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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-19
SOVIET "TRADE. MYTH

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
 It was last March that Lloyd George was over persuaded that a British Soviet trade agreement might be. an
 excellent arrangement. It pleased the "Pinks" and Reds" and Just then the little welshman was anx- ious to please as many people as possible. Trouble was coming in the form of the now historic miners strike.
 Straighway the drive for similar arrangement came in this country Russian harbors were pictured as be- Ing full of British ships and British merchants about to reap much profit In Lenine land
 The American state department re- fused to be stampeded. In public statement on April IS Secretary Hughes showed that Russia was no more than "a gigantic economic vacuum" and likely to remain so as long "as the present political and economic system continues" When he had finished his analysis 1t was clear that there was nothing in Rus sia to export and that Russia had notEing with which to pay for im- pcrts.
 Since that time Lloyd George has had much trouble with the reds. The soviet troops and agents have sent h. 2rst tial oT q
 Persia, interfcred in Afghanistan, and in India have taken hand wherever they could in the Indian disorders. True, they mad agreed to soviet bond is hardly as good as. a rathan's word.
 And now comes Britain admitting failure of the rosy plans of trade cellor of the exchequer. warns the British merchant that he will not grow rich in the Russia trade. He has found the Russian extremists gold in propaganda than in buying goods. Nothing can be gained by sending goods to Russia. for 1t is perfectly certain the Rus slams have nothing to give in ex- change Sending goods to Russia at present would mean mak- ing gifts to them. ." Exactly. All of this was known to Secretaries Hoover and Hughes, and they took the pains to explain 1t all a good six months ago. The Ameri- can who took q chance knew that he was taking chances. We chose on this side of the Atlantic to deal with facts as they are and were and will be rather than to play interna- tional politics with them
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-19
More Homes Wanted

Thanks to The Age Herald and our other friends we are getting more and mora responses to the call for housing for the semi centennial visitors, said o. l.. Bum. '"rhe householders seem to have really awakened to the situation and lists of rooms with prices to be charged have been coming in freely.
 We ps"rer that householders write the Chamber of Commerce be- ause in that way we can keep a better file and accom- plish the work with much less time and trouble. Fhe work is coming on well and l believe we will provide for all com CTS"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-19
WHY so MANY MARRY

From the New York Herald.
 The Washington statisticians are popeyed over the large number oi marriages this year. Some or them believe that the number may reach i, 800 ,Ooo by New Years. The philoso- phers of the government bureaus Say they don't understand the great rush for the yoke. This country lost lew men during the war and this Is a period of deflation. therefore the wise men cannot find a social or econom- 10 solution of the puzzle The trou- ble with the statistician- n-philosophers is that they look too far. They should inspect the simple, homely E'things of life.
 For example. there are the motion pictures. John has been taking Gladys to see them every week foi a couple of years. He is chapiined fairbanksed and harted to death. How can he sidestep? Well. he has heard that one of the prerogatives of mar ried men is to refuse, on the mere ground of weariness. to go to the the- atre. So he proposes.
 There is the motor car. Few sin gle men buy passenger cars. They have no excuse. no home with a ga. rage. no patient companion to lister to ong-winded discourses on carbur- l etor diseases. It is not proper to taks fiancee on a weekend trip with | out the family accompaniment. The yearning for car results in the buy. ing, first, of a single cylinder dia. wond
 l There is prohibition. The passing of the saloon has brought 8 void into
 the lives of some young men. There
 is no place to go to find an argument The thought of marrying, of having somebody who will talk back. of be-
 ing the lord of a house--possibly witt
 a cellar-occurs to the lonely wretch
 He speaks the three or four neces
 sary words; she murmurs one.
 Fipally-and the graybeards 1T
 Washington ought to see them there are the girls. Each year. al miserable man, becomes uglier. wom an grows more divine. The wonder
 Is that the wedding ring makers ar, not running their factories on fths
 three shift plan.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-19
STATESMEN ON THE LINKS

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer. President Hardings golf prowess has been reported In England It is expected that a feature of Price Min lster Lloyd Georges forthcoming visit to the United States will be a golf match between President and premier. Lloyd George Is said to consider himself some pumpkins as a golfer. but he does not underestimate the presidential ability. He Is prac- ticing every. day, and his game Is visihly improving. Official reports have 1t that he wields a wicked mashie.
 Probably the prime minister feels thta the honor and prestige of the
 British empire would be at stake in usAtch between himself and the American President It would be no disgrace to be- beaten one up, or something like that; but to fall In utter rout before the Presidents might would be a severe blow. Phys fcally the prime minister does not seem to be nearly the equal of the President. but skillful clubbing may offset this handicap. MT. Harding's advantage In the drive may be over come by Lloyd Georges superiority with the butter.
 With all the world as gallery, the
 Harding George match should be
 one of the years most notable ath-
 letic events. It should even surpass in interest the struggle of the Tanks and the Giants. which had nominal worlds championship for its prize,
 but which was, in sober reality.
 merely American in its significance.
 Perhaps Lloyd George does not rank
 as high in golf as NJ. Carpenter and Mile. Lenglen ranked in their re- spective branches of sport but hiS
 coming will nevertheless be imppr- tant as an athletic invasion. and upon
 MT. Harding's broad shoulders will
 rest the responsibility of maintaining
 America's athletic traditions
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-19

From the Louisville Courier-Journal. If would be deplorable if all
 American girls, or the average
 American girl, or a majority of American girls, or considerable proportion of American girls, could be described truthfully as a seventh class English novelist describes the American girl:
 Unbalanced, cigarette smoking. undisciplined morsels of sex. turing men to find new lips to be kissed"
 There are undisciplined morsels of sex as there was when Salome danced before Herod and when Thais accompanied Alexander the Great upon his Asian marches. One re- members Safome and Thais without having keard of the millions of their contemporaries who knew how to knead and bake and how to make swaddling clothes and how to sweep. The aRnais of the we'll ordered are obscure as surely as the annals of the poor are short and simple.
 One undisciplined morsel of sex gives her set, and in jaundiced eyes, it's standing. By the exception, as often as otherwise, is proved the type that rules.
 Generalizatiops from the particu- lar or from hearsay, are made com monly. Denunciation sometimes serves the ends of publicity. And sweet are the uses of publicity to seventh class writers. But while de- nounc'ng the American girl as g. very forward March chick how could any one charge the American girl. pecu- liarly. with smoking cigarettes?
 White women-squaws had the habit before America was discovered First smoked tobacco in England and France. When this country was a bowling wilderness, the Indians do- ing the bowling. the white settlers hacking with their axes at the edges of the wilderness, London women of fashion were smoking pipes in places of public entertainment.
 The modern revival of smoking by women began, American women are assured and assure you. in England. Twenty years ago the astonished
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-19
FILM VS. FAKE

From the New Orleans Times Pica-
 yune.
 M CENARIO writers who fondly M fancied that they had ex. hausted all the screen possi- oilities of the familiar teachings-as old as morality itself and as often ignored-about the wages of sin and the perils of prevarication. evidently have another fancy coming. In the highly conservative Public Ledger of Philadelphia there was printed the other day a presumably true story of a film triumph over crime and du- plicity which is 8 stranger-or at least more >novel---than the changes rung upon the theme by film fiction- ists.
 Some days ago, the story runs. . paymaster reported to the Philadel- phia police that he had been held -up and robbed of a $1O,oo0 pay roll while on his way to Hog Island in an automobile. He gave the guardians of law highly circumstantiaE@ac- count of the crime,> describing how the robbers had halted him in the road, forced him to drive his car into ditch and relieved him of the roll. The muddy motor car was in- troduced as -corrobatory evidence. Long and careful questioning failed to confuse him or break down his story.
 But the police declined to be con vinced. When the paymaster's elabo- rate oral history of the hold-up was completed to the last detail. they in- vited the historian to go with them
 to the lonely spot where it had been enacted. A motion picture machine and a cameraman went along. Three detectives were detailed to enact the roles of the highwaymen. Before the camera the paymaster was request eu to reconstitute the hold-up drama
 with the aid of the supporting com- pany" M :s The play began promisingly, but the leading man and stage director
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-19
The House Does Not
 Need More Members

t1NHE country will not criticise the
 ll House of Representatives for again turning down the proposal of increasing it's size. Having first re- fused to pass bill proposing to in crease it's membership from 4S5 to 4S3, the House has recommitted to the census committee a bill that called for an increase to 460 mem bers.
 The House has sufficieM members to attend to public business. If the unspoken will of the nation were sounded as to an increase or de- crease of the membership, it is prob able that the majority sentiment would favor to decrease. Changes in the House membership from time to time should be made according to radical changes in the population of the states, but addi- tional numbers will serve no purpose beyond that of giving more men off, flee and increasing the public pay roll. The nation can get along very well with it's present quota. One of the veteran reporters at the disarmament conference will be Will liam Jennings Bryan. When he Is not | part of the "big show" MT. Bryan can always find a seat in the press i, box.
 The former Kaiser is worrying along with a Yduced household. Its worth great deal to Wilhelm now. adays just to have some one to ad. dress him as Your majesty
 z $
 l If it will help along the disarma- ment conference we are willing te shout "Banzai!"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-19
PROGRESS

 Time was when damsels clad in
 tights Who danced upon the stage o'nights, Aroused a storm of critisicm And caused c most alarming schism Between the fairly good and those Who wished to ban such wicked
 shows. Then came bare knees--and, gosh.
 they thrilled us; We cried, What's this the stage has
 willed us?" But we have made some progress
 lately, The scantiness of costumes greatly Exceeds the limits once a bother To prudish people when grandfather Slipped off sometimes-'twas long And went to see burlesque show.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-19
Many-Sided Tribute
 Paid to Henry Ford

M1o American captain of industry IN has been paid the tribute ac- corded Henry Ford, and it has been many-sided one. By almost com mon consent the nation, knowing lit tie or nothing of the intrinsic meri, of the Ford offer for Muscle Shoals. has asked that this great project b arned over to him. The American people have been impressed with tn d ecord for efficiency. Conf
 in his ability to make Muscl
 IS serve the public interest i
 .lquestioning one.
 ga,ps the highest tribute to his
 |, the absence of cal com
 Offers made by ner p.
 < either been re. ,ed O
 VII. Ford stands alone in hi
 .o take over the shoals. The
 opposition seems to come from
 e or less poorly disguised eff
 ~ to prevent the development of wa.eIpower. The interests apparently at the L-.ck of this antagonism occupy the position of the dog in the manager; they do not want to take over the responsibility and spend the money needed to swing the deal, but they do not wish Ford to do it either, be- cause, if he does, there will be an- other Niagara and another hive of electrochemical industry in this country.
 If Muscle Shoals is worth while, why do not these anti-Ford interests come out in the open and make a bid? If it is not worth while, why should they object to Ford's invest ing his money there?
 The situation arising out of Ford's offer to take over the shoals is one of the most unique incidents in the history of American enterprise and fits in well with the career of a man who brought a cheap automo- bile to the masses and covered the face of the earth with them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-19
USEFUL AT LAST

What is your favorite musical in- strument?"
 'I have none just at present" re- piled Mir. Bibbles, "but once saw a phonograph that took my fancy nightly"
 'T thought you detested photograph music
 'I do, but the playing mechanism had been taken out of this machine and it was used exclusively as a cellaret."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-19
Masonic Interest In
 Corner Stone Laying

MnASONS throughout Alabama 8Wll are taking keen interest in the approaching ceremony of laying the corner stone of the new Masonic temple in Birmingham. Invitation has been extended to the individuals of all Masonic bodies in the state to be present next Wednesday and take part in the great parade, which will precede the corner stone laying, and to attend. the exercises them selves.
 That the invitations will be gen. orally accepted is already indicated by the responses being sent in, and not less than 10000 Masons are ex- pected to be in the line of march.
 Aside from the fact that there is statewide interest in the magnifi- cent Masonic temple which is to be built in Birmingham, the presence of President Harding on Wednesday is an added attraction, and incen- tive which is expected to bring thousands of visitors to the city. 
 The President will attend the cor ner stone laying and will make an address at that time which is sure to be of interest to all Masons.
 While the actual ceremony will be performed by the grand master of Che state, the exercises will be under the auspices of Birmingham Fra
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-19

-ernal lodge, which is the oldest in the Birmingham temple. All other Masonic bodies will assist and the uniformed Knight Templars will form the honorary escort to the President.
 The event will be one of the nota- ble occasions of semi-centennial week..
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-19
William, ys, John

II Is rather coincidence that ne finat return of the city commis- .oH erection resulted in the three ; o.ns. John Fay for, John k. Hornady .nd John EI.is Brown losing ou> anu three W .liia4ns wInning out, sald domas C..r.s ian. me three Vii 9.tns are @ ..iiam B. Cloe. Wi..Iam
 Harrison and William F. Dickson. ne of the candidates TOT the com ..lsslon in a speech often referred ec the -nree Johns but little dreamed Lat the three Williams would sue. ceed them"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-19
AGGRESSION

n Joseph Freeman. in The Bookman. | have grown tired of wise men anu
 their ways, Who find the music of tho heart too old. Wonder a platitude too often told. Love a cliche, and tears Daha'
 phrase;; I have grown tired of them. ana dream of days When, moving through . IrasTahs
 mist of gold. . I watched the passions of the world Like crimson shadows over wide blue .fr, bays. And dreaming of, this heaven, retrace The bright and certain ways of in-
 nocence: Proclaim my joy and sorrow on my
 face. open the :doorways of my mind to
 men. Love women quickly and without pre- And learn my bitter wisdom over
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-19
ADVERTISING STRATEGY

 What's the idea, of this big sign here reading. Go. Slow. Danger" Why, the road is perfect and without turn for miles" %'That was the happy thought of d publicity expert. He put up the big bill board you see over there on the side of the road and the danger sign is merely to make motorists slow up so they'll have chance to read it."
 WHY HESITATE Along the road to Normalcy, The pace is rather slow; If we are bound for Normalcy, Let's gol''
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-19
BORROWING MADE EASY

-- Some of these days a motor car is going to be put on the market that will be so cheap everybody can own one," remarked the sanguine citizen.
 T have no objection to that" re- piled MT. Grumpson. But I hope motor cars won't become so cheap and common that people will have no more compunction against making off with your favorite flivver than they have now against stealing um- brellas."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-19

became confused and began to fal- ter before the picture machine had clicked out many feet of the first reel. The action was far lss spirited than his verbal recital. Possibly he. began to fear that the celluloid por- trayal would contradict his manu- script in vital points. Finally. when the action developed to the point where the motor car was driven into the ditch. he broke down Ahd con fessed that he had framed" the rob- bery.
 Pioneer detective stories not rarely employed this device of "reconsti- tuting the crime" Il is an expedient sometimes resorted to by crime de- 8tectors outside the story books. The motion picture machine now promises to become . new ''prop"--and an ef- fective one. unless the criminals un- der the shadow of this new peril de- yelop new talent as an added pre- caution and combine the histrionic gift with the story telling knack.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-19
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
A HARp.Bo1LBD PARENT

A HARD-BOILED PARENT
 Tommy. you wrote this excuse yourself"
 "why. teacher. my papa wrote that excuse"
 Do you mean to tell me your father doesn't know how to spell 'please'?"
 T don't believe he does. ma'ana I've never heard him say that word to ma or me"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-19

PROOF OF HIS GREATNESS
 The worst affront you can pay to an artist Is to turn his picture up- side down while trying to find out what it is intended to represent"
 That's true in the case of an old fashioned artist, but if you turn the masterpiece of a cubist painted up- side down his chest expands per ceptibly."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-19
TIMES HAVE CHANGED

TIMES HAVE CHANGED
 "It seems odd to find a gasoline station away out here in the coun- try"
 There is also still close by, In the old days 8 rustic inn supplied food for man and beast, Nowadays it provides fuel for man and his motor"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-19

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The Nenana news., 1921-10-11
AUSTRALIAN RAPS STATES;
 LONDON TIMES EXPLAINS

LONDON, Oct. 11-Commenting on the statement of Premier Hughes before the Australian house of rep resentatives, that efforts to secure dominion representation at the dis armament and Far Eastern con- ferences stopped when "the United States slammed the door in our face, the London Times declares editorially that the United States never rejected any proposal for such representation.
 The paper brands the Hughes statement as an "entire misconcep- tion."
The Nenana news., 1921-10-11
SPIRITUALIST LACK PROOFS;
 SCIENTISTS DISAPPOINTED

COPENHAGEN, Oct. 1l-Return- ing from a visit to Hamlet's grave, one of the American delegates to the International Psychic Congress just held here said with evident re- gret that the 40 delegates saw neither Hamlet's ghost nor the ghost of Hamlet's father stalking the his torieal ramparts of old Elsinore Castle .:..- *>.
 The president of the Congress, -Dr. Kort Kortsen, declared that he was disappointed at the outcome of the gathering.
 We scientists he said, proposed to give spiritualists fair trial to demonstrate the scientific basis of their cult. They have done nothing to convince anybody. They arrived without their mediums, bringing photographs only of their material izations. We demanded proofs but only got statements. That is not science, therefore we scientists must protest :.........-
The Nenana news., 1921-10-11
NEW INVENTION HELPS
 PATRONS TO FIND SEATS

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 11-By means of a new invention patrons of a large local motion picture theater may stand in the lobby and know at glance the exact location of an vacant seat in the house
 4 masterelectrical board situat- ed in the lobby contains a small light bulb for every seat in the auditorium arranged according to rows, Each of these bulbs is connected with its corresponding seat with a wire, and when a pressure greater than 30 pounds is brought to bear on the seat, the electrical contact is broken and the light on the board goes out.
 The device makes it possible to ferret out vacant seats in the semi darkness.
The Nenana news., 1921-10-11
NOTED SCIENTIST IS COMING
 TO STUDY LIFE IN DEPTHS

COPENHAGEN. Oct. l1-Dr. ]. Schmidt, famous Danish scientist who discovered the migrations of the eel, is about to start on a new expedition to American waters to study life in the depths of the ocean
 He will be accompanied by 8 group of young scientists. His pur- pose is said to be 10 demonstrate another new theory in oeeanograp aphy
 The former British mine trawler, Dana, will be used by the expedition.
 IL will be recalled that Schmidt ascertainted that eels annually rem devous in the fall for spawning ar place in the ocean 500 fathoms deep of the coast Of the Virgin Is- lands, in the West Indies. There the mature eels die. The young ones to whom they give birth go not to America, the nearest continent, but to Europe, seeking the fresh waters whence came their ancesters.
The Nenana news., 1921-10-11

SCIENTIST GETTING READY
 FOR FLIGHT ACROSS POLE

SEATTLE, Oct. IA Washing ton special to the Seattle Times re- ports that Edward Fairfax Naulty, the scientist who plans to visit the North Pole in an airpIane, Is ar ranging to leave Washington in a land plane, for the flight to Seattle, on November first. Upon arrival here, he will pick up a seaplane and leave shortly after for Point Barrow.
 At Point Barrow, the plane will be carefully groomed and provision ed for a straight flight for North Cape, Sweden, 1t being the plan of the scientist to touch at the Pole enroute, for the purpose of making careful observation of the region.
The Nenana news., 1921-10-11
COMMITTEE MEMBERS AGREE
 TO CHANGES IN TAX LISTS

WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. H. The majority members of the sen- ate finance committee have given their approval to proposed amend ments to the revenue bill, providing for the repeal of transportation taxes, including oil pipe lines, fixing a maximum surtax of fifty per cent and increasing estate taxes. The committeeman also have approved the retention of the corporation capital stock tax and the repeal of the S2,000 exemption allowed cor porations having net incomes of more than S25,00O.
 Under another proposed amend ment approved by the committee, the following excise taxes are repealed |: sporting goods, chewing gum, cleo tric fans, thermos bottles, smoking and hunting equipment, films, toilet soaps and powders, photographs, ap- paratus and accessories, furs, per fumes and cosmetics. The tax on works of art is to be reduced from ten to five CT cent and the candy tax made three per cent.