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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-02
Motor Travel In FIorida

The motor travel in Florida is causing serious realization by the railroads" said Felix Drennen, who has returned from trip to that state.
 Fare on trains from Jacksonville to Orlando, for instance, including Pullman seats, is s7.40. By motor bus for the same trip it is s6 Railroad men informed me that the motor bus made the distance in slightly shorter time than the train, and there are motor busses leaving at every hour, while there are only <two trains.
 Smooth hard roads of Florida, made out of Birmingham brick, are doing the work. There are more auto mobiles in Orlando than in any city of it's size on earth, I am informed. Orange county, which has just placed s1,000,000 in hard roads. Is investing s1500,O00 more
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-02
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roo FAR AROUND
From Tid-Bits, London. M

From lid Bits London.
 A woman of ample proportions was giving lecture on the human form divine. Her manner was of the type familiarly known as "highbrow:" i, was. in fact. irritatingly supeciliors and lofty.
 z "For example" said she, twice round my thumb'--she held it up "once round my wrist; twice round my wrist, once round my neck; twice round my neck once round my waist
 Here she paused, and shrill voice from the audience exclaimed; Twice round your waist. once round Hyde park" The lecturer hastily passed on to another hranch of the subject.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-02

From the Montgomery Advertiser
 N OILERS WEEKLY observes Il and halls with satisfaction the
 return of the reporter-the re- porter who gathered facts from the original sources, assembled them and put them forward in clear and straightforward manner. leaving the preaching and the teaching to be done by others.
 Many regular newspaper readers never realized that for several req sons. all growing out of the war, the reporter was about to become ex- tinct, but all newspaper readers have vaguely missed something. but did the vital work of the real reporter, and there are not many of him, his way of getting his story and writing it with such an enthusiasm that it sometimes glowed with the spirit of genius. Some of the best literature in America has been hot-from-the- forge newspaper writing; it has been disjointed and separated at remote intervals in the publication, and 1t has been all too rare. But there are passages in the writings of the American newspaper reporter, doing his daily stunt, which arc equal to the best of American literature.
 The reporter went in large mum bers to the war. He enlisted, too, in the better paid work of doing pub lieity for the innumerable organ izations and countless drives of the war period The publishers of the large newspapers, that is, many oi them, went off after the fad of get ting the whipped cream& news. as Golfers calls it. that is the special writer, the syndicate man, who was short on facts and long on opinions The whipped cream" man came into a distinction he did not merit his tribe increased and the bis dailles had a plethora of long -winded ar
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-02
RETURN OF THE REPORTER

ticles rather cleverly written, put which were nothing more or less than the opinion of the writers or the opinions of the group to which they belonged They were full, too, or what might be termed propaganda in which the newspaper publisher and his readers were not in the least in terested.
 The reporter did not come back too soon. for, as Golfers said, The real demand now is for the reporter. Men. in high office, public and private, say that they need facts. The man who can go and get facts, who knows where and when to get them and from whom is needed more than ever before"
 America is full of editors. teachers and preachers, and not only men but organizations which are always ready to point a moral or adorn q tale. The need Is not for any more didactio teachers, but for the writers whose stuff does not editorialize and which conveys accurate and useful infor- nation The newspapers are grow ing better and brighter with the re- turn of the reporter, who writes of the incidents and personages of his own community, and who spreads out impartially his share of the sath- cred news of the day. The American reporter is an important individual who has been systematically under estimated and undervalued in his vafvice to roeietv
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-02
Big Watermelon Sale

"This-is certainly watermelon town, and advertising pays" said Harry Greenwood, Fifth avenue and Twenty first street. "After advertise ing in The Age Herald we put 1,400 watermelons on sale Saturday after noon. Between that time and Monday morning we disposed of all of them except about 200. Tn other words. we sold 1,200 watermelons in less than two days. I call that going some.
 Tt all goes to show that Birmipg- ham is fine market for good stuff if the fellow that has it lets the people known what he has by using advertising space"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-02
ADRIF'T WITH THE TIMES
"A STRANGE ovERsIGHT

sA STRANGE OVERSIGHT He talked about the problems of taxation, Dlsarma ment and Russla'S dreadful plight, The progress of the blue law agita- tion, The Creeks who've lately put the Turks to flight; About the British row with North cliffe's papers, The poisoned stuff the sly boot leggers sell, The way the girls these days arc cutting capers, The perils of the movie shows as well. He gave his views on many timely topics, Some boldly spoken, others quite discreet; Talked of Eskimos and dwellers In the tropics, But never said 8 word about the heat.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-02
wATcHFuL WAITING

That new clerk of yours lool like movie actor"
 "Yes." said MT. Clipping. "Th effect on our young lady stenogr: phers Is pronounced"
 Has their work improved7"
 Not particularly, but instead { trying to get off early in the aftel noon, they all stick around until ! quits
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-02
PA REMEMRERs s

Pa" said little Thomas Twobbl were Tom ard Jerry a vaudevil teamT
 NO. my son. That team wasr In vaudeville. but 1t played many | engagement to full house"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-02
POINTEp PARAGRAPHS

From the Chicago News.
 The lion in society may be bear at home.
 The cellar excavator always gets in his work.
 You can tell a donkey by his lack of horse sense.
 Never judge the dinner by the tone of the dinner bell.
 Nearly every girl believes that a lot of other girls are jealous of her.
 It is sometimes easier to gain the daughters hand than the fathers ear.> The respect due to old age is all ways dealt out with ladle to the wealthy grandfather. A diplomat is person who cap successfully substitute lot of mis- fit information for real facts.
 The girl with new hat that is becoming is never satisfied until the man she likes best and the girl she l likes lsAst have seen it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-02
Makes Them Hot

Hot weather certainly arouses the temper of human beings" declared W. Telephone company. Tt seems as though the heat brings more than double the usual number of irate complaints. Petty objections which would not be noticed with normal tenn peratures suddenly loom large and become serious grievances
 "The most satisfying thing to me out the troubles of patrons. Suffer- ing in hot weather is the worst imaginable form of discomfort"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-02

CAN'T GET AHEAD THAT WAY I'm surprised that young Biithers by doesn't get along better. H seems to have plenty of puIi''
 That's just the treuble.'
 "Eh?"
 Its all pull and no push
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-02
PICNICS


 Picnics are good thing. They are to the summer time what Thanksgiv- ing Day is to the fall. They bring us into the open spaces of nature and free us from the cares, worries and polite eonventionalities of an artifi- cial world, Picnics bespeak primi- tive stirring of the blood. which sends us forth, as it did our ancestors when the land was young, along the road that gypsies follow.
 Of course, piencs have developed until there are nearly as many va rieties as there are makes of auto mobiles. There is the excursion that includes the special picnic dinner, set with silver and perforated paper doilies, thermos bottles and folding frying pans. It is the aristoorat of picnics. There are special metal con- tainers for each kind of food,
 The bourgeois affair, on the other hand, shows more of the home mak- ing idea. Ordinary paper containers hold the food articles. The butter goes in a jelly jar alongside the salt cellar that has been in the family ever since the wedding. By the time the picnic grounds are reached the butter has crawled alongside the ba- nanas, while it is not unusual to de- tect the flavor of the salt-cellar in the pickles, the chocolate cake and what not.
 Then there is the true vagabondia picnic: You thrust some matches into the old coat or knapsack along 15 minutes you are on the trail, True nature lovers prefer this sort of a summer day outing.
 Picnics have become such an insti- business organizations find time to lock their doors once year and cater to such sprees, It is q good thing, They are grand affairs. Picnics drive fun. They bring laughs. They drive away sadness They mark a day s parole from the prison house of ar tificial manners and responsibility.
 ENGLISH ESTATES PASSING From the London Daily Mail
 The sale of Stowe House, with 1t; estate of PIP acres. which Mir Harry Shaw, the purchaser, very handsome ly intends to present to the nation lis a conspicuous example of the SO 1 cial change which is coming ovel the country. The great estates ar, being broken up, the contents of tho great country houses are being dis persed, and the houses themselves are falling into decay or are being turned to uses for which they were not buist
 Acsthetically- generous donor will not always come forwars --England will be poorer countr! when the process is complete, wher l the treasures that have taken cen turies to accumulate are scattered t, the ends of the earth and the plov has been driven over parks anc gardens hitherto maintained witt loving care. But rates and taxes the increased cost of labor, the de l creased value of money, and deatl duties. above all, make it every yea more difficult to keep up thes1 stately homes, and, pitifui though i may be, they must go.
 From every country the story i ba pass from the &ands of their ol' owners, territorf influence grow Hess and less As the Wars of tn Roses almost extinguished the aris tocracy of that time. so economi ipressure is crushing the land owners of ours, and the old social tradition of rural England are swiftly fad ing away
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-02
MAYBE

MAYBE When your heart is heavy as you plod along And all you can see Is rue. Maybe 1t isn't the world that is wrong So much as it is just you.
 PAUL. COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-02
POWER OF IMAGINATION

How can an artist paint battl picture half a. century after the bat tie was fought?"
 "In the same way that a noyelis by a free use of 'Gadzooks' and 'ods bodikins' can write first-rate his torical novel"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-02
SMART

T see where a married man had an affinity seven years before his wife found it out"
 He must be smart"
 "Well, he's no fool. He picked out one with the same name his wife had and even when he talked about her Tn his sleep his wife was none the wiser"
 PRIVILEGED DECEPTIoNs
 DO you believe that honesty is the best pelicy?"
 "In business, yes" said MT, Grump- son. But it women applied that theory in matters of personal adorn- ment every beauty parlor in the land would go bankrupt"
 THE TIE THAT BINDS
 "There's nothing like children to keep married couples from sepa- rating" remarked the old-fashioned man.
 Nowadays a wellstocked cellar will serve the same purpose" said the observant person.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-02

The right to act in virtue of a discretionary power which was summed up in the words. salus populi suprema lex, was to be heard of no more. The motto which the Stewards had tried to affix to the English con- stitution must after the revolution be read lex suprema popuh salus. This was the solution of a problem which had pressed for answer so long and which led Englishmen along the path of toleration and self-gov- ernment.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-02
THE CELESTIAL sURGnose

THE CELESTIAL sUItOhUl ' By Robert Louis Stevenson. If I have faltered more or less In my great task Of happiness; If I have moved among my raoe And shown no glorious morning face :; If beams from happy human eyes Have moved on me not; if morning
 skies, Books. and my food. and summer
 rain Knocked on my sullen heart in vain--- Lord, Thou most pointed pleasure
 take, And stab my spirit broad awake.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-02
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A crime school is reported to have been unearthed in Philadelphia. An institution of that kind sends it's graduates out into the world with an extensive knowledge of locks, bolts and combinations.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-02
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An autopsy performed on an Ohio hog showed that the animal died of appendicitis. There won't be much money in raising hogs if the little pig has to go to hospital before he goes to market
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-02

The Stewards drew a line between themselves and the nation, and while Henry VIII had often taken his parliaments into his confidence, King James or King Charles was always careful to, remind the two houses that they and their sovereign could never treat as equals, thereby alienat- ing the King and the people; and so among few there grew up a pas sionate claim for the supremacy of Parliament over the royal power.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-02-21
HARDING CONFERS
WITH DAUGHERTY
President-Elect Spends Quiet
Day at His Headquar-
ters in Florida.

By Associated Press:
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla, Feb. 20
Pres't-elect Harding spent Sunday
quietly at his headquarters here,
seeing no callers and apparently
bringing none of the problems of his
pre-inauguration period nearer to
solution.
With Mrs. Harding the president
elect attended church in the morn
ing and later went for a walk. He
had a long talk with Harry NJ.
Daugherty. of Ohio. understood 10
be his choice for attorney general,
but it was said Mr.. Daugherty's visit
was only a Sunday call and that no
questions OF policy were discussed.
Selections for the three unallotted
cabinet places apparently were no
nearer contamination Sunday night
than they had been several days ago.
Before final decisions are made late
in the week. Mr.. Harding is expect
ed to see more Of the big leaders OF
his party Appointment OF excep-
tional Importance are understood TO
be on his program for Monday and
Tuesday, but in conformity with the
president-elect's custom. the names
OF those who come here are with
held.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-02-21
Developments in Murder
OF CleueIqnd Teachers
Point to Early arrest

By Associated Press:
CLEVELAND, o., Feb. 20.-Ar-
rest of the murderer of Miss Louise
Wolf and Miss Mabel Foote. Parma
Heights high school teachers. will be
made Monday, Sheriff c. 3. Stan
nard. cf Cuyahoga county, an
nounced Sunday night.
I'VE have run across the most
tangible and definite clew since the
murder was committed" Sheriff
Stannard said. Il expect very def
mite developments some time early
Monday. I cannot say anything fur
ther Sunday night"
Police were notified Sunday that
man found hatless and coatless
wandering around the outskirts of
Caledonia, o., late Saturday night. is
in the county jail at Marion. His
face and hands were badly scratch
ed. according to the officers, and he
appeared 20 be mentally unbalanced.
He said he received his wounds in
fight at Toledo last Monday night,
when he lost his hat and coat.
The man, who told conflicting
stories. said he has two sisters liv-
ing here. but could not remember
their names.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-02-21
APPOINTS INDIANA
MAN AS SECRETARY
Chairman White Names Burt
New for Democratic Ma
tional Committee.
Br Assoclated Press :

By Associated Press;
WASHINGTON. Feb. 20. - Ap-
pointment Of Burt New. an attorney
Of indianapolis, as executive secre-
tary OF the democratic national
committee, was announced Sunday
by Chairman White. The appoint
ment was made under resolutions
adopted at the meeting here last
Thursday Of the national commit
tees executive committed
Mr.. New, who will have direct
charge of the party's national head
quarters here, will assume his duties
March l. During the past campaign
Mr.. New was acting chairman OF the
Indiana democratic state central
committee and he acted as secretary
OF the same committee during the
1912 campaign. He served as legal
adviser 20 Vice Pres't Marshall
when he was governor Of Indiana
and also 10 Gov. Raiston.
He also served as one OF the two
American members OF the United
ates-Panama commission.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-02-21
LEAGUE COUNCIL
CONVENES TODAY
Publicity of Proceedings of
Commission Will be Dis
cussed First.

BY Associated Press:
PARIS, Feb. 20.-The council Of
the League Of Nations will begin its
sessions Monday at II o'clock in the
saloon of the Petit Luxembourg pal
ace, the residence of Leon BOur-
geois, president of the senate and
also president of the council.
Publicity of the proceedings OF
the council will be one of the first
questions discussed, in accordance
with the resolution passed by the
assembly OF the League of Nations
at Geneva. The working sessions of
the council will be private, as has
been the case in the past.
The desires Of Lord Robert Cecil
and otner advocates of the fullest
publicity probably will be satisfied
by the issuance OF reports to the
newspapers On subjects discussed
and decisions reached Immediately
after each session. Public meetings
viii be held when the subjects un-
der discussion do not require pri-
vete exchanges OF view.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-02-21
Payne Declares
Booze Necessary
On Ocean Liners
International News Service: :

BY international News Service:
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.--It will
be impossible 70 operate American
passenger ships on the trans-oceanic
routes II prohibition is enforced on
them. Sec'y Of the Interior John
Barton Payne, former chairman of
the shipping board. told the Walsh
committee OF the house investigating
the shipping board Saturday.
Booze and boats seem 10 go to-
gether." he said. Foreign passen-
ger ships that permit the dispensing
Of liquors while on a voyage are get
ting the passengers away from the
American ships The dry passengers
prefer TO travel on such ships with
the wet passengers because of the
cOmpaniOnship. We cannot success
fully compete with foreign ships un-
der these circumstances"
Sec'y Payne said the shipping
board ships should pass into private
hands as speedily as possible.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-02-21
Reformed Bandit
Says Debt DrOUe
Him to Robbery
BY United Press

By United Press:
HARRISON, Ark. Feb. 2O.-'I
was in debt 50 600 and 1 didn't have
the money. so I turned bank robber
again, said Henry Starr, the pray
ing bandit" who was shot through
the spine while he and several com
panions were attempting 10 hold up
the Bank OF Harrison.
Following his release from the
Oklahoma penitentiary several years
ago. where he was serving a 25-year
sentence for bank robbery. Starr an
nounced that he had reformed"
When Starr and his companions
backed Pres't Myers and other bank
employees in the vault Saturday. the
6S-year-old bank president emerged
through a trap door and began firing
with a rifle. A bullet clipped Stars
spinal column.
Don't shoot, boys, make your
getaway" Starr cried TO his com
panions.
Il guess I've robbed as many
banks as any man in the United
States, but I've never killed anyone. q"
Starr told DR.. j. II. Fowler, the jail
physician, after he had been re-
moved 10 the prison NY poor
mother, 1 know her heart viii be
broken when she hears this"
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-02-21
CARUSO'S HEALTH
IMPROVED, REPORT
Famous Tenor II a 5 Good
Night and is Quite Refresh
ed, Statement Says.
n Assoclated -

By Associated Press.
NEW YORK. Feb. 2O.-Enrico
Caruso watched the falling snow
that blanketed New York Sunday
from a window near his sick bed and
with the yearning OF a school boy
with the measles declared lit looks
fine"
While the tenor was enjoying the
sight. his physicians issued a bull
letin indicating his continued i'm
provement. His family also planned
20 take him from the city as soon
as he has recovered sufficiently 10
leave the hotel
The bulletin issued by the physi-
clans remained conservative but in
dicated that no great anxiety was
felt for the patient. who a few weeks
ago was stricken with pleurisy aIi
hovered AT deaths door for several
days after suffering a relapse last
Tuesday night. II follows:
Has Good Night.
"Mr. Caruso has had a good night
and he is quite refreshed this morn
ing. His condition is quite feverish
but quite satisfactory"
Another bulletin viii not be issued
until Monday.
All day visitors poured in and
OF the singers hotel apartment. but
none were admitted 10 the sick
room. They consisted chiefly OF
opera singers. Bruno Zirato. Ca
ruso's private secretary, said his EN-
ployer was cheerful throughout the
day and took a keen interest in al
that went on around him.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-02-21
TO MAKE FINAL
EFFORT BEFORE
SESSION ENDS
Many Threats of Filibustering
as Legislators Near
Final Stage.
BUDGET BILLS COMING
House Also To Consider Landis
Impeachment Charges
Today.

BY Associated Press.
WASHINGTON. Feb. 90. - Con-
gress has reached its customary
near-adjournment stage Of piled up
legislation, OF steering by steering
committees. OF lobbying. log rolling,
trading and threats OF dibustering.
Only ten more working DAYS re-
main before the final Eavels fan
and capital is seething with con-
centrated effort, from within and
without, TO pass or defeat the mass
of bills before congress. Murmurs
of filibustering, which have marked
the end Of every short" session in
March for years, are heard be n on
the senate and house sides. Ca the
former against the Winslow bin for
partial payment OF government ac-
counts 10 railroads and on the house
side in the effort to force action
on the packers control bill.
Tariff Controversy.
The emergency tariff bin also re-
mains a high point Of controversy.
Senate and house conferees are to
meet Monday 10 discuss the score
Of amendments. added by the senate.
Although Sen. Penrose Of Pennsyl-
vania, once predicted that the bin
would be i'm conference but a half
hour any conference agreement
still must run the gauntlet Of both
branches Of congress IN the clos
ing days with a prompt veto by
Pres't Wilson predicted generally
and with no prospect of a veto be-
ing overriden.
A dozen other important bills are
also in conference, including the i'm
migration restriction legislation
passed Saturday by the senate. Ad-
OPTION by the senate Of the house
plan is expected.
Conference plans will have right
Of way In the house this week.
while the senate is pressing 10 rush
through the annual appropriation
bills. all of which. except a general
deficiency bill, have passed the
house. The new house rules, how
ever are impending its action on
conference reports.
Lands Impeachment.
In addition 10 the grist OF legisla-
ton the house judiciary COMMITTEES
Monday viii take up the impeach-
ment charges against Federal Judge
Landis The committee will hear
Rep. Welty. democrat Ohio. who
impeached the jurist. A report on
the case is planned before the end
of congress.
Another inn ortant COMMITTEES
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