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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-21

From the New York Herald.
 l ZINE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOL | N LARS year. Not a mean salary l for man. even be he wizard in
 his line. still more remarkable it seems for woman to be drawing such pay, yet
 a few at least are getting that amount,
 and they are becoming legion whose sti- 1 pend runs into five figures In fact,
 woman having proved her mettle by in-
 vading the business world, is proving her
 merits by pushing to the very front in the realm of the highest-salaried
 workers.
 If ever there was 8 favorite of fortune
 it is Anita Loos. who writes scripts for Constance Talmadge. She may have been born with silver spoon in her mouth, or even a golden one, since. each
 year $too,ooO pours into her own personal / treasury. Her story reads like TO- nance. Born to the stage she got a To- years start over her contemporaries such women as Gertrude Atherton, Eli nor Glyn, Zoe Akins and men like Sir James NJ Barrie, Robert w. Chambers. i SIT Gilbert Parker ana the rest or tno i celebrities who are or have been in Cali
 fcrnia studying the technique of the motion picture business from the inside and she made the most of it.
 l She came naturally by her literary as we'll as her theatrical talent, for her father was not only an actor and a manager of stock companies, but an edi- tor also. She played part on the stage as soon as she could walk, and there paved the way to the success she has scored in her present work.
 Miss May Hull is an index and filing specialist in Wall street, who not only i inaugurated the work, but built it up 11rtil she is now making s10000 year, and during the war her income went even higher. She instals her system into offices of business men, lawyers bank CTS and mercantile concerns. She reor- gariizes and rearranges correspondence 1 files, clippings, records, statistics, re- ports, pamphlets, date files and business I libraries and then puts in skilled girls to carry the work on.s
 | Miss Hull is the pioneer in her line
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-21
KEEPS HAT ON
New York Cor. Pittsburg Dispatch

New York Cor. Pittsburg Dispatch.
 An official of a downtown corpora
 tion has a double e-barreled excuse for
 wearing his hat throughout the entire
 business day, and he does not work outdoors, either. He can be seen most any day in his office. about the corri- dors of the building or in other peoples offices with his hat constantly on his head.
 T am busy man. he said. There is a constant stream of people coming in to see me. Whom they notice my hat on my head they almost invariably get the impression that was about to go out when they called. and conse- quently they cut their business short 90 as not to detain mo. When 70 into another mans office keep my hat on 50 he won't expect me to stay long. He subconsciously carries the irnprsssior that am about to 70. and u(uaily gst away quicker than # tad se.
 moved my bonnet and hung It VI"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-21
WOMEN EARN BIG SALARIES

, She established in 1910 the first school
 of filing and indexing in the country. As P. I. Barnum, the great American snowman, achieved success by capital
 izing human credulity. so Helen Wood ward, young New York girl, became a power in the advertising world by capi-
 talizing curiosity. She saw a way 70 fortune by taking into account the in- qussitiveness which is an innate quality
 in American makeup. so when big pup- fishing company decided to but a new
 edition of Mark Twain on the market and Miss Woodward got the advertising contract through the company with
 which she is connected, she conceived the idea of baffling the mind of the read | ing public to get his works a new audi ence
 already gone through scores of editions, had been printed in many languages, but as an active selling proposition were sor the moment back number. /To win at tention, to revive the old love and gam the new-the countless thousands of boys and girls of this generation-meant strategy, but of perfectly legitimate kind & Miss Woodward flashed the tale CT Huck Finn before the public eye, illumi- mating her sketch with the high lights of the story but cutting it short at it's
 most exciting juncture. It was all over then but the shouting. The men to whom Huck Finn had been a childhood idol
 were keen for the book which brought back such happy days. The younger gem eration felt an uncomfortable desire to know all the story. Every one wanted set of Mark Twain. so that the first
 year the royalties increased to some
 thing like s6o,vuo. Last year they reached
 s75, ,oOO
 Beatrice Hastings, young, but very businesslike. holds three-fold job on
 the largest dry goods trade paper in Amefica and is known as the 0oo ad woman She didn't work up to that from the ribbon counter, either, put jumped right into the dry goods com mercal world without knowing con signment of 50 gross when she saw one
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-21
"GRAPHOMANIA"

From the Brooklyn Eagle.
 |A EIANY are those who quote "The IM pen is mishtier than the sword ',,. AVA and few there are who prefix the qualification of Richelieu Cor Lytton)' Beneath thef rule of men entirely rreat.' In an age when the best oratory reaches and influences small minority while the pen and the press reach every body. it is not surprising that even agi- tators exciaim, Take away the piuo- geon, states can be smashed without it." and that the evil germ of cacoethes scribendi is abroad in America and else where
 Hence an analysis of the disease springing from that germ. ''graphoma- nia,, from old Dr. Bergson. in Paris has pathological, even pathetic, intifest The savant says in communication to the
 French academy
 .sThe graphomaniac is man who IS a prey to the irresistible need of writines IIt. is an impulse. obsession, passion Y matters little what word we use to de- scribe it. It is the hxity of desire which, during the time of the affection. ai- most excludes. all other endeavor. In the literary form of this disease the subject copies and reproduces every thought which comes to him Tho worse his writings get the greater grows his opinion of his writinss He becomes convinced that humanity de- mands the publication of his works. His dream is to nx upon himself the atten- 1 ton of tho public. His happiness ,is to read his name everywhere. Thers liu also spistoiary graphomania, when
 tho nub3ect has an irresistible passion to
 write letters. sending them to persons
 he ssarcely knows. and even writing to
 lhimself.'
 Also. we may add. there are degrees in
 the disease. ranging from MT. Dos. Whc
 has | fxed idea that vaccination is the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-21
Many Women Violate
 The Prohibition Law

A NEW phase of "equal rights" 'EA has been brought out by John H. Kramer, federal prohibition com missioner. "Women who violate the national prohibition law may expect no leniency from the enforcement of- ficials because of their sex," MT. Kramer says.
 One of the curious results of the national prohibition law is that women are actively competing with men as rum runners, bootleggers and illicit distillers. From the very be- ginning of prohibition in the United States, when it was state and not national affair, women have sold whisky illegally, but there were never before so many women guilty of vio- lating the prohibition law. Some of them are liquor smugglers operating along the Canadian border and else where, but most of the more fragrant violators are manufacturers of home brew.
 It is also charged that more women than ever are drinking in the same spirit of bravado which prompts so many men, who rarely took drink before the eighteenth amendment went into effect, to violate the law whenever they have an opportunity. Even the most optimistic prohibi- tion leaders concede that the "educa- tion' of the American people will have to be continued for some years longer before America becomes liter ally, and not theoretically, "bone- dry"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-21
 Judge Hughes Is Chosen For Secretary of State

N LTHOUGH it is believed that A much pressure was brought to bear in favor of Elihu Roots appoint ment to head the Harding cabinet, Mir. Hughes has been named for the place.
 It is stated in dispatch from St. Augustine announcing the Hughes appointment that he has been Mir. Harding's choice. from the first and that he was the first "best mind" to confer with the President-elect at Marion. All this is interesting and
 would indicate that MT. Harding is not quite so plastic as we have been
 led to believe. Very strong reasons
 were doubtless advanced for appoint 1 ing MT. Root, but they evidently did
 not move Mir. Harding from his origi-
 nal choice.
 MT. Hughes will, of course, make an
 able member of the Harding cabinet.
 He is one of Americas great law yers, has been student of foreign
 affairs and has played conspicuous part in American public life as gov
 ernor of New York, a justice of the
 United States supreme court and can
 didate for the presidency. Mir, Hughes deserves . place in the Hard
 ing official family, but he would
 have made better attorney general MT. Root has been called the
 brains of the republican party" He
 has already served as secretary o1 state with distinction and probably
 knows more than any other American
 ststesman about international law and international relationships. He was
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-21

nous quantities of Birmingham cast iron pipe by boat out of Mobile. Busi- ness has begun moving in both di- rections. The possibilities of trans- portation by water between the Pa? cific coast and gulf ports are being sounded If the Pacific coast finds it satisfactory, these investigations will eventuate in a water-borne business of the first magnitude.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-21
Sees the Difference

Birmingham has certainly grown up during the years which have passed since l lived here" said Lieut.. Col, Gordon Johnston. aide to Major Gen. eral Wood Not so many years ago, there were no houses farther south than Eighth avenue. south. The same condition applied to First avenue, north in our present Woodlawn and Avon dale sections. Truly, Birmingham is a lusty and growing youngster.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-21
Easy to Get Rusty

1ts the easiest thing in the world to take on mental rust" said E. D. Mckinney of the Alabama company. T am just back at the office after a few days of illness. I feel well physi- cally. but am not yet at home with the various office details. There are Iso many connections between one de- tail and a 101 others that are being established every day that the short
 est absence from ones desk makes it feel strange to man when he re-
 turns and finds so many new things there.
 Tt all goes to show what creatures of habit we are. Make the slightest |change in ones routine and it looks las if you must make another new start"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-21
Tables Turned

Mercer Barnett's story about the 'joshing match" between the country and the city boy in which the former ac- cused the latter of having to be bind folded before he would enter street car, reminds me of story which friend of mine who halls from the backwoods but who is now city broke. tells on him self" says Fred Phillips. 'He admits that when he came to town he was as green as . gourdl Wanting to ride on a street car he took his stand at ia street corner on which there happened to be a mail box. While waiting for the car he saw city man come along and put something into the box. Just then car hove in sight and he thinking that the fellow had deposited his fare in the box, he went up and dropped ihis nickel into the maw of Uncle sam, and hopped aboard the car. The conductor came for his fare. but was told I done paid it, can prove by that fellow over there that ne saw me drop 1t in the slot
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-21
Snow Coxered

Considerable interest was evident al the Terminal station yesterday after noon when a southbound train came in with it's top practically covered with snow said Thomas Jefferson Bailey, and many went to see It.
 When I saw the train. all covered over with snow I was reminded of the fact that we haven't seen any sno W here this winter. or course, I know that few flakes have fallen here during the winter, but nothing to be compared with the snow sthat must have fallen where that train came in from
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-21
THE NAMED DEFENDERS

From the Washington Post.
 amendment to the sundry civil bill ap- propriating $17,500.000 for additional facilities to take care of disabled sol diers and sailors. This sum is all that can be expended to advantage during the ensuing fiscal year, according to Surgeon General Cumming of the pub lie health service.
 Congress has been unaccountably negligent inSproviding for the welfare of disabled soldiers and sailors Thou sands of young men who suffer from the effects of their overseas service are now without proper accommodations Some of them are marked for early death. and their premature end is cnargeable ito the neglect of the gov ernment for which they fought. The re- public has proved itself ungrateful in this case--shamefully and inetcusably negligent.
 All that the nation can do to prolong the life of its defenders and to make the lot of the disabled ones comfortable should be done eagerly and gratefully, by unanimous vote of Congress, in rec ognition of the gallantry of these men in giving themselves as a sacrifice. What is the nation worth if it has no soul? It is rich, but its riches are a curse if it values them above the lives of Americans. The maimed soldiers and sailors who are now neglected did not fight o save the riches of the United States. They fought to save it's honor and it's liberty. In saving it's honor they proved their own. The na- tion's honor, saved by its sons. will be forfeited if it now delivers over it's mu- tilated defenders to needless suffering and want
 The Senate amendment should be adopted without any barley. and il more money is needed to care for the soldiers and sailors it should be. ap. propriated forthwith
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-21
eAu..E1ta taNlA0ntiu
suPnRsrRUCruRn

Fron, the Cleveland PiAin Dealer. "A Connecticut court decides that dem taY bridge work Ia part of the human anatomy. but that a wooden feg is not,
 Well. what's . toupee7
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-21

THE CLOSED DOtu By Clinton Scollard. Last night breathed the candid auiet
 air,
 straying abroad like one without al aim; The street was as place that hsd ne
 name. With its long pavement descs@se and only the srclirhts sputt.red hsrs and'
 there. ;a4 Showing afar a little flower ek flame No drays dragged by with elansorous
 acclAim; Flushed was the days process Thus on I farsd ~ does foes
 withdrawn Who vsndsrs on prairis vast assa or on the bsaches of lonely shore Till sesned roussd In some na'raca's To find mxself before your olesed Whence intuition told me you haa ss'ns-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-21

AlG oAleuu LIN 0AkAuA os tho man Mir. Harding needed fol our new foreign policy, but his mind did not run along" with the Hard, ing mind and that may explain why he will not be the next secretary oi state.
 % ' g. Caruso has been saved to the world Man-o'-War is doing nicely, we beliebe and we trust MT. Babe Ruth is en. toying his usual health. Each is an emi- nent star in his domain and would b< hard to replace.
 The hull of the old battleship Indiana was not destroyed by the explosion of g 16,oo0 pound bomb. When the Indians was built pugiiists and baseball players were not working in our shipyards.
 # # < Gen. Hans von Boehm, known as Ger manys retreat specialist" during the war. is dead A specialist of his type was badly needed during the last days of Kaiserism.
 While it may be true that ours is a toy army, there are several young men in America who have not yet for gotten what they learned from their top sergeants.
 If MT. Edison ever establishes com munication with the spirit world, "wha, did you do with the insurance moneyY' may be a question frequently asked.
 # # < Mr. Ford. says newspaper corre- spondent, is working on a number of in- vcntions How about photographic at- tachment for the 1922 flivver?
 # # + If 1t is true that we have merely a "one-pane" navy, why should Japan show such unseemly haste in carrying
  out her building programme?
 F * * The American farmer gets great many compliments. However nobody has ever yet been able to pay his cred itors with compliments.
 * E x Wet and dry organs continue to call each other hard names. Evidently the prohibition question has not yet been settled to their satisfaction.
 x xsx John Gilpin, negro actor, has won conspicuous success in New York this season, and theatrical stars are now wrestling with the race problem.
 x < S Travelling salesmen are talking of boy cotting hotels which charge too much. Where will they stay during the ln- terim?
 Hughes will doubtless lend distinction to the Harding cabinet. but Root woulo have provided more brains.
 x x * Europe is. once more making bid for the tourist trade and will take particu- lar delight in plucking an American.
 < < # In dipping into history. H. G. Wells doesn't choke his readers with the dust of centuries
 # # * Ed Howe says Judge Gary is one Of America's most useful citizens. Brother Sam Gompers seems to think otherwise.
 * * F Congress can work when it wants to. The Senate disposed of immigration leg islation in less than five hours.
 x .i F The Townsend family of Chicago should be turned over to competent alienist.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-21
A MORNING PRAYER

Thou hast taken from me, Lord, the heart on which my heart was rested. In the day when l rebel, let me turn to thee in humble gratitude that 1t ever was mine. Amen.-- M. s. B.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-21
Steel Manufacture the
 Districts Stabilizer

N T this time there are IA active EA furnaces in Alabama, Four of them are strictly merchant iron pro- ducers, whose product is sold and de- livered as pig iron.
 Seven of the active furnaces are making basic iron for conversion into steel in home mills. Two others are making ingot iron and ferro-manga- nese, respectively. Their output also goes to steel mills and figures in steel production. The remaining stack is making foundry iron.
 The significance of these opera tions is this: Were Birmingham de- pendent on the sale of pig iron alone, the slowing down process which has marked the merchant iron trade would have been more than twice as dras- tic as it has been. Instead of nine active furnaces of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad company, it would be on the one-stack basis in company with the merchant iron makers. So much does the district owe to hav- ing become manufacturer of steel as well as one of pig iron. Steel has stabilized the district since Novem- Der and continues to do so.
 It is the steel on the order books of the Tennessee company that calls for operation of nine stacks compared with five others of all other interests, or, to be more correct, in as much as one of the other five is also making iron for home conversion into steel, the nine active stacks of the Tennes- see company should be compared with the four of the merchant iron inter- ests.
 There will be demand for our pig iron again, but the point is that the district is far safer from violent fluctuations since it became steel manufacturer than it was before.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-21
Likes Camp walton

T recently went to Camp Walton which is my favorite fishing resort as I make at least three trips year to it," said w. w. Westmoreland. "At this time of year, the trout fishing is fine, but in the summer I go for the tarron, and in the fall for the bass Cor red fishD and the trout.
 One can reach Camp Walton by going to Pensacola, and then 45 miles by boat, or take the Louisville and Nashville, and get off at small sta tion after a short railroad ride and drive across the country 32 miles. It's the best place know of for the man who does not care to put on style. bu, does like to have good sport and plenty of it.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-21
Fleets for Transportation
 of California Fruits

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 7FHE canning interests of Cali U fornia are seriously turning their attention to the creation of fleet of vessels for the transportation of their products.
 The fruit business of the Pacific coast is immense. The present in- stalled equipment of California canner- ies has a capacity of 26,00O,000 cans per annum, which means $50, ,0OO tons, Dried fruit and vegetables, says the Journal of Commerce, can be pro duced in equal amount; making 1,2OO,- 900 tons available for transportation. At $1 per 100 pounds, the freight bill would be $13,OOO,o0O yearly and, al- lowing 10 per cent profit for the carriers, they would earn a net in come of $1,a00,O0O year.
 It is estimated by experts conver- < aant with the extent of the canning and dried fruit industry of Cali 3ornia that an investment of $5o,- o00,000 in transportation equipment would be more than justified.
 The California fruit growers and packers have long ago shown their capacity for big business. Large fig ures do not balk them. If high rail road freight rates stand in the way 5e distribution of their products they wf1l have ships just as certainly as fhe sun shines. They have the brains IF will and the money with which tc
 5t1blish as large fleet as they de 6are.
 Ihe entire Pacific coast is inter- oated in maritime business with east esn and southern ports. Flour millera q Portland Ore, have sent . trial enrgo Of -four for inland distribution vls Mobile. The coast is getting enor-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-21
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Need Better Standing

When trained nurses are treated
 with the respect which their long training should command, the shortage
 now existing will disappear and not
 in my opinion, before that time 'aid
 Mrs. L. K. Stoner
 This thing which is called hospital discipline sounds all right, but it works a great hardship on the average nurse. Doctors are prone to be over ] ldictatcrial and over efficient in en- forcing the hospital discipline.
 'It is my idea that the word disci- pline should apply to the care that IS
 taken by the hospital authorities of the young girls in training, rather Ethan the present system, to which every nurse is subjected, especially during the three years of her training Doctors and nurses should be CO., workers on an equal footing with the nurse deferring to the doctors super for training, but with the nurse re- Iceiving from the doctor treatment lwhich denotes perfect courtesy and equality.
 Many mothers oppose stringently any desire of their daughters to take lup the hospital work, because they can see what they will be subjected to. It is bad for the morale and point of View of any spirited girl to be placed in an inferior attitude before any group, especially a group of men who are directly over her in her work. In many hospitals. the doctors order the |pupii nurses around to wait on them. Iexactly as though they were servants"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-21

great peril of the human race, to the au-
 thor of The Brass Check" whose an-
 tipathies and activities are universal.
 Nearly every individual has some friend out strong some phase of agitation; very rarely do they print all that he has written. We fear the disease is growing or acquaintance who is affected ana
 whose muiti-age scribblngs are received with a sigh. All newspapers know the epistolary graphomaniac. Often they.
 print a part of what he writes to bring.
 and spreading in the world at large. If. old pr. Bergson can offer a serum as well as analysis, if he can even isolate the germ. he will have accomplished A great thing for his fellow human beings.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-21

DURING THE COUNT From the Arkansas Gazette. Jess Willard says Jack Dempsey will not catch him naping again. The
 movie camera man will do that after
 the fight.