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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-12

know little about radium, but they do know that its discovery was one of the most important and far-reach- ing in it's effects ever made and all have heard of its marvellous cura- tive properties. American women will take a particular interest in Mime. Curie as the foremost woman scientist who has climbed to heights in the realm of science never before dreamed of by members of her sex. All Mime. Curie needs to nyake her happy is enough radium to carry on her researches. That want will be supplied, it is announced by the gift of $100,000 worth of radium, fit- ting way to show America's appre- citation of what Mime. Curie has ac- complished.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-12
Greatest Woman Scientist
 Is Now in United States

M MODEST unassumins little EA woman arrived at New York yesterday aboard the Olympic from Southampton and Cherbourg. Her name is Marie Sklodowska Curie, known the world around as Mme. Curie, co-discoverer, of radium with her distinguished husband who died in in 1906.
 Of the many European visitors who have recently come to America not one has done as much, or even a small part as much, for humanity IS Mme. Curie. The glories of mili- tary leaders and statesmen may cap ture the public mind, but Mime. Curie's work will perpetuate her fame long after most of the world figures of today are forgotten.
 The American people are eager to honor this noted woman. They may
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-12
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From the New Republic.


 Music and the dance have become more and more restricted. the intensity increasing in direct ratio to the rise in rents. The two-step occupied less lat4- tude than the waltz; it was naturally followed by the one-step. This latter did not produce the required motion, sd the trot eventuated, the needed rangt being gained perpendicularly. This fell into the toddle, and that word as well as any. signifies the point to which the commercial age has stultified the dance. But still the syncopated bear does not go by without being recaptured. The stationary toe with the ankles wavin 5 is all, however, accommodations afford. So conscientiously, in fact, is the rhythm followed that a couple may progress only half the length of the prescribed area during a single encore.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-12
From the New York Times.

From the New York Times.
 N GUEST of the Adventurers' club
 N\ of Chicago, Carl Akeley, told the < S members a day or two ago that Chicago was too, dangerous for him he was going back to>the jungle, where there was quiet, security and peace of mind Perhaps it had not occurred to his hosts that, if man craved the thrill of hair breadth escapes and con- stant familiarity with peril there was no need of quitting the streets and boulevards of their city. destined, they believed, to be the centre of the unl- verse Ii was Mir. Akeley's conviction that they were all adventurers, though they never left the lake side. He de- clared to them that the rush of Loop traffic, the swarming of high powered automobiles and the imminence of death at the hands of "hold-up' men, in spite of the orders of the chief of police to shoot to kill. had tangled his nerves more than the hazards he had faced in equatorial Africa and chance encounters with hippopotami. rhinos and trumpeting elephants. So he wished himself back, and would soon be on the way.
 You will escape the thousand perils of the cruel city, exclaimed Juvenal to a friend who was about to take up his residence in the country. It might have been in the darkest Apen- hines, or in the wilds of Calabria, but the city was not so safe; and there were no juegernaut trolleys, no sweeping automobiles in those days not single traffic policeman in Rome. The modern city teens with perils. so much so that life is a continuing risk; ; ones nerves are taut the moment one ference between cities nowadays is that some are more dangerous than others-that is to say, some have more l lines of trolley cars, more motor trucks, motorcycles, automobiles, fires. pestilences and miscellaneous snares and pitfalls, animate and inanimate. than other cities. Life is one hazard after another. In 1920, as the Adyen- t1rers' club must know, 559 persons were killed by automobiles in Chicago, l 25 per cent more than in the preceding year. New York is, of course, pre- eminent in this respect; it's record for 1 1920 was TOY. The late General Jo- seph Wheeler declared that the june tion of Broad and Market streets. | Newark, had more terrors for him than the field of San Juan. He crossed over l twice in one afternoon and survived by miracle John Muir always con l tended that the Sierras, with grizzly bears< and rattlesnakes for daily com panions, were safer than any city. His ! failure to induce Ralph Waldo Elmer son to camp out for one night filled his soul with scorn for the philosopher.
 who insisted upon returning to the l city.
 Of course. it would be vain to att
 tempt to convince the urban dweller that there is nothing much to fear in the jungle. and that life there is all
 relaxation and ease. It must be ad-
 mitted that risks are met with, be-
 sides sleeping sickness G. G. Schil- filings in his Tn Widest Africa" con
 fesses there are occasions for 'cold
 feet"
 T myself am conscious of steadily
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-12
High Freight Rates
 < and Building Materials

t1N HE country at large realizes in
 J a remote way the burden of high freight rates. To the man en- gagged in shipping commodities it is decidedly immediate. For example, the advances in freight rates on building material since 1914 average 108 per cent.
 Particular advances are as fol- lows: Portland cement, 152 per cent; hollow tile, 100; face brick, 91; fire brick, 1o4; enameled brick, 116; common lump lime, 130; build ing sand, 9s; common brick, l5o; lum- Der, 100; common hydrated lime, 1o3.
 The Western Lumberman of Chi cago says the people of the country are hungry for homes" and that the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-12
KINDNESS TO CRITICS


 The management of a Paris theatre offers an innovation in it's hospitality to writers for the press They are now supplied with a midnight repast and beds, so that they may produce their critiques in comparative tranquility and leisure and need not compile their articles in frantic haste with an eye to the hour of departure of the owl train" for home.
 newspaper commentator on music period of mental incubation;. and the imperious necessity of catching an edi- ton soon after the close of the per- formance forbids him that elegant dal- liance with phrases that the litterateur enjoys. He must reach his conclusions promptly and put them on paper speed iig and the contemplative digestion and development of impressions Is not feasi- ble for him.
 One theatrical magnate, who could not wait for next days papers to learn the verdict of the critical jury, was disgusted to find that the censor of an important newspaper had fallen asleep in the middle of the second act of the play in question. The critic. In answer to the indignation of the manager. calmly replied: Sleep in itself is an opinion.'
 This Parisian evidence of new and strange solicitude for the umpire of stage proceedings is obviously actuated not by the wish to make 1t easy for critics to fall asleep, but by desire that frantic speed at the eleventh hour shall not betray the writer into snap judgments. But woe be unto the man- ager who provides a bed that Is short or mattress that Is too hard! The money he lavished on the mise en- scenc of Racine or Moliere will 80 for naught If the architecture of springs and slats Is imperfect or the midnight supper Is lindiEestible
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-12
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A KANSAS BUILDING ROW
From the Soldier Clipper.
 An inferestinr warfare ia

From the Soldier Clipper.
 An interesting warfare is being waged in our back yard. A pair of robins and pair of biackbirds have selected the same place in a pear tree ot build nest. It seems to make no diff ference that there are plenty of trees all about with many choice building spots. They are determined on that one particular location and both pairs are building on the same nest with plenty of fighting and back talk thrown in. In fact, there Is SO much fighting that the building is not progressing very fast. We await the outcome with interest.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-12
LaFollette Behaving
 True to Old Form

6T7 HE resolution introduced in the
 ll Senate by Senator LaFollette seeking to condemn the administration for sending representatives to the councils of the allies should not sur prise thdse familiar with the history of the Wisconsin statesman.
 What he is driving at is disclosed in the concluding paragraph of his resolution in which he declares it in- consistent with American ideals to participate in councils "the purposes of which constitute denial of free dom and government, and thus sanction, or appear to sanction, the acts of oppression which are now being inflicted upon Ireland, India and other subject nations"
 This is tantamount to an arraign- ment of Great Britain, America's natural ally and friend among the nations. It is a play to the anti British sentiment in this country. It is pro- German to the extent that it seeks to array public opinion against the English government. It is an- other of LaFollette's drives for the commendation of the foreign element in his own state and the nation.
 No one expected LaFollette to ap- prove of intimate relations with the allies. He has never supported the allies. He was opposed to our par ticipation in the World war. His spots have not changed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-12
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Many Mistakes Are Found
 in New York Stacker List

7NHE New York World has dis u covered many errors in the two official stacker lists for New York city, which were recently published by that newspaper. These lists conn prised 9S names of men designated as slackers and draft deserters.
 The World made an investigation of each name published Gin the inter ests of fair play and accuracy" and those investigations indicate that at least one out of every five names should not have been listed. The World states that if the percentage of errors found so far is maintained in the whole "slacker list" which is said to contain 160,00o names, 32,000 should be stricken off, as exposing innocent men to undeserved hu- initiation and ignominy.
 Among the cases investigated by the World were boys who had been rejected, 1t Is declared, who actually tried to enter the service but were found physically unfit and others who entered various branches of the service and were honorably dis charged, some of them with decora- tions. Others were exempted be- cause of family responsibilities, and it is stated that at least two boys listed as slackers died between the time they were registered and the date when they might have been in- ducted into service.
 The name of one man who won the congressional medal of honor was confused with that of an alleged deserter.
 The government has proceeded with great caution in preparing the "slacker list" It was realized that no risks should be run in 'jeopardiz- ing the good names of innocent men and according to reports from Wash ington the list was not only com piled with extreme care, but proc ess of elimination was used to re- move every name that should not be published. Yet, it would appear from the Worlds investigations that the percentage of errors for the en- tire country may be high.
 It is gratifying to know that the number of real slackers is smaller than was at first supposed, but on Int other hand to list man as a stacker when he served his country with honor, or was excused for good reasons, is manifestly the worst kind of injustice, even though it may be unintentional.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-12
Meet Law Requirements

T find the hotels of Alabama as a whole in pretty good shape" said James P. Kearney of Montgomery. dep- uty state hotel inspector. Most of them are complying with all the laws and those that are not are hurrying to meet all requirements. There seems to be a general tendency to keep the hotels in the best possible shape. due. no doubt, to the competition that has grown more keen as the number of hotels in- creased"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-12
A DIFFICULT DISH.

A DIFFICULT DISH. 'Is there anything else I can do for you, sir?" asked the solicitous waiter who was lowering around corpulent old gem tleman-
 "Yes," said the corpulent old gentle man. You can take your eyes off me for about 20 minutes. I never could stand to be watched when I'm eating spaghetti"
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-12
A MONKEY HOME.

What is this Darwinian theory, any how?" asked Mir Mapping.
 "so far as can learn" replied MT. Twobble, its the theory that the orig inal family tree produced cocoanuts."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-12

"have had most stimulating effect. But there stand the freight rates as kind of embargo against the con- struction that should be going on. And does it not seem an oddity that it is taking so long to readjust these rates, bringing about the read justment by whatsoever process is necessary?
 It is practically futile for iron, steel, lumber, brick, cement and tile manufacturers to reduce prices while the cost of transportation nullifies these efforts.
 Railroad rates must come down. Why not now?
 Railroad workers must share the lot of their countrymen.
 newspaper writer feels sorry for Jackie Coogan, diminutivs movie star who is said to draw a salary of s2,ooU week and is so pampered he cant lead the life of a normal boy. Jackie's parents are not worrying enough to notice.
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  the jungle Is safer than the cities. Apart from the absence of trolley cars, automobiles and the like. jungle 'vamps" are tame compared to their city sisters.
 Gorky says about 5000 Russian savants are dying of hunger. Most of ceeded in Keeping two laps ahead of starvation. A drinking bout in the rear of New York undertaking establishment ended fatally. Many a hard-boiled drinker would shy at that kind of revelry. Since men have begun to patronize beauty parlors it is reasonable to sup pose that there will soon be radical changes in mems wear.
 < Y E If million new offices were created they might not take care of all the republicans who want to serve their country for consideration. * * < l Drop tear for Lady Walnut Hill, worlds champion White Leghorn hen. who dropped s7S eggs and then dropped out. l President Harding is also following in wilson's footsteps by leaning more tatives.
 The German cabinet which accepted the allies ultimatum will be dismissed d with a paragraph in future German histories.
 Quite a number of crown princes are visiting about in Europe, possibly for the purpose of trying to make royalty popular.
 For a prostrate nation the Germans are showing remarkable devotion to the movies.
 Senator LaFollette finds 1t safe to raise his voice once more and seems to enjoy the exercise.
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 The average farmers opinion of a 44-hour week would hardly be fit to print.
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 By discussing Zion Einstein keeps his hearers from getting begged up in relativity. - 1
 With so many Bibles in circulation it is not surprising that one occas- sionally stops bullet
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 While Paris may be the playground of Europe" the play is just as fast and furious at Monte Carlo. I E F E | Speaking of domestic tragedies there are frequent explosions of home brew outfits. KINDNESS TO CRITICS From the Philadelphia Public Ledger. Id Of pa ri fre
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-12
No sub-Titles Needed

"A photoplay without single sub- title has arrived, and Is. I believe the first to reach the screen" said G. A. Jordan. Tt is Charles Rays latest production, The Old Swimmin' Hole," a picturization of Rileys well known poem.
 " The o1d Swimmin' Hole is pre- sented with such fine acting and ex- planation unnecessary. The wiseacres in the photoplay world said sub-titles could never be eliminated, but they are discredited in this picture, and I want to say it is one of the best pictures I ever saw"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-12
Something for Nothing

There is no end to the people who are trying to get something for noth- ing" said Charles Jones, secretary of the traffic bureau. This office has tell ephone calls every day from persons not connected with the traffic bureau seeking its services free of charge. Often the caller gives the name of a firm member and we later ascertain that the call was not from that firm but from some outsider wishing the benefit of the bureau without paying dues.
 The other day an unfamiliar voice asked us to ascertain and quote the rate on chairs, using the name of a church as the party wishing to get the chairs. We are glad to accommodate a church at any time free of charge. but we doubt very much if that inquiry really came from anyone interested in the church specified" Y
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-12
Germany Accepts
 Allied Ultimatum

TT HE German Reichstag voted to U accept the reparation ultima tum of the allies. It did so because the ultimatum carried with it a "Yes" or "No" answer.
 Germany played with the allies as long as playing was possible. It traded as long as trading was .pSr- mitted. Just as soon as the ulti- matum with curt "Yes" and "No'' alternative was presented, trading stopped and the inevitable was ac- cepted.
 It was invasion and occupation or payment. Germany has simply chosen the lesser of two evils.
 Acceptance of the ultimatum ought to mark the beginning of rapid process of rehabilitation in Europe, The settlement of the terms of rep aration has been the great obstacle. That removed, the world may look ahead instead of backward.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-12
Enjoyed Tribute

T certainly did enjoy the beautiful tribute which pr. Middleton S. Barn well paid to mothers in his Sunday ser Day" says John Yeatman, and what is more as soon as I finished reading 1t I went to the telephone and called him up and told him just what pleas- ure I had got in reading it. think we who are in public life as leaders, teach CTS and preachers need to have word of encouragement from those they are helping"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-12
Water Ground Meal


 T have several times heard the praises of country water ground meal" said 5. r. Crabbe of the Wood & Crabbe Grain company. What some folks ap- parently do not know Is that we grind meal in our plant in exactly the same manner as they do in the country mills. The grain Is crushed between two re- volvins stones running at the same rate of speed, so that the product is bound to be the same with the same corn used.
 The only difference Is that we cause our mill stones to revolve by electric power while those in the country re- volve by water power, but the process is otherwise the same and so is the product"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-12
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
WON'T RUDGE.

WON'T BUDGE.
 T wouldn't place Gawping in the samo class with Abou-Ben-Adhem" Doesn't love his fellow man. chr If he does he fails to show it in a trolley car. When the conductor says. Plenty of room up in front, Gents, Gawping just takes his word for it"
 A CHERRY DISPOSITION. q wonder if all bootleggers are opti- mists.'
 What put that idea into your head?'' T see where Pennsylvania shoemaker who was arrested for selling whisky hung up sign in the window of his shop which read. Back in a Minute"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-12
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
In southea.t Alabama

Conditions are better in southeast Alabama" said W. H. Brooks, veteran representative of the International Shoe company. T saw them sell $17,- 900 worth of hogs in Hartford at CO., operative sale the other day. Merchants are buying of the wholesale trade as uEuaL l am not the only man who sold the usual bills of goods to mer- chants of that section.
 T find things better in Cullman, also. sold a merchant there more shoes than he bought at the same time last year. The bill was not as large, be- cause he got for $500 this year more shoes than he got for sS,7OO last year. Shoes wholesale are 47 per cent under a year ago.
 Altogether I find conditions in the smaller Alabama towns better and the merchants more optimistic. 1 was somewhat surprised to see q lot of cotton being marketed Evidently the holders are liquidating price or no price,"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-12
CITY BATS

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer
 The city of San Antonio has invited 250,000 bats to become residents Al-t ready S5,OOO have accepted the invita- ton and have established homes in the municipal bat roost which is maintained for their comfort. There are quarters for the expected 25O,O0o. and at the present rate of increase the bat popu- lation will soon reach it's full quota
 San Antonio is the first American city to realize the desirability of large bat population and to provide for it's accommodation. Already the wisdom of the movement is apparent. certain species of mosquito disseminates ma ls ria; bats eat all kinds of mosquitoes. Therefore, the more bats the less ma laria. Incidentally a large crepuscular patrol of bats discourages the nefarious activities of non-malsrial mosquitoes, and renders life easier and happier for rtke human residents of the community.
 After you once get your bats there is little, expense. They form an amia- ble police force that sustains itself by devouring malefactors.
 Hitherto bats have been ranked with snakes and toads and worms as loathly creatures. Men are slowly learning that toads and snakes are among their most valuable friends. and that without the tireless labor of earth worms ag- riculture would be next to impossible The close alliance for mutual benefit between men and bats is something new It is one more indication of ths desirability of getting we'll acquainted with all creatures that Ank beneath us on the ladder of life.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-12
LOST PRESTIGE.

Georges used to be a star
 Tending bar; Now he's just a soda clerk
 And the work Leaves his spirits quite depressed, For the jest That in other days seemed good Always would Get a laugh from Bill aud Fat Now falls flat.
 CHANGING THE SUBJECT. Do you remember, Miss Sereleaf, when we were all boys and girls together and used to play clap in and clap out?" "Oh, yes" Let me see. How long ago was that? It must have been fully" By the way. MT. Thickdome, have you read Main street'?'
 NO COMPETITION. "The ladies of the jury are somewhat hcmely."
 That won't prejudice our case" "No?"
 "our client is no motion picture queen. either"
 WHY HURRY? Have you a train out of here this morning for Washington" asked the fussy traveller. That train left an hour ago." said the ticket agent, who used to be in the drug business, but we have train leaving at 8:6 this afternoon that is just as good"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-12
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 THE RIVER

1nE HNl v Ek& Clinton Scollard. in the New York Her. ald Across the purple vastitude of night l list the river murmur to it's shores Unceasingly, pulsing tide that pours From some far fount upon the mountain
 height. And now the sound seems one of rapt
 delight, A chorded ecstasy that sinrs and
 scars,
 And now a voice that falters and de-
 plores And sinks at last in dolor and alright And as I hearken to the rhythm and the rhyme
 mind me ho wall joy is blent with
 tears; How evermore the monarch and the
 mime
 Are close akin through human hopes
 and fears, And fancy on the boundless sheys of Time H N fs4 hear the ebb and flood tids q the
 years!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-12
. MORNING PRAYER

A MORNING PRAYER
 do not ask for all thy light and love today. Give me one little ray of sunshine, and l will follow it with confidence that it will lead me to thee. Amen.-M. s. H.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-12

By penitence the eternal wrath's ap- peas'd
 Two Gentlemen of Verona.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-12

! CHERRY DISPOSITION
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-12

q wonder if all bootleggers are opti- nniStS."