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The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-01
NO CONGESTION ON LINES

Referring to interstate commerce compis- sions order No. 22, directing carriers to for ward traffic via route most available to ex- pedite it's movement and prevent congestion, which is mandatory only when necessary to prevent congestioa," said S. J. Brown, gen. eral agent of the Southern Pacific lines yes- terday.
 "There are no congestions on the Southern Pacific lines and therefore, delivery will be expedited and congestion avoided by routing shipments via Southern Pacific lines, to Louisiana, Texas, Arizona, New Mexico and the Pacific coast. We use oil burning loco motives and not dependent. on coal for fuel We are in excellent position to handle all business offered"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-01
My Favorite Stories
A Very Natural Request
By Irwin S. Cobb

A Very Natural Request A certain. captain of the regular army was on trial before courtmartial for alleged intoxi- cation His orderly, whose name was Me Sweeney, appeared as witness for the defense. "What was the condition of the accused on the date in question:" asked the judge advo- cate.
 .sHe was sober, sor,' said McSweeny "It has been reported" stated the judge, "that he was in such a condition that you had to help him to his quarters and undress him and put him in bed"
 "No, sir" said Private McSweeny, 'I just wint to quarters with the captain-that's all, sor"
 "Did he say anything that would lead you to think he was intoxicated?" No, sor"
 "Did he say anything at all" Well, he did say wan thing" "What was that?"
 Well, sor, just as I was leavin' he sez to me, he sez, 'McSwceny, if you're wakin', call me early. For I'm to be Queen of the May" Copyright, 1922, by the McNaught Syndicate,
 Inc.)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-01
THREE INCHES MORE OF SKIRT

From the New York Herald.
 Fashion, prodded by the suit makers, has decided that in the autumn woman shall wear skirts three inches longer than those decreed for spring and early summer days. Already garments with hems only little above shoe tops are to be observed in the streets. The high tide of revelation of feminine underpin- ming has been passed, for the time being at least.
 How will those censors of feminine conduct who have been so deeply disturbed by the recent fashions meet the new situation? Per haps their memories are as short as skirts have been. If this is not so they are in for an embarrassing time. The girls with skirts at shoe tops are going to be the same girls who wore them high the other day. Whatever dam age short skirts could do has been done. The moral, intellectual social injury abbreviated costumes are able to infict has been inflicted If the censorious meant all they have said in denunciation of short skirts they must look forward into future full of gloom.
 Meanwhile, the fact is that the criticized styles have not harmed anybody. Woman has not been adversely affected in thought or deed by their peculiarities. She has remained as she was when the trains of few years ago were taken from her burden. Longer skirts would not improve her; how could they when woman is perfectionf
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-01
LONDON sEAcULLs

G. F. S., in Punch, London. The pigeons of the Abbey. the pigeons ef ss~
 Pauls, That woo in windy nichcs of grey and grimy
 walls, The pearl-grey dawns of London, his sky
 that gleams and glcoms, His stately smoky sunsets are in their chang
 ing plunes. The saucy London sparrows, their Cockney
 chatter tells Their parents nestled surely in earshot of
 Bow bells -. But oh! the London seagulls a-cruising up
 and down They're most like old-tims seamen coma
 back to London town. Old salty swearing seadogs and tarry buccs-
 neers, With bacca quids, and pigtails, and earrings
 in their ears, That spent their money handsome and took
 their ease ashore In rowdy Radcliffe aleshops with sand upon
 the floor; And bawled their old sea-ballads and told
 their humping lies In fearsome deep-sea lingo to open lands
 mems eyes, Or drained their brimming pewters and spst
 into the tide In old shipboarded taverns on Mapping wa--
 tersde; And saw there at their moorings the Geordia
 colliers rock, The latest pirate dangling at Execution
 Dock The anchored ships unloading their silks and
 laces fine, And spices from the Indies, and rum and
 Spanish wine; And watched the busy wherries all plying
 with their fares From Globe, Jamaica, Mapping and Cherry
 Garden Stairs, And the lighters and the barges a-possing
 to and fro As they did on London river 200 years ago.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-01
MANY SEE CAPITOL FIRST TIME

"on the return trip from attending the short course at Auburn the delegation of Jef- ferson county girls stopped over in Montgcm- ery,' said Miss Flora D. Shelby. "Most of them had never seen the capitol building so we went up and looked through it. We saw the star on the portico where Jefferson Davis stood while taking the oath as President of the Confectionery. We also saw the house where he lived for a time.
 "After the capitol visit we rode out and inspected the new prison camp in course of construction. The girls seemed to enjoy their Montgomery stopover as much as they did the experience at Auburn"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-01
CHIEF M'DUFF WANTS LARGER
 POLICE FORCE

Chief of Police Fred H. McDuff wants to add 100 men to Birmingham's police depart mont. He will ask the commission to in- crsase the departments budget approxi- mately $15o,ooo for this purpose.
 It will be money well spent. There is not another city of Birmingham's size in khe country with such small police force. It is Impossible for the police department to main- Gain order and protect life and property as t should bs done, with mere handful of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-01
REPORTS BAD ROADS

q made an automobile trip to Gadsden Sunday afternoon" said Harry Anderson of automobile row, land found the roads rough enough, you bet. The highway commission can do nothing better than build this road. I understand that the route has been selected A little action toward building it is now needed. I drove by way of Springville and was pretty much tired out by the time I reached Gadsden."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-01
HARD LABOR

"Im sure you didn't mean what you said about me- began the politician who had dropped in to register a diplomatic protest against an editorial in the Chiggersvie Clarion.
 Didn't mean ftp roared the editor q spent two hours writing that editorial, and at least another hour looking through the, dic- tionary so I wouldn't use the same deroga- tory adjective twice"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-01
IusT A WORD

Listen, little grille,
 No matter who you are, When some chap, big and burly,
 Drives up in a motor car And says, "How bout ride, dear?" While tipping his chapeau, Let conscience be your guide, dear, And don't you go.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-01
QUICK RECOGNITION

Baseball is running the country
 "How so?'
 "Our boys aspire to become baseball stars instead of devoting themselves to useful pur- suits"
 sName one useful pursuit under the sun fn which talent is as quickly recognized and as highly paid and I'll join you in vociferous nrotest."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-01
EASY ON THE MAILS

"How long has he been in Congress?" Several terms
 q understand he never makes speech ssWell, give him credit. That being the case, he never franks one"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-01
COMPLICATIONS ON THE FARM

'Now that you have boarded for a few weeks with farmer, I suppose you think you know all about farming?"
 "No," replied the city man. '1 didn't go into all phases of the subject but my knowi- edge of automobile mechanics made my serv- ices useful when the tractor got out of or der"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-01


 A stage and movie queen recently told the intoxicating. Even when considerably diluted this once favorite ingredient of cocktails is not without its authority.
 There is reported to be a great deal of hatred for Secretary Hughes in Mexico. The Mexicans don't know how much Secretary Hughes disposition, has improved in recent years.
 former adviser to Lloyd George says Ireland has "turned the corner" Good enough, if there isn't an ambush of republican irregulars around that corner.
 Marcus Garvey proposes to create some dukes and duchesses in Africa. There are colored head walters in this country who could wear title gracefully.
 There are no morons among the theatri- cal managers and producers. Hereafter whoever wants to censor the stage will have to see Gus Thomas about 1t.
 A New York stenographer committed sui- eide because she bobbed her hair. How much better it would have been to wear wig until she could grow a new crop!
 
 If any Virginians resent the way certain British papers talk about Nancy Astor, they should reflect that Nancy is now 8 British subject and in line of fire.
 Bill White is a good fellow, but the recent episode in Kansas, or the way it has been treated by the newspapers, is wearisome ia the extreme.
 The Age-Herald lost one subscriber for poking fun at Noah W. Cooper, up in Tennes- see. It's hard world, but there is rest in the next.
 Mems suits will be fuller next winter. As to whether the wearers are fuller or not, will depend largely on the distributing agencies.
 **
 India Not Ripe to Rule. ."-Headline. Still, we hear, ever and anon, that India has almost reached the stage of decomposition.
 x x
 Having gotten rid of Horatio Bottomley, "John Bull" is now in a position to harp on the sale of titles in England.
 If anybody wants to know, President Hard ing is not observing the .eight-hour working day in the White House.
 Women who haven't two good reasons for clinging to short skirts won't have to be asked twice to let lem out.
 It is about time for Flagman Dean 70 abandon railroading and take up the profes- sion of literature. It is beneath the dignity of the newlyrch to go to seA in liner thaA doesn't boast a swimming pool. Marilynn and Jack are married Hand books may now be made on the duration of the marriage.
 
 Another war would be useful in ridding the country of lounge lizards and cake eaters. x x It isn't always sure test to measure a mans importance by his chest expansion. My FavOrite Stories
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-01
PAUL COOK.

well protests against talking for vicsoryt be catches his master in contradictions; he rambles off into irrelevances; yet so vital is his artste impulse that a genuine portrait crowns his pages. asiAf
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-01
A HEAD FOR BUSINESS

sing of soup and soap, corsets and hosiery7"
 "Is this an idle question:" asked the poet, "or do you happen to have an advertising cone tract about you?"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-01
ADRIF'T WITH THE TIMES
WHY MOTT

Occupants of ringsde seats say this pu- gist used psychology to defeat his foe"
 'fWhy, he guyed the fellow in the language of the gutter
 "Well, there is such a thing, I suppose, as gutter psychology"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-01
ALWAYS SOMETHING

Some problems vast, From first to last,
 Perplex the human race, We now grow hot And curse our lot
 In quest of parking space.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-01

if the League of Nations collapses. "More terrible machines than in the late war are being constructed,p he said. What for? To attack cities and 'aaim, destroy and burn helpless women and children. Keep your eyes on what is happening If the churches of Europe and America allow that to fructify, they had better close their doors"
 Should all nations reduce their armaments there would be no serious danger of war, the prime minister continued, "but it is diff cult for a nation to remain defenseless while others are preparing for war. The next war, he said, will be against civilization. "The war germ is like any other germ-you do not know that you have it until it has got you. It is of no use arguing with an epileptic when the fit is on him. There is that atmosphere in the world now and the explosive material is scattered over the face of Europe"
 Americans, deeming themselves secure in a fancied isolation, find 1t hard to under stand the plight of Europe. We have no neighbors to bother about. In Europe every neighbor is a potential enemy, a truth which England and France would frankly admit. The League of Nations may be forlorn hope, but with no other instrument of peace at hand, is it any wonder that European nations cling to the league?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-01
cHEERoi

When we're elate The tricks of fate Don't weigh us down; But repeat We cannot meet Them with frown.
 PAUL COOK.
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1922-12-12
Imp0rtante opinion
tconsinuaciOn de Ia Sa. psg.,

en- la demanda, siendo por tanto sa
pronunciamiento Waldo. vea7c 0andia
v. Triss stubbe ct al, 20 d. i. r.
G76. no.
Resta solo examinar Ia question re-
lativa al cuarto pronunciamaerto DC la
sentencia, levantada por e. sexto y
dItimo sehalamiento de error
Sc reclamaron veinte mil doia-es por
concepto de rentas frntos percibidOs-
La corte concedi6 dos mil. Sc tlsta de
una finca de ciento ochenta cEerda;
por 10 menos que vale como n1inimo q
razon de cincuenta dolares IA cuerda.
Desde hace mas de veinte ados el de-.
nlandado disfruta esa finca lor 81 solo.
Considerables cuerdas de ella So dedi-
caron al cultivo de cafias on los mejo-
res tiempos. La prueba den,ostT6 que
terrenos de igual c1ase Sc @rrendahan
por un precio que lego sdoir ocbo
c6.ares mensuales por ci,e.la. Arm
cuando Sc fjara en- cincuenta centavas
al mes Ell precio del arrend' mierto, un
simple calculo aritmetico daria por Ie-
sultado una suma mayor que l5s conce-
oida por "a corte. Creemos uue in sllna
redonda de dos mil dolares eSti soste
Eida por la prueba por tanSo qua
tambicn es justo Ell ultimo pronuncia-
miento.
Debe condrmarse la sentsnc z ape
lada.
Emilio DEL ToRc,
Juez Pres.dertc.
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1922-12-12
NoTAs DE LA IsLA
(oontinuaci6n de la q. pGg.)

minado Rivera sobre la necesidad del
Comite de Padres. Estuvo muy acer-
tado en- su peroracion. Acto seguido
Sc procedio al nombramiento del CO.
mite de Padres, quedando consti-
tuido, con el beneplacito de la con
currencia, por los Sres. Eduardo Ri
vera, presidente; Sra. Maria Luisa
Belber, secretaria; Herminio Miriam
da, tesorero y Angel M. Quintero,
Rafaela Colon, Margarita Pol, +.
Kortright, e l. Rivera, vocales.
Ell discurso de clausura estuvo
cargo del professor E. Miranda.
Todos los oradores recibieron mu-
chos Y bien mercedes aplausos. To-
dos compartimos de la algeria en-
tusiamo que rebozaba en- los cora
nes, y los naestros vieron coronados
sus. esfuerzos.
Al 10 revelaron al cronista Ia SON
RIA dulce y gracil las miradas ex-
presivas de Miss. Pol, la satisfaction
refejaba en- el rostro de Kortright,
de Mrs. Luciano, Rivera, Amezaga.
Deyne, Miranda, Mercado v del Pi-
lar.
j. R. COLON.
Morovis, diciembre de 1922.
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1922-12-12
UN PREso LIE RoBA UN TRAJE AL
FISCAL

Nuestro corresponsal en- Ponce nos
participa que Ell confnado Maximino
Sierra, que hace el servicio do limpie
"a de la Corte de Distrito, sustrajo un
traje al Fiscal y luego Sc di6 la fu-
ga sin que hasta la fecha haya sido
arTestado
Sierra cumplia condena manana
Martes.
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1922-12-12
laItss De EspaIa


tCortinuaclan de la paR. g.
titulado TOLEDO que cs un canto be-
nisimo a la Imperia, Ciudad, sentida
por i'm temperamento de artista puro,
que avalora I'm estiio fuido y elegante
y una imagination cue sabe dar plasti-
cided a sus impresiones.
De otro genero, pero del mismo acusa-
do relieve, es cl ensayo sobre Ell PAR
LAMENTo EsPANoI donde Herman
dez Usera, con sagacidad inesperada en-
qUisn no tienc obligation nativa de CO.
nocer este ambiente, estudia la evolu-
cion de nuestro parlamentarismo desde
los dias de las Cortes CONSTITUENCIES.
La dissection semblanza que traza
de cada uno de los lideres actuales de
la oo.itica espahola es perfecta; salvo
Ia emission, sin duda involuntaria, de los
dos jefes socialistas, que rodriamos la
mar ell jefe espiritual v el popular, el
ca catedratico Ell tribune de La plebe, |
u san Besteiro Indalecio Prieto.
O*ros dos bellos ensayos a notar son
el :situlado "El Periodismo Y los perio
distss' la meditation ANTE LAS
RUINAs DE ITALIcA.
Don Rafael Hernandez Usera ta domi- /.
nado Ell dificiI g6nero de- ensayo con
su prosa fuida facil, no exenta de
horidos SMILES v de lexico rico; con
lsu dominic de las cuestiones que abar-
ca relsciona entire ST con singular
acierto; con su cultura fundamental y
sdlida, POGO alardeada. con su claro Jul
cia v su razonar sereno--
FL g6nero ensayo' predilecto de la
raza anglo-sajona. es cultivado con
acierto por el sefior Hernandez Usera.
Conocedor de los maestros de! genero,
do los Carlyle. los Emerson, los Ma
ca'lay. los Haz'itt, los Hume-sabe
Gran dificil es alcanzarles; pero les 81
gra con pasos acertados y seguros como
q iel Ascenio seguia a su padre Eneas.
Un dia llegara al dominic absolute del
ersayo, one va Sc columbra en- trabaios
de tanto relieve como TOLEDO Ell
PARLAMENTo ESPANoL, ANTE
= AS RUINAs DE ITALIcA y IHACIA (;
INA LIGA DE EsTADos AMERICA
NOS?-
III sefior Conde de Romanones. con fa- !,
Gil Y elegante estilo, este estilo muy
odecuado al hombre politico de estos
ticmpos, que desde hace unos amos cam
T~s en- todos los discursos " trabajos
col ilustre procer, inicia ell libro del
sr Tor Hernandez Usera con I'm pr6logo
c~e es una profession de m credo en- po-
lstica internaciona. Y un canto esos
f. aginarios desposorios futuros entire
T-tados Unidos del Norte America
g. Sur "a cuyo enlace asistiran Ell in
r S, padre del novio, y Espaha, madre
de la desposada' 49,
NO teme mi iu'stre amigo ell Conde
da Romanones que, como cierta boda de
'istas la cue 81 asisti6 de testigo
tie vincnlo Sc rompa pronto este des-
r~sorio del NoRTE-sUR AMERICA
I'd acabe en- el divorcio r&pido en- la
Trptura brusca, por incompatibilidad
de caracteres?
De todas suertes, es muv de Ioar es-
t, Impulse "casamentero'' del inteli-
prnta po'itico v. sobre todo es de ala
For el ar'e con que el sefior Hernandez !
l'~era cxnone Ia posiblidad de tales nup-
{ IS. on rn Iibro cue han de leer con |
= mismo interes de raza espafoles que
T-1eridsrlos
Andres GONZALEZ BLANco
Mexico weekly ledger., 1922-08-31
USED TO
CARRY MAIL TO
NEARBY TOWNS

On account Of the congestion of
mail in the local postoffice caused
by the discontinuance of trains over
the Chicago & Alton Saturday, truck
service to Fulton and intermediate
towns and Vandalia and intermediate
towns has been authorized through
the continued efforts Of w. r. Jack
son, postmaster.
Sunday Mr.. Jackson was authorized
to send truck from Mexico to Full
ton and intermediate towns and Mon.
day the Hendrix Transfer Company
sent truck to Rush Hill, Laddonia,
Farber and Vandalia with the first
mail that those towns has had for
two days.
Postmaster Williams Of Fulton
came to Mexico Monday with mail
from Fulton, McCredie and Auxyasse.
Tuesday truck left here
For Fulton and intermediates towns
and upon its arrival in Fulton, a truck
load Of mail will leave for jefferson
City.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1922-08-31
GONG. HUKRE|DE
HERE TUESDAY
ON 4 VISIT

Congressman T. w. Hukreide, of
the 9Th district, was in Mexico Tues
day visiting with local Republicans.
He said he was making short trip
over the district. While here he was
the guest of the County Chairman,
L. McF. Gamble, State Committee
man, Harry Householder and Milt
Householder.
Congressman Hukreide said he did
not expect much action by Congress
before the recess was called. He has
been waiting telegram calling him
to Washington, upon the first show
ing of any definite action on any of
the matters pending before Congress
SO that he could hurry to the capital.
He looks well and was visited by
many local friends and admirers the
short time he was in this city.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1922-08-31
TWO WILLS PROBATED
HERE MONDAY LEAVE
PROPERTY TO CHILDREN

According to the terms of the will
of Henry Clay Berrey, which was
probated here Monday, the property
will be divided between the six child
rem Of the deceased, Annie M. Lipp,
William Horace Berrey, Lenore Mad
dox, Estelle Guthrie, Forrist C. Ber-
rey, Maud Pearl Clark and one grand
son, Marion Clay Berrey, son Of his
deceased daughter, after proper pro-
vision Is made fo r the widow. Mrs.
Berrey will be given the home at the
corner Of Anderson and Western SITS.
and other property.
The property of John ]. Johnston
whose viii was probated here Monday,
win go to his five children, Fred
Johnston, Jessie Johnston, Harry b.
Johnston, Annie Johnston; Ella G.
Horton apd his grandchild, Dele Nor
man, who is the daughter of his de-
ceased daughter. Each Of the per-
sons named above will receive a sixth
of the estate.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1922-08-31
MUST NOT
INTERFERE WITH
FIRE TRUCK

Complaint was filed at the regular
meeting of the City Council Monday
evening against persons in trucks and
automobiles, who obstruct the prog
ress of the fire truck on its way to
a fire and the police were instructed
to arrest all persons who are guilty of
this offense. AS soon as the fire
whistle blows many persons in cars
and trucks start for the fire and Of
ten the traffic becomes so congested
that the progress of the fire truck
lis greatly impeded.
A petition to macadamize Stewart
street, a short street about 300 feet
long, was filed and resolutions to this
effect ordered drawn.
A petition for the extension of the
district sewer on Olive st. was filed
and also protest against the propos-
ed extension. The matter was refer,
red to the Street and Alley Commit
tee.
The matter of extending the water
main on W. Jackson street was re-
ferred to the Light and Water Com
mittee.
M. T. Vandegrift and Joe Davis,
who with Charles Sims, went to
Springfield recently to inspect the
septic tank there gave a report of
their investigation and made suggest.
ions for caring for the tank here.
Bills to the amount Of $3S4.75 were
allowed as follows:
Street work, $149.40.
Freight bill, $6O65.
City Hall, s46.73.
Cemetery, $3.50.
R. S. Mckinney, $205O.
M. 7 .Vandegrift, $52,57.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1922-08-31
FARM CLUB
= NEWS

ganziation will be chosen by the board
of directors. The members Of the new
board of directors are: Salt River,
Reed Burke and c. M. Fox; Ioutre,
Oscar Massey and G. w. EKisman;
Sailing, W. B. Graves and Loris Hof-
reihter; Wilson, Frank Edwards and
Elmer Chapman; Linn, o. B.AIelahan
and E. H. Blase; Cuivre, &. u Cole
and Jess Gatewood. An executive
board will be chosen by the board Of
directors.
Horace A. Cowden, state secretary
of the Missouri Farmers, Association,
made an address on the need for a
farmers organization and improved
methods of farming.
R. S. Douglas of Benton City was
chosen secretary by the executive
board and Louis Hofreihter, treas.
The Prairie Hill Club Is resiying
under difficulties. A meeting was
held last Friday night and arranged
to send Frank Ball as delegate I'd
the State Convention at ST. Joe
Frank left Sunday afternoon III bis
Ford, accompanied by M. M Dan
iels Of Grow. F. A, Daniels Of Michi-
gan and A. r. Heinecke of Prairie
Mound
Z 4 ssigse was well represented T,isIs
2l~delegates at the County Conven-8
ton at Merico. Saturday-A. P.
Heinecke, Chas. Cassiday and J. r.
Hodge of Prairie Mound; Louis
Kohl and Chas. Moore of Prairie
View; Dave Nation. Judge Nay
smith, Earl Motley, John Miller and
Chas. Jeffries of Michigan; Ote
Montague and Hess Bowen of
Prairie Hill; Timothy Parker and
Carl Renner of Hickory Grove;|
Jesse Gatewood Of Grow. and B. G.
Wilhoit, Mike Howard and E. A.
Bentley Of Carter, also Ogle Helm
of Vandalia, besides one or two
whose names | did not learn, were
present.
Ogle Helm acted as secretary:
Louis Kohl and Jesse Gatewood
were chosen Township committee
men for Cuivre. Secretary Cowden
of Columbia was the speaker of the
occasion and aroused much interest
in campaign to make Audrain 100
per cent.
The big Tri-County Barbecue will
,e held in the Colvert Grove at Ma
line next Saturday. Plenty of good
eats for all and lecture by H, J.l
Waters Of the Kansas City Star in
sures a. feast intellectually Let all |
who can attend.