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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-15
KIT CARSON'S MONUMENT

west. So it Is fitting that this simple and modest record should be per petuated.
 We have few such in California, though many great explorers came here. Sir Francis Drake's cross, the crosses set up by vizcaino at Monte rey and by Cortes' lieutenants on the Colorado river. perished long before any following white men came. Of Cabrillo, Portola, Vancouver, Kotze- bue-not a trace kotnbue we can spare, we have nothing for him but a bone to pick. He let the botanist of his expedition Adalbert con Cha misso, saddle >our innocent golden poppy with that horrible name, "eschscholtzia."
 Yet, in a way, we arc not without graven records of many, though hum bier. explorers. The worn rocks in the emigrant trails, cut down by the heavy wheels of the pioneer wagons, stand as monuments to the spirit Of the men and women who toiled across the plains and the ranges to begin the making of California. Nor do the mountain trees lack records of other scouts than Kit Carson, explorers of whom we do not even know the names. and whose sign manuals tell us nothing of personality but only much of perseverance and fidelity. The pathfinders of the high noun tains of California were the Basque shepherds. With an aptitude and skill born of the centuries their race has dwelt in the Pyrenees these mountaineers worked their flocks through the Sierra. No gorge was too wild, no pass too craggy, no cliff guarded glen too inaccessible for them if 1t was the way to a patch of grass. They covered it all. And they left their records of achievement. 1t is probable that few could write their names, so these are rarely seen. But every man had a particular sign, a totem or heraldic device. You find them still in the widest and most impossible places, carved in the smooth bark of tamarack pine or an aspen--a dagger, cap, q human hand or leg, or some conventiona1- ized design of meaning lost in Pyre- mean antiquity.
 These men, too, should not be with out honor, though nameless, for they were among the most indomitable of exn1orerS
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-15
A FLOATING BAR
From the New York World.

rIoh the NeW 1Ork world.
 New Bedford, Mass.-Twenty-o odd miles off in the Atlantic from the shore of Martha's Vineyard Island d converted Gloucester fisherman. un- der a British flag, is today busiIy selling liquor to all visitors. She IS the Arethusa, and according to the legend on her stern she sails from Nassau, N. F. She is said to have come up the coast about the time of the New York Yacht club cruise late in July At any rate, she has been selling freely for days to yachts men who discovered her on sword fishing trips, and made return voy- ages to run heavy cargoes ashore.
 Yesterday when reporter went out to the Arethusa on a fishing boat his craft had to heave to and wait for customers in two boats ahead to be served before he could get close enough to jump into a dory and pull over. As he left, two more boats were drawing near and there was another off on the horizon.
 "How's chances of getting a drink 2" was the reporters opening remark as he clambered over the rail "What1l you have?" answered a member of the crew, lounging for ward.
 Got any whisky-good Irish whisky-aboard?
 Anything from drink to a bar relful," the sailor assured his cus- toner, taking him below where cases of wet goods lowered on all sides.
 The reporter/found the cargo care fully classified. In one section was champagne. Others held brandy, various whiskies and cognac. His purchase was two bottles of Calvert whisky, distilled, bottled and bonded according to label, in Baltimore, and stamped on the bond stamp "1913- 1917," and two bottles of Cedar Brook, also an American whisky. He paid S20 for the lot. Scotch was said to be bringing $75 a case, clran- pagne S100.
 All of the men talked freely of everything but themselves. The Are thusa, they said, expected to stay where she was until the cargo was disposed of; he remarked that the location was "an excellent one.' The Arethusa drifts east on one tide west on another. Her sails are up, but out of the wind, and only tight ened when the craft gets off posi- tion. She apparently keeps no look out. Perhapsl she doesn't need to. for Harold D. Wilson, chief prohibi- ton agent for the Massachusetts dis trict said today he was powerless to touch her, although he hoped to stop boats from bringing the cargo ashore.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-15
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 TWO WAYS OF LOVE

From the Yale Review. Whg Go you want to leave me, if you
 lowe me? Because l must. The years will turn our Lips and
 love to ruin, Beauty is dust. Better to leave you while the worlds
 symbol Cf this bright fire. sc shall old age find brilliant and
 untarnished Our loves desire. Ah, no, the flame is nothing! For
 the forest Took years to grow. And in the ashes is the truth of ' beauty And this I know. The bud is lovely, but the tree in
 winter Though stark and bare, Knows all the earth knows, and nd
 love is perfect Without despair. Too bright. too new-- too shallow and
 unconscious Is young loves heat Give me the love that knows the bit- ter wisdom Of loves defeat.-- Tsve me the love that grows, through
 times own wisdom. Mol e hard. more sweet
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-15
Dairying Developing All Over Alabama

r7NHE dairying industry in Ala ll bama is second to none in the rate of its development. It is growing where it has been already established and is spreading over every section of the state. An Au- burn expert in touch with the county agents made this statement last Friday:
 "At least 50 per cent of the coun- ty agents in Alabama reported last week one or more specific develop ments in dairying for the week end- ing August G."
 These developments ran all the way from the installation of cream separators to the purchase of car- loads of registered cattle for the boys of Morgan county, plans for securing a second carload sf Guern- seys for Montgomery county, the opening of a cream station at Brew ton, the building of $40,000 cream cry at Alexander City and the visit of 150 farmers of Pickens county to the A. and M. college of Mississippi to study butter-making methods at that famous institution.
 No section of Alabama seems to have escaped the movement to util- ize the states perennial pastures in developing this growing indus try. One its most attractive fea- lures is the cash returns from the sale of butterfat. That comes every two weeks and tides the farmer and his family over to the autumnal har- vest.
 An example of the growth of the business is furnished by the cream station established at Greensboro, which began business August |, 1920, by shipping Sl304 worth of butterfat and shipped sS42 worth the last week in July.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-15

found to be wandering through the country in search of food and shelter Many of these were barefoot and in rags. They had been separated from their fathers and brothers and sweet hearts and had nothing to protect them from the world.
 One young girl who had threaded her way from a little village near Rheims to the Riviera finally ob- tained work as a chambermaid. Be- fore the war began she had looked forward to a happy married life with a man to whom she was engaged Dis illusioned and sickened by the war the man, upon learning that the Ger mans had captured sher village. forth with broke the engagement. Heart broken, the girl looks forward with dread to a lonely spinstarhood.
 There are thousands of cases like this, as there are cases without num- Der where death has separated the lover from his beloved. The Euro pean woman has very strong domes- tic instincts which she is deprived of exercising. What is to be done2 Commerce and industry cannot ab- sorb them all, and yet they must earn a livelihood Many of them have al- ready fallen into vicious lives.
 But there are thousands who, not being pressed by poverty, will refuse to work and will scorn lowering their. standards. It is inevitable that these will become sore on the body social, a restless mass whose course of life can never be a normal one. And the waste of it all is tragic. ,Ien are needed in Europe and the women who would ordinarily be the mothers of men of the next generation are destined never to nlarry
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-15

From the San Francisco Chronicle. lG IT CARSON carving his name | IN on the trunk of perishable tree on the summit ridge of the Sierra, did not dream that this simple monument would be trans formed into imperishable bronze to mark forever the spot where he first looked down the western slope of California. It has been done.' The tree is long since gone, but the sec 1S44 still exists, carefully preserved. It has been reproduced in bronze, and today the Native Sons of the Golden West will place and dedicate it on the original spot as Californias mon ument to the great frontlersman of the west.
 The spirit of Kit Carson should be gratified by this act of remembrance Modest man that he was, he yet pos sessed a proper pirde in himself and his powers. He wished men to know that he had led the way to that pass in the Sierra and there had stood first of all white men. And out of this pride aud desire he set his name there in bold letters for all later corners to read.
 As we have said, it was a proper pride. His was not the petty conceit de notify their insignificant names to the world on natural objects. He had done something noteworthy and his carven name was a record of achieve ment in the exploration of the west. It was rare, too, that Kit Carson's modesty ever permitted him to post his feats. To perform his tasks was enough for him, to press-agent them was beyond his slender egotism. In this, Carson was considerably differ ent from the Fremont whom he led to this pass and whom he, and other frontiersmen like hfYn, were leading through the west to fame and glory as the Pathfinder.
 This once only, so far as we know, Kit Carson permitted himself a pub lie notification of great deed done. And only in this simple way. The nine letters of the name and the four figures of the date are the vnly ad- through California in the exploration of the west, and it may be that this is the only mark he left in the whole
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-15
Harding Seeks to Allay
 Unrest In the Senate

M7 PROHIBITIONS for separate IN treaty between the United States and Germany are still being carried on with the utmost secrecy Speculation lis rife in Washington and everywhere else in the country, for that matter, as to what kind of terms have been transmitted to the German government through the American state department.
 A recent dispatch from Washing ton says President Harding tried to quiet some of the unrest in the Sen ate by inviting Senator Borah to the White House and assuring him that the negotiations are making good progress and will soon be success fully concluded. It is reported that the German government regards the American proposals favorably.
 MT. Harding's conference with Senator Borah seems to have been concession to the "irreconcila- bles." It is not unlikely that Ge told the senator that there is nothing in the proposed treaty to which MT. Borah's followers can object. Since it is believed that the new treaty will mean the virtual scrapping of the League of Nations covenant, they will have little ground for com 
 When MT. Harding informs the Senate of the details of the treaty, as he is expected to do shortly, he may have to face the opposition of former advocates of the League of Nations, bat there is such an insistent demend that the predicament in Which the United States was placed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-15
ARTIST PAINTS UNDER WATER

From the Manchester Guardian = An exhibition of paintings at the galleries Georges Petit in Paris is at tracing great attention, owing to the fact that every picture was painted by the artist zarh Pritchard, under water.
 MT. Pritchard did not employ a saass diving bell or any apparatus of such complicated nature; he merely donned an ordinary divers suit and, taking with him his easel, canvas and colors. established him self on the sea bottom and painted for half an hour at a time at depth of over 60 feet Mir. Pritchard left his painting under water until such time as it was finished, and he found that the salt water in no way af- fected the coloring.
 The seascapcs, or perhaps more correctly landscapes, are for the most part studies of under water scenes near Tahiti, with wonderful sea plants, coral and strange fishes One or two of the paintings. however, were executed off the coast of Scot land.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-15
EUROPES SEX TRAGEDY

From the Louisville Courier 0GJHE enormous excess of mar riageable women over marriage
 able men in Europe is likely to give rise to serious changes in the social order within the span of the present generation. An echo of this condition comes from Italy, where matrimonial lotteries have been or ganized. The female entrants com pete in 9 beauty contest, the win ners being the subjects of the lottery for which tickets are sold.
 The male winners of the prizes are given the option of marrying the girls or of dividing the purse, the girls, of course, having their choice of the al- ternatives. Marriage by lottery, however, queer as it may seem in America, is no frivolous matter in a country where thousands of womsn are destined never to bear children.
 Parity between the sexes Is after all the basis for the institution of lhdl id 6c, w liCH WOHlcu are more numerous than men, polygamy often results, just as in places where there are many more men than women, polyandry4 springs up. Since under normal conditions the sexes are com paratively equal in numbers, r5onog- Namy has proved to be the mos suc- cessful solution of the sex proble VI.
 In France, England. Italy and 0 CT European countries what to do h thousands of unmarried women is a problem that is no longer one mere ly for the speculation of sociologists, but rather for the attention of states : men.
 In France during the war many thousares of girls, whose homes had been occupied by Germans were
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by the failure to ratify the Yer sailles pact be ended, once and for all, it isn't probable that a strong fight will be made against the treaty drawn up by the astute MT. Hughes, who seems to have bidden farewell to the League of Nations, which he once indorsed.
 The course of the American gov ernment since the Versailles treaty was ratified by the allies has been sadly complicated by self-interest and politics.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-15

From the Montgomery Advertiser.
 11 ESSE B. HEREIN, manager of ol the farm section of the Mont gomery Chamber of Commerce, has elaborated on the charts recent ly made by David D. Long, soil expert of the Southern Fertilizer association showing the greater production of Alabama counties having small farms and white farmers as compared with ,.counties having large plantations op- erated under the negro tenant sys- tenn. Mir. Long's charts and photo- graphs were the subject of comment in these columns which brou ht forth several letters on the subjesa
 Three typical counties arc taken by MT. Hearin to compare With Mont gomery countyzCullman, Marshall and DeKalb. Each of these counties has less than one-half the no9ula- tion of Montgomery and esci has smaller total acreage under eIltiva- ton. In Montgomery there are sa farms over 300 acres. in cullman Marshall 20 and DeKaih ls. Hhei are 414 farms free of mortgage | Montgomery, 1927 in Cullman, in Marshall and 1926 in DeKalba The white farmers in Montgomery coAnty number 1,01S. in Cullman 5,377. #are shall 5,2S3 and Dekalb 5.56S. The Ge- gro farmers number 3,526 in Nant- gomery. S5 in Cullman. 114 in Mar shall and 59 in DeKalb. TIe fafms operated by owners are given as ioi- lows: Montgomery S53, Goldman s,7s1. Marshall 2,s1s and neiSalh 3,404.
 The annual value of aia etops Sa Montgomery county is esMred ifeF' the census returns at Slls.ssY Hiis crop values for the other three seea- ties obtained from the sa tlse seaf e are: Cullman. sS,01t scoi MssshaA' ss, so5 .oOS; DeKalb, sS,sss,ll4 The milk production is rom 4e to se per cent greater in the smaM-fasm eoun- ties; the fruits a0a nuts produced arc from 200 to sQc psr cent more, and in poultry ana esss each of the threo counties ls far ahead Of Mont gomery.
 The natursl anc ac4eirsa advan- taees of Montgosfsf county are
 much superiuT tht etbsr counties
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-15
No Longer a Demand
 for Government Operation

AOA 0ONCInII1Cnk ORCT d lAOIl 1T T is patriotic to conceive of. Mus N cle Shoals as the property of Alabama and operated by the state for the benefit of it's people, but precedent does not encourage gov ernment control and operation. Sem timent in that direction was strong during a period of years until the experiment was tried. - Since then the people have gotten so far away from that idea that it would be difficult indeed to resuscitate it.
 When the government, under pres sure of war, took over the railroads, roseate forecasts were made and not fulfilled.
 It is idle to discuss now whether the roads might have done better even in that emergency if operated under government control tounon under private management. Certain they fell into deplorable state, by which they are still hampered.
 We have seen Henry Ford accom- plish industrial wonders through the exercise of untrammeled per sonal genius. We have witnessed the marvellous career of the Steel Corporatien tAat developed into the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-15
POINTED PARAGRAPHS

From the Chicago News.
 A fool and his fathers money have merry time.
 Good -humored lawyers often make a cross examination.
 Fortune usually has padded gloves on when she knocks at mans door.
 Don't judge a womans cooking by the cake she sends to church so- cial.
 Ambition may be the feeling that you want to do something that you can't
 A girl stands before mirror while dressing so that she can see what is going on.
 The most pitiful objects in this world are girls who act like men and men who act like girls.
 A man. never realizes how near deaths door he is until he reads the contents of patent medicine all manac
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-15
LIKE OTHER WOMEN

From the Ohio State Journal
 The public is forever asking questions and always the same ones," says Ruth Law. which we avators answer over and over again. Now, am going to be the questioner and will somebody answer my question?
 Why do men and women alike take it for granted that a sirl who flies an airplane must be giant and always rough, mannish and little bit wild?
 In hotel in Detroit recently I had occasion to employ the services of public stenographer. At the con clusion of my dictation. when I had signed my name to the letters she had written, the girl looked at me as though she had seen ghost and asked if I was really Ruth Law When I acknowledged the fact, she stammered: oh. I thought you were so different Right then l deter mined to find out why she thought I should be so different After much persuasion she said that anyone who could fly an airplane and stand on the top while it loops the loop must be sort of different from other peo- pie. l had my answer, and for the first time since I took up aviation realized the penalty we women have to pay for doing the things we want to do if they are little different from the usual run of womens ac- tivities.
 T love all outdoor sports, aviation the best of all, of course. I have met many of the girls who have excelled in their particular lines of endeavor and they are never unusual. either in | their looks or behavior.
 ''Tte so-called mannish woman is a 1 pest and as far as l have been able | to observe she never aecomplishe. anything further than struttine around looking important and doing nothing. The real women. as a rule are always modest and womanly. re. gardless of their occupation. and ar aviatrtx is no exception to the ruIe.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-15
CAN YOU BEAT THISs

To the Editor of The Age Herald:
 l note that R. A. King of Chelsea states that Daddy Rattlesnake was killed about IS years ago in Coffee county, about 17 miles south of Troy, and about 15Nmiles north of Elba, by a negro, George Davis. and that Daddy Rattlesnake had 2s rattles
 Daddy Rattlesnake was killed near the Narrows, in Talladega county. by railroad contractors on the At lanta, Birmingham and Atlantic rail- road, when same was being graded. The snake had l14 rattles and could not pas sthrough six-inch stove pipe. I did not see this snake, but responsible people claim this to be true. l.. P MITCHELL. caiera Aupust r2 1921
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-15
IN THE GLoAMING

From the New Orleans Item
 Now comes new expression. in the dictionary of the defense. Thea torney for Nurse Stone. who save the coroner chance to sit upon Lawyer Kinkaid in New York recently, says that his client had been in 'twi- light state" for three days and didn't know what she was doing
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-15
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 CAN'T RESIST IT

From the Monroe County (Mo) Ap-
 peal.
 If all the old maids in this nation, and all married women who wish they were old maids. should vote against James A. Reed as a protest against his speech on the maternity bill last week he would get what Paddy gave the drum the next time he asked for office. But they won't do it. This cave-man stuff has all ways been winner with the ladies.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-15

ernment operation that have not been accomplished under such con trol.
 < * # A Canadian gave s350 in Canadian money to an obliging stranger on d train who offered to get 1t changed into American money. The Canadian waited for his friend to meet him h. the Union station in Chicago, Just as he was telling his troubles to q !, policeman the stranger came up and handed him the money. The police man nearly died of the shock.
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 A woman flyer says she is just like other women. Maybe so, but it's our impression that after woman learns to do flip flaps in the sky she loses interest in bargain sales and the latest best seller"
 + < % 1 Representative Herrick of Okla homa, who has introduced a bill to keep girls off the stage, is not only showing symptoms of the heat. but will probably hear from the tired business men, One reason why the allied premiers are unwilling to attend the disafma ment conference is probably becaus. there would be so many alert one mics on the job while they were away.
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 The present styles In women's clothes says one authority, are the most sensible ever known. Neverthe less the strain on the male optic nerve is sometimes quite severe. * # x
 It may be three or four months he. fore action is taken for a settlement in Upper slesia. If the Poles break loose again it will be the fault of the interallied supreme council.
 Until Lenine and Trotzkv csn oor vince the world that they have made a success of bolshevism in Russia there won't be a strong demand for them on the lecture platform. + # 4 A New York man is charged with taking back an automobile he gave to his fair inamorata. Naturally the Vampires union is opposed to that sort of thing. # x #
 MT. Dempsey is said to be planning tour of Europe. It will be a nost- poned trip, as he was unable to get away during the late hostilities.
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 It seems only yesterday that Plume was smeared all across the front page and now we barely remember that it's on the map. 4. s. # 1 The shortage of linen in Germany probably isn't causing one-tenth of the discomfort due to an alleged shortage of beers l
 In spite of the popularity of picnics and barbecues in this country. most of us manage to retain fair table manners.
 kiplins wrote about the female of the species" before the American gunwoman began to do her deadliest work
 l Venice, we. are told, Is one ot the few cities in the world where there l is comparative scarcity of Fords.
 Even when he's on the golf links President Harding cant entirely for get the 'irresoncilables" 1 * * * l Even vixen a floating bar is 20 miles off shore the thirsty ones con trive somehow to find it.