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The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-07

releases. He has been almost eight months in completing the picture. which is q record for short comedy. NO MAN LIVETH TO HIMSELF'' Marion Mclean in the Designer.
 The man at the savings bank was very disagreeable to me today and truculently docked me a dollar when l withdrew an account l had start ed short time ago. l was not at all prepared for any service charge
 When l indicated gently that his manner was not quite We're de We're. he explained that though my with drawal was doubtless legitimate they had to make q charge because so many people would open an ac- count with single check, let the bank collect it, and immediately draw the money. I went away ami able but moralizing. For l had paid good. hard earned money for the sly tricks of other people.
 Now l have resolved that:
 Next time l want to be rude to an indifferent saleswoman, l will re- member the next customer and leave her as pleasant as l can.
 The next time l am tempted to let the grocer get away With sending me wilted lettuce because I hate a row and 1t is only a few cents, l shall remember that it makes diff ference t oevery woman on the block if I let him do that kind of business.
 In other words. l am not going to make other people-my neighbors my children. the people with whom 1 do busines-pay for my meanness I want the indebtedness to be the other way around.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-07
QUEEN MARIE WILL DEFER HER VISIT
 ID UNITED STATES
Rumanian Sovereign Will Be Coronated Aug. 16-Many European Mobiles Will
 Attend Ceremonies

Sibiu (Hermannstadt), Pennsylvania. May 6.-Queen Marie of Roumania
 probably will be opliged to defer her
 long contemplated trAp ,o the Uniteu states until next year.
 She had hopeo 10 visit New forS prior to the coronation Of herself and King Ferdinand, when will take place here August To, put the wed l. ding of her second daughter, Marie, to King Alexander of Jugo- -Slavia, early in June, will make 1t impos-
 sible.
 Then she has number of official visits to make this year to European countries, so that a voyage to Amer 1 ica after the coronation In August IS
 extremely improbable
 The popular Rumanian Queen de- sires to express her warm apprecla- tion and thanks for the many invita- lions she has received from women s l civic societies, other organizations and personal friends in the United States urging her to visit America
 this year.
 She has even had invitations from | motion picture concerns, one or which
 offered her a flattering sum to ap- | pear in an American scenario as .Queen of the Movies" She ob- viously had to decline these novel l tenders.
 Lavish Ceremonies | The coronation ceremonies, which will take place in the heart of the beautiful Pennsylvania Alps, will pc on a scale of lavishness and regal
 grandeur hitherto unknown in the
 Balkans. A magnificent cathedral ol
 Byzantine design. costing millions oi
 francs, has been especially erected m l Sibiu for the crowning of Europe's most beautiful Queen and King Fer dinand. The Rumanian Parliament l has appropriated an immense sun for the event, Most of the reignine sovereigns and heads of state | throughout Europe have been invited
 It Is hoped here President Harding l win send some one to represent tns United States:
 l King Ferdinond and Queen Mari'
 ascended the throne just before tho
 beginning of the world var and ths
 continuance of the struggle made I
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-07
ETHEL CLAYTON
 AT THE STRAND
Dramatic Story of Human Interest Is Attraction for
 Three Days

Natrimony, the most lasting insti- tuition on earth and the most dram atic, is always absorbing when treat. ed on stage or screen. Never was it' more so than in "The Cradle" the attraction at the Strand Monday. Tuesday and Wednesday, with Ethel Clayton in the leading role.
 Miss Clayton, who is recognized as one of the greatest portrayers Of American womanhood. has role in this production which fits her per fectly, and the story of the young husband and wife in "The Cradle IS one that holds the interest from De- ginning to end
 Financial worries cause the nus band a young doctor, to yield to the charms ot another who becomes en- amoured of him when he calls to at- tend here in a slight illness. A divorce is agreed upon, the hus- band marries the other woman ana the wife a lawyer who had been former suitor.
 The child stays with each parent for periods of six months. But she finds hatred and unhappiness in bo'h households and finally is stricken with an illness that threatens fatal results Then comes the awakenlhs' the realization by father and mother that the child is the living bond pe- tween them, of the mistakes they have made. and the final reunion or the little family.
 Charles Meredith, who supported Miss Clayton in several pictures. plays the young doctor. The child role is cleverly portrayed by Mary Jane Irving, seven years old, who shows remarkable ability. Others Tn the cast are Anna Lehr, Walter Me- Grail and Adele Harrington.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-07

James Speyer told with impassioned eloquence all about beer and light wines. Stuyvesant Fish. Kermit Roosevelt. Seth Low and Irwin Cobb lent weight-of one kind or another to the committee in charge. George Washington Was on the committee also and F. Tecumseh sherman, the latter wondering what his illustrious relative would have said about the war that caused prohibition when he said what he said about the one that merely caused emancipation.
 Among the bits of information slipped to the town in the past few days was the fact made known by Hudson Maxim that katydid agi- tates 6,000,00 tons of air every time it scrapes it's legs on it's wings If that is the case most of infinity must have been shaken by the kicks di- rected against the public by the health department in an attempt to make this cleanup week. Bulletin after bulletin has been issued de- scrbing how nice it would be if everyone swept the rubbish from the steps. Some followed this advice by sweeping it on the sidewalk, which didn't seem to please the health de- partnent either. As a matter of fact the only people >who have really taken an active interest in cleanup week are the bandits.
 They cleaned up two jobs of s100,- 900 each in one day. which was not so bad considering how dull times have been. One cleanup was just an old swindle game, but the other had all the romantic elements of emer- aids. rubies and diamonds. A taupe Boston bag with $100.000 in gems simply disappeared from a Pullman car as the train came into the ter milial. The fact that among other things in the demure Boston bag was he largest emerald in America does not make this particular cleanup less interesting.
 stops Costume Ball
 Right in the midst of everything .he Liberator had it's annual costume ball Being a liberal sheet. the Lib orator had liberal people, at it's little party in Bryant hall. A mortified po- licemana turned out the lights and proclaimed the festivities finished.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-07
By JESSIE HENDERSON Special Correspondent of The Axe-Herald Copyright. I822. by The AEe-Herald)

NNopyrIBhts lbS~, by Ahe fAEc-AAchnAot New York, May 6.-From the Bronx
 to the Battery this town has been as
 full of thrills as thrush. You
 couldn't poke your nose into any hall
 without getting a Spanish serenade
 or a Russian gavotte full in the face, and walk in the park was just one
 band concert after another. It's been
 music week.
 Being one of those persons who never got further with piano lessons than The Maidens Prayer" music
 week went completely over our head,
 A touch of Dixie" when the soldiers
 march past in the movies is well enough and "Yoo Hoo" is nice if you
 can dance while you listen. But as for music as such. we can take 1t or leave it alone.
 There were, nevertheless. more
 than 5000 musical events here during
 the week, and the only one we were not able to avoid was the concert where little Robert Murray sang. | They told us he had a range of nearly six octaves, which seems a lot
 when you come to think of it-and could shoot from somewhere down around the middle of the scale to , two and half octaves above high ., which is the worlds altitude record.
 No doubt his high note was the
 high point in music week, but the note we liked best about him was when he remarked off stage to an- other 12-year- old: Roller skating on the avenue and a man in big car knocked me for a goal. Say! for a minute l though my leg was busted, and no more baseball this season. Say, 1 was scaredi"
 Anti-"Dry" Meeting
 Perhaps because of the affinity be- tween all beautiful things they se- lected music week to start the first
 snowbal that is intended to turn into the avalanche beneath which 1t is predicted prohibition will be ever lastingly buried. Ten thousand en- thusiastic and thirsty souls gathered in Madison Square Garden al the be- hest of the new association against prohibition and cheered while Hud-
 son Maxim and Sam Gompers and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-07

releases. He has been almost eight months in completing the picture. which is q record for short comedy
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-07

The cast is well balanced. Emmy Lyrn, the English actress who was selected not only because she was the type desired but because of her ability as an emotional actress was recognized throughout Europe. She has been pronounced by critics as the perfect wife of the Sheik. She shows her strong love for this man though the customs of her people and his people are diametriealiy opposed. Her willingness to die for the man she loves and her contentment at re- turning with him to the desert coun- try is exceptionally well done.
 IL is hard to conceive of a better Sheik than that portrayed by Marcel Vibert, q player known in this coun- try and abroad both on the spoken stage and before the camera. He is a member of the Comedie Franchise and does exceptionally fine work be- fore the camera.
 The atmosphere, customs and tradi- tions of the desert are well brought out in the production. This is due. perhaps to the fact that the film was
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-07
THE LIGHT IN THE WINDOW.

From Everybody's Magazine.
 A man in high state of intoxica ton was shouting most vigorously at a lamp post and finally became an ob- ject Sf concern to policeman.
 What's the matter?' asked the re- representative of law and order
 "Oh, never mind, mishter." was the reply. "Thash all right. I know she'sh home. all right shee a light up stairs"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-07
ECONOMY
Ernnn IndCe

From JudSe
 Longlocks had just received a check for ten dollars for one of ms poems.
 Now, dearie," said his wife, lets deposit that check in the savings ac- count and imagine We haven't got it."
 "where will I deposit this bill for the new hat you got last week and imagine I haven't got it2'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-07
The Sheik's Wife, Great Orie entaL LoUe Story Al
 The ALcazar This Week

"he Shek Wife, the oriental love that created fuore when the Strand theatre New York city, will be shown a the Acazar theatre all this week
 with the of white girl who married Sheik in manner.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-05-05
/ hides. Price. have slightly ad-

1:,I.S. !. n,se'. Price. have slightly adj
',The plumbing supply trade is % per
cent to 40 per cent greater than 1t was
this time last year. Prices will prob
ably average about 25 per cent less. The
demand for 1922 Is expected to be good
and the supply Of merchandise will be
adequate, although there will be more
dimculty doubtless In getting goods than
there was last year.
wool dealers are having more In
quiry and indications point to fair
demand. The foreign markets are strong
and have advanced from 10 to 20 per
cent during the week. There Is no sign
Of weakness In wool prices in any Of the
worlds markets. - .,.
"Sales Of cigars and tobacco continue
heaviest in the history Of the trade. A
successful year is looked for.
"There is an increase in the move
ment of lumber, especially the lower
grade. and the manufacturing district is
shipping everything they are making.
The country is producing perhaps SO
per cent to 90 per cent Of normal. Prices
are about stationary. From the pro.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-05-05
Liverpool Cotton

I.iverrool. May "a moderate business
.asier % on tho basis Of a decline s Of points points
for middling at I'D. The sales were
1000 bales. Tho receipts were 8iO0 bales,
Ill American. Futures were steady In the
am middlins fair. ~, SOD: good middling
II. .45d: fully middling. II. 15d: mlddiing,
Id: low mlddling. 10:56d; good ordinary,
,.05. and ordinary. 9.15d.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-05-05
Federal Reserve Ratios

WaahinGtOn. Mny 5.-Rat,os Of total re.
serves to net deposit and Federal Reserve
note liabilities combined, for the twelve Fed
erai Reserve Hanks and the entire system. as
and a year ago follow:
Evening star., 1922-02-15
SEEK BONUS SOURCE.
Presidents Opposition to Two
Methods Presents Problem.

With President Harding Known to
oppose both additional taxes and q
bond issue, republican leaders of the
House began casting about today for
other means of financing the soldiers
bonus.
Representative Mondell of wyo-
ming, during a visit to the White
Hbuse. said pending aDDrorr:a, I'll
aud bills, particularly those for the
Navy and Army. would be Scrutlnizea
carefully, with a view to slashes that
would provide a good measure OF the
money needed. 1t was his thought
that any deficiency could be made up
through an issue~of Short-term Treas
ufy certificates.
Mr.. Mondell did not see President
Harding, who was understood to be
preparing a letter to Chairman Nc
Cumber of the Senate finance COM
Infttee, setting forth his views against
the suggested eight-point tax pro-
gram and an issue Of five-year Treas
ury notes. Pending receipt of that
letter the joint conference between
majority members OF the finance COM
mittee and the House ways and means
committee on the bonus problem were
suspended.
A short-term note issue. to provide
was uppermost today in the minds of
some of the senators dealing with the
problem, but they were keeping an
open mind until they had received the
Presidents letter. It was understood,
however, that not all of them shared
the administrations views as to the
probable effect Of such an issue on
the refnnding operations OF the gov
ernment.
Evening star., 1922-02-15
MORE SNOW FORECAST,
THEN FAIR AND COLD
Weather Man Expects Snowfall to
Follow Rain and Sleet
Tonight.

More snow for Washington is the
prediction of the weather bureaN. This
will probably follow an evening of
rain and sleet, it was said, and will
bring with it a temperature of about
rs degrees. The unp!easantness Of this
morning was the result of disturb
ance off the Virginia capes, and, the
bureau further stated. the storm of
this afternoon and tonight is the end
of similar disturbance in Georgia
However, fair and cold weather is
promised for the next three or four
days.
Snowfall in the New England tier,
a cold wave in the lake region and in
the gulf states and precipitation else
where is the gist Of today's weather
report for the country.
Two storm warnings were issued by
the bureau. one covering a disturbance
from New York north to Eastport.
Me-, which was said to be moving
norrheastward and increasing in inten-
sity, and the other central over south
western Georgia. also moving north
east The storm of the north Atlantic
will be accompanied by strong east to
north winds snd gales. with snow and
rain, the forecaster declared.
Evening star., 1922-02-15
Further Lay-Off Seen
At Navy Yard. Though
Probably Less Drastic

Further reduction in the mechanical
force at the Washington navy yard may
be made at any time, it was said today
by an official. How many additional
employees will be laid on the Official was
unable to estimate. but emphasized that
the reduction would not be an large as
that put into effect last Wednesday.
There may be a few men that are
not needed in the various shops" he
said. who will be furlougted. II am
quite certain that the next lay-oR will
not be a big one"
Along with the next furlough of
the mechanical force q reduction in
the clerical personnel probably will
be made. 1t was pointed out, due to
the fact that the decrease in the
work in the shops Will not necessi-
tate as large clerical force as is now
maintained. The reduction in the
office force will not take place, it was
said. until the latter part OF this
month.
What action, the loca: navy yard
employees will take relative to the
cutting of the force at the local yard
will be determined at a meeting of
co,umbta Lodge. No: l74. which win
be>held in the Garden Theater tonight
port on the conference held today be-
tween Secretary OF Navy DENLY and a
delegation, representing the navy yard
workers Of the country also will be
President Gompers of. the Amerf-
can Federation of Labor has been in
vited to speak at the meeting. Gen.
Coxey Of Coxey's army fame will
speak.
Evening star., 1922-02-15
coNFERs WITH MIR. DENNY.

Representatives of the Washington
Board Of Trades committee on indus
trial interests held q conference this
morning with Secretary OF the Navy
DENLY relative to the reductions in
force at the Washington navy yard.
The boards representatives were Will
liam c. johnson. chairman Of the
committee: Arthur ]. May. Harry
Blake and Charles +. Crane The
committee expressed its appreciation
to Secretary DENLY of the opportunity
afforded to present its views on. the
situation. Stress was laid on the
great number of employees affected by
the cut in force, many OF whom had
families to support in addition to the
responsibility OF purchasing their
homes. 1t was pointed out that
Washington is not a commercial or
manufacturing city and that 1t is GO
ing to be extremely difficult for the
men who have been furloughed to Sc
cure other employment here which
will provide the necessities.
An. appeal was made to Secretary
Deenby to place at fz,e Washington
navy yard all work that can be
profitably handled there and thus give
employment to as many as possible
of those furloughed.
Evening star., 1922-02-15
j. s. S.GHSFO(RTH
MUSCLE SH0ALSB|D
Alabama Power Co. Would
Lease for SO Years and
Keep Within Power Act.
By the Associated Preae.

BY the Associated Press.
Another offer for purchase and lease
OF the governments properties at
Muscle Shoals. Ala. was completed
today and arrangements made by its
sponsors. the Alabama Power Com
pany. for immediate filing with Sec
retary Weeks.
The offer was rendered by Thomas
Martin, acting for the Alabama Power
Company. of which he Is president,
and with its submission the total
number of proposals received by the
government for Its war-acQuired prop
critics in Alabama was brought to
four. The new offer is expected to be
transmitted soon by Secretary Weeks
to Congress. which has before it the
offer of Henry Ford.
The Alsbama Power Company pro-
poses completion of the Wilson dam
without further advances or expendi-
lures by the United States" and the
power plant on the Gorgas river,
which is situated on ground already
owned by the power company.
Would Lease for Fifty Years.
The properties would be leased by
the power company for a period Of
fifty years under the plan, and be sub
ject to 'recapture by the govern
ment" at the termination Of that time.
They also would be operated subject
to the provisions of the federal water
power act under an operating license.
The offer was outlined to Secretary
Weeks in a letter signed by Mr.. Mar
tin. az president OF the company.
The offer is different from those re-
ceived from Ford, Frederick c. Eng
strurn of Wilmington, n. c., or. so Tar
as is known, from that proposed by c.
C. Tinker. head OF the Construction
Company of North America. with
headquarters in San Francisco. None
Of these agrees to function under the
provisions of the federal waterpower
act.
Another distinction it has is that the
company from which ii comes already
owns the land on which the govern
ments power plant is situated At war
rior and which has entered Into the
hearings of the House military COM
mittee, investigating the Ford plan, IN
the form of a perplexing problem
which would require solution before
the Ford offer could be accepted by
Congress.
Claims Option ON Warrior Plant.
| The Alabama Power Company
claims an option to purchase the War
rior plant on as favorable terms as
those given to other private concerns
! which War Department officials. in
ciuding Secretary Weeks, Maj. Gen.
! william, chief of ordnance. and other
officials admit contains moral obli-
CATION. il not a legal one. binding the
government to sell the plant to the
| Alabama concern or remove ii from
| the ground il is on
Secretary Weeks informed the
| House committee that the company
| had notified him it intended to exer-
| else the option claimed, while other
| witnesses testified that before Con-
| gress accepted the Ford plan, inyolv-
ing delivery of the Warrior plant with
| a clear title, it would be faced with
| a long fight in the courts. instituted
by the government in the shape OF
/ condemnation proceedings and oppos-
ed by counsel Of the Alabama Power
Company.
Evening star., 1922-02-15
SOLDIERS BONUS
.AROUSES congress
Members More Politically
Perturbed Over This Than
Any Other fssue.

1t is no exaggeration to say that
not In many years has Congress,
using the WORD as descriptive Of the
aggregate Of individual senator's and
representatives. been in such a per-
turbed state of mind. politically. as at
sue. 1t may be said that at this stage
the question. How shall the money TO
pay the bo4sds he .raised?" Is raising
another, Shall there be bonus?' In
the minds OF the statesmen on Capitol
Hill. The second question rapidly 10
assuming proportions large enough
to engage serious attention.
1t Is induced by the flood Of pro-
tests against the bonus pouring In
upon congressman from sources in
their constituency OF Importance suffi-
Gent to warrant earnest considera-
influential section Of the press is
arousing public thought and seeking
to array It in imposing mass against
tho bonus. Another element OF the
publishes the news and discussions
of the question, also arousing tho
general public to the pending propo-
sitien.
Hear From Business Men.
The political leaders OF the DOM
inant party are said to be hearint 4
from business men who have hitherto
Suppofteu tHe republican party, tNre4I-
en!na to refuse to support the party
in succeeding elections il the bonus
is granted, to be met either by
a bond issue or by direct taxation.
Both plans are classed as a menace
and iEpediment to Industrial and
financial recovery. Congressman In
both parties are hearing from the op-
position among their constituency.
threatening to take individual re-
prisal in their denomination and cleo
tion against senators and representa-
tives who vote for the bonus.
The sentiment among the farmers is
declared to be heavily arraysd against
the bonus. While demanding legtsla-
ton for the agricultural interests.
which. IN some quarters. has been de-
nounced as class legislation, they dep
recate as class legislation the assist
ance proposed to be given the soldiers.
See Bonus n Inevitable.
With all this protest. however. the
opinion is held by many OF the
most influential men in the House and
Senate that granting the bonus is in
evitable and that the Congress will
have to face the inevitability with
such political consequences as may err
sue. They do not overlook the con-
sideration that many of the states
have found it advisable TO give aid
to their own veterans and cite this
action as Indicative Of local public
appreciation OF the policy.