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The Corpus Christi caller. [volume] (Corpus Christi, Tex.) 1918-1987, 1921-03-11
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The Corpus Christi caller. [volume] (Corpus Christi, Tex.) 1918-1987, 1921-03-11
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The Corpus Christi caller. [volume] (Corpus Christi, Tex.) 1918-1987, 1921-03-11

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The Corpus Christi caller. [volume] (Corpus Christi, Tex.) 1918-1987, 1921-03-11
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-12

Asia who have warmly approved the four power agreement. Their opinion is shared by majority in Congress and by no inconsider- able part of the American people who resent the imputation that this nation prefers selfish policy of isolation to one of mutual helpful ness.
 MT. Harding and his advisers have, in q sense, created new league of nations, with four members instead of 40 or more. It prom ises to be one of the greatest achievements of the Harding administration and is not only a safeguard against war in the future, but puts end to the Anglo-Japanese alliance which was causing uneasiness both in the British em- pire and in the United States.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-12
 WHEN TIMES WERE HARD

From the Monroe County (Mo) Appeal.
 "Old Timer in the Ashland Bugle last week says: "It makes me tired to hear people talk ing about us having hard times here now, for the average family is spending much money in one month as they did in one year 58 years ago. built house that spring and was not out over $20 cash. cut the trees and hauled the logs myself to the mill and had them sawed on the halves and had clapboards for the roof. I made a log pile and broke up limestone on it and burned the lime to daub the cracks gave carpenter $1 per day to make the doors and windows and door castings. There was a killing frost and ice on August IS. Thousands of acres of corn were total loss. Many things were higher than any time the past year. Coffee and sugar were 50 cents pound cal ico 50 cents yard, and great many things on the same scale We gathered leaves off the weeds and dried them for tea and roasted wheat and rye for coffee. Average farm wages were S1O per month, and there was not one farmer in 20 that could pay cash for work but about twice year; that was when they sold their wheat or hogs. Hogs were sold but once year, and that was generally in December and Janu- ary. They packed hogs only in cold weather. bought 10 hogs that averaged over 100 pounds for S5, less than one-half cent pound in February, 1864. No man could borrow money from the banks without giving two good men as security"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-12
TRAIN SERVICE GOOD

"Some people kick about things sometimes when they do not know the real facts in the case," remarked James Freeman, division pas senger agent of the Southern Railway system. Eve often heard it stated that the railroads are showing discrimination against Birming- ham in the manner of trains to and from Shelf field and Muscle Shoals.
 q want to say right now that if any dis crimination is shown it is shown to Birming- ham. A glance at the time tables will reveal the fact that shopper can leave Sheffield, at practically the same time for either Nashville, Chattanooga, Memphis or Birmingham At any of the other cities the shopper can only have about five hours in which to shop but if he or she comes to Birmingham he she will have exactly eight hours and three minutes-and besides that there are four trains running daily.
 "With the above facts do not see how any one can say that the railroads not treating Birmingham right"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-12
DISCIPLE OF JESSE JAMES STIRS UP ARKANSAS

There is material for dozen "dme novels" in the career of Tom Slaughter, bank robber, murderer and all-around desperado, who was killed in Arkansas by convict to whom he had given his liberty.
 The gentlemen who specialize in this class of Literature" will be most concerned with Slaughter's escape from the Arkansas peni- tentiary. An occupant of the death cell and with but more week to elspse before ne was due to be escorted to the electric chair, Slaughter made one of the most spectacular escapes in the history of crime. In some way he got possession of a revolver, disarmed the guards, locked them in cells, along with the warden and members of his family; leisurey took charge of the prison, offered freedom to all his fellow convicts and ruled the place for about five hours, while he was making his ar engagements to get away, which included changes of clothes for himself and the six men who went with him and the communicating of an automobile.
 Slaughter boasted that he would never be executed and thanks to the treachery of one of his accomplices, who incidentally showed him the rankest ingratitude he kept his vow. 9th erwise he would probably have been captured as four posses were in hot pursuit. Twenty six years old and steeped in crime, the state of Arkansas and several other states where he was wanted are we'll rid of Slaughter, but he was bold and resourceful villain at that.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-12
AUBURN LOYALTY

Recently when conferring with Governor Kilby regarding the needs of Auburn he told me he was struck by the great loyalty of the Auburn alumni" states Charles F. DeBardele, ben, president of the Jefferson County Auburn Alumni association.
 q think this is generally true. Saturday l drove over 100 miles in an auto from hunting trip to be present at the alumni meeting.
 "It is time for the state to give some at tention to the states agricultural and engi- neering school, which has practically the same buildings and equipment as when l attended there 29 years ago.
 "This institution Is primarily for the average young man and not the son of the rich Its graduates are in demand and the fa- cilities should be more in keeping with it's repu- tation.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-12
BEST SELLER LEAST READ?
From the Pittsburg Dispatch.

From the Pittsburg Dispatch
 Is the Book of Books being less read? Con- mon experience, it is feared, must confess the truth of the impression reported by Dr. F. q. Budlong in his Sunday sermon at the Church of the Ascension in which he said: "In most homes on the living room table you find the daily paper, current magazines and books. Where is the Bible? In the bookcase, where it will not be in the way"
 It might be inexact to say that the worlds 'best seller" is the least read, because mil lions upon millions have read some portions of it. but the incredulity with which statement of having read the Bible right through is or dinarily received is significant. Yet our whole civilization rests upon that Book. It repre- sents the culture of Christianity, the ethics and morality upon which the era has been built. If the present age is content merely to keep the Bible on the shelf, to be satisfied with sma- tering of it's contents gained in homes, pathic doses of quotation is there no danger, as Dr. Budlong says, of this proving one reason why the moral and spiritual sensitiveness of society so often seems blunted? If the chart be neg lected must not there be peril of shipwreck?
 Aside from the spiritual and moral aspects the Book of Books is worthy of better treat ment. Considered solely as literature what can compare with it's range or dignity and beauty? What philosophy be more inter- esting than that which has produced mans highest development? What poetry can excel the Song of Solomon? History may treat of material progress, but in this Book we learn the moral motives that made that progress possible.
 Take the Bible off the shelf, out of the corner of the bookcase. Put it on the living room table and turn to it when you want some thing to read. Read it as the worlds greatest book, even if you do not read it as inspired Its homely truths, it's practical philosophy, it's beautiful imagery have brought enduring joy to millions. Let us get back to the text book of our civilization.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-12
LILLIPUTIANS AND GIANTS
 STILL POPULAR

Members of the Association of Amusment fat lady and the human skeleton have had their day and new freaks must be found if showmen are to draw excamatons of wonder from their patrons. Nothing is said about the tattooed man, but everyone knows he no longer compete with moving pictures the screen. He never did command more than passing atten- tion in a sideshow. It is possible for anyone to be an animated work of art if he will go to is difficult matter to be born freak or to master the tricks with which performers have been deighting the multitudes for generations.
 The showmen say giants and Lliputians still popular and they propose to deal somewhat extensively in prodigies of this character. A giant nowadays must be genuine, although there have been some bogus giants. It is also diff ficult matter to flake" a Lilliputian, which may account for the fact that extremely small people and excessively large are still val uable for exhibition purposes. They help to convince the patron of a show that he is get ting his moneys worth.
 Disturbing news comes from abroad, however. There is danger of an influx of sword swal- lowers, three-legged men, bearded ladies and other European freaks who have suffered as a result of the World war and, like everybody else in Europe, they want to come to America and recoup their fortunes. A three-legged man might attract some attention, but sword swal- lowers and bearded ladies belong in the same category with the tatooed man. A troup of bearded ladies doing something in the way of a polite musical comedy might be an oddity, but as individual freaks they are no longer "the sensation of two continents" As for the sword swallower, he was becoming passe about the time John Robinson first put his circus on railroad cars.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-12
cAoaIr1IaM aM1AaasslH
QUALIFIED
From the Atlanta Constitution.

From the Atlanta Constitution.
 Atlantic City is spot to which many New Workers go for fling. Broadwayite was down there last week, and having time on his hands passed church where prayer meeting was being held. He dropped in. Shortly after the minister called upon him to lead in prayer
 He did the best he knew how and afterward he met the minister at the door and said: "You were taking a chance to call on stranger to lead in prayer, weren't you?"
 Not at al" was the reply. "Any one who attends a prayer meeting in Atlantic City could be called upon to administer the sacrament"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-12
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
WHAT BIRMINGHAM MAKES

Our booklet on Birmingham the Jobbing Center is about ready for the printer" said Charles F. Yarn, secretary of the wholesalers and manufacturers association of the Chamber of Commerce, land I believe it will be found really and truly complete record of what Ss produced and handled in Birmingham by the 100 representative jobbers and manufacturers comprising the membership of the association
 Retailers outside of Birmingham, to whom thousands of copies will be sent, will discover that Birmingham is more of a center of diversi- fled industries than they had thought. Now, that we have freight rates putting us par with competitive cities this knowledge is bound to bring business.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-12
ANCIENT MAN
From the Boston Herald.

SAAN 0NSNNAA N~S@N@N'
 Southey tells the story of skull picked up long after the battle of Blenheim of little Pe- terkin asking what good came of the fight, and of old Kaspars reply: "Why, that I cannot tell, tsts are picking up skulls, along with such other human bones as may be found with them in order to discover what man was like in the an- tiquity which antedated by aeons the "glory that was Greece and the grandeur that was Rome" It was 8 surprise for many who knew some thing of history to be told recently by Prof. H. Osborn that 25000 years ago Europe was inhabited by of men who possessed "a high order of brain power and ability" and had left evidences of it in cave pictures and carv- ings that have since been ''the marves of ar chaeologists." The Cro-Magans, as they are called, "had brains that were not only of q high type, but very large, those of the women exceeding the average male of today;' the men of the race averaged more than six feet in height, and their features as "reconstructed'' compare favoraby with our own 20th century men,
 News now comes that from mine in Rho- desia, South Africa, skull has been unearthed which Sir Arthur Keith estimates at about 100,- 900 years old, and which he regards as lone Of the most important discoveries relating to the history of man ever made.' For one thing a field is thus added to the range of arche- ological research. With the exception of the ancient skull picked up at Trinil Java, in 1849, most of these relics have been found in Eu- rope. A single specimen had come from Africa prior to the recent discovery, and now, in the z l.. .1-z1.. to turn out "a very ancient center of the pro- duction of humanity" literally "a center for the production of new human types" The African skull, according to him, shows that while today, beneath the skin, men are not very different from each other, Gin those days the world was patchwork of totally different species or genera of men," And the professor points to present-day survivals for proof, re- marking that the modern Hottentots are far and away the most peculiar people on the face of the earth, and that like peculiarities are to be seen in their cousins, the Bushmen.
 The African discovery is not by any means, of course, the farthest reach in the record. We have the Neandertha relics, found in Rhenish Prussia, and dating back 50,000 years; the Pitt down skull, between 100, 900 and 150, 1000 years old; the remains of the Heidelberg man." ad- ding 100000 years or more to the retrospect and the Java specimen, known as 'pithecan- thropus," at least 450,o00 years distant from us. But the oldest of these specimens was not completely human, and there is some lingering doubt in this respect regarding the rest. If it should be found that the African skull repre- sents race at all comparable with the Cro- Magnons most interesting vista would be opened up And it would be scientific romance indeed if, after all the attempts that have been made to place earliest man" on the map, the ''cradle of the human race" should at last be definitely located in 'the dark continent"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-12
POINTED PARAGRAPHS
From the Chicago News.

From the Chicago News.
 Many a firm has failed because it wasn't firm.
 Umbrellas are like men; usually the poorest are left
 Money must be tight when man is shy of loose change
 Necessity is the mother of several other children besides invention.
 The orange blossoms is the maiden's favorite flower for decorative purposes.
 Prayers of the man who prays for himself alone probably never get higher than the roof
 cat may look at king, but the average man would rather look at four aces any time
 If it were literally true that whisky fills our jails lots of men would break into them.
 In after years man is apt to wonder what kind of grudge he had against himself when he butted into the marriage game.
 During the honeymoon the happy couple sit and hold hands until the hired girl gives mo- tice-then the wifes hands are otherwise en- gagged
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-12
SERGEANT YORK, AMERICAN 


 Sergeant York, it appears, has the courage not only of the man at arms, occasion, but the courage of his own conception of the dignity of the cause for which he lately fought In the story of his uncertain fortunes printed in the World yesterday it was noted that he had refused of fers to exploit his valor to his profit the vau- deville stage or in the motion picture field. let seldom can there have been one more strongly tempted by circumstance than he.
 q could get used to most any kind of hard- ship says the Sergeant, "but Pm not fitted for the hardship of owing money" And that is pre- cisely the hardship that is laid upon him, partly through the very zeal of those who sought sin cerely to make him permanently independent.
 About the Sergeant's position there is certain simplicity and ruggedness of conviction suggestive of that sterner Americansm upon which some of us are always wishing the na- tionaI ideals might be fixed. It is the Ameri- canism of the Puritan, and there will be those ready with the laughter of material expediency. Nevertheless, many of us will wish that the ample of the brave Tennesseean might find fol lowers at the deeper centers of national activity
 The gallant York refuses to make money "out of my connection with the affair over in France" The practical politician does not hesitate to juggle with ideals in the interests serve country and world at large, the ex-sol- dier down south stands far above the men whose words of patriotic devotion are belied by their engagement in schemes for the prolonga- tion of party prestige and power.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-12
ADIPOSE TISSUE
Christopher Morley, in the New York Evening

Christopher Morley, in the New York Evening
 Post.
 Among all these experts who have been writing about obesity-Mr. Vance Thompson, Mr. Irwin Cobb, MT. Don Marquis, etc.-we nave never seen the following passage quoted, n which the subject was dealt with by one who as something of an expert
 'Talking of man who was grown very fat, Q as to be incommoded with corpulency; he IDr. Johnson) said He eats too much, Sir roswell I don't know, Sir; you will see one Ian fat who eats moderately, and another lean rho eats a great deal.' Johnson: Nay, Sir, yhatever may be the quantity that man eats. t is plain that if he is too fat he has eaten aore than he should have done. One man may have digestion that consumes food better than ,ommon; but it is certain that solidity is in- .reased by putting something to it. Boswell: But may not solids swell and be distended.' Johnson: eYss, Sir, they may swell and be dis tended; but that is not fat
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-12
EXPLAINS SEAL CAMPAIGN

There is no way at this time of determining the number of seals sold through our mail cam paign," says E. M. Tutwiler, Jr., chairman of the Anti Tuberculosis Christmas seal campaign.
 ''We sent out 25 900 letters through the mail and while we are getting some early responses, others will be delayed some until after the first of the year.
 "It is customary for the smaller donations in the seal campaign to come in earlier. The larger blocks of seal purchase expected later.
 After the street sale this week, which is put on to solicit those not reached by mail and to cover the business district, the campaign will be closed and the only place seals can be se- cured will be at our general county headquar- ters on Avenue F.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-12
SENATE WILL RATIFY PACIFIC TREATY

"Irreconcilables' in the United States Senate are making the same objections to the four power Pacific treaty that were used to defeat ratification of the Versailles treaty and the League of Nations
 These self-styled guardians of American sov- ereignty would have the American government enter into no contract or agreement which in- wolves any responsibility on our part to help maintain peace. They will find themselves fighting losing battle. The sentiment in ceed in creating furore over Article of the pact they did in the of Article X. although the two clauses are similar in phrase ology if not so wide in scope.
 Article X applied to the whole world Arti- cle 2 guarantees that America, Great Britain, France and Japan will cooperate to prevent hostilities in the Pacific the only potential bat tie ground on large scale which has survived the World war. A resort to arms is not con- templated or suggested The signatory na- tons merely pledge themselves to meet and talk things over' if misunderstanding de- velop which might lead to war. It is gentle mans agreement" and nothing more. It de- pends fur it's effectiveness on national honor. There arc still altruists who believe that there is such thing as national honor and the suc- cess of this understanding between the four principal powers will in the end justify that belief.
 America can never hope to be of any real service in promoting peace unless it is willing to be something more than an innocent bystandex. sMoral support" and empty platitudes will not do. President Harding and Mir. Hughes see