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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-25

Christmas Is as dear to the twen- tieth century boy and girl as it was In the first century after the birth Of the Christ child Sixty genera tions have not been able to make It stale.
 It has survived commercialism, it has survived the cynical spirit which laughs at sentiment. 1t has survived the storm and stress Of modernity. it has survived the wearying round of satlety which comes from overin- dulgence in worldly things; 1t has survived the horrors of grim war
 Christmas chimes still peal out their glad notes. Christmas carols are still sung in street and church, all tars are still lit with Christmas can dies, Christmas trees are still set up in homes, Christmas moHning still calls out of bed trooping thousands of wide-eyed expectant children to see that santa Claus has put in their stockings; while the Christmas spirit has yet power to warm the hearts of parents.
 The truth is. old and young look forward with joy to the festival which has survived for nearly 1000
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-25
SOME FARM TRUCK STATISTICS

From Farm life.
 Below are some of the points made in A recent bulletin issued by the United states department of agricui- lure after census on farm motor trucks in the east.
 Ninety per cent of the 753 owners whose answers to question were con sidered said that the greatest ad- vantage of the truck was the saving of time.
 Fifty-nine per cent declared that bad roads was the main disadvant- age. Seventeen per cent placed cost of operation as the greatest disad- vantage.
 The one-ton truck is the most pop ular.
 The average distance from market of those answering the questions was ten miles. Nearly 25 per cent were 20 miles or more from market.
 It requires 35 to 40 per cent as long. on the average, to make 6 round trip to market with a truck as with a team.
 Nearly two-t thirds of those own ing trucks still used their horses to supplement their truck in road haul ing. Fortyfive per cent of this num- Der gave poor roads as the reason for using the horses.
 Very few of the men use their trucks for hauling on the farm.
 Some of the owners have found 1t highly profitable to do some hauling for their neighbors when conditions permitted.
 The average distance travelled per year by these trucks was 3.s20 miles
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-25

years proving that the old world Is not holf SO heartless as it pretends to be. and that sentiment still plays its part in the lives of men and women in spite of the fact that old santa Claus uses an airplane instead of his sled drawn by reindeer. It matters not how he comes just so he arrives
 It Is wonderful what a transforma- tion just a sprig of holly can make even in the downtown district, and the sight of mistletoe is tantalizlng even to the tired business man, for 1t brings to mind sweet memories of the days when he was young and she was fair. A little boy sitting on the sidewalk fin front of Caheens making Christmas wreaths caused many 10 stop and watch him with interest as he worked with cedar. holly and mis- tletoe.
 It Is not strange that the last of the holidays In the year holds first place in our hearts and If In these
 days of multiplying holidays any had 10 be surrendered from one cause or another the last to be given up would be Christmas And this Is as 1t should be, for it represents the greatest event in the history of man.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-25
T3y JESSE HENDERSON

Special Correspondent of The Age-Heraid
 tCopyright, 1921. by The Age-Heraldl
 New York, December 2i-Its an eel and vitamines Yuletide Not even the fact that it dropped several cents below last yedr, the price ha senabled the turkey to crowd into the lime light. Eels first gained public mo- tice through the wall rising from the Italian sections when shortage of those wriggly daintes impended. Eels, it seems, are to an Italian ChFistmas what the saxophone is to the jazz band and the roar of dismay over their absence was-relayed from home to market to waterfront till the glad news came that fishing boats full of the fattest and friskiest cells were on their way.
 There was. however, no lack of Vitamines, though these demure thingammies drew an equal share of attention. Santa Claus, by agreement with the board of health. arrived on the East Side with his pack crammed with vtamines done up as packages of fruit, and tooth brushes bulging his pockets. To each of the under nourished youngsters in the child health station he gave also a tube of tooth paste and cake of soap. A far cry, this, from the Santa Claus of old who flashed across the winter sky as the bringer of sleds and candy and dolls. But the children scrambled as vigorously to get a tooth brush as ever they did to snatch toy and blithely accepted the cakes of soap instead of resentfully laying down a barrage of them around the Christ mas tree, as officials half expected.
 Nobody Is SIighted
 Fragrant under the nip of frost and brilliant with electric lights, the mu- nicipal Christmas trees have sprung up in Madison Square, in Central Park, in a score of public places. To- night there are bands of children singing carols under any window with a Christmas candle in 1t, mediaeval and pleasant touches in this most modern of towns. The United States Steamship Wyoming. at
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-25

kind; and that is why 1t is the most widely celebrated festival in all ths world "The hearts of all mankind are
 turned
 Toward lowiy Bethlehem; For In the east the wondrous star
 that burned
 In days of old still beckons them" Long may the festival held every year 10 commemorate the memory of the birth of the lowly Jesus be one of rejoicing and thanksgiving and of good will toward others. The earth has grown cold with its
 burden of care. But at Christmas 1t is always young' "The feet of the humblest may walk
 fin the field Where the feet of the holiest have
 trod: This, this Is the marvel to mortals
 revealed, When the silvery trumphets oi
 Christmas have pealed. That mankind are the children oi
 God"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-25
THE NINETEENTH HOLE

A merchant and parson played golf together, and the. parson nearly always beaten, was growing gloomy.
 Never mind. father" comforted the merchant. "one of these days you'll be preaching my funeral sermon and then you can take your revenge" And at that it will be your hole!" came the retort merose.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-25
FROM EXAMINATION PAPERS

From the Boston Transcript.
 A. D. is the sbbreviation for abdo- men.
 Shall is used by polite people; will by all others. = Homer's chief works are the Oddity and Idiot.
 An abstract noun Is the name of something that has no existence, as goodness.
 Gregory was the greatest Pope who ever lived before his time.
 The imperfect tense Is used to ex- press future action in past time which does not take place at all.
 The Complete Angler" Is another name for Euclid because he wrote all about angles.
 (By an English boy)-The Pilgrim Fathers thought 1t better to be out of this wicked world, so they coionized in Massachusstts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-25
PEOPLE WIN LASTING VICTORY OVER"TAXDODGERS' LEAGUE"
 GOVERNOR'SSTATEWENT SAYS

the state a burden never intended by the constitution of Alabama.
 "To those who have been loyal to the state every man asd upon who 10 the state every man andupon whom duty was placed by law must feel grateful To those who were false standard when the error was discover ed the state must tender words of congratulation.
 The fight Is now over. Surely there is none in Alabama now who would say it does not mean the dawn of a day of great progress for Alabama"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-25
THE UNPARDoNABLE SIN
From Judge

Whats this I hear about the Smythes planning a divorce? I thought they were wonderful pals that she took up golf just to be with him, and all that sort of thing!"
 "Yes, that's just the trouble she now plays a better game than he does"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-25

, the Brooklyn navy yard. is a sea Santa to 800 youngsters in whose be- half the officers and men have raised $1,200. Nobody, in hospitals or prs- on. among the insane. among the un- empIoyed-nobody has been sighted Except, of course, the honest, hard working bourgeois to whom this is hard winter and for whose benefit no organized relief Is planned. and who wouldn't accept 1t if it were. There's even to be a dinner for homeless cats and dogs at the Bide-a- Wee associa- ttion headquarters, where stray ami mals will be welcomed.
 Meanwhile. the New York postof-
 flee announces it Is swamped beneath the biggest flood of Christmas mail In it's history. Nearly eight and a half million pieces in one day. The postma ster thinks these are chiefly Christmas cards, but a few moments reflection on the state of business brings the suspicion that the bulk of
 it consists of letters from people in New York writing home for money. Real MerrIment Aroused
 Just to add to the Christmas fer vor. the prohibition agents have promised to make Broadway so dry
 that a bono would be fluid fin com parison. Keys Jingle has no place on their program. It is lamentable. the merriment which their promise has aroused
 Max Birnbaun does not share the holiday spirit. People keep interfer- ing with his plans Officious friends. for example, butted in twice when he tried to commit suicide lately. Three times within two hours Blrnbaun made the attempt. affording an exam pie of a man sticking to an idea. The third time he jumped head first out of third story window and landed
 on his feet, unhurt, in tune to be sent to d hospital for observation.
 But & truce 10 levity. This, my masters, Is a serious world Gotham
 is in the clutches of reform. No less an authority on social welfare than ...-lAia.. -. ..a......n l...
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-25
THE PASSING OF KINGS

William Allen White, in Judge
 Little did we think as we went up and down the land four years ago selling liberty bonds and giv- ing until it hurt for the Red Cross and the "Y" that tho New Heaven and the New Earth which we promised after the war would be such pent-up Utica.
 When a king sets out these brisk winter mornings to do his days Ringing, he no longer carries a union card of the Proud Kings Amalgamated union; but hangs around the employment agency looking for a strike breakers lob like poor Karl; and when a ruler takes his rule out and begins ruling, he has no more prestige than a measuring worm
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-25

positions were reversed. It does not matter whether the disabled lad
 is q legion man or not; 1t is a greeting between ex-serviee men"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-05
Girl of Ia, Found
In Bungalow With
Man, Drinks Poison
Soldier Faints. and Later Is
Held OH Charge of Alb
d1ction; kidnapping Case
Against Three Dropped

Rather than face the disgrace at
tendent on her discovery alone with a
man in bungalow at Elmont, i. L.,
-year-old Gertrude Wexler, of
902 Myrtle Avenue, Brooklyn, drank
iodine when the house was raided early
yesterday morning by Detective Wag
ner and Agent Charles Of the Chill
drens Society. Benjamin Fatone,
twenty one, of 483 Marcy Avenue,
q soldier home on furlough, who
was found with the girl, tainted on the
appearance of the officers,
Wagner administered milk to the
girl, and both she and Fatone were hur-
red to a hospital. Fatone recovered
almost Immediately, and was taken to
Brooklyn, where he was charged with
abduction. and held in $4,000 bail.
ing from her home since Monday.
Wednesday night Wagner saw her in a
passing automobile, and traced the car.
He learned from it's owner, Samuel Pit
Ter, of Mincola, that the girl was with
Fatone at the Elmont bungalow.
When the two men broke into the
place they heard the girl exclam:
"They Will never take me alive"
They could not reach her quickly
enough to prevent her drinking the
poison.
Another case of abduction of young
girl which has stirred Brooklyn recent
~ was dismissed in the Jamaica police
court By Magistrate Conway yes
terday, when Mrs. Mary Delaney,
of Morris Park, refused to make
a complaint against Austin Cor
win Charles Frizlin and Herbert Fleck,
all of Morris Park. who were arrested
on July II on short affidavit, charged
with abducting seventeen-year-old Ter
esa Delaney.
In court Mrs. Delaney informed the
magistrate that she had assured her
self that her daughter had not been
harmed, and Assistant District Attorney
NJ. Peppe consented to the dismissal Of
the case
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-05
BOY Killed as Sea Lays Bomb
Barrage on Roseba11k Beach
UnexpIoded Trench Crenades and Shells, Sunk
After Armistice, Reported Washed Ashore by
Hundreds; Lads Injured Playing With Missiles

Police investigation into the death
of Frank Caffaro, twelve years old,
VINO was killed by the explosion of a
bomb in the yard of his home at Rose
bank, Staten Island, yesterday. reveals
the probability that RosebanAbeach is
sown with explosives for miles.
Two brothers of young Caffaro, who
were wounded at the time that he
met death, said that grenade found
on the beach yesterday morning by
detectives of the Stapeton police sta
ton was similar TO the one WHICH
had killed their brother The detectives
found the bomb within fifty feet of the
spot where the Caffaro boys met with
disaster
The police learned yesterday that
tons of rife grenades manufactured
for use in the war at the Raritan Ar
senal, near South Amboy, were taken
to sea and sunk in deep water after the
armistice. Most of the bombs are of
a pattern impervious to water and the
police theory is that tidal action has
washed hundreds of the dangerous mis-
siles back on the beach. The grenade
found by the police was turned over
to the Bureau of Combustibles.
1t was reported last night that two
empty grenade boxes had been found
by police scarchers. Examination re-
vealed that action Of the sea water had
swollen the joints until they burst,
releasing their contents. One of the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-05

cases was marked "Trojan Powder
Company of New Jersey" and the other
american Grenade Loading Com
pany"
John Caffaro, fifteen years old, who
with his brother. Pasquale, nine, was
injured when Frank was killed, said at
the Staten Island Hospital last night
that he believed lots of the boys chad
found and were treasuring bombs" The
injured boys who will recover, accord
ing to the hospital authorities, ex-
planned that the bombs were so small
the boys had not supposed they were
regular" ammunition, but thought they
must be practice" bombs, which could
be used appropriately for such occa-
sions as July Fourth. He said some Of
the boys had tried to open one of the
bombs with pickaxe. but had found
it so difficult they threw it away.
The bombs are of the regular army
pattern used for trench bombing on
the western front, and are of about
the proportions of a goose egg, the po-
lice say. The explosion which killed
Frank Caffaro was of such force that
pieces of the metal casing of the mis-
sle were imbedded in fence two hum
dred feet away. That the two brothers
of Frank Caffaro were not killed is said
to have been due to the fact that they
were protected by an angle of the
house behind which Frank was trying
to open the bomb with pair Of pliers
and coal hammer.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-05
SsS prs. pr.
Hand
Blouses at 2.35

We cannot recall that
n22d-n10de batiste blouses
before the war or since
ever sold for so low a price.
There has been so wide a
demand for them that we
never could get enough of
them.
This year the manufac-
turers went out to fill the
demand--and they over
produced. That is why you
may have your pick from
400 today, at only 1926
each.
Trimmed NTH hand
made flet lace
The drawn-work is by hand.
The little embroidery is by
hand.
There are 8 styles-all vest
effects and Tuxedo collars. The
blouses are really sweater
blouses, to be worn with Tux
edo sweater or sports suit.
Sizes "a to As, inclusive.
Second floor, Old Building.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-05
Why don't you mind yoaw o1pn
business and let others attend
to theirs9" he snapped
ing happened and at last Sammy grew

ing happened and at last Sammy grew
tired.
There is nothing Sammy Jay de-
lights in more than in upsetting the
plans Of Reddy Fox. He knew by
the way Reddy kept so still that he
eyes sparkled with mischief and then
he opened his mouth.
Thief Thief Thief" he screamed
at the top of his lungs. "Fox, Fox,
Thief Thief"
Reddy looked rp and snarled. Then
he slowly got TO his feet. He knew
that 1T was useless to hide there
longer. "Why don't you mind your
own business and let others attend
to theirs ?" he snapped
Thief Thief Here is Reddy
tox!' screamed Sammy IN great glee.
Rcddy glared up at Sammy, and il
looks could kill Sammy would have
fallen dead right that instant AS
1t was, he only screamed the louder.
Reddy turned, and with as much dig
nifty as he could trottcd away Sam
mv followed, all the time screaming
~ hici' Here IS Reddy Fox. Thief
Thief"
Out Of the swamp and half way
across the Green Meadows sammy
followed Reddy Fox, and every ono
within hearing knew just where Reddv
was' Peter Rabbit in the hollow TO-,
heard and cbuckled, for he kne.g that
now there was no longer danger from
koddy. He yawncd crcpt out Of the
hollow log and stretched Then he
thought Of that poor young Heron IN
II trap, and as he did SO an idea came
TO him.
Copyright 1921 by r w. Burgess,
Tho next story: "Peter Consults
Sammy Jay
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-05
Bedtime Stories
Sammy Jay Comes Along
By Thornton w. Burgess
Hold your tongue ard use yo1tr
eyes
And youW learn mach thot ,ciN
surprise.
Sammy Jay.

-tSdiuliy Jay
Sammy Jay hadn't anything in par
ticu!ar to do save to look about
for mischief You know Sammy dear
~ loves to get into mischief. His
family had grown and left the nest
TO look out for themselves, and Sam
my mad no home duties. SO he spent
his time when not looking for some
thing to eat in looking for mischief
Just what prompted him to fly over
to the swamp on the edge of the
Big River that morning nobody knows
Perhaps he happened to think that
he hadn't visited the swamp for q
long time. Anyway, he flew over
there, and it happened that because
he few there from the Old Orchard
he entered il at the edge near where
lay the hollow log in which Peter
Rabbit was hiding from Reddy Fox.
Now. when Sammy Jay ia looking
for mischief he always is very quiet
AT other times he is very noisy. He
dearly loves to hear the sound of his
own voice. Blu. people looking for
mischief never want TO be seen or
heard. SO Sammy has way Of snoop-
ing around silently, using those sharp
eyes Of his for all they are worth,
and you may be sure there is little
they miss
Sammy fitted from tree 60 tree.
stopping in each to peer this way and
look that way to see all that was to
be seen, and 50 : was that presently he
came to tree just above Z big
ciump Of tall ferns. As usual, Sammy
peered this way and looked that way,
and 50 il was that he looked right
down into that clump Of tall ferns.
1hey moved ever so little
Now, there wasn't a breath Of air
moving and ferns do not move OF
themselves. Sammy knew that. OF
course.
some ono IL down among those
ferns thought Sammy, and leaned
down 10 sec better
as SAID before Sammy's eyes are
very sharp. Almost at once he saw
fomething rcd. lie changed his posi-
ton 20 o. 20 SEQ better. Then he
chuckied 70 nlmseif. That is Reddy
Fog hiding tberc,' he muttercd. Il
"0nder ~tat TINT scamp is there for
he ni1et be watching for some one"
sammy looked Ail about to trg 10
sce whom Reddy vas waiting for, but
no one vas u be seen. a little way
or lay an old log, but from where he
sat sammy couldn't gee that one end
Vac open or he would have guessed
that the ore Rcddy was waiting for
was in that old log. For some time
Sammy sat there watching. Moth
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-05
Tivoli-Saugersies Ferry
Of Benefit to Motorists
Gives Direct Route 10 Resorts
in Catskills; Oyster Bay.
Greenwich Boat Running
Motorists Light lamps To-day s:42 p. 7

Motorists Light Lamps To-day S:42 p m.
Saturday, $40 p. M; Monday, 1923
p. NJ; Sunday, 1888 p. m, and Tuesday,
S:37 p. m.
Motorists bound for the Catsbills
will be interested in the Terry service
started short time ago between Tivoli
and Saugerties, n. Y. The steam ferry
boat Menantic that formerly ran at
Shelter Island has been rebuilt for the
cross Hudson run. The ferry relieves
the congestion on the Rhinebck Kings
ton and Hudson Athens routes and
resorts, the Ashokan Dam and to traf
of the river. 1t is only four miles
roads and only a few miles to roads
leading to the Berkshires
Another automobile ferry service that
is in full operation is the Greenwich
Oyster Bay line. The Greenwich land
ing has been altered. so that motor
vans and cars Of an height may be
taken. The boat has capacity OF
thirtyfve cars and seventy-fve pas
sengers.
Autom obilists have been doing more
picnicking this season that ever before
and some of the places they have been
stopping alongside the road show it.
A campaign to have motorists clean up
before they leave a place has been
started on Long Island. 1t is a move
ment worthy the fullest cooperation of
all users of motor cars.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-05

100000 on film and motion picture
machine contracts. He said Cibrario
obtained this money from a fund OF
$l,000,000 deposited by the Soviet gov
ernment in the National City Bank by
the use of fraudulent warehouse re-
oeipts
The charges had been laid before the
Assistant District Attorney by Miss
Rose Weiss and Charles Recht, repre-
sentatives for the Soviet regime.
Two other suits are said to have
been brought against Cibrario, one in
the Supreme Court and the other in
the Municipal Court, by Miss Yolande
Rovelli, eighteen years old, of Phila-
delphia. She said she came to this
city as an employee of Cibrario, who
had represented himself as q count and
said he was going to make a moving
picture star Of her
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-05

The Hosisr. Shop marks the opening of
il, nen quarters on The Fourth Ave. end
Of the Main Floor, Old Building, NTH
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-05

q Highest, II degrees tat .. M; lowest.
81 degrees Cat q. M. average 50 de-
gFees, average same date last year 70
csZrees; average same date for thirty
three years, - degrees