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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-12-19

vative aud typically American families in the
state Of Maryland, OF distinguished ancestry
in the female as well as the male line, the
Bonapartes Of Baltimore have had no occasion
to bark back to Europe.
The report grew out of Mr.. Bonsparte'S se-
quaintance with the Albanian minister a.
Washington. William of Wied, former king of
Albania, having fled that country, there is a
throne vacant and the situation in Albania
was informally presented to Mr.. Bonaparte by
the Albanian minister. It might have taken a
serious turn had Mr.. Bonaparte welcomed the
prospect, but thrones are not what they used to
be and Baltimore is a much safer place than
Albania.
Mr.. Bonaparte will remain where his great
grandfather, Prince Jerome Bonaparte, met,
wooed and won the beautiful Miss Patterson.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-12-19
OVERSEAS GRAVES


From the New York Times:
A few weeks ago we called editorial atten-
ton to the excellent report and recommends
tions of the commission of fine arts on the
cemeteries of Europe where American soldier
dead are buried These recommendations con-
templated the provision of adequate space for
the individual graves, with grass and trees
about, and with ample acreage for monuments
in memory of engagements in which our troops
had valorous participation. 1t is gratifying to
learn that President Harding has given fun and
cordial approval to these plans. They will call
for an ultimate expenditure, including the pro-
posed memorials of $4,000 900. This is little
more than one-fourth of what has been spent in
returning the bodies of more than so 900 men
to this country. The next of kin and friends
in wider circles of the more than % 900 re-
naming in France will have a Satisfaction IN
knowing that their dead will receive the proper
and perpetual care of the nation in the land
where they fell.
1t is said by this commission that almost
every tree that grows in America will grow in
France. 1t is hoped that there will be among
the trees, in every cemetery, few which are
associated with the Chrstmastide-tree that
may be decked with the blossoms of color and
light with which such trees were aglow at this
season in the old childhood homes.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-12-19
LOOSE THINKING AND WRITING

from the AIlant8 GeOfBlaHs
Everywhere you look nowadays you see a
competition of some sort of unframed writers.
Essays, stories, scenarios, plays-what not--the
eager thousands urged to undertake these
compositions. And the results are what might
be expected.
correspondent, writing the Georgian in
this regard, tells the story of leading article
in a trade magazine, entitled How American
Statesmen Should Behave in Latin America in
Order To Get Trade" The correspondent
knew of the man whose name was signed to
the article; knew also that this man had never
been out of the United States, and for the last
10 years had been confined to his bed with
paralysis.
When asked, in some surprise, why he had
written the article, the bed-rdden author re-
marked pleasantly: Everybody is writing on
what he doesn't know anything about-why
shouldn't II"
The conviction that anybody can do anything
without either knowledge or training may be
an inherited tradition of pioneer days. Once
upon time our resources were so inexhaus-
tible and orr population comparatively so
small that competition imposed no special re-
sponsibility. If you didn't like it where you
were, you went elsewhere; if you didn't succeed
in what you were doing, you tried something
else.
General education was admittedly good
thing; but special training was not thought of
much Importance.
The result is that to this day we overesti-
mate energy and undervalue trainings we
throw the emphasis on chance and belittle the
pains of the expert.
College boys expect to become leaders in
business before their competitors say Jack
Robinson. School children expect to produce
1sable scenarios for moving pictures after tip
or two from an actress manager. And
newspapers are deluged with articles on
every conceivable subject, in all conceivable
varieties of English, by authors whose whole
preparation has consisted in the purchase of a
pencil and pad of paper.
A good many years from now we may come
to realize that the whole basis of our compli-
Gated civilization is special knowledge and train
ing.
And when we do, we shall make some changes
in our systems Of education.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-12-19
MAP NOTES CITY,s GROWTH

1.-THE growth of Birmingham can be easily
noted when one refers to the original plot of
the city made by my father" states Nat Barker,
vice president of Barker, Henderson and
Marks, realtors. The original map of the city
hangs in the office of this company.
"This map was made in 1873 and shows where
the streets were laid out to conform to the rail-
way tracks. The corner where the Steiner
brothers bank is now was occupied by black
smith shop where the farmer could get his horse
shod.
"This is now what might be termed the en-
trance to automobile row just over the viaduct,
where attention is given to the modern traffic
successor to the horse"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-12-19
MERCHANTS CAN ALWAYS FORCE
HONEST ADVERTISIG


Merchants Of Gadsden, through the Chamber
of Commerce. have inaugurated campaign
for '-tell-the-truth' advertising and announce
that It viii be continued until 'thonest adver-
Using Is forced on all those who have dealings
with the public"
Merchants with self-respect will not tolerate
advertising that Is not honest. They will not
stand for crooked advertising, because it is
neither decent nor, in the long run, profitable
The average merchant wishes to be fair, both
because he feels better for being fair and
because fairness retains customers. The unfair
advertiser rather muddies the waters than earns
profits, but his very presence in the trade is
an affront to 1t and a reflection on honest
methods.
Gadsden merchants can bring about tell
the-truth" advertising If they conduct a con-
tnuous and earnest campaign to that end. The
trickster does not relish being segregated from
his kind and pointed out as one with sinister
record
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-12-19
MAYO ON LORENZ
From the New York Tribune.


What the great American surgeon DR..
Charles H. Mayo says about DIR. Adolf Lorenz
ought to appeal to every physician in this
country from either the philanthrepic or the
pocket side. It should be lesson particularly
to those doctors-happily few-who are jealous
Of the Vienna surgeons fame.
DR.. Mayo calls attention to the fact that DR..
Lorenz's work in this country sis bound to
bring into the light thousands of cases of Grip
pied children whose infirmities, partly through
ignorance or a feeling of hopelessness the
part of their parents, have hitherto been hidden
from the doctors and hospitals of their commu-
mites" This is so obviously true that many
physicians must have already observed such re-
suits.
There are many crippled children whose par
ents may now seek medical advice concerning
them; children whose ills may not be amendabe
to the Lorenz treatment but may be relieved
by some operation performable by some local
surgeon of skill
AS Dr. Mayo remarks DIR. Lorenz could not
find time to treat l per cent of the cases in his
own line that are brought to him. The great
est value of his visit is the example of his sue
cess and the arousing of hope in those whose
cases may not be hopeless after all. As Dr.
Mayo says, If the visit Of DIR. Lorenz accom-
pished nothing more than the disclosure of
great numbers of hitherto unknown he
will have achieved great work, work that
should be encouraged by every state in the union
and on that he can safely leave to be carried
on by the medical profession of this country"
Thus speaks one big man of another giant in
his own profession. The little fellows who
have been going about lamenting the popular
interest in DR.. Lorenz will not applaud DR..
Mayo for making such clear statement Of
plain case.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-12-19
BUSINESS ZONE INCREASING

1.-THE Birmingham business zone is gradually
increasing and each month we get more business
from out of town and make more substantial
shipments" says j. H. Holcombe of the Hol-
combe Music company.
1.-THE shopping radius is getting larger each
day and people come to Birmingham to trade
from greater distances. Recently we have
made shipments to Akron, Tuscumbia and
Thorsby and during the last few days have
made other shipments to points near Birming-
ham.
1--WE have noticed this more this pre- Christ
mas period than ever before"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-12-19
PUNCH RoARDs SCARCE

punch boards are becoming as scarce now
as the proverbial chen teeth" according to Felix
Tarrant, drug store proprietor. "Time was
when you couldn't enter drug store or soda
parlor without seeing various punching or draw
ing devices-all games of chance. The new po-
lice regime however has ordered that these
must go and go they did.
Sometimes occasionally the old punch board
mania breaks out again uncomfortable and the
victim yields to the line Of least resistance
when along comes an officer"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-12-19
WILLING TO WORK

ST was coming through Bessemer the other
afternoon and seeing workingman waiting for
car asked him to ride with me to Birming-
ham," says W. v. Cornell. ~ was mighty glad
that picked him up as the street car fare into
the city was an item to him. He told me that
he was mechanic and getting good wages in
another state, but the concern employing him
shut down and he had come to this district
seeking job. The thing which impressed me
with his sincerity his saying: I have quit
looking for a mechanics place at high wages
but am trying to get work day laborer. I
have only few dollars left and l am willing
to do anything to make living"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-12-19
YOUNG LOVES FATAL HURRY
From the New York World.


That love levels ranks and laughs at lock
smiths, and all that sort of thing, is very we'll
known to poets and light opera liberettists
That in its eagerness to escape restraints it is
prone to laugh in the wrong place of scorn IS
the declaration, in effect, of the Rev Dir
George Clark Houghron, who in an interview
asserts that more than 50 per cent of runaway
marriages are failures.
Dr. Houghton gives out this statement at At
lantic City 1t is not the wild waves of Novem-
Der, however, which have been saying to MIN
things that fly in the face of romance. He
speaks with the authority acquired in % year,
of service and observation as pastor OF the
Little Church Around the Corner, in New York
On the strength of his conviction that the open
marriage is best and that parental opposition
does not inevitably mean parental tyranny, he
turns away, he estimates, about so couples each
month out of those applying for the wedding
rites
Possibly DIR. Houghtons percentage figures
on matrimonial failures could not be proved to
a mathematical nicely. On the other hand,
such stories undoubtedly could be told of happy
runaway mates as would lend lovers lure to
the idea of elopement 1t is true, nevertheless,
that young love which dreams is also impatient,
and when opposed is likely rather to center its
wrath on the immediate opposition than to give
careful. thought to the future and the wiser
course.
We do not understand that Dr. Houghton
makes an appeal. He calls attention to facts
as he sees them. Young love will accord to his
implications, presumably, that measure of rev
erent attention with which it has ever re
warded the warnings of its elders.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-12-19
RECIPROCITY BETWEEN A UTILITY
AND PEOPLE TT SERVES

The Birmingham Water Works company has
expended about 100000 this year in improve
ment of service by installing pumps and boilers
at the Cahaba pumping station, laying large and
small service pipe, electrifying coal line and
in other developments.
Coincident with these improvements the
company increased its capital by issuing per
cent stock, which has been sold to the citizens
of Birmingham. The absorption is just about
equal to the amount of money that has been
utilized in improving the service.
The pipe used in the laying of mains was
manufactured In Birmingham Of Birmingham
iron. =, The brick, cement, tile and structural
steel were made here. The meter boxes are
made in Birmingham. The fuel to operate the
Cahaba station is dug from ground contiguous
to the plant by Birmingham miners.
The company's earnings pay dividends on
stock owned by Birmingham people and the
money paid for this stock has gone into i'm
provements that will serve them. That is good
for the utility. and for the citizens of Birming-
ham. It will help to perpetuate friendly rela-
tons between the public and a corporation en-
gagedtin public service.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-12-19
NO NIGHT IN HEAVEN

w. M. Let's in the Yale Review.
No night in Heaven All, he did not know,
That worn old Eastern saint, the tender glow
Of summer evenings in the happy west
He had not seen the sunset smolder low
Behind the larches on the far hills crest,
Nor watched the rocks and davis fly home to
rest.
He had not known the scent of new mown hay
In dream-like fields about the close of day
Nor seen the hawthorns by the May moons
light.
He had not envied lovers as they stray
About the dusky lanes, where, starry white,
The dog-rose throws her garlands for delight.
If he could know, as we, beloved, know
Twilight and harvest moon, he too would pray;
Morning and noon are good but night is best
Maker Of starsl Oh, give back the nightv
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-12-19
LOCAL REPORTS DAILY

Reports are positively not given out by the
local station of u S. Bureau forecasting beyond
the period of 24-hours," vehemently stated E.
C. Horton, local forecaster. "Quite few
times have heard of reports coming from our
officer here for the period of week in ad-
vance This is erroneous.
an Washington reports mailed to every
section of the country forecasting week in
advance, but not here"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-12-19
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
AND ELSEWHERE
GLAD CLOCK. RUNS

II am exceedingly glad to see The Age-Herald
has started it's front clock running again."
stated Earl P. Jones. when one Is accustomed
to passing the clock every day he will surely
miss it the day when y does not run.
pass The Age-Herald on Tidewater car quite
frequent and always look at the clock when
pass and it is indeed with feeling of satisfac-
ton now when Pm able to see it run once
more"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-12-19
HUMBUGGING THE INTELLECTUALs

From the Montgomery Advertiser.
Some bright young Cornell students decided
among themselves that anybody could be hum
plugged on grand scale. Following up their
inspiration the young intellectuals arranged to
have CDR. Vosberg," famous psychoanalist of
Vienna, and boon companion of Freud, the psy
chologist, address the student body on the ad-
vanced theories and hypothesis which have
made Freudism fad in sundry intellectual
circles, particularly at Cornell. CDR. Vosberg,"
with his stubby Teutonic beard and his close
cropped Teutonic hair and imposing spectacles
speaking in broken English, addressed the stu
dent body and the faculty at great length,
dwelling throughout upon his theories abou.
dreams, naming numerous pulling remarks on
subsequent developments, were seen to have
been manifesty absurd. The students listened
breathlessly and appauded wildly when the
speaker had concluded. They regarded what
they had heard as a mastery effort and ad
mtted they had been deeply moved. The en-
thusasm for Vosberg spontaneous and
real that the committee in charge of the speaker
dared not reveal his identity at the moment,
for fear of rough-handling, once it was found
that the audience had been sold" day or two
later postcard pictures of the speaker, revealed,
were offered for sale, and in this way the stu
dents learned that "Dr. Vosberg" was none
other than Pennsylvania young man, and a
fellow student.
The faker had said nothing profound. He
had merely spoken with an air of profundity
and mystery. He had made himself seem real
and his theories complex, impressive = ven
wonderful. And his audience, selected students,
not easy to impose upon, as rule, swallowed
everything and called for more. But these
students are not alone as swallowers
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-12-19
ANXIOUS TO HEAR CHIMES

81 can hardly wait for Christmas morning"
says NJ. P. Messer, mot because I want to see
what l may have in my stocking, but because
l am eager to hear the chimes ring out their
message of "Peace on Earth and Good Will to
All Men" The bell makers going to send an
expert down to ring them and l am sure when
they peal forth on the Saviour's birthday that
all Birmingham will be filled with joy.
think the unknown donor has not only conferred
great gift on Highlands Methodist church
but on the community as we'll"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-12-19
RATE REDUCTION RUMoRs
ARE MISLEADING

Traffic experts join A. r. Morrow, president
of the National Coal association, in urging
business men not to credit rumors of an early
reduction in freight rates.
The consensus of opinion among those giving
the matter serious thought is that it will be the
latter part Of February before the interstate
commerce commission, which is conducting a
general hearing on freight rate adjustment,
will be able to sift the arguments of shippers
and carriers and make rulings. Several weeks
will be required for the railroads to make and
publish tariffs in accordance with the rulings
1t is. therefore, not deemed at all probable
that rate reductions, if made at all, will be in
effect before April 1.
From this it would seem to be safe to arrange
for ones first quarter requirements without
thought of changes in freight rates.
BONAPARTE PREFERS BALTIMORE
TO THRONE IN ALBANIA
Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte, great-grcat
nephew of the famous French emperor, has
put q quietus on the report that he was thinking
Of accepting the throne of Albania. Mr.. Bona
parts, like his father and grandfather, is a cit
izen Of Baltimore, American In thought, habit
and personal relations.
The Bonapartes are one Of the most conser-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-12-19

RESTAURANT AMERICAN

From the Arklight.
Scrambled EGGS ordered customer in a
city market restaurant. milk toast" muir
INJURED his companion, who not feeling we'll
Scramble two and graveyard stew sang
out the waitress with the Titan hair.
Here" corrected the second man, 81 want
milk toast"
you'll get it, Buddy replied the girl
"That's what they call milk toast down in Pitts
burgh, where / worked"
The two customers held conference and
decided to ''put one over on the fresh young
thing" from Pittsburgh. The first one wanted
glass of milk and the second cup of
black coffee.
When the girl appeared to put "set up
of the restaurant artillery in front of the
men the second man gave the following order:
"a bottle of tactical fluid for my friend and a
scuttle of Java with no ea(foam for me-"
"Chalk one an dipper Of ink" shouted the
girl. She didn't even grin.
voLTAIRE's GET-RICH- QUICK SCHEME
From the Youths Companion.
The famous French satirical writer, Vol
taire, was worth half million dollars at 40
years old. But he did not earn his money
from books. He made most of it, says the
Mentor, by lending money to needy noblemen.
He would lend an heir to estate large
sum on condition that the heir should pay him
10 per cent interest on the amount long as
both of them lived. The heir would be neither
required nor allowed to pay off the principal;
and the agreement ended only when Voltaire
died. Voltaire picked only younger men and
because Of his tubercular appearance had no
difficulty in getting clients. 1t is said that
when prospective borrower hesitated the satir-
ist could cough in way that always closed the
deal The scheme was very successful--for
Voltaire.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-12-19
STARTING MORE TROUBLE

From the Kansas City Times.
But is an Irish plebscite exactly the way to
60 about getting peace?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-12-19
A MORNING PRAYER

Look thou with pity, Lord. upon two
miserable men; him whom poverty hath led
to deny thee and him whom wealth hath
made TO forget thee. Amen.-M. s. b.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-12-19

Keep thy pen from lenders' books, and defy tho
foul fisnd. king Lear.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1921-01-28

had come to him. Good Then he
would not fail him. "St down, son,
and tell the old man all about 1t. Be
gin at the beginning and let me have
all the angles Of the angle"
Bryce obeyed, and for the first time
John Cardigan learned of his sons &C.
quaintance with Shirley Sumner and
the fact that she had been present in
Pennington's woods the day Bryce had
gone there to settle the score with
| Jules Rondeau.
With the patience and gentleness of
confessor John Cardigan heard the
story now. and though Bryce gave no
hint in words that his affections were
involved in the fight for the Cardigan
acres yet did his father know it, for
he was a parent. And his great heart
went out in sympathy for his boy.
II understand, sonny, understand.
This young lady Is only one additional |
reason why you must win for of course |
you understand she is not Indifferent |
to you"
II do not know that she feels for me
anything stronger than a vagrant sym
pathy, dad, for while she is eternally
feminine nevertheless she has a mas
culine way Of looking at many things.
Her first loyalty is to her uncle; in
fact, she owes none to me. And dare
say he has given her some extremely
plausible reason why we should be
while think she is sorry
hat 1t must be done, nevertheless, in
mistaken impulse of self-protection
The Is likely to let him do it."
perhaps, perhaps. Eliminate the
drl, my boy. She's trying to play fair
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1921-01-28
HOW TO KEEP HOGS HEALTHY
Among Other Things, Provide Animals
With Sanitary Quarters and a
Clean WaIow.

10 keep swine healthy and thrifty,
provide them with sanitary quarters
and clean wallow, in addition TO
proper food. But when external para
sites affect hogs an effective remedy
must be used if losses are to be avoid
ed. Lice and mango mites are the
TWO principal kinds of external para
sites occurring among swine. The
mites are particularly injurious In
pigs and poorly nourished hogs. "Hog
Lice and Hog Mango" is the title OF
new farmers bulletin recently issued
by the United States Department Of
Agriculture, telling specifically how 10
Identity the parasites and describing
effective and economical remedies.
Plans of hog wallows and dipping
watts, together with directions for
building them, are given. For informa-
uon on this important subject, ask the
department Of Agriculture. Washing
ton. ID. c., for Farmers Bulletin No.
1885.