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The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-14
ALABAMA CONTINUES TO BRING UP THE REAR

Yesterday the war finance corporation an nounced approval of 91 advances for agricul- ture and live stock, aggregating $2,5o4, ,0Oo. The loan included:
 Alabama, $9,o00
 Georgia, $12O,oo0
 North Carolina, $61,OOO.
 South Carolina, 5000.
 Tennessee, $175,OO
 Whats the matter with Alabama? Millions of dollars have been loaned to the farmers of other states, while Alabama has received al most nothing. Is this due to the fact that we so prosperous that we can afford to snap our fingers at federal loan? Certainly not. Painful it may be to our pride, we have Jagged behind in making the necessary ar engagements to get assistance for our farmers from the war finance corporation Other south ern states jumped at the opportunity Ala bama did nothing of the sort. That explains why millions have gone elsewhere to put the south on sound economic basis, while few thousands have dribbled into Alabama.
 
 Mr. Chaplin claims that another comedian has been stealing his stuff MT. Chaplin's art is his own, but it would keep down imita- tions if he could have his feet and his walk copyrighted. The cane and the derby don't greatly matter.
 Washington newspaper men have presented a pair of gold shears to Secretary Hughes. When pressure of state business keeps him away from his barber they may come in handy for trimming his beard.
 A professor at Northwestern university says fear may be eliminated from cowardly men by new gland treatment. Still, it's too much to expect that the henpecked husband will ever join the dodo.
 Prohibition Commissioner Haynes says he won't permit floating bars to operate, even if they are beyond the three-mile limit. That brings up neat point in law.
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 We feared it would happen sooner or later. A Michigan preacher has struck" and says he will stay 'out'' until his flock shows more interest in church work.
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 Members of debating society in New Jer- sey voted Mr. Dempsey the most successful uneducated man. We'd be disposed to award the palm to MT. Ford.
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 Steps bein gtaken to protect the Pata- gonian monster. If it looks like the newspaper illustrations it won't need much protection.
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 The numerous enemies of George Harvey chortled when they heard that he had to wear knee brooches to Princess Marys wedding.
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 A Kansas judge says flappers not lead ing the country to the "bowwows" We'd like to have his judicial opinion on poodles.
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 While it may eventually be possible to take trip to the moon, it isn't necessary to go that far after "moonshine."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-14
KITE FLYING POPULAR

Kite flying has certainly become the rage among the kids" said Paul Tarrant. q reside out near East Lake and last Sunday the whole horizon was dotted with kites. It seemed as though every kid in Birmingham was flying his kite The wind was very brisk and carried some of them several hundred feet high.
 q was talking to local kite manufacturer and he said that he hadssold more kites within the past few days than in about six months ordinarily"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-14
SET LEAGUE ON FIRE

"The Avondale Baseball club has ordered it's suits and is getting ready to set the City league on fire again." said Walter E. Barnes. ''We have won two championships, and we are going out after the pennant again this year.
 "Under Fred Hanlin, as manager, mock trial, with Judge "Ab" presiding, will be given Thursday night. We hope to raise enough funds to place the club on a sound footing financially. The whole town is interested in the team, and we are going to have some good players"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-14
CONSIDERABLY WRoUCHTIIP

Did you get an interview with Mr Grab coin?"l
 'No, but I heard him believing in his off, flee"
 "He bellows great deal of the time."
 Something unusual must have been in the wind. His secretary called me to one side and told me confdentially that MT. Grabcoin was in such state of mind he didn't believe he would even be civil to his favorite boot legger."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-14
PRAISE FOR SCHOOLS

Tuscaloosa has very fine system of schools said Rabbi Morris Newfield. q paid visit to the Druid City the latter part of last week and during my visit had the opportun- ity of looking over the entire syste<,
 Not only has Tuscaloosa a goos public school system but the State University is To- cated there. The city should prove very at tractive to the person seeking an education and educational surroundings"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-14
NOTHING LOST

Did you, publish my apostrophe to the March wind?' asked the poet.
 "No," said the truthful editor. "The March wind skipped into the sanctum and blew your manuscript out of window"
 But had two-cent stamp attached"
 "As luck would have it, I had removed the stamp
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-14
ANOTHER BRIGHT IDEA

From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
 Senator France wants to give every former soldier nice farm-in Africa. It wasn't for nothing that the Senator got to Russia and talked with Lenine Great statesmen just nat urally will get together.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-14
A COMMISSION FOR MUSCLE SHOALS

From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch
 The suggestion by Chairman Kahn of the House military committee that national commission be created to dispose of the Mus cle Shoals property is logical, characteristic proposal. It is the typical lne-of-least-re- sistance practice, by which Congress Is shirking it's duties and building up bureau cracy.
 There may be technical questions in con- nection with this proposition which nobody in Congress or in the governments service any where can answer, but if that is so, which we doubt, why cannot Congress call in such experts from the outside as may be necessary? Why set up another commission which will spread out steadily and become permanent, increasing cost to the people?
 If there is not enough business capacity in Congress to decide which is the best offer that has been made for Muscle Shoals after the technical points have been passed upon, Congress ought frankly to say And after that confession, before creating this new com- mission, Congress might give the people am other chance to elect Congress that would be able to transact the business that comes before it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-14
JoNoUILs

c. T. Davis, in the Arkansas Gazette. First to touch forgotten dreams
 When they rouse and waken; First to hear the whispering sod While Earth's lips are dumb Little golden candle flames
 By the keen winds shaken, Lighted by the hand of God
 To guide Springs footsteps home.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-14
HEARING THE OTHER SIDE

You have decided to stay on the farm?'
 "Yes," said Mr Gobbles. q get discouraged durin' tn week, but l cheer up considerably on Sundays"
 How is that?"
 q listen to people who come out from town in their automobiles After I hear them teii their troubles I forget that have any of my own."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-14
PAINFUL SPECTACLE

From the Houston Post
 We pity the young woman who walks down town with little poodle in her embrace but when we see some strapping six-footer on the streets playing valet to bulldog we feel that the blow handles have been cheated out of some human energy te which they were justly en- titled.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-14
AN EYE TO ECONOMY

Mrs. Calder says Palm Beach calls her. How does MT. Calder react to that sug- gestion?"
 He's trying to convince her that what she really hears is a summons from her mothers folks down at Chiggersvle"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-14
DRAMATIC CRITICISM
From Life.

From Life.
 The cruelist sign in the world, it is said, is posted back-stage in a vaudeville theatre in Fexas Artists will please not send out their laundry it reads, until the management has seen their act.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-14
THE CHIEF INDUSTRY

"Who is the prosperous looking stranger?" "A captain of industry in Bimini."
 'I didn't know Bimini had any industries" "He bosses a gang of cocktail mixers"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-14
STRATEGY ON THE STUMP

Do you always try to tell your constitu- ents what they want to hear?"
 "No,' said the experienced campaigner. By occasionally disagreeing with them I get the reputation of being man who has the cour- age of his convictions" PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-14
A LABOR OF LOVE

From the New Orleans Times -Picayune.
 For giving his full time to baseball Judge Lands will receive $5oOo0 a year-while many others who devote just as much atten- ton to the game will ever have to pay their way through the gate
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-14
A MISSOURI SIGN

From the Pacific Retail Adviser.
 restaurant in Butler, Mo-, displays this sign
 Don't divorce your wife because she can't cook.
 Eat here and keep her for pet.n
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-14
PovERTY's A GREAT LEvELER

From the Kansas City Times.
 MT. Lenine says Russia must be treated equal at the Genoa economic conference, which seems proper enough. Russia is broke as flat as anybody probably.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-14
WILLING TO OBLIGE

From the Augusta Chronicle.
 Admiral Sims says the newspapers ought to hire several naval experts to write about the navy. Why do that when the Admiral himself is so willing to furnish copy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-14
CUTTING DOWN EXPENSES

From the Arkansas Gazette.
 Desire for economy has developed in Con- gross a disposition to relegate America to the sqalrre r5le plan of national defense.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-14
LIMITED SPHERE

I"Has MT. Grumpson any hobbies?" "Two."
 What are they?"
 Business and tobacco"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-14
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 WHO COULD HE BE ?

From the Huntsville Telegram.
 Life, that funniest of all magazines has 2 character each week known as "Senatol Sounder."- However, this is not the first time Alabama has furnished figures of note.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-14
PUBLICITY EXPERTS

From the Florida Metropolis.
 When Thomas Edison wants little publicity he issues questionnare; Henry Ford offers to buy something, and William Jennings Bryan discusses Darwinism.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-14

A MORNING PRAYER

In my gladness, Lord, let me find the proof of thy love. In my sorrow let me feel the sense of thy comforting presence. So shall joy and sorrow both lead me home to thee. Amen.-M. s. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-14
THIS WAY OUT

From Tories Magazine
 Putting up front lands many man through the back door.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-14

Then all too late comes consel 10 be heard, Where will doth mutiny with wits regard.
 Richard II.
The spectator., 1922-04-21

l blushed in spite of herself as she faced him.
 To hide her confusion, Elizabeth turned to the tall and lanky By Heck, who had come in behind Bill Dale.
 How are you, By?" she greeted him.
 "Hongry," grinned By Heck, taking her hand awkwardly. "I never ct nothin' but a couple O baked 'possums and peck or two O sweet 'taters fo' dinner, and I've been as busy as the dev-as thunder a'doin' nothin' ever sence. Doin' nothing shore does make me hongry, NM NJ Miss Babe" Supper was announced. and they went into long, log-walled room that served as both kitchen and dining room.
 Bill Dale sat beside his father and talked of nothing but coal veins-big and little coal veins, long and short, broad and narrow, deep and shallow, blue and black coal veins. Babe Lit tleford, who wouldn't marry him, who had come back to the hills to torture him with beauty that he had never believed possible in any woman, shouldn't know that he was even thinking of her!
 He talked coal with his father until bedtime, and he was wiser in the ways of the black diamond when nine o'clock came. After Ben LittleforVi had haltingly conducted family pray erS---and in this he mentioned even the Balls, Turner's and Torreys-BiI Dale bade them all good night and started for his office to sleep, rolled in a blanket on the floor. There was a lack of beds at Ben Littleford's that night.
 A little later, John Moreland drew old Ben out to the cabin yard The 1 skies were clear, and the moon was shining brightly; everywhere there was beauty and peaeefulness.
 Ben" softly, I've got to bother ye minute, as late as 1t is. l wanted ye to find me a hammer and a chisel and a lantern
 eve got em all three right thar | in the house." replied Littleford. But what'n the name O Torment and | thunderation do ye want with q ham, mer and chisel and lantern, John, old friend"
 The answer came aightforwardly It was the Moreland way.
 "rm a-goin' up thar to whar pore David he's buried at, and cut off some them letters offen the stone, Ben. caint sleep ontel it's done. You can guess what part I'm s-goin' to cut off, cain't ye?"
 "Yes," said Littleford. Babe told me about what happened up thar
The spectator., 1922-04-21

him anything in advance. So he went with her to see for himself.
 When at last they stood inside the weatherbeaten palings, Elizabeth pointed and said:
 Look there, and thank God!"
 Dale looked and saw. The color left his face, then came back. He shut his eyes, swayed little on his feet, op- ened his eyes, looked and saw again. He turned to the young woman with a great joy shining on his face.
 'l haven't been so glad" he told her, flor twenty-five years"
 The chiseling away of the lower five lines had not only obliterated the curse 1t had left an almost perfect cross. Then John Moreland's bare, cold and tireless hands had gone to work and made it, in every respect, perfect cross.
The spectator., 1922-04-21

wished that I. too, were dead. .. That great and silent wilderness smothered me. I imagined that l could hear voices calling to me, saying
 "'Cain Cain!'
 "They came from the laurel thickets, frem the trees overhead, from the ground, from everywhere. You see, 1 days. Then I thought of the law, and l ran.
 But the cry of child from the cabin l was leaving halted me before l had gone thirty yards. David More lands wife had left him with baby only few weeks old. which l didn't pay any particular attention to until that morning, that black morning. At that time there was no other house for miles around. 1 couldn't leave the child there to die of starvation, after killing its father. So went back and got the baby, and all its clothing, and took it away with me. left it at farmhouse down in the rowland and went to another city, and started life afresh.
 But later I married, and shortly after that l went to the farmer and persuaded him to let me adopt the child. brought 1t up as my own, and educated it, as a sort of compensation. And 1 came to love 1t. But it was years before my wife loved it. She didn't like children then. But she does
The spectator., 1922-04-21

afore dark. And I'm pow'ful glad we're a-goin' to do il, John, old friend"
 He went with Moreland to the little enclosure on the highest point of David Moreland's mountain. He held the lighted lantern while Moreland worked They were there for hours.
 When the work was finished David Moreland's brother arose from his knees in the snow. put the hammer and the chisel into his pocket and spread open his cold. cramped fingers.
 "Ef David could know," he said weariiy, "I believe he'd be glad at done 1t. Anyway. 1t makes me feel better"
 Ben Littleford put a big hand on John Noreland's shoulder.
 Yes" he agreed, "ef David could know about 1t. he'd be glad at ye done 1t, John. The hain't no doubt O that. And who can say ne don't know about iif'
 Elizabeth learned of It early on the following morning. When breakfast was over, she whispered to J0fn K. Dale that there was something she had to show him. She wouldn't tell
The spectator., 1922-04-21

now. She is paying now, and l am paying Don't you understand. Bill don't you understand"
 There was a choke in his voice to- ward the last. Bill Dale went to his feet. His eyes were wide. but he did not seem unhappy; and for that Eliza beth was grateful. John Moreland sat as still, with his bearded, viking face as eXpressionless as though he had known it all along.
 And so l really am in my own countryl" cried Bill Dale. 'l am a Moreland. and the Morelands really are my own people!
 Yes, you are in your own country, and you are Moreland-and your baby name was David," said John k. Dale.
 It was then that John Morcland spoke.
 "Bill, when I fust seed you, you made me think O my brother the day he was married l ain't never fo'got that. l sartainly ain't surprised none at all. We didn't know about the baby. Cherokee Joe told me the baby had died"
 And now, son." pleaded old Dale, his voice breaking, "say that you for give me"
 Bill Dale. David Moreland's boy. knelt beside the old sheepskn-lined rocker. took the old coal Kings hand In both his own and bent his head over il.
 Its all right" he said ,hckly. "It's all right"
 Elizabeth Littleford arose and stole blindly out of the house Her foot steps led har, quite without her real izing where she was going, across the meadow and to the river above the hlowndown sycamore. And there on that sacred spot, where she had first felt her heart leap at the sound of Bill Dale's voice, she sank down in heap in the snow and cried, and cried.
 Twilight was gathering rapidly. but she did not notice it. She did not notice. either, that the air was grow | ing steadily colder with the approach | of the mountain night. To her . warm sun was shining above in a | bright blue vault; to her the spirit of summer was everywhere; in her ears there was the liquid song Of a meadow | lark. the sweet twittering of wood thrushes. the low humming of wild bees. The pouring of the crystal wa ters between the two boulders above the pool made music to her. and blend ed with IL she seemed 10 hear the voice of big. clean. strong man | 'I was thinking of the difference b,. tween you and some other women | know"
 l Then a ray of hope sbone into her heart. Bill Dale was really a More iand and. therefore. Of the hill blood even as she was of the hin blood and that should make them more nearly equal. She told herself that he wouldn't be so apt to condemn her for being able 10 take n human life easily as 1 one of another blood would ne he ! would he more apt to understand. And | yef. the women ho had known vare
The spectator., 1922-04-21

Houston. TeXas-"l was ip terri- Lly rundown condition of health after a siege of ptomaine poisoning, att then the influenza. could net seem to regain my strength and was really not able to do my housework. l knew l needed good tonic and builder andi remembered how my folks used to rs- gard Dr. Pierce's remedies in my girl hood days. and then l decided to take Dr. Pierces Golden Medical Discovery. After taking the second bottle found it was doing me world of good, strength returned rapidly and felt better in every way. l am glad indeed to recommend the medicine that did me so much good and do not hesitate to give this statement" Mrs. Ger luds Ssil. l.3C KstlaLl Ss.
 All druggists tablets or liQnid
The spectator., 1922-04-21
To Himself.

What would you say if you saw your daughter sitting before Il mirror and plucking her cyebrowsf" piled the subdued parent of napper.
 "lndeed?"
 "Yes. but it would be in the form of soliloquy. .'-Birmingham Age Herald
The spectator., 1922-04-21
YOU CANNOT AFFORD

To let your little hurts and ail ments get bad.
 Keep Vacher- Balm handy for Burns, Boils, Cuts, Corns. Piles, or Soreness. anywhere.
 Ask your druggist. Avoid limitations Advertisement.
The spectator., 1922-04-21
Anelen. Roman Elections.

Ancient Pompeians had both primary and general elections, similar to those we have in every town and city each spring They were in the midst of an exciting locei election. it is indi. euied, wheu rvniI.eli was deslsvysd h 70 4 n
The spectator., 1922-04-21

well; it Is their privileges that are taken away from them.
The spectator., 1922-04-21

There's Still the Necklace. Till-l hear that London society women have discarded the tiara. Phil-Shocking. There's not much more to go now.-New York Sun.
The Washington times., 1922-02-14
OUTSIDE WORK
FOR NAVY YARDS
URGED by OXEY
General" Tells DENLY suoh a
Policy Would Relieve
Unemployment.
ny International News Service.

ny international Nsws Service.
Secretary of the Navy DENLY was
requested today by Jacob General
Coxey. Of "CoIey's Army fame. to
throw the navy yards open for work
done ordinarily by private firms in
the effort to remedy the situation
among navy yard employees. These
employees have Just been indefinitely
suspended in large numbers, due to
slack work.
Coxey called on DENLY today to
present his request. which was along
somewhat similar lines to the pro
posals made to President Harding by
the head Of the machinists' union.
Commenting on all such projects
naval officials stated that while such
a move might benefit navy yard en-
ployes, II II worked at all, would have
an undesirable effect among the same
trades employed on the outside
There was manifested q reluctance to
throw the Government into oompe
tition with private business" espe
cially at this time.
Navy officials pointed out that the
same trades now out Of employment
might be benefited, but would be 90
only at the expense of their fellows
who already have been suffering for
some time from the depressed indus
trial conditions prevalent.
The President, II was stated, has
not called the machinists' proposals
to the attention Of the Navy Depart
ment. The navy is anxious, II was
stated, to help it's unfortunate en-
ployes, but did not wish to be placed
in an anomalous position unwittingly
The Washington times., 1922-02-14
j. 5. ON TRAIL
Of MEN GIVEN
BOSCH SHARES
Federal Agents viii Clear Up
distribution" Of Huge
\ Block Of Stock.

Who received that part Of 10000
shares Of. Bosch Magnetic Company
stock alleged to have been distrib-
uted In 1918 a. tokens Of friendly
INTEREST,""
Department Of Justice investiga-
tora are trying to clear up this
phase of the scandal surrounding
the sale of the company to Martin ID.
Kern and his associates for what
was declared to be only q fraction
Of It's worth.
Future developments made the
stock gift a highly valuable one, ana
Government Investigators are anx-
ious to know what services the
recipients performed.
Part of the 90, 900 shares was dis
tributed" and the remainder offered
to the public at $6s share. The
price advanced rapidly. During the
year ended September 80, 1918, when
Alien Property Custodian Palmer
had control Of the company for five
months, the profits were equivalent
to almost IL per cent Of the price
for which the property was sold.
The Department OF Justice also II
anxious to determine whether those
who received the stock gifts were
also large purchasers Of the block
that was sold at $e5 q share. When
the stock has been traced the hold
ers will be questioned.
Merton ID. Lewis, attorney, asserts
that the appraisal of the Bosch Com
pany's property by the Manufactur-
ers' Appraisal Company showed the
value at the time Palmer took IL In
charge was almost 100000. The
sale price OF $4.150.000. therefore.
was less than half the true worth.
By obtaining amendments to the
Observation-Disclosures Act, Lewis
says, Palmer was able to transfer
to the American Bosch Magnetic
Company the considerable, number
Of patents which Palmer admitted
covered "every conceivable phase OF
invention and Improvement in the
antItthe manufacture Of magnetoes).
~ II pointed out that without
these -paeents the Bosch property
would have had little value. OF
these patents, Palmer said in his re-
port:
IF put on the books Of the Bosch
Magnetic Company at a dollar II was
an overappraisement because the
Bosch Magnetic Company did not
own one OF them"