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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-17
TUSCALOOSA BEING DESERTEDBYPUP|LS
Summer School Has Been Most Profitable Short
 Term Ever Held

Tuscaloosa, July 6-CSpecial) )--- University summer school pupils are leaving on every train. and buildings on the campus are being rapidly de- serted
 The school this summer has been positively the most profitable and the most successful short term ever held at the university. About 80 per cent of the students did college creot work, many studied for teachers cer- tllcates and several had special studies So many students desired 1t, even the library was kept open in the evenings, and too much credit cannot be given Miss Wyman and her as- sistant for their courteous help to those studious young people who put their hearts and souls into learniugs
 In a final address to the students, Dr. J. ]. Doster stated that while this has been the greatest summer school in the history of the university, not only from standpoint of numbers, but as to the quality of work accom- plished, with the support of the educators he could promise next year summer school second to none in the country He said that some years ago he realized that teachers wanted advanced work. and that 1t had been | the policy of the university to pro- | vide better courses In which college work was stressed. Since the demand | for this class. of work has been so great. pr. Doster promised even more courses for college credit work next summer. In closing he commended | the faculty and students for their work and complimented the earnest | effort of the student body.
 Members of the Faculty | Among the members of the faculty leaving are Miss Rosa Strickland. dean of tho women at the university, who has left for Junaluska, where she will conduct q delightful camp for young women; pr. and Mrs. Thomas, who have gone on motor | trip through Virginia and North Car olina; pr. and Mrs. Clyde Brooks. who are spending their vacation in the north; pr. A. w. and Dr. Cora c. l Nance will go to Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina.
 Prof. V. P. Mckinley. director of the vocational department, leaves for Minneapolis, where he will attend a | conference of vocational workers from every partRof the United States. Vital subjects will be studied at this meeting, and Professor Mckinley wili take post graduate work which will continue through the month Of Au- gust The vocational school at the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-17
FORETHOUGHT

From Life
 If you hate the movies. why do you go to them so much?
 Its the only way I can stop the other members of the family from telling the plots the next day"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-17

admittedly fascinated by the little lady. The conversation between tnis distinguished old gentleman and the Alabama girl might have made a theme for Thomas Nelson Page.
 MT. Oliver will escort Miss Patton to the Mayflower and to the Whi-e House, where she will meet the Pres ident.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-17
ALABAMA GIRL SCORES
 TRIIfMPH IN WASHINGTON

Washington, July 16.-tSpeciaL} ) An Alabama girl has scored a tri- umph in Washington. She IS Alta Patton, 9-year-old daughter or MT and Mrs w. W. Patton or LVihs = tha g,est of her aunt, Mrs. Cobb, or the sherman apartments
 Her first appearance in public ire was under the auspices of Repre- sentative w. B. Oliver of the Sixth Alabama district It was on the rioor of the House of Representatives Sne received members from Maine to Ca'- ifornia, and from the gull 10 tue lakes Her wonderful appearanS"' remarkable composure. and una-- fected manners won the hearts of all
 General Stedman of North Carolint. the sole remaining member of ante beluum days. retaining all the de- 1ightful courtesies of those days was
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-17
CAPTAINS OF INDUSTRY
 MUST APPEAR IN COMMITTEE

Washington, July 16.-(Special) American captains of industry must be ordered before the congressi ional investigating committee inquirins into the causes of the plight of ag- riculture, and forced to show their books and divulge their business policies, if the investigation Is to re- suit in good
 This is the contention of c. s. Bar rett, president of the National Farm CTS union.
 According to MT. Barrett. Judge D. H. Gary. of the Suited States Steel Corporation, the heads fo coal min ing corporations in Pennsylvania and Alabama, the presidents of the trunk systems of the country, the biggest bankers of Wall street, must be forced to appear and give testimony Mir. Barrett is free to state his con viction that these gentlemen will not come ot their own violftion, and Will not accept a mere formal invitation
 A witness who Is expected to fur nish satisfaction for the farmers IS W. P. c. Harding, governor or the federal reserve board. MT. Barrett has informed the committee that by all means MT. Harding must be sum moned To answer the statements which Mir. Harding is expected 10 G. Skelton Williams, former comptroller of the treasury, who before his re- tirement, March 4, was regarded as
 at "outsr with the federal board
 Mr. Williams, according to MT. Bar rett, will give testimony relative to the operations of Wall street bank CTS, and the attitude of the federal reserve board to such operations. Long investigation If the committee goes as thorough ly into the situation as MT. Barrett suggests, thel investigation will be extended throughout the year, ana longer. And yet. according to MT Barrett, the plight of the farmer IS the result of so many and such ol- vergent causes, that all of the facts cannot be deduced without an ex- animation into all of them
 If the Barrett programme IS tol- lowed. the farmers in Washington i declare it will be made plain Just
 why the farmer is the chief sufferer lin the country. Likewise, according to MT. Barrett, the method or correc- l ton will be made so plain that only
 inc purposefy blind could miss It. | The committee has not determlneu
 what the scope of its work snali l be. But the farmers are stronger li' 1 Congress today thAn ever before. Tn conseouence. this investigation might he unlike the innumerable ones whlch have preceded it and not only bring
 out facts, but force Congress 10 act in conformity therewitn.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1921-08-18
FINAL DISCHARGE.

Notice is hereby given that Mrs.
James B. Hamer. as guardian of the
estate of Brown McCallum Hamer,
minor, has made application unto me
Tor final discharge as guardian and
Friday, September 18th at 10 o'clock
In the forenoon has been appointed
for the hearing Of the said petition.
All persons holding claims against
the said estate are requested to file
them with the guardian on or before
10 o'clock in the forenoon of Friday,
September the 18th or this notice will
be plead in bar Of their recovery.
JOE CABELL DAVIS,
Judge Of Probate.
3 IL At. Dillon County.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1921-08-18

FARMER would find a ready market
right at home for all the food he
could raise.
In the meantime the south would
be making the world pay in the form
Oh high tax an enormous price
Tor every pound of cotton it raised.
1t would draw heavily on the public
and private treasures Of the world.
In a few years it would be the
richest country in the world.
But now that is a dream. The Will
liamsburg farmers plan has all these
possibilities. 1t is within the power of
the law-making bodies OF the several
states, with the help OF the people. to
bring all these things to pass, but it
will not be done. 1t must come
through another channel-the people
themselves.
The south can achieve in a perfect
ly legitimate way the same results
by reducing its cotton acreage. farm
Ing on the intensive plan and raising
an abundance of food-stuffs. 1t may
take little longer to build our mag
nificent schools, colleges, churches and
concrete highways, but 1t can be done
II the south will make up its mind
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1921-08-18

The Seaboard Air Line, SO We are
1old by The Robesonian Of Lumber
socn. ran an excursion to Wilmington.
Aeduced rates were given. Between
400 and 500 people," says The Rob
Sesonian. boarded the train at Lum-
berton. The local agent sold 800 tick
'ets. all he had. and had calls for more
than a hundred more. Around 1000
people were on the train when it
passed Lumberton and the train was
due to stop at Bladenboro. The ten
cars were crowded. standing room be-
ang at premium" A train passed
Dillon few nights ago with only
-sone passenger. He was a large, fat.
black, bald-headed bishop. probably
sor his way to some negro conference.
This may not happen often, but time
and again for the past few months it
has not been unusual to Soc trains all
rsnost empty passing through Dillon.
The reason is not hard to find. A
day journey costs four cents and
"A night journey five cents a mile.
People cannot afford to travel. The
-Seaboard offered reduced rates to
Wilmington and left people standing
at the stations. The solution of the
problem is in the hands of the rail-
roads. Surely they cannot fail to see
1T But isn't it possible that so long
as the government is willing to hand
out to the railroads the peoples mon
sey in Jumps of a half billion dollars
The railroads will remain blind to the
situation? OF course they will. Human
nature is the same everywhere, and
when the railroads began to hold out
heir hats they showed they were
human
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1921-08-18

to plant limited amount of cotton
and live at homo. 4.
And while the Williamsburg farm
er's plan is not feasible.yet We must
ADMIT the results he would OBJ
tain are desirable. But these results
must be obtained in the same manner
all results Of permanent and help
ful nature are obtained-through the
efforts Of the people themselves.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1921-08-18
a PLAN TO CORNER THE COTTON
CROP.

n Williamsburg county farmer,
writing to The State newspaper, sug-
gests that the legislatures of the
several cotton growing states levy
trax of 20 cents a pound on cotton. i
The idea is to reduce acreage and run
dhe price of cotton up to new high
levels.
We do not endorse the plan, but it
rs go full of interesting suggestions
that we cannot resist the temptation
TO comment on its possibilities.
Before such law could be put on
Ihe statute books the constitution of
many if not all the cotton growing
states would have to be changed, but
for the sake of argument let that
objection be waived,
The first year normal crop would
De made. The consumer would re-
fuse TO pay the tax cost plus the pro-
ducer's profit and the state 70 aid
take the cotton for tayes.
The second year5the acreage would
be considerably ced and the price
would e. to utreamed of figures
The state would unload its previous
years crop at big profit
the third year the acreage would
be increased and once more the price
would fail below the 20 cents level
10 take over the cotton for the taxes.
But what would become Of the
enormous amount of meney the state
would receive from this source of in
Scome? 1t would go into schools. pub
Tic buildings and roads. In a few
years the south would have the best
colleges in the United States. Every
state and county would have public
buildings Of such magnificenee that
the slogan, "See the south first"
would be familiar phrase in every
language.
The entire cotton belt would be a
net work Of concrete roads and every
INCH of highway in town, village,
hamlet and city would be paved.
"But what would the man who
raises cotton do for living?" you
ask. How could he live when he would
be paying into the state and county
treasures nearly every dollar he
made on his farm?
The answer is simple: He would
plant about four acres of cotton to
the plow. work 1t on the intensive
plan, make two or more bales to the
=aore and put the balance of his land
in corn, oats. peas, potatoes and other
'&oodstuffs.
The building Of concrete highways,
schools. colleges and other public
buildings would require big army Of
skilled and unskilled workmen. The
south would draw heavily on the
labor Of the north and west. Those
0seDIs would have to be fed and the
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1921-08-18
Dillon. s. c., August IS, 1921.

Our good friend Grist of The York.
VILE Enquirer gives us credit for a
most interesting little story on the
garter snake" Reference to the orig
anal copy shows that credit should
nave been given to The New York
sun. the credit line having been mad
vertently left off when the story was
being put into type.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1921-08-18

See the big double page furniture
Sale ad. Of Carmichael-MoodyF Furni-
ture Co.'S 18.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1921-08-18
NEW PRICES OF PAIGE CARS
Open Cars

SSssnorook: 80, 5-Pass. Tourina
L2ox, e-%4, 3-Pass. Roadster
Ardmors. ga, 4-Psss. Soort Car
fkSWood, e-eb. 7-Pass. fourino
cAfcnmonr II. 6-66, 5-PassennSs
D.ysona, 49,, 3-Pass. Roadsesr
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1921-07-29

Mr.. Kelso's pemarks, especially the
part which applied to me. remind me
Of the story Of the prosperous grocer
Of Joliet. One Saturday night he and
his boys were busy selling sausage
Suddenly In came a man with whom
he had Quarreled and laid two dead
cats on the counter.
There said he, this makes seven
today. I'll call Monday and get my
money
"We were doing a good business here
making fun. 1t seems a pity to ruin
It and throw suspicion on the quality
Of the goods by throwing a cat on
the counter"
This raised q storm of merriment,
after which he recited the poem of
Burns, with keen appreciation of its
quality. Samson repeatedly writes of
his gift for Interpretation. especially
of the comic, and now and then lays
particular stress on his power of MIN
icry.
John Cameron sang 1.-THE Sword of
Bunker Hill" and Forty Years Ago,
Tom" Samson played while the older
people danced until midnight. Then,
after noisy farewells, men, women and
children started in the moonlit road
toward the village. Ann Rutledge had
Abe on one arm and John Mcneil on
the other.
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Average Life Of Motor Cars.

AS highway transportation develops
and passenger cars and trucks be-
come practically the sole means of
road travel, the proportion of first
purchasers of cars and trucks in the
total OF car sales viii decrease, and
the demand for new cars each Year
will become more and more nearly
equal to the number of cars which
drop out of service. For this rea-
son it Is becoming increasingly impor-
tant for the trade to know how many
cars will be required for replacement
Of those withdrawn from service.
Analysis of registration. production.
export and import figures over pc
riod of years leads TO the conclusion
that the average life of two million
cars retired from service In the last
seven years was about 5.3 years.
Scientific American.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1921-07-29
Eliphalet Biggs meets BIN
Kelso.

GRO BE coNTINuEDJ
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CHAPTER v-continued.

John Mcneil kissed Ann Rutledge
that evening and was most attentive
10 her, and the women were saying
that the two had fallen In love with
each other.
"See how she looks at him." one of
them whispered.
"well, it's just the way he looks at
her." the other answered.
At the first pause N the merriment
Kelso stood on a chair, and then ST.
lence fell upon the little company.
my good neighbors," he began, 1--WE
are here to rejoice that new friends
have come to us and that new home
is born In our midst. We bid them
welcome. They are big-boned, big
hearted folks. No man has grown
large who has not at one time or an
other had his feet In the soil and felt
its magic power going up into his
blood and bone and sinew. Here is a
wonderful soil and the inspiration Of
wide horizons; here are broad and fer
tile fields. Where the corn grows
high you can grow statesmen. 1t may
be that out Of ope of these little cab
ms man will come to carry the torch
of Liberty and Justice so high that
its light will shine into every dark
place. So let no one despise the cabin
humble as II is. Samson and Sarah
TrayIor, ! welcome and congratulate
you. Whatever may come, you can
find no better friends than these. and
OF this you may be sure, no child Of
the nrairies will ever go about with
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1921-07-29
a WfuI Sick
with Gas
Eaf0nic Brings Relief

Il have been awful sick with gas. ~
writes Mrs. w. III. Person, land
Eatonic is all I can get TO give me
relief"
Acidity and gas on the stomach
quickly taken up and carried out by
Eatonic, then appetite and strength
come back. And many other bodily
miseries disappear when the stomach
is right. Don't let sourness. belching.
Dloating, indigestion and other stom-
ach Ills go on. Take Eatonic tablets
after you eat-see how much better
you feel. Big box costs only a triie
with your druggists guarantee.
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or four days would take DE steam
boat at Pittsburg. the roads tn OHIO
and Indiana are 20 bad. You can gc'
q steamer up the Illinois river at Al
ton and get on at Beardstown and
drive across country. II we kne"
when you were coming Samson or Abe
would meet you. Give our love to all
the folks and friends.
yours affectionately,
Sarah and Samson"
II had been a cold winter and aoi
easy to keep comfortable In the little
house. In the worst weather Sam
SOD had used to get up at night to
keep the fire going. Late In January
a wind from the southeast melted the
snow and warmed the air of the mid
lands so that. for a week or so. II
seemed as II spring were come. One
night of this week Sambo awoke the
family with his barking. A strong
wind was rushing across the plains
and roaring over the cabin and wall
ing In Its chimney. Suddenly there
was q rap on its door. When Samson
opened II he saw In the moonlight a
young colored man and woman stand
ing near the doorstep.
rs dis Mlstah Traylor?" the young
man asked.
ut is" said Samson. "what can |
do for your"
"Mas'r, de good Lord done fetched
us here to ask you 70 help" said the
negro. 1--WE be nigh wone out with cold
an hungah, sub. deed we be-"
Samson asked them In and put wood
on the fire, and Sarah got up and made
some hot tea and brought food from
the cupboard and gave it to the stran-
gers. who sat shivering In the freight.
They were a good-looking pair, the
young woman being almost white.
They were man and wife. The latter
stopped eating and moaned and shook
with emotion as her husband told
their story. Their master had died
the year before and they had been
brought to ST. Louis to be sold In the
slave market. There they had es-
capped by night and gone TO the house
of an old friend of their former owner
who lived north of the city on the
river shore. He had taken pity on
them and brought them across the
Mississippi and started them on the
north road with a letter to Elijah
Loyeioy of Alton and supply of food.
Since then they had been hiding days
In the swamps and thickets and had
Travelled by night. Mr.. Lovejoy had
sent them to Erastus Wright OF
Springfield, and Mr.. Wright had given
them the name of Samson Traylor and
the location of his cabin. From there
they were bound for the house OF John
Peasley, In Hopedale. Tazewell county.
Lovejoy had asked them to keep the
letter with which they had begun
their travels. The letter stated that
their late master had often expressed
his purpose of leaving them their free
dom when he should pass away. He
had left no will and since his death the
two had fallen into the hands Of his
nephew. a despotic, violent young
drunkard of the name of Biggs.
Samson was so moved by their story
that he hitched up his horses and put
some hay in the wagon box and made
off with the fugitives up the road to
the north in the night. When daylight
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1921-07-29

band organ and monkey. Our friend,
Horest Abe, is one of the few rich
men in this neighborhood. Among his
assets are 'Kjrkham's Grammar. The
Pilgrims Progress the Lives OF
Washington and Henry Clay Ham
LET'S SolIloquy.' 'Othello's Speech to
the Senate Marc Anthony's Address
and a part of 'Webster's Reply to
Hayue A man came along the other
day and sold him barrel Of rubbish
for two bits. In II he found volume
Of 'Blackstone's Commentaries. Old
blackstone challenged him to wrestle
and Abe | as grappled with him. ]
reckon he'll take his measure as easily
as he took Jack Armstrong;. Lately
he has got possession of noble asset.
J. > The Cotters Saturday Night. by
Robert Burns. propose to ask him
tn let MS share his enjoyment of this
treasure
Abe who had been sitting with his
lpys doubled beneath him on buffalo
skin. between Joe and Betsey Traylor,
rose and said
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1921-07-29

came he covered them with hay. About
eight o'clock he came to frame house
and barn. the latter being of unusual
size for that time and country. Above
the door of the barn was a board
which bore tie stenciled legend !:
John Peasley. Orwell Farm"
AS Samson drew near the house he
observed a man working on the roof
of woodshed. Something familiar in
his look held the eye of the New Salem
man. In half moment he recognized
the face of Henry Brimstead. II was
now a cheerful face. Brimstead came
down from the ladder and they shook
hands.
Good land o. Goshen How did yon
get here2' Samson asked. Brimstead
answered:
Through the help OF a Teller that
looks like you an the grit of pair o
horses. Come down this road early in
September on my way to the land o.
pleaty. Found Peasley here. Couldn't
help it. Saw his name on the barn.
Used to go to school with him in Or
well. He offered to sell me some land
with a house on II an trust me for his
pay. | liked the looks o. the country
and so I didn't go no further. was
goiu' to write you letter, but hain't
got around to it yet. Amt forgot wnaf
you done for us, l can tell We that"
well. this looks better than the
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1921-07-29
THE SLAVES.

Synopsis. Samson and Sarah
Traylor, with their two children,
Josiah and Betsey. travel by wagon
from their home In vergennes, Vt,
to the West, the land OF plenty
Their destination is the Country OF
the Saneamon. in Illinois. At Mag
ara Falls they meet John Mcneil,
who also decides to go to the San
CANON country. Sarah.s ministra-
tons saves the life of Harry Nee
dies, In the last stages of fever,
and he accompanies the Traylors.
They reach New Salem, Illinois,
and are welcomed by young Abe
Lincoln, Jack Kelso and his pretty
daughter BIN, sixteen years of age.
and others. Samson decides to stay
and raises his cabin. Led by Jack
Armstrong, rowdies make trouble.
Lincoln thrashes Armstrong. Harry
Needles strikes Bap McNoll. Harry
IL attacked by McNoll and hts
gang. and BIN drives them off with
q shotgun. Mcneil is markedly at
tentive to Ann Rutledge. Lincoln
is In love with Ann, but has never
had enough courage to tell her so.
Harry loves BIN
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1921-07-29
CHAPTER vi.

Which Describes the Lonely Life In
Prairie Cabin and Stirring Ad-
venture on the Underground Rail-
road About the Time It Began op-
eratIons.
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In a Thirsty Place.

A countryman was inscribing ths
NAME of highly respected, recently
departed dencon on tombstone. The
stone rested on an empty beer barrel
In his shop.
friend of the late worthy called
In to soc how the sculptor was pro-
ceeding with the work. and objected
to his friends tombstone resting on
u beer barrel, remarking: DO you
know. John. that my dear departed
friend never drank drop of beer In
his life?"
"Well," replied John. 81 bet Ne
would give something for pint Fowl"
Chicago American.
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basis of vitality. If you
have it, you sturdily
withstand summer tenn
peratures. But if your
blood is poor, loaded with
poisons that should be
cast out, you are limp
and useless in Shirt
sleeve" weather.