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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-30
M FEN, WO M FEN
 A ND T HIN c s

Recently there came to my desk extracts from an exceptionally interesting and suggestive study entitled "Price Changes and Business Prospects, by Mr. Leonard P. Ayres, vice presi- dent of the Cleveland (Ohio) Trust company, and recently published by that company.
 The chapter which caught my attention was the one devoted to the Future of Prices and Wages" Necessarily on account of the lack of space it will only be possible to refer to the matter of wholesale and retail prices brought out in the very interesting data and handling of the subject
 The recent great rise in prices is the third of substantially the same amount that this country has experienced. All three having come in times of great wars. The first took place dur ing the war of 1872, which was in reality this country's participation in the Napoleonic wars The second came during the Civil war, and the most recent one during the World war.
 In this period of 110 years is found con densed version of the economic history of the country. Each important change in tariff and in national policy is reflected together with the different periods of prosperity and depres- sion, and the several wars. History and ex- perience indicate that a period of declining prices is to be looked for After the war of 1872 and the Civil war, the price increases brought about by each was followed by 30- year period of irregularity falling prices, and a 20-year period of generally rising prices.
 From this it is contended that the evidence is sufficient to indicate that the general trend of prices will be irregular downward for q period of years to come, just as it was after the two earlier great increases This based on the fact that prices have been too high; the worlds decreasing production of gold the enormous loss of lives and property, with the accompany ing gdisorganization of the worlds industrial pro- ducing power; and the depreciated currencies of the world which the stronger nations will en- deavor by every means in their power to sta- bilize and make more valuable.
 As those countries with depreciated cur rency regain their industrial productivity they will, one by one, attempt to establish an ade- quate gold basis for their paper currences. Some will find it hard to re-establish their
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-30
POINTED PARAGRAPHS

From the Chicago News. Virtue is precious gem for which vice is often substituted.
 There's pleasure in being cranky that only a crank can know.
 Don't expect your opinions to fit if you ob- tain them ready made.
 People who never get down to business sell dom get up in the world.
 young man in love resembles map of the word-he embraces good deal.
 Yes, Herman, every bachelor thinks it is the easiest thing in the world to handle wife.
 Although never knows what he can do until he tries, it is not always expedient to try.
 When woman has troubles she confides m a physician. When a man has troubles he confides in a lawyer.
 Shortly after marriage the average man acts as if he had conferred great favor on his wife by leading her to the altar.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-30
IN HOTEL LCBBTES
 AND ELSEWHERE
MANY INQUIRIES AT JAIL

"Very few people realize that the county jail is looked upon by some of the citys popu- lation as Port of Missing Men" said J. C. Brooks, outside warden at the jail yesterday "but nevertheless it is a fact, especially among the negroes.
 Hardly day passes that several negroes do not appear at the wardens office inquirinq for some relative or friend who has disappeared If day or two passes in which husband, wife or other relative does not appear at home as expected, some member of the family will come to the county jail and ask if we have the party they are seeking. Sometimes, we do and sometimes we don't and sometimes when we do they can't be found as many negroes when being put in jail give entirely different name from that under which they live on the outside
 "Often those making the inquiries know noth- ing but the first name of the party sought and they think we ought to know all about them from that alone. It is a common occurrence for negro to come to the jail and inquire for another known to him only as Mary or some other such name without more and when pressed for further identification they will de- scribe her short dark woman some equally indefinite descriptions.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-30
SEES SIGNS OF PROSPERITY

q left Birmingham in 1912 for Charlotte N. C., where 1 am now living" says J. B. Oates, "but having married Birmingham girl 1 come back every now and then on visit to her par ents. It however, has been four years since I was here, and I have greatly enjoyed spend- ing the holidays with relatives and friends and in looking over the changes in the business and residence sections My father-in-law, George M. Webb was one of the pioneers in Mountain Terrace and still lives in this beautiful residence section, but l could hardly realize the transfor- nations which have come in the Country club district. Houses have sprung up all around as if by magic. live in Miles Park, one of the residential sections of Charlotte, and like Bir- mingham, Charlotte is in the midst of great home building era. I take great interest in the continued growth and prosperity of the Magic City"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-30
KEEP LOCAL MEN BUSY

''The members of the Birmingham chapter of Phi Gamma Delta are certainly being kept busy,' says Harry White general chairman for the reception of delegates and visitors to the 73d annual ekklesia of the national frat at the Tutwiler hotel.
 "There is something doing every hour of the day. Already over 260 have registered for the convention and as the meeting lasts until Saturday additional members are expected be- fore closing.
 Birmingham men are playing an important part. Dr. Henry Edmonds was principal speaker at the annual banquet and Dr. Guy Snavely was elected temporary chairman of the first days session."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-30
PRIZE STILL UNCLAIMED

Whoever the sixth prize in the Birming ham Automobile club contest which was one of the incest prizes offered, has not yet claimed it," said Mrs. Bertha Coughlan, assistant sec retary of the Automobile club. "The list of words from the letters contained in the word automobile was inscribed on paper which looked like what some school boy girl would write on and the hand writing was rather informed again suggesting boy or girl as the sponsor of it. All the other prizes have been claimed but this list sent in Anonymously, of course pug zled us and as we cannot get in touch in any way or find any clue to the author of the list we can't possibly place the prize. If the rightful winner of the sixth prize will let the Birming ham Automobile club know his name, tor she) has nice prize in waiting"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-30
CHIME HEARD MILES AWAY

"Last Saturday evening Christmas Eve when the chime at Highlands Methodist church was played for the first time, my sister in New Orleans called me up over long distance during the program" said Miss Daisy Rowley
 "When I began to talk to her I told her of the wonderful gift that an Unknown Friend had made to Highlands Methodist church in the form of the beautiful chime and told her the concert was then being given and I suggested to her that I'd open the windows and move the telephone nearer the windows and let her hear the bells. I did so and she heard the chime distinctively and told me the selection that-was being played I consider that very wonderful and great compliment to the perfection of the chime. Of course my home at Five Points is beautifully situated for anything of the sort because it is almost directly across the street from the Highlands Methodist church, but
 even so-it was a remarkable thing for per- son in New Orleans, hundreds of miles away, to be able to hear the chime over the telephone"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-30
HE WAS THERE

From the Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph
 A noted bishop was to officiate at an mpor- tant service in London, and great space was roped off so that the dignitaries might alight from their equipages unmolested When a dusty four-wheeler crossed the square, driven by fat, red-faced cabby, police tried to head him off
 Get out of 'ere," one of them called briskly. "This entrance is reserved for the bishop"
 With wink and backward jerk of his thumb the cabby replied, cheerfully: "Pve the old duffer inside"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-30
FINE ADVERT SING

'I believe Mir. Ford will gst Muscle shoals, ? said Charles Sumner, "but whether he dnes or not, that second Niagara is headed 50 develop ment. MT. Ford has given a Alabama an advertisement such as it could not have hougLt with millions of dollars.
 "Mr. Fords proposal has attracted attention of the great electrical and other concerns in the country and their agents have been all over northern Alabama studying her natural re- sources in connection with power development at the shoals. Muscle Shoals is visuaized by the nation as never before and tha pasien will demand it's being used somehow and by some one"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-30
PRAISES VOCATIONAL DEPARTMENTS

q think that the vocational departments which the United States and the state of Ala bama have placed in the nine district agricultu- ral schools over the state are the very essence of the schools success" stated Prof. W. r. Nichol, director of vocational agriculture in the State Secondary Agricultural school at Syla- cauga, who was passing through the city yes terday en route to resume his duties after the holidays.
 "These courses make theoretical as well as practical farmers out of the students in ther teens and literally make them self supporting, well voiced in their profession by the time they graduate.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-30
PAUL COOK.

money at its old value as compared with our American dollars, but even if they adopt some new ratio of worth they must obtain more gold as 8 basis for doing it. They must look to the United States for it as we now possess a large part of the worlds gold currency. They will strive to secure it by sending us their commod- ites, and each time this happens on any large scale prices will tend to fall These reasons make it according to MT. Ayres most likely that we are entering on a long period of falling prices.
 Retail prices are based on wholesale prices. During the three wars, 1872, 1861-65, and
 .s the recent war wholesale prices in Amer ica rose to more than double their normal. In summing up price movements MT. Ayres main tains that changes in the wholesale prices ai- ways tend to be more violent than those in ro- tail prices. The change also occurs sooner n the wholesale than in the retail. For example in 1918 the wholesale prices anticipated the ar mistice and stopped rising in September d be. E gan to fall, but it not until January that the retail prices followed. A similar thing .oc- cured again in 1920.
 Because of this the retailer has been held up to reproduction even by the government, in legislatures, newspapers and public forums. The
 
 of the retail is to be found in economic law rather than in personal guilt and it would be well for those who make the complaints to note that the retail prices were slower and more moderate than the wholesale prices in their in- creases just they are now falling with greater deliberation.
 The cause for the difference may be easily illustrated. Suppose that you were dealer n wheat at wholesale and also ran a bakery and sold bread over the counter. A cablegram tells of the crop failure in Argentine foreshadowing upward price of wheat in few minutes on change. You would not however, immediately increase the price of the loaf sold over the counter, for it would be made from the flour that has been bought at the old, low levels Neither would you increase the price suddenly if using flour bought at old high levels.
 It is tremendously interesting question, the relation between wholesaler and retailer, and holding no brief for either, but knowing them both to be integral parts of the business life of the community, have merely presented the arguments of MT. Ayres as being his effort to account for present conditions in the economic world.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-30
LETTERS TO EDITOR
STOCK LAW AT PINsoN

To the Editor of The Age Herald:
 Will you please call the attention of the resi- dents of Precinct Is to the fact that the full stock law recently voted on is now in effect and their stock is subject to be taken up Your paper has a good circulation here and will be read by number of the residents of this precinct, many of whom are in ignorance as to when the law takes effect and someone may suffer some inconvenience through their ig- norance.
 Thanking you in advance, very truly,
 J. P. ROBERTSON, Pinson, December 27, 1921.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-30
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
SAFETY FIRST

"John, you~ must discharge the cook. She was impertinent to me and threatened to throw me out of the kitchen"
 ''The idea certainly will discharge her No domestic can talk to my wife like that and not answer to me-"
 ''I'm glad to hear you say that, John. Mag gie is in the kitchen now.''
 "All right. I'm going to the office>and when you hear the telephone ring you tell Maggie I want to speak to her.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-30
THE UNGALLANT JUROR

"Gentlemen of the jury" said the lawyer for a somewhat homely defendant, "before starting my speech I just want to tell you that if my client here is acquitted of the charge of sAoot- ing her husband she has intention of going into the movies. Did I hear you make a re- mark, sir?"
 q just whispered to this man on my left answered unkempt juror, "that she'd have a fat chanst."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-30
OLD FASHIONED. VERY

A girl you cannot but admire Is Arabella Ann, Who has been known to make a fire And shake frying pan. Although as fair as any mold That you would care to see, She does not seem to be afraid Of domesticitee.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-30
CELEBRATED PHRASES
From the Boston Globe.

From the Boston Globe.
 Colonel Watterson coined the phrases, ''Tarift for revenue only" 'The star-eyed goddess of reform,'' and "To hell with the HohenzoIerns and the Hapsburghs! P but he wasn't the one who defined journalism as the art of knowing where hell was going to break loose next, and having a man there to cover it. That was Joe McCul- laugh
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-30
THE MOVIE, FINGER
From Life

From L1e.
 Belshazzar smiled as his jaded eye drank in the brilliant scene before him. He was about to call the director and compliment him publicly, when his glance fell upon the handwriting on the wall.
 "Just as expected" he muttered. Another good picture ruined by a rotten subtitle"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-30
PERILs PAST AND PRESENT

Life was not so complex in the stone age"
 Perhaps not" said MT. Grumpson, ''but modern life has it's compensations. When l go out for stroll I'd rather dodge automobiles than try conclusions with sabre-toothed tiger 2
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-30
MAKING IT ALL CLEAR

From Punch, London.
 No justice or prosperity is possible in the world any more except in a world of just 9, world of prosperity.-H. G. Wells.
 It is just this masterly gift for eseheulng the obvious and for probing the profound that makes MT. Wells ''the foremost living writer.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-30
INCREASE IN FRUIT AND VEGETABLE SHIPMENTS

Some of the records of spring and summer Marketing in Alabama this year and last are as follows:
 Shipped 67s cars, of Irish potatoes this year
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-30
STRICTLY BUSINESS

"What can do for you, sir?" asked the pro- prietor of camouflaged bar.
 "Im just shopping around" said the visitor. "Well, we ain't givin' samples today. Next gentleman?"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-30
COLLECTIONS ARE POOR

''You might at least have spoken kindly u that beggar."
 "I sold him car" said the automobile dealer, wrathfully, land he's not keeping up the payments"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-30
Thersites' body is as good as Ajax, When neither are alive. -CymbeIne.
A MORNING PRAYER

Grant me, Lord. to pass this day in glad ness and peace, without failure and without stain. So shall eventide find victorious and ready to face tomorrow unafraid. Amen.-M. s. B.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-30
QUICK THINKING

"When you find something that meets your approval in magazine or book do you read it aloud to Mrs. Peckton?"
 "Not always" said MT. Peckton. "For in- stance, last night l was reading an article in a magazine in which the writer stated that wom- ans place is in the home. exclaimed That's goodp Mrs. Peckton wanted to know what was good. The result was had to think rapidly and quote an old joke from memory"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-30
HARD LINES

Time was when pugilists retired They always opened bars, But no wthey deal in shoes and hats And autos and cigars. Quite recently met a man
 Once famed for jabs and hooks, Who told me with husky voice That he was selling books.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-05-29
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES CLUB PROGRAM FOR 1922
GIRLS AND BOYS RETURNING FROM COLLEGE.

Now that vacation time is here
nearly every day will bring home PEN
sacola girls and boys from the differ
ent colleges and prep schools. John
Lewis Reese already arrived from Au-
burn and Kelley Mosely, Oliver
Semmes. Ralph Warfield and Wright
Reese will arrive this week, Marion
Watson is home from Marion Insti-
tute, Marion Ca; from Tallahassee,
Misses Frances Morey, Ida Frances
and Minnie Merriweather, Dorothy
Burrow, MaEjprie and Florence Pier
pont, Elizabeth Tatom, Aline Bon
acker, Mary Beggs, Ethel Paderick,
Cary Ellis and Leta Wilkins are ex-
pected on June 8th. Miss Virginia
Green came Saturday night from
Palmer College, Miss Audrey Keller
from Converse college, on June 5th, j.
w. Friedman will arrive from Gaines
Vile.
Miss Catherine McLane from Martha
Washington Seminary is here, and has
as her guest Miss Mary Smfthwick,
formerly OF this city, Miss Ruth Dew
berry will arrive very soon from Ma
tional Park Seminary. Forest Glen,
Maryland. Miss Janice Kahn and Miss
Bertha Lischkoff will arrive from
Sophie Newcomb in New Orleans. Miss
Elise Bear this week comes from Ward
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-05-29
Magazine and
Book Notes
The Monkey People.

When we had traversed q mile or
so of trail, Nella, our glide, called a
halt and disappeared into the depths
of bantam. Soon he returned, fol-
lowed by three young savages and an
old man, who was nearer to a monkey
than any other human being have
ever seen before or sinee-bright eyes
peering out from shock OF woolly
hair; an enormous mouth disclosing
teeth as white and perfect as tnosa
of a dental advertisement; skin
creased with deep wrinkles; an alert.
nervous. monkey like expression;
quick, sure, monkey like movements.
He approached us carefully, ready to-
turn and run at the slightest alarm
/ endeavored to shake hands with him
but he jerked his hand away. The
friendly greeting had no meaning for
him. Ny presents, however, talked to
him. Reassured. the sayages SQUAT
ted near US.
The conversation was one sided.
The five savages sat and discussed US
in their own languages OF groWls and
apelike chattering. After While
about twenty natives came along the
trail and joined the five natives al
ready with us. / set UP my moving
picture camera on a tripod, selected
q. place where the light was good and
tried to get the savages In front oI
nv. lens. They would not move; sc
/ pointed my camera at them and be-
gin to turn the crank. Like lightn-
| ing, they sprang to their feet and ran
to the bantam. They scampered uT
the tendrils like monkeys, and by the
| time. could follow them with the
/, camera, could see only their bright
eyes here and there peering from the
crevices.
! Through Nella we coaxed them back
and down they came, as quickly as
| they had gone up, while / ground ous
| one of the best pictures I ever got
/ osa at once dubbed them the "mon-
| kew people, And indeed they were
nearer monkeys than men. They had
| enormous flat feet, with the great
| toe separated from the other toes and
turned in. They could grasp g
branch with their feet as easily as J
could with my hands. For speed and
sureness and grace in climbing they
outdid any other men had ever
/ seen.
i When luncheon time came, we
j spread out our meal of cold broilee
wood pigeon, timed asparagus, aio
tsea biscuit, and began to eat. Afte'
watching us for a few moments, two
or three savages went and fetched
i some small almond-like nuts, Whicf
i they shared with thei1 companions
i They seemed more IKE monkeys thar
ever as they squatted there, buSil.
| cracking the nuts with stones ant
| picking out the meats with thei1
| skinny fingers.-From Long Shots
i from the Malekula Bush, BY Martin
8 johnson, in Asia Magazine for June.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-05-29

Belmont, Nashville, Tenn. Charles
and Edward McAdam, Charlie and
Bernard Levy, John Marion Roch,
Clinton Reilly arrives on June 18th
from st. Bernard's College in Cullman,
Ala.
Miss Bessie Reinschmidst will arrive
on Thursday from the Blessed Sacra-
ment Academy in Birmingham, Miss
Ruth Ballard is expected on Tuesday
from Woman's College in Montgomery
to her sister, Mrs. Payne for several
weeks. Leo Anderson graduates this
term from Stetson University at De-
Land, but will probably go to South
Florida before returning home. Sam
Rosenau and Harry Levy return on
the 18th of June from Georgia Tech,
In Atlanta. Richard Merritt and
Francis Taylor will arrive from Uni
versity of Virginia, in Charlottes-
vile, the Misses Hazel and Margaret
Maura are already home from South
ern Seminary in Buena Vista, Va. Miss
Media Taylor will come from Univer-
sity Of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Miss
Ida Malone, who attends Miss Har-
tridge's school in Plainfield, N. j.,
| arrives on the 25th of June. Chas.
Collins from Sewannee Military Acad-
envy is in New York. Alvin White from
the same academy arrives Thursday.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-05-29

Miss Livia Lewis and Miss Mabel
Tyler advanced pupils of Miss Tommie
Cooper. will give a piano recital at
7:45 o'clock. Thursday evening, in the
Sunday school rooms OF the Gadsden
Street Methodist church. They viii
be assisted by Miss Mollie McCaslill
voice pupil Of Mrs. Nita Osborne Benp
All members of Miss Cooper's class
friends and patrons are invited to at
tend this recital which no doubt will
he excellent. Miss Lewis and Miss
Tyler are both splendid musicians and
conscientious students. The following
is the program:
Prelude" ..-....... Rachmonanoff
Miss Mabel TAYLOR.
IF I Were a Bird" .......... Henslet
Miss Livia Lewis
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-05-29
OUGHT

OUCH!
I'm taught p g
Shall be pronounced Pillow"
Eats easy when you know" say,
Mon Anglais> I'll get through"
My teacher say Eat in Eat case
O-u-g-h is "oo,"
And zen laugh and say to him,
"Zees Anglais make me cough
He say, mot COO, but in Eat word
O-u-g-h is Of, -
o saere bleu! Such a varied sound
OF words make me hiccough.
He say, Again, my friend ees wrong;
O-u-g-h is up,
In hiceough." Zen I cry mo more.
You make my throat feel rough"
mon, non," he cry, you are not right,
O-u-g-h is 'uff.'
/ say, Il try to spik your words,
can't pronounce them, though"
'.In time you'll learn, but now you're
wrong;
O-u-g-h is 'owe!'"
'I'Il try no more, shall 60 mad,
'I'1l drown me in re lough."
but ere you drown yourself" said he,
O-u-g-h is 'eck,'
He taught no more! I held him fast
And killed him wiz rough.
From "Our Accused Spelling"