven-
ton picture fouse-
approximately $50 men employed in
the car shops and allied departments
of the Chicago. Milwaukee & St Paul
railroad We're laid off at Green Bay,
Wis.
Usage Indians at Ponca City, Okla, in
Christmas checks of 81, 100 each, d
quarterly division of oil royalties from
Usage lands.
Temperatures ranging from to 10
degrees below zero in Montana and
zero to 10 degrees in northern
Wyoming and western Dakota, were
reported to the weather bureau at
Denver, Colo.
Dr. j. T. J. Smith was killed at Dial
las, Tex, by bullet fired into his
back while he slept by his wife, Mrs.
Bertha Smith, who sought to justify
her act by charging the physician was
cruel to her
For the $31 900 robbery of the Bank
of Panama, Benjamin Battleson was
summoned from Sunday evening ser
vices at the Free Methodist church and
arrested at Greenville. Ill.
Gerald Louis Wendt, Harvard gradu-
ate and assistant professor of chemis-
try, was dropped from the University
of Chicago faculty for peeping into
bathroom in Kenwood hall, a girls
dormitOry
Dominic Benigno, alleged slayer of
Wilfred C. Ely and George X. Fenner
in a pay roll robbery on December 81
last, was found guilty of murder in
the first degree and sentenced to death
at Cleveland, O.
A great Gordon of police and fed
eral agents were thrown about the
financial district in New York to guard
the stock exchange and Wall street
banking houses against a possible
bomb disaster.
Mrs Freida Zimmerman is in the
county Jail at Waukesha, Wis, charged
with murder as the result of finding
of the bodies of her two Stepchildren
in a cistern back of their home in
OcOnOmOwOc.
A 95-mile-an-hour gale swept the city
of Buffalo. n. Y. uproOting trees,
tearing down chimneys, smashing
plate-glass windows and piling up the
water in the harbOr to an unprece-
denied stage. One man was killed in
the storm.
Mrs. Katherine &C. Endicott of
Plattsburg, n. Y, wife of Lieut.. F. c.
Endicott. instructor in the United
States infantry school. Camp Benning,
at Columbus, Ga, was killed in an
automobile crash.
Philadelphia is gasping at 100 hold
ups in 80 days in which bandits OBJ
tanned nearly 100000. Although the
average has been five day, few sus-
poets have been arrested
Earth tremOrs that rocked buildings
were felt at lockwood, Tenn. They
were accompanied by roaring noise.
Reports have reached this city that
the tremOrS were more severe al
Spring City.
Earl ThrOst, confessed slayer OF
Miss Igna MagunsOn, pretty twenty
year-Old school teacher, whom he at
tackled with a club when she refused
to marry him. pleaded guilty to first
degree murder at WaukOn. L..
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1921-12-24
MOST IMPORTANT
NEWS Of WORLD
BIG HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK
CUT TO LAST ANALYSIS
DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN ITEMS

Kernels Culled From Events of Mo-
ment in All Parts of the World
Of Interest to All the
People Everywhere.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1921-12-24
Foreign

De Valera and Griffith clashed In
Dial at Dublin. De Valera finally
agreed to a plebiscite on the treaty.
British are to hold troops I'm Ireland
until the treaty is ratified.
The village of Ayalia has been cap
tured by the Spanish forces, operating
in the region inhabited by the Benz
ArrOs tribe of Moors The operation
proved difficult, says a Tetuan (MOrOc-
coy dispatch.
Lloyd George. in letter read by
Arthur Griffith before Dali Eireann at
Dublin, promised Ireland equality with
Canada and Australia within the Brit
ish empire and a seat in the League OF
Nations.
British authorities i'm India have i'm
prisoned 5000 nationalist leaders with
in q week, according to Taraknath
Das, directing head of the Indian In
dependence movement in this country
at Washington.
Coincident with an official announce
ment at Madrid of a solution OF the
coal crisis and of an increase In en-
pl0yment in Spanish mines, 1900
miners went on strike in the Asturfan
coal field.
Heavy storms resulted in flooding
large sections of Copenhagen, great
| damage being done. Other Scandina-
| Wan ports were similarly affected.
A Tokyo dispatch says that more
than twenty socialists, spreading rad
ical doctrines among soldiers, were
arrested at Otsuka, an army camp for
military maneuverS. A flood of rad
icaI literature has deluged Japan.
Advices from Valdivia, Chile, say
volcanoes Puyenue and Caulle, near
the Argentine border, are in eruption.
Numerous earthshOcks in the vicinity
of Lake Puyenue. east of Valdivia,
lave been reported.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1921-12-24

Heavy storms resulted in flooding
large sections of Copenhagen. great
damage being done. Other Scandina-
Wan ports were similarly affected.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-19
ROAD BUILDING TO EMPLOY
 ARMIES OF MEN

It is estimated that construction of high ways to the total amount of 76,400, 900, cov- ering 6,261 miles and employing more than 150,000 workers, is about to be undertaken by 30 states a result of the recent passage of the federal highway act.
 Another army or men will be put to work in industries manufacturing supplies for road building. They will be employed in quarres, cement mills, sand banks, gravel pits, asphalt works and in other plants producing road build ing material and tools.
 The benefits that will come from this use of federal money are incalculable. Compared with the sums devoted to the army and navy and to other purposes and measured by the needs of AS states, the allowance seems trifling.
 Matching the federal allowance by the states is an opportunity for their economic develop ment to fail in which would be nothing short of stupidity. Getting good roads at half price is just about the best business in which state can engage.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-19
STEEL NOT DEPENDENT ON RMAMENT PRODUCTION

Comfort has come to the alarmists who feared the effect of naval disarmament on the steel industry by the discovery that less than one per cent of finished steel mill production en- ters into naval construction. To be more exact, only about one-half of one per cent of the finished output of mills has been taken by builders of warships in the past five years and one-third of one per cent is the record of the past 34 years.
 A financial journal remarks: "The loss would be offset many times over through benefits from reduced war preparations, less taxes, etc"
 It is not difficult to puncture the glamor of war. The ugliness of destruction and heavy taxation is just beneath the surface. The irony of the world situation today is the benefit that has come to Germany through elimination of it's pre-war army and naval expenditures Its energies are going into production and grad ually bringing about it's commercial renaissance well as the payment of the war indemnity
 Judge E. H. Gary, chairman of the Steel Corporation, said Disarmament is good thing for all business" and added "steel in- cluded"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-19

homes and death or injury in the cruelest forms. Besides, submarines may serve legitimate pur- pose by intercepting supplies and sinking war ships. Bombing a city from the air is nothing but terrorism, plain and simple, the German idea of breaking down nations morale by the slaughter of innocents
 These distinctions drawn between airplanes and submarines are inconsistent with the att titude of the allies toward Germany during the war. A great deal depends on whose OK is gored. Human nature is much the same the world over
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-19
Birmingham, November IS, 1921.
ENTERTAINING CROOKS

From The Scientific American.
 Some writers delight to picture crooks as loveable, adventurous characters who, by their wit, make laughing stocks of policemen. These writers make crime attractive, and by sug- gestion keep creating new crooks The crook in real life, regardless of his particular line of criminal endeavor, is anything but pleasing. A crook is lower animal who lives parasitic life. He attacks you, like mosquito, at night. He steals your chickens like skunk. He takes advantage of your womenfolks like savage, and he hides in dark places and prowls around at night like rat.
 Running down the scale of crooks, we find at the bottom, the cracksmen, who are known in the parlance of the underworld as the "yeggs." They gave the name to themselves. The word yegg or yeggman originated among the Gypsies and used to describe a par ticsSsr crook in the band.
 Of all the crooks the yeggs are the most brutal, merciless, murderous and cruel. They have been known to commit murder without provocation. They have resorted to torture to locate treasure and have battled whole countryside in a getaway" shooting men, women and children indiscriminately.
 Yeggs are nomadic and migratory. They move in packs or "mobs" of from five to ten members under leader or "highmobsman." Like all crooks they drop their real name for 'moniker'' or nickname. They take these names from>a physical peculiarity, usually, and attach the name of the town, in which they went Ion the gun" became thief. fat yegg from Omaha would become "Omaha Fatty,p a thin man from Cincinnati would be- come "Cncy Slim," red-haired man from Denver is known as Denver Pink the bundle bum, because when he first started out he used to carry clean shirt, as he liked change now and then. He later became less fastdous about his toilet. Goat Hinch' was the leader of a notorious band of yeggs and "Tea" was his right-hand bower. "Tea" called Tea because he steeped tea at the "smudge" or camp fire while the others brewed "java" or coffee. The yeggs have language all their own. Punk is bread. Soup is nitro glycerine. Jail is jug, prison stir, gun is rod a freight train rattler, safe is gohper. To snuff gopher means to blow safe. To iump bail is to lam, and so on.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-19
PLAN FOR BAZAAR

''We are planning to make the bazar to be given by the Business and Professional Wom- en's club December 1, 2 and a thing of beauty" said Miss Mamie Pearce, land prac- tically every member has promised ticle that will be offered for sale at that time.
 'sWe are planning to have nine booths and the chairman of each are most enthusiastic over the work and indications are that this will be one of the largest and most delightful affairs of the kind ever given by the club. Our organization incurred great expense in opening up our new club rooms and cafe and expect to raise some funds with which to assist in removing this indebtedness. There will be things fopthe bride, baby and all mem- bers of the family as well as cake candy, things for the pantry, flowers, photographic and other booths, the most unique probably to be the originality booth, where almost any thing will be found"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-19
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
HoNoRED BY MEMBERSHIP

"one of the incest things that has happened to me once I've been a member of the city com mission" said Mrs. Echols lis the compliment which had paid me by the Birmingham Auto mobile club when they conferred upon me an honorary membership My husband has been a member of the Automobile club for some time and has been telling of the many fine things that the club has done and had really intended joining the club but running for of flee doesn't give one much time to do anything but that, and so I neglected to join the club during the campaign.
 q think the party that the Automobile club gave the dependent children of Brming- ham last summer was one of the incest things that has ever been done by an organization in traffic regulations and highway development event. In the meantime, the work of the club in traffice regulations and highway development is great credit to Birmingham"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-19
LETTERS TO EDITOR
PREFERS TO SEE OPPOSITION

To the Editor of The Age-Herald:
 Having read several enjoyable articles in your paper regarding the candidacy of Judge W. W. Brandon of Tuscaloosa for governor without opposition feel reluctant to offer my views pertaining to the absence of democratic principles in the stand you have taken editor- ially.
 While the judge is an able man and entirely worthy of the peoples confidence, he or no other or woman should be elected to this high office without opposition, and may that day never come when only one of Alabamas sons be qualified to become her chief exc cutive. In fairness to other ambitious and worthy men it is rather an ill founded opinion which advocates the election of any man to any of flee without opposition by reason of it's lack of wisdom and broad mindedness as to the funda- mental principles of democracy.
 Your editorial policy has always been ex- ceedingly fair, and this is the only instance in which have ever had the slightest inclina- tion to differ with the political views of a newspaper which hold in high regard. Yours very truly,
 JOHN H. M'EACHIN, Huntsville, November 16, 1921.
 Box 115.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-19
NEAT LITTLE SCOOP

"The telephonic interview with Jane Cowl by Dolly Dalrymple in Thursdays Age-Herald was one of the neatest little scoops it has been my pleasure to read" states Judge w. k. Voorhis of New York, we'll known public utility expert while giving the Birmingham waterworks plant the 0nce-over.
 'I remember the days when it was not possible for newspaper to use the long dis tance telephone. Now a veritable trunk of wires leads into the editorial rooms to give the news of near and far.
 "The newspaper which appeal to the many types of readers is the one which appeals I believe strong woman's page full of live and active reading matter is big asset to any paper"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-19
sEMI-WEEKLY SAILINGs

"We expect to put on semi-weekly sailings between Birmingham and New Orleans on the Warrior by December l." said Newton A. Guice, commercial agent of the Warrior sys- tenn. By that time we will have four self propellers in service and each will be able to make two round trips month. That is the equivalent of twice week both ways.
 "The Demopolis terminal will be in service by that time and the fourth up-river port will then be serving. Business on the river right now has slowed down just as it has in other directions, but I am glad to report growing interest. in use of the Warrior on the part of merchants in the 20 per cent differental ter ritory."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-19
AN OLD DIARY

Charlotte Becker, in the New York Herald. These are the musings of country squire,
 Who loved to ranible down green, wooded
 ways,
 Or in an ancient garden spend his days Moulding small growing things to his desire; His quiet hours were all devoid of fire
 Of high adventure or conspicuous deeds , Yet, ministering to lesser neghbors' needs, His service never seemed to wane or tire. The simple doings of his little world
 Provided him with much arresting thought, And on these gentle pages he unfurled
 The bits of wit and beauty that he caught; Somehow his kindliness, serenely wise, Brings rare mist to more life hardened eyes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-19
THE FLAW PACKERS

From The New York Tribune
 The flaw pickers at Washington, blown flat by the unexpected blast from the chairman of the conference, venturing to get on their feet again, groggy and out of breath, but still vocal.
 Now they cling to the hope that the Pacific question can be tangled that it will bring the conference to deadlock. The most pa thetic sight at Washington is the sudden soici- tude of some of the correspondents for the in- terests of Japan-for the rights she claims be- cause of her, propinquity to China and the out rage against her of Notifications on the Philip pines.
 One would gather that if not dsmantled the forts at Corregidor will some night arise and travel 1,500 miles over the sea and suddenly launch an attack on Tokio.
 The flaw pickers are discouraged but they do not yet surrender hope. They still think that if they pray loudly enough they may yet be able to develop trouble.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-19
M EN, WO M EN
 A ND T HIN c s

There are few professional men who have kept in as close touch with the wor-a-day world as l have, or who have been as interested in as many lines. It is easy to see how the average American is obsessed with his business.
 To the citizen of this republic adventure in trade is always fascinating sport, and this is why the European fails to understand the psy- choogy of the American. He in his easy way says that they are dollar chasers, when as matter of fact there are people in all the world who care as little for money as do the inhabitants of the North American continent.
 True it is that the men who make their pile do not quit is the case abroad, but it does not come from avariciousness. It is simply a love for the game, for when it comes to public giving Americans lead the world in generosity both to church, schools, and charitable institu- tons. They are known far and wide for the reckless and joyous way in which they give.
 In talking to friend who is at the head of one of the largest mercantile establishments in the south and he said, 'Mr. Barnett as far as am personally concerned I have all the money I want and all that my family will need, but it would be selfish in me to retire and close out the business. There are too many faithful employees Wno LOOK to me TOT ther support
 He felt that if he sold out that great many who had cast in their lot with him would be displaced or discrmnated against and so he had made up his mind that as long as he had the health and the strength he was going to stand by them and the business which they had helped him to build up. His commercial insti- tuition was but lengthening of his home, a wid- ening of his family.
 A man starts bank in an humble way and it grows into great financial institution and becomes part of the commercial life of the community until he gets the sense that it is more than private affair, that the welfare of his city in large measure depends on the way in which he administers it, and it sobers him and makes him as jealous for it's reputation as he is for his own.
 A manufacturer begins in modest way and his plant grows from it's small beginnings into a great industrial institution which sends its output far and near. Year by year ii lie is the right kind of man he has a growing sense of his responsibility to his men, his town, his state. He begins to take pride in his product,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-19
CONSUMPTION OF COTTON
 IS ENCOURAGING

The cotton consumption report for October showed an increase over last year and October exports made an especially fine showing. The total mill consumption was 494,745 bales of lint and 61,513 bales of linters, compared with 4O1, 1926 bales of lint and 1864 bales of lnters in October 1920.
 Exports in October were S74,51o bales compared with 13,2S5 bales in the preceding October. Cotton mill activity in the south is indicated by consumption of 297,ooO bales compared with ,oo0 last year and in 450,- 900 increase in active spindes.
 These encouraging statistics and have a bearing on the future as well as the present Orderly marketing, week by week, will offset the temporary set-backs that come to cotton as they do to other commodities.
 There is a dearth of speculative buying the world over, hence a lull in transactions and lower prices may be expected to follow each advance that comes with heavy buying.
 A six-foot snake frightened shoppers and business men in Montgomery. If his snake ship had appeared in the downtown district while Montgomery was full of legislators and politicians some of them would have sent post haste for doctor.
 "Fine!' exclaimed Great Britain and Japan, when Secretary Hughes announced the naval re- duction programme. It's beginning to look now as if they were talking chiefly for publi- cation.
 A visiting foreigner in Washington said, "Take me where prohibition is and I'll tell you how I like it." Worded differently, but the standard wheeze of foreign visitors.
 
 Fatty" says he won't return to the silver sheet until the American people want him. He needn't wait for call from the woman's vg- ance committee of San Francisco.
 If anybody knows how many honorary de- grees have been conferred on Eoch since he arrived in America, it's probably than he knows himself.
 Among the writing gentlemen now in Wash ington none is more pessimistic than Arthur Brisbane, Americas champion front-page edi- torial writer.
 When Mr. Ford proposed to buy battleshps and turn them into flivvers naturally some of the brethren recalled the peace ship episode.
 The approach of Thanksgiving has sent up the price of turkey. It would serve the dealers right if everybody ate pigs knuckles.
 
 China merely wants the other powers to quit telling her where to get off.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-19
EARLY SHEFFIELD DAYS

''The present furore about Sheffield and Muscle Shoals makes me think of early days up there," said Charles Abbott remniscently. q was among the hopeful young men who were attracted there in the first land boom period. was with the Bank of Commerce, no longer in existence, and there were the late Joseph Allen, the late Wilson R. Brown, Joe Lee and many others.
 "The Ford proposition, if carried out, means bigger things than we dreamed of, but none were more sure of great things than for Shelf field than our hunch of the early nineties"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-19
A MORNING PRAYER
 let me not look for new worlds to con- quer until have conquered the world with in my hearti Amen.-M. s. B.
ALL IS NOT WELL, THINKS
 ARTHUR BRISBANE

Regardless of whether or not one agrees with abest newspaper writers in the country and is always interesting. Just now MT. Brisbane is reporting the arms conference in Washington and contributing to the numerous Hearst papers his opinion of what is going on in Continental hail.
 MT. Brisbane doesn't think much of the con- right into the hands of Great Britain and Japan In fact he goes far as to compare the pro- posals made by Secretary Hughes to the pere- grination of Henry Ford in pursuit of peace. In other words, they are entirely too altruistic and visionary for these days and times, with nations what they are and what we know them to be. MT. Brisbane asks, "Shall we, who want no war, start no war, be regulated by those that make war, and when it comes seek to profit by 1t to the last dollar? Suppose we scrap $SOO,- 000,000 worth of naval defense now and cease further defensive preparation, because our Eu- ropean brothers are a little out of breath if nancially. If, then, war comes with Japan, what will be said, what excuse offered by those that would cut down our defensive powers?"
 Brother Brisbane is unduly alarmed and for gets the resources of the United States. If an agreement is made for naval reduction it will be an iron-clad agreement. If the race for naval supremacy is resumed at the end of 10 years, America will still be in a position perhaps better position, to build battleships faster than any other nation in the world Should we scrap our battleships and permit Japan to keep on building, that would be folly, indeed, but that is not the purpose of the con ference.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-19
TIME FOR SEVERAL THINGS
Anniston Star

T rom lHe faHHlSlou Otdi.
 Scientists says man will inhabit the earth forSat least one hundred million years more. That will give plenty of time to settle whether or not prohibition prohbts.-Bir- mingham Age-Herald.
 It also will enable us to determine if disarm- ament disarms and it will give Secretary Weeks time to consider the Ford offer for the Muscle Shoals project.
 The fact that man has lease the world for 1O0,OdO,0oo years may do away with the need for haste in determining lot of things. Within that space of time the Irish question may be settled, China may get from under Jap anese influence and Russia get back to sanity.