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Evening star., 1921-08-25

They did manage to do this in the
ninth. when Judges scratch bingle to
Merrick was followed by Bush's clean
blow to center, but both were left when
Milan skied to Cobb.
Milan's double in the opener was
unsupported, and in the third, when
they still had a chance, a fine running
catch of Miller's Texas Lacquer by
Cobb stopped them when they had
the bases loaded through the Tigers
only error, a muff by .Woodall of a
third strike on Johnson, Judges sim
gle and a walk to Milan.
In the sixth Miller reached third on
his walk and Shanks' two-bagger. but
was doubled up when Blue stabbed
Smiths liner on Young's peg to the
plate. Acosta, Judge and Bush were
retired in order after Picinich opened
the seventh with a double to the
scoreboard.
Bush Given Ovation.
Bush was given a fine ovation by the
fans when 1t was announced he was
to play short and again when he came
to bat for the first time. Manager
Mcbride said he was using Bush in
stead of La Motto to experiment" an
explanation not altogether clear in
view Of the fact that Donies capabil-
tiles are SO well known.
Despite the atrociouS fielding of the
Nationals several fine plays were ex-
ecuted in the course of the battle.
Milan twice robbed Veaclr of safeties
with running catches, while Cobb
Blue and Young all distinguished
themselves on the defense.
Evening star., 1921-08-25
Unlimited DIVISION.
SECTION A.

Yesterdays RESULT.
Langdon, z; Grace, 8 tive inninGs).
TODAY'S GAME.
Gibraltar VI. Emerald. at 35th street and
Wisconsin avenue.
TOMORROw'S GAME.
Westover vs.. Yankee. at 35th street and
Wisconsin ave.
Evening star., 1921-08-25
MIDGET DIVISION.

VIRGINIA LEAGUE.
Newport News, Il: Tarboro. l.
Norfolk. 6: Suffolk, 3.
Rocky Mount. 10: Richmond. 2.
Wilson, g.: Portsmouth, 4.
Evening star., 1921-08-25

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION,
Minneapolis. s.; Columbus. Z.
Toledo. o: st. Paul. 6.
Indiana polls, 13: Milwaukee. I.
Louisville, Z; Kansas City, 8.
Evening star., 1921-08-25

YESTERDAYS RESULT.
No game.
ToDAY'S GAME.
Benning vs.. Leviathan. at Trinidad Field,
18th and q streets northeast.
TOMORROW'S GAME.
Petworth vs. Hilltop. at Trinidad Field. 18th
and H streets northeast.
Evening star., 1921-08-25

No game until Monday.
Evening star., 1921-08-25
LEAGUE SERIES.

SECTION A.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-13

are already assured. Another com mittee will visit the Methodists who are also cooperating in the $33,000,- 000 drive and the third will call on members of all denominations and others who may wish to contribute.
 Response to this appeal for Bir- mingham-Southern college should be promptly made. The kind of school projected by Dr. Snavely and the Methodists will be great asset to Birmingham. For that reason every citizen should feel a direct interest in it's future development. Further more, it is planned to spend the $500,- 900 received from the Rockefeller Foundation in erecting new buildings and providing better equipment. That in itself will mean a large sum of money spent With local contract ors, workmen and dealers in building materials.
 Many smaller cities where impor- tant institutions of learning are To- cated derive most of their support from them. This would not be the case in Birmingham, of course, but great university here would pos sess many practical advantages in ad- dition to it's cultural influence and the prestige it would give to Bir- mingham as an educational center.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-13
LOAFING THROUGH COLLEGE

hgh-school course to the end of their sophomore, junior or senior year in college Fifty three sad they had so worked. Of the remaining 6S9, soma said they had worked at the beginning of their course. but had early found something pleasanter to do; others said they had at first wasted so much time that they were later forced to exert themselves in order to catch up; and still others scoffed at the intellectual honesty of anyone who professed an inclination to work with consistent seriousness. But on one point virtually all of them agreed-namely. that they could get along without working if they wished to do so. Such personal testimony, given in circumstances that would encourage frankness and truthfulness, only corroborates the college teachers conviction that stu dents do relatively little serious work. The laggard escapes because he does not wish to expend energy unneces- sarily, and the student ~-ith the capac- ity and the will to work in most in stances adapts himself to the easy circumstances created by the presence of the laggard, and gives up effort be- cause effort is very evidently not re- quired.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-13
City and County Work
 for the Common Good

N CARLOAD of fine Jersey cows A\ purchased by the City National bank of Tuscaloosa has been received and the animals will be distributed among the farmers of the county at cost. The butter fat will be sold ito the creamery. The farmers will pay for their cows in a short time and the subsequent profit and increase in herds will be their own.
 The bank will have more money on deposit as the result of it's good of fices, both from the farmers and from the creamery. A substantial industry will be helped and many farmers will be placed on their feet. { A countrywide dairy meeting was held <t Aliceville in Pickens county the other day. Farmers, bankers and merchants compared notes. It was found that there were cows of suf- ficient milk flow to support cream cry. Immediate steps to build creamery resulted.
 A paragraph from the news item relating to the Pickens county meet ing says: "The bankers of the coun- ty have been very active in promoting dairying and have had the active CO., operation of the county farm agent and the home demonstration agent"
 When the people of county es- tablish this cordial cooperation there is no end to the accomplishment that is attainable. And it is encouraging to realize that all over Alabama city and country folk are thus working together for the common good.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-13
LUKE MpLUKE sAYs

Next to hearing you sing his own praises a man would rather hear you roast his enemies than anything else.
 The reason so many joy rides end disastrously is because a fellow and a girl take a bottle of booze along as a chaperon when they start out.
 We have been a dur nfool in many ways. But no oily-tongued bird ever got anything out of us by calling us brother"
 Every hard-working man hopes that some day he'll be able to take a few days off and invent something that will make him rich.
 The two things that people never for get are debts that are owed to them and women who go wrong.
 Some of the dear men are using rouge on their checks And when you see one of them you get the impression that he is also wearing long stockings and a gauge undervest.
 A wife gets just as mad if you stay around the house. all the time as she does if you stay out of the house all the time.
 Every now and then wooden headed girl marries an ivory-headed man.. And then they wonder why their children haven't sense enough to come in out of the rain.
 The reason some city jobs take so long to finish is because the gung at work consists of six foremen and two laborers
 There are so many laws in this coun- try that you are lucky if you get through day without breaking about s2>of them.
 (copyrisht. l92i.s
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-13

Prof. R. W. Brown, in Harper's Maga-
 zine,
 TIN the IA years in which I have been
 teacher I have attended faculty 0 meetings regularly in some college once a fortnight. I have, moreover visited 120 or 130 other American col leres and universities, and I have at tended faculty meetings in number of these. Yet in my entire experience I have never heard any college faculty discuss for five minutes the problem of helping the able student. l have heard faculties discuss at great length and with much vehemence such ques- tions as how late fraternities should be permitted to dance; how late in the evening "coeds'' in the dormitory should be permitted to use the fudge kitchens; what style of paddle might be used in freshman initiations: how many times student might oversleep and miss classes without being dropped from college; how badly he must need credits in order to be permitted to change from course in which he is failing to ono--in which he believes he can pass; how many credits he might be permitted to make" be- tween the clo; of final examinations forts to complete the course with satisfaction'' and receive his degree; what part of a. course in the history of Greece a belated senior might count as a prescribed foreign language after he had failed in first-year Spanish all these matters I have heard college faculties discuss. The members have usually admitted that they ought to be giving their attention to questions of greater importance but the ques- tons ef greater importance have never been treated as if they deserved very thoughtful consideration.
 Stripped all suphem;stic phraseol- ogy. tl,e truth is that if student is to receive the maximum of attention from an average American college he must be to some extent mensak or moral deficient.
 Such meticulous effort to have every intellectual stacker conform outward ly to established standards results in an official recognition of poor work No matter how conscie. tious college teacher may be. when he is obliged day after day to think and to talk about inferior students he inevitably modifies the character of his teaching to suit their obvious needs. have re- gently asked 742 young men and wom- cn how many of them had worked with faithfulness from the peg inning
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-13
WILD SWANS

Will H. ogilvie, In the Spectator. Lon don. There is seldom a footfall beside our
 dark water That hill shadows bathe in and bull rushes shroud; NO playmates are here for this lonely
 kings daughter Save the failing gray full or the wan
 oerlng cloud. But this morning. where roselight and
 opal lay blended With musical changer and wide spread
 of wings, A flight of white swans on the dawn
 wind descended And breasted the loch into rose-col- ored rings. What quest do they follow? Where
 tends their long journey? Will they fade with the sunset, melt
 out with the moon? Are they knights with those white ,
 plumes toss for a tourney. Called south to the lists in some dis
 tant lagoon? Are they elves of the moorland, heath
 folk or hill ll-fairies That ride through the nieAv-wracx
 to rest with the morn? Have they brought us from somber
 Loch Skene or St Mary's Some magic of Yarrow wingwafted
 and borne? <. <.ss- As watch them at ease can think of
 them only. A Dim wraiths through the tearu that
 the dawn mist distils. As exiles returned by long sky-ways and lonely;
 The Souls of dead hffl-mon come
 home to their hills.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-13
GRANDMAMMA'S CIGARETTE
From the Providence Journal

From the Providence Journal.
 00 F ITHOUT prejudice to the de-
 WV eision of the court in FlatDush h
 one may question whether in itself the fact that a grandmother smokes cigarettes is sufficient reason for depriv- ing her of the custody of her grandchild Thus isolated and remanded to the region of the absolute, the question appertalns to the equally absolute pronouncements made of late by President Emeritus Eliot before the Harvard Dames It is a ques- tion not of morals, nor even of manners in the fine sense of the word, but Of taste -or at most of custom. To banish ut terly the matter of morals it is only necessary to point with pride to the reat-grandmothers From Maine to Cal ifornia, as is well known to students or pioneer history, many of them smoked and smoked not cigarettes, but corncop pipes. Yet it was their children and their childrens children, sturdy pioneers and empire builders, one and all, who made us what we are-who provided the na- tlonal setting for even President Elmer itus Eliot and the Harvard Danes.
 As matter of taste, of course, ci earette is infinitely to be preferred. That is the verdict of all who have ever tasted a corncob, as is attested by the universal rise of the cigarette and the obsolescence of the ancestral pipe. It is true that a generation or two intervened in which grandmothers did not smoke anything at least as far as their neighbors knew. The only garnishments of their faces were venerable ringlets; if their white fingers were stained, it was With orna- mental needlework That was a beauti- full tradition But we have it on the au- thority of observant sociologers that this type of grandmother is now as extinct as
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-13
MORNING PRAYER
Still Finding Fault With
 "The Star-Spangled Banner

N MOTHER attack against "The AA star-spangled Banner" has been delivered by New York man, who writes letter of protest to the New York Herald, opposing a bill intro duced in the House of Representa- lives by Representative Linthicum of Maryland to legalize the song as the national anthem.
 His contention that the music of "The Star-Spangled Banner" is inap- propriate because it was adapted from foreign drinking song is rather far fetched, although such an origin may offend the tender sensibilities of some of our prohibitionists. The fact that the words are not exactly compli- mentary to England and recall a period of time when relations between treat bfltaln ana Amerlca were nos tile, is of no particular moment now. The average Briton shows not a trace of embarrassment while stand- ing uncovered as "The Star Spangled Banner" is being played, so why should we?
 It is true that we might have a more appropriate hymn for our bands to play and our school children to sing on patriotic occasions, that would not be criticized on the ground that the verses are rather indifferent poetry and the music displeasing to the musi- cally educated, but national anthems come into being spontaneously. They defy laws, legislators and critics.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-13
Great University Is
 Planned for Birmingham

67HE "Make-It-a-M Million" drive of
 ll the Birmingham-S Southern col lege is designed to give Birming- ham an educational institution that will rank among the leading univer- sities of the south, to provide a col lege which will make it no longer necessary for the young men and women of this city to go away from home to take the higher university courses. In that respect it is com munity affair, although the Birming- ham Southern college is a Methodist school.
 The campaign will shortly begin and it has been so we'll organized that the money needed will probably be collected within one week. This movement is separate from the $33,- 100000 campaig.A of the Methodist church to raise money for denomina- tional institutions, although related to it in one way. The Birmingham Southern college will receive STOOL 900 as it's share of the $33, 3,000,000. By raising $300,000 in Jefferson coun- ty, which is the purpose of the local campaign, the college will have an endowment of $1,0O0,0OO.
 With an endowment A that size the college expects to receive some thing like $500,0oO from the Rocke- feller Foundation, which makes cer- tain requirements of colleges before lending its assistance, among these requirements being an endowment sufficiently large to guarantee proper maintenance.
 Three classes of workers will solicit contributions in Jefferson county. One committee will call on men of wealth who have shown. an interest in Bir- mingham-S -Southern college and are expected to donate large sums. Tn fact, several donations of this kind
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-13

the protagonist of the corncob. Again and again one hears 1t said: To-day all women are young; there are no more Yet human beings remain who look down the ages, past their chii- dren and into the bright faces of their children's s children. The question of taste is rapidly becoming matter of affirma- tive custom And if sweethearts, wives and mothers, why not grandmothers?
 Both the cigarette and the corncob. it is true, may be injurious to health. As such they afford a real object for the attention of the moralist. No one would wish to give over child to a grand mother who is a cigarette fiend, any more than to a great-grandmother who is a Beelzebub of the corncob. But it is sadly characteristic of the moralist as he now adays flourishes that he instinctively abandons the solid ground of his cause and wages war against the shadow of name. He attacks not drunkenness, but all use of beverages; not narcotic poison- ing, but all use of cigarettes. In doing so he encourages hypocrisy and evasion In the prime of the austere Victoria, the Prince of Wales used to retire, post prandially with his guests into regions bey ond the inquest of his royal and im- perial mother. Venerable gentlewomen who lived through that age of many pro- prieties now admit that they went to their rooms and smoked up the chimney
 Judged by dead reckoning from corncob t. cigarette, the most obdurate must grant a certain amelioration in matters of taste and custom. It would quite pos sibly mark an advance if both men and women were to give up narcotics alto- gether. But if so it must be of their own will and judgment, not as the result of the beating of -tom-toms, the imposi- tion of a taboo.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-13
Patronage of Warrior
 Is Its Best Protection

I1n ENDING discussion of the re- | G puted purpose of Secretary Weeks to withdraw governmental sup port and operation of the Mississippi Warrior barge lines, Alabamians should make that line pay so that in any event the favored territory will retain the freight rate now in force. The barges can be made to pay only by use of the craft plying be- tween Birmingham and Cordova and the gulf ports. It pays to use the river because it cuts off 20 per cent of the freight rate. The better pay ing proposition the river proves the more inclined will the government be to stand behind and support it as worth while.
 The barge lines have not had a full opportunity to vindicate them-
 
 selves. The new fleet has been slow in getting on the river and one-half of the elf-propeller contingent, the most important of all, has not yet arrived.
 What new equipment that is on the river came after the business slump had set in and commerce was at a low ebb. In spite of this, earnings for April showed net profit of $50,- 900. That suggests much larger profits under better business condi- tions, with the full fleet and with more merchandise handled.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-13
VIVID IMAGINATION.

Have you heard Jibway's latest fishing yarn?"
 NO, I haven't" said MT. Gadspur. and I don't want to hear it."
 ''why not?"
 Because Jibway hasn't even speak ing acquaintance with the truth. He couldn't describe smallpox epidemic without making you think it was some thing you'd hate to miss.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-13
A TIME FOR COURAGE.

What is meant by the zero hour'Y'
 "In military parlance it means the hour set for going over the top" re- piled MT. Peckton. "In civil life it means the moment of hesitation before a mar ried man inserts his latchkey in his front door about half-past three in the morn ing and nerves himself to ascend a pair of stairs unsteadily and meet a pair of accusinp eves
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-13
Growing Importance of
 Traffic via the Canal

HULIUS KRUTTSCHNITT, chair cU man of the board of the South ern Pacific railroad, in his testimony before the interstate commerce com mission with regard to the plight of the railroads, said high labor costs constituted the crux of the burden which the roads are bearing. High freight rates were instituted to pay high wages. The connection is ob- vious and the country knows it. Both must come down.
 But MT. Kruttschnitt is aiming at a basic condition when he declares
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-13
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
TO BE EXACT.

"When does the last train leave for Brooks Junction." asked the fussy old lady
 T was reading in a newspaper this morning" said the ticket agent, dreamily, where celebrated soothsayer predicted that the world would come to an end in 1850. Barring unforeseen developments, the last train for Brooks Junction may leave here on or about that date"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-13
MILITARY CARNATIONS

"Is it true that this captain of indus try makes his lieutenants do most of the hard work?"
 That's what the lieutenants say"
 "Yes?"
 "But a voice from the factory says most of the hard work is done by the top sergeants of industry. assisted by the corporals and privates."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-13
THERE.s No sucH AN1MAI.

From the Houston Post.
 Hepresentative Williams of Illinois, republican. says if he had his life to live over again he would be a reformer. He would be failure, and universal execration would be his portion. The only reformer who amounts to anything is the one who reforms himself. con- trols his tongue and keeps out of poli- tics.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-13

aid highways are also eating into the revenues of the railroads. If steam ship lines and the highways have ! enjoyed some government help in one way and another, the great trans continental rail lines received large land grants, which is another form of subsidy.
 Greater use of the canal in inter- coastal traffic has been compulsory. In fact, a great amount of business that has been done and is being done would not have risen superior to the high rail rates and would not have moved at all but for the canal.
 Lumber was brought from Wash ington through the canal to Phila- delphia and reloaded there on cars for Ohio river points at a freight cost less than the direct rail rate from Washington. Canned goods come from the coast to Mobile and New Or leans via the canal at 50 per cent un- der the rail rate. Birmingham cast iron pipe moves to the coast via the canal at 50 per cent less. 
 High rail rates have created the business passing through the canal. | If stacker list could be made out l containing the names of everybody who at one time or another has shirked duty, it would comprise the total population of the earth. 1 The great influence Uncle Sam ex- erts over European nations would be source of pride to the "irreconcila- bles' if they would only look at it in the right way.
 A London man was fined s5 for dancing around a policeman for IS minutes. The average London police man does not bear the slightest re- semblance to Maypole.
 # # #
 The burning of Charley Chaplins trousers would have been no great loss to art but unfortunately Mr I Chaplin happened to be occupying them at the time.
 MT. Wilson is said to receive fre- quent visits from Joe Humility. Pos sibly they are talking over old times when they trod the deck of the ship of state together
 Colonel Harvey in London, Silent" Headline. The colonel must have mastered already one of the indispen- sable accomplishments of a diplomat
 
 Italian gunmen who killed Chi cago politician left behind ss2o bill 1 flor flowers" Such thoughtfulness in l gunmen is positively touching.
 < # <
 Willard Mack. who recently kissed his divorced wife. Pauline Frederick, l goodbye, might well ask, Whats a divorce between friends?"
 # * l Japan has a Babe. Ruth named K. Tanaka of the Waseda university team. who has ,popularized the home run In
 The world will know by June I whether or not Germany is going to toe the mark.
 The millennium will be at hand when tariff bill can be devised that will suit everybody.
 We are forced to the melancholy conclusion that what the Haytians want is a chance to backslide. # < x Sergeant o'Hare says he hasn't taken a drink in 21 years That probably isn't Bergdoll,s fault.
 # * < London's efforts to thaw out the Japanese crown prince have met with little success. THERE'S NO SUCH ANIMAL
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-13
WAR ECHOES.
HIS BUSY DAY.

solemn-faced individual wandered into the office of Mir. Dubwaite, who was up to his eyes in work
 My brother" said the solemn visitor, T come to you with message"
 Hand it to one of my clerks" an- swered MT. Dubwaite, as his pen contin- ued to trace his signature at the bot tom of business letters. He'll sign for it and bring it to my attention if it con- tains anything that-ahem-require my attention"