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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-12-08
NEW OUTLET FOR
ALABAMA COAL

An enterprise that promises much for the Bir-
bile. The DeBardeleben Coal company is ship
ping bunker coal to Galveston via ocean-going
barges, towed by sea-going tugs. In return
cargoes of sulphur from Freeport, Tex, for the
acid plants of Birmingham are expected to be
obtained. There is no reason why Birming-
ham iron and steel products should not move to
Texas in the same way as coal.
This Alabama coal is first to make the at
tempt at the Galveston bunker trade which has
been supplied by Virginia and West Virginia
coal out of Norfolk and Charleston. Alabama
has the coal and the shortest distance to cover
The facilities seem all that are necessary for
Alabama coal to secure a. least fair part of
this business.
Return cargoes of sulphur would help pay
expenses and should prove remunerative be-
sides A large amount of sulphur is consumed
yearly in the plants of the Graselli and Steel
Cities Chemical companies and others. They
would save much of the freight rate by having
this sulphur brought up the Warrior in barges
With the eight-foot stage of water now in the
Warrior, ocean-going barges might come up di-
rect to the Port of Birmingham
With the early completion of the 40 ,000-ton
federal coal terminal at Mobile, this new BUSH
ness would have that much more assurance of
success.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-12-08
ONE LEWIS OVERLOOKED
From The Kansas City Star.

From The Kansas City Star.
How did Gopher Prairie miss this man when
every other town has him? The Norborne
Leader tells about him:
When Sinclair Lewis was gathering material
for his "Main Street" he certainly overlooked
Norborne and made the mistake of his life by
combining himself to Gopher Prairie We
have character here who would have made
a dandy subject for Lewis PEN in the person
of Poor joe" chronic hypochondriac, who
never feels quite we'll unless he can tell of some
of his chronic troubles, chief among which is
keeping his pipe lit. He can cock his feet up
on a table and tell of more bellyaches to the
square inch of his anatomy than there are hairs
on dogs back. You all know him; and if you
don't, just ask his wife-she knows him. She
calls him Poor Joe," but his name is Jim.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-12-08
SOUTHEASTERN EXPRESS co.
DECLARES A DIVIDEND

The Southeastern Express company, a Biz
mingham corporation, has declared dividend
of A CT per cent out of net income earnings of
the company for eight months. This is at the
rate of per cent year.
The company was organized to conduct an
express business over Southern and Mobile and
Ohio railroads, and stock was taken by several
thousand citizens in IL southern states. 1t be-
gan active operations on May this year. 1t
has had short season in which to show a
profit, hence it is especially gratifying that
it is able already to declare dividend.
The business of this company seems to
have fulfilled the forecast of President Fairfax
Harrison of the Southern railroad, who, in his
last annual report, said: Operations of the
Southeastern Express company are entirely sat
isfactory to the railway companies which it
serves, and seem amply to justify the decision
which inaugurated these operations"
The company has felt justified in extending
its connections to Baltimore and York, Pa.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-12-08
ALABAMA GETS NO
FARM AID MONEY

The war finance corporation announces
other allotment of advances to farm marketing
associations. A total of 156 additional adj
vances for agricultural and live stock purposes,
and involving s6,5O0,O0o, was divided among
"a states including Georgia. North and South
Carolina, Virginia, Florida, Mississippi and
Texas.
Alabama's name has not yet appeared in the
list of states receiving aid from the war finance
corporation, and it is not going to get any fed
eral funds until it qualities. This will be done
by organizing farm marketing associations.
Alabama has passed law providing for these
associations, and the Farmers union and the
American Cotton association are at work on
plans of organization.
The sooner the associations are formed the
sooner Alabama will begin to benefit from the
good offices of the war finance corporation, and
take its place alongside the states that have
been organized.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-12-08
THE SECLUDED DWELLING.

F. w. Stokoe, in the Nation and Atheneun
(London)
When I shall enter first my grave,
The last of all the homes I've tried.
l shall look around and say: .Ths cave
Is quiet and countriied;
"a hermit's eel, "a bland retreat
Bare, but my books are in my head,
Ny music, too; no need to eat
And drink and smoke, now I am dead.
81 think might be happy here,
Have time at last, and use it all,
And get the first and last things clear,
Even the Vicar will not call"
So for a while I take my ease,
And lie and twist my thoughts about,
Content no footstep breaks my ease,
That not friend can find me out
But when the winds in autumn blow
And drive about the unending rain,
l shall be restless till I go
And haunt the avenues again;
Peer stealthly in face or two
Walk and return unsatisfed,
And find my thoughts are all askew,
And curse, and wish had not died.
And smother in nay winding sheet,
And wonder what is wrong with this
Cool, quiet, countrifed retreat
And know at last that what / miss
Is dearer than all these hold,
Worth buying when all those dread
That is lonely here and cold,
AS much as if 1 were not dead
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-12-08
. MATTER OF TEMPERAMENT

The type of man who's cool in great disasters,
So cool, in fact that people ask, "Who is
he?"
Breaks down and swears and anger overrnasters
When Central sweetly says, "The line is
busy"
Full well we know It's little things that vex us
And wear the strongest heart out, soon or
late;
We might oercome the trifles that perplex US,
Could we but learn with fortitude to wait.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-12-08
THE CHIEF REQUISITES.

81 wish to advertise our college,"
Certainly, sir. Shall I make rough draft
of the advertisement for your"
Eyes. You might say we have faculty of
rs professors, $10,OO0,OO0 equipment and all
facilities for higher education"
"Have you stadium"
"Oh, yes"
IA good football team?"
Gone of the best in the country"
Those two items should be set in extra
large type. 1t doesn't really matter about the
rest, but if you insist, the other advantages
you offer to the youth of country can be
set in small type at the bottom"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-12-08
THE BIGGEST THING IN ALABAMA
n The Montgomery Advertiser.

From The Montgomery Advertiser.
Mr. Edison is half deaf, but we can tell him
that those turbines in the great power plant
at Muscle Shoals will make themselves under
stood even by him. Incidentally that plant
alone is the most stupendous man-made object
in Alabama. 1t is SO Internally immense that
the bricks in it look like pinheads. 1t is big
enough to hold the output for one day
of the Ford factories at Detroit
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-12-08

THE LAST LINE

From The San Francisco Chronicle
Near Ojai Salvation Army artist wrote on
a billboard in letters a foot high, "What Must
l Do to Be Saved?" A patent medicine fakir
answered it by inscribing underneath, "Taie
Dr. Sokum's Pills" The Salvation Army chap
saw the joke and came back with another in
scription, which read: "And Prepare to Meet
Thy God"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-12-08
ORIGINAL MoTHER-IN-LAw JOKE
From the London Express.

From the London Express
As Mr.. Caveman gnawing at bear bone
in his morning, Mrs. Caveman rushed
in and said: "Quick! Get your club! Oh,
quick!' whats the matter?" growled Mr..
Caveman. "Sabre-toothed tiger chasing my
mother" gasped his wife. Mr. Caveman spat
on the floor. "And what the blazes," he asked,
"do l care what happens to sabre-toothed
tiger?"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-12-08
COUNTRY RELIEVING THE
HOUSING SITUATION

HOUSING SITUATION
Nationwide building has not only given en-
ployment to thousands of men who would other
wise have been idle, but by this time the in
crease in the number of residences has
terially relieved the housing situation. This is
already evident and will be more SO by spring.
November building permits in New York
were two and half times in excess of the
record of November, 1920, and the total for 10
months is 10 per cent more than the record
for all 1920. Of the 1926, 900 900 invested IN
new buildings, residences represented SIS per
cent
The building record of the country shows
construction in 10 months equal to all last year.
No record has been better than Birmingham's,
which in II months of 1921 spent 40 per cent
more for buildings than in 1920, and built
ed in 1920.
The French Senate and Chamber of Deputies
seemed to think well of Brands speech i'll
Washington. At any rate he has received a
vote of confidence and may continue to func-
ton until another crisis develops.
Some of the commentators of the press say
Mr. Edison is not as particular about his dress
as he should be. Mr.. Edison has reached the
proud eminence where he doesn't have to have
his clothes pressed
Jimmy" Montague says Marshal Foch 's
he
Not only that, but he's facing continuous
barrage of oratory, and still the man gains
weight.
DR.. Lorenz says he will leave America be-
sion. This is strange passing strange, and calls
for an explanation from the medical profession.
1t is reliably reported that Sazerac cocktails
can still be had in New Orleans, the village of
their birth. Railroad time tables may be found
in all hotel lobbies and ticket offices.
Democratic statesmen are bearing up cheer
fully under the announcement that Boss"
Penrose is highly displeased with the way things
are going in G. o. P. ranks
People who wear costly raiment and squander
money in the restaurants of otherwise starving
Vienna are not helping to improve the DISPOSE
ton of the proletariat.
The canvasser who was fined SO for forcing
his way into a Birmingham residence would
like to meet the man who first said ''Persever-
ance wins"
The unexpected occasionally happens. a bank
robber was killed by cashier in Oregon who
seems to have been taking screen lessons from
Bill Hart.
Where now are those politely worded hopes
with which the Chinese delegation came to
Washington?
The settlement of the Irish problem will also
throw large number of expert propagandists
out of work.
The man who habitually drinks "moonshine'
needn't tell his friends his health isn't what It
used to be.
Life is going to be precious dull in Ireland,
with nothing in particular to fight about.
Mr.. Harding views that pestiferous "agricul-
tural bloc more in sorrow than in anger.
A coming girl show has an old-fashioned press
agent who wields wicked adjective.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-12-08
OR RARELY EVER

ssYou used to cook for Mrs. Gadder?" asked
Mrs Clipping.
eyes, num-"
"Does that woman ever stay at homer"
"Well, num- now that's queer. You're askin
me the same question poor Mr.. Calder used to
come back in the kitchen an ask me two or
three times week. an SEE to you as I SEE
to him, she never do" PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-12-08
ADRIIT WITH THE TIMES
A THRIFTY MUSE.

eff you write verses advertising soup, soap
and cosmetics you'll never be known as one Of
the immortals"
Probably not" said the commercial bard.
Neither will posterity write indignant letters
to the press because the present generation per-
mtted me to starve"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-12-08
ONE WAY

"Bibulous men are experimenting briskly to
disguise the taste of 'moonshine.'
Mr. Jagsby follows time-tried method"
"And what is that?"
"He takes three drinks in swift succession
and says it's extraordinary how smooth that
makes the fourth one"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-12-08
THOSE SHORT SKIRTS AGA

THOSE SHORT SKIRTS AGAIN.
"You are leaving town."
For few days." said the editor of the
Chiggersville Clarion. "I'm the victim of an
unfortunate typographical error"
'What happened?"
81 was commenting on the Christmas shop
ping crowds and said there was a fine show
ing of our better halves on Main street yester-
day.
"Wen?"
it calves"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-12-08
GIVE. THEM TIME

From The Cleveland Plain Dealer
The actress who says women will never be
mans equal must admit that women are striv-
ing hard to climb down to that level
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-12-08
IN QUEST OF FREEDOM.

"The beauteous one is going to Reno, you
say?"
eyes, for her health"
81 didn't know Reno was health resort"
"She says her husband makes her sick"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-12-08

the Anti-Tuberculosis association, but when the
two are taken together, anyone gets big quar-
ter's worth who takes it in.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-12-08
THE SLIPPERY JAP
From The Savannah News.

From The Savannah News.
They do report from Washington that the
Jap diplomat is about as easy to hobby re-
portar-as an eel with liberal coating of oil.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-12-08
STATE POSTOFFICE DEPARTMENTS
PLANNED BY HAYS.

Postmaster General Hays is injecting many
new ideas into the postoffice department and
is showing characteristic energy in improving
the service. Since great deal of the criticism
heaped on the head of the luckess Mr.. Burle-
son was due to the system which he inherited
from his predecessor, Mr. Hays is finding plenty
of room for improvement.
The plan being considered by the Post
master General to make the central accounting
office of each state miniature postoffice de-
partment has many advantages to commend it,
Much of the business now carried on in Wash
ington would be conducted by the central of
fees of the states, which would eliminate red
tape and waste of time and, as result make
for increased efficiency.
At present the Birmingham postoffce is the
depository for all the other postoffices in Ala
bama, receiving checks to cover receipts and
money orders each month. The Birmingham
office distributes supplies for the state, includ
ing stamps, postal cards, stationery, printed
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-12-08
A MORNING PRAYER

n NIOENINIINN 7 MA LN
When this days work is done, o Lord let
me put it behind me with the knowledge
that thou wilt forgive my failures, and
prayer for strength the morrow. Amen.
M. S. B.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1921-09-28
Realty Transfers
Compiled by Salem Abstract
Co., Bank of Commerce Bldg.

Jos. H Albert to j. B. Cox, w,
~ feet inches lots / and 2,
block II, Geo. H. Jones add, Sa-
lem, $40.
r, M. Ryer to Margaret Cra-
mer lot 9, block Z, Boise's first
add, Salem, $40.
W. H. Drake, to Fred Hoffman.
lot 4, block 1, nrake's add, Silver
ton, $500.
Charles Scott to A. Merle Scott,
(lease) all mill lot1, Scots Mills.
A. B. Haverly to Wilbur A.
tombstone, 1900 So. #. in John B.
Ducharme CT. 64-5-1W, $3.50.
John Lentz to Wilbur A. John
stone, 8 acres DIN e. Taylor Cl..
25-5-2W, $1,000.
Roscoe Langley to S. T. Hobart
Al acre in T. l.. Coon Cl., 63-6-
wv. $40.
Anne X. Loe to Owe C. Casper
son, acres in James Brown Cl..
47-6-1W., $4,000.
T. B. Kay to G. A. Thomason.
7:5O acres in James Davidson Cl.,
4s-7-aW., 1925.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1921-09-28
Soviet Shifts
Responsibility
Back on people

Moscow. Sept. 2S.-Everywhert
throughout Russia the soviet gov.
ernment is unloading responsible.
ties II is unable to meet. Factory
workers are being urged to obtain
their own materials, run their own
affairs and obtain their own food.
"Decentralize; do it yourselves,
and do not depend upon the cen
trail government for anything" is
the burden of instructions broad
casted by the government since
domestic free trade was instituted
and the new economic policy Of
the bolsheviki was declared.
Provincial officials, labor un-
ions cooperative societies and ia
miae relief committees are all told
the same thing.
Departments are being reduced
and large numbers OF men are be-
ing thrown out OF employment.
Those who have been receiving
food have been placed on reduced
rations and workmen in nationali-
zed factories are being paid in
manufactured products or in mon
ey instead of food so that the food I
responsibilities Of the government
may be lightened.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1921-09-28
$4,7OO,735
Gain In Amount
Years Business

The first of series of sectiona
conventions of managers of thu
great chain OF J. C. Penney com
pany stores was held in st. Loui'
on September 16 and IT. Over {
hundred managers were in attend
ance. other conventions will fol
low at St. Paul on September 23-
"a. Portland on September 80 and
October l, and Salt Lake City Oh
October 7-8.
Prevailing conditions as they
are generally understood to exist,
are not reflected in the financial
report of this nationwide institu-
tion, which shows that for the
first eight months of this year the
gross receipts were s4,700,735.76
in excess of the figuSes for the cor
responding period of last year.
President E. G. Sans attributes
this increase largely to the fact
that the public nowadays is shop
ping around and buying merchan-
disc of quality at the lowest possi-
Bile price. The purchasing power
OF such a tremendous organization
as the ]. c. Penney company nat
urally makes possible the buying
of selected merchandise of high
quality so as to retail it at low
prices.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1921-09-28
Wednesday. September ~ =,

The Fuerst Frederick regiment,
originally 6Ss strong, took part in
many engagements in the Revolu-
tion. 1t participated in the battle
of Long Island, and was assigned
to the left wing of Earl Percy's
force at the battle Of Fort Wash
ington. Later the regiment was
sent south and eventually was cap
tured at Yorktown.
Upon the declaration of peace
the survivors were returned to
New York to await transportation
home and during this period they
were Quartered in the hut canton
ment on the Dyckman farm.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1921-09-28
Favor Public
Employment
Agencies AS Best

Washington. Sept. 28.-Progress
OF the national conference on
unemployment indicated today
prospects for completion OF an
emergency relief program earlier
than had been anticipated.
The question OF public employ
ment agencies was taken up to-
day at the conferences open hear
ings.
Russell F. Phelps. director of
labor statistics of the Massachu-
sets labor department, said the
cost OF placing a worker through
the Massachusetts, agency was
sl.S5, as against an average
charge of $14 by a private en-
ployment agency. He said it was
desirable at this time that employ
ment service should be furnished
without charge with local authori-
ties in direct contact with the
workers, supervised by state and
federal employment authorities.
John Ihlder Of the chamber Of
commerce OF the United States.
declared that the majority of the
chambers members. in a recent
referendum vote, went on record
In favor of federal employment
system to work in cooperation with
the state and local agencies.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1921-09-28
EVER HAVE IT?
Il You Have, the Statement of
This Salem Citizen Will In
tereSt YOu.

This Salem Citizen Will In
terest You.
Ever have low down" pain
the back?
In the Small" right over the
hips?
That's the home of backache.
II it's caused by weak kidneys,
Use oDan's Kidney Pills.
Salem people testify to their
worth. Ask your neighbor.
G. N. Ireland, 1892 Broadway.
Sslem, says: 81 have used Doan's
Kidney Pills and can recommend
them as a good kidney remedy. I
had kidney trouble and my back
often ache das If 1t would break.
My kidneys acted frequently and
the secretions were highly color
ed and contained a sediment. I
used Doan's Kidney Pills and
they helped me wonderfully.
They rid me Of the backache and
pains and regulated my kidneys"
Price COO. at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for a kidney remedy
get Doan's Kidney Pills-the
same that Mr., Ireland had. Fos-
Co.. Mfrs, Buffalo,
N. Y.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1921-09-28
VIII ats New
On
The M arket
By Rex Stewart

| AVA 0bCWdlI
Ihe demand for onions in other
markets is making itself felt
Eleven cars were shipped today
from Salem and Brooks to north.
ern and eastern points. The av-
erage car carrying Is tons and the
price per pound ranging all the
way from ga to 8 1-2 cents a
pound. Estimating that the con-
sumer at receiving points must
stand at least a SO per cent in
crease, the retail price of 2 ga
cents does not seem so high.
The supply of poultry has been
plentiful all week. previous prices
prevailing, and perhaps will con-
tinue to be in both wholesale and
retail establishments. Due to the
fact that stores and markets were
closed today there was very little
buying and being offered.
There is still a goodly supply
Of casabas on the market with lit
tie demand because of the ad-
vanced season. There is also
small supply of watermelons left
and local muskmelons are still be-
ing handled in large quantities.
Malaga and Concord grapes have
lropped their top prices to so cents
abasket. due to the lack OF de-
mand.
Eggs remain firm, but dealers
are expecting and increase.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1921-09-28
Tokugawa
Heads Jap $
Delegation
Popular Prince, Presi-
dent Of House of
! Peers, and Others Are
Coming to Capital

Toxic. Sept. 28.-The Japanes,
delegates to the Washington con
! ference on limitation of armament
and problems of the Pacific will
be Prince Iyesato Tokugawa, pres
ident Of the house Of peers. Vice
Admiral Tomosaburo Kato, min
lister OF the navy. and Baron XII
juro Shidehara. ambassador to tine
United States, 1t was officially an
nounced this afternoon.
The secretaries to the chief dele
gates will be as follows:
Masanao Hanihara, vice-foreign
minister; Tsuned Matsudiara,
chief Of the American and Euro
pean section of the foreign office;
DIR. Kirogu Hayashi and Turo
Takao, councillors of the foreign
office.
The delegation includes 18 9th
ers representing the foreign office,
three representing the ministry OF
finance, twelve the ministry of the
navy and seven the army.
II the imperial dynasty had not
been restored to full authority
with the resignation in 1857 of
the last Of the Shoguns, or heads
OF the feudal system, Prince Toku-
gawa, appointed chief Of the Off
cial delegation to Washington,
would today be the Shotgun. His
appointment, therefore, is consid-
cred fine tribute to the great
Tokugawa family and to the prince
himself. tand as almost certain to
please the Japanese people. The
Indications are, likewise, that the
makeup of the delegation will be
considered as happy compromise
and a wise solution Of the nationaf
problem Of finding the men best
suited to represent Japan at the
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1921-09-28
Find Buckle of
Hessian From
Revolution

New York. Sept. 2S.-A Hessian
soldiers belt buckle has been
found by historical workers exca-
waiting the site of the Revolution
airy war prison camp on the old
Dyckman farm, near 203d street.
The buckle, Of bronze, is in a
perfect state of preservation and
officials of the field exploration
committee of the New York His
torical society say 1t is one of the
few Revolutionary relics Of un-
doubted Hessian origin.
The buckle has been identified
as part of the equipment of the
Fuerst Frederick or Erb Prinz
Regiment Of Hesse, mercenaries
brought over by the British to
fight Washington continentals.
On the front of the buckle is en-
graved the monograph "F. F."
by a crown. The orr
ginal hook or belt holder is on the
back.