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Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-01-13
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Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-01-13

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y natl, Ohio, who says his
wonderful restoration to health
since taking Tanlac has aston
ished all his friends, has gained
twenty pounds.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-29
LETTERS TO EDITOR
Huntsville Likes Cooperation

To the Editor of The Age Herald.
 We cannot refrain from writing you to convey to you our deep ap- preciation of the editorial published in The Birmingham Age-Herald last Sunday with reference to the book published by our association cover ing the natural advantages and re- sources of Huntsville, Madison coun- ty and adjacent territory.
 We of Alabama are a great people of great state, and through such broad minded public spirited coop eration, such as your publication has shown on numerous occasions, there is practically no limit to the accom- plishments of the people of our great state.
 The people of our city, county and section consider it an honor and a privilege to be the recipients of men ton in your editorial columns.
 United, we of Alabama will sue ceed in advancing the growth and in- terests of our state and community when individual or seetiona. effort would fail.
 Again thanking you most heartily, we are yours sincerely,
 HUNTSVILLE AND MADISON COrN-
 T4 CHAMBER OF COMMERCE,
 P. O. Aiken, Manager.
 Huntsville. Ala, June 2s, 1921.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-29
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DO YOU KNOW

Instead of there being only five senses, as we usually think, there are probably as many as fifteen. Four distinct senses. for example, are found In the skin. These are heat. cold, pain and pressure. What we usually call touch is combination of these sense qualities.
 The flesh of most molluscs and ma rine fish contains copper. That of oysters averages 34.7 milligrams per kilogram.
 Thirty-seven and seven-tentrs per cent of the people of the United States live in electrically lighted houses. There are 6,2sl160 wired houses and s4o.o00 farm lighting plants.
 The American Indians made flour from Nthe rootstalks of the common cat-tail. Professor SlaassenE of Cor nell university, declares that cat-tail flour is satisfactory partial substi- ute for wheat flour in bread making.
 HOT T~WEATHER QUESTION From the Columbus Enquirer-S
 One fellow, with an inquiring turn of mind, wants to know if movies are responsible for all the meanness now, what was responsible for 1t be- fore there were any movies? Nobody has answered his foolish question yet
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-29
THE NEXT WAR

"IIllam SlaNens McNutt in Leslie,s.
 The next war; All over the world people are talking about it. Armies are drilling in preparation for it. Air men are evloving new stunts. ways and means of dealing death from the SKY Natlons are building dread naughts of enormous size and at the same time experimenting with sub mtrSi6le craft and with aerial torpe- does directed by wireless which bid far to perform feats of destruction that will render the costly floating forts as useless in a modern sea bat tie as wooden frigate of the olden time.
 VI he next war;" All over the world men and women are living in the shadow cast by fear of the event. Diplomats are scheming for advan- tages of alliance when the next war breaks. Chemists are experimenting with poison vapors, and bacterioIo- gists are breeding deadly germs to do the work that has hitherto been accomplished by sword and shell, by bullet and bayonet.
 Keep that last statement in mind In that statement I believe there lie the psychological bacilli that may grow and spread and ultimately de- stroy the war-breeding germs that ,,a f,, al mind.
 In the past when one preached pre- paredness one spread the gospel of young men trained mentally and physically for a sort of super athletic event; for contest in which physical skill, endurance and courage were as- saved in the fire of supreme effort,
 Always, all over the world, with the thought of war there has been the thought of dramatic spectacular he- roism
 will be a matter of cold premeditated murder done in cold blood by be- spectacled chemists and bacteriolo- gists in laboratories, and electricians sitting before boards of keys and levers and buttons. It will be killing, killing of women and children and old people and babes, killing at long range by means of poison gas and loathsoms disease germs, by flame and letheI rays. 1t will be war waged with the weapons of the snake and the spider. of the filthy disease germ and the crawling louse.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-29
Members of Congress
 Afflicted With a Thirst

M URING the beer debate in the lV House, Representative Kahn said, "There are members here who vote for prohibition and who drink more liquor in a week than I do in year."
 MT. Kahn might have gone further and explained why legisla- tors with a chronic thirst are loud in their defense of prohibition laws, but it wasn't necessary. To occupy seat in Congress states man must go through the formality of being elected. To be. elected he must receive votes and in order to retain his seat it is particularly necessary that he be given the in- dorsement of his constituents at the polls from time to tune.
 Everybody knows that. Nobody knows it better than the men who compose the Congress of the United States of America. Prohibition has become the "big stick" of politics. At word from the dry bosses our legislators fall into line and vote what is supposed to be their con- victions.
 It is not only fact, easily sus- ceptible of proof, that some of our prohibition supporters in Washing tion consume spirituous liquors on the sly, but they also sit up late at night and play poker.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-29
A FAIR PENITENT

From "A Summer Pilgrima ge to Sa-
 cred Koya-San," by Lucy Fletcher
 Brown, in Asia Magazine for July. small inn porch, eating my luncheon and watching the pilgrims. rickshaw men, onlookers and idlers that stood in the muddy road or crowded in
 ing and chattering with the endless good humor of Japan, noticed a charming young Japanese woman sit ting at the far end of the porch. Peo- pie in this pleasant land change their garments, whether in railway car. by the wayside or as here on the crowded porch of pilgrims inn, without attracting undue attention from their neighbors. So no one but
 myself was interesterd when this young woman suddenly arose and opening the basket that, in the Orient. represents our suitcase. began to pre- dressed in a delicate tan cotton ki- mono. which she removerd folded with precision, and laid upon the spot less floor, standing revealed as she did so. in gown of brilliant orange with fold of Prussian blue down the. front. This second gown she also
 removed and folded, standing this time in a fascinating costume con tcft of chA .l.i white silk and shirt of the same material with wide embroidered sleeves. She then took from her basket white cotton kimono with just touch or violet. adjusted it and wound the long white obi about her slender waist. A maid bi ought her pair of the coarse sandals, at which l won- delicate a creature would be making the pilgrimage by kago. sort of pear shaped basket slung on a stout bamboo pole between the shoulders socks were removed, l thought the pretty lady shrank rom the touch of the rough straw.
 Later, as l climbed Koya- san in the pouring rain, my eyes fell upon touching spectacle: my lady of the white-violet gown, not carried in a | kago at all. but moving steadily through the downpour on her own small feet. Her sandals were soaked i with mud, her once-spotless white was stained and dripping. her care fully tied obi was a rag. Without Hooking to right or left she paced on. holding wrecked paper umbrella over her s,ill glossy hair. 1 tried to catch her eye as We passed. but she gave not culver 1 never saw her l again, but many time have l won- dered on what romantic quest of VOW
 or penance she made that trip so steadily and so alone.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-29
Reflections on the Eve
 of International Battle

N s the hour approaches for the A clash at Jersey City the peace resolution, the League of Nations, disarmament and other matters of less import are forgotten. It is safe to assume that at least 00,000, ,OO0 of the nations 105,000,000 people are aware of the fact that M. Car pentier of France will meet Hon. Jack Dempsey on July 2.
 If the columns printed about the coming fight were laid end to end they would probably reach to the moon, with enough left over to belt the earth. Everybody who has any excuse to be interviewed has been asked for his opinion, These per sonalities range all the way from the principals themselves to former celebrities of the prize ring whose only reason for talking is that they used to pack more or less wicked punch.
 Fifty-seven varieties of "experts" have told us why Mir. Dempsey will win or Mir. Carpenter. Professor Corbett, whose place in literature is now assured, has been in close con tact with both gentlemen. Hon. James J. Jeffries, our forlorn white hope," has emerged from obscurity to make few predic- tions. Ornaments of the medical profession have assured us that it is largely matter of glands. Other experts who don't know anything about the glandular theory have confided to us that MT. Carpenter will lose because he is foreigner.
 The consensus of opinion points to Utah's best known son as the winner, but Georges mother had a vision of her boy flattening Mir. Dempsey. Those who are close to the Frenchman are confident. It is difficult matter for the ordinary citizen to decide, unless he takes the word of the experts and pays some attention to the betting odds.
 One thing, however, is certain. If it were not for the newspapers a considerable part of our population wouldn't know that anything out of the ordinary was scheduled to l happen at Jersey City. Thanks to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-29
NOT ALL CHINESE EAT RICE

From the Detroit News.
 There is a mistaken idea abroad that every Chinese man. woman and child in China eats rice every day, As matter of fact. there are millions of Chinese living in Shensi, Shansi and northwestern China where rice is not grown who have never seen or tasted rice. There are millions of the rice producing sections who cannot afford to eat rice regularly,
 With these qualifications it, may perhaps be said that rice is the staple article of diet of the Chinese people or. more correctly, of the people of central and south China, though strictly speaking, there is reason to believe that the sweet potato occu- pies an even more general place in the dietary of the people through out all sctions of China than does rice. The Yangtze valley is the great center of rice production.
 Rice straw is the most common ma terial for the manufacture of paper in China It also serves as food and bedding for animals, as thatch for houses and as fertilizer.
 Rica wine. sam-s shu, is made in enormous quantities in China, all though the people are not given to in- temperance
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-29

one instance the vote was well nigh unanimous and in the other the ma jority was great enough to amply demonstrate the prevailing senti- ment.
 There is no doubt that the people want roads and schools. They have voted for school taxes more fiber ally than for roads, because chil- dren are the dearest possession, but roads come next. All the people wish in the matter of roads is as- surance that the money voted for that purpose will be economically spent, that they will get what they pay for. The popularity of the school taxes is due to the safe guards thrown about their adminis- tration.
 Enough has taken place to insure the passage of the road bond amend ment. It will be passed if result mitted, because the burden has been willingly assumed by automobile awnaro and will not ipparasa tho +aY on farms and other Interests.
 Farmers favor good roads now more than ever before because they have become better merchants. They realize that roads play a very inn portant part in the economic mar keting of their products.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-29
 AN OYSTERS TROUBLES

From the London Saturday Review.
 After their first few days of sepa- rate existence oysters never move un- less the tides or waves which run across their mud beds shift them; yet theirs is life of constant worry and anxiety; the slightest variation in temperature brings pain. suffering and even death. while the five years of their maturing is one long strug gle to get food and avoid attack and fasten on the shell. drill right through 1t hole so small as to be unnotice- able, and discharge poison strong enough to kill the oyster and open the shell.
 But the common starfish. or five finger" as fishermen call it. is per- haps the most dreaded enemy of all. On the poor oysters back this foul creature settles, fixing it's powerful tentacles round the thin edges of the lid. to suck and suck with increrible force until the shell is frayed and broken. Thereafter it sucks at the body of the starving inhabitant.
 Another dreaded neighbor has the knack of the all-important hinge and can paralyze it's muscle so that it opens of itself: while the strong dun crow of the seashore will lift an oys- ter from it's bed to drop it time after time from height on to a conveE- ly for the inside 10 b ewithdrawn. So the oysters days are not so peaceful as they seem.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-29
THE VULGAR BARD

From the Louisville CourierAJournal. 7S Shakespeare god? The gover-
 nors of the Memorial theatre at
 Stratford- -on-Avon think not. Further, they consider 1t no desecra- ton of the bard's memory to give the theatre over to the movies wliie it is lying idle in the intervals of the per formances for which 1t was built. In doing so they were deluged with pro- test by those who have deified Will liam Shakespeare. proce lure that no doubt would have been exceeding 1y distasteful to that most human of human beings.
 The mortified exclamations of the Shakespeare worshippers, however, have stung the governors into defen- sive attitudes One of them says in reprisal that he has seen perform ances of The Tanning Of the Shrew, The Merry Wives of Windsor and OlHeIS Ol solidhCSpSdiS v PAoSS Nhoe would make a Charlie Chaplin film seem innocent and beautiful-wh'ch it is. And if it is a question of vul- garity. must only say. Read Shakes peare.'"
 Waving argument on the critical comment on MT. Chaplin's photogra phy. real lovers of Shakespeare must applaud the governors intended dis arrangement of Shakespeare. It is pre- ciseIy true. It answers definitely the question: "Is Shakespeare god?' with a chorus of noes Heaven fore fend that the creator of Caliban and Falstaff. of Gobbo and Pistol be dei- fled Such state of affairs would raise gooseflesh on the statues of the bard.
 Vulgar in it's root sense meaning people at large or pertaining to peo- pie at large as distinguished from the fastidious few is most honorable word. "Unspeakable mysteries III the Scriptures are often described in a vulgar and illustrative way" said Sir Thomas Browne in "Religio Medici.' Puttenham, in the Art of English Poesie," thus used the word: "Of the Egyptian letters. or manner of writ ing, one was vulgar, which all people learnt; others were called sacred, which the priests only knew among the Egyptians"
 Shakespeare spoke no sacred lam guage for the fastidious few. Unlike Milton, his eye was on the ground lings. He delighted them ar.i ~ithal spoke their vulgar language heauti- fully. It is significant that into the mouth of Caliban, the monstrcas. dis sipated, unconscionable Caliban, Shakespeare placed some of his most beautiful lines. No doubt. the gover- nor of the Memorial theatre who paid Shakespeare the subtle compliment of vulgarity was thinking of the coafser meaning of the word. But the compliment is not dimin- ished in force even in that aspect vulgarity is very digestible food Expurgate the coarseness fro.n Dor Quixote" and Rabela-is and you have
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-29
MAIN STREET. OF EUROPE

The river halves Budapest and courses by busy Belgrade, where it receives the waters of the Save. It carries barges on which families live as they do on canal boats. Grim castles, great estates, and tiny cot- tages stand along it's banks.
 "ScenicalIy the Danube possesses variety almost as infinite. Rising in the Black Forest, some of it's waters seep through underground Assures to stream of the Rhine basin. Some- times it is pressed between high hills. Smaller craft appear on its waters in Bavaria. In Austria it splits into many arms and forms 8 whirlpool. In Hungary plains it sprawls wide, re- receiving many important branches, remnant of a prehistoric inland sea. It resumes a wild. torrential aspect again when 1t pierces the Kazan defile and the Iron Gates. IL receives nearly as many tributaries as there are days in the year and drains all area almost equivalent to thdt ot Egypt.
 Along the steep right bank of the Kazan defiie can be traced to road built by Trojan early in the second century. Not until recently has the construction of a modern road made the defile passable upon either bank.
 Recognition of the international importance of the Danube was at tested by placing it under a comms- sion in 1856, and further provisions regarding it are contained in sub sequent treaties, including that of NarsailleS Nin 1QtaD
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-29

WS7 7 ASHINGTON, June 2S.-(Spe- W\W iaI)-"One of the most sig
 nificant indications that cen- tral Europe is on the road to better economic conditions is the report of commission of experts that Danube shipping is increaslng,' notes 8 bull letin from the Washington headquar- ters of the National Geographic so- ciety.
 Economically the Danube is to the landlocked nations of Europe what the Mediterranean is to the countries of southern Europe. Once the north ern frontier of the Roman empire; later the path for conquerins hordes of Huns. Slavs and Magyars, now the commercial main street of central Europe, the Danube may claim to be the most important river of Europe, though it is exceeded by the Volga in length.
 Human activity attains extremes along the Danubes course even more marked than the contrasts along bizarre Broadway, New York. It's waters see the revels and destitution of Vienna and flow by flat rocks on which Hune earian women pound their clothes with wooden mallets and bear them away in tubs on their heads. They pass mills like those of Min neapolis. bear vessels like those on the Hudson and turn the waters of boat borne water wheels to which peasants bring grain in primitive ox-carts with even the wheels kept in Ia ,1;,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-29
PLENTY OF JOY RIDES

New York Correspondence Pittsburg
 Dispatch.
 Chinese spirits have taken up the Tin Lizzies' and the buzz wagon is waiting at the door with the chauf- feur all ready to exceed the speed limit Replicas of automobiles are now burned on the graves of well-to- do natives in China to provide a means of getting about rapidly in the spirit world" said Nelson S Futile at the Martinique, who is the Young Mems Christian association represen- tative in Picking.
 since the time of Confucius the Chinese have deposited food on the graves of the dead. so that the spirit will not go hungry" continued MT. Futile. but the addition of a flivver shows the trend of modernity in the Celestial republic, or. in other words, No pushee. no bully.
 The automobile used in the burial ceremonies Is made of paper and isin- glass held together by wire. The rep resentation is complete to the most minute details. Even the license tags are initiated, while on the radiator is attached the makers trade mark. Brass mountings are reproduced in gilt paper. while the tires are done in gray paper.
 Previous to the burial the automo- bile is displayed for several days in front of the dead mans residence. so that everybody can see that the spirit will have plenty of joy rides in the great beyond"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-29
< x E Another County Votes a Road Bond Issue

Tf7HE seventh Alabama county
 k has placed itself on the honor roll of those willing to do their part in making this a good roads state. Pickens county gave a majority of 400 for road bond issue of $300,- 900, the proceeds to go into the building of road that will run from the Tuscaloosa to the Sumter cdunty line, thus connecting three prosperous counties.
 sThe other counties giving large nRjorities for road bonds were Montgomery, Madison, Tuscaloosa, DRls. Colbert and Mobile, In all but
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-29
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Alabama Power Equipped
 to Extend Facilities

TRHE filing of mortgage and H deed of trust for $25,000,000 in favor of the United States Mort gage and Trust company by the Alabama Power company is the fore runner of the big dam which the company is to build at Duncan's Rifle on the Coosa river.
 The new bond issue was decided on some time ago and Notation of the bonds places the company in DO. sition to go ahead on it's plan of ex- pansion. It already furnishes power for moer than half of the state, but the wants of the industries of Ala hama, even those of the circum- scribed territory, are far beyond the present capacity.
 Yesterday the federal water power board granted the permit which will enable the company to carry out its plans. The Duncan's Rifle dam means employment for 1,500 to 2,o00 men for eighteen months to two years. Work will be started at once.
 Meanwhile the company has near I1y completed the additional unit of 20,000 horse power at Lock 12 and iaas-completed its transmission line connecting with the water powers of Georgia, Tennessee and the Caro- linas.
 The Alabama Power company has been conspicuous factor in this states developemnt, fact that is gradually impressing itself on the minds of Alabamians.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-29
EMERSON AS LECTURER
tne Detroit News.

From the Detroit News.
 Ralph Waldo Emerson was the first famous professional lecturer His fees were low at first There is a letter in existence that he wrote the fee: q am willing to accept the Ss you offer me. but must have in au- dition three quarts of oats for my horse.
 Emerson spoke 9S times in the Con cord lyeeum without pay, but when the fee system began he rapidly rose from the s5 level to slo0, and in the days of his greatest popularity he re- ceived as high as $500.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-29
Willing Worker

"I think some comment should be made on Dr. Frank Willis Barnetts s cause" declared John R. Hornady, city commiss toner.
 This willing worker of The Age Herald staff is never too busy to help someone out of hole or to help put over drive of any sors.,
 During the World war and in all campa Sns in which I have been a worker also. Dr. Barnett has al ways accepted charge willingly"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-29
Henry Ford Breaks
 Production Records

TN a period of business depression l it is encouraging to read this data about the operations of the Ford motor industry in May. They arc reported in trade papers as follows:
 Five millionth car built.
 Monthly record of car building broken; total cars turned out being 11L30s, compared with the pervious high record of 99,967 in October, 1920.
 Daily output records broken 10 times in the course of the month.
 Profits in May greatest in the his tory of the Ford company; total profits s1S,oOO,ooo; profit per car sls9.16.
 Cash balance at end of the month, sella,ooo.
 Pipp's weekly says:
 There was a speeding up of broduction, a systema tizing of the work. a reduction in the cost of materials and an efficiency on tae part of the workingmen that enabled the Ford company to frun out more cars at less cost than has ever before been done in the history of the company.
 Alabama is willing to entrust Muscle Shoals to the man who does things like that.