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The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-05

received shoes, overcoats and chill dren's garments from the American Legion distributing committee in New York city.
 Convalescing at Kennilworth, N C., from wounds received in the Ar gonne, one American Legion man sent s1 to the Woodrow Wilson foun- dation fund and promises payments of s4 more. Many Legionnaires are listed among the contributors to the fund.
 Possessing all the requisites for a dance-they had the time. the place and the girls, American Legion man in Lincoln, Neb., called on an ex-gob for help, he rigged up radiophone and tuned in on an orchestra 1000 miles away. Leave it to cough gobs.
 A Spanish bull fight will be staged in Madison Square Garden. New York, by an American Legion post Their stipulation is that the bull shall not be hurt.
 A married man who formerly earned s72.5c weak applied to the American Legion for employment. He took job as a packer at s15 and was tickled to death to get it. Twelve majors, five naval com manders, 27 captains, and 100 lieuten- ants have applied for jobs at Amer ican Legion employment headquar- ters in New York since September.
 A cemetery in Fairmont, W. Va, where Civil war soldiers of both sides were buried, had become a thicket of briers The American Legion cleaned it up to do reverence to those dead heroes.
 War casualties did not end with the Armistice on November II, 1918.
 The following case, as reported by the American Legion in Los Angeles is typical of many of the casualties which continued to happen as result of the World war service.
 T think I am B years of age I am 5 feet, 9 inches, and weigh 13o. My eyes are gray and I have blonde hair; I believe I was a soldier If anyone can tell me who I am or any thing about my past, please telephone the police"
 This is what poor devil--and he was clean cut young fe1low--told attendants in a Los Angeles hospital the other day. He wore an American Legion button, and Los Angeles post of the Legion are trying to help him find himself.
 Legionnaires heard an organ grin der playing the "Star-Spangled Ban ner" and saw him send his monkey with a tin cup in his hand to collect the loose pennies in the crowd. The next day bill was introduced in tho state legislature, presented by the le- zion, which will prohibit collection being taken for playing tho national anthem.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-05
NelUs Of the American Legion Here and There

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-05
BIRMINGHAM AGE-HERAID, SUNDAY MARCH 5, 1922

The next time that a war breaks out I'll surely be hard to find
 Chorus: It's Bloody War-lt's Bloody War.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-05

generals party should be, and was.
 General Buliard, perhaps the best Legionnaire there, was delighted. The American Legion orchestra furnished music; the Scrap Iron Quartet" of Birminsham-South college sang; Comrade McMeans did a skit; Com rade Abe Williams. n his inimitsbie way, sang Bloody War" and other pieces of his own composition just as he used to do them in the Wild Cat division show which toured France and Germany after the srmi- stice.
 Comrade Williams showed the gem eral what made the Wild Cats wiio.
 It was a regular soldiers party for a regular soldier
New Britain herald., 1922-12-04
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 The Oriental was going on with { slow precise articulation as though h. would thereby make q difficult mat ter clear.
 The night had fallen swiftly. | was incredibly silent There was nc sound in the Masters room. and nc light except the flicker of the log. smoldering in the fireplace. The thin line of it appeared faintly along the sill of the door"
 He paused.
 'The fireplace, Excelency, is at the end of the great room, directly op. poste this door into the hall before which I always sat when the Master was within. The fireplace is of black marble with an immense black marble hearth. And the gift which I had brought the Master stands on one side of the fire. on this marble hearth. as though it were a single andiron.'
 The man turned back into the heart of his story.
 T knew by the vague sense of pres sure that the devocations of the thing were again on the way. And I began LO III Llt cplliI lOl tllC NldSlCi ! safety. Interference, both by act and by the will. were denied me. But there is an anxiety of spirit Excel lency, that the uncertainty of an issue makes intolerable."
 The man paused.
 "The pressure continued--and the silence. It was nearly midnight. could not distinguish any act or mo tion of the Master, and in fear I crept over to the door and looked in through the crevice along the thresh- old.
 "The Master sat by his table; he was straining forward, his hands gripping the arms of his chair. His eyes and every tense instinct of the man were concentrated on the fire place The red light of the embers was in the room. I could see him clearly and the table beyond him with the calcuIst lions; but the fire place semed strangely out of perspec- tisc-it extended above me.
 My gift to the Master. not nor than four hand-breaths in length, in cludng the base, stood now like an lTllIHpncp UFUfiIt. OIl dil tAtUiiuNh marble sab beside q gigantic fire place. This effect of extension put the top of the fireplace and the en- larged andiron, above it's pedestal. out Of my line of vision. Everything else in the chamber holding its nor mai dimensions, was visible to me.
 T have said, Excellency, that my angle of vision along the creNice of the doorsilI was sharply cut midway of this now enlarged fireplace. From the direction and lift of the Masters S face. he was watching something above this line and directly over the pedestal of the andiron. l watched. also, flattening my face against the sill, for the thing to appear.
 And it did appear
 "A naked foot became slowly visible, as though someone were de- scending with extreme care from the elevation of the anidron to the great marble hearth, under this strange en- largement, now some distance below"
 The big Oriental paused, and looked down at me-
 T knew then, Excollency, that the Master was lost! The creative en- orgies of the Spirit suffer no division of worship; those of the body must be wholly denied I had warned the
New Britain herald., 1922-12-04

the glow of it, on the marble hearth,
 stood the one who had descended from the elevation of the andiron." Again the man hesitated. as for an accurate method of expression. Tn the flesh, Excellency. there was
 color that would not appear in the image. The hair was yellow. and the
 eyes were blue; and against the black marble of the fireplace the body was
 conspicuousy white.
 But in every other aspect of her,
 ExceiIency, the woman was on the hearth in the flesh as she is in the
 clutch of the savage male figure in the image.
 There is no dress or ornament, as you will recall, Ixcellency. Not even a near jewel or an anklet, as though the graver of the image felt that the inherent beauty of his figure could
 take nothing from these ostentations.
 The woman's heavy, yellow hair
 was wound around her head, as in the
New Britain herald., 1922-12-04

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 doorsill, he put out his free hans and with his finger touched ih' woman gently The flesh under hil finger yielded, and stooping over h' put the formula Into the fire" 1 Like one who has come 10 the ene Of his story, the huge orienta ! stopped, ,tl He remained for some mo ments silent. Then he continued ir Ian even. inotonous voice; T got up from the floor then, and purified myself with water. And after ] went into an upper chamber opened the window to the east. and sat down to write my report to the | brotherhood. For the thing which l had been sent to do was finished"
 He put his hand somewhere into the loose folds of his Oriental garment and brought out Q roll Of thin, vellum- like onion-skin. painted in Chinese characters. It was of immense length but on account of the thinness of the vellum. the roll wound on tiny cylinder of wood was not above two inches in thickness.
 "EScellency," he said, T have carefully concealed this report through the misfortunes that have at- tended me. It is not certain that shall be able to deliver it. Will you give it for me to the jewel merchant Vanderdick. in Amsterdam? He will send it to Mahadal in Bombay, and 1t will go north with the caravans
 l put the scroll into my pocket and went out, for motor-car had come into the park, and I knew that Jon quelle had arrived,
 met Jonquelle and the superinten- dent in the long corridor; they had been looking in at my intrview through the elevated grating.
 "Jonqueile," I cried, the judge was right to cut short the criminal trial and issue unacy warrant. This creature is the maddcst lunatic in this whole asylum, The human mind is capable of any absurdity."
 Jonquelle looked at me with a quer, ironical smile.
 Perhaps he shrugged, there is pocket, to the Monastic Head. It's only theory, you know"
 He smiled, showing his white, even teeth.
 We went into the superintendent's room. and sat down by smoldering fire of coals in the grate. l handed Jonquelle the roll of vellum. It was in one of the Shan dialects. He read it aloud. With the addition of cer- tain formal expressions, it contained precisely the Oriental's testimony be- fore the court and no more.
 "Ah!" he said in his curiously in- fected voice.
 heat of the fire. The vellum baked slowly, and as it baked. the black
New Britain herald., 1922-12-04
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New Britain herald., 1922-12-04
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 image. She shivered little, faintly, like naked child in an unaccustimed draught or air, although she stood on the warm, marble hearth and within the red glow of the fire.
 ''The voice from the male figure of the image, which had brought the Master, and which stood as the and iron, now so immensely enlarged, was beginning again to speak. The thin metallic sound seemed to splinter against the dense silence. as it went forward in the ritual prescribed.
 But the Master had already de- cided; he stood now on the great marble hearth with his papers crushed together. And as I looked on, through the. crevices under the
New Britain herald., 1922-12-04
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Master. And in travail, Exoellency, l turned over with my face to the floor,
 "Isut there is always hope. hope over the certainties of experience. over the certainties of knowledge. Perhaps the Master. even now. sua tained in the spirit, would put ava the devocation. .y , No. Excellency l was not misled, l knew the Mas ter was beyond hope. But the will to hope moved me, and turned back to the ereviee at the doorsill."
 He paused.
 There was now delicate odor, everywhere, falntly, like the blossom of the little bitter apple here in your country. The red embers in the fire place gave out steady light; and in
New Britain herald., 1922-12-04
THE THING ON TIE HEARTH
 Begin Here Today

Did some occult power of tho Orient cause the mysterious and in- credible tragedy which had removed from the world one Of its greatest inteiligences-th brain of
 ROMAN, who had startled scientists with his paper on the manufacture oi precious stones by synthetic chemistry?
 Rodmaa was dead His attendant, that strange Oriental from the shan monastfy in Asia, told story weird and incredible, Finally
 Nj, JONQl FILE. greatest of French detectives, was called to America and the Oriental rehearsed the story Of what took place on the night when the man who could manufacture rubies and emeralds as cheaply as glass, met his death.
New Britain herald., 1922-12-04
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New Britain herald., 1922-12-04

4 ' . GA -4 H Chinese characters faded out and faint hlue ones began to appear, Jonauelle read the secret message i in his emotiontess .drawl., 's
 "'The American. is destroyed, and his aecurseda ls destroyed with him Send the news to Bangkok and west 10 nurmalf The treasures < Of India are saved,r' fgi,. 5s.l }s.fS. N lsf.fN
 ]. cried out ia astonlshinent. '.,s;t.''
 An assassinl The, creature was an assassin! He Killed Rodman simply by crushing him in his arms"
 Jonquelle's drawi lengS,ened, s,f,
 Its I.alf fGuptta." he said, the cleverest Oriental in the whole Of Asia. The jewe-traders sent him to watch Rodman. and to kill him If he was ever able to get his formulae worked out. They must have paid him an incredible sum" E
 And that is why the creature at- tached himself 10 Rodman!" I said.Er
 'Surely." replied Jonauelle. He brought that bronzev--Romulus car rying off the Sabine woman--and staged the supernatural to work out his plan and to save his life. I knew the bronze as soon as got my eye on it---old Franz Josef gave it as n present to Mahadal In Bombay for matching up some rubics."
 l swore bitterly.
 And we took him for a lunatic."
 "Ah, yes!" replied Jonquelle. What was it you said as came in? The human mind Is capable of any ab- surditr""
 Another M. Jonquelle story, "The Fortune Teller" will begin in our next issrc
New Britain herald., 1922-12-04
STILL DOING IT.

New To, .te. ,.--E. J. Coughlin, vice president of the United States Rubber Company, made the 135-yard eleventh hole of the Arcola, N. J., noon. Golf balls are included among the products of Mir. Coughlin's com pany, but he protested throughout the nineteenth hole discussions of his feat that he had used no specially constructed ball.
The Cordova daily times., 1922-03-13

Now I go out into the cold,
 l pray the Lord my tiers hold; If one should bust before I'm back l pray a spares upon the rack.
The Cordova daily times., 1922-03-13
FOR MIR. HAYS'S ATTENTION

Mr. Will Hays is now the "arbiter elegant iarum" of the cinema production industry That's what Henry Sienkiewicz would call him: in other words, the "highcoclalorum, v or supreme boss What he says goes, and the cleaning out of the "moves'' is going to make the Aegean Stables look like before breakfast job. The "fatarbuckles' and other monstros- ites of the industry will be sent into the linn bo of forgotten things and movieland will be fumi gated and improved in every depart ment.
 All this is preliminary to a practical sug, gestion to be marked and mailed to MT. Hays. It is this:
 Alaska is, pre-eminently, the place provid- ed by nature, providentially for MT. Hays IS one of the great bases of the "movie' produc- tion industry No ''props" are needed here, no expensive imitation or male-beleve Of any kind. Here is the great mysterious world of reality in its most majestic forms Here we have scenery compared to which the Alps and the Appenines pale into mediocrity, and out door scenarios created by nature as if express " for the purposes of the cinema photograph
 The people are yearning for the continuing story of Alaska in the "movies." While satisfying this demand Mr. Hays could at the same time do mighty stroke of business for Greater America, proving to capitalists everywhere the magnificence of the opportun- itv which is now going begging.
 Mr. Hays is in position to open up Alaska through the promotion of common understand ing of this Territory's stupendous untouched resources Mir. Hays is statesman, as well as a business Napoleon. He will recognize at once the merit of this idea. He IS expect cd to say so, and he is urged to come North this summer and see for himself his tremend- ous and original opportunity.
The Cordova daily times., 1922-03-13
Things We Think THINGS OTHERS THINK AND WHAT WE THINK
 OF THE THINGS OTHERS THINK

Who remembers Rose Melville in ten-twenty-thirty drama?
 We have been adjured "fishers of men, but don't interpret that you must make suckers Of them family who buys an automobile thereupon loses possession of it unless he buy several
 The man who boasts that religion is only look ing for an argument so tell you what his religion really is
 Husbands aren't half cruel as some women who haven't any like to believe.
 Of course you can't your cake and have it, too the successful people those who eat their cake and then get another
 Nearly everybody leads hard life if you could find out but if he's the right sort he doesn't want you to find it out.
 There times when showing happiness is out of place. things irritating than the profes; sonal sunbeam. No bought suit that fit him as well as some other suit he has had which cost him lot less. Better water both shoulders than chip on one When the old days your horse baked you could get satisfaction by whipping it. but automobile doesn't care a whoop what you do to it.
 you worry about the future the Tess ac- complish in the present. sn
 Driving limousine is not necessarily sign of wealth. but it's sign that somebody has been made to think you have wealth.
 
 It funny to put small man in big job and listen to him rattling around in it.
 The who boasts that his automobile never has anything the matter with it ospend most his time tinkering with it.
The Cordova daily times., 1922-03-13

theme for great poets and painters. When the travelling class, of wealth and leisure, learns definitely about the glory of Alaska the Alaskan harbors will welcome many pal atial yachts and tourist vessels and the rail roads and highways will be thronged with sight-seers.
 Nowhere on earth may be found grander scenery than exists at Cordova and in its Vi cinty. Our Seattle friends should not forget to "step on high' when they are telling the world about Cordova, it's copper, oil, gold, coal, fish and other things, and its magnifi- cent scenery, including the Miles and the Childs glaciers
The Cordova daily times., 1922-03-13
SEATTLE TELLING THE WORLD

The Alaskan people feel grateful to the pro- per degree for the constructive efforts now be- ing made by the Seattle Chamber of Commerce and Commercial Club, through it's efficient publicity bureau, to turn the tide of wealthy tourists to Alaska. Succeeding in this effort, the chamber will have helped Alaska greatly by thus helping itself, and Alaska again will have ended period of depression in Seattle comparable only to the period preceding the Rush of '98.
 In telling the world about Alaska the pub hcity experts may exhaust their superlatives and powers of description and still approach but remotely the majesty of the subject. It is
The Cordova daily times., 1922-03-13
ALASKANS LINING UP FOR GALEN

Judge Wickersham, MT. Emery Valentine, Dr. Frank M. Boyle,-all the old guard, which never surrenders,-who supported with char acteristic fidelity the candidacy of MT. Suther- land two years ago, now have proclaimed "op- en season' for their former favorite because, they admit, he has failed to make good and is not a credit to them. They realize the imper- active need of a Delegate who can accomplish something for Alaska, who will do everything that can be done to open up the natural re- sources of the Territory, and they agree that James l.. Galen is the man of the hour.
 True to their convictions, Messrs. Wicker sham Valentine, Boyle and others are report ed to be campaigning for the Cordova man, for no reason except that they want an ef- flcent Delegate in Congress during the pres cnt period of constructive legislation, and no argument is needed to demonstrate the fact that Galen is infinitely superior in every way to the come easy gO-easy incumbent
 The finest Galen support, however, is com pie, who realize perhaps more keenly than do the politicians, the need of electng an hon. est and efficient Delegate.
 The answer should be expressed in the prl- mary on April 25 in the ratio of three to one.
 DtleSdlc Ndtu WILL bS e l'"Nl !" M A>~i> oned with in all affairs affecting Alaska. His office undoubtedly will be the rendezvous of all persons at the capital interested in the Northland, for he is an authority on Alaska He is a real pioneer and "sourdough.'
 Delegate Ga1en will be especially helpful to the newspaper men and through the press he will send forth steadily the flood of publicity sc long needed, and so conspicuously lacking.
 With Galen at Washington the country will learn all about Alaska from the most author- tative sources. Capital will be interested and ere long will flow to the North. Tourists of the leisure class who now spend millions m the aggregate every year in Europe will hie themselves to the Northland when the snow ceases to fly and the bears swagger forth from their holes
 The delegateship can be made power of first magnitude. It offers opportunities for all kinds of constructive work. On account of the immensity of his "district," its unequaled natural wealth, an efficient and energetic Del egate like James l.. Galen can win a fame and power greater than that of any Congressman It is position of enormous potential oppor- tunity. It requires big man, possessing plenty of common sense, good business judgment qualifications MT. Galen has, and, in addition, he is Gan honest man, the noblest work of God.'' Y
The Cordova daily times., 1922-03-13

NEW YORK MUST BE EDEN
 Office Rules Require Hats and Other Clothing be removed before ringing time clock See that this reasonable requirement. is compiled with without fail. Sign in office of New York insurance company.
 Will Hays is going to inspect the goes along.
 Why is your wife so jealous of your stenographer?"
 "She used to be my stenographer."
The Cordova daily times., 1922-03-13

No drive or chest or anything has ever been started for dethroned royal ties or busted Hollywooders, and so long as this Is true let us not despair of humanity. Also, let none kick on objects or methods of those move ments that are in progress for the help of those who need and deserve help.
The Cordova daily times., 1922-03-13

"The unfinished sentence is the menace of modern literature" mourns a critic. And back of the unfiniched sentence is the unfinished author. There ought to be some perfectly legal and non- criminal way of fin ishing him. or her, as the case may be.
The Cordova daily times., 1922-03-13
FATE By Particeps

snooks gazed somberly at the dy- ing embers in the fireplace. One hand supported his chin, the other lying lax on his knee, held between listless fingers note which read: Dear John:
 The bird in the cage has flown and the prisoner has battered down the barrier to her freedom. l have eloped with the butler. Now l am free to soar into the blue ether, dancing gayly along behind the lilt- ing pipes which beckon to greener fields...."
 It was signed by his wife.
 He pondered sadly.
 "She always would mix her meta phors," he said.
The Cordova daily times., 1922-03-13

Hardly any motorist believes in signs such as this: "Speed Limit 15 Miles an Hour"
The Cordova daily times., 1922-03-13

Your eyes fitted. Compound ana stigmatic lenses replaced. See Os' borne.