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The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-15
LETTERS TO EDITOR
coMMENps AUBURN WORK

To the Editor of The Age-Herald:
 I have noticed with great deal of pleasure the support that you have been giving the greater Auburn semi-centennial proposition, and wish to take this opportunity of commend ing as strongly as I can the good work that you and the other papers of the state are doing Yours cordially, ERSKINE RAMSAY,
 Vice Chairman North Central Division.
 Birmingham, February 13, 1922
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A REMEDY AT HAND

q hate to mention the matter" said MT. Gadspur ,"but you've been owing me the small sum of $50 for something and thought"
 My dear fellow said MT. Clipping. "You have no idea how that trifling obligation wor- ries me. Why, it keepsme awake at night"
 aIndeed?" replied MT. Gadspur, brightening up. "How fortunate that I am now giving you an opportunity to cure your insomnia"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-15
NAVY SHOULD NOT BE REDUCED
 BELOW 5-5-3 RATIO

The naval ratio fixed in the arms conference for the navies of the United States, Great Britain and Japan was 5-5-3. Some members of Congress, who obsessed with the idea : of economizing, would cut the naval appro-
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SHOWING HIS WORST SIDE

"A delegation of ladies would like to see you, MT. Grabcoin."
 "TeH them Pm not in charitable mood this morning"
 "They are not asking for donations, They want you to support lady candidate"
 And that goes for politics, too You just step out and say that I haven't enough gallan- try in my system to be polite to my stenographer." PAUL COOK.
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THE SUPERIORITY COMPLEX

Madam, your husband is not seriously i'll, but he's working himself to death to keep up appearances"
 And l suppose you blame me for that?'' said the fashionably dressed matron.
 Certainly not, but I'm stating fact"
 "Well if he put you up to this to keep me from spending the winters at exclusive resorts he'll have to devise another scheme"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-15
SUBSTANTIAL STRUCTURE

From the Brooklyn Eagle
 Athens is in a rage because repairers of the Parthenon (dating from 450 B. CD are substi- tuting mixture of limestone and cement for missing marble blocks. But even at that, the Parthenon would make a finely safe motion picture house.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-15
A SHORT STORY

From the Tampa Tribune.
 A book agent called on one of Tampa's lead ing women insurance agents the day after new year, and in 10 minutes was seen leaving her office carefully folding his insurance policy.
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 Pennsylvania man stole woman's pocket book containing nothing but street car trans fer and a ticket. He surrendered himself to the police with the sapient remark, 'Any man who is fool enough to take woman's pocket book is not fit to be at large" A celebrated detective says no woman killed Taylor. What we admire most about cele- brated detectives is the positive way in which they express an opinion on something about which they know nothing whatever.
 x x x
 It is predicted that the Prince of Wales, be- ing tactful young man, will permit Prince Hirohito of Japan to beat him at golf. Maybe so, but up to the present moment, tact has never been conspicuous on the links.
 x
 America is a grand and glorious country but American citizens ought to be more careful about exposing themselves to stray bullets along the Mexican border.
 < / With all due respect to Margot Asquth, it isn't pulchritude that gets her pictures in the papers.
 Margot Asquith says President Harding is "so truthful.' He must have paid her compli- mept
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Ex-sERvIcE MEN STILL ON THE JOB

While the ex-seryice men who started ou to increase their exchequers by percentage on the membership to the Birmingham Auto mobile club have fared fairly we'll still the response from the public should have been much more generous said Mrs. Bertha Cough Ian, assistant secretary of the club However, the ex-service men are still working hard and are doing their level best to make some money, for many of them have been out of jobs so long that they feel the necessity for every dollar they can make. They certainly have the right spirit-which they must have learned during the war-the spirit that won't give up in the face of Encouragement and obstacles. There are many automobile owners who should be members of the Birmingham Automobile club and they would do double duty now by joining, for they would have their membership in the club, while the ex-serpice man to whom the membership is given, would get his percentage of the membership fee."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-15
HOLLYWOOD HABITS

From the Louisville Courier-Journal
 It seems in Hollywood you have high old time in quiet way till you're murdered, and then everybody has high old time in a noisy way at your funeral.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-15
LETTING GEORGE DO IT

From the Falmouth Outlook.
 George Held and his bald head were seen on Robbins avenue running after skirt-but it was one of his wife's that the wind had blown off the clothes line.
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ALWAYS DOWN

seWhen Mrs Peckton gets into the fray it doesn't take MT. Peckton long to strike his coors."
 eWhere did you get that ideal" "Eh?"\
 "He quit running them up twenty years ago."
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DOUGHBOY IS STILL THE UNIT OF BATTLE

The "doughboy" with his bayonet is still the supreme arbiter of war. Specialists of one kind and another have been telling us that the wars of the future will be fought largelv with machines, that the human factor will be eliminated. The practically unanimous opinion of American army officers, as shown in ques- tionnaires sent out to make a postwar an- alysis, is otherwise.
 There are, and there will be more, deadly engines of destruction, but the same force that has for thousands of years decided the battles will continue to do SC, according to Americans whose business is fighting There is something, deep down in mems souls, that makes them fear "cold steel' more than any, thing else. Whstling bullets, shells and even poison gas do not test courage more surely than the knife or the bayonet
 It Is interesting to read the predictions of chemists and other scientists who picture new methods of destruction, but the sturdy "doughboy," the "poilu," the Tommy or their army equivalents, will be for a long time, per haps as long mankind is so misbegotten as to fight at all, the 'basc combatant unit"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-15
BROUGHT HER APPETITE ALONG

My angel, what will you have to eat?"
 Something substantial, Arthur. And wish you'd get the notion out of your head that Pm aldisembodied spirit"
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BELIEVES CONNECTION A GOOD ONE


 'I consider that we are very fortunate in se- curing the branch agency of the International Trade Developer" said John Sparrow, presi- dent of the Sparrow Advertising agency.
 "We made thorough examination of the work being done by the International Trade Developer and of its methods, and we found that we could be of great advantage to the people of Birmingham and northern Alabama by taking on this connection.
 "We all believe that there is a wonderful future ahead for Birmingham, and we know that this future is to be greatly frightened by trade xpansion-sending Birmingham-made goods into all sections of the world. We should find customers in Africa just as easily as we can find them in a South American country, and when we know that the dealer is reliable, we will find them. The world is Birmingham's market, for the reason that we produce here what the world needs.
 q love Birmingham and naturally want to do any service that will make the city grow and prosper. feel that my new connection, formed to help manufacturers find reliable dealers for their product in foreign fields will contribute toward making our city grow and it's institutions more prosperous
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IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
WORK HARD AND LATE

The coming of Clarence Eddy, celebrated pipe organists for concert at the auditorium of the First Baptist church Thursday night, February 16, calls to mind the advice which MT. Eddy has given to young pianists and or ganists all over Europe and America" said Mrs. c. F. Manly
 ''Mr Eddy accords high place to the mod ern church organist. He says the organist is the descendant of >'the chief musician of the temple dating from the days of ancient Israel.
 "He insists that the accomplished organist must first be sound, not to say brilliant plan ist. He urges the young organist to keep ever lastingly at piano practice he says that one may do their 'toeing and heeling' upon the carpet while sitting at the piano.
 ''Mr Eddy points out to the young organist the indispensable matter of improvising, es- pecially in church playing. The gaps must be filled. For instance, if the offertory hymn ends while the deacons have not yet finished with the morning offering of course the or ganist must do some impromptu playing until they have finished, formed in twos and march back to the point where the baskets are re- ceived, and the deacons return to their seats.
 "The great organist insists that those who would fill the post of chief musician must work hard late and without let-up"
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activities ceased to operate by reason
Of his learning so much of their prop
aganda and plottings.
His home is in Toledo, o., where
the American Legion has as Its COM
mander this same Gustavus Ohlinger.
The Legion convention was In full
blast in his home city when wealthy
Toledoan burst I'm and announced that
he would pay the entire expense of
the ex-service mems gathering If they
would drop their bonus stand. What
Ohlinger told him was never learned
from a five-foOt shelf, but 1t was good
enough to cause hurried exit on the
part OF the Toledo business man.
That's why the Legionnaires like him.
Kid gloves might be alright tc use
sometimes, but Ohlinger doesn't draw
them on when he tackles Legion prob
lens.
Born Of German parentage in China.
a close friend OF the late Theodore
Roosevelt, world traveller and famed
as having ridden a bicycle across
South Africa are few Of the things
that show why "Gus' stands ace high
with the Legion men and also why he
must be reckoned with by any group
whose Americanism is questionable.
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being spread into all parts of the
world by the band leaders men. Thir-
ty-two of the master musicians who
make up the Sousa organization are
eX-service men, and nearly all are af-
fliated with the Legion. They come
from every part of the country and
saw service in every branch of this
country's military organization dur
ing the war.
When Sousa .ook hold of the Great
Lakes band It was a group of sailors,
whose right to play under him could
have come only with their enlisting
with the crowd that took 'em over"
What he did with this group of mu-
steal talent became known the country
over. What they learned under Sousa
couldn't have been learned anywhere
else, and the finer points of the mu-
sician's art are being shown to the
hundreds of Legion posts whose per
sonnel Is made up of one or more OF
the gobs who made up the largest
service band of the many brought into
being during the war.
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closer to the fence and spelled out the
words under the picture: THE Great
est Mother in the World"
All! SO she was. this protector Of
the hurt and the sick The Red Cross
poster carried its wondrous message
TO the very bottom Of the squatter
girls heart.
A sound, close at hand, caused her
to turn swiftly. A man on horseback
had drawn up on the side OF the road.
The blood came In swift leaps to
Polly's face. There was the "beauti-
full angel" looking down upon her |!
What could she do but stare back at
himl In another instant he had dis
mounted and was coming toward her.
Jerry slid from her shoulders TO the
ground. Pollyop's hand clasped his !;
but she did not speak. What had hap
pened to her "angelr' lie looked diff
ferent; more like the other men she
occasionally saw on horseback. That
was II He was not wearing the olive
drab uniformi To add TO her confu-
sion Robert Percival was smiling at
her In the most friendly way. Then
he glanced up at the picture, his fine
face saddening.
"The Greatest Mother In the World.
little girl" he said. and he smiled
again.
"The Greatest Mother in the World"
repeated Pollyop, In awed tones.
Does that mean she's mother 10 the
squatter kids what was hurt In the
war. misterf'
"Yes." he replied after short pause.
"Yes. Il means that. and more. She's
mother to every burt boy and brings
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expression for their Legion ideas.
The result was the establishment OF
the Hoosier Legionnaire. which recent
ly started publication with a circula-
ton Of $1,000.
Philip b. Stapp Of Greensburg. for.
merly editor OF the Hour Glass, over
seas publication Of the "Sauntering
Seventh" division, is editor OF the In.
diana publication. A delegate to the
Paris caucus Of the Legion, Stapp was
appointed a member OF the first ma
tional publicity committee of the Le-
gion. During his 20 months OF serv-
Ice in the war. Stapp rose from "buck
private" to a commissioned officer In
the field artillery.
The newspaper Is sent TO all Indi-
ana Legionnaires every week.
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met death, but the naming OF de-
stroyer for him didn't take place until
long afterward.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Pruitt of
Phoenix, Ariz., have Just received
from the Italian government citation
and the Italian war cross, Croce di
Guerre in recognition of their sons
valor nearly four years ago. The cita-
ton told Of young Pruitt's single
handed battle against two machine gun
crews, capturing both, killing two Of
the enemy and taking 40 prisoners.
Under age and therefore ineligible
for the first draft, Pruitt volunteered
for service with the marines less than
three weeks after war was declared.
He was In France In January. 1918,
and served as a Devil Dog" until his
death. His body was brought BACK to
this country and buried with all the
honors that are hero's. In the Nation
al cemetery at Arlington.
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Storm Country Polly
by Grace Miller White
Copyis Little Brown &C
Copyright by Little, Brown &t Co.

misery Surely the squatters had suf-
fered In the past yearl Many a boy
had been taken from his home and
sent to France, and many mother
had crept about the settlement with
grlef-worn face, waiting for news from
over the sea.
PollyOp understood what war meant.
The squatters were always at war
Granny Hope had explained to her
that, whenever people fought and were
cruel TO one another. that was war.
Hadn't she warred but two nights ago
with Oscar Bennett2
She had not seen him since. and the
pain and humiliation he had dealt her
had been lightened by Granny Hopes
assurances that love was the leveler
Of hate. SO Polly, having quantities
Of love and sympathy to spare, sent II
broadcast over the hopeless ones in
the settlement and promptly put Os-
car Benefits cruelty out OF her mind.
She did not even remember sometimes
how much the milk Oscar had be-
grudgingly given her was missed In
the shack. To Offset that deprivation,
she was free from him and the ugly
quarrels she had had TO settle almost
daily between him and Evelyn.
This morning, while Daddy Hopkins
was In Ithaca, Pollyop started out
with her many loves for a walk. on
her shoulder perched Wee Jerry; at
her side, in stately dignity. stalked the
billy goat, and tied to one OF her arms
by a small rope gamboled Mamie
Lamb Hopkins.
Through the Silent City she wan
dered. helping people here and there
to see the sunny side OF things. Be
yond the row of shacks was the fence
Marcus Mackenzie had erected to
keep the squatters from trespasslng
on his woodland, and in front of 1t
Polly Hopkins stood. A bill poster
had passed and left on the fence a pic
ture that caught her attention.
II was a beautiful woman, her eyes
saddened with tears, and she looked
straight out OF exquisite coloring at
the wide-eyed squatter girl. In her
arms was withered, sick, little man,
and Pollyop knew that somewhere over
the ocean an enemy, perhaps man
like Old Marc, had hurt him. The
woman held him close as she looked
at Polly, and for a moment the girls
eyes stung with tears. Then she went
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CHAPTER VI.

Twice had the golden sun sunk In
welter OF splendid colors behind
West hill. and twice had the warmth
Of his rising scattered the mists from
the lakeside since the encounter In the
hut, and Polly Hopkins was making
ready for her daily walk through the
Silent City.
II was her custom TO 20 among the
squatters and give them courage. to
tell them that they had a right 10
their homes. TO food. and warmth. How
her girls heart ached for their dumb
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THE "ANGEL"

SYNOPSIS. Occupying a dllapi-
dated shack In the Silent city.
sauRtter settlement near Ithaca,
New York, Polly Hopklns lives
with her father. small Jerry. and
an old woman, Granny Hope. on
an adjacent farm, oscar Bennett
prosperous farmer. Is a neighbor.
He is secretly married 10 Evelyn
Robertson. supposedly wealthy girl
of the neighborhood. Marcus Mac
Kenzie. who owns the ground the
squstters occupy, is their deter
mined enemy. Polly overhcars
conversation between Mackenzie
and a stranger. In which the former
svows his intention OF driving the
squatters from his land. The stran-
ger sympathizes with tine squatters.
and earns Polly's gratitude. Evelyn
Robertson discovers from her moth
er that they are not rich, but prac-
tically living on the bounty OF
Robert Peroival Eyelyn's cousin,
Polly learns from Evelyn that the
sympathetlc stranger Is Robert
Perciyal. Evelyn charges Polly
with a message TO Bennett. telling
him she can give him no more
money. she already bitterly regrets
her marriage to the ignorant farm
er. Polly conveys her message and
Oscar makes threats. He insists
Evelyn meet him that night. Polly
has her father and Larry Bishop.
a squatter. take an oath to do Mac.
Kcnzie no injury. Evelyn unsuccess-
fully tries TO get money from her
mother with which to buy on Ben
nett and induce him TO leave the
country. giving her her freedom
She and Mackenzie avow their
love.
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thor whose writ
lngs have W on
some degree OF
fame In the lit.
erary W orl d.
Reared In this
atmosphere so IA
vorable TO scrib-
blers. II was in
evita lie that
Ii oosier men,
bers OF the Amer
lean l. egion
s b ould desire
some medium OF
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Carrying On With the
American Legion

II rained $500 for the Legion in Tor
onto recently. Insurance was taken
out against more than 1O-1OO of an
inch on celebration day. The pre-
cipltation was 14-1O0.
Bronze doors will lead into the $780,
600 memorial hall to be erected at Cen
tralia. WASH, In honor of the four
American Legion men who were killed
by l. w. w. members In that city.
Forty-five hundred communities will
have citizenship clubs formed by the
Legion auxiliary TO discuss current
events.
Ex-servlce men confined In Mime
sofa hospitals are being treated with
birthday parties as fast as their natal
days roll around.
When n Des Moines. Ia, family lost
Its soldier son by death from war
wounds. II asked the American Legion
to find an ex-service man willing 10.
be adopted.
When the police of Hoqulam and
Aberdeen, Wash, discovered that
young high school girls we're drug ad-
diets through doped cigarettes. candy
and needles supplied by their male
friends, the Legion formed a vice
squad TO help the police eliminate
the evil.
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man of the navy
or marine corps.
This has been
done In the case
OF Corp. John
Pruitt, one of
Pershing's hun
dreds of heroes,
who died from
W oun Is while
II & h ting Ger
mans. ii on ors
had been heaped
on Corp poral
Pruitt before he
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did so because I
think II is a rat
Ting good organ
tion," says
J o h n Philip
Sousa. bandmas-
ter extraordinary
and leader of the
mammoth naval
band at the Great
l. a k es ma val
training station
during the war.
The Legion and
its activities are
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Foeh Was One Of Them.

"Why an honorary member; wasn't
one Of the men from Tarbes who
fought during the war;" said Marshal
Foch when he was asked to become an
honorary member OF the Tarbes,
France. Federation OF Former Com
batants, a French organization SIM
ilar TO the American Legion. The
latter outfit thought the Marshal was
so much one Of them that they made
him an active member in George Wash.
ington post of Washington, ID. c., the
first Legion post organized, when he
was on tour In this country.
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"Then Pereivsl stepped in.
Two well-planted thumps laid
Bennett like n log on the
ground"
no BE coNTINuEp)
A Sporting JUDGE.

A sporting Judge.
Thirty days In the workhouse. That
ought to cure you OF speeding"
1T certainly will. your honor. Would
you like to use my car while I'm In
durance vllef"
"No. tharks. I've seen you riding In
that old bus of yours. II couldn't do
over forty miles an bour."--Birming
ham AgeHerald
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OF 1900 jobless service men who
have applied at the City Employment
bureau in New York since September.
IL formerly were majors, Ave naval
commanders, 27 captains, and 100
lieutenants. The registrar at the
bureau, who used to be high private,
says that the majors don't mind stand.
ing in line II they think there is Job
waiting at the end Of II.
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An advantage Of listening to ser
mons by radiophone is In the chance
TO sleep unobserved.
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What a pity that the Patagonian
pleistocene critter is a slyptodon In
stead Of a pleziooaurus
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AS rule the girl who rolls her
overshoes can also roll her eyes.
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The main trouble with a bad habit
Is Its trick Of strengthening as the
victim weakens.
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II would help a little for those
around them II volcanoes would dump
their ashes oftener.
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Many are called, but few can show
as good as pair OF jacks.
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NAME DESTROYER FOR PRUlTT
Highest Honors Paid One Of Pershins's
Men Who Went to Death
In War.

It is seldom that one of Uncle Sans
sea fighters is named for an enlisted
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Money talks. In Russia the ruble is
calling, "Helpi Helpr
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0HLlNGER A VALUABLE MAN
Former Intelligence officer Frustrated
Many Anti-Americsn Activities
During War.

The name Of Gustavus ohlinger
might have meant something to the
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1922-05-18

The man who died after drinking
metal polish had n brilliant finish.
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LEGION PAPERS BOSS SCRIBE
Philip stapp, Formerly Editor Of over.
seas Publication, at Head Of
Hocsler Publication.

II is said that every town and vii
lage In Indiana boasts at least one au-