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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-11-20
BOTH SWEET AND BITTER

From Leslie's Weekly.
A California correspondent reports that while
waiting for the boat at the ferry station in San
Francisco he bought few walnut creams. This
variety of candy--a wad of white "cream,"
with half an English walnut stuck on each
side-used to be part of the furnishing of the
candy-case in every country grocery store. 1t
is one of the easiest kinds of candy to make
simply roll up ball of "fondant" between your
palms, stick nut on each side, and there
you are.
This being so, and California being state
where English walnuts grow, and sugar costing
between five and six cents pound, our
respondent wishes to know how the manufac-
turer figured out his price of $3.50 pound.
An Investigator for our neighbor, the World,
making the rounds of the New York candy
shops, found according to his published figures,
that the prices charged the consumer repre-
sented from 1,400 to 2,750 per cent advance
on the cost of the ingredients
Americans eat more candy than any other
people on EARTH and they will have their sweets
even though prices unreasonable. But
unless they completely idiotic, it would
seem they ought to have had enough of paying
$3.50 pound for candy that cost the manufac-
turer land the manufacturer is often the vendor
as welD not more than eighth tenth of
that price.
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FIRST AND LAST

81 had charge of the last steam dummy train
on the Highland avenue route" said Bob
Barker, "and I also ran the first electric car
on that line. 1t was on the night of February
/, 1900. The last steam dummy left Birming
ham at $40 at night. On the return trip
left it at the ice house on Avenue E and walked
down the block and took charge of the first
electric car and made the next trip with it.
cit was nine years after the first electric
cars ran on the South Highlands lines before
the Highland avenue line had them. The latter
was not equipped with electricity until it had
passed into the hands of the Birmingham Rail-
way, Light and Power company"
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KEEPS GOOD COMPANY

III notice that Henry Ford keeps mighty
good company" said Webb W. Crawford presi-
dent of the American Trust and Savings COM
pany. "a man who trot with Thomas
A. Edison and have that man figure with him
on developments, has some backing in addition
to his own resources.
"If Ford did nothing more than make fer
tilizers at Muscle Shoals the development there
would be worth while in their reflection on
the rural prosperity of the south. Pm for
Ford"
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Birmingham, November 10, 1921.
BOYS, SCHOOL CORNER STONE

To the Editor of The Age-Herald:
The board of directors of the Alabama Boys
Industrial school deeply appreciate the excellent
publicity your paper so kindly gave regarding
the laying of the corner stone of the new
dormitory, now in course of erection at the
school.
They are grateful also for your articles call
ing attention to the fine work that Is being
done for boys, and for your very full report
of the corner stone ceremonies last Thursday.
Yours sincerely, ADELE G. MCNEIL,
Secretary of the Board Of Directors.
Birmingham, November 49, 1921.
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Il NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT COSTS
! OF THE NAVLES OF THE WORLD

Ten years ago we Of the United States spent
100000 on our navy. For the fiscal year
ending next June we have appropriated $416..
100000, or an increase of three times in te4r
years. This means practically every inhabitants
of the United Statesman, woman and child
is contributing 81 a year to the building of
navy.
For the year ending June 80, 1918, during
the World war, our navy ate up, so to speak,
billion and a quarter of dollars.
The British navy spent more than a billion
dollars year during each of the four years of
the World war. In 1918. she spent billion
and half dollars
During the preent year the Britishers have
appropriated $422poo,ooo for their navy.
Under the Hughes proposals the three gov
ernments of America Great Britain and Japan
will save $6oO,oOo,o0p year in naval expendi-
lures alone.
II the three great maritime nations make
the proposed cut the other sea powers will gladly
cut In proportion.
So
The Japanese attitute may lead to some
delays. Admiral Kato aid the other Japanese
delegates have not been trained to frank pro-
posals. They don't know the meaning of the
American expression to '1ay ones cards on (
the table," ''To deal orer the counter, is I
another unknown phrase to them. They use
roundabout expressions, and it takes time
for such frank proposals. a those made by Sec
rotary Hughes to simmer into their systems.
But in time they will CONF to the scratch, be-
cause they will see the necessity and the great
advantage to their people il doing so.
This conference for the Imitation of arn1a-
ments was called by Presidet Harding to do
business to the greatest Advantage of all peo-
pies of the world.
The Americans and the British are deter
mined upon practical results AM the best indi-
cations are that they will succeed
Aej1 R,uea
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ment causes financial loss the steel industry
will accept it willingly and gladly. We will
do so, not in a spirit of mere idealsm and self
sacrifice, but in belief that the greatest per-
manent material prosperity would be brought
about by the concentration of the energies of
mankind upon constructive activities; upon
means for well-being and not for the destruc-
ton of civilization"
Mr.. Schwab knows that the same capital
and the same brains that made armor plate
as well and nation that is not paying for
ornaments will have money for these other
things What looks like idealism when men
do not understand it's meaning becomes prac-
teal when they do. The golden rule among
nations is no more idealistic than the golden
rule among individuals since nations have
begun to appreciate its relation to commerce.
finance and the tax burden.
Washingtons hospitality is already proving
too much for some of the delegates. They should
by all means try to get up with clear heads in
the morning.
We may have to eat denatured mince pie
on Thanksgiving Day, but the reformers have
not yet succeeded in taking the kick out of
football.
The spectacle of Charley Schwab hurrahing
for disarmament in spite of what it would
mean to his business, is truly edifying.
Marshal Foch is determined to complete his
American tour, even if his health should suffer.
That's the kind of man he is.
man might be hero to his valet and still
have the uncomfortable feeling that his caddy
snickered behind his back.
1t will be news to some of our closest news
paper readers to learn that the French army
prevented another war in Europe.
The future would be more promising if war
could be abolished as effectively as the House
of Hapsburg.
The Asquiths are coming over for VISIT
and that reminds US that we never did get
around to reading Margots book.
Marshal Fochs wildcat will be carried to
Paris, but will not be given the freedom of
the city.
Medicinal beer may be outlawed before some
of the patients consume their second case.
Premier BRAND will get away from. the con-
ference before suspicious become certainties.
Vaudeville has much to answer for, including
the occasional debut of baseball star
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LETTERS TO EDITOR
NEEDS WHEEL CHAIR

To the Editor of The Age-Herald;
We are just in receipt of the following let
ter from the Young Mems Christian association
at Siluria, Ala.
eve have young lady in our village who
is in need of wheel chair and we are writing
to ask if you would be so kind as to help US
find out where we could rent one. We thought
you would very likely be able to locate one for
US. If you can do so, we will be pleased to have
you send it out here as soon as possible. We
will guarantee all expenses that may be
attached to the procuring of the same well
as the rental charge.
eve shall be very glad if you will make
story out of this and have it inserted in your
paper. Perhaps someone has a chair that they
would like to donate. Please request that any
one answering this ad communicate with the
Red Cross. M-6539.
Thanking you for your attention to this mat
ter, we are, Yours very truly,
MRS. F. M. BLYND,
Executive Secretary.
Birmingham, November 49, 1921
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TASK FOR BLANToN

from The Tampa Tribune.
The Birmingham Age-Herald thinks that
Representative Blanton has missed his calling.
That paper suggests that if he had only written
books that could be put under the ban he would
be safe. Well, he may take the hint and write
his menoirA
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MORE LIGHT ON THE CAMEL

From The New Orleans Item.
Another idol has been shattered Lieutenant
Burns, writer in Chambers Journal says
camel can't go nine days without drink. He
dies about the third or fourth day.
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ADRTFT WITH THE TIMES

all by yourself with no companioship what
ever?"
''W-w-w-well,' she sobbed, 81 ha, two gold
fish"
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IN A FAR LAND
Column. in The Dial.

Padriac Column, in The Dial.
l.
The crows still fly to that wood, and out of
that wood she comes,
Carrying her load of sticks, little less now
than before,
Her strength being less; she bends as the
boar rush bends in the wind:
She will sit by the fire, in the smoke, her
thoughts on the root and the living branch
no more.
The crows still fly to that wood, that wood
that is sparce and capped;
The last one left of the herd makes way by
the lane to the stall,
Lowing distress as she goes; the great trees
there are all down;
No fiddle sounds in the hut tonight, and
candle only gives light to the hall.
The trees are sparse and capped, yet sap
ling spreads on the joints
OF the wall till the Castle stones fall down
into the moat;
The last who minds that our race once stood
as a spreading tree,
She goes, and the thorns are bare where the
blackbird, his summer songs done, strikes
the one metal note.
II
The bond-woman comes to the boorie;
She sings with heart beguiled
How hundred rivers are flowing
Between herself and her child.
Then comes the lad with the hazel,
And the folding-star's in the rack:
Nights good herd" to the cattle
He sings, "She brings them all bach"
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Love is seldom confessed until the evidence
reaches the stage where making confusion is
merely matter of form.
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"What's his peculiarity?"

Hes the only man in these here his who
amt tryin' to git rich quick by maxim moon
shine Ticker. He's still as pore as he fyuz tn
day this country, as they say up in Washington,
went dry"
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BALLAD OF A BoUNDER


l sing certain bounder,
A cheerful sort of rounder,
Well known in flashy restaurants until
week ago.
Although he seemed so merry,
He has now crossed Charon's ferry,
For lady with pistol laid him-yes, she
laid him low!
For lady with pistol laid him low!
Many were his arts and graces
In the swifter kinds of places,
He was never at himself until the lights
began to glow.
She knew she'd be acquitted
And by all the jurors pitied,
So lady with pistol laid hni-yes, she
laid hin-low!
SO lady with pistol laid him low!
AIM WAS TOO GOOD
"Who threw that eraser at me?" bawled the
teacher, as he glared at the section reserved
for little boys.
"Please, teacher" said the worst of the lot,
why don't you look at the girls side?"
"The eraser didn't come from that part Of tho
room, sir. 1t grazed my head"
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HIS DIFFERENT NATURE

HIS DIFFERENT NATURE
"My brother" said the solemn person., care
you so living in this world that you will year
a golden crown in the hereafter?"
'Im trying to-" said Mr.. Peckton, "ht I
never could wear fancy cloth hat without
feeling dreadfully conspicuous and uncombrt-
able. If should win golden crown Pm afaid
I never would get used to it,
ACCORDING TO SCHEDULE
Elbow was the party when you left?"
Proceeding briskly.'
"Was BIBLES there?"
eyes. He was telling that funny story &
his about King Solomon and the Queen o,
Sheba."
"That usually comes along about the sixth
drink. He won't begin to recite The Raven
until he's had ten PAUL COOK.
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CONFERENCE is A TEST OF
OLD WORLD DIPLOMACY


There is battle going on in Washington
which will have its effect on generations yet
unborn. 1t is "a battle of wits between old
world trickery and American diplomacy.
Secretary Hughes, for the United States,
laid before the conference a plain,
straightforward programme for the reduction
of naval ornaments. America agrees to do
more than she asks of Great Britain and Japan.
The offer is fair to all three powers concerned.
1t was accepted Gin principle" Representatives
of Great Britain and Japan expressed gratifi-
cation, showered bouquets on Secretary Hughes
and then settled down in secret conclave to
see what could be done about getting conces-
sions and effecting compromises. What was
said in public sessions was intended for public
doors is the real work of the foreign diplo-
mats, who are trying the same tactics and re-
vealing selfish interests with which Mr.. Wilson
had to cope in Paris.
Recent dispatches from Washington indicate
that the American representatives intend to
stand squarely by their proposals. That is the
only way to get results. Once they are drawn
into prolonged and technical discussions of ode
jeopardized
The foreign diplomats come to America
protesting their willingness to disarm. The
showdown has come and they are beginning
VI .Lan ,oL
truth there was in their formal declarations.
In the meantime, the advantage lies with Amer
lea. She has proved her sincerity. She has
shown the gentlemen from abroad that she
meant what she said. They must decide
whether they will accept or decline.
Diplomatic phrases and polite explanations
will not satisfy public opinion tn eworld over.
The conference in Washington will shortly
TRAVELLING DIPPING WATTS MIGHT
SOLVE PROBLEM
Nine dipping watts were blown up in Miller
county, Ca, on Thursday. This vandalism
occurs somewhere in the southern states almost
every day. Getting rid of the cattle tick has
proved troublesome and expensive.
The south cannot go backward Its cattle
industry. has become too important. Public
sentiment seems the only remedy and that is
forming slowly in many rural communities.
The inventive genius who would devise
dipping vat that could be conveyed from farm
to farm on wheels, might solve the problem.
This would obviate the tedium and time lost
in driving cattle to stationary watts. The trav-
cling watts could be stored at night under lock
and key in towns and villages, or the drivers
could remain in charge by adding sleeping
engagements.
Simple expedients sometimes work wonders.
The travelling dipping vat might determine tick
eradication.
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young man "keeps company with a girl
before marriage, but after the ceremony it
sometimes happens that her father has to keep
both of them.
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AIM WAS TOO GOOD
COMPARATIVE SOLITUDE

eyes, your honor" said the aggrieved woman,
she dabbed her eyes, "he neglected me
shamefuly. Why, he was never at home"
"And suppose you had to spend the evenings
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There is a beautiful statue in every block of
marble, but only an expert sculptor can coax
it out.
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ECCENTRIC

"Got any queer characters around Are?"
"Yep," said the native. cold Cap lodges is
one"
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When some people talk we are reminded of
dictionary with the definitions left out.
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS

From The Chicago News.
Laziness is the decayed fruit of philosophy.
No man ever thinks he is as homely as he
really is.
A rare painting is always supposed to be
we'll done.
flushed is the conversation of men when
money talks.
Conscience enables people to feel sorry when
they are found out.
Patience is all right in its place, but it is
better to back tenacity to win.
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MORNING PRAYER
let me not hear ambition calling from
beyond the distant horizon while duty waits
undone beneath my feet Amen.-M. S. B.
Cheyenne Wells record., 1921-08-04
RUSSIAN "REDs" COURT ORIENT

government has made his first official
visit to the shah Of Persia. presenting
to the shah on golden salver an al
bum with photographs Of soviet lead
ers Of the whole Of Russia as a per-
sonnl present to the shan from Lenin."
A man who recently arrived from
Moscow said:
Sew persons realize what a close
connection now exists between Rus.
sin and its old enemy. Turkey, and
for that matter all Of the Near East
NJ. Lenin Is accomplishing here what
the old Russian government could not
do by playing up to eastern psychology.
'The so-called bolshevism in these
eastern countries Is nothing ut oil like
the bolshevism of Moscow, but In each
case the Russian agitators have a
distinct brand Of propaganda de.
signed to dovetalI with ancient GUS
toms Of the country in question. For
instance. in regions where the trade
in bazaars Is century-old custom,
no agitation against free trade has
teen made"
Cheyenne Wells record., 1921-08-04
Soviet Russia Pushing Friend
ship With Near East.
Lenin Exchanges Presents With Asiat-
ic Rulers as Did Monarchs Of
Ancient Days.

Riga, Latvia.-Recent arrivals from
Moscow declare that the world little
realizes how closely soviet Russia is
pushing its friendship with the Near
Last.
In Moscow the Turkish legation
occupies one OF the most sumptuous
of the old palaces and the personnel,
garbed In fuultless European clothes.
present a strange contrast to the poor
ly garbed Muscovites. The Afghans
and other Near East delegations al
so occupy luxurious quarters. give
elaborate banquets and otherwise car
ry oil with all the pomp Of the old
eastern courts. Members of Premier
Lenin's government are frequently
guests at these affairs and entertain
the legation members equally lavish
ly In return.
Besides this, NJ. Lenin has so ac-
commotlated himself to the psychology
Of the East that lie now exchanges
presents with the rulers Of Turkey,
Persia, ETC., as did the rulers Of an
cient days.
A Moscow dispatch today reads like
a paragraph from what might have
been an ancient tablet Of hieroglyph-
les describing the visit of Baby
lonian envoy to King Cyrus Of Persia.
1t runs:
"The representative Of the soviet
Cheyenne Wells record., 1921-08-04
'1,I]F ARMY WOMAN FOUND TO BE LEPER

Colonel Howard reported TO Surgeon
General Cummings Of the public health
service and DR.. william c. Fowler. Dis
trict health officer, and requested per-
mission to send Mrs. Wahl to the fed
eral leprosarium In Louisiana. The
permission granted. Mrs. Wahl left
Washington the following morning and
is now at the leprosarium.
According to the report to the public
health service, Mrs. Wahls case is II
comparatively slight one and was dis
covered almost as soon as the first
signs appeared. How long the disease
has been In her blood physicians could
not say. as the period Of incubation
ranges from five to twenty years.
During the war Colonel Wahl held
the rank of brigadler general.
Cheyenne Wells record., 1921-08-04
Wars Greatest
Hero Is in Need

fers that would have made him rich,
he came buck to his mothers hillside
farm and took up the hoe.
A short time later he married a girl
Of the neighborhood. Friends and ad-
mirers picked out farm for him al
most directly across the road from
the farm of his mother. and paid S11,-
235 on 1t through popular subscrip-
tlOn.
For time things moved serenely.
York, whose whole ambition had been
to own home :, Tennessee noun
tains, farm his ,,wn land, hunt the
foxes that rOamed the hills and show
true hospitality to the strangers who
passed his door. was wholly content.
A little later Alvin C. Jr. came, and
life seemed even more worth living.
But such good fortune was not to
last.
Crops Are q Failure.
Crops were big disappointment.
Farm products brought exceptionally
low prices. Taxes reached an un-
precedented high fiesre.
With the $12,50O mortgage for the
Cheyenne Wells record., 1921-08-04
Sporting Squibs
of All Kinds

J. Watson's chestnut colt Lemon
ora won the Grand Prix do Paris. The
purse was 10000 francs.
Frank Hepburn set Z new worlds
record for 800 miles In winning mo-
torcycle race In 3:S0:06.
The program Of tho Middle States
regatta. to be held On the Schuylkill
river on Labor day. will comprise II
events.
The Genteman's Driving club Of
Philadelphia. composed Of amateur
light harness enthusiasts, has Just been
launched.
On Watch, one of the foremost race
horses Of the season, u recovering
from an operation for an affected
windpipe.
The 1921 football schedule Of the
Carnegie Institute of Technology, with
one exception. has been completed.
The open date Is November II.
Tex RIckard will make an offer to
match Georges Carpenter and Tom
Gibbons. st. Paul heavyweight, In q
12-round bout In Jersey City on Labor
day.
Harold Iddings. who was the 1920
football assistant to Coach Stefren at
Carnegie Tech. will become head foot
ball coach at Penn college at Oska-
lOOsa, la.
David Rubin Of the Brookline SWIM
ming club won the New England SWIM
ming championship at quarter of q
mile and at one mile In the Charles
river basin.
A. P. t"Pesky'') Shrott. star half
back Of the 1920 University Of Cali
fornia football team, has been signed
to coach the California freshmen the
coming season.
San Diego High school defeated
West Technical High Of Cleveland, {
to Q. In the tenth inning Of the sec
ond and deciding game for the inter-
scholastic baseball championship.
Langehorne Gibson Of New York
City. class Of 1922. who rowed at No.
s In the first varsity crew. has been
elected captain Of the Yale rowing
squad. to succeed Capt. Stephen HOrd.
The prize Of 500 awarded by the
University Of Michigan athletic board
to the athlete making the best scholar
ship record for the year has been
awarded to Elton e. (Tad) Wieman
Of Tunga. Cal.
Cheyenne Wells record., 1921-08-04

balance on his farm due this fall,
things went from bad to worse. A
$3.50 grocery bill accumulated and the
grocer feels unable to extend much
more credit.
York Is toiling from "kin 10 kant"
from earliest break Of day to the
last lingering Of light-to prevent
his life's dream from being shattered.
But 1t looks like u vain task.
"ReligiOus faith sustained me In my
danger and removed my fear" he
snys. II was only pawn In the hand
Of Providence. Any credit that Is due
for my achievements should go to the
Lord. For me to attempt to TAKE any
credit personally would be a great
wrong.
"But He will see me through"