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The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1921-10-04
Difficulties Have Value.

A happiness that is quite undis-
turbed becomes tiresome; we must
have our ups and downs; the diff
culties which are mingled with love
awaken passion and increase pleas.
ure.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1921-10-04

Cleveland, Detroit and st. Louis
nave become inland seaports for the
expectation of passenger cars, motor
trucks and tractors.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1921-10-04

But only those who have used their
heads have been ableto make foot
prints on the sands OF time.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1921-10-04

Special train will leave Paris at
$40 a. M; returning will leave
Fourth Street Station, Cincinnati,
$3.50 p. m. standard time, (7:S0 p. m.
City Time). For further informa-
ton. consult Local Ticket Agent.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1921-10-04
Their Debts.

Some people feel they owe so much
to themselves they never pay anybody
else.-CartOOns Magazine.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1921-10-04
SOCIETY FOLKS READ

Our line of samples of the famous
Jenner Line of Yuletide Greeting
Cards has just arrived. This is the
best line that can be purchased. Lots
of our customers were forced last
season to make several selections on
account of the line selling out so
quickly. Come in during September
and place your order and be sure aud
get what you want and while the va
riety of stock is complete.
THE BOURBON NEWS,
(tf) ENGRAVING DEPARTMENT.
There are only eight automobiles in
Liberia-but who wants to move to
Liberia?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-21
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THE HENRY FORD WAY

From the New York World
 The Ford Motor company in a statement filed with the Massachu- setts commissioner of corporations reports total assets of ss45.14o,557 on April 30, compared with sS06,695. .109 year ago. Profits and loss surplus increased from s165,67s,132 to $1s2.- SIT, ,6s6, and cash and debts receiva- ble from ss2.4ss.o27 to ss6,s65,165.
 This is curiously prosperous showing for a corporation to make in year of bushes depression. How was it done? The Detroit manufac- turer, as is we'll known, is a dream CT and visionary, but there is noth- ing very visionary about sss. s.0OO.1 900 gain in assets in a bad year.
 Perhaps Henry Ford has a secret method unknown to other corpora . tioa heads. but it would appear un its face to be only the secret of q commons sense application of business principles. He was one of the first automobile manufacturers to cut prices anu ne ihdue lho pcos v the depression and overcame it. No doubt a manufacturer who can make a profit out of diversity possesses genius.
 But the example is there for any one to emulate. The way to read just business to the new conditions is to readjust it and have the thing over. That is the only magic needed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-21
THE BUSINESS ENGINE

Roger w. Babson. in Forbes Maga-
 zine.
 Business. like an automobile. has been running in high gear for the past three years; and now. all of a sudden, the automobile has stopped for lack of gasoline. During the past few months, we have been clean ing out the tank and refilling it with gasoline. Now we are about ready to start up again. But when the car stopped we were in high gear and we have not yet shifted. In starting the car again is 1t advis- able to attempt to start on high gear or is it better to put the car first into low gear? Surely, the sensible way is to start low. move to second and then into high. Attempting to start on high, will inevitably stall the engine.
 Yet we are trying to start busi- ness on high" just where it stopped The railroads want to get business back at the old high rates, or ha> . no business at all; labor prefers to be idle for months rather than have wages cut; while retailers are> hold ing up prices until business revives. The reult is that all business is at s standstilL
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-21

the late war and here at home in the United States we are building ships for a possible war in the Pacific.
 If the conference were limited strictly to disarmament it would probably be a failure. On the oth- CT hand, the inclusion of so many other questions may prolong the session for months, but nothing could be better for all the powers than frank and open consideration of problems which may cause an other war if they are not settled.
 It is not yet too late to carry on the work begun at Versailles and establish a lasting peace. The nations of the world are still in a frame of mind to realize that dream of the ages.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-21

of them in order to extend it's water system.
 The hundreds of little temporary buildings and tents that line two sides of the thoroughfares and con- stitute Eldorado's "ragtown" are in- stalled between sidewalk and curb. facing each other from opposite sides of the narrow concrete walk. It is the only paved midway in an oil field town. Also it is the narrowest of all midways. Classes of business range from hamburger stands to beauty parlors.
 Eldorado has lost none of the vir- ginal charm that possessed it 50 days ago. In some respects it has dis counted Drumright and Ranger, par ticularly in the matter of crowds It lacks and has always lacked some of the mining camp aspects of Drum right and Ranger. in spite of the al- ways noted presumption that in the hilly pine lands of Arkansas there always is an abundance of "corn."
 Concessionaires have but one com plaint--the crowds are not spending their money. They are "tightwads," one barker said. The operator of picture show said business was ex- ceedingly good, but he was the only one interviewed to answer the "How's businessH with a smile.
 Off the midway one hears also of no spending. These Arkansas people are more conservative than those of Texas. Kansas and Oklahoma. They take in their ten thousands, their fifty thousands, their millions. and lay the money away in the bank. They know when to quit. accord ing to their own notions. Some of the wealthiest of them arc criticized by new residents for constructing small two-story bricks on valuable | business corners rather than office structures four to six stories high : to relieve congestion.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-21
American People Admire
 Man Who Does Things

7T7HE spontaneity with which the
 J people of Alabama and the farm organizations of the country have indorsed the proposal of Henry Ford for the lease and use of the Muscle Shoals plants is a tribute to that remarkable American.
 Ford has done things. That is the basis of the regard in which he is held. When a few years ago he announced a minimum wage of $5 day at his Detroit plant it was dubbed free advertising. Some wiseacres called it folly and others distrusted his sincerity. But he paid the wage, got the pick of men and made them earn every nickel that he paid out. He made more auto- mobiles and waxed richer and richer.
 In an account of recent speeding up at his plant it is said that where man in the course of mak- ing of an automobile formerly set one bolt as the car passed him, he now drives two.
 Ford has raised wages and re- duced freight rates on his railroad, but it may be safely presumed that men on that road do not loaf on the job.
 Ford's proposition for Muscle Shoals is in the open and is so spe- cific that anyone can understand it..
 Judge Gary created a new order of things in industry by doing away with ruinous and piratical compe- tition and by paying labor good wages. Henry Ford is equally re- markable in devising new methods of efficiency.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-21
Capable Officials of
 Chamber of Commerce

77HE Chamber of Commerce did
 U excellent work during the past year under the presidency of M. P. Northington, wholesale merchant. It promises to do equally as we'll under the leadership of R. A. Por- ter, another wholesale merchant, who is familiar with the business needs of the city.
 The past year of the chamber was distinguished by the creation of the Junior Chamber, the Italian branch, the County Truckers asso- citation, and the agricultural depart ment, the latter in cooperation with state and county experts, and organization of the Wholesale Mer- chants and Manufacturers associa- tion.
 Former President Northington and Manager o. l.. Bum have done their work without blare of trum- pets, but they have done it we'll and it will be of permanent good.
 MT. Porter and MT. Bum will car ry on the work of the chamber in the same manner. MT. Porter is not only man of broad business ex- perience, but he is also alert and progressive. No other citizen has given more of this time to commu- nifty causes in peace and in war. In Mir. Bum he has a capable as- sociate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-21
r,;ox,nx Bo.ton Trip

Dave Rich the well known shoe retailer who is in Boston writes that he is having great trip and that as usual friends in New England have been giving him a fine welcome. finder the head "A Welcome Visitor" one of the Boston trade publications says:
 .paye Rich, of D. X II. Rich, Bir- mingham, Ala. and regular twice. a-year visitor in Boston, arrived last Monday full of pep and enthusiasm. He always enjoys coming to Boston.
 MT. Rich is vice president of the southesstern Shoe Dealers associa- ton, and chairman of the styles com mittee. Naturally he has been giving a great deal of consideration to style matters during his visit to Boston in addition to making selections for his own business. He will be prepared -to present an interesting report to his associates
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-21
Tell What Me Have

"I have worked for years with others to help get good freight rates for Birmingham" said Murray Brown of Goodall- Brown company. Now we have a lot of rates that serve to give us a fine trade territory if we go out and get it. The way to get 1t is to let the folks over Alabama know what the freight rates are from Bir- mingham compared with other job ping centers such as St. Louis, Chi cago, Memphis and Nashville.
 That is what we are going to do Birmingham is going 10 be able to make a splendid showing and, on that showing, we ought to get the busi- ness that Is naturally ours. Other cities are advertising their advan- tages. Birmingham must do like wise.
 Ut is as much our duty to let the outside world know what we have got as it is to work hard for what we have not got.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-21
LIFE IN AN OIL TOWN
From the Chicago Herald and Ex-

From the Chicago Herald and Ex-
 aminer.
 N STOUT, red-faced and smiling A\ young chap from out west somewhere blew into the of fee of Mayor Frank H. Smith of El- dorado, Ark, recently. and requisi- ticned an early contract with the commander-in- chief of the city gov ernment. The order was delivered in the absence of the mayor to Miss Ruby Stow. the mayors secretary.
 Perhaps can be of service to you," said the smiling young secre- tary. Talk to me about your mat ter"
 Ruby Stow, native of Arkansas, graduate of the Eldorado High school and assistant to the busiest small city mayor in the United States. says she has an income of "a million a week." but she hastily added that 1t consinsted of questions and not dol lars.
 She knows the statutes of Eldorado as well as any alderman, and can dis- cern as quickly as any judge between matters of law observance and law violations.
 She writes nearly all permits signed by the mayor, and the numb Ter has run into the thousands, for 1t must be remembered that Eldorado is the 1921 sensation in oil. and 1t has been almost without competition, drawing the idle and curious from the ends of the earth.
 She relieves the mayor of many time killing and perfectly useless conversations by intercepting and an- swering questions of callers. Disappointment will soon be due to overtake concessionaires along the double track midway that extends southward from the public square to the new industrial district, Miss Stow said, for the city Is forced to de- mand space occupied by the majority
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-21
A SONG FROM THE HILLS

SONG FROM THE HILLS By sharlot M Hall. Oh, the black bear on the mountain! Oh, the trout in stream and fountain! Oh. the /blos,dhound's bayr that
 echoes loud and clear! Oh, the buck, his proud head shaking. From the leafy covert breaking. As he scents tho air that tells of
 danger near. Oh, the sunlight soft streaming. On the polished rifle gleamfng As we follow on the trail with
 stealthy tread! Oh, the campfire dimly glowing, Dusky, flickering shawdos throwing Ger the piney boughs that form
 the hunters bed! Oh, the woodland life enchanting, Memory's farthest chamber haunting With the mountain air and odor ct
 the pine Though a palace door stood waitia&, I would pass it's golden grating With smile and never wish ito
 splendors mine. For the forests with their shadows. Hidden springs and sunny meadows. And the mountains in their glory
 are my own; In the breeze the fir trees whisper Music like a solemn vesper,
 And the pines take up the song in fuller tone. Life is freer here and fuller; AlI beside of earth grows duller: And the one whose soul this strong entertainment fills Leaves all other thirAs when ds <. And likes a homing zeuA flsla az< Turns him back Iss 4se ana sas
 among the hil
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-21
Health Fight Timely

Birmingham is getting behind the enforcement of health measures in the nick of time, judging from reports of the health officer on typhoid fever" declared Joseph Fleisler of New York, who was in Birmingham yes terday.
 With death rate due to typhoid nearly doubled, a clean-up certainly seems in order. Citizens and the press should keep behind this move ment until there are no violations of the food laws.
 Measures now in force seem ade- quate. judging from samples printed in The Age Herald Tuesday morn ing. Responsibility should be fixed and the matter attended to properly
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-21
Mobile to Entertain
 Port Aid Assayists

7T7HE Mobile chamber of commerce Il will be host on August 12 to 22 bright Alabama boys and girls who last year wrote prize essays on why Alabama should extend aid to the development of the port of Mobile.
 The port aid amendment lost at the polls on November 2, but the net gain was the education of the people of Alabama to the necessity of this step. None contributed more to that end in their sphere of in- fluence than the boys and girls of the state who competed for the prizes and in order to successfully compete studied the question and gave reasons why the state should build up it's gateway to the nations of the earth.
 These boys and girls have exer- cised their influence in this matter just as the boys and girls of the calf, corn and pig clubs and the canning and domestic science clubs have blazed path for their fathers and mothers on the farms.
 We make 8 serious error when in any great enterprise affecting city, county, state and nation, we omit the children.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-21
Large Coal Output
 in Spite. of Strike

7THE large coal production in
 J Alabama in 1920 in spite of the mine strike is an achievement of which the state has reason to be proud. The 1920 production of coal was 17,391, ,0O0 tons, an increase over 1919 of 1,463,0O0 tons, al- though it is 2,0OOOoO tons under the production of 1918, and 5000, ,0o0 tons under the banner production of 1917.
 The strike in the Alabama coal fields began ip desultory way in the spring of 1920 and was directed at the small mines producing do- mestic coal. Early in September the International Mine Workers organ ization took charge, declared gen. eral strike, threw wide open the treasury of the organization for support of the strikers and em- ployed a small army of organizers and international representatives who fought with all their might to
 gain thai,- aaI and gave up only
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-21

From the New York Times. Nl R AURICE M'AULIFFE, presi- Ml dent ef the .s,,.s, Kansas T. rasass, sss :, Congress with his testimony that the greatest aid Congress can give az riculture Is in helping the farmer to get credit so he can hold his stuff off the markets and not dump 1t all at once" Accordingly, the joint congre ressional commiss of agricul- tural inquiry is to ask Governor Harding how far the federal reserve is responsible for the deflation of farmers products. MT. McAuliffe told the committee on Wednesday that the deflation of agricultural products was 'artificially and crimi- .nally precipitated," and that wiser management would have prevented the disaster to the farmers. These distressed agrarians harvested over no billions worth of their products during the six war years as com pared with 55 billions in the six pre- war years. The war years were our farmers best years, and there IS on the record an increase of billions of value in their farms. Now they are under the necessity of suffering some reaction in common with all others. and the farmers alope fancy that thev are the victims of villains who are spreading propaganda that the allies are not able to pay for what thev buy as an excuse for cheapening
 the farmers products
 The details will be awaited with
 interest They must come from MT. M Auliffe, for all that the federal re- serve knowns has been published
 again and again. Governor Harding has repeatedly said that prices fell before agricultural credits were re- duced. The trouble with the farm CTS was not that their credits were reduced, but that the margins on their bank credits ran off. If their credits had been reduced when prices were higher, and were seen to be destined for fall, the farmers would
 have in their pockets millions whicn
 they lost by following the advices s
 of those who now are proposing to heckle the federal reserve. When
 Governor Harding was touring the west he said to the bankers Of llii-
 nois that. while federal reserve
 credits had been largely reduced. the
 reductions were chiefly in the cities and on government collateral. Fed eral reserve credits for more than
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-21
An Annendicitis Marvel

Abe Rich has about the best ap- pendicitis record yet, according to his friends. Asked about 1t. MT. Rich said: Well I had the usual symp- toms and the customary pains. l went to the hospital, and pr. Cunningham Wilson operated and removed the ap- pendix. ' never suffered moments pain after the operation and In Il days l was out of the hospital. In less than four weeks l was back at my shoe store, and toady l eel stronger and better than in many years.
 q am told that l have hung up q new record for quick recuperation from that kind of operation. I feel mighty lucky in getting through so soon and so we'll"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-21
New Typhoid Fever Diet
By Science Service.

By Science Service.
 The horrors of the old starvation diet for typhoid fever patients are rapidly being done away with, thanks to newer Knowledge of the require ments of the body in health and In disease, and thanks also to our knowledge of the chemistry of the sugars. The ravages of typhoid are due largely to a wasting away of the tissues, which is brought about be- metabolism during the fever and the once prevalent idea that food must be kept away from the patient. It has been found, however, that if plenty of food of the right kind is given there Is far less wasting away and speedier recovery. The ques- ton then arises, what is the proper food?
 All levers, and typhoid Tn partic- ular. are characterized by great pro- duction of body heat, which means that the fuel requirements of the body are much greater than in health. A normal adult requires about 2,5oo calories per day in the food; a man at hard work about $500; a lumberjack close to 5000. Now a typhoid fever patient has to have over $500 calories if he Is to keep up with the demands of the disease. This excessive amount of food must be easily digested, and not of bulky nature. The two classes or food materials that furnish the greater portion of our energy are the fats and the carbohydrates. The fats are not readily assimlated in large amounts, so this fact rules them out Of the present consideration. Of the carbohydrates, starch cannot be in- corporated into foods in large amounts without it's becoming pasty Cane sugar is very good, except for the fact that its great sweetness here is where our knowledge of the chemistry of the sugars makes itself useful. We know that all sugar sugars are about equally we'll d- gested; that they all have the same fuel value; and that lactose, or milk sugar, Is the least sweet of all the common sugars. Therefore, it needed only few trials to demonstrate that this sugar has great possibilities in the typhoid fever diet.
 The medical school of the Univer- sity of Minnesota, in conjunction with the department of home economies, is now working out recipes which will utilize large proportions of milk sugar. Frozen dishes are very pail atable, but only 8 per cent of this sugar can be incorporated into these dishes, because of it's sparing solu- bility at the low temperature. Pud- dings appear to offer many possibil- tiles, and the patients do not find any amount of the sugar objectionable since it is so nearly free from taste. Fortunately, too, the cost item does not enter into the consideration, for lactose can be prepared fairly cheap ly from dairy by-products, such as skim milk and buttermilk.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-21
THE sPENDTHRIFT

Arthur H. Folwell, in Leslies.
 Once there was chap who could do nothing we'll except spend money. At that he was skilled, Where his next penny was coming from, never worried him as lad. The starting point of his next dollar never con cerned him as youth. As a man. if he hadn't money enough to grat- fly his whims. he borrowed. He gave notes. and these notes he renewed He had an Income, a good one, but liv- ing within it was an experiment he never tried. When faced with the ne- cessity for economy, for making drastic cuts in his expenditures, he ran up more and bigger bills, for that was the only thing he had learned to do. He trusted to luck that somehow, some time, the bills would be paid. He didn't know how. And he didn't much care. The name of this chap is Congress. You're his guardian. It is your money he is spending.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-21
BOUQUET SPOTLIGHT
From the Popular ziuA

zine.
 A hand spotlight" has been in- vented designed to be concealed in bouquet carried by a singer, and to illuminate the face from a cor- cealed source during the progress of a vaudeville song. The idea of H. Illuminating the face In some such manner has been tried before with an electric flashlight, but has been unsuccessful because the sharp an. gle of light throws deep and unnat- ural shadows into the face.
 The hand spotlight employs an ordinary electric flashlight for its source of illumination but undertakes to throw the light, by system of re- flection, as to do away with these unnatural shadows. The lamp of the flashlight is inclosed in a metal coiu- partment, at the outer end of which 'Unside) is polished metal reflector. set at an angle that catches the light and defects it. at the same time spreading and softening 1t evenly. A recess into which colored slides can be slipped is provided above this, so that any desired color of light can be given.
 With the little spotlight thus hid- den in bunch of flowers. the flow CTS can be held in natural posi- tlon, while the reflecting system catches the light and throws it back instead of below, as in the case of the flashlight alone. The bouquet can be held at different angles so that various parts of the face and figure are illuminated.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-21
Asset to City

q think the Jemison Real Estate and Insuranc ecompany are to De congratulated on the beautiful build ing which will soon be ready to house it." says Joseph E. Johnson. Tt is distinct asset to the city from an architectural standpoint, having an individuality as business place which Is most pleasing. It certainly gives one to its surroundings. l am always glad to see the downtown sec- iton adorned with attractive struc- tures."