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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-11
MYSTERIOUS ISLANDS
From the Mobile Register.

From the Mobile Register
 IT JULES VERNE went to a great deal of
 trouble to create a mysterious
 island although dozens of mys- terious islands already existed. His rea- son was that mystery of his own crea- tion he could solve; whereas the mys- teries of some islands extant have dened the science of men today.
 Man himself is the mystery of many islands He is the mystery of the Ork- neys, where the Norsemen found relics of departed race which bulded with great stones. Presumably those prehistoric men had no drills or derricks or wagons on trucks. Yet they constructed the mound of Maeshowe, containing stone of eight tons, and the circles of the sun and moon, containing monoliths as high as Is feet.
 The monoliths of the Orkneys bespeak a cruder art than that of the ancient islands of the British channel; yet they are perhaps less ancient. Two caves opened recently in Jersey are relics of the days when England was part of the European continent, when the Irish elk the reindeer and the cave hyena roamed about, and the wolf saw the woolly rhi- noceros in the woods. There are dolmens and menhrs which say to the archaeoi-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-11

, ogist that Neolithic man lived in the channel islands 17,oOo years ago.
 It is not strange, perhaps. that some of us who are not archaeologists can trace the likeness between a Jersey mon- olith, reverenced as late as 1S45 by the channel islanders, and the antiquities of Asia. We are increasingly surprised when we find resemblance between the channel image and the massive an- gular statue carved by q people in Bo- livia who antedated the Incas nobodyi knows just how far. To reach the cli- max of wonder, however, we must go to Easter Island, where we find a hint of Jersey. of Babylon, and of Bolivia.
 Easter Island lies 20OO miles from the mainland of South America. where pre- historic people built temples to the sun and moon out of stones greater than the Orkney stones, There is a temple stone at Tiahunance, Bolivia, which measures 32 by Is feet. In Easter Island there are immense platforms of stone; there are cut stone walls 30 foet high and 200 or 300 feet long. On broad terrace there are stone images to 37 feet in height, one of which weighs 50 tons.
 There has been no want of fiction in- |volving these islands, some written per haps in the name of science. Some day the master romancer will give up the truth. For though men love mystery, they will not suffer it to endure.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-11

qrette who fired from behind the breast works of the Kansas City Star, which has some circulation on the borderand of the south.
 This, etiquette hound tried to teach us a new way to eat fried chicken He-or she-sneered at the only way most of us ever knew or cared for, of holding the chicken in the fingers and biting it. and said the proper way was to cut the chicken off the bone with knife and fork and never touch it with the fingers. As if that could be done.
 Now we do not think the Kansas City man is likely to get very far with his at tack upon an old and honored custom in the south, but we resent it that he could even have thought of the new and hifa lutin way of eating chicken and that he should have had the hardihood to pro- pose it publicly. His gesture is at least an alarming symptom, and so we should be on guard.
 Else. yielding here and there, we must finally be driven away from even the hot biscuits which have honored the south scarcely less than it's warriors, statesmen and poets.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-11
GERMAN REGISTRATION

From the New York World.
 According to dispatch from Munich. Germany is in the throes of a movia craze. Two million people patronize the motion-picture theatres every day. aand for every coco, 900 who go to see the proper" films 1s.oo0.oo0 attend the presentation of sensational pictures. Are not these about the American pro- portions of popular interest in films?
 Perhaps there is some reason for alarm among American motion picture interests after all. The great boom in German movies has occurred since the war and its echoes reach to Broadway. How it's further development will affect the industry here and in other coun- tries open to the competition of cheap German films of artistic merit reflect- ing a lower cost of manufacture re- mains to be seen. German movies are so far not subject to the handicap of the million dollar star.
 But the conditions throw an interest," ing light on German recuperation. A country which in the brief time since the armistice has created an amusement industry which threatens to beat thA world and whose population scene to have plenty of money to patronize 1t is hardly in state of complete financial prostration.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-11
Merit System Modified
 in Naming Postmasters

TT7HE lure of the flesh pots was too
 J great for the republican admin istration. After eight leans years spent in outer darkness, return to power brought in it's train an army of office seekers hungry for the spells of victory and the postoffice depart ment, which should be taken out of politics and kept out of politics for ever, is among the first branches of the government to suffer from repub- lican partisanship.
 President Harding has modified the Wilson order that first, second and third-class postmasters be chosen &C., cording to civil service requirements. Instead of naming the candidate who stands highest in the civil service examination for any given post mastership, the administration may appoint one of the three at the head of the list.
 The intent of this order is plain It is designed to take care of repub-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-11

to be commended for having placed in it's constitution provision restrict ing membership to those who qualify to vote. If this rule is strictly ad- hered to the organization will soon have produced brand of citizenship that creates good government.
 There has been too much of that variety that does not take the time and trouble to qualify to vote and tc vote regularly, but contents itself with finding fault after the harm which might have been prevented, has been done.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-11
LUKE M,LUkE SAYS

After all. it isn't your needs that keep you broke. It is your wants.
 Why is 1t that a man never thinks of mending his ways until he finds that he is broke?
 About the only thing in the world that matches every woman's complex ion is diamond.
 Some men spend half their lives re- gretting the things they did do and the other half regretting the things they didn't do.
 The men in church congregation usually pay for the church carpet. But 1t IS the women who wear it out.
 It is hard to make a girl believe that the harder she chases man the harder she has to.
 Another strange thing Is that il doesn't take bowl of soup long to cool unless you are in hurry to eat it.
 When we see 8 woman wearing a gold band around her ankle we wonder why she doesn't wear one around her head to prevent the crack in her skull from becoming wider
 Ws know that you won't believe it. But 1t is possible for man to be broad minded and yet not agree with you
 After a certain kind of man has saved up little money for a rainy day he spends a lot of his time praying for rain.
 Don't get swell-headed The cheers that you are getting today may be jeers tomorrow
 The trouble with having your salary raised is that your wife wants more oi it than it amounts to- Copyright. l921)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-11
Waterways a Common
 Heritage and Benefit

X MONO Alabamians who give GS thought to the matter, there is mo difference of opinion as to the benefit that the entire state will reap from the development of the port of Mobile.
 Governor Kilby voiced the senti- ment of the thoughtful people of Alabama when witnessing the launch ing of the Anniston City in Mobile. He said:
 Calhoun and Tallapoosa and Hcus- ton counties are as vitally interested in the port of Mobile and the water ways of the state, as Mobile or Baldwin, or Choctaw, or Tuscaloosa, or Jefferson. It means just as much to one set of counties as to the oth- CT, and, when the people of these counties not directly on the river come to realize this, they will authorize the legislature to issue bonds for port development and for the erection of such terminals at such points on the inland waterways as seem ade- quate."
 The crux of the matter is a reali- zation by the counties not directly on the inland waterways that water way development is just as important to them as to the counties directly on the rivers and contiguous to the port Anniston is getting her freight from New Orleans on a 20 per cent re- duction unde- the rail rate by hay Ing it brought up the Warrior Gadsden, which is on the Coosa, is doing likewise.
 Cities on the Tombigbee in the west ana Montgomery on the Alabama in the south, enjoy the 20 per cent saw ing by the Warrior. The same may se said of Florence, Fort Payne and Athens and Huntsville on the north As for the port of Mobile; that is the common gateway to foreign coun- tries for all Alabama.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-11
Huntsville Has Organized
 Junior Commerce Chambe


 las.7 HUNTSVILLE has organized a I ll young mems bureau of the chamber of commerce with separate officers and distinct autonomy. It was suggested by the junior chamber of Birmingham, which has proved a live wire here and has more than justified it's existence.
 Several other cities have displayed interfst in this uniting of the ener- gies of the young men with that of their elders. It is movement in the right direction. Young men have lots of vim and they possess imagi- nation. The one certain thing is that their young strength is going to find its expression.
 Z Birminghams junior chamber has grown with remarkable rapidity. It began few months ago with 20 char ter members. It now has more than 700, and with this weeks drive ex- poets to increase that number to 1000 and then establish waiting list. z The junior chamber is especially
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-11
Alhnnx-pecntm Visitor Here

w. R. shelton, publisher of the Al lany Decatur Daily, was in Birming- ham yesterday and said they were ali greatly pleased with the opportunity they had last week of entertaining the Alabama Press association.
 Tt was very instructive gathering to all of us,' said Mir. shelton. "The addresses were on timely subjects, while the informal discussions were also conducted in such way as to be most Illuminating to those in attend- ance.
 Che of the chief subjects discusse i was the Alabama libel laws, and after listening to Lieutenant Governor Miller s discussion of the subject 1 think every newspaper man present was convinced of the importance of getting modifi- cation of certain of our libel provisions. It is a matter which 1 believ. from now on will be given the earnest at tcntion of the Alabama press so that action can be secured by the legis- iatuge.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-11
Spring Festival

The white schools of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad company held their spring festival al Muscoda, and it was attended by the largest crowd in history" said J. c. Blackwell, assist ant superintendent of education. -De spite the cold snap we had for few days, the weather on the day of the celebration was ideal.
 The drill by pupils representing the AS states, the May pole dance, the In dian groups and the mass drill were all unusually good and were received with enthusiasm by the spectators. This af- fair has become feature of the schools each year, and much interest is mani- fested in it, not only by the pupils but by the patrons as we'll"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-11
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
So Shall Ye Reap

Birmingham is reaping the benetlt of it's war on vagrants during the last here and in other southern cities" said Chief of Detectives George J. Lyons yesterday.
 Memphis, I see, is having one rob bery after another. Undoubtedly, this has come as the result of laxtty in dealing with the transient and floating population.
 Comparatively speaking, crime is certainly dormant in Birmingham at present. Forty arrests, with prac- tcally the same number of convictions on vagrancy charges, is to answer to a great extent, l believe"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-11
The First TroiIeys


 His attention having been called to the fact that May 4 marked the thirty third anniversary of the electric troll ley, J. Kirk Jackson, vice president of the American Trust and Savings com pany, recalled momentous incident in the early life of the trolley in Mont gomery.
 He said: T was riding in buggy from the capitol late in the afternoon with Gov. Thomas Seay, whose private secretary l was. He drove an old white mare, a favorite of his brought from his plantation at Greensboro. Suddenly she dropped to the ground. twitched and was dead,
 We noticed a wire hanging from the supporting cable. We both got out of the buggy unharmed, but crowd gath cred about, not realizing the cause of the death of the horse.
 About that time a little black and tan terrier rushed from the sidewalk and sniffed at the tail end of the dang ling wire and dropped dead also.
 lHe late bfaQIOfQ DunHdnli then Su- perintendent of the street railways, ad : vanced with an umbrella and sought to thruse'the death dealing wire aside, knowing that wood and cotton were nonconductors. But the steel ribs of the umbrella were conductors and he danced about right merrily.
 By that time the crowd realized what a live wire was and withdrew from proximity.
 The first cars had dynamos on them and all the fine watches in Montgomery became magnetized, and were put aside until they threw off the magnetization.
 Tn time we adopted the present power station system and the watches were brought forth again.
 That is one thing in which ,Montgom cry beat Birmingham. We had electric cars first
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-11
Effect of Prohibition
 on fhe Hofel Business

~ FORGE R. BENTON, a Birming- 0J ham hotel manager, has pub lished a pamphlet entitled, "Why Hotel Prices Cannot Return to Pre- War Levels Like Other Lines of Business"
 "The hotel man of the past" says MT. Benton, twas not business man. Like Topsy, he just simply grew and flourished. He sold a few rooms, some food and lots of 'booze'." That type of hotel owner or manager, MT. Benton continues, didn't do much fig uring on where his profits came from and was like many other small busi- ness men, with the difference, how ever, that he was fixing in the pub lie mind false price for rooms and food.a 1t was revenue derived from liquor sales that enabled him to op-
 
 crate at profit. It is matter of public knowledge, as MT. Benton says, that most of the profits made by hotels, large and small, came from the sale of liquor.
 Although other classes of business are returning to a pre-war status MT. Benton thinks the hotels will never be able to do so because they were dealt hard blow by the Eight eenth amendment. Had it not been for the heavy patronage enjoyed by hotels and restaurants during the past few years prices would have been raised higher than they were, he de- clares, since hotels were operating at practically 100 per cent of their ca pacity instead of from 60 to 80 per cent, as formerly.
 The prohibition factor is one that hotel patrons have forgotten or over looked in their protests against high < prices, but there was in many in- stances just cause for complaint. It is not quite fair to the public to ex- pect it to make up the deficit caused z by losses from liquor sales by pay ing more for the service they receive than it is actually worth. The sit uatioa calls for a readjustment by the hotel men to changed conditions. Hctels and restaurants are indispen- cable. By efficient management they can be made to pay reasonable { Trofit without charging exorbitant prices.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-11
THE FAIRY SHOEMAKER
,uthbert Scott, in the London Spec.

J. Cuthbert Scott, in the London Spec. tator
 Upon messy root he sat,
 Beneath an aged fairy tree. In buckled shoes and three cooked hat. And brooches gartered at the knee. As ugly as a chimpanzee His eyes were bright. and in them shona That spirit of laughing mockery
 Betokening a leprechaun. He hammered at a fairy boot.
 And etlily whistling as he wrought Kept beating time with tiny foot
 To tune that mortal never taught.
 I stole behind, and swiftly calght Him where his doublet's points were
 drawn:
 He was not troubled or distraught, That philosophic leprechaun. '.Yield me your treasure, quick!" I said. Wrinkling hissn nose. he sudden lied: That branch is falling mind your headir
 My eye moment glanced aside, Whereat he bo!ted, grinning wide And vanished like dream at dawn. Then from the bushes mockipg cri1tj. You've lost your lucky leprechaun!"
 'Tis ever thus in Erins Isle; < An elf fantastic leads you on; Hope greets you with genial smile Then mocks you like leprechaun!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-11
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

THE BEST PLAN. Q the heavy-hearted brother You will meet with here and there, Who beholds the future darkly through the prism of despair, would soon issue from the shadows Where the shapes of sorrow turk, 1T he'd only take his coat off And decide to go to work.
 STILL SKEPTICAL. The poor railroads!' exclaimed MT. Ghpping.
 Why do you say the poor railroads ?'' asked MT. Grumpson They are in a bad fix.v Well. if I ever hear of railroad president being compelled to travel about the country in an ordinary Pullman be- cause he can't afford private car. I'll join you in shedding a few tears"
 EQUALLY RICH. "So this is Hollywood?" Yes"
 And I suppose aliNthese handsome resi- dences belong to motion picture stars?" "All but that imposing mansion on the corner there. It belongs to celebrated divorce lawyer"
 HAD NOTHING ELSE. You say your friend is a retired school teacher?"
 Yes"
 What did he retire on?' Sheer nerve"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-11
Missionary FervOr

Sunday was a great day at the Owenton Methodist church. says Dr. $. L. Dobba the pastor. We had Bishop W. R. Lambuth with us at the morning service and he gave us a missionary appeal as could only be made by man imbued heart soul and mind with the missionary fervor. It was small wonder that after hearing thert were four young men and four young women who offered themselves fof service on the foreign field"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-11
A FIsHY YARN
e Houston Post.

From the Houston Post.
 Mir. Ansel says the pot of gold'' story of Bergdoll sounded reasonable enough to him. The American soldiers may be thankful that MT. Ansell was not at the head of the intelligence de- partment of the army during the war
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-11
A WORTHLESS PAPER

From E. W. Howe's Monthly.
 I take the Blue Valley (Oklahoma), Sentinel, 1t is such perfect example of worthless country paper. Lately 1t printed the names of those who par took of sacrament at the editors church the Sunday before.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-11
NOT HIS FAULT

From the Tampa Tribune.
 The Birmingham Age-Herald says "the strike of the printers Is another typographical error.' And the proof reader" is guiitless this time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-11
CAN'T LIVE AT HOME.

1 CAN'T LIVE AT HOME
 MT. wadleigh." said the impecunious suitor, T don't want to take your dearly beloved daughter away from you"
 None of that, sir" interrupted Mir. Wadlelgh. hastily.
 What do you mean. sirT'
 "The young man who wants to marry my daughter will have to guarantee separate establishment or he won't get her." A QUIET EVENING.
 "Mr. Gabson says he spent a quiet evening at home last night-''
 ''wen?"
 What do you suppose he meant by that?'
 He probably said. Yes, my dear 4G or 50 times, put the cat out and retired ts bed"
 UNACCUsToMED FREEDOM
 "John," said Mrs. Twobble. plaintively. If I were to die would you think of me?" |. Certainly. my love"
 "often?"
 "Of course. It would probably be years before could stay out late at night with anything like a feeling of security" PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-11
A MORNING PRAYER

A MORNING FRAY ELK
 Let me not fret. over the things which thou hast hidden, Lord, but give me to do the things which thou hast revealed as true. So shall my light increase and my knowledge and life be deepened. Amen-M. :. II.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-11

F'rcm the Montgomery Advertiser. R ::: ::.',.'.:' 5, ,s: ::'. .....' s:s
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-11

The only intelligent excuse that can be offered for permitting Bergdoll to go in search of alleged buried treasure is the fact that the complaisant United States treasury actually let him have a pot of gold.
The Crittenden press., 1921-08-12
TnAIIn3ZT
Hill THE ny
uNSAlEu
PROFITABLE DAIRY IN SOUTH
Home Demand Supplied for Products
and Soil Fertility Butt Up and
Maintained.

Prupared By the United states Depart.
ment of Arficultursl
More than 0,bOOtUO pounds OF but.
ter was made By u3 creamerles In the
southern states IN the year ending DE-
ember 81, 1919. Thirty OF the "a
checs factories scattered throughout
The mountain region turned out isi..
OoO pounds Of Cheddar cheese. sllo-.
modern dairy barns. and purcbrd
dairy COWS are becoming common
Fifteen years ago dalying ~ an In.
dusiry had been scarcely started In
the southern states. said a specialist
la the dairy division. United States
Department OF Agriculture. The
South probably has made more prog.
rsss in the last ~ year than any
other section Of the country. The Ia.
cncase Ia the number of dairy cOvs
from 1907 10 1870 was more than ~
per cent The Increase for the ca.
tire United States during the same
leuod was ias per ccnt"
While the lncease 10 number of
coss has been large. Il Il pointed out
~ men working co.upemiiyely with
the federal government aud the STATE
agricultural college that the improve
ment In quality has been OF even great
er Importance puwhrcds have been
shipped Ia eyery year Ia large nun
hers. and great interest has been
shown 10 the uze of purebred sires
There arr nov A. bull associations Ia
these states The latest census hg
urss available show there are 6.isi
Lead Of purbred dairy cattle In South
Carollna and p.hs0 in Virginia.
dairy development hegan In the
southern states shortly after 1901
said one Of the specialists. nut tho
Improvement was slow 90 nrst lt
was difhcult 20 convince growers IN
my territory that there was anything
for them IN dalryiur But On object
lesson vas found that nually con
WINGED them on one side Of q road
was q neld o. cotton that yielded two
bales per acre on the other slde q
Geld gave half q bale The farm that
Erew two bales 20 the acre had kept
COWS for ave year and the manure
had produecd the chann Farmers
wers taken frum miles around 10 80
these two felds
This little Denomination illustrates
the purpose for which dairy COWS were
The Crittenden press., 1921-08-12

IL there ground ayailsbls fur school
rsnisnsf soms schools have rrnied
vacant lots and Acids near ths school
huuss fsr their gar,isns and have sue
crsdsd in canning money uu them.
which has been used fof Other school
projects or equipment A orfiaih
,school has an orchard ~ io trsss. 10
shlch ne chlldrrn arv fiyeu pfactlcai
llnsuuction on the rafe of fruit trees
the proat from tho sale u the fruit
soss 10 the school and ths urchari
ssfscs a. q model for the community.
s u possible or advisable in yolf
school % have gardens and orcharia
o. managed that they viii maks sub.
siautlal contributions 10 the upkosp
of sanons school activiiies. and 81
ths sans Time provide valnabie pracii
cal laboratory training fof ihn pup.lfi
Ihn o. community pruhlsu Hhilf
ma b. solved best pefhaps. hI SEQ
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