davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-22
CREAM SHIPPING STATION
 OPENED AT BRUNDIDGE

Troy. January "A cream shipping station was estab- lished at Brundidge this week by the Pike County Farm bureau. Arrange ments were made for a local man to receive the cream and ship 1t to the creamery. The cream will be shipped to the Mellilatus Creamery company at Montgomery. It will prove Of much profit to the farmers of that section.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-22
FINANCIA8 INSTITUTION
 IN PROSPEROUS SHAPE

Prattville. January 2l.--(Speeiai.)- The three banks doing business in this county make a showing of good financial condition for the begining of the new year. Their combined re- sources are sl,84s,10o. with paid in capital stock of $211.loo. and . sur plus of y40.000.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-22
THE, WEATHER
Rr Associafed Pres.

Washington. January 21-United States weather bureau issuedsthe fol- lowing forecast tohight:
 Georgia: Cloudy and colder Sun day; Monday fair and colder.
 Alabama and Mississippi: Fair Sunday and Monday. colder.
 Tennessee: Fair Sunday and Mon day, colder.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-22
STRONG HEADS CLUB

Selma, January 21.-(SpecfaL)-B M. Strong was elected president. suc- ceeding Smith Robbins, at the annual meeting of the directors of the Coun- try club held Friday evening at the club house. Other officers chosen were I. c. Gladden., vice president and Joe Hull, secretary-treasurer. Direc- tors selected were E. W. Pettus, F. P. Russell, H. B. Elkan. Smith Rob bins, Frank Cothran, Frank Cater, F.. E. Helmer, W. o. Crisman, Howard Crandall, Milton Wood.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-22

development and continuing strength of port closely tributary and In actual effect and in spirit allied to Greater Birmingham.
 How essential 1t Is, therefore. that there be a full and adequate devel- opfnent of a port in the operation of which Birmingham will have full measure of voice and control. Wher- ever terminal facilities are not ade- quately provided. satisfactory results from the standpoint of port operation are difficult. phere must be a lib- eral excess, above normal require ments, of bebthing space and adequate assembling warehouses for the proper storage of commerce flowing from the producing centers through a seaboard outlet. This Is necessary so there will be no increased cost of operations to the water carrier and delays to shippers. which would be adding a penalty to the commerce itself.
 "1n my work as commissioner of the United States shipping board, ac- credited to the gulf divisjon, have kept constantly before me and have sought to emphasize the view, that 1t Is the interior and the producing and consuming centers that will receive in the ultimate end, the prime and major benefit of an adequate mer- chant marine for this nation. The successful effort to secure a com bined rail and water rate from east ern seaboard to the Birmingham dis trict below the all-rail rate, indicates how potential the waterways of the state of Alabama and the port of Mo- bile are to the preservation of the vast business interests of Birming- ham. It is now and always will be the stabilizing influence against any im- position in rail rates that might be effected, In rate readjustments. upon the commercial position of Birming- ham,"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-22

has purchased a plot of ground in west Troy, near the sweet potato curing plant. and will soon move their pens to that location from the pres ent one near Thompson's gin.
 The new pens will be covered and protected from the weather and per manent improvements will be made.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-22
How to Beauify
 Your Complexion
Pretty Girh Everywhere WIIi Tell You That Stuart's Calcium
 Wafers Is Your One Sure Way

Get . box today of stuart's Calcium Waferu and in few hours you won't
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-22

known, most widely used and most sucosssiul complexion heautifier ever found They clear your blood, they remove the sluggish impurities that gather to make pimplss. boiis. rash. blotchss, blaelhsads. muddiness and such blAmishes- The calcium itself is the greatsst skin influence known. It causes the skin to wake up. 1t bagins it's work at once. you observe the results and In few days there ig absolutely nc question as to the wonderful action of stuart's Calcium Wafsrs- Get co cent box today at any drug store. They arc truly . oompaexion mArvel-Adv.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-22
HOG SALES ASSOCIATION
 PURCHASES NEW SITE

Troy, January sI.-(Special. )--The ' Pike County Hog Sales Association
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-22
News of Progress
 or Nearby I Towns

Troy, January 1.-(Special.) .)-At the hog sale here Wednesday, which was held comparatively, S7s hogs were sold. The toppers brought s5.4o per hundred. as did also the 2s and 8s, and the Is brought S4.s5. while the roushs sold for N.4o. The check to- tailed ss.360.22.
 A. B. Boutwell, of Greenville bought the hogs. which were shipped at once over the Central railway. J. c. Lee auctioned them The next sale Will be held Wednesday, January 20. and this will be the last sale held at the old pens, as all other sales will De heid at the new pens in West Troy TUSCALOOSA TO HAVE
 UPTOWN FREIGHT DEPOT
 Tuscaloosa. January 20.-(Special.) Ihe Southern railway has authorized the establishment of an uptown freight depot in Tuscaloosa, which VIII be opened as soon as arrange ments can be completed.
 w. w. Seay, local traffic manager. cooperating with the Chamber of Commerce, Kiwanis and Rotary clubs and other Organizations of Tusca- io9sa' has worked many months for the establishment of tfis depot. and on receipt of a messase from E, T. Steele, representing the Southern railroad, that the office would be placed here there was much gratifi- cation among the business men of the city.
 The depot will probably be opened in the quarters which it occupied be- fore the war. when the federal gov ernment assumed control of the roads.
 It is understood that saving of several thousand dollars will be realized by the merchants of this city when this depot is opened, which vii. be at an early date.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-22
LOCAL DATA
E. c. HORTON. Observer.

Summary of observations made at sta tions of the United States Weather Bureau during the 24 hours ending at D. ul s0th meridian time, January 21. 1922:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-22
COMMUNITY SING
 ID START TODAY

The first of the indoor community sings of the winter will start at 3:30 this afterhoon at the Lyric theatre.
 One of the features will be 22- piece orchestra which will play num- bers from Mendelssohn, Wagner. Grieg and Verdi.
 The quartet from the First Baptist church will furnish the special vocal numbers.
 Capacity houses greeted these sings last winter and repetition is expected in 1922 by those in charge
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-22

And particularly, Birmingham should profit from the labors of the shipping board. Here Is the way MT Thompson puts 1t: .-rhe vast commercial interests of Birmingham are so intimately inter- woven with ocean-borne commerce. that as a great producing center Birmingham should be as keen as any of the seaports of the Gulf in the great national movement repre- sented in the development or an American Merchant marine
 Tt is clearly contemplated that in the deveIopm ent of the seaports on ali the seaboards of tho United states the producer and consumer or the interior population is considered just as greatly as the welfare and the growth of the ports themselves. A most emphatic and Illuminating H. illustration of tho interest Birming- ham possesses in the development q an American merchant marine and in tho adequate working out of the nation's marine problem, is given In the vast movement of tonnage from the Birmingham district through the Port of Mobile. not alone to the markets of the world. but to the markets in the United States. Recent months have witnessed tremendous HOW or lne pIOuucts Oi tHo oii AhiAs Q ham district to the Pacific coast. the movement being by the Warrior to the Port of Mobile with trans-ship- ment there. through the Panama canal. to the ports of tho Pacific seaboard. This commerce is moving much moro cheaply than if by all rail, and it is not too large a state ment to say that the Intercoastal | service being nurtured and developel by the United States Shipping board Is a factor in preserving for Amer ican producers that vast territory on the Pacific coast against foreign competition. through the ability to move the commerce at a most eco nomical rate.
 "This one illustration but empha- sizes the importance of a seaboard outlet to . great manufacturing and producing center without further consideration the benefit the con- sumer element of the population in the Birmingham district enjoys through the movement of commerce into tho district, via water or a com- bination water and rail haul. It Jus- tifies the vision of those citizens of Birmingham who have responded in full measure with their time and their means towards development of great port in Alabama; and should insure the united and militan. support of every citizen. wno has the welfare of tho Birmingham dis trict at heart, towards support of any movement that looks towards the
The New York herald., 1922-10-22

NOiS & ONLY.

can tell you. and it has a small army
at work forever studying sound in all
manifestations. They have to do
that to keep two jumps ahead of the
noises that humanity is every day
earning how to make TO keep itself
rom being uncomfortably sane. This
new device for photographing n noise
IS tho last accomplishment up TO date.
and IL the greatest of sound scientists
g to be believed the apparatus or some
Improvement of II Is apt TO work
vondrous changes in human relations.
When Mr.. Mills and his associates
were asked to make for THE New
YORK HERALD a PHOTOGRAPH that would
show a noise cursed people what the
sounds looked like that have made
their lives dscordant and their ner-
vous systems a bunch of waste. they
hung a transmitter out OF the window
Of the big building on West street.
the same type of instrument that was
used by President Harding at the
Armistice Day celebration, when thou
sands OF New Workers. IN and about
The New York herald., 1922-10-22
TEACHER
DESCRIBES YOUTH

~ OLD, Unconditional and lacking
Il in such warm sentiment as
make men human Is one OF
the estimates OF him made by the OPP
ponents of Gov. Nathan l.. Miller. Yet
Il has been but a week or so since
more than one thousand people saw
the Governors eyes fill with tears and
beheld him SO affected that he could
speak only with difficulty. And the
matter which so moved the Governor
was nothing more heart-meIting than
a kindly mellow old gentleman with
flowing gray hair telling of days when
Nathan Miller was a little boy and
won a defamation contest at school.
Upon the occasion Of this recount
ing OF Gov. Millers boyhood days, the
Governor was delivering an address In
the auditorium Of the Jamaica Model
School. AZ Jamaica. L. ]. lie was in
troducedS by DR.. 4. G. McLachlan.
principa4 of the school. and who more
than forty years ago was Professor"
McLachlan. country school master
who taught mate" Miller how TO read
and write and cipher and respect the
virtues OF birch rod.
"The proudest moment of my life" -"
said DIR. Mcracblan. was two years
ag~ when weH 70 Albany and saw
The New York herald., 1922-10-22
This Plan Replaces
Examination by Inspectors

This certificate takes the place OF
an examination by inspectors and OF
the use of extracts of the State Con-
stitution as test.
In many cases it would be easier
for a new voter to satisfy school
teacher whom he knew or who knew
him as to his ability to read and write
English than to read intelligibly some
of the sections of the State Constitu-
ton.
1t would seem that the safest course
for new voter is to secure in adj
vance of registration day or election
day one OF these certificates of liter
acy to be signed by a school principal.
Provision has BEEN made in some OF
the schools for a principal or other
teacher to meet new voters in the
evening and test their ability TO quail
ify for one Of these certificates.
More public notice should have been
given OF these provisions of law, espe-
cially in neighborhoods where there
are foreign speaking populations.
There may also be different construc-
tons by different election boards OF
what constitutes the ability to read in
telligibly and write legibly sections OF
the State Constitution. 1t is doubtful
whether some members OF election
boards could do II themselves.
The safest method for new voters is
TO get ono of the school certificates
and have their qualifications certified
10 in advance. To get one of these
school certificates the applicant does
not have TO show that he had been an
attendant at the school. but he must
be able to read and write English well
enough 10 satisfy the principal OF the
school. At that. some of the princi-
pals may give easier and some harder
tests.
II is not enough that a new voter
should be able to read and write some
other language than English. He may
be fluent French. German and Ital-
ian scholar and not be able to qualify
under this provision OF the election
law.
The New York herald., 1922-10-22
Head of Famous Preparatory Insti-
tuition Says That Should Not Be
Chief Aim Of School Course, as 1t
Narrows the Field to SubjectsL Likely
to Figure in Entrance Examinations

and Rustum." and they love the poem.
But does their admiration lead them
to read THE Forsaken Merman,' The
Strayed Reveller'' or other poetical
pieces by Matthew Arnold? 1t does
not. Or II boy does occasionally read
beyond prescription we teachers are
apt to be alarmed. and we give some
study TO these unusual symptoms.
In my school there are 100 boys. and
the proportion of New York boys to
those from other cities. Including San
Francisco and Los Angeles, is about
II to z. This proportion varies little
from year to year and 1t is possible
for us to make certain deductions from
the study habits of the lads from the
metropolis and other places. 1 won't
go into them, but simply say that the
boys who aim toward a professional
career are more numerous from the
vicinity Of New York than from Chi
cago, st. Louis, Cincinnati and other
Western cities. The latter almost uni
versally are going to be what father
is" that is. business man of some
kind. This ambition is natural enough
and worthy enough. / admit. but 1t
adds intensity to their intention not to
learn solitary thing more than they
have to.
The New York herald., 1922-10-22
One of Nine Children
In Poor Family

Let me take my own case, IL II does
not appear too personal. II is a case
in point. / was one OF nine children,
born TO worthy. thoughtful sire who
had hard time feeding his brood and
educating them out of the proceeds of
a stony farm not too far from Boston.
BY q stroke of luck when had finished
with the country school near our home
l got a place as assistant janitor In a
private school in Boston kept by ia
nous pedagogue. He took an interest
in my education and himself arranged
for my attendance on certain classes
Later these were extended until / went
through the entire course of study.
Then my master said to me:
Have you arranged about your ex-
limitations for college?"
I'm not going 10 college," replied.
How could I?''
Nonsense said the headmaster, "of
course you're going to college: what's
to hinder?"
my father hasn't any money to pay
for my college education and I wouldn't
ask him to try TO send me; I'm going
to work.
"You are" said he. "but you're going
to work in Cambridge. So make your
arrangements and take the exams"
BY my headmaster's influence sew
eral ways were at once opened to me
to earn money, not much. but enough
to keep me going. My second year
again by his influence I got some
tutoring, the third year 1 stayed away
The New York herald., 1922-10-22

Madison Square Garden heard every
word OF the services at Washington.
This transmitter gives a wonderfully
faithful reproduction OF sounds OF all
sorts. For the making OF the prints
here shown IL was connected up with
a vacuum tube amplifier of several
stages, which enabled II to operate n
speciality designed oscillograph. In
this instrument the current causes a
tiny spot of light TO pass back and
forth across Photographic film. So
delicate is the moving element that a
sound wave that passes in one ten
thousandth OF a second is recorded.
When this seeming simple but super
sensitive apparatus was in readiness
the observer at the window waited
until a steel tired dray was about TO
rattle by, and called through the tele-
phone line. shoot Upstairs In the
building the operator started the APP
paratus, and as the sound waves struck
the transmitter they we're recorded on
the film.
A record was then made OF the 90
The New York herald., 1922-10-22

N GW voters should become IA
miliar with the provisions OF
the election law regarding
proof of literacy. The State Consti-
tuition was amended to take effect
January /. 1922, by adding this pro-
vision:
NO person shall become entitled to
vote by attaining majority. by nat
uralization or otherwise, unless such
person is also able, except for physi-
cal disability, TO read and write Eng
hsh; and suitable laws shall be passed
by the Legislature to enforce this pro-
vision"
The other qualifications stand as be-
fore: That a voter shall be a citizen
81 years or older, shall have been a
citizen for ninety days and inhabitani
of the State for one year. of the county
for four months and OF the election
district for thirty days before the elec-
ton.
uO 1cSioietluiC lHe tltt-
ton law TO meet this provision of the
State constitutional amendment in a
manner which is not wholly clear
There was added a section, No. 166
to the election law under the title
"rest or Proof of Literacy," divided
in two subdivisions.
The first subdivision provides tha;
where registration Is required TO be
personal there shall be in the place OF
registration 100 extracts from the Con-
stitution of this State of approximately
fifty words each, which extracts shall
be selected by the Secretary of State
These extracts are to be printed or
pasteboard slips in double small plea
type and kept in a box. Subdivision
] continues:
"The new voter, If required TO prove
his ability to read and write English
shall draw out at random one of such
slips and read aloud. intelligibly, al
of the matter printed thereon, anc
shall then write legibly in English ter
words of the matter on such slip, tc
be selected by an inspector"
The New York herald., 1922-10-22
Wish to Get Through
Quickly as Possible

In plain words these boys as rule
want to get through prep" school and
college as quickly as they can. and in
that effort they pass by in scorn the
pretty bypaths of knowledge which
would only delay them.
Now l hope ! am broad minded
enough to appreciate that the up
standing business man, merchant,
manufacturer, &c. makes the founda-
ton of our society, but utter a pro-
test when l hear persons charge the
education received from preparatory
school and college with fostering the
materiality of the country. The boys
start in here already flushed with
material ideas-their attitude toward
higher ideals Is always little repel-
lant-and our greatest effort to
awaken in them healthy spirituality
is not universally successful for the
reason / have already given, the atti-
tude of the fathers toward it.
There are. in fact. among the fathers
I have met a good many Dombeys
whose ambition for their sons is like
that of the Dickens character toward
Paul. Whatever may be their natural
trend 1t Is to be defeated by education
and repression until they become what
the fathers are, no more, no less.
What such fathers develop is not
parental love, but self-love. In the
development they may destroy some
thing very fine in their boys.
Now 1t is the rich man. or at least
the successful man. who without
knowing what he does most often
spoils life for his boy by reducing ed
ucation 10 what you get out OF it.
This foolish. short sighted individual
wouldn't like to bring a swan into the
world. but prefers to think he has
brought duck. and If the latter gives
evidence of growing long wings no
clips them.
All wealthy and successful men are
not like that. but too many are, and
fortunately IL wings are grown TO be
clipped there are not many swans.
This is rara avis in the prep"
school more rare than in the great
college: when II appears among US I
am unhappy for him. for I fear his
foolish father will discourage whatever
we try to do to bring him along in his
natural lines.
There has TO be goal for our
"prep" boys, and the college is the one
The New York herald., 1922-10-22
VD|l||I IY'll|

servers voice--thc part shown in the
illustration is n portion OF the word
quite-and when the next truck
passed its noise was mingled with the
spoken word "Fourscore." Then u
ord of a pure musical tone at about
an octave above middle G was taken
500 cycles, 10 be exact---as a record Of
tho speed OF the film.
In commenting on the prints made
from these exposures. one OF the COM
pany's engineers said: Tho regu-
larity OF the musical sound shown
here IS an invariablc sign OF "a tone
that is pleasant 10 listen to. A GER
tain regularity is seen also In the voice
record. but. OF course. not 10 the same
degree. as there are many tones pres
ent in speech. But in the noise record
there is no regularity whatever. which
means that the ear is literally assailed
by irregular blows. These are just as
unpleasant to the ear as the rough
jolting Of farm wagon Is In compari-
SOM with the smooth glide OF fine
autpmoDiie."
The New York herald., 1922-10-22
MUST
READ ANDWRITE
Amendment to State Constitution Has
Literacy Test With Puzzling Fea-
lures; Personal Registry Not Re
quiredin Certain Upstate Districts,
Where Inspectors Enter Names
By VIM. MeMURTRIE sPEER.

Read that, Sam, and tell me what II
MEANS" said the chairman OF the
Board OF Elections.
Sam looked at It top side up and top
side down. Then TO the chairman OF
the board he replied: II guess that
means that no niger is going to vote
here this election"
Such incidents were common in the
Southern States, and still are as a
means of shutting out the negro vote.
Suppose that a candidate for regis
tration were 20 have handed TO him a
slip of paper bearing on it this section
II of Article OF the Constitution Of
New York:
'All fines, quarter sales, or other like
restraints upon alienation, reserved in
any grant OF land hereafter 10 be made
shall be void"
Or suppose he received section 12 or
Article /. "All lands within this State
are declared to be allodial, so that, sub
ject only to the liability TO escheat, the
entire and absolute property is vested
in the owners, according to the nature
Of their respective estates" or also
section 10 about "Escheats."
II is doubtful that one voter in a
hundred knows what a quarter sale is
or a land tenure or an escheat. or
that one voter in ten knows what a
writ OF habeas corpus is. or how to
spell or pronounce it. There are many
words in the State constitution that
not one voter In ten can read intelligi-
bly, and write legibly when the in
spectPr reads them to him.
There would seem to be a variance
between the constitutional provision
that the voter should be able "to read
and write English" and these provi-
sions of the election law requiring him
to read aloud intelligibly all of tho
matter and write legibly in English"
sections of the State Constitution.
There would seem to be wide mar
gin of possible improper discretion for
an election board in applying this pro-
vision Of the election law. -r
An alternative plan is presented by
Subdivision 2 of Section 166, which
would enable the graduate of any pub
lie school or any one who has had an
! ordinary public school education in
this State TO become q new voter.
That provision authorizes the princi-
pal or other head of a public school
or OF a private school approved by the
State Department of Education TO ex-
anime the voter "or his educational
credentials" and to certify that the
voter is able to read and write Eng
| lsh.