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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-17

fit 10 become farmers, and aid then in buying farms stock and equip. ment
 Of the details of the scheme ulor, later Let US first have a look d, the results of the experiment. to date
 or 59,SS1 applicants 4s.os3 were granted qualification certificates by tho board These 43.OeS returned sol. diers arc today farming a total area of 4,s54.79o acres. Digest that-i,- S54,7ss acres When one takes into account that in all Canada there ara only 5O,0oo.000 acres under crop oui of a potential arable acreage amount ing to 3oO,ooO 900. the comparabF magnitude Of the soldier settIemeht movement can be best appreciated Another comparison: In the entire province of Manitoba there are So.0o0 farms. The returned soldiers added to Canada almost as many farms az were under crop in that great farm ing province-2,153.1S4 acres were bought; soldier grants accounted for f,361,2S0. The rest was encumbered land amounting to S6o,227 acres.
 Of the total number of returne~ soldiers who went on the land under the supervision of the soldier settle ment board. 19.771 received help in the form of loans at , per cent. The loans for stock and equipment were for five years; those for the purchase of land run for 25 years.
 The government, through the board. loaned these 19,SS1 men sSO.- S71.750.4S. These loans have been made since the establishment of the board in 1917. To date only 200 of the men who thus received financial assistance in getting started on farms have failed and been sold out The governments original invest ment in these men, who have failed for some reason and been sold out, was s7o8,70S.79 The return realized by the board on the resale of the property of these failures was $T11.- 335. S9. Instead of losing the gov ernment has realized a small return oven on it's investment in those who were unable to succeed!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-17
Fun for Young and Old
 at the Semi-CentenniaI

r7f1HE programme of Birmingham s
 H semi-centennial celebration, which has been completed and pub lished, will offer a great variety of entertainment to visitors who are expected to come from all parts of the state and the south for this occa- sion, as well as the citizens of Bir- mingham.
 The pageant will be one of the most impressive features and will no doubt draw an immense crowd to Avondale park, where the story of Birmingham's growth for half cen tury will be told, but there will be no lack of parades to impart fes- tive atmosphere and add to the spec tacular side of the celebration. A parade is something that is easy to 
 see and understand For that req son it is always popular. The cir GUS psychologists learned that ele- mental truth many years ago.
 The semi-centennial committee has acted wisely in providing for street parades, in addition to many other attractions, which will give the county queens an opportunity to be- dazzle the admiring multitudes with their beauty and iE particular will enable every man, woman and child in Birmingham on October 26 who cares to do so, to see the President of the United States and the "Fmst Lady of the Land"
 From all indications, Birmingham is going to have the greatest and most enjoyable frolic it has ever known. The financing, prime de sideratum. has already been done There is plenty of money in hand to make our birthday party nota- ble success.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-17
MOTOR CAR PROGRESS

fashionable Ma and Pa had to dress in tan duster, caps to match. gog- gles and gauntlet gloves. And the kids would sit In the back seat and play "yit skaboozlum." The women's hats with wide celluloid visors were wits" and an old man with white beard was q "skaboozlum." Three "yits' and a "skaboozlum' won q game.
 The next car had mechanical horn on it, and Ma had the idea that the main reason Pa bought the car was because he liked to toot the horn. However, the car usually made so much noise that there wasn't much need for horn.
 The windshield and running board were wonderful new inventions. an,l Ma said the running board was .t great help toward getting in the car even if Willie did stumble and break off two teeth on it.
 The advent of the self-s starter and electric lights was the crowning blow to the old car of discomfurts and trouble. And Ma was the proud est woman in the neighborhood when Pa bought a closed car with real tapestry cushions.
 It is a far cry from those days to these modern days of comfort in cars. Little did the first manufac- turer dream thai he yro,1Id coo a the luxuries that manufacturers ad- vertise today, the limousine with it's electric heater, velvet upholstery vanity box with rouge. powder, lip stick, eyebrow pencil and beauty spots for Ma, electric cigar lighter for Pa, silver cigarette case for Mamie and a place for Willie's new est college pipe with the initials o,,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-17
--------------------.s' s'--------------- IF WE FIGHT JAPAN

Archibald D. Turnbuil, in the Worlds
 Work for october.
 It is estimated that, for success ful operation against Japan, we would require a fleet m
 double hers in strength. But disre- garding relative sizes, whatever force we sent across the Pacific would necessarily have to be maintained by a "train"--that Is, q continuous flow of supplies of all kinds, carried in ships The proportions of such a train, for the force deemed ade- quate, may be pictured by drawing upon map q line from, say, San Francisco to the Philippines, and placing upon this line, at intervals of 300 miles, groups of six ships of 5000 tons each. headed for Manila There must be a corresponding line of "empties' en route to the United States. Further. it must be con- ceived that there would be many vessels at each end, loading, unload ing and repairing. The mere opera ton of such a train would be a stu pendous undertaking of ships, men and money, even if there were no interference. However. in case of war with Japan, we could count upon very great interference.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-17
Calamities of Peace
From the Cincinnati Enquirer.

From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
 The body of an unknown soldier will be buried in the National ceme- tery after the observance of solemn and impressive ceremonies Novcm- Der II. The event will emphasize nations gratitude for heroic serv- ice in time of need.
 The World war cost this country 50,i50 lives. During the 19 months that this country was in the war 12s.0o0 persons were killed by nc cident. Had these deaths occurred in battle we should have been both proud and sad for such Is the way of man. Suicide, accident, disease and poverty claim more lives than war. The unknown dead in these tragic ranks are myriad We cannot stop to honor them, or even to thlnl about them overmuch, for. again, such Is the way of man.
 Earthquake. fire and flood claim added thousands of lives. But war is spectacular. The bugles call, the banners fluttter and wave, men con- sclously go to look into the bright face of danger, whose breath is death That makes the difference.
 The material losses of war are enormous, but the material losses of peace are not ineonsequential. In 1920 in this country the fire loss amounted to S5OO,000,OO0. In that year the loss from strikes and lock outs amounted to more than S6,oO0,- 100000. The potential value of the lives lost through disease, death by accident and "act of God' is beyond the possibility of human computation.
 But we are a wonderful country. Not all the calamities of war or peace, or the combined burden oL both, can disturb the national sta bility or the progressive development of this people, Health Is more com mon than disease, the multitudes es- cape accident. poverty is diminishing. Added to the billions of dollars worth of products which came froIn the soil in 1920 we can point to the sixty three thousand millions of dol lars worth of products yielded by the nations manufacturing indus tries in that year, and it was year of depressioni
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-17
Splendid Delivery

"rhe, Age Herald certainly has a splendid delivery system in Tusca- loosa," said Nj. W. Carlisle. The agent down there gets the paper every morning at $40 o'clock and by $40 o'clock the papers are deliv- cred in every section of the city, in- cluding the university
 "The Headquarters Of The Age Herald are at the Leach Drug company, and the agent has cream colored automobile with the words. Birmingham Age-Herald' printed on both sides with which he makes the deliveries, and its appearance is ea- gerly awaited each morning."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-17
Freedom of the Press
 Vindicated In Chicago

7r1IIE city of Chicago, which means
 ll in this instance, Mayor Will liam Hale Thompson, has lost the S10,000,000 libel suit brought against the Chicago Tribune. Judge Harry Fisher sustained the demurrer of the Tribune, declared the city gov ernment had no cause for action and denied it the right to amend the petition.
 Identical suits were brought against the Tribune and the News alleging that these papers had pub
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-17
POET. IS, COMMITTED sufcIDE

Thomas chatterton, creator of the ''Rowley poems,' was the worlds 5 most unfortunate poet. says the Men tor Magazine. At IS he committed suicide in a London garret, defeated in his attempt to earn 8 living by writing.
 Shortly before coming to London, Chatterton produced poems which he credited to medieval poet-pries:, Rowley. Critics argued for so years as to whether or not they were genu- inc.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-17
v POINTED PARAGRAPHS

From the Chicago News
 A grass widow has no use for weeds. A silent mans words are never re- peated in court. It is easier to reform a man than to keep him reformed Every woman knows how to man age her daughters husband.
 It's awfully hard for a little wom- an to impress people with her dig nifty. A wise man is satisfed to appear
 great in the eyes of his wife and cvhildren. The longer 8 man is married the less he dodges when his wife throws things at him. Worry never cures an evil. but 1t sometimes relieves the monotony of l tco much happiness.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-17
LIFE ON THE MOON

From the Providence Journal.
 Professor Pickering of Harvard is sure that life exists on the moon. This is important if true.
 He does not affirm that beings an alogous to the inhabitants of earth exist there or sentient beings of any sort, but he does say that when day begins to dawn on our satellite vast fields of foliage appear with all most incredible swiftness, and that after maximum period of II days they vanish.
 As the moon is less than 250,009 miles distant, we ought to be able, with our constantly increasing facil- ities for astronomical study, to learn a great deal about it. Professor Pickering refers to it as "a world which the astronomical profession in general. for the past 50 years. has utterly and systematically neglected and isnored.' Let us at least free ourselves from this reproach. Per haps under the professors stimulat- ing guidance moon study clubs will spring up everywhere.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-17
r,RMER. RI'sE w0RkEn

From the San Francisco Chronicle.
 We commend the resourcefulness of the Washington farmer whose or chard constantly was being raided by tourists. He rlgged up phono- graph. equipped with record of dog barking fiercely, and got away with it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-17
BoLo rACuA DOESN'T ANSWER

From the Telephone Press Service.
 Paris never takes anything short of World war with absolute seri- ousness, and even the epochal np- pearance of a new telephone direc- tory has given the wags of the French capitol cue to poke a little harmless fun at the keepers of tele- phone archives. The French learned many things from their American associates during the war. but cf- ficiency in compiling telephone direc- tories was apparently not one of them A veritable army of one time subscribers, no longer available by telephone, appears in the "revised'' edition which has just been distrib- uted.
 Some of the subscribers" are not only beyond reach of the Paris cen tral operators, but cannot be located by any other known means of com municatino, with the possible exoep- tion of the faithful ouija board
 Paris funmskers have been calling up the number which corresponds to the listing "Bolo Pacha, Rue de Phalsbourg.' Bolo. it will be remem- bered, was executed as traitor on April IF, 1918.
 After the usual 10-minute interval required to get a telephone connec- ton In Paris, or to find out why 1t cannot be obtained, request for this number brings response the truth tulness of which the calling sub scriber is never disposed to doubt.
 "Hc doesn't answer" the operator solemnly reports.
 ONE WAY OF BEING AMUSED From the Kansas City Star.
 What's that?" cried tourist to whom resident of Straddle Ridge, Ark, was showing the scenery of the region.
 in-law taking shot at me from over across the holler," was the nonchal- ant reply. Them fellers have been cutting that caper off and on for six weeks or such matter
 Great grief What do you dc about it:''
 "Nuth'n' in pertickler. They're the poorest shots on the ridge and never come higher 10 me than 10 feet or so. It sorter amuses me to ses grown men doing such childish tricks and never 'ccmplishing any thing at it."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-17
Marked Recovery of
 Another Important Industry

@ o strong has the demand for the AO upper grades of lumber con tinued that stocks, both of west coast fir and southern pine, have been almost obliterated, according to the Western Lumberman. In conse-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-17
FOUNTAIN MAGIC

By Edith M Thomas. A fountain is to me a magic thing. And, when I search for it's simili tude, I say, "A phoenix-with a liquid wing! It dies, but is perpetually renewed.r A fountain in a garden, was my prayer. Too much to ask-'twas never granted me. But, in some park, you'll find me al-
 ways where There is a fountain--and a listen ing tree. It's leaves the murmur heed, as well as I,
 And hush them, bending all as in a dream. Some time-another shade. another
 sky. A fountain naiad was my love.
 deem, Another sky and shade, and oldest
 time,
 And the divine. proud sappho--
 leaned along A messy couch, unused absentiy her
 rhyme.
 The fountains silver numbers in
 the song. Did I not see her lift her laureled
 head?
 Her dreamful gaze-was It nov f
 bent on me? "The roses of Pieria.9 she said, "They are not and they never were
 for thee." If this be dream, or but idle
 guess,
 fountain is to me magic thng; find a lovely solitariness Wherever waters climb and ian
 and sing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-17

IS HoI oHly tne. prlNllege, put the duty, of newspapers to attack what they believe to be the mistakes or the misconduct of public officials.
 4 * # Graceful Act by
 Hubert A. Drennen 1T HUBERT A. DRENNEN. head of O U the Drennen Motor Car com pany, is entitled to commendation for his graceful act in releasing the semi-centennial authorities from the promise to use a Cadillac automo- bile rendered for the use of Presi- dent Harding while in Birmingham. Mr. Drennen's withdrawal in favor of the specially designed Premocar, made in Birmingham, because of the sentimental factor involved in loyal ty to the home city product, is all the more worthy of note because of the well known pride of every dealer in the product which he handles him self. A situation which had proved somewhat embarrassing to those in charge of the semi-centennial is thus happily and gracefully clarified.
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 The daily papers are accused of trying to, discredit prohibition. When a prohibition officer shoots an un- armed citizen newspapers are in duty bound to print the narrowing de- tails.
 There are said to be less than 400,- 900 idle men in Germany. That's an other reason why Great Britain and America are beginning to wonder who won the war
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 Admiral Sims declined an invita- ton to speak at an Armistice Day dinner in New York. Late in life the admiral has learned that discretion s the better part of valor.
 * :. + If the threat of railroad strike is only gesture well and good, but we don't like the looks of that gesture.
 < * $ of sin" as some of the reformers de- clare. but there are large areas where purity is almost rampant.
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 After his experiences in Russia the sight of an Alabama cotton field ought to give Captain Fitzpatrick new lease OH life
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 Although the ouija board seems to have had It's day high grads mediums are still getting messages from over there"
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 Colonel House left his card at the Wilson mansion the other day. For some reason or other he didn't stay to dinner.
 A brief glance at the sporting page shows that football history is once more being made on the fve-yard line.
 President Harding is said to be op- timistic regarding the armament con- ference. The pessimists seem to be in a majority,
 The unemployment conference failed to pay it's respects to the street corner "masher"-
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 Let us hope the railway employees will not build barriers across the road to normalcy,
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 Hon. "Babe" Ruth is bis man. yet we question the wisdom of pick ing quarrel with Judge Landis.
 
 There are times when we are will ing to agree with voliva that the world is flat-and stale, as well. Some people think that Nature is most wonderful when she is speed ing up the process of fermentation. When New York's police don their bullet-proof jackets New York's gun men will have to aim higher up.
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 lust how close to Mayor Hylan of New York does one have to be 70 cali him "Red"s
 The movies must be improving. The old-fashioned "vamp' is no
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-17
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The daily papers are accused of trying to, discredit prohibition. When a prohibition officer shoots an un- armed citizen newspapers are in duty bound to print the narrowing de- tails.
Cheyenne Wells record., 1921-09-01
Speeding Auto Kills Two.

Oakland. Calif.-Katie and Leona
Eckerson, sisters. were killed: Ida
Blundell, aged L.. was seriously in.
iured, and five other persons, three
of them children, We're lesser. but pc.
:iously hurt, in an automobile occi.
dent, while they We're on their wav IN
picnic. The police said the driver
OF the car in which all the injured
were passengers. attempted To race
with another car, also taking children
to the picnic, and that the machine
left the road. and turned over
Cheyenne Wells record., 1921-09-01
MARKET
QUOTATIONS
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Washington DC.
,west.ru Newspaper Union News Service

lWestrrn Newspaper Union News service
Grain.
Country corn offerings liberal. CLOS
Ing prices in Chicago cash markets.;
hard. s1.2O; No. 2 mixed corn, 55c; No.
2 yellow corn, 55c: No. white outs
32. For the week Chicago Septem-
ber wheat lost NC. closing at shlsn:
Minneapolis September wheat down &c.
at $l.2,: Kansas City September down
&c. at $l.OSa; Winnipeg October Gown
sac. at Sl.39. Chicago December wheat
closed at $l.lS; December corn. e4c:
Minneapolis December wheat sl:26ts
Kansas city December. Sl.ll; Winni-
peg December. $l.32L.
Hay.
Heavier receipts have caused at -
to 50 decline in timothy prices at prin-
cipai central western markets. Stock
yards buying at Chicago has cleared
reported; Eastern markets dull m,., p%a I'D
prices have also declined about soc to
81 during the week. No. ! timothy
quoted Aui. =: New York. s5S.s9:
Chicago. So: Atlanta. s?6; Memphis:
$3.50. No. / alfalfa. Memphis, $22:
Minneapolis. $50 No. prairie. Min
neapolis. $3.50: Chicago. sl7.
Dairy Products.
Butter markets have been weak but
are steady now; prices average 80
showing slight increase following
more favorable weather conditions In
some producing sections: Recent high
prices have apparently hurt consump-
tive demand. Closing prices. 81 score:
New York, 4oc: Chicago. SIC: Phils-
deiphis, 4ohc: Boston. 4lc.
Fruit a.a Vegetables.
Potato shipments from New Jersey
section decreased moderately during
rate at shipping points. New Jersey
sacked Giants ranging $2.Ss to 32.75
per 100 pounds +. q. b. In eastern con-
suming markets sacked Giants range
$2.65 to $3.l5; Irish Cobblers. 1886 to
$3.7s. Kansas Early Ohios lost the
previous weeks advance in Kansas
city. closing around 81.
Live stock and Meats.
The trend OF Chicago live stock
prices was downward the past week.
Ses see seef to- per 70" 100 eer posnas es Hatsher
cows and heifers and feeder steers
were generally 25c lower. Both fat
and feeding lambs declined soc to 75c:
fat ewes generally steady. Hog prices
show net declines Of l5c to CSC per
100 pounds. light weights declining
most. Aug. "a Chicago prices: Hogs,
top; $3.50: bulk Of sales. s7.25 to $3.50;
.s.lv; butcher cows and hsifers. $3.50
to $3.50: feeder steers. s5.25 TO si.35:
light ana medium welsht veal caves.
IS to $lO.25: fat lambs. 37.75 to SO:
feeding lambs. $6.25 to IS: yearlings,
s625 to IS: fat ewes. ss.2s to ss.25.
Stocker and feeder shipments from
eleven important markets during the
week ending Ang. Is were: Cattle and
caves. s3.4ss: hogs. 2.7l0; sheep
1850.
As for some time past. veal was the
only meat that showed an upward
price trend in eastern wholesale fresh
meat markets. the advance for the
week amounting generally to 81 per
100 pounds. Beef lost soc: lamb and
declined 81 to 81. Aug. "a prices. good
grade meats: Beef. 3l4 to $3.50: veal
SIS to SIS: lamb. 32l to $24; mutton
$ll to SIS: light pork loins. 325 to 32s;
heavy loins. SIS to $50.
Cheyenne Wells record., 1921-09-01
DENVER LIVE STOCK.
Cattle.

Several carloads OF good beef steers
sold at s cents pound. while one
bunch OF fleshy steers brought $6.lO.
Best fat cows brought prices up to
35.e5.
A good clearance was reported in
the feeder and stocker division with
prices holding about steady. Stocker
$3.50 to $5.25. A few hEnt stocker
steers brought $3.50.
Calves were not very plentiful. but
the supply on hand sold at y. .ces rams :
ing from to cents pound.
Prices climbed from Is to 25 ceHts
higher on the bulk Of the early sales
with top hogs going to small killer
At $9.35. The bulk OF the hogs for the
days session brought from $3.50
to ss.l6.
Packers paid top OF &9.l5 for a
bunch of choice light handyweight an
imals. one load Of heavy rough cows
brought 36.25 and throw-outs sold at
Plain to choice pigs were quoted at $S
TO $S.2o.
Most of the supply was received
from Nevada. while shipments includ-
ed stock from Colorado ard California.
Two carloads of good sixty-eisht-
pound lambs brought $3.50 flat. 4
carload and a deck OF Utah lambs
brought the same price.
A small bunch of good 115-pound
ewes sold at 3 cents pound flat.
Best lambs are quoted up to 5 cents
Q pound. Several huuches o: feeding
lambs. averaging 81 pounds, gold yes
terday at Sb.75.
Cheyenne Wells record., 1921-09-01
Prisoners FORGE Checks,

OsSinlng, y. Y.-Convicts who dealt
In spurious checks before becoming
inmates OF Sing Sing prison have con.
tinned t" ply their trade in prison, 1t
vas learned. when 1t developed that
checks totaling $4,000 had been
forged by prisoners assigned to office
duty. All forgeries were effected
within the past eight weeks and seven
or eight of the forged checks were
said to have been returned To the
prison. paid and cancelled. 1t was
intimated that banks cnshing the
checks would be compelled TO stand
the loss.