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The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-03
FAMOUS AUTHOR WROTE OF "OLD VIRGINIA"

Few men have lived a life more to be en- Virginia aristocrat himself and steeped in all the fine old traditions of his native state, he was as much part of his environment as any of the characters he put into his books. The humor and pathos found in such rich abundance in his stories were drawn from the scenes where he spent most of his life, and where he was, to all outward aspects, sngularly happy. He had but to apply himself, after ceiving liberal education, and his gifts as writer soon won him fame. For many years Thomas Nelson Page has ranked as one of Americas foremost authors, enjoying popu- larity abroad that few other writers of this country have ever achieved.
 "In Old Virginia" published in 1887, is still one of MT. Pages best books, and one of the most popular. One may still recall what tre- mendous demand there was in the south for 1.-TWO Little Confederates" published the fol- lowing year. No one has ever written anything finer than Mars Chan," while "Unc' Edin- burg and 'Meh Lady" are classics. The Old Gentleman of the Black Stock" is another note- worthy example of MT. Page at his best. "Red Rock is one of the great southern novels.
 These are but few of MT. Pages works. He wrote much but all his books show a pains- taking hand. Few American writers have equaled him as a stylist. Whether fiction, verse, biography or history, whatever he did had distinction.
 As diplomat Mir. Page served his country we'll in the important post of ambassador to Italy, upholding the traditions established by other noted men of letters from America who have been sent to Rome to represent the Amer ican government. He was at Rome during the World war and his services in this trying pe- riod were of inestimable value
 It is as writer, however, that MT. Page B fame will endure. He and Joel Chandler Har- ris were among the remarkably small number of southern writers who have ever success fully transferred the dialect of the southern negro to print.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-03
CHAIN STORE HELPS

"The chain store man sometime fails to take an interest in the local affairs of cities where branch stores are located, but we ran across an instance the other day where one of the proprietors went out of his way to help in a civic movement,' said Hill Ferguson, one of the leaders in the University of Alabama mil lion-dollar campaign. ''The owner of the Gus Mayer & Go. stores, which has branch in blr- mingham, learned that the university campaign was on aud wrote from New Orleans to the local manager instructng him to get in touch with our committee and make suitable contrfbu- tion toward raising Birmingham's quota of S350,000. We were naturally surprised and gratified when this unsolicited subscription was turned in"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-03
POINTED PARAGRAPHS

From the Chicago News.
 Marriage ties are love knots-sometimes.
 Of two evils some people choose both as samples.
 Some men find it necessary to revise their list of friends daily.
 It is not always small matter when A woman puts her foot in it.
 Speaking of good voices, what's the matter with the voice of conscience?
 It isn't always the people who jolly you most who are your best friends
 Anyway. the knocker doesn't drop his ham, noer the minute the whistle blows.
 The average man never misses an oppor- unity to show off before a pretty woman.
 The woman who uses merely her eyes may he more dangerous than her garrulous sister.
 If somebody would only pull the sled up the hill for us life would be one long, delightful slide.
 Economy may be the road to wealth, but nine-tenths of those who are compelled to travel it never reach the goal.
 If early to bed and early to rise doesn't make man healthy, wealthy and wise, his wife thinks it is because he is too honest.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-03
LETTERS TO EDITOR
FAMOUS ALABAMA JERSEY
he Editor of The Age-Herald:

10 the EQ1tor or The Age-heralQ.
 I notice in this mornings paper the report of the COW, Pomonia of Friendship, 340202, owned by King Pharr of Catherine, who is now the winner of gold medal.
 While the report is true, I wish to report the record of another COW, that is owned by Ala bama people, and while she did not make her record within our state, she is the holder of larger record, and also holds the record for production of milk for the state of Tennessee.
 This COW, Raleighs Jolly Mable, 388342. made the register of merit with test of SIS pounds 14 ounces of butter in one year from 1856 pounds of milk, which is ahead of the other COW by A pounds 12 ounces of butter, and she also lead in the production of milk.
 also wish to announce that Alabama also has Raleigh's Lady Fairy, 551116, the junior calf that was shown this year at Lexington, Ky. Columbus, O., Indianapolis, Ind, Louis vile, Ky, Nashville, Tenn, Memphis, Tenn, and Birmingham, and was never beaten in her class. She is the only junior calf in the entire United States that was shown this year and never met defeat in her class.
 Trusting that this might be of interest to the public, and assuring you that at any time I can give you other Jersey news, I will do so. Yours very truly, BOB BELL.
 Birmingham November l. 1922.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-03
HALLOWEEN CALLS PLENTIFUL

Between the hours of 7:30 o'clock and Il o'clock Halloween night we received at least 65 calls" said Detective B. F. Hubbard of the city police force "All of them proved to be only msdemeanors, while one proved most ludicrous, however, not to the one whom 1t concerned. A friend of member of our force 'phoned to him in most alarming tone Of voice and reported that he had just donned a new suit of clothes and had started to dance and on reaching the streets bunch of young boys had deliberately thrown several spoiled eggs at him. When they struck me, he said, you never heard such terrible sound, as loud as any gun report I am certainly pro- voked,' said the informant over the wire, and I see nothing funny about it. "
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-03
METAL TRADES FIRM AND SEEKING STABILITY

Blowing in of the fifth blast furnace of the Woodward Iron company this week places that on-producing concern on a 100 per cent base in every phase of operation, and shows the large demand for Alabama foundry iron One of the stacks is producing basis iron for steel making concerns, Alabama iron being as eouu for conversion into steel as it is for use in foundries.
 There is nothing weak in the iron situation. There is no weakness in finished iron products of any kind. The steadfast opposition to recent high prices for pig iron on the part of the largest consumers, the pipe makers, is in the way of good business The buyer is as often at the bat as the seller. It is very fortunate for both that this is the case, because when 1t is all one way, there are inevitable reactions of drastic i'll effect. Of the lull in buying of steel the Journal of Commerce says:
 There is Hull in the buying of many kinds of steel in the east. Steel prices seem less firm because of the withdrawal of pre-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-03
ITALY HAS A NEW KIND OF REVOLUTION

Italy has had remarkable revolution--a revolution against revolution. From time to time Americans saw an item in the newspapers about what the fascisti were doing. It probably didn't interest them particularly. "The fas- csti? Oh some kind of Italian organization. the radicals"
 Now the fascisti have control of the Italian government, their leader, Mussolini, who looks like a movie star, is premier; General Diaz, Italian war hero, Is minister of war, and even King Victor Emmanuel seems to be satisfied. The fascist represent the middle classes. In Italy, on the seat of one of the oldest civiliza- tions, the great middle classes have at last found somebody to speak for them. That in itself is extraordinary.
 The fascist started out to fight the same kind of radcalism that overthrow Russia. Bol- shevism was rampant in Italy after the World war. They didn't propose to let Italy share the fate of Russia. The fascisti are patriots Many of them are veterans of the World war; Their revolution was a bloodless one, and though they worked as mobs themselves, they will restore order. The experiment is well worth watching.
 When . sufficient number of people in a country band themselves together to accom- plish purpose they are no longer mob, they are an expression of public sentiment
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-03
THE FOREST TRoUBADOUR

Henry c. Pitz, in St. Nicholas Down in the heart of the greenwood, beside
 the dim lake shore, Is the trysting place of the forest folk, and the
 forest troubadour. There, when the blue dusk deepens, and tke
 stars wheel on through space, The birds and the beasts and the forest folk
 creep to the trysting place. Then the greenwood piper, who comes when
 the day is done,
 the sunset gold is spun, Plays, as the wood aises daYken, haunting,
 witchike air, Till even the hawk is gentled and the gray
 wolf leaves his lair. So bird and beast and forest child listen m
 silent awe, Forget their former enmity, forget the jungle
 law. Then fairy bows to goblin and toads creep
 from the rocks, And even the timid forest hares hobnob with
 the red-tailed fox. And any venturesome human who finds the
 trysting place And hears the piper's music is given heart of
 grace To understand the greenwood speech and to
 follow, unafraid, The darkest trail of the forest heart and the
 widest woodland glade.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-03
DRY SEASON MOSQUITO

q was wont to connect mosquitoes with a rainy season." said Horace Hammond, "but experts tell me that in cities like Birming- ham storm sewers become breeding place for the mosquito in dry seasons more than in rainy ones, hence the mosquito plague this fall.
 "The reason assigned is that in the absence of heavy rains the storm sewers accumulate little puddles of stagnant water around agglom- erations of trash and these breed the mosquito. In wet seasons the sewers are flooded and such stagnant pools of water do not accumulate.
 "So it seems the dengue fever is a dry sea- son product the theory being, as understand it, that the malady is carried by mosquitoes, the offspring of dry season storm sewer con- ditions."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-03

stated, never before saw anything but the home made wooden blow, are now using the best im- plements made in the United States.
 A full supply of different kinds of modern farm implements is carried in storage by the government and farmers are allowed to pay for them in installments extending over long period.
 The difference between the wooden blow and the steel blow is several hundred per cent yield. How happy Mexico would have been had the millions wasted in rebellous gun powder gone into steel blows, thus producing the independence that takes away the thought of rebellions-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-03
MY FAVORITE STORIES
WHERE HIGHER EDUCATION WOULD
 HAVE LANDED HIM
By IRWIN s. COBB

Some 15 years ago there landed in New York friendless and almost penniless Russian im- migrant, who found lodgings on the East Side and at once, with racial perseverance and en- ergy set out to earn living
 He was of likabe disposition, and speedily made acquaintances who sought to aid him in his ambition. One of them sponsored him for the vacant post of janitor, or shammos, to use the common Hebraic word, of a small syna- gogue on side street
 But when the officers of the congregation found out the applicant was entirely illiterate, they reluctantly denied him employment inas- much as a shammos must keep certain records.
 The greenhorn quickly rallied from his dis appointment. He got job somewhere. He prospered. Presently he became a dabbler in real estate.
 Within 10 years he was one of the largest in dependent operators in East Side tenament house property and popularly rated as mill lionaire. An occasion arose when he needed a large amount of money to swing what prom ised to be profitable deal. Finding himself for the moment short of cash, he went to the East Side branch of one of the large banks.
 It was the first time in his entire business career that ne ldQ I0uHu lt HeCeSSdIy JO pOITOW extensively. He explained his position to the manager, who knew of his success, and asked for a loan of $50,000.
 "I'll be very glad to accommodate you, Mir. Rabin," said the banker. "Just sit down there at that desk and make out note for the amount"
 The caller smiled an embarrassed smile.
 eff you please" he said 'syou should be so good as to make out the note and then should sign it"
 What's the dea?" inquired the bank man. ager, puzzled.
 "Vell, you see," he confessed, q haf to tell you something's: Myself, I cannot read and write. My wife she has taught me how to make my own name paper, but otherwise with me reading and writing is nix.
 In amazement the banker stared at him.
 "Well, well, well!' he murmured admiringy. "And yet, handicapped as you've been, inside of a few years you have become rich man! wonder what you'd have been in this country by now if only you had been able to read and write?'
 "A shammos," said Mir. Rabin, modestly. tcopyright 1922. by the McNaught Syndicate. Incl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-03
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
UNINTENTIoNAL SUICIDE

"All suicides are terrible, but the worst kind in my opinion is to kill yourself and not know it." said Coroner J. D. Russum. Early Wednesday morning was called to Adams vile, and upon investigation found that ne- gro, who had attempted to rob general mer- chandise store, had been killed. trap had been set by the owner for thieves. He had fastened string to the left shutter of the front window and at the other end of the string had attached single barrel shotgun, which fired when the shutter was opened. The bold burglar, thinking he was entirely in the clear and unnoticed, proceeded to open the shut ter, tearing it completely off it's hinges, when the gun fired, the entire load from the gun entering his side, killing him almost instantly. The following morning the robbery was dis covered as well as the would-be burglar. How ever, the detectives were cheated in this case, there being no pursuit necessary. queer thing about the occurrence was the fact that the gun had only been attached to the left shut ter of one of the front windows, the exact one the negro attempted to open. The negro hunch' evidently failed him on this occasion"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-03
GOOD QUALITY SCARCE

"The market is flooded with cheap merchan- disc that is controlled by price, read night letter from Augusta Friedman in New York to her husband. Quality merchandise is at a premium, and hard to obtain at any price" MT. Friedman explained the situation further by saying: "Conditions are rapidly returning to normal, and as they do the public is coming again to the realization that ultimate economy lies in the purchasing of the better class of merchandise This has increased the demand for such goods"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-03
ADRIFvI WITH THE TIMES
ENTERTAINMENT

Would that little song might leap Into its joyous being While I am trying hard to keep
 My jaded eyes from seeing The gloominess that hedges round This dripping, sunless day; That in some Hitting lines were found An optimistic ray! But since the tickle muse, mayhap, Feels very much as I do And won't assist luckless chap,
 I simply will not try to Evolve bit of cheerful verse
 Inimical to sorrow, Although I may, if things get worse, Attempt the trick tomorrow.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-03

New York man Is indignant because Mayor Hylan wrote a campaign letter to the gentle mans wife whom he'd never met and signed it Sincerely yours." With so many scandals in the air, one cannot be too careful nowadays about the way he writes to married women.
 X Chairman Adams of the republican national committee says the democrats are "whistling in the dark to keep their courage Tut tut! Cor dell Hull, our ideal optimist, is above such things
 If the King of Italy didn't have pretty good record he might be in danger of losing his job. Kings should always have something to point to with pride in an emergency
  Now Chattanooga turns it's back on Isadora Duncan. Could there be such thing as a concerted movement on foot to make Isadora wear clothes in public?
 x x Lawyers defending Mrs Phillips have not yet undertaken to prove that as mere child she had the habit of breaking the heads of her doies with hammer
 x Some of the patriots who "carried on" during the war are wearing last years suits and couldn't hypothecate Liberty bond to save their lives.
 When there is no other way to harrow the feelings of a susceptible jury the old-reliable insanity plea may be depended on to cheat the gallows.
 
 When Clemenceau drops in to see former President Wilson it would be worth an hour of any mans time to hear what they say to each other.
 The British empire is really more of com monwealth than an empire, but "empire'' im- plies that there is something for King George to do
 Automobiles and tractors are revolutionizing farm life, but the soulful bray of the mule may still be heard in rural districts.
 x x It has almost reached tho point where a college can't function without a stadium that will seat at least 10000 people.
 x x What come-down for the former "All High est'' The Dutch government won't even permit William to take a honeymoon trip.
 
 There will be four bushels of Irish potatoes for every individual in the country this year, but they won't be free.
 x Some people deface public monuments for curios, others merely want something to re- mind them of murder.
 < The fascist of Italy hit upon a neat way of solving postwar problems by doing the work themselves.
 x x It's too bad that Mrs. Hall hates publicity so. Her opportunities are practically without limit
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-03

mium prices, but in reality this will make for stability of the market and will cause a healthy reaction"
 That is sensible view to take of the situ- ation. There is a lot of difference between price reductions that are occasioned by posi- tive lack of demand and reductions due to an easing of conditions that merely wipe out pre- mium prices. The latter are always unhealtny and the penalty is paid when the price has gotten so high that the consumer is forced to wriggle out of taking the material ordered at the top price, when a declining market would entail heavy loss.
 of trade to play safe.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-03
NEED MORE LIKE JUDGE GRUBB

To the Editor of The Age-Herald:
 Your editorial this morning on law enforce ment was good, but chief credit for work done in the federal courts should go to Judge Grubb He runs his court like we run mail trains. Put him on a city bench, give him authority, and in 90 days all dockets would be clear. There would be no need for enforcement committees if we had more Judge Grubbs.
 BILL SYKES. Birmingham, November l. 1922.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-03
BRAKES SAVED HIS LIFE

q have always preached the gospel of hav- ing good brakes on one's car," said Hubert Drennen, president of the Drennen Motor Car company, land they certainly saved my life a few days agol was driving along the Lock IT road, just this side of Lock IT, when a giant tree suddenly fell across the road in front of me I wasn't going fast, but at the same time if had not had my car equipped with the best brakes I could never have stopped in the distance I did, less than 10 feet. The tree was on fire, and had burned through, chancing to fall just as I approached. I had to go back three miles to get farmer to help me cut the tree away. The man got to help meNsaid he heard the crash made by the fall"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-03
STEEL REPLACING WOODEN
 FLOW IN MEXICO

The wooden blow of Mexico is doomed, ac- c6rding to governmental reports from Mexico dity, which are to the effect that the Mex ican government is supplying the peon soil cul- tivators with steel blows at cost. Thousands Of these blows are being bought in the United states and are distributed among the Mexican farmers. Portions of the country which, it is
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-03
ENFORCED ATTENTION

At Darius Green and his flying machine We laughed until we~thought we'd die; But now we scarcely give glance At Birdmen soaring in the sky. And well do we remember, too, The first auto that came to town; But you bet we watch those blamed things still
 If we didn't they would run us down.
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-03
NOTHING IN HIS MIND

"What instrument would you rather play, Ii you belonged to orchestral"
 "The piccolo."
 "But that isn't considered much of an in- stru ent."
 That's why it appeals to me. When DIG colo player gets through his work he drops his piccolo into his pocket and right .-.ay he looks to me like a man who hasn't in the world.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-03
NoN.PRonucrIvE ARTS

'You lack the creative faculty"
 .'I make money"
 But you don't create anything that will live--like poem, picture, piece of music. y 'I understand you-something that will live, but is hard to live on'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-03

upon a change through your paper. The kill ing of birds in this community last fall borderef on to almost criminal assaults upon the feathered tribe. At the rate that has been set it would take two years for an increase to give us start in birds that should have. We would thank you to reprint MT. Hanliltons letter, as every citizen of Alabama should read it. ED BUCK.
 Thomaston, October 31, 1922
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-03
uP EANT
What's the charge. officer?"

What's the charge, officer?"
 "This gentleman here, who says he's from the south, beat up this other gentleman in res taurant because he says this other gentleman is 'one of those blankety-blanked professional southerners. I don't understand it, your honor"
 q do. I used to live in the south myself. Case dismissed"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-03
PROTECTION OF BIRDS

To the Editor of The Age-Herald:
 I have just read MT. Hamilton's article in today's paper changing the game laws of Alabama so far as the bird law is concerned. I wish to express my approval of all that he said in reference to the matter. It . simple de- struction to our birds as the law now stands. I hope you will take the matter up and insist
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-03
DIsARMING CRITICISM

"Do you believe campaign orators should enlven their speeches with humorous anec- dotes?'
 Certainly" said Senator Snortsworthy. After a speaker has told one or two good stories, nobody but an exceptionally hard boiled character would have the heart to heckle him.,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-03
SOUNDS BETTER

"An embezzler?"
 "Now, that's harsh term"
 True"
 Suppose we say he is just another one of those ambitious young men who borrow from their employers to play the market?"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-03
SIMPLE HOME REMEDY

From Life.
 For matrimonial heartache: A lump of pride dissolved in a glass of common sense. Swal- low immediately and settle with kiss. Add a dose of wholesome compliments. Repeat as often as needed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-03
WHAT THE PUBLIC READS
w about this Near East question ?"

How about this Near East question:"
 'I haven't kept up with it. There's man buried in a newspaper. Ask him."
 "He probably doesn't know any more about it than I do. He has all the earmarks of [ man reading about murder mystery"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-03
MANY ARE cALLED-''

From Life.
 A rank heather is person who thinks the Book of Numbers is the telephone directory.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-03
A MORNING PRAYER

Lord, bless thou our land, that there may be peace within our gates, plenty within our homes and love within our hearts. Lord, lead thy people and draw them nearer thee. Amen.-M. s. B.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-03

Iris the times plague, when madmen leas the blind. king Lear