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Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1922-11-08
DISCUSSES ROW
IN near EAST
Former Senator Thinks
England Is Aiding Ger
many and Russia
HIGH PRAISE FOR
FRENCH NATION

Former Senator Willard Salisbury
addressing the Westminster Club OF
Hanover Presbyterian Church last
night, expressed his belief that the
contention between France and
England over the Near East ques-
ton is due primarily TO the fact that
England is endeavorine to become
friends with Germany and Russia
leaving France without support in
the enforcement of the PREPARATIONS
treaty.
Relating impressions that he re-
ceived on his recent trip through
Europe Mr.. Salisbury said that
the French people deserve a
great deal of praise for the
noble manner which they have
set about rebuilding their devastated
regions. THE French have bravely
put their shoulders to the task and
are worthy OF our greatest sympa-
thy" he said.
An interesting description Of the
quaint costumes worn by Hollanders
was given by the former Senator.
When he was speaking Of this coun-
try he was asked IL he had gone to
see the ex-kaiser at Dorm. Mr.. Sauls-
bury answered that he did not go
u see the former emperor of Ger
many as he did not think the gen.
tleman would be glad to see him.
Mr.. Salisbury also gave a very
striking description of the harbor Of
Antwerp. This is one OF the finest
harbors in the world, he stated.
william P. White led the members
Of the club in a few songs selected
from the Community Song Book.
Professor II. A. Rousch sang a tenor
solo. Refreshments were served.
Frank r. Overdeer. presided.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1922-11-08
TEST TOMORROW FOR
WEST POINT ASPIRANTS

Colonel Harry w. Stark. U. S. A;
Major Victor d. Washburn and
Lieutenant Samuel B. Marooney, of
the National Guard of Delaware.
will hold a two days examination at
the State Armory here, beginning
tomorrow, for admission to the
United States Military Academy at
West Point. The examinations will
be for those members of the Ma
tional Guard, who seek admission to
the military academy.
Each year $50 appointments are
made to West Point from the ranks
Of the National Guard.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1922-11-08

II you really want an efficient
chauffeur, one with whom you can
trust the lives OF your wife and chill
dren, get q Want AID chauffeur
Adv.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-16
We are auch stuff
MORNING PRAYER
STATISTICAL POSITION OF
 COTTON STRONG

If advantage is taken of the cotton stua- tion the southern planter will come very near recouping the losses of the past two seasons with what he has left over of this crop and the incoming one. To do this he must again watch his acreage and he must continue to form cooperative marketing organizations un- til marketing is in his own hands.
 Mill consumption has shown steady in- crease for more than six months over the preceding year. The January consumption was 526,00O bales of lint and 1000 bales of lint CTS, compared with 366,OoO bales of lint and 29,OOO bales of linters last year. Active cot ton spindles in January were 34, ,457 ,OO0, com pared with 31 ,439, ,oOO in January of 1921.
 The export sde-also makes good showing. The total exports since August have been B. 54,o0o bales, compared with s,o62,Ooo bales in the ss' period of the preceding year. The worlds visible supply is 6,361, 900 bales, com pared with 6,579,o0O bales at this time last year.
 With larger exports, a greater mill con sumption and a smaller visible worlds supply, cotton appears to be in much better shape than at this time last year, when the visible supply was larger and ndN consumption was much smaller than it is now.
 Southern farmers and bankers ought to be able to profit by this situation. In measure they have prepared for better year by more business-like financing and the inauguration of superior marketing methods. Perfecting these while continuing acreage control should. bring about gratifying results.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-16

with some degree of venom and no little sar- casm ever since skyscrapers made elevators indispensable. The building owners and man agers say removing hats scatters germs and limits the passenger capacity of an elevator. These assertions may or may not be founded on fact, although it is often true that chiv- alrous gentleman of the old school in his haste to take off his hat, frequently pokes fel- low passenger in the eye, the chest the ab- domen with his elbow, depending the other passengers height, but any excuse or no ex- cuse would be good enough to do away with a foolish custom.
 The man who meticulously removes his hat in an elevator and continues to puff a cigar or cigarette hasn't proved himself 100 per cent gentleman, even if we admit that to. bacco smoke is no longer offensive to feminine nostrils since the fair sex got the habit There are any number of practices noticeable in ele- vators which are far more objectionable than keeping one's head covered.
 Now that Birmingham building owners and managers will post signs in the elevators of all the principal office buildings requesting men not to remove their hats, the example should be followed throughout the country. It would solve vexatious problem, stop great many tireless letter writers from pestering ed- tors with communications for the editorial page and prevent gentlemen who keep their hats on in elevators from being glared at oy other gentlemen who take theirs off.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-16
BRIDGING THE CURES
,r of The Age-Herald:

To the Editor of The Age Herald:
 Mir Editor, Idoubt not that here in Birming- ham you've seen many little mother strug- gling to get her baby across the intersections of the streets.
 The unabridged curbs at the corners make the task lwell-nigh impossible, and greatly endan- ger the lives of the kids, to say nothing of the tired little women whose lives are spent in a round of perplexities and troubles.
 I've seen many baby fall out backward on the hard cement, because his mother had to tip the gocart so far back in order to get it over the curb.
 Think of having to perform this stunt twice at each corner.
 I've been in good many cities, and I have never seen one the size of Birmingham that didn't provide culverts from the curb to the street below.
 This easily be done with small iron plates made to span the gutter, or with ce- ment slabs, open underneath for the flow of the water which may accumulate during rainy weather
 This wouldn't cost much, and the matter is important enough to receive consideration.
 LOUIS A. WEAVER. Birmingham, February IA, 1922.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-16
NEED OF SANITATION SCHOOL

Tt has already been written into the minutes of the Gorgas memorial committee that not less than $50, 900 year shall be allotted to this part of the memorial, the school of sanita- tion,' said Dr. P. P. Claxton of the University of Alabama. "This is more than per cent on the full quota of $750,0O which the peo- pie of Alabama are asked to give toward the international institution.
 Purely as business transaction it will therefore be profitable. It would cost more than this for the state to establish and main tain alone school of sanitation for it's own use. The school will be open not only to stu dents from Alabama, but to and women from all of our southern states and of the world It will thus give an opportunity of serving the south the country and the world No part of the world is in greater need of training sanitarians than are the southern states including Alabama
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-16

Recent photographs of William Hohenzol- Tern make him look like a successful business man, but there is no improvement in the ap- pearance of the former Crown Prince.
 < Tom Edison says he doesn't think Henry Ford would make good President. Never theless, Tom and Henry have pretty good opinion of eash others ability It may not be true that the American peo- pie are a nation of gun toters, but the prac- tice of carrying flask on the hip is spreading at an alarming rate
 "Seena Owen," says a headline, is splendid as girl with the crepe de chine soul" The newer manifestations of "art" give us some thing to ponder over
 * x * The Tap controversy having been settled Yap will subside into an obscurity from which nothing short of war will bring it out again.
 < What statesmen in Washington don't hear is the voice of the American people shouting, "Tax us to pay the soldier bonus!" The fact that Margot Asquith is the wife of former premier makes the work of her press agent comparatively easy. President Obregon is not in good health, it appears, but the old reliable Mexican firing squad is still on the job.
 x x * Lethal gas to destroy criminals in their sleep will at least do away with farewell remarks on the gallows.
 x * x Mack Sennett is probably regretting now that he ever starred Mabel Normand in one-piece bathing suit.
 < AS, < It is a melancholy fact that a considerable part of Ireands population still cheers DeVaera.
 x * Scenario writers needn't go beyond Holly wood to get some corking good plots.
 x x The casualties of Valentine day will be re corded in the engagement column.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-16
SURPRISING S.
FOR JAPAN

From the New York Times
 that when the Prince of Wales gets there he and the Japanese Crown Prince are going to meet on the golf links and play against each other the contest will be remarkable one in several ways. In the first place, it will have im- portance for all the Japanese who see, read or hear about it, as marking the practical aban- donment by the royal family of it's long made and long admitted claim to reverence as some thing than mortal.~As
 Golf is fine game, accordine>4o its numer- ous followers, but participation in it on pub lie links by Sacred Parsonage will give some thing of a shock in Japan to considerable part of the population. As travelled Prince Hrohito probably has no illusions as to his origin and the nature of his right to rule-as few as the Prince of Wales, perhaps-but should the latter beat him the consequence might be serious diminution of popular reverence and measurable reduction of royal status in Japan.
 But the British youth is wise for his age, and tactful, the chances are that he, whom defeat would not hurt at all, will not strive too hard for victory over his opponent Not impossibly too, Hirohito is able to hold his own and little more at any game he cares to play. The Japanese usually are, in these latter days.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-16
REMARKABLE GROWTH OF
 THE TELEPHONE

That the American people are not only in- clined to communicate with one another, bit are willing to pay the cost, is shown in the number of telephones in use in this country. According to D. F. Houston, president of the American Telephone and Telegraph company, the United States, with one-sixteenth of the worlds population, has 64 per cent of the tele- phones.
 The increase in the use of telephones has been remarkable Alexander Graham Bell discovered how to transmit speech by wire in 1876. By January, 1881, there were 2,599 telephones in use. The number in the Bell system, including connecting lines, rose to 100000 in 1890, to soo,Ooo in 1900, to D. o090oo ing 1910 and to 12,6oo,ooO in 1920. The average yearly increase is over 50o,ooo.
 There is now a telephone connection for every nfne persons in the United States and s3, ,16H,000 calls are handled daily by the Bell cop5panies. Added to this mode of commun- cation the United States has 80 per cent of the automobiles of the world and one-third of its railroad mileage.
 It costs $1,O00,o0O a year to print the New York telephone directory, and the company must have nearly s20,O00,OO0 year to meet new demands and provide plant additions and replacements.
 The use of telephones in the United States reflects the progressive character of it's people.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-16
LETTERS TO EDITOR
BoYLEs CARMEN ON DANCE

To the Editor of The Age-Herald:
 The inclosed communication, signed by 105 workingmen at Boyles shops, Louisville and Nashville railway is sent to you with request that it be published, and it will be appreciated if it be given with all the names as signed. Yours very truly, w. A. THEAD. Birmingham, February IA, 1922. 1006 Forty
 ninth street, north.
 We, the undersigned Brotherhood of Railway Carmen of Boyles shop, are opposed to opening a public dance hall at East Lake park and we sure we voice the sentiment of great num- bers of laboring people,
 W. M. Fitzpatrick, F. l. Young, W A. Lindsey, W. A. Gillespie, Fletcher Mason, W. T. Byars, A. B. Nixon, Joe E. Ball, J. M. Byars, W. D. Pugh, L. H. Franklin, D. H. Smith, J. M. Sum merford, c. B. Dalton, w H. Hobson, o. o. Smith, M. J. Hand, c. A. Fisher, c. J. Jam- son, B. B. Dorn, F. T. Moore, E. D. Stuart, w H. Anesworth, B. F. Guthrie, M. H. Burgett, J. c. Sutherland, I. E. Jenkins R. S. Jarrett, J. P Rice, W. F. Boyd, W. L. Crawford, w. E. Cameron, F. E. Hamilton, s. c. Jerngan E. J. Walton, L. A. Hammers, H. M. Kelley, M. F.. Whitaker, J. c. Thomas, Rev. A. A. Gentles J.. l.. Spradling, H. L. Chandler T. L. Wilson, w. H. Wilson, C. c. McGraw, J. B. Mullins, J. W. Campbell, A. c. Beckman, M c. Glass; J. E. Joiner, o. P. Williams, J. H. Burgett H. D. Statimus, J. A. Clam, s. P. Tapscott, c. j.. Seals, W. E. Guthrie, N. N. Crunk, D. B. Thompson, A. R. Goodgame, H. W. Underwood, R. M. Franklin, S. S. Sloan, H. B. Deckerd, J. K. Johnson, M. c. Mullins, J. L. Beech w. R. Laster, Foley Womack, S. J. Millingsly, J.. H. Hanley, O. G. Nicholson, c. F. Laster, A. NJ. Howell, J. T. Mclaughlin, c. H. Bearden, Tom Smith, T. J. Taylor, J. A. Fitzpatrick, T. E. Waldrop, J. R. Spears, W. M. Baucum, Homer Smith, E. W. Isom, H. c. Lyle, c. W. Good son, Louis Isaacs G. W. Meadows, w A. Thead, R. A. Franklin, c. T. Collier, J. NJ. Johnson, R. W. Sanford, w. H. Martin, J. c. Gillum, Joe Hobson, J. W. Johnson, J. c. Yarbrough, C. C. Moore, w. M. Teens, H. w. Laster, Rev. A. J. Barnett, W. H. German, N. H. Poe, R, N Burgett
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-16
THE LATEST BID FOR MUSCLE
 SHOALS DEVELOPMENT

The Alabama Power company has now sub mitted bid for development of Muscle Shoals which undoubtedly means, that aside from the question of who is to do the work the Muscle Shoals project is sure to be developed. S Congress and the war department have be- fore them offers among which is sure to be found the one that is most acceptable With such an array of offers before it, Congress can no longer delay getting the work under way which means so much not only to the i'm mediate shoals section, but to the entire south.
 The Alabama Power company seems to have been impelled to make a bid for harnessing the shoals because of the complicated situa tion which has arisen out of the lease and option it holds on the Gorgas steam power unit and with the Ford bid stipulated part of the property which must. be turned over to him. The Gorgas unit is said to be essential to the operation of the Alabama company and the sup ply of its regular customers.
 Upon its face the Alabama Power company proposal seems to be fair and reasonable, and it is now the duty of Congress to weigh the entire matter carefully and judicially and to reach the conclusion in respect to Muscle Shoals which will be best for the people of the nation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-16
A WIDER CULTURE

By James Bryce.
 When one sees millions of people thinking the same thoughts and reading the same books and perceives that, as the multitude grows its influence becomes always stronger it is hard to imagine how points of repulsion and contrast are to arise, new dversities of sentiment and doctrine to be developed. New ertheless, there is to believe that, as the intellectual proficiency and speculative play of mind which are now confined to compara- lively small class become more generally diffused, as the pressure of effort towards ma terial success is relaxed, as the number of men devoted to science, art and learning increases, will the dominance of what may be called the business mind decline, and with a richer variety of knowledge, tastes and pursuits, there will come also larger crop of marked' individualities and of divergent intellectual types.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-16
HIS FIRST FRIEND

Speaking of his early struggles, Dr. W. R. Hendrix, pastor of the Highland Methodist church, said: q should and do have a warm regard for my Jewish fellow citizens. well remember when time for my graduation was at hand and was without the means to pur- chase fitting suit of clothes for that occasion.
 "In my town there was Jewish merchant. He stopped one day and asked me few general questions, and then sounded me out on the matter of clothes He wound up by press ing on me whatever l needed in the way of wearing apparel, knowing full well that could not pay him then and had no early prospects of doing so.
 q paid him later on, but I will never forget that act of generosity"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-16
SMILING WINDOWS

Taylor Shaw, in Leslies Weekly. For the windows of my house l chose
 The draperies with care; Of rose and other cheery tints, A little white, with silver glints,
 Elusive, here and there. For, knowing that twas dingy gray,
 My house, to outward view, I thought, with colors gray and bright, To make the windows smile at night,
 The lamplight shining through I thought to make my windows seem
 To smile in friendly wise, To send adown the dusty road Some of the cheer that here abode,
 For weary stranger eyes, And when the sun sank low, it's rays,
 Like gold that fairies spin, Came streaming, through the hangings there To turn my humble home all fair /
 And glorious within.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-16
YOUNG PROMOTER FOLLOWS
 EXAMPLE OF PONZI

Chicago has discovered in Raymond J. Bis choff a youthful fnancier who might have rivaled Ponzi had he not come to grief. As it is, he makes fair showing with liabilities 9f approximately $5,O0o,OO0 and Hess than $1,OoO in cash.'
 The operations of this latest wizard" who found it easy to separate other people from their money by promising quick returns at a high rate of interest, are said to have ruined thousands of poor investors whose greed was greater than their judgment. One cannot help feeling sympathy for the victims of ''get-rich- quick schemes, but after all they are the dupes of their own avarice.
 Bischoff, who claims to be only 25 years old started his career in 1919 with $10,000. He opened offices to do what he styled general financial business, brokerage and oil" Ac- cording to his story, an acquaintance came .c him to borrow $500 to help pay mortgage. He didn't have the money, but got it by in vesting $2o0 belonging to his clieRt. This man told his friends about Bschoff and they in turn told others It wasn't long before he was beseiged by would-be investors who wanted to >turn small sums into large ones. One of Bischoff's agents charged that he was author ized to offer 100 per cent interest.
 Like the picturesque Mr. Ponzi now doing light labor in Massachusetts penitentiary, Bischoff claims that he is innocent and was ruined by his enemies, but hundreds of his vic tins, most of them residing in the Chicago stockyards district, would like extremely well to lay their hands on Bschoff, and officials are making a hurried search to locate assets the wizard" may not have thought it worth while to mention.
 Investors in Bischoff's schemes have wanted to kick themselves all the harder when he stated to Judge K. M. Lands that he had had no previous business experience, and all the work he had done was in soliciting members for the Boy Scouts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-16
POINTED PARAGRAPHS

From the Chicago News.
 Why isn't wealthy actor fixed star?
 Honesty is always the best policy for the grocer.
 It's poor valentine that fails either to please woman or make her mad.
 When train of thought tries to pass through some mems brains it is always ditched.
 Just because a is millionaire don't think that he suffers less with the toothache than poor man does.
 Shortly after marriage woman discov- CTS that her husband has to have something to growl about so she ceases to pay attention to him.
 No farmer would protest if the cyclone would lift the mortgage from his farm along with the rest
 Don't fail to ask for advice if you wish to fatter
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-16
To SAVE SOUTHERN WOODS

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer
 Continuing its policy of furnishing research facilities to the principal timber section of the country, the forest service of the United States department of agriculture recently established new forest experiment station, with headquar- ters for the present at New Orleans. Experi- ments will be conducted in the large and impor- tant timber region extending from eastern Texas, through Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and Florida to the Caroinas.
 Forestry experts regard the establishment of this station as particularly opportune, as it is located only for growing timber and it's task of working out the best methods of produc- ing, growing and protecting the forests will thus aid in preserving the natural wealth of sec tion whose sole asset lies in its forests. Such important and valuable species as longeaf, shortleaf, and loblolly pines and cypress, they say, amply justify considerable outlay to iu- sure their perpetuation and to increase their production.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-16
A MATTER OF CLIMATE

What does that picture represent?" asked MT. Wadleigh.
 "venus rising from the sea" said the art dealer
 Gosh! She hasn't any, clothes on. couldn't have picture like that in my house. Show me a hunting scene"
 Here you are, sir. Diana of the chase"
 She's not dressed, either Show me pie ture of some Eskimos hunting seals. I'll bet they'll have clothes onp PAUL COOK
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-16
GOOD EXHIBITS ASSURED

"The League of Women Voters will have a splendid exhibit of made-in- Birmingham pro- ducts on display at the furniture store of Ben M Jacobs the week beginning February 2S,' said Mrs. Richard F. Johnston.
 "Ths organization is putting on a campaign to get everyone to buy products made in Bir- mingham whenever it is possible, and in order for them to do this it is necessary for them to familiarize themselves with the products made here. For this reason we putting on this housewives exhibit and are inviting the public to inspect them"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-16
MEN MAY WEAR THEIR HATS IN
 BIRMINGHAM ELEVATORS

The moot question of what man shall do with his hat when he is in an elevator, and there are women passengers aboard has, been settle so far as Birmingham is concerned, by the ilding Owners and Managers associa- tion. He can let it stay on his head, decree which will be welcomed particularly by men whose hair is not what it used to be, either in quantity or location the cranal dome.
 The association didn't go into the fine points of etiquette. Evidently it had no desire to renew an argument that has been carried on
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-16
ANYTHING FOR PEACE

After I'm dead and gone, you'll realize that I was a good wife to you" said Mrs. Clip ping who was in of her fearful moods. My dear,' said MT. Clipping, frantically, "Pm willing to admit that right now, and if you're not satisfied with the state of my af- factions and the extent of my gratitude, call in notary and I'll make an affidavit
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-16
AID JEWISH RELIEF

To the Editor of The Age Herald:
 Your assistance to the Jewish relief cam paign has been most gratifying, and I take this occasion to thank you. Throughout the campaign the press has been a great instru- ment in bringing the appeal to the public, and the spirit in which you gave it space was very generous. Assuring you of my full apprecia- tion of your favors, sincerely yours,
 I. WE'LL, State Chairman. Montgomery, February 14 1922.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-16
NOW AND THEN

There are no books elike the story books We read when we were young, When the world was clothed in colors rare And life was a song unsung. The modern writers may be good
 As to that I cannot say, But never seize novel now
 And read till the break of day.