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The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-21
SELMA HEARS OF AUBURN

Despite heavy downpour of rain at Selma Tuesday night, representative gathering of the leading men of the city attended the meet ing of citizens called for the purpose of con- sidering the needs of Auburn" said L. Sevier, who, with Dr. Middleton s. Barnwell, addressed the meeting.
 eve found that the people of Selma realize the importance of giving Auburn the buildings and equipment needed, and in spite of the conditions existing in much of the farming section around Selma, the people of that city are going to maintain their usual record of aiding all worthy causes. I have never known any campaign which has struck such popular chord as that to aid Auburn, and I am conf dent that the institution will never again be neglected as it has been in the past. We owe it to our state to see that Auburn is provided with the facilities to enable it to do its best work"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-21

MT. Wilson hopes he'll live long enough to see Senator Lodge soundy trounced in Massa- chusetts.
 Bliss Carman sang, Make Me Over, Mother Nature" The flapper knows trick worth two of that.
 < x Up to date, MT. Dempsey's abbreviated vocab- ulary has been unable to do justice to England.
 x Semenoff doesn't need an interpreter to tell him the meaning of hoots, cat calls and hisses.
 t * Russia's presentation of bill to the allies was gesture and nothing more.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-21
STUFF OF DREAMS?

From the New Orleans Telegram.
 Sir Conan becomes still more specific with reference to the spirits and their ways in heaven, or wherever it is they live, the lu- crative lecture season approaches. He also becomes more definite concerning the manner of getting at them.
 Conversation with the spirit world is con- ducted through sectoplasm. This 'ectoplasm' emanates from the medium At first it is a vapor or gas. It has been found to contain phosphates, carbonates, sulphates, and some other substance which has not been deter mined"
 This analysis will prove illuminating to prac- tical chemists. It may perhaps be unfair to apply chemical criticism to anything so imma- terial as the material through which con- ducts conversation with spirit When chem ical formulas are advanced, however, they cannot be considered except by the understood canons of chemistry itself-which is the most material of all of the sciences.
 A gas consisting of carbonates, phosphates, and sulphates, sounds just about convincing to a chemist as a gas consisting of brickbats, Belgian blocks and marble tombstones.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-21
BARBARISM

From the Washington Star.
 New York reports "drive" by 2,ooo bar bers to force the price of haircut up to $1. These barbers seem to believe in cutting every thing except prices. Their motto seems to be, "Long prices for short hair" Some folk will conclude that they are just unreasonable in their charges as in their conversation, and that they are trying hard to break into the so- ciety of plumbers and other ultra-wealthy circles.
 When the price of haircut was ayiated from 15-25 cents to half dollar, men uttered some complaint; but they bore the pain of the in- Hated price with the same stoicism that they had long shown in being shaved with dull razor. But with the dollar haircut the man, the worm, may turn. He may counter against this unreasonable and unreasonable propcsi- tion by going back to the cavalier medieval style of long hair and to the revolutionary, civil war, Victorian and other periods when long, bushy whiskers and the mustache were the proper thing, or the proper things.
 If men and women should combine and agree to wear long hair instead of short hair, the bar ber would no doubt consent to arbitrate this matter that we might come to some understand ing consonant with good sense good feeling, good comradship and all that.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-21
BIG YEAR FOR OCEAN TRAVEL

From the New York Telegram.
 Gigantic activity in transatlantic travel is the prediction of Ship News for April. A rush season in European travel with crowded sea lanes is the promise which the newest issue holds forth. sae@s
 It is pointed out that the Royal Mail Steam Packet company, back in the transatlantic trade after many years absence, has char tered three fine liners of the Lamport and Holt company and will divert them from the south to the north Atlantic. They the Van Dyck Vestris and Vauban, which, with the Orbita, Oropesa and Orduna, will ply between New York and Cherbourg, Southampton and Bre- men.
 The International Mercantile Marine coni- pany will have the new Majestic-larger than the Leviathan itself-together with the Olym- pic and the new Homeric, running between New York and Southampton, and the Cunard line will have the Berengaria, Aquitania and Mauretania on the same route.
 But this is only fraction of the great pas senger trade. Each and every one of the lines engaged in transporting Americans to Eu- rope will have increased service. Revival is the motto of all. It looks like the big year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-21
THE SCHOOL ROOM GLOBE

By Thomas J. Murray.
 So many children in the circled years
 Have fingered voyages sought trace Outposts in Zanzibar; where Shasta rears, Or torrid islands where the wild seas race. < With dreaming eyes discounting time and
 space .4sa They sailed the ocean lanes to alien shores, Out past the misty rim with eager face, From Mendocino to the blue Azores r Then when the tides across their lives had
 surged,
 Fate mocked their yearnings through despair
 ing days, 1- And one whose restless blood had ever urged For turing trails is bound to narrow ways : While he who cherished native hearth and
 home S Far on the worlds high road is doomed to roam.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-21
FARMER COMING TO FORE

"The farmer Is coming to the fore in much better shape" said J. B. McCutcheon, man. ager of the Birmingham branch of the Inter- national Harvester company.
 Business in farm implements has been dis tinctly better in the past 30 days, and is im- proving straight along. The buying move ment has apparently gotten real start.
 "There has been pronounced pickup in the purchase of motor trucks and tractors, and the implements used in planting and turning the soil incident to spring and summer oper- ations are going better"
 MT. McCutcheon says the local warehouse of the company covers So,ooo square feet, and that it is used to house and have ready for shipment 30 lines of agricultural machinery and implements.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-21
ENSLEY MANS VIEW

To the Editor of The Age-Herald: This is great privilege for the citizens of Birmingham to have to vote on this referendum plan, that you have in The Age Herald I have been a voter here for 30 years. I have been reader of your valuable paper for 29 years.
 I have always been against the city com- mission form of government and have been for the board of mayor and aldermen. Wishing the Birmingham Age Herald the best of success, am, yours very truly,
 J. P. HALL Enslav Apr;1 10 1o22
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-21
coMMENps MAYO BROTHERS

'Tt must have been inspiring to interview such real celebrity as Dr. Charles Mayo," de- clared Miss Billy Burge, clerk of the bank ruptcy court, "for the work that the Mayo brothers have done and are doing reads like a romance, showing how almost two decades ago they took up their fathers practice in a small city and how they have drawn people from all corners of the earth into their midst for expert treatment"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-21

To the Editor of The Age-Herald
 Proposals that Birmingham revert to the archaic aldermanic form of city government are difficult to understand in the light of Birminghams regretable experience with about 15 years of aldermanc government There are thousands of Birmingham citizens who will recall that famous mass meeting, called by 200 representative citizens on December 5, 1908, and how that mass meeting by popular acclaim pronounced the aldermanic form of govern ment in Birmingham failure.
 "The very air was laden with spirit of dis approval of the misconduct, malfeasance and breach of trust of public servants" said the Birmingham Age-Herald in reporting the pro- ceedings of this meeting "The sentiment of the vast audience was solid," said The Age-Heraid, "and insistent upon change from the ward system of professional politics.
 And now the advocates of that same sys- tenn are suggesting that we not only revert to it, but that we add another house on to the legislative branch and give more room for po- litical trade making and intrigue. If Birming- ham is to change it's government, let that change be step forward, not backward. The old bicameral or two-house legislative branch is system devised for the professional ward politician and political boss.
 The city manager plan strikes the writer as happy combination of the essentials of the all dermanic and commission plans. It contains the representative feature of the aldermanic system through the council, representative of every section.
 The council selects busines man to execute itz decreas, It picks him carsfully from ths
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-21
THE WORM TURNED

"Does Cheekleigh do much reading?"
 "He used to be great open-air reader"
 "Eh?"
 "He glanced through all the leading periodi- calls as soon as they came out, but he had his feelings hurt and he hasn't been reading much lately"
 "How did that happen?"
 "The proprietor of his favorite news stand had the assurance to ask him if he didn't want to buy magazine" PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-21
FATE OF EUROPE DEPENDS ON
 DISPELLING SUSPICION

The most level-headed man in Europe is David Lloyd George. It has been source of wonder that he has successfully weathered so many political storms and has remained at the head of the British government But, after all, there is no mystery about it. Leyd George is an expert politician and he possesses two qualities indispensable to statesmanship-cour- age and common sense. Plain speaking and sanity will carry far when diplomatic tricks are of no avail. This has been demon- strated over and over again in Lloyd Georges career.
 Addressing the International Labor bureau of the League of Nations at Genoa, the British premier said:
 feel like Daniel in the lions den-I neither
 a socialist nor an irt tlvidua1ist but whatever
 are we all be concerned with the grave prob
 leras of putting Europe it's feet Otherwise
 there will be nothing left to distribute, either by
 the states the individuals Take the question
 of debts-you either pay them with cash
 Burning to the German members) by the print
 ing press. continue to by the second
 method of us will get cash.
 Let us all get together and put our cards on the
 table. If do that all nations and all classes will
 be abs to eat at the same table. am of the
 opinion that unless dispel suspicion there will
 be an explosion Eprope that will leave it in ashes.
 If Europe continues manufacture implements of
 destruction for another twenty thirty years
 civilization will be destroyed.
 In few words Lloyd George summed up the situation in Europe and issued warning that should be needed. Why did Russia ana Germany steal march on the other govern  ments represented at the Genoa conference and perfect secret agreement? It was due to fear and suspicion. They were literally be now but an economic alliance may easily be converted itno defensive and offensive al- liance against the rest of Europe. Germanys efficiency and genius for organization plus would make formidable combination capable of bringing on another World war in which Germany and Russia would be victorious.
 On the other hand, why did the Russo-Ger- man treaty create such sensation at Genoa? Because distrust and suspicion in the air. The European nations have not yet put all their cards on the table. They talk about rehabilitation in general terms, but when 1t comes to getting down to business the old ani- mosities and jealousies flame out again.
 The success of the Genoa conference, which is already gravely imperiled, will depend on the extent to which Europe buries the hatchet and substitutes economic and industrial coop eration for intrigue and preparation for
 Lloyd George says he believes the Genoa conference "is the beginning of real peace in Europe" Let us hope so but the start was not suspicious.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-21
BIRMINGHAM WANTS A CHANGE
 IN CITY GOVERNMENT

The Age-Herald's referendum on city govern msnt established these two facts:
 Citizens of Birmingham want change from the commission form; they want it abolished.
 Citizens of Birmingham want representation by wards.
 On these two subjects there was practically no contest, the mayor and aldermen plan and that of city manager both calling for repre- sentation by wards. The avalanche of votes east for these two plans showed under the few east for retention of the commission form by Bt to 1.
 Mayor and aldermen advocates led the man. aeer voters by three and half to one. Notable among the voters for mayor and aldermen were pioneer citizens in all walks of life. Those who had lived under the aldermanic form the longest were most pronounced in it's favor.
 The referendum was conducted with care to tnsrs fairness and accuracy. Each vote was Na1a put separateIy by qualified Soter
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-21
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
A FIG FOR MoNEYl

While the bards are trilling
 Roundelays to spring, Large waste baskets filling
 With the songs they sing, Scorn they to be daunted
 By cool rebuff. They are beauty-haunted-
 That is quite enough To maintain their fervor
 And poetic fire; Spring, they're pledged to serve her, With or without hire.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-21

It was secret ballot cast in the privacy of homes and offices.
 The value of the referendum lies in it's in- contestible showing of the will of the people. What more than 1900 men and women voted for is representative of the entire community.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-21
APPREcIATE ACE-HERALD

Members of the Alabama Medical associa- tion appreciate the cooperation of your paper very much," Dr. W. S. Britt of Eufaula told an Age-Herald reporter yesterday, in speaking of 'the only morning paper in the Birmingham district in praiseworthy terms. 'I especially enjoy the articles by Ned Brace in the Sun day editions" said the prominent -isitor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-21
MILLER A REGULAR FELLOW

From the CIeburne News. ..7
 Walter F. Miller of Tuscumbia, editor and proprietor of the Colbert County Reporter, is candidate for secretary of state. MT. Miller is well qualified in every way to manage the af- fairs of the office to which he aspires. The "boys'' of the press should not let the brothers candidacy lag
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-21

field, and exercises a controlling influence over him. The city manager, however, deter mines no policies and makes no laws. That is the function of our representatives, the coun- cil members, whom we elect to make the laws. Birmingham is modern city typical of the spirit of the progressive new south. It is en- titled to a modern plan of government, Tn keeping with the spirit of progress which al- ways has been and always will be the keynote of Birminghams greatness. Yours very truly,
 J. K. TAYLOR Birmingham. Auril fS, 1922.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-21
BEST THING THEY COULD DO

What's all the excitement about?" "A pair of gangsters having fight" said the policemen, nonchalantly.
 "Why don't you interfere?"
 "What for? Didn't you understand what said? They are shooting at each other"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-21
A GooD PLACE To REST

"The proprietor of summer hotel solicits my patronage" remarked MT. Grumpson.
 "He offers the usual advantages, presume?" "Yes, and a new one that appeals to me. He states that radio outfits will be strictly pro. hibited."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-21
POINTED PARACR
From the Chicago News.

From the Ch1cagO NeWs. v
 Close quarters-in the miser purse.
 The world is full of would-be leaders who couldn't even follow successfully.
 Only a small portion of the world loves a lover; the rest of it considers him a. chump. Voters are men and women who sometimes help officeholders to retire from politics.
 Every time heress hears noise like a title she begins to sit up and take notice.
 The world is not being helped out so much by our admiration of the gospel as by our prac- tical interpretation of it.
 The more times man has ito swear off in a month the more he can admire himself for having the strength of character to do it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-21
DRoUTH VICTIMS

"Bibbles tells me he is now member in good standing of the Volstead Martyrs"
 ''What kind of organization is that?"
 "The membership is composed of gentlemen who have been injured in home-brew ex- plosions."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-21
POOR TABLE MANNERS

My daughter fell in love with screen idol.' remarked MT. Wadleigh, "but I cured her.'
 "How did you do t?"
 q took her out to California and let her watch the fellow eat" t%s
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-21
REVISED VERSION

"Felice can't read book without having a box of candy close at hand"
 "In a like that reading maketh full flapper."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-21
DON'T WE KNOW

When people go to cuba ,i And then come back again, 0 The way they talk about the place
 Gives stay-at-homes pain.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-21
IN HOTEL HOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
KNOWS HIS OWN MIND

q have been twitted by some of my high brow friends following published statement that years ago left an Emma Abbot concert before it was half through because did not care for that kind of singing" said o. L. Bum. "Well, man ought to be honest. did not understand or appreciate that kind of music. so I left it and turned over the remainder of $5 ticket to another fellow. '.t
 "This reminds me of something else. Sew eral months ago I was invited to represent the Chamber of Commerce in balloon race. l did not banker for the honor. Our chamber president, M. P. Northington, thought it would be fine thing for me to do as manager of the chamber. In turn I suggested to Mr. North ington that if it was good job for the man ager of the chamber, it was likewise a good one for the chambers president. MT. Northing ton thereupon tucked the same as did. Paoli Smith volunteered and represented us in fine style.
 "If it were my official duty to attend classical musical entertainment or take trip in a biplane to consult with MT. Mars would do the stunt, but I do not pine for either. Terra frma and the songs that mother used to sing suit me-"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-21
SOMETHING ELSE

Should bootleggers pay an income tax?g5 Certainly" said MT. Jagsby. x- But they can't afford to tell the govern. ment they sell whisky?" Most of them don't"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-21
DISTANT CUSTOMERS COMING
 BACK TO MARKET

 Increase in the demand for Birmingham steel and iron products in the countries to the south is perceptible. A gradual recovery is go- ing on down there, as we'll as in the United States. The business of gulf ports with Central America and the West Indies is reported as practically back to the normal existing be- fore the war. Mexico had been increasing it's imports.
 Brazilian ports have carried Birmingham wire drawing mill products, hoops and bands and cast iron pipe. Cuba has been liquidating her debts and may be relied on to come back to Birmingham for sugar house machinery. Mex ico has been doing something in that line. Cuba takes cast iron pipe and wire mill products regularly, and shipments are grow ing. This is a cash business on it's present basis and therefore quite satisfactory to the shippers. Cuba gets Birmingham products with in four or five days after ordering, when so desired, by rail shipment to Key West. Two cars of Birmingham pipe are going that way now.
 The Pacific coast takes Birmingham pipe and wire drawing goods in large quantities. Four west coast.
 Added to the increase in domestic business, it is particularly gratifying to see Birming- hams more remote customers also coming back to trade
 Texas bootleggers are training burros to stampede when dry agents approach. The way innocent four-footed creatures are being used to produce the nefarious liquor traffic is a dis grace
 The maneuvers going on in motion picture circles indicate that in spite of reports to the to the screen.
 Steve Leacock suggests that America retail ate by sending her lecturers abroad. A good idea, if there were some way to keep them from coming back.
 Henry Ford denies that he returned $29 000,- 900 in war profits to the government That 
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 The American people spend $143,000,0 ,000 a year for coffee. In spite of that some of us fall asleep at high-brow lectures.
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 According to a report from Athens, Italian troops have begun to meander out of the Meander valley in Asiatic Turkey. Being an intelligent animal, Ladde Boy can probably spot pie hunter the moment he en- ters the White House grounds
 A savant says the Egyptians tried to com municate with spirits S,s22 year sago. We'll, what did they learn?
 .
 If MT. Tumulty ever writes another book about Woodrow Wilson he may be able to make it snappy.
 < * <
 France kept eying Germany with suspicion until Germany proved the suspicion was justi- fled.
 x
 Lady Astor returned to her native land chock-full of sapient sayings and witty obser- vatiom-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-21
A MORNING PRAYER

In the face of injustice and misunder- standing, Lord, o help me rest my faith on thine approaching day when justice shall be done and truth made known. Amen.- M. s. B.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-21
EXPECTS BIG TIME WITH "vIcToR g.

"If my plans turn out all right today and the weather is good to us and doesn't make April say it with showers as The Old Town Pump suggests, I expect to have big time playing golf with the eight famous Victor art ists, who are to give a concert here this evening at the Jefferson" said Robert P. McDavid. Henry Burr, Billy Murray and Frank Croxtoa are famous golf players, and I have arranged a game for them, as well as the other fellows who compose the personnel of the concert com- pany, out at Roebuck Springs club
 q want to show the mwhat fine golf links we have here, and give them a chance to show what they do on a sporty course. Billy Murray and Henry Burr have given more pleas ure to probably the greatest number of people through their popular songs the Victrola than any other two men in the world, and it will be great treat to hundreds to see them in person this evening and hear them sing some of their best songs."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-21
WOULD ADOPT MODERN PLAN

Ensley, April 1s, 1922.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-21

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The Washington times., 1922-04-07
VETERAN MAIL CARRIER
GETS FAT TOTlNG LETTERS

Carrying letters is the best ex:
ercise in the world, according to II.
d. Dickson. who today rounds out
his fortieth year Of letter-carrying
In the District.
Dickson, who will be sixty-four
years old on June 81, has been de-
livering mail to The Times offices
In the Munsey Building for the
past twenty years. The route he
served for the first half Of the
forty-year period was in the vicinity
Of Fourteenth and Sixteenth, n and
r streets northwest.
II weighed 10 pounds when I
began this job" said the veteran
today" and now look at me-all
filled out nicely and as spry as a
two-year-old. You can't find any
better exercise than this Job Of
mine"
Dickson lives at 251s Seventeenth
street. He has wife and two
children, and was born in Lansing
burg-now Troy. N. Y. He will reach
the Government retirement age next
year and then probably will get a
chance to rest his feet.