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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-10

particular Portia says that she is "off mixed juries for life"
 In Cleveland Mrs. Kaber's law yers kept women off the jury be- cause of their belief that women are heartless toward member of their own sex. As one paragrapher pointed out, jury of women would have promptly returned verdict of guilty, as charged in the indict- ment."
 The woman juror is objection able to the average lawyer, male or female. While male offender who could lay claim to some degree of masculine pulchritude might be will ing to trust his fate to a jury of women, provided he were not &C., cused of Kidnapping, bigamy or some other crime that would prejudice them against him, the woman juror is strictly persona non grata to a woman defendant, for reasons which psychologists may be able to ex- plain.
 With lawyers and majority of defendants unwilling to let women pass on their cases, it looks as if the male juror will have to continue to perform this service and time honored references to the "intelli- gent gentlemen of the jury" will be heard in court until the triumph of feminism ushers in the millennium and does away with law-breaking al- together.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-10
Kansas Courts Say
 the Law Is Supreme

~ FORGE HOWAT, president, and M August Dorchy, vice presi- dent of the Kansas miners union have been sentenced to six months in jail and to pay fine of $500 for violating the Kansas industrial law. That law provides for settle. nent of controversies between em- ployer and employed.
 These men were convicted by juries of their own fellow citizens The juries decided that the law was more sacred than the personal ob- jections to it of two citizens of the commonwealth of Kansas.
 There may have been men on taat jury not in sympathy with the in. dustrial law; some may have thought 1t an unwise statute. Personal ap- proval or disapproval of a statute enacted by a states supreme law making body has nothing to do with Its observance. So long as it is law 1t is the state itself and to flout the law is to flout the state anc well-ordered society.
 A campaign for the abrogatior of the industrial law would have been in order and is in order on the part of those who do not like it but laws made in America cannot be successfully assailed by the mal- content through contempt and dis obedience.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-10

AN UNEVENTFUL JOURNEY
 Going west, stranger?"
 Yes" said the flivyerite. I'm crossing the plains and I'm chock full of the spirit of the forty niners.'"
 Well, don't let your enthusiasm run away with you. You need road map more than you do a six-shooter. The population between here and the Golden Gate is fairly peaceful"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-10
HOW IT HAPPENED

From the Evening News (London).
 A philanthropist has given this version by an East End child of the story of Eden. She was sitting with other children on the curb outside . public house In Shortditch. and her version of the story proceeded:
 Eve ses: Adam. ave . bite!' No ses Adam. I don't want biter T don't want bite" ses Adam"
 The child repeated this dialogue. her voice rising to shrill shrieks. An then Adam took . bite, she finished up. An the fiamin' angel come along with 'is sword. an 'e res to 'em both; Nah. the u--ahtsids!'"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-10
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT HIGH PRICES
 OF ICE AND COAL AND OTHER THINGS

IT T SEEMS difficult for many business men, mechanics and la . borers to realize that the World war Is over and that high prices and high charges can no longer prevail.
 They don't realize that we are In the midst of exceedingly hard times and that the people cannot afford to pay high prices and continue to buy.
 It Is almost criminal in these hard times and in this period of hot weather for the tee factories to force the people to pay so cents a 100 pounds for Ice when the price only a few years ago was half of this.
 Nearly all of the commercial coal mines in this district have closed down and those operating Con tho Pratt seam basis) are selling lump coal at sS.5o and less at the mines. Yet the coal dealers in Birmingham are charging from $7 up per ton for delivering coal. In other words the local coal dealers are said to be charging something like $3 ton or more for handling coal-that is, un- loading it from the railroad cars and hauling it to one's house.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-10
IMMORTALS

From the Louisville Courier Journal. ~ CHOOL teachers cannot kill, or M criple, Old Mother Hubbard. as those in educational confer ence assembled in Des Moines would, Old Moth Hubbard is immortal. Who cares whether Old Mother Hubbard" discovered no bones when she went to the cupboard?' Miss Blake of New York inquires. Who, among men and women and children who have hearts, isn't moved by the billionth depletion of the distressing situation of the dog when Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard and found it was bare?
 Marc Antonys speech over the body of Julius Caesar is an excellent thing in theatre. If the costuming. the scenery. the elocution are good the entertainment is satisfactory, yet who is not entertained rather than really moved when Antony declares: My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar?''
 Whose heart is not beating time to the steps of Old Mother Hubbard when she goes to the cupboard to get tho poor dog bone? Whose hopes do not rise with those of the dog as Old Mother Hubbard reaches the J
 Who does not sympathize with Old Mother Hubbard, who is kind, but not we'll to do, and with the dog who Is patient. uncomplaining, but hun gry, when the cupboard is found bare?
 Tales like old Mother Hubbard and The Old Woman Who Lived In Shoe are absurd" asserts the chair man of the committee on elementary schools. who would have Mother Goose" displaced in nurseries and school rooms by stories about real persons.
 Mother Goose" and the old-fash- toned fairy tales. which the teachers at the Des Moines conference would put under the ban. cannot be abol- ished. Many of the fairy tales. and most of the jingles in Mother Goose" are of unknown origin and of unknown antiquity. Human beings, not children merely are as respon- sive to them as they were centuries ago, and not more responsive than their descendants will be when this and many other centuries shall have passed.
 What is done by the supreme coun- ci. Is more important. somewhat or sometimes. than what was. done by the walrus and the Carpenter-char- acters in modern literature less wide ly popular than Mother Goose"-at the end of the walk with the oysters. But find the reader who cannot read with more interest. and remember longer, what the walrus and the Car penter said and did than what was said and done by the supreme council. School teachers may scoff at the immortals, but their scoffing always will be barren of results, their teach ing a revealment of lack of under standing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-10
Prospects Are Bright
 for Peace in Ireland

6rHE truce between British crown U forces and Irish republicans J which goes into effect tomorrow, is momentous step toward perma- nent peace in Ireland. The concil- iatory attitude of King George, who paved the way for negotiations by his speech in Belfast, and the note of Premier Lloyd George to De Valera urging a conference, have brought about a more friendly feeling on both sides.
 It is expected that meeting be- tween De Valera and the British premier to discuss plans for for mai conference will be held this week. By accepting Lloyd Georges offer, although he expressed himself in guarded terms, De Valera has shown a desire to reach compro- mise which will put stop to the bloody struggle in Ireland.
 It is reported that the British gov ernment has subordinated all other business to settle the Irish problem. The atmosphere has been cleared by the promulgation of truce. Hope runs high, both in Ireland and throughout the British dominions, that the unfortunate situation which has kept Ireland and Great Britain estranged for centuries will be ended in mutual good will and understand ing.
 Apparently the British govern ment will make every concession that can be made with due regard to the empires safety. If the Sim Fein will forget the past, as Great Britain is willing to do, and will accept compromise in the spirit in which it is offered for the best interests of Ireland and the British empire, an agreement can be reached.
 Gen. Jan Shuts is picturesque figure in the proceedings. Once bitter foe of the British empire, he and his fellow Boers are as loyal as the Canadians and Australians. He is in position to plead elo- quently for Ireland to join hands with the other dominions of Great Britain and work together. The strong attachment of the Boers to the British government, following
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-10
EDISON Is SUSTAINED

From tho New Orleans States.
 In hts complaint regarding the lack of education among college men, Mir. Edison seems to have strong support from the noted educators. President Lowell of Havard says Americans are to much inclined to the touch the . button" merely mechanical method of education. President Acheson of the Pennsylvania College for Women says most eollsRe graduates are intells-- tual sn,bs who look on education as a "disesse. The Menlo Park sags ap- pears to bs vindicatsd.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-10

This Is w.-ss ths movement, own Your Own Home" sLarted here in Bir- mingham by Hill Ferguson, swept like wild fire all over the country, for 1t was broad based on the true psychology which obscsses every man to have one place n all the world where he feels free and the master of his destiny and the keeper of his soul. The sweetness which gathers around the word home" is no mere sentimental gush, and John Howard Payne simply put into verse tho song which sings in every mans heart when he thinks of his hearth as ''home, sweet home"
 I went out into my garden Satur- day morning to gather some tomatoes. The patch was small in comparison with the one of Professor Pulliams, which I went out to see and had pho tographed for The Age-Herald. The fruit was not near 50 large or perfect, but there came to me a joy which failed to get in my friends garden just because had bought the plants and set them out and watched them grow and ripen. and was picking them to send to some of my neigh bors as al gift. not bought in the mar ket, but raised at home.
 have found the same thing true about the grapes which for several years grew in perfection on my place, had quite variety. and although had seen the great vineyards iu was beauty and lusciousness in the clusters which hung from my arbors which was lacking in the ones I had seen and tasted on foreign soil. had
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-10
IN HOTEL LOBBIES .s AND ELSEWHERE
Pulling for Cattle

While Frank I. Derby is short horn breeder and booster" says Robert Jemison, Jr., yet he Is broad minded enough to be interested in all kinds of pure breds, and Is at work to get 10 Jerseys given by in- dividuals or fms to be used to in- crease an interest in the raising of high-bred Jerseys in Alabama by of fering them as premiums along the same line as the short-horns at the Alabama State Fair association.
 T understand he Is practically cer- tain his efforts will be successful. As a breeder of Jerseys I'm intensely Interested in creating better and wider interest for them throughout the state. am also willing to help boost the beef breeds and gladly bought fine heifer for my firm to be awarded as a prize at the fair. 1 think it's time for the cattle men to pull together"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-10
WHEN THE AIR ROUTE FAILED

From Inc KanAaS City otar.77-
 Last week boy In Illinois received an Invitation which was unique not only in itself but in its manner of delivery, and which he was forced to decline because of circumstances over which he had no control It was a toy balloon he captured from the heavens; which was from Garth age and which had travelled more than 2so miles in less than seven days. It carried message from three prisoners in the city Jail in Carthage which read. We are in jail. Come get us out.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-10

Birmingham for from s2 to s2.bo a ton.
 Some of the local dealers must be making tremendous profits or else they are stocked up with high rriccd coal which they bought last fall and winter.
 But it is not only the ice men and the coal men who are trying to keep prices on a war basis. The unem- ployed are crowding the city hall for work, and many of them claim they haven't enough to eat for their fam ilies. Yet some of them refuse to work when 1t Is offered them unless they get exorbitant wages. For in- stance, a man out of work refused to pile up stones in the country, mak- ing a dry stone retaining wall, un- less he was paid 80 cents an hour. Another man whose family was liv- ing on charity, and continues to do so, refused to work because Ee claimed the work offered him was too hard. He wanted something like a watchman's Vob.
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 The time has come when reason able prices must prevail and when men must work at reasonable wages. They must show the spirit of a young
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-10

a war which all far-sighted Britons regretted, is proof that Great Brit ain is not the stubborn tyrant she is declared to be by the more radi- cal Sim Feiners.
 report that 500 Coreans were killed or woundedin a clash with Ian anese troops on the Siberian border Is just reminder that the Coreans still have their dander up.
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 The woman who claims to have spent s5,ooo,o0o in Paris In three weeks had better stay away from America If she doesn't want to be re- garded as a piker.
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 H. c. Wells says King George yields great deal of influence in the British empire. True. An invitation to Buckingham palace is equivalent to command
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 Thousands of disabled war veterans say they have no complaint to make of their treatment. It Is a good idea 'to hear the other side of case occa- sionally.
 The New York youth who asked the police to save him from matrimony might not have been so unwilling to wed when the draft was functioning.
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 Ice cream merchants are accused of profiteering at the expense of love- lorn youths. which is the meanest kind of profiteering.
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 Clevelands murder trial has all the elements of . first-rate thriller ex- cept 2 young and beautiful defend ant.
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 What's Penrose up tor" asks the Philadelphia Public Ledger. If he's the same old Boise, he's playing poll tics.
 A strange silence has settled over Ireland. The only sound heard is the suppressed breathing of the Sim Fein.
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 Jack Dempsey visited hts former landlady in Chicago and may have handed her a little something on ac- count.
 A college president says we try to disguise education as play. He doesn't know how hard fellow has to work to make the "varsity."
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 A man who rode into an eastern bathing resort on a plank asked for a job. He ought to be able to qualify as a deep-s sea navigator.
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 The Sam Brown belt has been ap- proved by General Pershing, who wore his in defiance of Secretary Baker.
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 If 1t is true that we require our President to be jack of all trades, one of his hardest jobs is acting as conservator of the plum tree. While the controversy rages over bobbed hair. the bald-headed man rubs his pate with a thoughtful look. # F '
 When women go shopping in bath ing suits 1t seems only fair to let the clerks. wear bathing suits to work.
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 Our doughboys arc in no hurry to quit the comparatively joyous Rhine for. bone-dry America.
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 President Hardins's peace procla- nation promises to be as perfunctory as move to adjourn.
 . E We suggest that the American Le- zion present Bsrgdoll with . tin can as . suitable wedding present.
 HOW TIT HAPPENED From the Evening News (Londonl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-10
ON KISSING

A little kissing now and then Is why ye have the married men.
 Birmingham Age-Herald. A little kissing Is the source Quite often of
 The quick divorce!
 San Francisco Chronicle.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-10
THEY'LL BE NEEDED SOON

What is this you are working on?" "A plan for combired hangar and garage" replied the architect.
 Are you building anything like that just nowr'
 ',,,ot just now, but I'm looking ahead. In a few years expect to be executing a great many commissions of this sort.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-10

the added pleasure of having scanned catalogues before sending my order for the vines. then the excitement of unwrapping them and the work of setting them out and training and watching over them until they bore.
 Chap" Cory's Aought. You grew on my land" gets in its work in many ways for the man who digs and deives. What I have said of my to- matoes and grapes applies equally as well to my quinces and pears and peaches. I have . fine quince bush with many shoots, and 1t bears well. My peaches have not done we'll for several years, though for awhile had fine success with them. I have two varieties of pears. one is the eating kind and the other makes delicious preserves. It's something to be proud of when you cannot only gather your own fruit. but later can enjoy 1t when 1t is served as jelly or preserves.
 If any of you who read this have only . bit of land and want to get new interest you can do 10 by plant ing something on 1t. Fortunate are the ones who have space both for fruits and vegetables. and who have the zest for working with growing things. Nearly any man who h will ing can by work and saving own . YnnHAut feeling of his own dirt beneath his feet and in hfs hand. and know the satisfaction of being able to say whsn he walks out under his trees to pluck their fruit or gathsrs vegetables. You grew on my land." When . man can do this he is far on the road to contentment and good citizenship.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-10
onR CONSTANT READERS

They grab the paper from the press
 But seldom get much furder Than seven columns, more or less,
 About the latest murder.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-10
BRIDGE ACROSS GRAND CANYON

From the Popular Mechanics Nigga
 zine.
 There fig a new thrill in store for tourist of the Grand Canyon of Color ado. In spite os a'mcst insuperable difficulties, a suspension bridge has been constructed across the Colorado river, at Granite Gorge, permitting direct access from the south side to the north side--or north rim. as it is called-of the canon, where Is located tho gradest scenery in the park. hitherto inaccessible to tourists. Henceforth the rim-to-rim travel is destined to be the most exciting lnci- dent in . visit to the Grand Canyon.
 The site of the bridge is just above the mouth of Bright Angel creek. about 10 miles by trail from Grand Canyon station. It Is a narrow gorge with precipitous rocky walls tower ing to a height on the southern rim, of 4,5o0 feet. and on the north r!,n to l.5oo feet higher. It is the only bridge over the" Colorado river for a distance of 500 miles between The Needles. Cal, and the point in Utah where the Colorado Is formed by the Junction of the Grand and Green rivers.
 The new bridge is a cable suspen- sion bridge with a span of 420 feet between bearings for the bridge it. self. and 500 feet between the an- chorage points of the cable. The floor of the bridge'is at height Of 50 feet. above normal water level. and ls feet above the highest known flood level. There are two main t inch blow steel cables. anchored at each end about sotfeet above the level of the bridge floor, which 1t supports by A inch galvanized steel wire hangers spaced s feet apart. and connected to the bridge by iron rods spread trian- suarly. 50 that each end connects to floor beams spaced only 3 feet apart
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-10

THE NATURE OF THE BEAST T noticed you used several camels in your wet parade"
 You got the idea. didn't your Not quite. As I understand 1t. the camel was tho original prohibition jstn
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-10
At Piney Woods

we had fine meeting at Piney Woods Friday" said H. l.. Brown county agent. Professor Starcher of Auburn was there and talked on fruit culture.
 "A lot of peach, pear, plum and apple trees of best standard var.e- ties are to be planted this fall by the farmers of that section and they are to be scientifically cultivated, fertilized and sprayed so the fruit will be uniform and without blemish. Several farmers are to plant three and four acres.
 The trees are to be purchased CO., operatively and subject to inspec' ton after delivery. You are going to get fine fruit from Piney Woods be- fore long"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-10
WE'RE ALL ALIKE

WE'RE ALL ALIKE What's causing this traffic con gestionT
 "A beautiful movie star Is taking the air In her sport car" And here are hundreds of people craninC their necks to see her. How absurd!"
 Tt is indeed. can get a good view of her from where I'm standing" Move over!"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-10
A WORD BARRAGE

A WORD BARRAGE Mrs. Dubwaite informed me six months ago that she would have to have a new car," remarked MT. Dub waite
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-10

! ever in Its history. and the improQe- menf In the conduct of the tracks goes Tight on. The infliction of the most severe penalties has brought about these pleasing results.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-10
Dr..th-T.kins Auto Race

BFeath-TakinG Auto Race Wallace Reid, reckoned as one of the most popular screen actors ctr- tainly steps out in Too Much Speed one of his latest pictures" said Henry Vance. When I was in New York last week. friend and myself took In this picture, which was showing at one of Loew's theatres.
 Another breath-taking auto race was a most necessary feature with the irascrible Theodore Roberts very much an attraction. This pie ture comes up to and passes the ex- cellent standard of Excuse My Dust in my opinion"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-10

POsT-FIGHT PARAGRAPH From the San Francisco Chronicle. one thing Dempsey could not take away from Carpentier--his war record
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-10

in the British army and who was dead broke In Birmingham recently He had been earning $50 week in the sovernment plant at Sheffield In Birmingham he willingly accepted SIS a week and a place to sleep feeding himseif-until he could do better. He earned his money and saved up enough to leave for other fields where he could find better employment.
 Lots of unemployment about Bir- mingham Is due to the fact that tho unemployed want war-time wages. People who employ labor simply can not afford to pay such, and. there fore they are not only postponing manufactures but repairs and inn provements. They are doing like peo- pie did last year-wearing their ol1 clothes rather than buy new ones.
 Clothing and nearly everything one finds in the stores has come back to a pre-war basis of prices.
 Ice and coal and wages will have to do likewise. And even street car fares canont go up. The days of ex- travagance. high prices, and spend- thrift people have passed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-10

Have you bought it for herr" NO, I'm still conducting filibus- ter"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-10
Advertise City

Advertise C1ty
 Birmingham merchants should ad vertise this city and Alabama to tht tourists of the north who come soutt every year for pleasure trips.' de clared. Gordon Erickson. municipa music director.
 .Advertising by cities of Califor mia and Florida have added grea wealth to those states. There is nc reason why Birmingham should no do the same thing and annex the ex' tra dollars which fall to cities o1 other states.
 My understanding is that thi' proposition has been put up to sev' eral of the luncheon clubs, but tha they have given 1t the cold shoulder It seems pity that this golden op. portunity Is not grasped with cnthus iasm."