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The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-29
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PRESIDENT AND coBBLER

From the St. Louis Post t-Dspatch
 Emporia, Kan, luminous point the it. erary map by reason of William Allen White prose and Walt Masons prancing poetry ha e third celebrity. The fame of Cobblcr opao. workmanship has reached as far as Wa Il . ton, in consequence of which President II rt has parcel-posted bundle of his shoes l. M renewed and beautified in the Emporia shoe makers shop.
 Shop, of course, is not the word. Studio were better. For Cobbler Spady, evidently, k an artist, as superior in his genre as the rhona- bodal author of "A Certain Rich Man. or the producer of the diurnal lyric with what Lee Shippey once called the Walt Masonic charm
 From the modest, thrifty viewpoint of shoe repairing it is far cry from Washington to Emporia, but the incident drags out from the dust neglected verity. Did not Emerson as- sure us that if we but made better mouse trap than the other fellow the world would beat pathway to our door?
 Certain cynics, perhaps, will construe this incident otherwise. They will shove aside the transcendentalist and accredit the Emporia cobbler's new customer to the Kansas genius for advertising. We shall not enter the troversy. There is honor enough in this event to go around-to include the sage of Concord, the cobbler of Kansas and the President of these United States.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-29
INSURANCE MEN ADVOCATE
 TRADING AT HOME

A commendable step has been taken by the Birmingham Fire and Casualty Insurance exchange, which has decided to start an inten- sive campaign to promote trading in Birming- ham. This organization represents an im- portant branch of business and by giving the gaining rapid headway it will help it's members while helping Birmingham That, is the right idea. Cooperation is the order of the day.
 The way to make Birmingham bigger and better town, whether we sell fire and casualty insurance, dry goods, groceries or anything else, is to get together The Fire and Casualty Insurance exchange is setting a patriotic ex- amyls which other organizations should follow
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-29
coRcAs, co.woRKERs IN HARNESS

Many of the physicians and surgeons of Ala bama who have accepted membership on the speakers bureau of the Gorgas Memorial plan worked with Gorgas during the World war when as surgeon general of the United States army he had the care of more than 100000 Amer ican soldiers in charge and the establishment of sanitary measures in the camps throughout the country and on the American battlefields in France" says Dr. s. W. Welch, state health officer.
 "A few of the doctors who will lecture on the Gorgas memorial also served with General Cor gas in Panama, when as chief sanitary officer of the Panama Canal commission he made pos sible through the elimination of yellow fever and malaria this great engineering project"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-29
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT THE REGENT
 AK MURDERS CONGNNITTED G1EREABOUTS

6NHE recent murders in Birmingham
 remind one of the orgies of "Jack the S Ripper" in the Whitehall district in London many years ago.
 "Jack the Ripper" was never caught. That is, if he was arrested and punished it was for some other crime and his identity was never definitely known. / The crimes committed by him are still a mystery to Scotland Yards.
 Jack the Ripper had mania for killing women of the flower strata of type known were shockingly mutilated.
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 This Henry the Hacker, as reporters have seen fit to dub him. evidently is negro maniac of a shrewd, foxy type-of an animal nature whose predilecton is for killing with short handled ax. He seems bent upon going into the outlying small store after dark, asking for something and killing when the proprietor has his back turned. To prevent detection he like wise kills the wife or other occupant of the store leaving children who are too small to identify him. His mania is like unto that of the timber wolf who would kill for the very lust of killing.
 It is species of insanity, or maniacal de- velopment in the very low order of the human. Evidently the negro who is doing this killing is in mental development but little above the ape, with all the instincts of the brute.
 There is nothing to criticize in the police or detectives for not discovering this blood-thirsty animal in negro form. There are no theories in the study of crin1inology which could be made use of in such cases. It will be purely an acci- dent if he is ever detected and captured It will be matter of watchfulness. His next crime may be in Ensley or Bessemer Calera, or some mining camp. It may be as beggar at the door of some residence where he might know that only man and his wife occupied the dwelling.
 He might be caught by plain clothes men establishing drag net throughout section fre- quented by negroes and search every negro of whatever type to see whether he carries an sx or any other sort of like implement and arrest him on suspicion. The question then is how can any proof be obtained? The honest wood
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-29
DREAMS OF SHOWS

"While the moving pictures hurt the eyes of Mrs. Neil Wallace, the former amusement in spector," said Mrs. Myrtee Shell, the present inspector, "seeing many of them has made me have wild dreams. l am sure the pictures themselves were not responsible for this, but during the past few nights I have had very many wild dreams from which l would awake with start.
 "Most of the people who object to the movies are people who don't go to them, for if they did they would find that they good, clean, wholesome amusement. If they want to go to a good picture all they have to do is to call the library and they will tell them the ones that are recommended by the National Board of Review. would appreciate it very much if people seeing anything they object to at a picture show or vaudeville theatre would write me letter regarding it and l will take the matter up with the manager of the theatre"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-29

chopper or the man going about with an ax to chop kindling for families may be jailed and deprived of honest work It is indeed prob lem how to detect and arrest this black beast who has played such havoc in bloody deeds about Birmingham recently.
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 The theories above outlined I mentioned yes terday to a noted criminologist and student of labor conditions. Said he:
 There are thousands of unemployed ignorant negroes in this district at the present time and there are many blacks and whites of the lower order who bent upon crime There arg fences all over Birmingham where stolen goods are taken to be disposed of These fences often rob the negro thief of his share of the loot. He then seeks to get even, and he does it by killing. All these murders may not have been committed by negroes. There are gangs of white men in Birmingham who put negroes up to robbing freight cars. They have fences to handle the groceries and others to handle boots and shoes and dry goods. I don't know how they are now, but some ten years ago there an organized gang in Birmingham and many places where stolen goods were disposed of At that time there were killings here because the fences did not tote square with the thieves.
 "The footing of the big stores in Birmingham was in those days periodical thing. The gaag had men and women in every department store in Birmingham and would even go so far as to take orders for things for those whose purchas- ing morals were extremely lax. This gang was broken up. But now Birmingham is inv:t- ing all classes from everywhere to come in and the town is full of all sorts of criminals, both black and white"
 Regardless of the above general statement referring to crimes of former days, the best the ories among old officers here who have dealt with crime in the past that recent murders have been the result of one negro brute with lust for blood. Others think it the work of an organized gang. All of them, however feel that everyone in the Birmingham district should be on guard and particularly watchful for any strange and unknown negro man that might show up about ones premises N
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-29
A cURIE OF RADIUM
From the February Delineator.

From the February Delineator.
 Madame Curies modest autobiography omits mention of one single honor that more than anything else will help make her name immor- tai. The official scientific designation of the unit of radoactivity is named in her honor the curie, and the degree of rlioactivity is expressed in milicuries, centicu. and so on up the metric system scale. In selecting Madame Curie's name, scientific bodies have followed the well-established custom that accounts for the introduction of such words as ohm, watt, ampere, etc., into our language-all of them the names of inventors or discoverers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-29
A RESULT CETTER

"The Age-Herald's Lobby column is cer- tainly result-getter," said Charles F. Yarn, assistant secretary of the Chamber of Com- merce. q have never been quoted in that col umn without hearing from it right off the bat.
 "The morning that a little Lobby appeared Ill which I alluded to the proposed excursion to Mexico and mentioned the names of several parties who had determined to take that trip, our telephone got busy early and kept going through the forenoon by parties wishing to secure details as to the trip.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-29
LIKES BIRMINGHAM

To the Editor of The Age-Herald:
 In event I am to live in the south Birming ham will be my home.
 It has every evidence of kindly place in which to dwell.
 Southern hospitality is more manifest here than in any city in the south.
 have had some business dealings here and they have been most pleasant.
 Your paper contains interesting news as we'll as authentic information.
 W. H. MGRUDER, Attorney at Law. Mason City, Ind, January 2S, 1922
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-29
HUGO PICKS UP A BARGAIN

From the New York Herald.
 Hugo Shines is reported to have accepted the Russian crown jewels in pawn from the soviet government at 60 per cent of their value. At home Shines is probably known as the un- crowned king of Germany. Now that he has bought crown at end of season sale he has if he chooses.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-29
IN THE LIMELICHT

'The Sunday School Basketball league is attracting attention and developing friendly competition among the various churches of the city" said Tom Estes, one of the directors of the league. '1t was the idea when the league was formed to bring the young men of the vari- ous churches closer together and to develop that feeling of brotherhood we are all striving for. The league games are well attended every Friday night at the " and the boys are fight ing hard for the leadership in the circuit"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-29
NIGHT SCHOOL POPULAR

''The Y. M. c. A. night school is more pop ular than ever now,' said H. R. Howell, educa- tional secretary of the 'Y." "Our salesmanship and public speaking classes are especially alive and active and are largely attended The young men of Birmingham on the whole, are anxious to better their condition and are taking ad- vantage of the wonderful facilities offered them right here at home to get practical, intensive training in their special lnes.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-29
MASONS ARE HAPPY

within few months Birmingham will have the handsomest and most commodious Masonic temple in the country" said Dr. J. G.. Vance. "All the Masonic bodies of the city that meet at the main temple are merging interests and Zamora Temple Shriners are also joining in the temple construction. Masonry will have some thing to be proud of, indeed, when all the lodges can meet and entertain visitors in this new $1, 1000, ,000 home"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-29
THE WATCHER

Mary Webb, in the Spectator. Where the black woods grow sparse and die A giant broods against the sky, The storm his chlamys, and his head Bent to the spirits of the dead. The whichever, floating like leaf, Passes him safely, clear of grief. The auburn doves within the wood Have pondered him and understood. The wandering breaths of cattle come Toward his fastness, and the hum From paper homes of wasps, and cries Of bees in their refectories. The evening smoke ascends again Out of the sapphire circled plain, And to the oatfield, pale as wax, black swift hurtles like an ax. There shadow, with her gentle fingers, Soothes all the dappled land; she fingers On little croft and ample field, With their benign and wistful yield. The Watcher the summit stands With blue goblet in his hands; He slowly drinks the glimmering years, The sparkling laughter and the tears. He is not angered nor forgivng; He does not sever dead from living, But sees them all as long gone by, Returning in futurity.
 And still he counts, with stepping head, The spirits of the diving dead A soul or two in every field, And in the furrowed, crimson weald And some in every orchard close, Who pruned the cherry and the rose, And waited for the damson sweet, And plodded through the brittle wheat.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-29
TO FLY TO THE POLE

From the Scientific American.
 When Amundsen sails northward next May he will probably take along two airplanes and two aviators. He is himself an expert aviator. His idea is now to fly to the pole, which may indicate an abandonment of the plan to drift across with the ice pack. The expedition is financed by the Norwegian government and the schooner Maud" now at Seattle, is the center of busy preparations for the coming attempt.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-29
BOND ISSUE O. K.

"After intelligent survey of the entire field there is no doubt of overwhelming result for the good roads bond issue Monday if the vote can be gotten out" said Dr. B. F.. Riley. "Mr. Cramton has made the survey and he is confident the issue will carry
 "The opposition is merely negligible, but 1t will be voted in full and any over-confidence indulged in by any voter will be hurtful to the result"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-29
PosTHuMoUs HoNoRs

"When you pass there will be scramble to fill your shoes.'
 q hope so," said the eminent citizen. "Tomb- stones may lie, but when there is heated con- troversy over naming a successor to the late departed, it's pretty good sign that he amounted to something in the world"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-29
MECHANICAL RESEARCH

Do you enjoy communing with nature in your automobile?"
 q might" said MT. Clipping, "but Fate is against me. In moment of mental alteration I bought secondhand and I spend most of my time communing with the engine
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-29
NOT MUCH DIFFERENCE

Anything unusual in police court today?" "A magazine editor given the minimum fine for assaulting a contributor" "Why the minimum fine?" His victim clipped list of household goods for sale out of newspaper and sold it to the editor as free verse;"
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-29
NO HANDICAP

Many good man has been prevented from serving his cG1ntry by flat feet"
 That's an impeachment to a military career,' . said MT. Grumpson, but l have yet to hear of flat head keeping man out of public office"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-29
EXCURSIONS IN THOUGHT

Comes many learned lecturer,
 With strong and earnest face, Whose teaching creates quite stir And charms the human race. But should fail to hear him speak, I do not greatly sorrow; The cult today that all men seek Will be forgot tomorrow.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-29
NERVES OF STEEL

"Well so long," said the aviator, nonchal- antly, as he prepared to drop 5000 feet earth ward.
 Pardon me for mentioning it. said the pilot, "but you haven't hooked on your para chute yet"
 Thanks, old top. In another minute I would have been gone without it."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-29
DELAYED DELIVERY

Do you meet with many obstacles in your business?"
 'Yes," said the metropolitan bootlegger. "When trying to answer hurry calls in my limousine I've frequently been caught in a traffic jam and held up for half an hour
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-29
SAD REVELATIONS

'FYou don't object to the way women dress?" Not as a rule" replied MT. Dubwaite, "but some way should be found to stop pitiless pub- licity on the streets"
 "What do you mean by that?"
 "Bow-legged women in short skrts.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-29
ADRIFT WITH THE
 TIMES
CAUSE AND EFFECT

They've bobbed their hair and bobbed their
 skirts I speak of Mauds, Fantines and Gerts; Who studies them more closely finds That Mother Nature bobbed their minds.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-29
LETTERS TO EDITOR

Additional letters to the editor from Age Herald readers will be found today pages two and three, automobile section.)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-29
A DARKToWN PROPOSAL

Honey, let's ySu an me git married" "But, Sam, you ain't workin'" But, honey, you is.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-29
THE GOOD OLD TIMES

A hundred years or so from now Some old mans head will shake. "They don't make home brew now" he'll snarl, Like my dad used to make"
 -Tennyson J. Daft. A thousand years from now a smart Savant will lecture on The corscrew as a work of art Designed in ages gone.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-29
A MORNING PRAYER

help me to smile beneath my burden, knowing this; that daily labor ends in evenings rest, so does life end everlastngly in thee. Amen.-M. s. B.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-29
TOMORROW'S ELECTION RESULTS
 MEAN MUCH TO ALABAMA

Alabama's decision the road bond amend ment to be submitted at the polls tomorrow IS fraught with gravest consequences If the issue carries by large majority, press dispatches will inform other states that Alabama has twice spoken for a modern highway system and twice vindicated her right to be classed among pro- gressive cofnmonwealths.
 The attention of the nation is directed to Ala bama as it has never been before Muscle Shoals has placed this state in the center of the over the country by Tuesday, and it will learn whether worth while, or whether we are so backward that anything Henry Ford might do for us would be time and labor lost
 Defeat of the bond issue is unthinkable It is inconceivable at time when North Caro. lima, a sister state, has scheduled a 400-me hard road program for the year, Florida will spend $10,000,000 on roads and other southern states are using the federal aid fund in getting themselves out of the mud
 Hundreds of men out of work want the roads to be built. Makers of road building material are waiting on the result to hire these men in their mills and quarries. Consolidated rural schools are praying for the roads that the chil- dren may the better go to and fro Ministers of the gospel see more men and women in their church pews with good roads inviting them to attend.
 The automobile tax has been levied and has already come in at the rate of more than $1,- 100000 year. The amendment means roads at half price with the states half of the cost already provided for, principal and interest. Good morals, common sense neighborliness, profitable farming, economic marketing of farm products, longer life for farm vehicles, greater happiness in the farm home, closer relations be- tween country and city, better schools, larger church attendance, bigger, more prosperous and altogether more satisfying life for Ala bama are all at stake.
 The ten to one vote of two years ago should be fifteen to one vote tomorrow, as indicating to the outside world that not only does Alabama think she did two years ago, but that her citizens are even more determined that this state shall progress.
 The soldier poll tax amendment will be adopt ed by common cnosent.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-29

socialist editor who told the truth about the orgies of the former Crown Prince during the war proved his charges, but was fined 1,500 marks, anyway. A man in Potsdam recently insulted President Ebert and was let off with fine of 600 marks. There is still room for improvement in Germany.
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 One of the seasons best jokes is the story of the English preacher whose parents sent him to Kansas to get him away from liquor. Now he wants to be sent back home because bad Kansas booze is wrecking his life. Owners of property in the Muscle Shoals neighborhood already mapping out Euro pean tours and dreaming of the time when they'll be sending post cards from Monte Carlo to the folks back home.
 Things have come to pretty pass in Bir- mingham when members of the Ku Klux Klan have to leave their comfortable firesides put on their night shirts and parade through the town.
 Tailors say Mir. Harding is the best dressed President in the history of the country And yet, the least President can do is to appear well groomed before his admiring countrymen.
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 Reform grding up her skirts, has in- vaded Mexico. President Obregon is planning to abolish pulque, beverage that makes "white mule' seem mild and innocuous.
 Esthetic souls shocked by the alleged crudities of the "peace dollar" The average citizen won't quarrel with the design, as long as it is worth 100 cents.
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 Eight thousand people attended the Salem Sullivan wedding in Slidell, La, The doings of that memorable day will be related to genera tons yet unborn.
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 Judging from his enthusiastic reception when he reached San Juan, Governor E. Mont Reilly is not displeasing to the entire population of Porto Rico.
 The moonshiners trusty dog who guards a "stilP' may violate the law, but he deserves no worse punishment than bone.
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 Jazz might not be immoral if people who listen to it could be put in straight jackets before the orchestra unlimbers.
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 Happy are the astronomers who go on finding new worlds in space while reformers are try ing to make somethinl out of this one.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-29

The ancient saying is no heresyr Hanging and wiving go by destiny.
 Merchant of Venice.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-29

6NHE recent murders in Birmingham
 remind one of the orgies of "Jack the = Ripper" in the Whitehall district in
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-29

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Evening star., 1922-01-03
THE WEATHER

District Of Columbia-Unsettle and
warmer. probably rain tonight and to-
morrow; temperature above freezing
tonight; fresh southerly winds.
Maryland Warmer and unsettled.
with probably rain tonight and to-
morrow: fresh southerly winds.
Virginia - Unsettled and warmer.
with probably rain tonight and to-
morrow; fresh southerly winds.
West Virginia Probably rain to-
night and tomorrow; warmer tonight.
Records for Twenty-Four Hours.
Thermometer-Four p.m.. 26; p.na.,
"a; IL midnight. 81; am, %; am.
20; noon, 80.
Barometer-Four pm, 3o.s5: s pm.
30.41; IL midnight. 30.41: am. 30.35;
8 am, 30.31; noon, 30.16.
Highest temperature, 81, occurred
at noon today.
Lowest temperature. 20. occurred at
1 am. today.
Temperature same date last year
Highest, 40; lowest, 81.
Condition OF the Water.
Temperature and condition of the
water at am: Great Falls-Tem
perature. "a; condition. slightly
muddy.
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