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The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-23
INTERESTING VISITORS HERE

'Two of the most interesting people who have ever visited Birmingham in my opinion are MT. and Mrs. A. w. Douglas of Washing ton, who are opponents of Character Analysis in it's highest form," said E. B. Erwin. 1 have had the pleasure of being with Mir. and Mrs. Douglas several times and I have thoroughly enjoyed them and their culture and their ability. They are both young and eager to succeed in their work and they like Birming- ham and the high class of people they have dealt with here. Mr. Douglass Vocational Analysis has been applied to many corpora tions since his visit here and with excellent results. All those whom he has 'read,' so % speak, have declared that he is really won- derful character analyst"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-23

MT. Bryan will not be invited to speak before the International Sunday School asso- citation at Kansas City because t'he is not a practical Sunday school man." Some of MT. Bryan's critics assert that there is no such word as practical" in his vocabulary. Chauffeur Glotzbach says Margaret Matzen- auer called on him to button her up the back and lace her shoes. True love makes such duties both a privilege and pleasure-for a month or two.
 The amenities were maintained perfectly in Tokio when the Prince of Wales played game of golf against Crown Prince Hirohto of Japan. The scores were not turned in.
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 Gus Hill, theatrical producer, says chorus girls in burlesque shows must wear tights again. After all these years it would be a treat to see a pair of pink ones.
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 If Fatty" Arbuckle is placed on probation for year without any means of earning a livelihood he's liable to finish ths 12 months considerably underweight.
 Jim Hackett, the actor is still seeking Shakespearian honors abroad It's "a far cry from "The Prisoner of Zenda" to Macbeth" By merely adding the population of Russia to the population of Germany an alarnist has all the material he needs to work with.
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 If Mary Landon Baker postpones her we'd ding another time we suggest that her name be dropped from the public prints.
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 The way delegates at Genoa keep looking in Uncle Sam's direction is enough to make him get tighter grip on his pocketbook * It was bound to happen, sooner or later. A Detroit woman, suing for divorce, charges her husband with being 'golf maniac"
 Dr. Mayo says kissing may produce goitre. That's fine statement to make with the open season upon us.
 The camera not wasting any time on Lady Astor's husband. He's just part of her entourage.
 Watch your step. The Ford plant at De- tro;t is scheduled to turn out 120,000 fliv- vers in May.
 A skipper says he saw a sea serpent off the coast of Cape May. As usual, full details are lacking.
 It is reported that Mabel Normand's life has been threatened. We suspect her press agent.
 Bolshevism is slipping. George Chitcherin took lunch with the King of Italy. * * *
 Somebody at Genoa seems to be playing the game with marked deck.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-23
CONCENTRATED FERTILIZER BY
 ELECTRICAL PROCESS

The Federal Phosphorus companys produc- tion of high-grade phosphoric acid from phos- phate rock in electrical furnaces at Anniston is attracting the attention of leading engineers and industrial journals It is the achievement of Theodore Swann, president of the com pany whose paper on the subject, read at the meeting of the American Chemical society here, aroused the interest of expert chemists.
 So far the output of the Anniston furnaces has been utilized chiefly in the manufacture of products which are sold in large quantities to manufacturing chemists in this and other coun- tries, but it has been demonstrated that the process is feasible for the production of high grade fertilizer of four or five times the strength of ordinary fertilizer. Plans are under way for the installation of special equip ment for that purpose.
 The economy of concentrated fertilizer goes without saying. There is smaller freight bill reduced cost of labor and the like. The saving in freight alone would be large item.
 It is altogether great potentiality and Ala bama and the south feel keen interest in the outcome of MT. Swanns inventive genius in the electro-chemical industry.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-23
LETTERS TO EDITOR
FORD AND HIS SUCCESSORS

To the Editor of The Age Herald:
 Since you published my letters, giving brief statement of the beginning of the Ala bama Power company, and the 10-year ex- emption laws, will ask space for this one, in which to ask the people not to be too ''hasty' in disposing of Muscle Shoals to MT. Ford and his successors, and mostly to his successors; the Alabama Power company, or anyone else.
 Now from press dispatches it seems Mr. Kilby, with others, have been put the job of delivering this great project to MT. Ford This is a game in which the stakes run high MT. Fords name has charm, but we must not run "amuck" in parting with this huge project, simply because it bears Ford label.
 ''Now, so far as MT. Ford is concerned, he will not be with us during the term of his grant, but for about 90 years we will have his successors to deal with, and how do we know whether or not they will walk in the footsteps of MT. Ford?
 Hyde, ST. built up large insurance com pany, the Equitable Life, but what did Jr. do for it? He exploited it to such an extent that the state had to intervene to save the policy holders Admitting MT. Ford would do all his boosters claim he will do there is no way he can perpetuate his policy, and when his sue cessors take hold, they may make things hum."
 Now do not know anything about the reia- tive merits of the offers made, and suspect ''there are others," if the facts were known. Therefore, would it not be better to leave the disposition of this to the proper authorities, who on investigation, will know the value of these properties, the merits of the offers, and if any is made, that is in keeping with the value of it, let it go with such safeguards as will protect the people. If not, reject all of fers and then make one that will be adequate, and if no takers, then let it stay where it is, and have it completed under government su- pervision.
 Now the congressional visit it seems was an "eye opener" of this matter, and l think the Ford boosters have found it out, therefore, they are getting desperate, but let us hope there are enough men in Congress who will not be swept off their feet by MT. Ford's name to let this go for song, and him sing it.
 Why turn this huge affair to MT. Ford and his successors for 100 years, without their being amenable to any authority either state or national, when common sense dictated to the law makers in granting water power prof. ects the time limit of 50 years and then placed all grants made under the law, and the gran tees subject to legislation enacted for the gov ernment of such grants?
 Would not 50 years under government re- striction be long enough for one calf to have hold of such ''teat' as Muscle Shoals? MT. Ford can hold it then as long as he lives, and it seems to me that his successors could get sufficient milk to be "weaned on" in this time. Yours truly, GRAVES EMERY.
 Talladega, April 20, 1922.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-23
ON THE FEET OF LITTLE CHILDREN

ON HE FEET UT LITTLE CHILDREN
 It is what we were yesterday that makes us what we are today. If we were faithful and wise then, now we are successful. If we are failures today, it is probably because we failed to take advantage of the oppor- tunities of youth. The vainest of all vain cries is that which bids time turn back in it's flight. Yesterday has forever departed, and has left its impress upon us for all eternity.
 These are solemn facts, and their truth has led many into sort of fatalism which makes no effort to stem the tide of adverse circumstance. They have become disciples of the Persian poet. Their gospel is "The moving finger writes-and having writ, moves on; nor all your piety nor wit shall lure it back to cancel half line, nor all your tears wash out word of it.'' Hence comes hopelessness-an the paralysis of all endeavor.
 If life were to end today; if there were nothing to life except the past and the present, then Omar's would be complete philosophy of life. We could repent of past sins-and die, trusting to the mercy of God. But there is another phase of life.
 
 antidote to the narcotic of Oriental fatalism is the thought that just so surely as yes terday made today what it is, so today is making tomorrow. We are powerless to change yesterday. That Is water that has gone over the dam. But when tomorrow comes, today shall have become one of our yesterdays" and tomorrow we shall be l just exactly what we are making of our selves right now. In this way man projects | himself into the future continually, and to- | day we are building the spiritual house in which we shall live for the rest of our lives and that of course means forever. | But often 1t happens that the past lies so heavily upon us that we are unable to shift its burden. Old habits have chained us. Old prejudices have blinded us that we cannot see new light. Associations and | relationships which we cannot break hang | like mill-stones about our necks. The path way of life may be dark-but it stretches away before us-and we must walk therein. | What is man to do then?
 Why, there are the childrenl Their habits are now being formed and in the light of | our failure we can guide them alright. Their associations are being developed, and we can see that their development is good. The world-tomorrow- be just as these children are, and these children shall be | just what we are making of them now. In this way it is possible for us to project ourselves not merely into tomorrow, but into the next eneration-nay-into all the generations yet to come. No matter what my personal success-men will soon forget it, and 50 years from now no one will know that have ever lived. No matter what my personal failure, shall be a power in all the centuries to come, if through some child I have poured my love and loyalty into the soul of the godward-moving world. For the world moves forward on the feet of little children.
 MIDDLETON S. FAREWELL.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-23

reality was not new viaduct, but an old one made larger and better.
 The most feasible and economical viaduct plant is that at Twenty-third street. The ele- vations there are such that the cost of ap- breaches would be minimum. The street is a natural artery between the northside and southside residential sections and viaduct there would connect these two sections in a continuous driveway that would serve both
 The Twenty-second street viaduct is a street car bridge and its double track renders it's use for other traffic not only inconvenient, but to an extent dangerous also. Twenty-third street is ideally situated both from the stand point of economy and feasibility and that of service to the people.
 The railroads have not been called on in years to carry further the removal of the menace of their tracks to the travelling pub lie. They owe it to the city to act promptly in the matter of another viaduct connecting the north and south sides They have benefited from the other viaducts quite as much as the public has, Realizing this, they should be willing to proceed with the construction of new one at strategic point for service and low cost of building.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-23
FINDS OTHER ADMIRER

"A strange thing happened to me yesterday" said Billy Murray, famous photograph singer who appeared in concert in Birmingham last Friday night. q happened to have played in Birmingham several years ago with the fa- nous Al G. Field minstrels. This has been many years ago and I thought that surely every one had forgotten the event.
 However, had not been in the city two hours before someone recognized and stopped me. He asked me if I had not been here before with the Field minstrels and when said yes, he told me the name of the song that featured that year,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-23
IN A FEW WORDS
PAUL COOK.
TO WOODROW WILSON

By Eleanor Kenly Bacon.
 America! for eight long years he gave To you his best-no mediocre thing As we'll you know; and now you turn away And let him feel the undeserved sting Of love withheld-of gratitude denied, Of prejudice intrenched on every side He toiled at home, abroad, by night and day, To open gates of righteousness, that you, America might lead the world and guide All other nations safely, proudly through. His shoulder heaved the world; the great uplift May to the future be our choicest gift Mans judgment shifts with every passing
 breeze
 Of fresh opinion--but the high ideals And principles that govern noble minds Endure This truth is one that every patriot
 feels.
 A brave, disabled soldier calls to you For justice! Surely, justice is his due. America! we challenge you to speak, And not with laggard praise; be nobly just. You honor most yourself in honoring one Who is all fashioned from your sacred dust, Present you heart to be the worthy crutch To bear his weight, his sacrificial touch.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-23
POINTED PARAGRAPHS

POINTED PARAGRAPHS From the Chicago News. The man who pays cash often sleeps on tick. The difference between see and saw is in tense.
 Any pretty woman's tears are worth their salt.
 It is useless to be good unless you are good for something.
 No women can hide all her imperfections from her dressmaker.
 Some men give most of their attention to things that never happen.
 Don't take advantage of your friends or your digestion if you wish to keep them. Being original has drawback, as it looks to some people like deadly insult.
 If |. man behaves himself people say that he is cunning and hides his meanness.
 Enemies are not esteemed highly as they should be; an enemy never borrows money of you or asks you to go his security for large amount.
 When man is busy he never admires another who sings at his work.
 Every mans task is his life preserver. Opportunity fools a man about as often as he takes it in.
 The chafing dish is the advance agent of the indigestion tablet.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-23
CONGRATULATE HUMoRIsT

You'd be surprised to know the number of persons who came up to me this morning, shak- ing my hand and congratulating me on the an- nouncement of my candidacy for mayor" said Judge H. B. Abernethy yesterday.
 During the mock trial staged Friday night for the benefit of the American Legion, an- nounced my candidacy, in the event an cleo tion was decided on by the Junior Chamber, for mayor of Birmingham and that my plat form would be the return of light wines and beer, the opening of Pershing Pier and so on.
 q said it all in spirit of fun of course, but many persons did not see the joker in the deck and came to me in all seriousness, wanting to know all about the matter, when 1 made my decision to enter the race, who would be my campaign manager and so forth"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-23
AVOIDING HIGH RATES

Birmingham traffic bureau is kept busy making routings for shipper members so that they may avoid the high rates under the Me- ridian rate decision now in vogue over the Southern and Alabama Great Southern in affected territory" said Charles E. Jones, sec- retary of the bureau. Traffic is being routed via Louisville and Nashville to Selma, to Tus- caloosa and to Calera. The old rate applies by all roads except those affected by the de- cision, hence shippers patronizing the roads carrying the low rates.
 Shippers are fairly we'll alive to their in terests and using the carriers with the lower rates whenever they can"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-23
n NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT SPRING
 | GRIDIRON DINNER AND ITS GUESTS

0R WASHINGTON, April 22.-(Special.)- MW The annual spring dinner of the
 Gridiron club tonight, while not so elaborate as the December dinner, was one of the cleverest in the history of the club.
 The advance story of it as written by Harry West, reads:
 The Gridiron club took the approaching political campaign as the theme for the frolic at it's annual spring dinner tonight and for three hundred odd distinguished guests pro- vided fun at the expense of public men and affairs.
 President Harding, Vice President Coolidge, all the members of the cabinet, Speaker Gil- lett, many members of both Houses of Con- gress, the diplomatic corps, owners and edi- tors of newspapers and many others prominent in business, financial and professional life sat at the guest tables and enjoyed the fun.
 When the dinner bell rang in old-fashioned style, President Harding, escorted by James P. Hornady, the new president of the club and Washington correspondent of the Indian apolis News, led the procession into the ban quet hall.
 Former Judge Landis was introduced with an appropriate parody on an old song, "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" Judge Landis explained that contrivance around his neck was hot water bottle which he always carried for use "in case the fellows who are paying me my salary get cold feet"
 Between each course of the menu a one minute skit was presented. One of these was the discovery of an explosive bomb, which, when opened, proved to be the bonus bill. Another centered upon George Harvey, am- bassador to Great Britain, impersonated by club member, who demanded an opportunity to make a speech.
 President Harding" remarked President Hornaday. ''is perfectly willing to let George make all the speeches he wants at Grdiron dinner, for reporters are never present"
 Rip Van Wrinkle appeared and was awakened from his sleep with great difficulty.
 "Has the Fordney tariff bill passed Senate?" he asked.
 "No," was the reply.
 "Well," he remarked yawning, q might as we'll go to sleep again for another 20 years"
 There was laugh when omission of any reference to the coal strike was made the sub ject of an inquiry.
 "Well," explained member, Eve always have dinner in April and at the April dinner we alway have a coal strike skit. It has be-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-23
DAME FORTUNE BROWNS

"Dame Fortune must have forgotten me, for luck just simply won't break my way, 1" lamented Miss Annie Laura Rhodes, assistant clerk of the bankruptcy court.
 "The other morning I was coming to the office in jitney, in company with four other passengers. Each of them had $1 bills, none of which could be changed by the driver. l happened to have the proverbial seven cents and the others took a free ride. The next morning I happened to have the paper money (not conveniently, however,, and the jitney man hastily broke it up for me-"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-23

come such chestnut that this year we cut it out"
 Letters were read which had been received in answer to this advertisement Wanted. A leader for the republican party in Congress. Experience unnecessary Address the Grid iron club, Washington, D. e.
 Wilbur Glenn Voliva, successor to Andrew Dowie, was alleged to have written q have proved that the earth is flat with solid dome. So is the republican party Will take leader ship" Charlie Chaplin suggested his avail ability as a distributor of pie. Henry Ford offered his services because, as his letter serted, q am an expert on rattles."
 Elmer Dover, assistant secretary of the treasury, was presented with the ax which Adlai Stevenson made famous, the presenta- tion being made by delegation in Indian costume
 '"Take it, Paleface," said the bearer of the ax, "and may the Great White Father glory in your nerve"
 As the theme of the dinner was the ap- preaching political campaign, the presence of Chairman Adams and Chairman Hull gave ad- dtional zest to the jolts impartially given by both parties. The political skit a combina- tion of songs and dialogue, presented by club members seated around stove in the Squash Center Cash Grocery
 "When the women really begin to vote," re- marked one of the farmers, with tears in his voice, Eve will have to buy all of our tobacco from bootlegger."
 song deploring the retention of the demo- cratic postmaster and tearfully pleading "for the jobs that we are needing" was sung with much spirit. Several pertinent-or imperti- nent-nquiries were referred to the man in the moon.
 "why the man in the moon?" someone asked.
 "well," was the reply, "as President Hard ing passes the buck to Congress and Congress passes the buck to President Harding. we have to pass the buck to the man in the moon." Congress was dealt with in g parody on the old song, 70, Dear, What Can the Mat ter Be?"
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 Two new members were received into the club. They were Grafton s. Wilcox of the Washington bureau of the Chicago Tribune and Charles G. Ross, Washington correspon- dent of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
 Otto Marx of Birmingham was among the
  guests with the writer.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-23
EDUCATIONAL MEDIUM

"The value of newspaper as an educa- tional medium is gaining every day." said Miss Rosa " Strickland, principal of the Powell school.
 "The teachers of Birmingham are daily pre- sented with copies of The Age-Herald, through the generosity of group of local business men, and the teachers, after digesting the news, in turn convey it to the children of their classes in such manner that each and every child is kept aware of the country's most in teresting topics"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-23
A POSER FOR MIR. HAYS
e Louisville Courier Journal.

From the Louisville Courier Journal.
 Fatty" Arbuckle was porter in bar room, according to legend, before he became . film star. As there aren't any barrooms now adays which court the publicity which would attend their employment of Fatty" how does MT. Hays suggest that MT. Arbuckle earn his bread anl limousines?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-23
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
COOPER COMMENTS

q was very much impressed with the state ment made by former City Father George Ward in yesterday mornings Age-Herald, and I believe he is exactly right !n his ideas," de- clared H. B. Cooper of the Alabama public service commission. MT. Cooper stated fur ther that in his opinion the former mayor and commissioner of Birmingham had no peer when it comes to matters pertinent to municipal government.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-23
DARKNESS RADIO AID

''Radio seems to work better after dark, '" said Edward Pettis, graduate of the Harvard radio school q don't mean that the waves travel better at night than in the day with other conditions equal, but there are more disturbing factors during the day. The at mosphere is usually clearer at night and for that reason results obtained by amateur operators is better.
 q found one exception to this statement. If anybody remains up late enough at night to try his outfit between midnight and o'clock in the morning he is likely to find freakish atmospheric condition. I have noticed this phenomena at sea. Sometimes a message can't be sent over 100 miles with any satis- faction during these hours and then again messages can be sent 1000 miles,"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-23
ANOTHER VIADUCT NEEDED FOR SOUTHSTDE TRAFFIC

It is about time for Birmingham to have another viaduct in the series mapped out sew sral years ago and the building of which has lapsed since the construction of the Rainbow viaduct over Twenty first street. That in
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-23
REWARD LIST GROWS

"The reward subscribed by police for in- formation leading to the arrest of the man who shot Officer S. S. Crabtree now totals more than $3OO," said Sergeant Eddie Lyons. ''We started the subscription at roll call and the officers subscribed from $1 to $5 with Chief McDuff leading the list with $10
 "The reward will not be paid to any police officer but to the persons who give informa- tion that will lead to the arrest and convic- ton of the man who did the shooting. If the missing man proves to be Thomas B. Gibbons, an escape from Roanoke, Va, reward of $500 is offered up there for his capture"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-23

A postcard mailed IA years ago at Bruns- wick, Me, has just been delivered at Halifax, N. s. If Brother Burleson were still on the job something in the nature of a wheeze might suggest itself.