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Bisbee daily review., 1921-05-10
/ LATEST GAMES


 The influence of prohibition is re- markable The latest stunt now is prohibition games, which are being played at all the fashionable parties at Naco, according to reports. Here are some of them:
 Memory Game
 Each guy shifts his memory into reverse and tries to see how far back wards he can drive it in a minute One guy will remember when ham. and-eggs was two bits everywhere. Another bird will recollect the days when horse-cars was popular and still another guy will tell about the days when you could see the best show in the country for 25 cents, first row balcony. The game breaks up when somebody remembers way back to the days when feller could stick his foot on the rail, tilt his hat back and ret big tall one for nickel.
 Drop the Mule
 This game is similar to drop-the- handkerchief. The players form in a circle. facing toward the center. The guy who is 'it' takes a pint of white mule and runs around the circle Every once in while he stops like he was going to give somebody pull at the, bottle, and the guy he stops behind turns around and chases him. If the guy with the bottle gets tagged he gives it up to the guy who tags him. The game is much fun until some goof trips up. while being chas- ed, and falls and breaks the bottle, whereupon the rest of the crowd jumps on him and cleans up. The game is very popular.
Bisbee daily review., 1921-05-10
IS YOUR CHILD A PRODIGY?

 child prodigies the of than their au psychology which This child s Children all we'll they nothing be playing with The kids around here play % him nand him of his childhood purpose but the
 
 the children their age
 
 in though shining; To one The were regular
Bisbee daily review., 1921-05-10
TEXAS IDylN |S
 HIT BY TORNADO
Two Persons Seriously Hurt, Summer Resort Wiped Out,
 Property L4o s Heavy

HOUSTON Texas. May 9.-A tor. nado which was reported to have swept up from the coast and moved eastward struck ;Laporte, near here, tonight, seriously injuring two per. sons, wiped out sylvan Rooms" a summer resort near Laporte, and caused property damage of thousands Of dollars. All wires are down.
Bisbee daily review., 1921-05-10
THE AMERICAN ARMY ON THE RHINE

IA was fine compliment the chief of staff of the Swiss paid the American to the occupied which he made thorough inspection
  were the most upodae outfit of all the O That is high
  army always ready defend lenged the
 "hat tho Swiss chief Rhine 
 commission from Holland expressed similar
Bisbee daily review., 1921-05-10
Just Passin' The
 Time Away
By KID UNDERWOOD
Pin the White Mule

Fin tnc WHitc imuIe
 The players are blindfolded one at a time and given cork. A bottle of white mule, without any cork, is plac- ed somewhere in the room. The blindfolded player tries to put the cork in the bottle without spilling any of the contents. If he succeeds he gets the bottle; if he spills any of the mule he finds that mule isn't the only thing that has a good kick.
 Hide and Seek
 One of the players is elected hider. The others put their faces in their hands and don't peek until he has hidden a pint. .Then they try to find 1t. The guy who finds the bottle has to divvy up with the rest. If the bot tie, aint found the gang accuses the hider of foul play and if his breath don't prove he's innocent he gets worked over
Bisbee daily review., 1921-05-10

is in a gray frock in afternoon. And there is the ineyitable black velvet neckbapd with diamonds fore and aft.
 Two aides in full dress, one from the army and one from the navy, and Miss Laura Harlan, Mrs. Harding's secretary, constitute the usual lineup.
 "Give your name only to the officer
Bisbee daily review., 1921-05-10
BY IoRA KELLY

WASHINGTON, May 9.-Apparent- ly everybody who visits Washington finds it possible to arrange to break into the White House reception and shake hands with President and Mrs. Harding.
 Hardly an afternoon passes but what some delegation or other calls
Bisbee daily review., 1921-05-10
STEP BACK-BOYS FIRST!

WIhAr'S beehive nearly spoo0oo people whole beginning Ma n Boyvfle solicited agdays Merely drive thought and attention boy and his how make him into a crackerjack citzen There's a drive worth while. Chicago thinks it's needed 
  specific destructive work ing m the
  juvenile delinquency ward cent in
 
  reaching the futo o Developing the potential social and  the parasite community liabilities conging rightful
  imprisoned. folowfthe road.
  woud be less crine-and better public spirit
Bisbee daily review., 1921-05-10
SPEED HARD ON TRES

Every time the car hits bump, while going ut 9 miles an hour, the shock is equal to blow of from nine to ten tona. Tho faster tlIp car tho heavier the blow
Bisbee daily review., 1921-05-10
YESTERDAYS MAIL

Dear Kid:
 | am interested in transportation problems. What is the queckest way to get from here to Florence?
 A FrieSd. Dear Friend: Go out and steal couple Of COWS. Dear kiddo:
 My pet cat used to be very fond of liver. Yesterday l put plate of it before him Favored with roquefort cheese and he wouldn't eat 1t. What is the matter with him?.
 Worried. Dear Worried: Probably that's what he was wondering about the liver.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-15
Miss Angy Manning Taylor

NEPARATE and apart from the '1n- N terviewer's'' beaten path is the " sweet gentle personality which characterizes Miss Angy Manning Tay- loz, the noted Bible teacher, who for the past 10 days has been giving her readings at Highlands Methodist church-a personality at once so ap- pealing and so sincere. yet so modest and so absolutely outside of the average public speakers" attitude, that it is refreshing and delightful to encounter
 When I returned from a little trip to F7orida last Saturday. the Hand of sun shine and flowers" somehow I felt as if I had left many of the beautiful things behind me in that magic land where Ponce de Leon searched for the 'Foun- tain of Youth" but when heard from my friends and acquaintances who have been attending Miss Taylor's Bible readings, of her beautiful and wonder full heart and mind of her marvellous exposition of the word of God. I knew that right here in Birmingham, my be- loved Birmingham, there was awaiting mo, something far sweeter far better. than any mere trip among beautiful flowers and glimmering seashorcs something that is eternal in it's mes sage, beautiful, supreme.
 Miss Taylor is far more interesting, far more wonderful in her work than she ever was before" 1 was told Sun day morning after the interesting ser
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-15
U. s. COURT CONFINES
Will Be In Session at Meridian All
 This Week

Meridian, Miss. March i4.-(Special) The March term of federal court. east ern division of the southern district of Mississippi, was convened here today by Judge Edwin R. Holmes of Yazoo City and will be in session probably all Of the week. Immediately after court had been ctlled to order this morning, the grand jury was selected. sworn in, charged and retired to he gin deliberations. Most of the cases to come before the court during the term will be for alleged violations of inc prohibition law, something like 100 cases being on the docket for inyesti- gauon by the grand jury Arrests have been made in every county of the dis trict since the last term of the court in september, the "moonshine" business appearing to be flourishing one and according to federal prohibition agents themselves. the manufacture of ..wbit. nghtnIng" goes merrily on regardless or the number of violators arrested ana their plants raided and destroved one prominent federal official w.s heard to say that a guess that thera are 10000 illicit stills in this ststs would, in his opinion. not be far wrong It is also claimed by federal agents that convictions by jury ara nara to get and that the greater mn Der of those who are punished o-. those caught red handed and who A. ter pleas of guilty
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-15
TO JOIN PROTEST
Meridian to Aid Fight Against Tele.
 phone Increase

Meridian, Miss, March 14.-(SpeciaI. , Meridian is going to join other cities of Mississippi in a protest against the announced. raise of rates for telephons service by the Cumberland company. The matter will be brought to the al : tention of the city council tomorrow morning by Mayor John w. Parker. he has announced. What action will ha taken, he was not able to say, but stated that the whole matter would ha gone into and if there was a wav to successfully combat the increase. if would likely be taken. He further stated that he had received a number or letters from the heads of munici. palities and commercial bodies of tha state urging that Meridian, the fore most -city of the state, join Tn a move. ment to fight an increase of rat.. promulgated at so inopportune a time when other prices are slowly decreas, ing. men being laid off from work ana With wage cuts threatening.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-15
Greenville Branch Opened

Greenville, March 14.-(Spec,al,
 The Darlington-Sessions Auto comnanv has opened branch salesroom In thIs ci.y' and will handle the Hudson ana Essex lines at this place. Mr Ads of Andalusia will have charge or ths Greenville branch 'e
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-15

mon delivered by pr. W. R. Hendrix at Highlands Methodist church, as little groups of friends stopped to exchange a word or two in passing.
 I recalled so vividly my first acquain- tance with Miss Taylor, now nearly six years ago when sweet Edna Sandlin,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-15

Ole Miss, de 0ccuIiStS would Starve ter death ef dey de- pended on de Folks dat'S BLIND TER DEY OWN FAULTS. YaSSum.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-15

3Jack Frost" Salt l. Better.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-08
LIFE'S GREATEST MIRACLE

beauty tenderness NJ from sprngtime; God for earth yeang which sought God took Christian the faith dying saint and the Nary of them And God multiplied these mothers Had He made but placed her His world miracle and
 her today the Father in heaven But mothers until there mother of of this overwhelming suned blinded and mothers sometimes forgotten.
 perhaps of these Mothers will deal with with the glory of motherhood And driven home when for the well her life the gift
 that she know the deepening glow that led us led by Him in the of happiness and peace all the love she has freely gVen contain the bless ings well motherhood should taught children that too we'll
 think that there lesson Mothers Day TOT
 that mothers themselves do not always discern their own glory children the heavenly perfeness or have been mother and in moment or so called the little back to die and to have hao
 but it death to be motheand De unworthy.
 you forgotten your will of God than they that love them into goooess bent? Can set them example
 honest and clean! You
 bodies with rods then do you peat into utter demty young maeabe souls? do not know be the mther dreaming when He made her. but good accept full respn bly rreverent Goddess we ~ MIDDLETON s. FAREWELL.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-08
IN HOTEL LORBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Entitled to More

'"The legislature of 1919 passed an act creating the office of state fire marshall said James A. simpson --,>d two-fifths of per cent on gross insurance premiums is collected to pay for this office
 According to the report of W. ]. Williams, chief fire marshal, $31,1Si was turned into the. general fund of the state at the end of the year, as provided for in the bill.
 That shows there was a saving of that amount after all expenses were paid, and. according to the act, the fire marshal is entitled to have a sec rotary and four operatives, but at the present time he only has two opera lives. By the amount turned in to the general fund, these additional men could be employed and still save a large amount. This tax is for the pur- pose of paying for the operation of this office and, in my opinion, should be used for that purpose"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-08
MARCH OH THE MYSTIC MEN w GuStaye Frederick Martins


 (Recited at Memorial Day Exercises
 in Montgomery.) Comes Hitting song of bugles down the balmy winds of Spring. As my heart calls back it's heroes to the worlds bright Towering. Treading roseate clouds of glory march these mystic men in gray While I kneel with all the Southland for today's Memorial Day. These men sleep no more in valleys no more hillsides claim their dust;
 No more death and no more anguish;
 gone to the canker and the rust
 And the living men-their comrades lift we also to those skies Where now march the white -souled warriors in love that never dies.
 All are Lee and all are Jackson as our brimming eyes behold; For in love are all commissioned wearing each the gray and gold. Marcring. marching. ever marching, come these heroes without stai.l And the Stars and Bars precedes them, never to be furled again. Not,for wars and not for battles does that silken banner float; Not for signal to wild combat comes that silvery bugle-note; But as symbols of glory that shall never fade away. o my Soul! be at attention; for they pass-the men in gray.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-08
NEW FIELD FOR THE MOVIES

From the Literary Review.
 There Is a great. almost unexplored field for the movies in fairy tales both ancient and modern, in weird and fam tastic poetry. in the prose of writers who let the lightning of truly creative imagination or the rainbows of quaint fancy play upon the borderland between the real and the unreal As diverse writers as Poe, James Stephens. Wells Gin his earlier work), Anstey. Coleridge, Barpie and many others could be named. Much of the worlds greatest literature belongs in the magical, fantastic realm And the movies could far more easily make us believe in, the actuality of an Aladdin's lamp or Wells men in the moon than in the stock characters, stock situations, stock plots, and stock tragedy and comedy of their transla- ticns from the literature of real lift" /" We believe the producer of pictures" might be a veritable Prospero at en- chanting many Ferdinands figured as his audience. Certainly there is an Ariel in his service at the wave of whose wand any optical Illusion is pos sible. from the djinn of the Arabian Nights taking substance from the spir- alling smoke of the fisherman's jar to the comic possibilities of such a mas terpiece of short fiction as H. G. Wells "The Man Who Could Work Mfracles'' where greatly ina gina tlve--and pro- foundly human-fantasy could be set forth with delightful actuality.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-08
A MOTHERS INFI4 4UENCE-By Frank Willis Barnett

sometimes come back to the study, weary of the world and tired of men, of men that are so hard and selfish, and world that Is So unfeeling, I seem to hear that Book saying. as with the well-remembered tones of voice. long silent: Let not your heart be trou- bled Then my spirit becomes calm, and the little world sinks into it's true place again."
 At Gods right hand sits one who was a child,
 Bern of the humblest and who here
 abode
 Till of our sorrow He had suffered all. Trey now who weep, remember that
 He wept
 The tempted, the despised, the sor- rowing feel
 That Jesus, too drank of these cups of woe.
 And oh, if our joys be tasted less. l If all but one passed from His lips away, That one mothers love, by His par taking,
 Is like a thread of heaven spun through our life. And we in the untiring watch. the tears,
 The tenderness and fond trust of | mother,
 May feel heavenly closeness with | God, For such, all human in it's blest excess Was Marys love for Jesus.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-08
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT THE REJUVENATION
 OF THE BUSINESS INTERESTS OF THE COUNTRY

F1HE tide has turned and better business conditions are in pros
 O pect
 The fact that the railroads and the great industrial corporations and other business interests are adjusting their wage scales to the unsettled con- dttions means much to the country.
 High wages and high prices are to be things of the past What matters 1t how high the wage scales if indus trial concerns cannot operate on ac> count of the high prices they must charge for their output? Every class of merchandise has come down. Where the makers have continued high priceA, the usual purchasers have refused to buy. The merchants of Birmingham and everywhere else who bought at high prices, find they cannot sell the 6CouS, dHu Tn uldHy lHSCdHCcS are TS- ducing them below cost to move them.
 The 1aboring man throughout the country Is gradually coming to his senses and is willing to accept lower scales in order to get work. Indeed, there are thousands of men in the Bir- mil gham district out of work today because of the curtailment of opera. tions in the industrial plants. x x &
 Both prices of manufactured goods and prices of labor are going down materially. But 1t will be all the same to the laboring man. because he can buy both the necessities and luxuries of life at prices a percentage equally lower with the percentage of wage cuts.
 That we have not had a panic in this country is due to our most excellent
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-08
England and America Will Stand Together

< @ ECRETARY COLBY'S speech be- 0 fore the Luncheon club in Lon don was an eloquent expression of the friendship which unites Great Britain and America.
 As MT. Colby stated, we came late into the war. but we came, and to the everlasting glory of America we turned the tide of defeat into a vic tory. It is true that the fruits of that victory have not yet been gath cred and the worlds affairs are still chaotic. but who would change the present, at it's worst, for the condi- tions that would have prevailed if Germany had won? Freedom even in turmoil, is better than slavery.
 "What fortunate thing it is,' MT. Colby said, "that Anglo-American re- lations continue on solid lines and immutable friendship fortunate for this generation and full of hopeful augury for all future generations , As for the suggestion that there are serious differences between the two nations, he declared that British and American friendship is the sturdi- est fact which exists today in the field of international relations"
 The future of America, of Great Britain and the world, depends on Anglo-Saxon solidarity. With that maintained, the safety of our insti- tutions is assured. At heart, the two nations admire and respect each oth- CT. Friction. if there is any friction. Is only on the surface. It is superfi- cial and does not touch the deeper ties which bind America and Great
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-08

Only those who know the question: ings of mind, the agony of soul which came to the great dour old nineteenth century prophet can realize the full meaning of his cry to the memory of his mother for strength to live under the load of a weary and embittered life, when she who was his wife had gone out into the dark before he had realized just how much she had been
 too him, and that it was too late to let
 her know.
 It is mighty easy to strike false note in speaking of mothers Bible. it grates on sensitive ears, tuneful hearts and trusting souls, to hear rash ora
 tors lightly do it with the hope of
 stirring a cheap sentimentality in their hearers; but it is mighty appeal to
 the best that there is in us when 1t is
 done by a man who, conscious of its | sacredness, does it in loving memory
 of her who gave him birth and gov
 erned her life by it's teachings.
 | No wonder that a greas bishop, in speaking of his mothers Bible, was
 able to say: Years have passed, but | 1t stands there on the shelf, eloquen,
 as ever, witness of beautiful life, and
 silent monitor to the living. When
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-08
| * & Nine Wage Increases Before the Decrease

T7f7HE reduction of 20 per cent in J wages of day labor at the manufacturing plants of the United States Steel Corporation must be compared with wages in the past five years in order to realize what the new scale effective May 16 will mean.
 Common day labor employed by the United States Steel Corporation was earning $2 per day in 1915. In February, 1916, this was advanced to $2.2O. Two other advances made that year brought it to $2.75. Two more advances in 1917 made the wage $S.3O. Three advances in 1918 raised it to $4.62, and one in 1920 raised it to $5.06.
 On May 16 the reduction will bring it down to $4.O5, which makes it re- main more than 100 per cent in crease over the wage of 1915 and the equal of the wage paid in 1918 after the seventh advance over 1915 had been given.
 The average wage of the Steel Corporation employees in 1915 was 1925 per annum; in 1920 it was $2,175 m increase of 13O per cent. The labor cost of producing ton of steel increased from $16.0s in 1915 to $82.64 in 1918, and to $4o.s6 in 1920 It cost 169 per cent more in money paid to labor to produce steel in 1920 than it did in 1915.
 Independent steel mills reduced wages early in the year, the cut in some instances exceeding 30 per cent,
 One gathers that the Steel Corpor- Ation has cut off comparatively lit
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-08
LUKE M,LUKE SAYS

It has just about gotten so that girl has no use for new waist unless II
 is built for advertising purposes. On the other hand, there are a few
 women who do not understand men. In spite of the fact that she can see
 through her husband the average wom-
 an does not believe in ghosts. Just about the time the young thing
 to whom you are talking begins to im-
 rress you as being intellectual. she will start in and inform you that Sher- 1 lock Holmes is one of her favorfte pauthors
 Even when you are getting the worst of it you should cheer up. It may De some consolation to know that you have plenty of company. We may be wrong. But we do not intend to prepare for celestial bliss up
 Above by harping on one mournful string while we are here below. We expect that when a married preacher is performing ceremony and makes the bride promise to obey, he hopes that the groom will have better
 luck in that respect than the preacher
 has had.
 Another reason why wo have so much trouble in this world is because a young man never thinks seriously of
 marriage until after he has been mar
 ried for six months.
 | Any doctor is smart enough to know that when mother Is sick she needs rest and that when daughter Is sick
 she needs exercise.
 l A poor writer can be a poor speller and ger by with 1t. But a man who writes a copy plate hand should keep
 . dictionary at his elbow There wasn't so much high cost of l living in this country in the old days when we used to try our mush instead Of selling 1t as literature. Copyright I921.)