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The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-31
MODERN SEA-GOING FEAT
 IS SUCCESSFUL

A great undertaking has been accomplished in bringing to Mobile the 10,000-ton dry dock of the Todd Shpbuding company. The first section of this mammoth and ungainly struo- ture arrived Tuesday of last week, lowed by a little coastwise tug of 3o1 tons.
 The voyage from the Erie basin in New York around Florida to Mobile was 1,70o miles and the average speed maintained was one and three-quarters of mile per hour, but the stout little tug, the Kingfisher, and its sturdy captain held grimly to the task until the tow drew up at the Henderson Shipbuild- ing plant.
 The voyage lasted 53 days. It was tedious and wearing for the tug and her crew, but it had it's inspiration in that it was all the time a difficult job and required constant care and watchfulness to keep the unwieldly dock in line and steady to it's hawsers-
 The dock will be placed in the Todd Ship building yard at Mobile, and will enable that concern to handle for repairs and other pur- poses the largest ocean freighters. It will add measurably to Mobiles prestige as shipyard center.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-31
THE AGRICULTURAL PROSPECT

More than perhaps anything else from this period in the year onward the condition of domestic agriculture has an important effect upon business" said Henry Clews of New York. Reports from various parts of the country show that there is a steady upward movement in most staples.
 Minor crops have already produced good results, while there has been little occasion to modify the favorable outlook regarding grain already announced. The situation has undoubtedly become such as to promise excel lent traffic for railroads if they are permitted to move freight with fair degree of free dom, while the farmer is assured of unususl returns for his product in the chief agricultural lines. sas
 "There is a better financial situation in the farming districts than has prevailed at any time since the close of the postwar imitation period Farming prospects afford one of the most influential elements in the outlook for good autumn trade.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-31
WHERE BUSINESS
 STANDS TODAY

Jehn E. Edgerton, President National Associa-
 tion of Manufacturers, in the Magazine
 of Wall Street.
 Industry and business in general will show substantial increases in earnings the coming fall and winter. have formed this conclusion from contact with large numbers of business men, particularly in the east and central sec tions, whom I have met within the last few weeks. I have noticed very good need of confidence among them; and, more than that, the majority of them say not only that their orders beginning to increase, but that they are preparing for extensions within the near future. In the industrial centers have found that there is slight increase for the better as to present business, while a very large number of establishments are preparing for extensions of their forces which will mean the addition of millions and millions of dol lars to the pay rolls of the country for the coming year.
 From reports that have come to me recently from the industrial centers all over the coun- try I find that there is a perceptible upward movement in the majority of lines. It is slight and slow; but it is steady, certain and stable. These reports are the most promising vanes to my mind. They show that there are far more persons employed this year than at the same time last year; and also that the uneni- ployment situation has improved wonderfully throughout the country, even in spite of the fact that we are now approaching prover- bial slack season. In one state alone official reports show that the number of persons un- employed has dropped from 50o,00o to some thing like 100000, which is even smaller than the normal situation.
 The most promising thing to me is that all of this is an indication that we have passed through our worst period of pessimism. We have had various threats from some of the destructive clements of labor, but these have come to naught. We have had pessimistic mis- givings from some of our business men, but these have been dissipated by the volume of good business which has constantly been get ting better. We have had predictions of panics, but there have been no panics. We have had rabid statements from our perennial doctrin- aries who believe the country is always on the brink of social or industrial revolution; but believe our country today is stronger than it ever has been, stronger commercially, indus trially and in the respect the people bear for its tine-honored institutions of law and order
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-31
A BLUE LAW ADVOCATE WHO
 ASPIRES TO THE SENATE

The senatorial candidacy of Noah W. Cooper in Tennessee is typical of an era of hystera and reform. Never before in the history of this country were there more self-constituted guardians of the public morals seeking to im- pose their theories of human conduct on a non- militant majority. Each one of them has mission" to meddle with the private affairs of other people. That they have succeeded in organizing well-financed Hobbies and becoming formidable is due to the inertia of the great body of the population, too lazy or too indif- ferest to protect it's rights.
 Speaking in Nashville, Cooper, who seems confident of his election, announced that he would take 96 gourds to Washington and pre- sent them to members of the Senate, to whom he will give dinner "so that they may drink pure. God-given water" The menu of his din ner will include cornbread, turnip greens, beans and more water. The largest of Noah's gourds will be given to Senator Lodge, ''to re- mind him to get right with God" Noah labors under the nisapprehenson that Lodge is the biggest man in the Senate.
 Before each of his speeches Cooper drinks from his "gourd of righteousness" presented, naturally, by a committee of women temper ance workers. He proposes when he gets to Washington to carry on his fight for blue Sum day laws, by introducing a bill to make the capital observe the Sabbath according to his ideas and those of Brother Wilbur Crafts as an example to other cities of the country.
 Cooper is one of the most active advocates of blue laws. The movement in the United States to impose more drastic restrictions on the liberties of the people is being promoted through the candidates of such cranks as Cooper, and by exertng pressure against Con- gress and state legislatures. With the support of fellow cranks and deluded women they arc a factor to be reckoned with, and they can- not be laughed out of court. The only way to fight them is with the ballot
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-31
COMMITTING MATRIMoNY

From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
 Not long ago gay old bachelor of Rome, whose brief illness was attributed to his going to the races despite the rain, and despite hav- ing forgotten to take an umbrella or rain coat when he set out, died in his middle nine ties. He was quoted having attributed his exceptionally long life to his wisdom. He was wise enough not to marry.
 Sir Harry Poland, who has practiced law in London n years, Is quoted by the Times, at 94, as saying: "I never committed matri- mony. That is why I am alive today"
 Cynical sayings of bachelors who are beyond 90 give fillp to their views of life and how it should be lived, but the cynical bachelor is not wholly convincing
 "Uncle' JohR'' Shell of Kentucky may not have been 134 when he died, but he had son nearly as old as Sir Harry Poland.
 "Uncle John' committed matrimony early in life, and through life was marrying man.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-31
BIBLE CLASS FORMS TEAMS

"The young mems class of the Southsidc Baptist church is having interesting con test" said R. A. Love. ''The members have di- vided into teams with such names as Chicks, Red Socks, Indians and Barons.
 "So far the Chicks are in the lead for the pennant, but some of the other teams promise a surprise in attendance next Sunday. The contest has been so spirited so far that the spacious Sunday school room has been pretty nigh full. The losing team is supposed to act as hosts at watermelon party, but as the contest does not end until September, I am afraid all the melons will be gone by that time."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-31
OIL BURNING SHIPS NEED
 ONLY ONE STACK

The size and speed of ocean liners is no long CT judged by the number and dimensions of their tunnels. The change has been brought about by the use of oil for fuel instead of coal. A high-class ship may have only one funnel, but travellers and emigrants still have a weakness for the multi-stack ships and steamship companies are trying to educate tho travelling public in the new order of steam ship construction which gives vessel plenty of speed, room and comfort with only one stack.
 Among the shipping board liners, the Presi- dent Harding, the President Roosevelt, the President Garfield, the President Monroe and others have but one funnel, because they are oil burners. Yet these liners rank with the best on the seven seas. The story of smoke stacks on steamers is an interesting commen- tary on human nature, particularly among for eigners who, until immigration restrictions were imposed, flocked to the United States every year. The more stacks a ship had, the better they liked it, and the more apt they were to take passage in vessel of that type The better class passengers were the same way As result dummy stacks were added to some ships, flor the sake of appearances" and also because t"business is business Ships with four tunnels were more popular and attracted more attention than those of three and two The one-stack ship was at disadvantage in competing for transatlantic passenger traffic
 Most of the new liners now being built are the one-funnel type and burn oil. Since steam supplanted sails, the progress made in design ing ships has been so rapid that the greatest liner of today is eclipsed tomorrow, and noth- ing has contributed more to radical changes in ship construction than the substitution of oil for coal. Just as the old-fashioned locomotive had top-heavy smokestack, which has been followed by short stack, scarcely noticeable in the general outlines of locomotive, the mutiple-stack ship is giving way to one-funncl oil burners, with an increase in luxury eff ciency and speed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-31
My Favorite Stories
Spreading the Feast for the Stranger.
By Irwin s. Cobb

Spreading the Feast for the Stranger.
 When Sam Blythe was Washington core spondent he went into New England to sound out public opinion on one or another of those crises which, politically speaking, are forever threatening the liberties of the American peo- pie. forget now just what particular crisis it was, but at any rate, for the moment it was of deep concern to the public at large, and Sans job was to get a slant on the prevalent sentiment in certain states.
 Among others, he called upon the retired political leader of New Hampshire, who lived in a small but comfortable cottage in a little town. The old gentleman felt deep concern in the vital question of the hour whatever 1t was. He argued and he expounded and he produced documents in support of his views Noontime approached and still he was nowhere near through with what he had to say So he insisted that Blythe should remain with him through the afternoon.
 Having sampled the cuisine of the local hotel at breakfast, Blythe promptly consented. The old gentleman excused himself in order to in- form his wife that there would be guest for the midday meal and also to get some in- portant papers bearing on the subject under dis cussion which were stored away he said, in a room upstairs. Going out, he left the parlor door ajar.
 Through the opening Blythe heard a voice, evidently one belonging to the mistress of the household.
 Samantha, the lady said, raising her tone in order that she might be heard by the cook in the kitchen, my husband has invited gentle man to stay for dinner. Take those two large potatoes back down cellar and bring up three small ones."
 Copyright, 1922, by the McNaught Syndicate,
 Inc.)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-31
COLD-BEARINC WHISPERS

From the Scientific American.
 Years ago an Illinois barber traded his razor for pick and pan, and started for the Klon- dike. Unsuccessful in mining, he opened shampoo parlor whose equipment included cyanide tank. The cuttings fro mthe hair and beard of the miners, he says, "assayed $100 the ton in the cyanide tank" The dollar apiece charged for shampoos and messages provided him with pocket money, but the suitcase full of gold which he brought back with him IS all fro minis syanide bath, and he claims that through his cyanide bath, and he claims that this source has provided him with fortune of a half-million dollars.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-31
POINTED PARAGRAPHS

From the Chicago News.
 A divorce decree is always parting injunc- tion.
 The smaller the hole man gets into the louder he howls he doesn't get it from the we'll.
 Big words in the meeting do not make up for the short weight in the market.
 Seven quarts to the peck is the way some grocers measure their success.
 The straightest road to heaven is the one on which you do the most good.
 The man who hitches his wagon to a star may get hot box before morning.
 While it is all right for woman to help her husband, many girl starts early by help ing her sweetheart to propose.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-31

A contemporary was called down by num- Der of its readers for making mistake in the authorship of "best seller" What difference does it make who perpetrates the "best sellersf"
 The alert compositor who made MT. Gom- pers the Grand Old Son of American Labor must have been in a facetious mood. Compos- itors sometimes get that way.
 
 Speaking from breach-of-promise point of view, four pounds of letters in the Rothschild affair are estimated to be worth more than S100,000 a pound.
 The German mark was ed-Saturday at 15 i-2 cents hundred. The elasticity of the German mark is a never-ending source of wonder.
 The Third Internationale has called on the proletariat to rise against the white terror, which, as everyone knows, is addicted to clean linen.
 Another beautiful stage lady is charged with wrecking home. Why don't beautiful stage ladies take up with bachelors occasion ally7
 Muratore says he will not sing with the Chi cago Grand Opera company until Mary Gar den quits. Grand opera needs Judge Landis Mir. Gompers says he doesn't know Flagman Dean, who "got rise" out of President Hard ing. Well, neither does MT. Harding.
 I'd, ko t1A ho1l {x. M~r,.~ >I. no other explanation than the well-known crookedness of Mexican elections.
 What Senator McCumber doesn't know about the ethics of American journalism would fill the proverbial Carnegie library.
 Arthur Brisbane is one of the few American citizens who refused to get excited over the Leonard Tender bout.
 The shipping board is now issuing pub licity magazine, but it does not contain single liquor advertisement.
 "Doc" Sawyer is under fire from the war veterans Doe now realizes what it means to be in public life.
 The American theatre will not need censor ship with Augustus Thomas on the job as su- preme arbiter.ff
 California thrills when Hiram Johnson steps off the limited on his native soil.
 Y < *
 It isn't altogether the climate that draws so many Americans to Canada.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-31
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
TO SHIP SURPLUS PRODUCES

Home grown tomatoes are being brought in in such quantities that the Truck Growers asso- ciation plans to ship carload some time this week or next,1 said J. R. Cook, "For q while the matter of establishing cooperative cannery was discussed, but nothing has been done along that line.
 "We are now busy getting prices on car load lot from various points. It may be shipped to Jacksonville, Fla, strange to say where the tomato season is already over; or it may be shipped to St. Louis. The best price will determine the place of shipment. When the shipment is arranged the truck growers will be asked to bring their tomatoes to the city and they will be paid from the proceeds according to their contribution to the pool.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-31
ALABAMA CROSSTIES GO
 TO JERUSALEM

The British steaemr Harwood is in Mobile loading with s5,ooO crossties for Haifa, Pales- tine, whence they will be taken to Jerusalem, the Holy City, for building street car line. The crossties were cut in the forests of Ala bama. Very recently Alabama gum lumber was shipped from Mobile to Alexandria, Egypt
 r Alabama steel products left Mobile last week for the Orient, for South America and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-31
A MORNING PRAYER

Grant, Lord, that through this day may do no thing to make my night unquiet, aud that through life's hours of darkness I may gather strength to meet the prob- lems of each succeeding day. Amen- M. s. B.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-31

John E. Edgerton, President National Associa- tion of Manufacturers, in the Magazine of Wall Street.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-10-16
Perth AmbOyS DiSband
After Scoring 81
Victory Over Railway

"A circuit clout by Mike 500 be-
tween the second and third poles at
the center field section of the Rar-
itan Copper Works field fence yes
lerday afternoon, decided the base
ball contest between Railway and
Perth Amboy. The final score was
81.
Sco's clout came in the seventh
inning with Forman and Lorenzo
on base and none down, the score
NO in favor Of Railway. Previous
,to the home run clout, 500 fohled
the ball over the fence just to the
right of the foul line. The circuit
hit was one Of the longest ever
made on the local field.
Not only did Soo's hit bring
about the defeat of Railway, it also
broke the s%coreless spell which the
Union county tossers held oyer the
local. representative diamond toss
ers. In the first game between these
two teams several weeks ago which
was held scoreless for nine innings
terday's battle the locals were held
scoreless, making fifteen consecu-
tive innings.
The Keasbey twirler pitched mar
yelous ball yesterday, equally as
good as his first performance against
Railway and his exhibitions against
the Landings of New Brunswiek,
and the Aquehongas of T~ottenyi.fe.
500 has surely come north with the
reputation he made with the Ports-
mouth team of the Virginia League
curing the past summer.
Three scratchy hits were made
from the southpaw's offerings yes
terday. one in the first. another in
the fourth and the last in the eighth.
He famed an even dozen batters
and issued one pass. .
Whitley Schultz Wh was we'll
invincible in the first encounter be-
tween these two teams. was touched
quite freely in the fifth, sixth and
seventh innings yesterday. Seyen
livery, two passes were issued and
two batters famed the breeze.
After two were down in the first
inning, Laurent walked and Collins
grounded a hit between first and
bsecond, the next man flied out.
'Pfieffer got on through Protzman's
muff Of his fly behind second and
was sacrificed by Aicer Jensen.
Smith walked and was caught off
first with McEnroe at bat. In the
runup which followed Pfciffer was
caught just off third, Laurent to
Yeager.
In the second 500 famed the first
two men and the third was retired
as a result Of nice work by McEnroe
and Smith. Laurent misjudged
Henshaw's fly to start the last half
of the second, but succeeded IN
making a one hand catch. Dzurilla
doubled off the third baseman's
glove. fForman went out and Lo-
renzo walked. 500 grounded out to
Stewart ending the inning.
Railway went out in order in.the
third in the same manner as in the
second and the Amboys duplicated.
An error by Henshaw, a nice play by
Pfeiffer in throwing out a runner
On a hit which enabled the first
runner to advance and Yeager,s
Texas Lacquer gave Railway its
run in the fourth.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-10-16
ALL AMBOYS
IN THE RACE
So. Amboy Outfit Wants to
Play Perth Ambey and New
Brunswick

SOUTH AMB0Y. October To-
RUDE Forgotson's All Amboy team
defeated the fast Sacred Heart COM
bination on the latter's diamond yes
terday afternoon. when Murray Bor-
lund. legal youth who has passed
the latter part of the season with
the Buffalo Club of the International
League, and Jimmie Rodgers, form
er1y with Danyille In the Piedmont
League, but who recently gained
fame with the Durham Club of the
same league. did the heaying. The
score was ~ to Z. Rodgers allowed
three of the seven, while Murray
gave the Sacred Hearts the balance.
Neither pitcher worked very hard,
and the better part Of the game vas
played in a humorous n
Manager RUDE Forgotson is now
anxious to meet both New Brunswick
as weu as Perth Amboy's representa-
five teams. With Rodgers and Muir
ray, he feels that his combination
can easily dispose of either repre-
sentatiyes.
Among those RUDE has collected in
the All Amboy team r the follow
liz well hllOHh Dd0Gpdll dl llStS.
George Lefty Lyons, whose field
ing in the past three years, as well
as his batting eye, has won him a
berth with the Tottenville combina-
ton. The Mccarthy brothers. Bill
and Frankie, the latter a. physical
training Instructor in one of New
York City's larger schools; both men
distinguish themselves by all around
playing.
Hyson of Y. NJ. C. A. fame is COW
ering the third station. and is known
to be the right man in the right
place. "Alf" Clarke, probably no
better all around player in the u
ty has agreed to play with the Am
boy team.
Andy Kane and Hickey, the lat
ter Of the Sacred Heart combination,
are to be used from now pm.
Others are to be added, and men,
bership is open to only locals. The
team is complete at this time and
arrangements are expected to be
completed for the Perth Amboy and
New Brunswick meetings within a
day or two.
This is the first time in years that
the cream of this city has been mus
tered together with the sole purpose
of putting South Amboy and base
ball on the sport pages of history.
The combination, as it stands today.
is considered by many to be flawless.
Should the meeting in either the
County seat or the neighboring city
be affected, South Amboy in great
numbers will invade either place.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-10-16

McEproe, Henshaw and Dzurilla
We're retired on long flies to the out
field in the fourth and in the fifth
the visitors went out in order. For
man beat put a hit to the second
baseman in the last half, was sacri-
feed to second by Lorenzo and held
that base while Soo's hit fell safely
behind the shortstop. Pfeiffer flied
to the pitcher and Jensen famed,
enaing the inning.
so0 famed the side in the sixth
and Smith bounced a hit off the
third baseman's glove to start Am
boys half. McEnroe flied out to
Stewart and Henshaw forced Smith.
Dzuri1la's fly to yansco In deep CEN
terfield ended the inning.
Railway was retired with ease in
the first of the seventh and then the
fun began. Forman again led off
and reached first on Urbanski's er-
ror. After attempting a bunt Lor-
EMO lined a single over second and
500 came through with his homer.
Smith got his second hit after two
were doWn but there was no further
scoring. Stewart beat out a hit
which Henshaw knocked down but
could not handle. to start the eighth.
The first baseman was forced by
vdlsco ana nlt into a
double play, Henshaw receiving an
play. W "a"
Amboy went out in order in the
eighth and Railway was easy in the
first of the ninth ending the contest.
Smith and 500 led the local team
with two hits apiece. Lorenzo had
a perfect day at bat, one hit in n
official trip to the plate. Brownmil-
Ter and Caplan Impired. "-'i
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