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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-23
Wooden Hotels Are
 Dangerous Fire Traps

YESTERDAY newspapers pub u lished accounts of two wooden hotels being destroyed by fire. One was the famous Wigwam, at Indian Springs, Ca, and the other was the Brown house in Macon. Later re- ports, however, stated that the Ma con building was brick structure.
 No one nowadays dreams of build ing wooden hotels in cities, but they are still in use at many resorts. The Wigwam and the Brown house were both old structures and most of the wooden hotels in existence were erected years ago.
 Possibly tM danger from fire is greater in city than at resort, but the strongest bid a resort hotel can make for patronage is the state- ment that it is fireproof. In time there will be no wooden hotels any where in the country, except very small ones in country towns.
 The lesson of fire prevention is being learned but slowly. in spite of active propaganda ssssiea on in
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-23
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WISE WIVES oF LIVESTOCK
rom the London Express.

From the London Express.
 Feed the brutem is the frank motto of the wise wives of Navestock. the happiest village in all England. It was at Navestock that every mem- Der of the married population came forward to claim a gammon of bacon offered at the village fete to the hap picst married couple.
 Learn to cook we'll is the advice of Navestock's women to their sisters. It is the grand secret of married life the supreme Accomplishment to insure domestic felicity. Cooking. they say. lis sounder basis than culture; every man is the slave of good cook.
 "Pet the ladies' is the equally frank motto of the brawny sons of the soil of Navestock. This they find pleas ant diversion from the solid menu pre- sented them by their wives at regular intervals of the day..
 Tourists rarely visit this happy vale of bouncing babes and pink and white beauties that nestles snuEly in the seclusion of Brentwood. The traveller isa great event. The solitary road sweeper stops work to saze at Kin. and the children stand aside half in awe. to curtsy. The very COWS in the meadows cease their chewing.
 l In the cool of the evening. happy Navestock, from g 10 90 years. meets
 for old-worid dances and hand Of | l"patience."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-23
MODERN GIRLS

From the Brooklyn Eagle. -
 Mrs. Hannah Stone Preble of Marblehead, celebrating with her husband the seventieth anniversary of their marriage-he is 92 and she is ss-gets some newspaper attention through an interview in which sha makes the hard and fast statement: "The girls of today are brazen jades and by way of specification alludcs to bobbed hair, high heels and short skitts. On the other hand Mrs. Arietta Packard of Brockton, who is s4 and long a widow, declares: T much prefer the short skirts to tas dresses we used to clean the streets with, or the bustles and hoopskirts Present-day conditions are the best I've known in 80 years. People are only just beginning to live"
 Two views; take your choice. The widow may be gay as ever at S4. The married woman, with husband tj care for her or to be cared for, Is conservative at 30, and more con- servative at 8s.
 But ''brazen jades" is hard term for even dyed-in the-wool con- servative to use. It Is intended to naked the galled jade vince. It is finely rhetorical in the style of the congressional speeches of 1851, when Mrs. Preble of Marblehead was bride. But thinking women Of to- day appreciate its essential injustice
 Fashions change and pretty girls like other girls, do not want to pe behind them. Girls will be girls as long as the world lasts. And the early victorian notion of virtue in- herent in a skirt, or in flowing curiS' or in English -heeled shoes is not logically defensible. 1t made a good talking point for the missionaries 10 inc Kanakas and the Hottentots, but it was only talking point. In civilization it Is out of place.
 Seriously speaking, we ooup' whether any complex civilization ever produced young women averas- ing higher than our own in sensiole dreAsing, sensible thinking, senslpie living. And surely "brazen jades' are not commonly mentioned in their presence.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-23
WASTING TIMBER By Norman w. Scherer. Assistan Professor of Forestry. Ohio State University.

Ds Norman w. Scherer, Assistant
 Professor of Forestry. Ohio State University.
 (Science Service)
 The original forests of the IJnits.3 States have been estimated as con taining S22 million acres, which hs been reduced by cutting, -cuitfvatinc and burning to 137 million acres: or to Put it another way, our yirejn stands have been reduced to ona. sixth of their original area. Sixty per cent of the original timber stand ia gone, leaving us balance of ap- proximatelyN 2,2l4, 1000, ,000, 900 feet of merchantable timber.
 e Now that we know what our bal ance amounts to. we may logically ask the question. What is our annual consumption" It includes an average annual cut of 10000, 100000 feet of lumber. somewhere between 100. .O0O.- 900 and 125.000,00O railroad ties. A50.- 000,000 cords of pulp wood, and abo,,t 10000. 900 cords of fuel Under nor nal conditions. our per capita con. sumption of timber amounted to pe- tween 500 and 525 board feet, but with the pressure of war this was brought down to approximately 800 board feet. and we are still sufferlns from the economic curtailment. The average consumption for Europe amounts to 60 board feet per capita while for all other countries it is about four board feet. The average for the world population of l,600,o00 : 900 as saw material is 40 board feet
 Our tremendous consumption ot lumber has been most potent factor in clevating our standard of living and k would not be a happy solution of the problem to curtail our con sumption. Rather let us increase our production,
 timber amounts to 25,000. 100000 cubic feet, while the annual growth amounts to anly 5000, 100000 cubic feet. We ara consuming timber, then about five times as fast as we are nroducire it
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-23

are several thousand of them, many of whom have prospred, both as workers at mines and steel plants, and in the conduct of mercantile enterprises.
 The citizens of Birmingham will join with their Italian neighbors in extending to General Bodoglio a cordial welcome.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-23
Eminent Italian To
 Visit Birmingham

m BIRMINGHAM will honor dis 0 tinguished Italian on Septem- Der 6, when Gen. Pietro Badoglio, one of the highest army officials in his country, will be guest-of the city, the Senior and Junior Cham bers of Commerce and the Italian branch of the chamber.
 During his visit here General BadosIio will make side trips to the industrial districts where his fel- low eeuntrymen are employed in large numbers and will learn for ss---~,1 hsw thay havs fared. There
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-23
A WELCOME VISITOR

Senator snortsworthy." said that eminent statcsman's secretary. "ons of your constituents wants to sec you. Here's his card-the Hon. Cicero Jones. of Chisgersville"
 "Ah." exclaimed the senator. talk ing his feet off his desk and beam ing with pleasure. Admit the Hon. Cicero, my boy. There's a man Pvs known for 20 years and all the favor he has ever asked was what he called the proud privilege of voting | for me-"
 KEEPING UP HIS .PENMANsHIP
 Whats the joke. warden"
 That forger in Cell 1o4 takes the cake."
 "Is he demanding a private bath?' Tt wouldn't surprise me much it he did. He wants to know If MI let him have g few blank checks, pen and bottle of ink" WARM DAY IN COURT Why, the judge is asleep"
 'Would we be in contempt of court if we walked him up?',, Wait moment and it won't be necessary. A fly is buzzing around his bald head" IN BOOKS
 Why. this is just like the east!" exclaimed the tourist. Where is ths wild and woolly' west I've read SD much about?"
 Probably just where you read about it." replied the westerner, dryly
 -eAuL COOK
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-23
THE ~FRENxIED Mone FICTION

From the St. Louis Post Dispatch.
 There are two lessons to be learned from the wounding of 27 persons in an attempt to lynch negro at Knox vile, Tenn: One is that jail defend CTS do sometimes fire; another, that the "frenzied mob" can be driven back by jail defenders who fire.
 Lynching has prospered on the pre- sumption that law officers will not fire upon lynchers. Though well grounded, presumption Is not always to be relied on, as shown at Knoxville.
 Officers usually refrain from firing upon a mob because of pretended belief that a mob is frenzied and can not be driven back. The "frenzfed mob" is a fiction. Mobs are made up of men and boys who rS<el m the opportunity to commit crowd crime without risk of consequence. Tkey give themselves up to an orgy of law lcssness because of the unWiilingness of officers to fire. The mob pauses before real resistances, and fades away when there is danger. It's frenzy is simulated; it quickly dissoives when it falls to frighten.
 The only reason for the prevalense of iynching in this country is the fear and flabbiness of officials who fail to do their duty. The example of the Knoxville sheriff and the efficacy of his action are commended to officials of the fearful and flabby sort.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-23
: ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
THE LATTER STAGE

THE LATTER STAGE The first car that he ever owned He treated with such care He even hesitated to
 Expose it to the air. He drove with much solicitude And feared that every jolt Would maybe shake a fender off Or loosen up a bolt. , But now he leaves his flivver out In any kind of weather And all he asks of that old bus It Just to hold together.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-23
Too Many Accidents

Birmingham autoists sbou,d t.r. warning from tho large number of automobile accidents which have oc. cured here within the last two weeks and be more careful In their uriving,' declared E. L. Robinson Many lives are sacrificed needless. iy every year because of some care less act of driver who is caueh, off guard.
 Let's have no accident week every week in every year. Scores of accidents, often with tragic conclu. sions, could be prevented by the prac- tlcing Of safety first princinles.n
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-23
CATHEDRALs AND LUNCHROOMs Tron, The New Republic

tTOm lAG NEW AsSPa0AiSs
 Although our more ostentatious
 architecture has not developed a
 modern style. fresh tradition has
 been stealing in ppon us, like the
 proverbial thief in the night. In tho
 fulfillment of some peculiarly con
 temporary purpose the modern style
 has here and there baen introduced; i;
 and since the difficulty of creating . new structure is not so great when
 the functions 1t performs are them
 selves new. there is nothing strange in the fact that thS two mann sources of the modern =, at present are
 ;he subWays an0~the cheap lunch rooms. Because our subways and Iluncl4fo looms have been constructed with as strict an eye to ways and means and ends as a mediayal guild hall or . Roman amphitheatre, these modern structures have come increas- lingly to possess that intelligibility of purpose and that integrity of ex- ecution which mark what can prop erly be called style" There is, in- deed, perhaps finer promise of liv- iinr art behind one of those white- trimmed glass fronts, where white. winged chefs pour white batter upon An immaculate griddle. than there ie 1 for example, in the cathedral of St. John the Divine. which it has taken so much labor and reconsideration sta hlisH
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-23
A sIsRENADE

A sIsRENADE By Sir Walter Scott. An! County Guy, the hour is nigh The sun has left the lea. The orange flower perfumes the
 bower,
 The breeze is on the sea, The lark. his lay who thrilld all day. Sits hushed his partner nigh: Breeze, bird and flowers confess the
 hour,
 But where is County Guy? The village maid steals through the
 shade,
 Her shepherd Suit to hear, To beauty shy, by lattice '', Signs high born cavalier. The star of love, all stars sp q Nov reignS OCT earth and fAnd siGh and> low ihe 1, kpow. II Bat where is County Guy fn6
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-23
"Moonshiners" Numerous
 and Some Are Ingenious

66M MoONSHlNING" has been
 GVU carried on in the mountain regions of the south for generations, bat thanks to the Volstead law, where one "still" flourished in years gone by, dozen or a score are in operation today. In spite of rery attempt to stamp them out they sprlng up like mushrooms. As soon as one is destroyed another takes its place.
 Some idea of the number of nen tngaged in "moonshining" may he ea.ned from a dispatch in the Louis vile Courier-Journal from Hod sen vile, Ky. It is estimated by Corn- ty Attorney E. W. Creal, of Larue county, that in territory six miles wide and twenty miles long, 400 "noonshiners" are making illicit whisky. The plan of operation seems to be to stay close to a county boundary line. A "still" is frequent ly located in one county and the out put sold in another. This makes it easier for "moonshiners" to escape from county officers.
 If we take this restricted area of Kentucky and add to it the other mountain counties of the south and to those add the hundreds of stills" operated everywhere, both in towns and cities and in rural districts, it is evident that an enormous amount of "moonshine" whisky is being manufactured. Until recently the art was unknown to any extent out side of the south, but reports from other parts of the country indicate that the quick profits and compara- tive ease with which whisky can be made have tempted many people to go into the business, women as well as men. The "home brew" industry is extensive.
 The average "moonshiner" is a person of little or no imagination, but many ingenious schemes have been devised by the more alert dis tillers. It is related, but we will not vouch for the story, that a "moonshiner" who operated near Birmingham and incidentally made . fortune before he was caught, had large tank built on the crest of a hill near his home. This tank was strictly modern and was equipped with guage which showed the rise and fall of its contents. A pipe led down the hill to two storage tanks built underground in his front yard. From these he had pipes running under his house and up through a wall, where there was a cleverly concealed faucet and an opening large enough to hold a gallon can while it was being filled.
 A number of "stills" were oper- ated near the tank on the hilltop but not too near. As the whisky was made it was poured into the re- ceiving tank, and if reports are true, there was never any shortage. How this "moonshiner" contrived to car " on such an extensive business and how the reservoir remained unde- tected long enough for him to ascu- mulate a bank account reputed to be nearly $1oo,Ooo is not explained, but where there are thousands of "moonshiners" it is not strange that a few get rich before they are put out of business and some have been known by their regular customers to escape detection for years.
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 Wooden Hotels Are
 Dangerous Fire Traps NJ ESTERDAYs newspapers pub J lished accounts of two wooden hotels being destroyed by fire. One was the famous Wigwam, at Indian Springs, Ca, and the other was the Brown house in Macon. Later re-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-23
----. = ----------------- POINTED PARAGRAPHS

| From the Chicago News
 Donkeys and facts are stubborn things.
 Why does the last match invaria- bly, fafl to ignite? Usually it's the promising young man that gets into debt The man who is looking for trou- ble does not have to advertise for it.
 The difference between rspartee and Impotence is in the size of the speaker.
 Some folk are kept in the dark in ordering to keep them from bring ing things to light.
 A man may be able to argue suc- cessfully with woman. but it never does any good. When mother teis $ 5acheier about cute thing her saby did hs never says just what he thinks. Some husbands neves thins of ssl- ing their wives anything ua2-. ass they have found it out for them selves. ssrft A girl should never throw away her old slippers; they may be handy at her wedding-and much handler in after years.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-23
Busines~ Improving

Ihings are certainly looking brighter in this district if the busi- ness or this month is barometer" said K. P. McDavid, Jr, of the Clark & Jones Piano company.
 Business has been better during tue present month than for any month during the year. and as for saturday we had the largest business we nave done on any Saturday during 1921
 T believe the worst is over and people are beginning to be more op .imistic, and that will do much to imrpove business conditions.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-23
Bides His Time

T have dog that has adopted the habit of newspaper men working on morning papers" said John c. Noses For the past 10 months my Dull fer. rier has refused to eat at all during the day and waits for me to get home at l2 o'clock every night to eat.
 When start to1 eat my supper he sits right by my side and waits until have finished and then I feed him NO matter how tempting the food is. the pup will not eat until I come nome. and even then he wants until ! thing" a"S
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-23
Statewide Conference
 on Agriculture

v5THE Alabama Agricultural and H Educational Revival" will be held in the city of Montgomery, September IF tS 23, inclusive. Its purpose is well expressed in the first paragraph of . circular letter an- nouneinz the coming event, which reads as follows:
 "The past year has caused the business men of our state to real ize, as never bfore, that agriculture is really the big business of Ala baaaA and that practical education along vitalized lines is necessary to make our people fully appreciate the true value of agriculture and the dignity of labor"
 Depending on the soil, we of the cities should know more about it. Those who till the soil should be- come better acquainted with it's ca pacity and possibilities.
 The state department of education is right in making a special plea for the presence of the teachers and remitting obligatory attendance at the county institutes if they take the short course at the educational and agricultural revival.
 It is to be wonderful opportu- nity for the big men and women of the state to coordinate the work of the city the school and the farm.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-23
Greeks Not Worried

am not worried about the news or o'ooo Greeks being captured by the Turks" said Aristotle Bouros. "We have 100000 Turkish prisoners as a set-off. l attribute the capture of me S,oOo of our troops being in a strange country and to the bridges being cut so that relief could not come to this separated division.
 do not believe that the Turks VIII be able to resist our advance more than two to three weeks longer. Our general advance has not been broken, while the Turks have been continuously retreating. What most concerns us Greeks is retention of what we gain. We believe England and other Christian powers will stand by us this time''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-23
A USE FOR ROYALTY

Why do these foreign nations still; cling to kings?"
 Force of habit, maybe" "Eh?"
 And besides, kings are useful for parade purposes"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-23
MARSH HENRY PESSIMISTIC

points out and deplores sprang from a union of the fanatical few with the rascaliy many, oyerreaching--as it l were, stealing upon--a nevertheless majority of the people. What can be done about if? Noth- ing but stick to the fourth amend- ment and nullify the5 eighteenth. Measurably that is being done. Mean while one may npt unreasonably ask
 whether the modern world is not upon it's last legs, staggering toward the end which overlook the ancient world.
 Are we on the way to another col lapse? They>Sof Sidon and Tyre and Babylon as little knew or anticipated what was going to happen to them as we do. Maybe they were less po- tent to avert 1t. If there be any saw ing virtue in republican, government we shall see how potent we are; but between the cradle and the grave ;he. deepest mystery Is life ilseif. Whence? Whither?F Wherefore, in.- agination has made world of fc- tion and filled it with spectres. But still it's forecasts of the future leave us in the dark.
 Jeffersontown. Jefferson County, Kentucky~.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-23
CoINCIDENCE

From Answers, London.
 Coincidences in life are stranger than anything in fiction.
 There used to be two steamers called the Romuius and the Remus' A few years back the former was iost in the channel. Within three weeks the Remus was wrecked thousand miles away from the scene Of her sls- kter ships disaster.
 Many reliable authorities regard the following as the most amazing coincidence on record. More than 200 years ago. December D. loe4' boat crossing the Menai Straits with s1 passengers encountered a terrific gale, and foundered. The only man to escape death was a Hugh Will Hams.
 More than a hundred years later, December 5, 17so, another vessel, with 8 large number of passengers, sank in the same circumstances, and in the same spot. All the passengers were drowned SxCept tohos iAiS ii>AiS ''~~ Hugh Williams. Again, December 5, 1920, boat carrying 30 people. sank in the same spot. The sole survivor was Hugh Williams.
 The figure has a peculiar connec- ton with the career of the ex-kaiser. He was born in the flfty-ninth year of the century, entered the army in 1869, and completed his university career In 1879. The dates of his birth and marriage--January 27 and Feb ruary 27--both make nine. if two and seven are added together. And the same number figures in his defeat and exile. That occurred in 1918, which contains one figure "s" and two figures that added together make 19." Also. he was 5s years old when his career as ruler ended.
 It has often been pointed out that the letter M. for better or worse, dosged the footsteps both of Napoleon the Great and Napoleon the Little In the case of Napoleon I, 1t was Mar boeuf who first recognized his genius at the military college. Marenso was his first great victory, Moriier was his best general Moreau betrayed him. Marat died for him. Marie Louise shared his fortunes. Moscow marked the turn in those fortunes, Meternich beat him in diplomacy.
 His first battle was Montenotte, This last Mont St. Jean. He stormed Montmartre, took Milan, Marmount deserted him. His rlght-hand man was MontAsquieu, his last resting place in France, Malmaison. He sur rendered to Captain Maitland, and his companions at St. Helena were Mon tholon and Marchand. His marshals were Massena, Mortier, Marmont, Mcdonald, Murat and Moucey. and no fewer than 26 of his generals had names beginning with NJ
 Napoleon III married the Countess of Montijo and his most intimate friend was Morny, and his tutor Moreith of Montelimar. His greatest military successes were the capture of the Malakoff and the Mausselon Tower. His biggest battle was Mon tebello, and MacMahon won Magen- ta for him.
 He drove the Austrians out of Mari auano and made his triumphal entrs into Milan. He was ropulsed before Mantua. in his last war driven back to the Moselle. and his fate settled by Moltke at Metz.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-23
Alabama Farmers See
 the Success of Others

71WO significant excursions have u been made by Alabama farm CTS and dairymen in the recent past. Ore hundred and fifty cattle ra;s- CTS and farmers of Pickens county went to Mississippi where they studied the dairy methods success fully conducted in that state and, in particular, visited the state agricul- tural college, famous for its dairy products.
 The other party consisted of Cal houn county farmers. They spent last week in the prosperous farming section of Tennessee, where diversi- fled agricultural production has reached high degree of efficiency and this has been supplemented by marketing methods that bring the best results.
 Last year 150 Kansas farmers passed through Birmingham en route to sections of Georgia and the Carolinas, where especially good records had been made in retaining worn-out lands and bringing them back to productivity.
 This interchange of ideas and per sonal contact between the farmers of the south is of great value in improving agriculture.