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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-10
CITY WILL BE ?. 0.
 SUPPLIES DEPOT Government Chooses Birming- ham Because of Distribution
 to Eight States

King Pickett field man from the office of the fourth assistant post master general. Washington, is in Bir- mingham today to establish a deposi- tory for supplies for the postoffices of the entire state. and also to establish another depository for supplying twine and facing slips for the entire south eastern district, comprising some eight states.
 The new department will. be estab- lished in the new federal building upon its completion. according to R. B. Smyer. postmaster, who yesterday said the addition was an importAn. move in the postal division.
 Birmingham Is now the depository for stamps and paper for the state Mir. Smyer said, but owing to limited facilities for handling other supplies the new division could not be offici ally put into operation until the struc- ture now under way Is completed.
 Fine distribution facilities of the city secured the placement of the depot here.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-10
AMENDMENT VOTE AMONG UGHTEST IN
 HISTORY OF COUNTY
Both Measures Apparently De- feated-The Official Can vaSs Will Be Made
 Tomorrow

Proposed amendments to the state con stitution were apparently defeated in the
 election held Tuesday, the vote being one of the lightest ever recorded in Jeffer- son county The returns up to date are very meagre but few boxes in the county having been heard from and the result will not be known definitely until the official canvass is made.
 Indications are that the suffrage
 amendment was lost by an overwhelming vote while the road amendment author izing the issuance and sale of s5.o00,ooD worth of road bonds at rate of interest of per cent was defeated by small majority The returns will be canvasscd tomorrow by the election commission when the final result of the election in l Jefferson county will be announced With no votes cast in several precincts and very light vote at practically every box little interest was manifested in the election. Election officers failed to appear al number of polling places, it is stated and many persons were not allowed to vote because they had moved their res- licence and had failed to notify the chair man of the board of registrars in order | to have their voting place changed. Officers bringing in the ballot boxes to the sherff's office failed to bring in the results of the boxes and 1t was prac- tically impossible to secure figures In Bessemer the bond amendment car r.ed by IA majority, 1S3 favoring it and s9 opposing it. The suffrage amendment was defeated by large majority, there being 69 for and 16T against if.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-10
COUNTY FARME|RS
 ID MEET SATURDAY
will Discuss Co., Operative Pur. chasing of Fertilizers and
 marketing

Farmers and truckers of Jeffersou county will hold meeting in the Cham Der of f5 r-erce saturday morning at 10 o'tloc
 The truckers vii especially discuss such ms sers as ihe cooperative pur- chase o,l fertilizers for cash and co- operative marketing. These arc the live topics n tho favnfng sections of Jef- fefson conftN tt this time. according to H. l. B. @n, county agricultural agent.
 Speakiss of cotton. Mir Brown said: sCotton S nor a Jefferson county pr0b- lena. Bs < lr iSs4 v raised a lot of cot- ton at !. Leeds. Alliance and in other parts of the eounty, but the boil weevil got busy; tfen aalna the low prices when the war brsisc eut. The farmers of Jeffer- son cut eetton acreage 50 per cent and have n1;sia fhsthey reductions since.
 This $ benksnsng county of truck CTS and ssas- i3einG cloae to | large c1nsa nR steF the producers of Jefferson Spnnts haxe . sale for prac- ticnlly evetY tfAne shss they can raise on the far1n ess sslally truck. Diyersi- fication cane natalrxilY In sJefferson county and there is no danoor of baelx- sliding to cotton,
 We are noN hesIed Co development of the dairying and truck ia& business and the farmers { eeir alert td the oppovtu- nity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-10

 they wanted it. That is why they robbed the mail car.
 PARENTS FOLLY
 And. oh. the lesson they had to learn. because of the folly of their parents in not teaching them to obey.
 Before passing sentence on these boys the court went thor oughly into the matter of their home life and he found that one boy had been an orphan and the other two raised to have their own will served whether right or wrong. They got from 10 to 20 years, and when the court sem fenced them he said he was sorry that it should be the boys who should have to pay.
 Had that been me passing that sentence. I think I would have given those boys five years in some reformatory where they would be taught to obey and abide by the laws of the land then I would send for their fathers and give them the 10 years to think it over in
 Parents should not be afraid in being too severe in their punish ment for wrong doing of the chill dren. For you will find, after all. that the happiest man in the world is the man who makes himself in harmony with the law and obeys, it."
 The speaker told the assembly the vital points in the instruc- tion of the growing boys and girls as to their sex relations. and very graphically outlined method for fathers to use to inform their sons between five, six and seven of their origin, in such a man ner that better children and better citizens will result therefrom.
 Fathers should ever keep In mind that a golden rule, stronger and mightier than perhaps they have ever before conceived, should be operative in insulting into the minds of the little boys the true things of life. Fathers can make the best citizens in the world by doing to their little ones that which they look back now and wish someone had done to them" to them"
 NOT IN SCHOOL
 Dr. Barker said he believed 1t wrong to teach sex re1a tions in the public schools.
 q have been preaching against such a move everywhere talk, for 1t is not the place to instruct children on this thing.
 T have received appeal after appeal from Washington from the educational authorities saying, Please, pr. Barker, please don't talk against such education In the schools, because we have already gone into the matter of textbooks on this subject and we are having them prepared now
 But that Is dangerous. The schools are no place to instruct children concerning sex. It is the plain duty of every father to in form his son. and every mother her little daughter. And If either lacks the courage or cannot find a way to do 1t. then it is the duty of the other parent.
 But I say this: If the fathers and the mothers can't tell their children in the proper way for the purpose of educating them in order to give the world better citizens then let the public schools take the subject in hand"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-10
ID SHOW
 CITY ID VISITORS
Cleveland Business Men Will Be Escorted About Birming-
 ham to See Activities

Final plans for the entertainment of
 the Cleveland business men who will
 visit Birmingham today were finished
 yesterday at joint meeting of tho va
 rious committees in the rooms of the
 Civic Association.
 MT. Harold. the secretary, has received
 many requests for reservations at the
 luncheon which will be held in the pri-
 vate dining room of the Tutwiler hotel at o'clock today, and any further res
 ervations should be telephoned Mir. Har-
 old at the Civic Association before 10
 Q clock this morning.
 Every effort is to be made to show the city to the Cleveland manufacturers and wholesalers, and many local busi- ness men have made arrangements to en-
 certain the visitors interested in thelr lines of trade. to the fullest extent We have made an enviable reputation iE times past MT. Harold said, when we have been called upon to entertain their letters and statements. always look forward to their visit in Birmingham with satisfaction and pleasure.
 We owe a debt of gratitude to other civic bodies for their splendid co-opera. | tion in getting this affair to be success. 1 full, and we are sure Birmingham will lbe better advertised community when l the visitors leave.
 They will not fail to notice the splendid condition which exists here, fol BirminEham's activities have been her. aided in the press throughout the coun- I4ry Therefore; they should not be great l ly surprised when they find we are mol las bud off commercially as perhaps . rood many other cities they will visit. {
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-10
RESOLU UTIONS ON THE DEATH OF w. M. GOODWIN
 PASSED BY GR0CERS

A resolution expressing deep regret and sympathy of the association over tile sudden death Sunday of Wiley M. Goodwin, vice president of the Bir- mingham Retail Grocers' and Butchers
 association. was introduced and unan-
 imously adopted Tuesday night at the seni-monthly meeting of that organiza. ton at o'clock at the Civic Association.
 Mir. Goodwin was one of Birmfng-
 hams oldest grocers from point of having long established in the grocery
 business of Birmingham. and has been
 one of the most active members Of the
 association since it's organizations.
 Prior to last May. MT Goodwin vas
 president, and with the last election of annual officers he was elected to fill the vice presidency.
 Last nights meeting was devoted all most principally to business talks, and the carrying on of regular routine matters Condition of the market at present and the prospects for the fu- ture were discussed at length. A financial statement for the year just ended was read by Secretary Shrop- shire in which 1t was shown that the organization has had prosperous Iyear and that the total membership during this period had increased more |than 100 per cent. Robert Emond. president, officiated at the session. The next meeting of the associAt ton will be held February zz, 1t was an- aounced
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-10
QUARTET GIVES FINE OFFERING OF
 SONG AT CABLE HALL

The auditorium of the Cable hall build ing was filled to capacity Tuesday night when the Birmingham Music Study club presented the Song Circle Quartette, in a delightful and colorful offering of song.
 The uuartette is composed of Mrs. Will burn Shackelford soprano; Miss Lima vogt, contralto; Owen Gillespy tenor, and Leon Cole, basso Emile Levy. the director, was at the piano.
 The programme was in two cycles: sThe Morning of The Year. by Charles Wakefield Cadman. Words selected from Works of Modern Poets. by Nellie Rich rnond Eberhart and Tn Persian Gar den" Words selected from the Rubayat of Omar Khayyan. by Liza Lehman.
 The members of the quartette were at their best. and rendered the lenthy pro- gramme with wonderful effect. Mir. Levy's descriptive work at the piano was . feature.
 The large and deserving audience gave decided approval of the programme and the applause was frequent.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-10

Miss Pauline Hnrvcll, the pretty 10-yenr-old daughter of MT. and Mrs. w. T. Harveil. of s12 Forty eighth street, north. has been miss fng since Inst saturday night, and despite the efforts of her parents and friends and the detective de- pnrtment, no clue to her where- abouts has been found.
 She wns last seen Saturday night about S,3O o'clock In company with a woman of handsome appearance going tOwnrd the l.. and N. depot md it wns later learned that womnn answering the description of the older woman had purchased two tickets for St. Louis, Mo.
 According to the statement of her mother, Miss HarveiI has. recently been employed at n downtown de- pnrtment store on Saturdays and Mondays, nnd that on Inst Satur- day afternoon n strange woman was seen talking to the girl. md was heard to nsk her to take lunch with her after she hnd concluded her duties at the store, which was at ' o'clock.
 At thnt hour Miss Hnrvell left the store and was seen in company with the woman at 7,3O o'clock, and again nt n later hour. From that time she has not been seen or heard from.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-10
URGE N. Y. BOARD ID RECONSIDER STAND
Fasteners Oppose the Muscle Shoals Proiect-Birmingham
 Wants Their Cooperation

The Birmingham Chamber of Com
 merce has wired the Merchants Asso-
 citation of New York asking it to with draw its opposition to the completion of the Muscle Shoals projects and solicit ing the "hearty cooperation" of the or ganizaton instead
 The chamber particularly calls atten- tion of the York body to the fact that the development of power at Muscle Shoals is of as much importance to Ala bama as that of Niagara has been to the state of New York and cites the greater amount of power that can be produced at Muscle Shoals
 The New York organization has not only protested the completion of Wilson dam and operation of the nitrate plants, but has spread broadcast literature that expresses it's opposition. It has made an organized attack on the entire Muscle Shoals project.
 The Memphis chamber of commerce called attention of the Birmingham chamber to the action of the New York CTS and the Birmingham chamber promptly responded by sending the fol- lowing telegram yesterday evening" Merchants Association of New York.
 Understand your organization opposes further work in connection with com pletion Muscle Shoals project The fu- ture economic welfare or this Wnoie ter ritory depends on development of hydro electric power. the manufacture of ni- trate and opening navigation of Muscle Shoals We urge special consideration of the project and instead of your oppo- sition we solicit your hearty co-opera- tion.
 Development of power at Muscle Shoals is of as much importance to Ala bama as that of Niagara has been to ] New York state We, therefore, fail to 1 sense the reason of your opposition.
 l .CHAMBER OF COMMERCE."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-10
What They Think
Br RILL HAYES.

The question was: What is your opinion of the proposed air mail route between Birmingham and Chicago?'
 Where asked: On Twentieth street between First and Second avenues.
 The answers were:
 Lloyd Millikan, contractor, Avenue HI: "That will greatly expedite mail service and show another step in the Dig progress we are making in this part of the country
 Ernest R. Rosenbanm, travelling ealesman, Metropolitan hotel: This part of the country is sure keeping stAp with the other sections where this service has been established
 M. R. Leverton, printer. 6ibh Twen- tieth street, south: 'They should quit talking so much about it and put ie in. It has been hanging fire long enough, everybody knows
 Ethel Riggerts. stenographer, Jel- lesson County bank building; Tt VIII probably do lot of good on long distance mall, but I don't see where 1t will help the local situation any. unless the lifting of the burden of long distance mail will make for epeedief handling of the local mails.
 Pearl Cruikshank. clerk, 602 Twen- ty-first street: Let us have every- thing to make the old country better. Id like to zee air mall service and Lots of it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-10
YOUNG BOY BROWNS
 WHILE ATTEMPTING
 TO SAVE BABY SISTER

Tn an attempt to save his little sister, Margaret, aged 2, from drowning, John Milton Fades, aged G. is dead today at the home of his parents. MT. and Mrs. Joseph Fades in Acipco.
 The two children were playing around small pit filled with water when the girl slipped and slid into 1t. Mickey z as the boy is called. jumped in to save his sister. but never came to the sur face. He drowned in five feet of water.
 The rescue of Margaret was effected by Lee Pugh. a neighbor, after hearing the screams of Gertrude. another sister, who was also playing by the pit. Mar raret was unconscious when pulled out Of the water.
 Mickey was removed from the water and an effort to restore him was made by Dr. +. P. Fruit of the American Cast Iron Pipe company by oxygen and artificial respiration. The boy gaspe1 bit once then died.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-10
PHARMACY BOARD
 |S SEXAM|N|NG 31 Young Men From Many Parts of State Are Busy
 at TutWiIer

Thirty-one prospective druggists are taking the examination of the Ala bama state board of pharmacy today at the Tutwiler hotel.
 The examination began yesterday morning and will continue through to- day It covers the territory of the whole state, and is repeated three times q year. with classes ranging be- tween z5 and 75 taking 1t each time.
 To pass. zach student is required to make grade of 75 per cent on the whole examination, and not less than 60 on any one of the subjects.
 The following are taking it this time
 ". ". Lee. Atmore A. T. Ezeil. Ensley: Stewart Livingston. Birming- ham: William Goldstein. Birmingham: H o. Leyin Birminghana; J. P. View. Birmingham; w. D. Stanley, Birmipg- ham: J. T Newell, Fairfield: w, ". sandlin. Auburn; J. w. Weaver, Ia- |fayette;J. Il. Tyson. Atianta; Roy Fite, Woodlawn: E. w. Mccain. Atlanta {; Dome Oliver, Atlanta; L. P. Knighton, Montgomery; E. c. Rothenbure. Greensboro; Graham Wright. ralla- dega; H. O.. Gordei. Albany: B. II, Adams. Decatur; J. F. Maxwell, 0aor- gtana; w. P. Yerby. Birmingham; w. 3. Morris. Georgiana: w. W. Woven. and V. Brown. Pratt City.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-10
Young Girl Missing;
 Abduction Is Feared

In the hope thnt they would be able to locate their daughter, and with n desire to avoid publicity. the parents. with the aid of city detectives went to work quietly on the case, and it was not until last night that the henrtbroken mother told the story of her daughters disappearance.
 "Wc are absolutely unable to nc count for PauIinc's disappearance. other than that she was doped by her abductor," said Mrs. Harvell. ssShe has been m exceptionally good girl and until this time hns never given me my trouble or anxiety. She attended sunday school nnd church regularly Gvd from her babyhood hns been m obcdient and mindful child. Please do aII you cnn to help me find our gir1.'
 Detectives working on tho case are hopeful of locating the girl soon.
 Miss Harveli is described ns tnn slender girl. fair complexion brown eyes and hair, the latter having been bObbed, hut growing out again. She has an attractive per- sonaIity and decidedly pretty.
 Any information about the girl will he most gratefully received by her parents.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-10

All five of the men are farmers, attendants at the hospital stated, and lived at Labuco. They were on their way from their homes to Birmingham when the collision Oc- cured.
 Emergency call officers from the Ensley police department went to the scene of the accident at once. They were, however, unable to get the names of any witnesses. The nsotorman on the Underwater car, the. police claim, says that he did not see the automobile until his ear was only . few feet away from 1t.
 Lee died following an operation at EnsIey infirmary, few minutes before midnight. He never re- gained c6nsciousness from the time tue accident occurred until his death. He waS sitting on the front seat with the driver, K. w. yinson, and both of them were buried he- meath the wrrekSsss of the autOmo- bile when | siis,.-.t turned 1t oyer.
 At an earlyess his morning K. w. vinson was still In n uneon- scious condition and hospital ate tendants say they hold but little
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-10
WYLAM WILL GET
 BRANCH LIBRARY Board Yesterday Decided to Open Another Auxiliary to
 Central Institution

branch library will be established at Wylam. in the Lodge building, with n librarian from the central library in charge. it was decided by the library board of directors at their monthly meet ing held yesterday afternoon at the cen tral library.
 The Wylam branch will be open six hours day, between 1:30 and 7:30 o'clock every Tuesday and Friday, according to L. w. Josselyn, library director. The library will open with more than 1,0Oo volumes, besides number of the most popular magazines. As the circulation grows, other plans will be considered by the library board.
 Pratt City residents appeared before the library board, requesting the estab- lishment of branch library in that com munity. The board took no definite ac- ton on the request. but took the mat ter under adviSement.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-10
Annoyed Young Woman Whips sJelly-bean's Face He Initiates Rooster Crow She Passes-Grl Whrls and With Stinging Blow, Cuts His Jowl With Long
 Gray Gauntlets

Boy. page Mrs. Hulda Newsomc, Birmingham's poltcewOman.
 This is one of the little tragedies of daily life.
 The time was about four o'clock yesterday afternoon, and the scene wns just west of Twentieth street on Second avenue.
 Action.
 Tall, pretty young Indy, dark eyes and hnir peeping out from un- der the broad brim of soft gray hat, nnd wearing n blue serge suit. gray hose and pumps, walking west.
 Young man In crowd of young men standing in front of cigar store stares for n moment at the young Indy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-10

Practice of a golden rule a strong in it's sweeping reachei as the mind of man can mak' it and as firm and stable a thought and concentration cal mold it, should be the highes aim of a father in the instruc tion of his son on the moral of life, according to Dr. Charle P. Barker, noted health scient ist, who yesterday addressed the noon luncheon assembly O the Rotary club.
 The members. gathered in the ballroom of the Tutwiler hotel to hear the lecture. "A Fathers Re- sponsibility to His Son." filled every seat which had been pre- pared and represented the highest type of manhood in Birmingham. Many members of other business men's clubs were on hand as guests of the Rotarians, and it was evil dent from after-remarks that each carried away degree of learning and masterful lesson in a subject of vital importance to the welfare of the entire nation.
 TRACES CAUSE
 To get at the root of great deal of evil which exists at all time in social life. Dr. Barker traced It back to the very infancy of children when, as is so much in evidence in the American parents, there is lack of discipline, and this lack grows he said, as the child grows, until the time comes when tine child must learn by pay ing some times a bitter price for his learning, that all things which are good cannot grow out of life filled with leniency on the part of parents, catering continually to the wants of the child.
 Tt is the plain duty" said Dr. Barker, "of everyone of you men you young men who are to be fathers, and you men who are fathers-to begin by teaching your child to obey in the home know that is old stuff-I know it we'll, but 1t is the sharpest doctrine that any man can ever preach, and it is the truest
 Do you know as you sit here comfortably behind your after luncheon cigars, listening to me, what the greatest danger is which faces this country today? Do you Know what it is?
 "Listen It is this: It is the awful, yet undeniable fact that so many fathers and mothers of to- day let their children advance from infancy to boyhood and girl hood, having their own way in everything. Oh, you may shake your head dubiously, you may not be able to see the danger in that, but l want to say to you that when you cater to every wish and want of your children and forget discip- line. then you are your child's worst enemy.
 <, T will cite you that case re- gently of the great mail robbery near Council Bluffs There were three Doys. They had been used to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-10
SHOCK ABSORBERS
 FOR GARBAGE CANS

\ splendid opportunity awaits the man. uf&cturer of q garbage can with shock atsoybers, If the complaints of Birming' ham householders have foundation.
 Protests asainst the rough handline Of these receptacles are lodged with the street denartment every day one irate resident declaring that he was forced to buy . new can almost every week
 Two solutions of the problem were ad- vanced yesterday-to have the emplcyes of the street department wear padded Igloyes and provide felt covers for the garbage cans: the other for some enter prIsing manufacturer to found new in- dustry. the making Of shock absorbera fer eaxbaes eeps.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-10
"DIVORCE EVIL" DAY

Civilians are going to be given some pointers on divorce tomorrow afternoon at luncheon at the Southern club. the occasion being Divorce Evil Day.
 Judge Hugh Locke will discuss the problem from legal standpoint, and Dr. James E. Dillard, pastor of the southside Baptist church, will treat the moral side of divorce