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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-06
By Science Service.

By Science Service.
 @ REAT tracts of southern hard Il 1 wood tinper, worth millions 10 NJ the people of the United States, have been restored to the government in a series of suits recently concluded in the federal courts. with the trees the mselves acting As star witnesses.$
 The whole trouble started back in 1S<7. when the original survey of the region in question was made. At that time the government paid surveyors not by the month but by the mile. and for .'meander" lines, such as river or lake shore it paid twice the rate given for the easier straight section lines. There was naturally strong tempta- tion to get q little soft" money by marking in lakes where none existed and this apparently happened pretty often. for maps made from these sur veys, and still in use. show large areas as lakes which are really heavily for ested dry land.
 When the settlers came in, they could not legally file their claim on this so-called lake land. But they es- tablishea themselves about the edges, partly cleared their claims and raised their cotton and corn. So things went for many years.
 Then came the big lumber com panies At first they bought up the timber on the surveyed lands, but when that was gone they looked about for mere worlds to conquer. It occurred to some of them to purchase from the settlers their riparian rights; that Is. the rights that property owners have to the bottoms of bodies of water ad- joining their land. if the water should be drained or dry up.
 But just as the lumbermen were thus succeeding in getting all this nnc hardwood for nearly nothing. the fed eral government stepped in, claiming that the original surveyors had made fraudulent reports, that there had been no lakes there in lS47. and that conse- quently the settlers had never had any riparian rights to sell. The suits very quickly came to . deadlock. The lum- Der companies claimed that these trees had grown since 1897. and produced . number of old settlers who testifsd that they had seen the lakes in the early days. The government attorneys produced other old settlers who testi- fled that the disputed areas had al- ways bcen dry land.
 The next move obviously was to em- ploy expert testimony. For this the governmeDx called in Prof H. c. lCowles of Chicago university. Professor
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-06

Conscience Is to be the guide for bathing suits in Terre Haute. What reliance nowadays can be placed in conscience?
 If General semenoff isn't careful somebody in vladivostok will be hand inE him his hat and asking him what's his hurry.
 The race riot at Tulsa has provoked tho usual outburst of indignation in cities where similar disorders may oc- cur at any moment.
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 France is willing to worry along with an inferior navy, but insists on maintaining an army large enough to police Germany.
 Y # Y Survivors of the Colorado flood who disre esarded flood warnings have been taught a lesson they'll never forget.
 # x # It Is proposed to "clean up" Green wich Village. Soap and water should be tried first.
 + # # Gouging is not yet lost art among the rent barons. but there are signs that the tenant worm is about to turn.
 x 4 x Shoot the looters" is crisp mili- tary order that should always be ebeyed with cheerful alacrity.
 4 4 Eavies not only cost money, but dreadnaught becomes out of date al- most as soon as milady's hat.
 4 x F Prominent Americans seem to regard job on the shipping board as just about as desirable as serving on jury.
 < x Y No matter what the sad sea waves are saying, they can't depress hotel keepers by the sea
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-06

|WT TAsH1NeroN, D. C., June 5. M./ (Special.)-The Prince ot
 w Wales now owns the flower garden of the British empire, the Sctl ly Islands, newspaper dispatches say, and soon they will welcome him 10 their shores.
 Like Scyila of classic fame, after whom it has been said the islands were named, the rocky shores of these is- lands have proved hungry monsters of the deep for mariners who dared to guide ships through their treacher- ous waters" says bulletin from the Washington, D. C., headquarters of the National Geographical society
 'In 1707 Sir Cloudesley Shovers fleet was thrown upon the rocks and 2,000 men pcrished. His flagship was lost and two men-of-war sank beneath the waves, while two fireships of his squadron ran aground and the remain der barely escaped. There is an old saying that nine out of every ten na- tives of Scilly perish in the sea, but this is no longer true, since the build ing of the lonely Bishop Light on an outlying rock to the southwest and numerous other lighthouses anf light ships in the island.
 "The history of the islands has all ways been tinged with fascinating TO- nance. Though the theory that they are the Cassiterides or Tin Islands. of Herodotus has been abandoned, they might well have been the trading cen ter where the Phoenicians met the early Britains and bartered for tin from the mines of Cornwall. At any rate. they were inhabited in prehistoric times, for the inhabitants have left nu- merous barrows and Kistvaens, or sep ulchral chambers of stone. to tell of their existence on the islands.
 The sciilies are generally accorded to be the legendary country of Lyon nesse, the scene of many incidents which figure in the Arthurian TO- mances and the Cornish folklore, as we'll as the land of the fervid and tragic Tristan Iseult. Athe1stan made VOW before the shrine of St. Burian that he would go to the islands and conquer them, and upon them the sceno of Sir Walter Besant's novel, 'Armo- rel of Lyonnesse.' is laid. There Is an account in an early English chron- icle describing the flourishing state of Lyonnesse and how 1t suddenly sub sided beneath the sea.
 As matter of geological knowl- edge the islands are merely the rag ged summits of the same granite ridge
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-06
BATTLE-BLIND

From the Montreal Daily Star. Never to climb the hills Agoin: Never to climb the hills again; Tossed from the crests of sapphire WaveS < Out in the bay. No moro to watch the westering sun. Blood red, sink in the dreaming sea. And the tremendous dusk wrap ali the
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 In mystery.
 grAsb,
 The glamour of dawn on ,snssuscf sGz s snow. z ss sss sss .sss Broken | live that q nor 14en
 May see and know.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-06
Former Lumberjack
 Could Laugh at Edison

M AT ICHAEL NOLAN, 42 years old 4VU and student of engineering at the University of Washington, would have found MT. Edison's ques- tionnaire mere child's play. Because he made perfect score of PIP points in the army "alpha" intelligence test, he is hailed by the university authorities as lone of the 25 most brilliant minds in the United States"
 Nolan completed the test in 13 of the IF minutes allowed, and it is be- lieved that his fe>s was unequaled by any of the 100000 service men who stood this examination during the World war. The highest previ- ous score was 20e, and the army av craze was 135.
 Before he was discovered" Nolan had been a lumberjack, a longshore man and handy man in A variety of useful employments, presumably of the sort that call for more brawn and muscle than brains. His educa tion had been limited to seven grades in an Irish grammar school. He was sent to the University of Washing ton by the federal board of voca- tional training, and if he will only apply himself we venture to predict that he will be the kind of engineer who gets around $100,0o0 a year and is treated with distinguished con- sideration by boards of directors.
 Nolan was asked to tell in a re- cent test the meaning of such words as ageratum, architrave, chamfer, cleistogamous, elchi, gambit, guimpe, intaglio, metaarpal, pomology, rococo and simony. It took him just SO sec onds to answer correctly. How many of these words are even remotely fa- miliar to the person of average in- telligence? And how many people who wear horn-rimmed spectacles and read papers before clubs could define more than half of them?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-06

self-protection. It isn't likely that the major powers would agree to any great reduction in the size of their standing armies, unless there is a League of Nations or some other as- sociation that can be depended on to maintain peace in the world.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-06
s1Mn. CURTIS TITLES
m the New Orleans Item.

From the New Orleans Item.
 Degrees from colleges and untversi- ties are nothing in Mme. curie's young life. She received her fifty-ninth in Pittsburg last week when the Unl- ysrsity of Pittsburg made her an LID. But they won't buy her any radium.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-06
Increascd Sales

Girls in the stores who nave taken the saiesmanshp course under the supervision of the school board have profited very much by it." said Miss Catherine A. Terrell.
 Every one has shown increased sales as result. We have kept a record of the individual sales and found a steady upward climb. Bir- minsham has an unusually bright set of girls in the stores and they took to the course very readily. It was n rleasure to teach them.
 ''The girls showed such an interest In the class that they will Keep it up this summer and the salesmansh.r club will hold weeklJ meetings.
 q regret leaving Birmingham and hope when the regular course i!arts again this fall to Be able to be with them again.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-06
Baptist Young Peoples Union

'.I am looking forward with great in terest to the twenty eighth annual Baptist Young Peoples union state convention to be held at Mobile Juno 7-s," said Edward Powell Lee, who will have charge of the music, assisted by Mrs. Lee.
 "A splendid programme has been arranged. which includes some of the leaders of thought both in and out or the state Birmingham will go to Mo bile with l2 Al Baptist Young Peo- ple's unions, which shows that the work in this city is growing as 1t Is quite difficult for local union to meet the standards in order to be chased as Ali"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-06
Nothing in The Way Of
 Birmingham's Jobbing Trade

Birmingham's Jobbing Trade m EMPLOYMENT of the jobbing lO trade of Birmingham is in the hands of Birmingham merchants and manufacturers.
 The list of the causes of complaint was disposed of by the interstate commerce commissions readiustment of freight rates in the southeastern territory, effective June 30. In the readjustment Nashville loses her fic- titious rail and water rate of $1.66 for Yirst-class freight from the east and the all-rail rate is placed at $2.10. While the Birmingham all-rail rate remains at $2.18, this city has a rail and water rate via the Mallory and Warrior barge lines of $1.75, giv- ing Birmingham jobbers and whole salers an advantage of 35 cents over Nashville.
 Quitting the rail and water rate via the Mallory and river barge lines, Birmingham has a rail and water rate of $2.10 via Savannah, Brunswick and Charleston. That rate places Bir- mingham on an even footing with Nashville and enables this city to sell goods just as far north as Nashville can sell goods to the south.
 Birmingham is getting goods from New Orleans at a saving of 20 per cent of the freight and is interchang- ing commerce with the Pacific coast at a saving of 40 to 50 per cent in the freight rate.
 There is a 20 per cent saving on shipments down the Warrior for ex- port. There are the 33 vessels of the Steel corporation to carry goods over the face of the earth.
 Nothing is lacking except the full u3e of these advantages. The job is home job. Everything has been done for the Birmingham shipper. Will he do his part?
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 Great Britian Ready
 To Reduce Armaments
 TN his wireless dispatch to The U Age-Herald yesterday, George N. Barnes, former member of the Brit ish war cabinet, says Great Britain's attitude to disarmament is, "Barkis is willing." England will agree to limit her navy if Japan and America will do likewise.
 MT. Barnes thinks, however, that Japan will present difficulty. It may be necessary to remind her that she is dependent on outside re- sources" for steel and other require ments for naval armaments and that she might be rationed. A move of this kind would no doubt have its ef- feet in bringing Japan to terms.
 There has never been any serious question of Great Britain and Ameri- ca being able to get together in a disarmament plan. The tax burden of both countries has become intoler- able. The spectacle recently pre- scented to Great Britain of 114 obsolete war vessels being sold as junk for $1,O00,O00 that originally cost prob ably more than $10O,OO0,OO0, and American warships that cost millions being used for target practice shows the folly of building huge navies that are soon out of date and use less.
 It looks now as if land forces would be included in the disarmament con- gress to be called by President Hard ing. This may prove serious ob- stacle to reaching an agreement. The American army even as constituted at pfssent is small compared to the forcss deemed necessary abroad for
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-06
HIS OPINION From the Kaneas City Star.

.I reckon we thought as we'll let GloriosA marry Hamp fathers If she wants tb," said | resident of Fiddle Creek, Ark, to the wife of his bosom. T asked him today if hs expected to keep my dAughter in the style to which she had been accustomed, as they say in stories, and the young cuss swellsd right up and lowed he'd be shot first Said he thought wife oft to be treated as well as a horsA. anyhow"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-06
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Tribute to Hodges

oral Hodges. beloved newspaper man of Birmingham. has gone to his | reward-and what a reward 1t must be- said Henry c. Vance, sports writ CT for the Age-Herald. For Oral Hodges was one of the most lovab!e characters I have evor known; man who would work his heart out for good cause, and man who did work lis health out for one
 Hodges sat at the typewriter, trudged the streets and worked with tho committee tirelessly in the recent campaign to raise funds for the starvI ing children of Europe. when he should have been in bed-for his health was failing That's the way he went about everything He was self sacrificing, and thoughts of himself came last.
 Birmingham loses a good citizen and good newspaper man, and mem- bers of the fourth estate lose one of the best buddies who ever pounded a "mill' in local reportorial room Up to his elbows in copy. worried with the routine of office duties. Hodges was never too busy to help others. I've chatted with him, kidded with him, and swapped stories with him many a time. and now I'll join the rest of the news- paper fraternity in missing one of the best fellows the newspaper game has ever seen In Birmingham or elsewhere.
 "We1i all miss the flash of those little black eyes, which smiled with the world--not at it. We'll be minus his quaint humor and his little whim- siealities. When the acroplane crashed to earth last Friday and mangled the frail frame of Oral Hodges, useful life was snuffed out and valuable citizen to Birmingham was lost"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-06
TENT MADE FROM NEWSPAPERS From St. Nicholas.

From St. Nicholas
 Newspapers have other uses than temporary umbrellas in an unexpected shower.
 It Is possible to make quite use- full little tent out of them. Secure a pole that Is six or seven feet lonk! piece of bamboo will do we'll Near tho upper part of this wrap several thicknesses of stout twine. Then from this part run lengths of twine. These should be carried out in tent fashion. and at tho end they are fixed to wooden pegs driven ino the ground. In all. there might be eight or ten of these lengths. Cut the newspapers into pieces of a suitable size, and with paste fasten 1t over the twine. One border of the paper should be turned round the twine. the edge of the next bit being stuck just over the part that is turned round. An open space should be left to act as doorway to the tent. To make the paper water proof, go over 1t with q brush dipped in linsssd oil. Tho paper will then stand quite . fair amount of rain.
 It is easy to gather up the tent by taking out the central pole and loos- ening the pegs The paper then falls around the pole. something like giant umbrsila. and it is easily set up again,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-06
Cousin" Everett Agreed
 With The Late Mir. Barnum

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 Cousin" Everett Agreed
 With The Late Mir. Barnum TT7HE brief but joyous career of J Cousin" Everett as a promis- ing politician and kinsman of the President ended with a sentence of 15 months in Leavenworth peniten- tiary.
 Cousin" Everett grinned in court as witnesses testified to his artful methods of dangling political prefer ament before their eyes ad borrow ing chicken feed" to pay current ex- penses. Even Judge Landis, before whom he was tried, found it diffi- cult to keep straight face. As for his dupes, they were probably in no humor to enjoy the joke at their ex- pense. For long time the Pennsyl- vania railroad, which furnished Ev- erett private car for his journey to Washington and accepted a check in payment which was later returned marked "No funds," will be sensitive about Cousin" Everett.
 A photographer who took $500 worth of pictures, cigar salesman who was promised place on the in- terstate commerce commission and more or less prominent citizens "fell hard" for Cousin" Everett. How could he be . swindler when the White House Baby" was to be seen of all observers and had her picture published broadcast? The magic name of Harding" and | plausible manner were all the young man needed to fool people who should have known better.
 Incidentally, many newspapers were hoaxed along with citizens of Chicago, but they didn't lend Ev- erett any money.
 Americans drink less than half pint of milk day when they ought to be consus..sng quart. Still, that isn't anything in particular to get up in arms about.
 Whether or not the Jap Grown Prince now on his travels ia . substi- tute is of no particular importance so long as he continues to salute at the
 The arena at Atlantic City will seat 5o,ooo people. And the nations mor- alists reluctantly concede that every seat will probably be occupied.
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 Looking back on his lurid career. Cousin" Everett may console himself with the thought that he had a good time while 1t lasted.
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 If Japan elects to prove , stumbling block in the way of disarmament. there are various methods for dealing with
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-06
ssIa.asr Res4tt at ra>ms

 why should people leave Birming- ham for | summer resort when we havs summer resort right 1t hoins. said George Benton. manager of the Hill. man hotel. People talk About go- ing to the mountains. we have Red mountain and sAades mountain for them. Both have . natural beauty that ts hard to equal.
 Again, they talk about going to some watering place when they havo the rivers 10 close 1t hand. There Is the Warrior with it's wonderful scAr- cry. good fishing and boating. Then we have golf links for lovers of that sport and good roads for the motorist. So why leave Birrningham whom you have summer resort at home without the hsavy expenses that 70 wth |. re- sort trip.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-06
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 CAN WE DISARMt

E. S. Martin in Life.
 The question of diminishing expendi- lures on naval armament is simply a question of when to begin. Senator Borah is for having the United States set the example and begin at once. To that end he will oppose large part of the naval appropriation. President Harding says not yet; wait little until the world has attained to larger measure of economic and political sta bility So President Harding Is for let ting the naval appropriation bill 60 through this time undiminished.
 With most of the world bent nearly double under the load of debt, there can hardly be two opinions as to the expediency of checking armament of all kinds, and especially naval armament, which is frightfully expcnsivc, takes a long time to construct and dIverts labor from productive uses to the mAk- ing of unproductive things that are very costly to keep up when they are done. Navies on the present scale are simply one of the penalties of the po- litical stupidity of men. When men get wiser in their international politics the navies can be cut down and lots of money saved. MT. Hardins's position Is that there Is not yet evidence that the lesson of the war has been well enough learned to make that highly desirable saving safe.
 The matter really turns on . question of fact--on whether tho nations have got enough yet to set along with smaller navies. Just as soon as gov ernments are satisfied that they have, retrenchment in naval expenditures will begin. The taxpayers of every nation A In | hurrSr fnr fhaf finAe h,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-06
As to Price of Ice

"Just a word about ice," said Will liam W. Lindsay, manager Of the LegE Sausage and Provision company. T minghaIn housewife as to short weight, to the extent of 34 per cent. With lee to families 60 cents per hun dred, this would make her ice coft 7s cents. Now, this cannot be the fault of the heads of our ice companies, or ice company, for what one does they all do
 ''The fact is, tho price of ice Is far beyond what it, in reason, should be, and especially since the making has teen materially chcapened by the sub situation of electricity for coal power. Anhydrous ammonia Is little. if any. higher thAn 1t was before the war. The price was not advanced during the war. but since.
 "We opened our place of business in September. 1913, and paid $ per ton for ice for coolers. Sometime in Feb ruary, 1920. the price was advanced to $7 per ton. and then later in the same year 1t was advanced to 3s per ton. What was tho excuse!
 Suppose there was a plausible ex- cuse then. what Is the excuse for maintaining this sky-hish price now. with labor cheaper, corn and oats cheaper, gasoline cheaper. and the ex- tremely low cost of operation since electriflcationT
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-06
killed tic Chatterer


 T was out at the Howard college commencement" says A. Lee Smith, and while greatly enjoyed tie music, addresses. delivery of the di- ploraas and medals, yet my mind was diverted from the exercises by an Eng fish sparrow which had gotten into the main auditorium and was unable to find an exit. He would fly across the hall from one window to the other. He seemed to be interested in mAk- ins record that would beat that of the young woman who recently loopei the loop 1ss times as for nearly ->aa hour and . half he kept up hts flight without cessation. Had I been down for an address I think would have had sympathy with the Baptist preacher who few years back halted lis sermon long enough to kill ! jay bird which was outchatterins him."