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The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-09-30

Sunday, Sept. "a. = The question
is asked: IF a person pays all his cash
into the Colony for membership, what
does he do for vacation or long trips
to the outside. if he desires to go?
Who pays the expense if people go
away for educational purposes?" Both
good questions. IF person comes here
In the right spirit and with the right
motive, he is coming to help us build
Ia cooperative commonwealth, not to
take visits CT other pleasures at the ex-
pense of the Colony until all other
members are able to take these advan-
tages upon the same terms. If he or
she has money of his Cor her) own,
he IS at liberty to spend it as he pleas
es-b but | am sure that money spent for
pleasure during these days of grief and
hardship throughout the world is mon
ley foolishly wasted. when it could be
used in work that must be done thru
blood and tears of laboring people
IF not thru education. What say you?
"A motto that we should all hold is: Il
refuse to accept anything that all my
comrades cannot have on the same
terms. " That will help you to see in
TO the hearts of most of our people.
As to the expense of schooling, we
make it practice to give as much ed
ucation to our people as can be gain
ed from any source. and at Colony ex-
pense. Education is our aim. Thru
it, we shall be freed from the taints Of
the past. When the Colony says it
will furnish all the necessaries of life
10 its members. it means to do so TO
the fullest extent Of It's ability to give
them at all times-and education is
one of these necessities. Our general
work is in the interest of our CAUSE,
not the COLONY. The Colony is on
" foundation upon which to build
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-11
RECORD FREIGHT HANDLING
 BY BARGE LINE

The Mississippi end of the Mississippi War rior barge line service made new record in May, according to dispatches from St. Louis. The freight handled both ways amounted to 67,374 tons and the upstream freight was 32,5oo tons When freight goes both ways earnings are assured. That is what the War rior needs to earn a net profit.
 The upstream tonnage from New Orleans consisted mainly of sugar, coffee and rice, while the downstream tonnage included iron and steel goods for river points and for port out of New Orleans. Birmingham iron and steel operators recently visiting New Or leans report the docks there loaded with mountains of wrought pipe for the Pacific coast and variety of iron and steel products for export.
 The Lent Traffic company of Pittsburg announces the establishment of a regular freight line to and from New Orleans, begin ming June 20, and expects to do business, primarily in steel mill products, of 100000 tons year.
 Traffic between Mobile and the Pacific coast is on a regular eastbound as well as westbound basis. It does not seem possible that, with the substantial interests now engaged in the river and coastwise business, it will ever be snuffed out again This time it is here to stay.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-11

property now worth $bo,ooo and which, when improved. will be worth many times that amount, besides adding taxable values to sur rounding property and increasing the city's rev. enues.
 Real estate men see this. That is why they overwhelmingly favor acceptance of the do- nation by the Smith heirs of the auditorium site at Smiths park.
 How many blocks have been presented to Birmingham? Is the city treasury so over flowing with money for parks, libraries. play grounds and other things the people need that donations should be refused?
 If Birmingham were q private corporation operated by business men the Smith park site would have been promptly accepted
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-11
SOUTH TO HAVE SUPER
 POWER SYSTEM

Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee and the Caro- linas will soon have considerable increase in water power. It's economic effects will draw the serious attention of the country to the south's manufacturing potentialties.
 @ The North Carolina Power company is ex- pending $3oo,o00 in plant betterments. The Carolina Power company is building 100,0 ,000- volt double circuit line and installing improve ments of an approximate value of $3o0,o00.
 The Southern Power company has awarded contract for the construction of it's Great Falls, s. C., and Mountain Island, N. C., hydro- electric plants. The Georgia Railway and Elec- electric project on the Tugaloo river, which will increase its capacity by 40 per cent.
 In this state the Alabama Power company will bring in the $8,0oo,oo Mitchell dam next year with 12o,ooo horse power, while the Hous- ton Power company is harnessing the Choc- tawhatchie river at cost of $500, 1000. Several water power expansion projects are under way in Tennessee.
 This points to the south's super power sys- tenn. When the various water power energies of the southeast are connected and developed thsre will be power for New Orleans, Vicks- burg and Memphis on the west; Savannah, Brunswick and Charleston on the east; Mobile, Pensacola and Jacksonville on the south and Nashville and Johnson City to the north.
 Eventually there will be electric railroad operations along the Appalachian range sup piled by water power and by steam plants on top of coal mines, where coal will be econom- ically used at the mine instead of devoting 50 per cent of railroad energy to transporting it for motive power
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-11
LETTERS TO EDITOR
POWER COMPANIES BeNEvoLENcE

To the Editor of The Age Herald:
 I notice an article in The Age-Herald of June g, written by Mir. Louis W. Roberts of Birmingham, commenting on Mir. Fords philanthropy by way of the Alabama Power company's, wherein he asks, What has MT. Ford ever done for the farmer?--but look 1t the power company's o,o0o for Auburn" The fact is, the farmers and laborers of this country have never felt themselves objects of charity, but contend for fair and equitable prices for their wares, which are the sweat of their brow. And with all of his shortcomings standing out so prominently to the high-salared corporation men of this country, the laboring man of America, farmers and others, have appreciation of merit and common sense enough to assign Mir. Ford his place as . model manufacturer, business man, and citizen, paying labor suf- ficient wage to make them able to be citizens 50 they can have share in building up great institutions, not monopolizing all the glory for himself or his company.
 While am only private citizen, native Aabamian, and small taxpayer, an amateur cannot fail to see soma reason for the Alabama Power company's benevolence and activity a. such time as this-primarily to keep such hustler as Henry Ford from becoming a com pstitor If the company can keep out competi- tion, drive few more el-planned bargains such as it pulled even with the government in her dire hour of need in getting strings on
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-11
NED BRACE TALKS OF BROTHERS
 AND THE PROPER PRICES OF THINGS

E1 HE war profteers have had their day.
 There are many millionaires in this G country who have made their money by virtue of wartime contracts.
 An investigation is on by the department of justice of the United States government; and indications are that tthere will be some exposures.
 Even in this Birmingham district there may be men who have become rich by prcfiteering during the World war.
 It is time that an end shall be put to high prices and unjust accumulation of money by virtue of making the public pay undue prices for commodities.
 The Age-Herald has set an example in re- ducins the sales price of this newspaper to three cents daily and to five cents Sunday.
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 The Age-Hersld can we'll afford to do this. because during the war period it was paying as high as II cents pound for white paper at the northern mills. It was likewise paying s1 cents per 100 pounds freight on this paper to Birmingham. It further paid storage and carriage and insurance. Today The Age Herald is paying three and one-hak cents for paper at the northern mills, and it will soon have reduction of 10 per cent in the freight rates
 Therefore, why should it charge the man or the woman who wants to buy g newspaper on the street five cents copy when the New York and Chicago papers can sell the same for three cents a copy? Had The Age-Herald continued to sell for five cents a copy daily ;n Birmingham, and the other cities and towns of Alabama and adjoining states, it would have been no more nor less than profiteer. Incidentally it might be remarked that since The Age-Herald cut it's sales price for it's daily to three cents and for its Sunday issue to five cents it has sold an average of 5000 more papers daily than heretofore.
 This merely shows that the public appre- ciates fair dealing on the part of the newspaper as much as it appreciates fair dealing on the part of the grocer who reduces the price on sugar anu iiou1 anu pusseh III PioPoh"V" " SSee reduction of wholesale prices.
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 Newspapers are the subject of much criti- cism on the part of the public of the south. Because it is fact that some newspapers try to make all the profit the market will stand; I; and some newspaper men are prone to boast of how important they are and how their profits accumulate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-11
POINTED PARAGRAPHS

From the Chicago News
 Trying to blush strains the drug store com plexion.
 Why should man expect to get his price if he has it?
 Occasionally man drops dollars in trying to pick up pennies.
 Most people are willing to tell the truth if it hurts somebody else.
 A bigamist is free from worry when he finds himself behind the bars.
 Wise is the woman who manages her hus- band and keeps the secret from him.
 No man ever sees a pretty married woman without feeling just little bit jealous of her husband
 It is wonderful and terrible how extrava- eant engaged folks are with love, and how eco nomical they are with it after marriage.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-11
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
HARD WORKED JUDGE

I've been loaded down with work lately, " said Judge Hugh A. Locke. T have been so busy that have not been able to dispose of the action brought by the city against the Birmingham Railway, Light and Power com pany or of other questions of interest to the public.
 "It seems that have had enough work lately for two or three judges. know that have been working overtime and yet the cases pile up on me with such regularity that am almost swsmped. am reading over the weighty briefs submitted by each side in the five-cent fare dispute and expect to reach a decision in the next few days as to the juris- diction of circuit court in the matter"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-11
FLAG DAY THIS WEEK

"We members of Sumter and Old Eiyton chapters of the Daughters of the American Revolution feel that Birmingham will not re- quire much reminder for observance of Flag Day on next Wednesday," said Mrs. J. Mor- gan Smith. 'It is a national affair, duly de- clared so by the government, that we might yearly recall what the flag stands for.
 "We will sell flags that day and we urge citizens of Birmingham to wear them. It is a small thing to do, but it is just such things that serve to render our patriotism alive for good of the country in peace as well as in war"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-11
NORTHCLIFFE ISSUES WARNING
 AGAINST MELLOW PERIL"

viscount Northcliffe has been warning Brit ons against the "ycllow peril'' since his return to London from trip around the world. What Northcliffe saw and heard in his travels con- vinced him that it is both foolish and danger ous to make light of Japanese penetration in British dominions as we'll as the United States. It is the fashion in this country, especially since the arms conference in Washington, to regard the so-called "yellow peril' myth, but the Northcliffe point of view is interest ing and it may be instructive. He is not alone in believing that the white races should be on their guard against the worlds colored races, led by the Japanese. Lothrop Stoddard, an authority on far easterx questions points in his books to war for supremacy between the white and yellow races. While the white races have been wasting themselves and their resources in war, the yellow races, conspicu- ousy the Japanese, have conserved and in- creased their power.
 Speaking before. the Australian and New Zealand Luncheon club in London, Northcliffe said:
 Can the Americans with their gigantic fleet and their army. the Canadians keep them outf Mo- in Vancouver in 1918. and there paratively few Japanese there val there in July last and fcvnd British coumbis alive with Japanese I went few miles aeross the to Honolulu and there the great Amsrean nsst and American army has not been sbls e step the population from being Ss per cent Japansss.
 
 Shere wood unaa n Austral{a- photographers. It is extraordinary thing that wherever you go in the Far East you find the JApaness to be photosraphsr. When landed in Bornso . member of the government said to me. "one of the most surprisiRG things happened ts iatsiy. The Japaness sQuaAren came la. and c
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-11
----e----------------------- IF BIRMINGHAM WERE A PRIVATE CORPORATION

block of property in its geographical center for municipal purposes. The usual process of acquiring property by cities well as by individuals is the payment of money. In the case of cities this money comes from taxes psid by the property owners. The city never fails to pay the full market value, either through condemnation or at private sale.
 It is inconceivable that growing city, whose peeds ars expanding beyond it's ability to meet them, should decline to accept 4 block of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-11
THE vAcABoND

7 Robert Louis Stevenson. Give to me the life love, Let the lave go by me, Give the jolly heaven above And the byway nigh me. Bed in the bush with stars to see, Bread dip in the river There's the life for a man like me, There's the life forever. Or let autumn fall on me
 Where afield finger, Silencing the bird on tree,
 Biting the blue finger. White as meal the frosty field Warm the fireside heaven Not to autumn will yield,
 Not to winter even. Let the blow fall soon or late, Let what will be o'er me; Give the face of earth around, And the road before me. Wealth ask not, hope nor love, Nor friend to know me; All ask, the heaven above
 And the road below mo.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-11

The newspaper is supposed to be the repre- sentative of public sentiment. It's duty is to lead the procession and protect the public. The Age-Herald proposes to do this.
 If the price of white paper goes down fur ther the sales price of The Age-Herald on the streets of the cities of Alabama will be further reduced.
 In Birmingham, like in all other southern cities, there are rivalries among merchants and real estate dealers.
 The existing rivalry in Birmingham is be. tween the real estate men, some of whom don't want an auditorium copstructed unless it can be on property which might enhance the value of property they represent
 The Smith estate has offered to donate to the city most attractive site for an audi torium. It is ideal for such structure
 The city should accept it because it is cen tral and because it affords ample parking fs- cilities for automobiles.
 Let us eliminate rivalry and accept that which is to the best interests of the great mass of people of this community.
 We are having much ado today in Birming- ham over the Ku Klux Klan.
 The Bar association has taken it up; and the city commission is in a stew about it. Yet nobody has heard of any members of the Ku Klux Klan doing anything desperate.
 We have the Masons, and the Elks and the various other organizations; including the Rotary club and the Kiwanis club, which have passed resolutions in favor of bond issues or opposed to bond issues We have all sorts of people who want to get into politics and who want to express themselves in resolutions on pending political issues. Few of these resolu- tions amount to anything; because there are always more people on the other side than there are on the resolving side.
 
 The Ku Klux Klan hasn't done anything to hurt anybody in Birmingham, so far as any one knows. They have merely patronized few tailors who know how to make cotton gar ments and have occasionally hired few un- used dray horses and ex-service saddles to ride in parades. They are harmless and enjoy the importance attached to them. Therefore why make much ado about them?
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 What Birmingham wants and needs now Is more pay rolls and more business and more attention to business and less of rabid political discussions.
 I>.St3,aee
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-11

the Gorgas plant it can well afford to be be- nevolent, for the state will return it millions
 The shrewed, will-written articles re- gently appearing in The Age Herald in defense of the company's activity in acquiring all the water power in the state available, and its efforts in Washington to keep others out, can but give the average citizen apprehension. St may not now be in politics, but if present indications mean anything, the political liberty of the state, from governor to night police, will be affected, when it enters the political arena. N/ J. w. CULBERSON
 Birmingham, June 9, 1922.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-11
FOR SMITHS PARK SITE

"At the meeting of the Junior Chamber of Commerce on Thursday evening we took an informal vote on accepting the offer of the Smith heirs on the Smith park auditorium site, 1" said Paoli Smith. There were a few votes one in favor of Smiths park
 "These informal referendums are very serv- iceable in ascertaining sentiment, because men speak out just as they feel among themselves. I believe the Thursday night expression was representative of the entire membership of the Junior Chamber"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-11
PRUDERY AT WAIKIKI

From the St. Louis Post~Dispatch.
 There may be grass-skirted, flower-decked young girls dancing bare-legged. and handsome surf riders displaying muscular backs some where in the Hawaiin island, but not at Waikiki beach, in the District of Honolulu. A prudish parson named Desha, at the head of native church, obtained the passage of law provid- ing that no person over IA years of age should appear on any thoroughfare in bathing suit, Unless said suit is covered by an outer garment reaching at least to the knees. The effect of this law is to compel persons living close to the beach to wrap up in bathrobe or overcoat to get to the sea, as they must cross the road that skirts the beach.
 Called upon to enfore this law, Judge J. Burt Lightfoot of Honolulu said, in pronounc. ing sentence:
 The guilty must be punished and anyone
 found guilty in my court of such terrible
 offense as violation of the Besha bathing
 suit law will be fined in the sum of 10
 cents, costs remitted. How can people be
 50 wicked as to actually walk from their
 homes with no covering over their bathing
 suits, cross . public highway and go to the
 beach? We must end this wave of crime.
 In which judgment all good people are bound to concur As everyone ought to know. . human form in bathing suit, unprotected by knee-iength robe. is indecent when seen eross- ing street, but perfectly decent when dis porting without that protection on smile-wide
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-11
HANDSOME STRUCTURE

Work Is progressing fairly well on the Wylam High school" said D. C. Dawn. con- tractor.
 "We have already completed the walls, placed the roof and have interior workers busy whipping the structure into shape. When com pleted this structure will be one of the hand somest structures of its kind in the country and will certainly be credit to the commu- nity where it stands.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-11
DOOMED

Saint Peter stood before the gate,
 The applicant could not get in; He saw it did no good to wait,
 He had no chance crown to win. These fateful words fell on his ear
 And sent him shuddering below: ''You shed for others sins tear, Of piety made quite a show, But all the time you lied and stole,
 And frequently betrayed . trust; There was no kindness in your soul,
 You sneered at the humane and just. Pass on to realms of pain and fear,
 The devil waits, his fires are lit; Away! You may not enter here
 The good Lord hates . hypocrite."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-11
GREAT NEED OF THE BOYS

"Tag day for the Boys club was really q thing worth while," said Homer Tyner. While many people do not realize the great need of the boys there really are several things that the city should provide and I think that the Boys club is filling these necessities we'll"
 "I am confident that the people of Birming- ham will put the club over the top before they let up in the goal that they are now after"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-11
HOOD GETS GOOD LUCK LETTER

T recently received one of the chain good luck letters" said Inzer Hood. "The idea is that some man starts the letter and everybody that gets it must add his name and send 1t to nine other persons. If this is kept up 1t will reach thousands of persons over the country in little while.
 Tt Is being sent out only to ex-service men. If a man sends. it out in "A hours after he receives it he is expected to have good luck on the ninth day following. received the letter from Matt Murphy. He got it from someone in New York. I think will send it to an ex-service man in San Francisco
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-11
PUBLICITY FOR CITY

.I think the Confederate veterans here are doing great thing for Birmingham in taking the Boys Industrial School band to Richmond, 2 said J. B. Trafford.
 "It means much favorable publicity for the city and will certainly add to the prestige of our already honored delegation that will go. President McLendon has named tag day and Sergt. Bob McCallum is striving to raise the money to carry out this plan, and I believe the people would do we'll to aid in this deserv- ing movement
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-11
WELL REPRESENTED

"BirminShsrr will be we'll represented at the National Credit Mems convention being held in Cleveland next week." said T. A. Nickel, president of the local organization.
 "Seven of our are leaving today 70 represent Birmingham at the big convention. and we are planning several ways of letting them know we are there in full force"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-11

beach or at the edge of the waves. To get on to the sand at once removes the element of indecency. That is very fortunate for the bsthers at Waikiki and other warm spots. If it were otherwise, they might melt down into grease spots before they could get into the cooling waves.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-11
7 FIcURATIvELY SPEAKING

"Who is that man who wants to see mel" asked MT. Wadleigh.
 "He says you and he used to go in swimming together when you were boys" "Ah! I fear touch. He has probably come to tell me that I'm still in the swim and he's about to go under for the third and last time"
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-11
ALARMING THOUGHT

ALARMING THOUGHT
 T noticed you Init the sawdust trail last night at the revival"
 "Yes," said Mir. Bibbles. But you hesitated when you got about halfway to the preacher"
 'T had discovered that the man ahead of me was my favorite bootlegger. If backslide and he doesn't I'll have the dickens of time finding another reliable distributor"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-11
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
HOME LIFE SACRED

Are you willing to admit that your ances- tors were monkeys?" asked the contentious person.
 "After thinking the matter over, believe am,' replied MT. Grumpson. "Naturalists tell us there is no such thing as triangle stuff in the jungles.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-11
ATMOSPHERE

ATMOSPHERE "How was the movie?" "A drinking scene was quite realistic" 1.-The actors were probably drinking ginger ale.'
 Maybe 50, but lost none of the effect. man sitting behind me had a hooch-laden breath"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-11
HARDENED

"You wrote me-" protested the summer boarder, "that mosquitoes nev1r bothered you
 "They don't" said Mir. Cobbles. I've been living here more than thirty years. In that length of time man can get used to anything